New York, NY, July 1, 2011- Sidney C. Lejfer , President and CEO of Harvest Solutions, received an honorary fellowship from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology during the Technion International Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting in Haifa, June 12-15.
“This honor is in recognition of Mr. Lejfer’s enthusiastic leadership at the local and national levels,” said Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie.
An up-and-coming leader of the American Technion Society, Sid was past president of the ATS New England Region and is now chairman of board. He is also a member of the national Board and is the ATS Assistant Treasurer. He and his wife Nancy established the Berl Lejfer and Alan J. Tichnor Memorial Endowed Scholarship, in dedication to both of their fathers. Other contributions have included gifts to the Nano-Floor (Floor 5) of the Dalia Maydan Center for Advanced Material Studies, and the renovation of the Abraham and Sonya Slifka Auditorium.
Joined at the ceremony by his wife Nancy and four children, Mr. Lejfer is involved with numerous causes in addition to the ATS, including AIPAC, Friends of the New England Holocaust Memorial, Congregation Mishkan Tefila and Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
Some 210 attendees participated in the BOG, which came to a close with an event inaugurating a year of celebration of the laying of the Technion cornerstone in 1912.
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The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Israel’s leading science and technology university. Home to the country’s first winners of the Nobel Prize in science, it commands a worldwide reputation for its pioneering work in nanotechnology, computer science, biotechnology, water-resource management, materials engineering, aerospace and medicine. The majority of the founders and managers of Israel’s high-tech companies are alumni. Based in New York City, the American Technion Society (ATS) is the leading American organization supporting higher education in Israel, with offices around the country.
The leading developer of Internet research software that empowers users to leverage the Internet
Waltham, MA, June 20, 2011 – Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced their solution partnership with Broadlook Technologies. The partnership combines advanced Internet research and data cleansing technology from Broadlook with the CRM expertise and consulting from Harvest Solutions.
Broadlook solutions automate the research of B2B Company and Contact Information from the Internet in real-time then seamlessly transforms the data into business-ready information for Sales and Marketing, Business development and recruiting. The Broadlook CRM Suite is a plug-in for Dynamics CRM that stops dupes by automatically transforming data to standard naming conventions; eliminates the manual entry of contact information into CRM; and brings fresh data from publicly indexed LinkedIn pages, corporate websites, SEC filings and other web sources into CRM, then mashes that data up with existing Accounts, Contacts and Leads.
“We are excited to partner with Harvest Solutions,” said Paul Cielinski, Director of CRM at Broadlook Technologies. “Bringing together our revolutionary plug-in for Dynamics CRM 4 & 2011, with Harvest Solutions’ extensive CRM knowledge will provide clients with an advantage to keeping their CRM data fresh and clean.”
Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions states, “Broadlook offers an organization using CRM the ability to identify the target organizations of key interest, qualify the contact and lead data for themselves, and see further into the account and identify those who would be most interested in seeing the product or services offered.”
About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736. You can also join us socially on Twitter @HarvestCRM, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HarvestSolutions, or on LinkedIn.
About Broadlook
Broadlook offers intuitive research solutions that automatically pull in real-time and business-ready information from the internet for sales and marketing, business development and recruitment. With Broadlook solutions, you have access to current B2B companies and contact information right within your CRM System. Visit their website at www.broadlook.com.
New Social CRM Platform Nimble Transforms the Way People Manage Relationships
Waltham, MA, March 18, 2011 – Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced their solution partnership with Nimble. Nimble Contact is a social CRM platform that combines relationship management and social engagement into an affordable web-based solution. It integrates LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, email contacts and conversations into one seamless, intuitive environment, empowering small businesses in today’s socially connected world to attract and retain the right customers.
Created by Jon Ferrara, the founder of GoldMine, a pioneering SFA/CRM product, Nimble Contact is the only solution on the market that integrates the “4 Cs” -- contacts, calendar, communications and collaboration -- to enable professionals to effectively manage the way they see, hear and connect with their company's most important asset: their business contacts.
