Yesterday was quite a day – between the CRM Acceleration event and the election it was really non-stop for me. But definitely worth it. This CRM Acceleration was the last one in our “world tour” in 2008, and fitting to have it in our backyard, as it were. The event went really well. Steve Madeira [...]

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of my time here at SugarCRM, and it’s been a great one. Perhaps fittingly, yesterday’s San Francisco Acceleration event underlined just how far the company has come in the past year, and over the last 4+ years. Just yesterday, we hit an exciting milestone on SugarForge.org: 5 million downloads across [...]

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As a product marketer, I often look at software pricing models, license and subscription fees, etc. And of course, as a competitive intelligence analyst I am often looking at competitive pricing and how vendors look to work price positioning. That background, coupled with the lingering economic effects of the credit crunch, has led me and [...]

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I wrote this blog yesterday while at 35,000 feet on my way to our corporate offices in Cupertino for our San Francisco Acceleration event on Tuesday. During the flight I had a chance to catch up on the latest issue of CRM magazine, which is a repeat special issue of an issue I worked on [...]

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In the midst of getting ready for tomorrow’s event in SF, I thought to myself – how can I live blog and update, while my laptop is being used for demos and presentations all day? Well, I decided I could twitter away during the presentations on my blackberry. I downloaded Tinytwitter (definitely worth checking out [...]

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I’m not a veteran marketer. I have only been part of two or three major product releases here at SugarCRM. But I do know a lot of hard work and innovation has gone into every release here at Sugar, and the more I get to know the process and the team the more excited I [...]

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