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Alternative CRM Reviews

I have never claimed to be the only source of CRM software reviews. If you would like an alternative view of the CRM universe, here are some sites that you can visit. However, if you are looking for totally independent, no BS! CRM reviews, I will look forward to working with you when you get back to my site!

Business-Software.com

This appears to be yet another pretty, advertising supported site.

http://www.business-software.com/index.php

Capterra

Founded in 1999, Capterra is the online marketplace dedicated to connecting buyers and sellers of enterprise software. Capterra identifies every enterprise software solution on the market and presents them to buyers in a way that facilitates fast, easy comparison.

Capterra generates leads for business software vendors in three ways:

Pay Per Click listings which drive Capterra users to your website, where they can collect further information about your solution.
A Pay Per Lead program through which Capterra users can request demonstrations of your product.
General Requests for Information (RFIs) submitted by Capterra users.

http://www.capterra.com/

CompareCRM.com

This site is operated by Gate58 Marketing. Gate58 is a high-volume source of quality leads for technology firms of all sizes. Each month they deliver thousands of qualified leads—leads that are actively seeking technology solutions. Their pay-per-lead services help clients reduce the cost of lead acquisition by more than one third and increase their sales pipeline. By partnering with major and vertical search engines, content providers and online publications, leveraging proprietary content and screening each lead, Gate58 delivers hot leads, on demand.

http://www.comparecrm.com/

CRM Scope

This site appears to be dormant.

http://www.crmscope.com/

CRM Software Evaluation

This site is operated by Ablaze Marketing, a B2B lead generation firm.

http://www.crm-software-evaluation.com/

CTS Guides

CTS Guides was founded in 1983 by Sheldon Needle. For years, they have been my go-to source for reliable reviews of small business and mid-market accounting solutions. When it comes to CRM, I think they are dancing outside their area of real expertise.

http://www.ctsguides.com/crm.asp

Inside CRM

This site is operated by Tippit, Inc., a B2B advertising company. Tippit helps advertisers target buyers, decision makers, and influencers.

http://www.insidecrm.com/

ISM, Inc.

ISM founder, Bart Goldenberg, has been in the CRM business almost as long as I have! Though primarily a consulting firm, the company does publish CRM reviews. Every year, the company also hands out their popular "Top 15" CRM Software Awards.

http://www.ismguide.com/index.php

Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc. (TEC)

Established in 1993, Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc. (TEC) is the first web-native technology research enterprise. TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance.

For years, TEC was my go-to source of reliable reviews of mid-market and enterprise ERP solutions. Somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to write about CRM solutions as well.

http://crm.technologyevaluation.com/

2020software.com

Founded in 1996, 2020software.com has doubled its revenues annually for several years running by capitalizing on the convergence of several phenomena: the increased reliance on search engines by business IT buyers researching IT purchases and the dramatic shift in advertising dollars away from broad, traditional media toward media that serve visitors in buying and research mode, chief among them, search engines and highly targeted online media.

2020software.com’s advertisers are the top providers of business software, including Microsoft, SAP, and Sage Software, a $585 million company providing business-management products and services to small and medium-sized businesses in North America.

In May-2006 the company was acquired by TechTarget, increasing the depth of their offerings for SMBs and fortifies the company’s position as the top provider of media for IT buyers at US SMBs. TechTarget’s SMB-focused media-- CIO Decisions magazine, SearchCIO.com, and SearchSMB.com-- are currently the leading advertising vehicles for IT marketers seeking to reach this large and growing market.

http://www.2020software.com/default.asp

Have a question about this topic?

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