“The problem today is our contacts and our communications are in too many places,” said Jon Ferrara, CEO of Nimble. “Between IM, text messaging, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and email, we can't keep track of it all. Trying to manage all of this in eight different tabs on your browser isn't the solution. We created Nimble to solve our own needs and we’re bringing it to the world to help small businesses solve theirs.”
Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions states, “We have worked with Jon in the past and we are excited to announce this new partnership with Nimble. We are pleased to offer our customers Nimble Contact which unifies email, calendar and social channels in one application. This will allow our customers to easily see all of the communications made with their contacts no matter where the conversations took place.
Nimble Contact is the next evolution in relationship management – a social relationship manager that makes it fun and easy to nurture personal and business relationships.
About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736. You can also join us socially on Twitter @HarvestCRM, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HarvestSolutions, or on LinkedIn.
About Nimble
Nimble was founded in 2009 to help small businesses transform their communities into business opportunities. Nimble opens a whole new channel for businesses to engage customers in two-way dialogue, leveraging the power of traditional CRM and social media with its web-based social CRM platform, Nimble Contact. Located in Santa Monica, Nimble is in the heart of the Southern California tech community. Please join the conversation on Nimble’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/nimble, LinkedIn and on Twitter @nimble.
Massachusetts-based CRM consulting firm expands online presence with social media
Waltham, MA – Harvest Solutions, an organization with experts in the market of cloud computing software, is expanding its online presence through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a blog, which re-launched March 15, 2011.
Harvest Solutions builds CRM systems for organizations to help analyze customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With a planned and phased approach, Harvest launches CRM initiatives efficiently by examining current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes.
“We believe Customer Relationship Management is both a service and a philosophy,” said Sid Lejfer, Owner of Harvest Solutions, “and we are excited to extend our customer service through social media avenues in order to help our clients.”
Harvest Solutions is also committed to increasing communication about CRM services among sales and marketing professionals in a variety of markets, and that includes dedicated social media efforts.
About Harvest Solutions
Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Business Analytics (BA) consulting firm specializing in small to medium size businesses, provides a variety of services to increase the effectiveness of CRM systems, including needs assessment, planning, customization, implementation, data integration, training and support to a variety of markets including financial services, non-profit, construction management, and health & wellness.
Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner of Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Nimble and Hubspot.
Waltham, MA, August 13, 2010 – Harvest Solutions has named Mike Melcher as the Regional Manger of Harvest Solutions' location in Florida. With the addition of Melcher to the organization, Harvest Solutions will be able to provide comprehensive Salesforce.com solutions in the Southeast.
“We are thrilled to have Mike Melcher lead our Southeast/Salesforce CRM practice. Mike has worked with us in the past and we are pleased that he has joined our firm as a full-time employee. Mike has a diverse background and will be able to provide our clients in the Southeast with a comprehensive Salesforce solution”, states Sidney Lejfer, President of Harvest Solutions.
“Harvest Solutions is well positioned to have a major impact on the Salesforce marketplace in the Southeast. I am excited about the opportunity to lead this growing and dynamic practice”, stated Mike Melcher.
Mike brings a wealth of technical experience to Harvest Solutions. He has over 20 years experience in programming, database design, database administration and system integration.
Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida and is a Certified Salesforce.com Consultant, Certified Force.com Developer and has also completed the certification for Scribe Insight – a data migration and integration tool. Mike lives in Melbourne Beach, Florida with his three children, where he surfs as often as he can.
About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.
Waltham, MA, August 3, 2010 – Harvest Solutions, a customer 
relationship management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced a strategic partnership with Market Builders. Market Builders provides an “out-of-the-box” CRM solution for the investment management industry that combines best practices with an extraordinary flexible product architecture that allows individual client adaptation to all aspects of the investment industry.
This new partnership will offer financial services clients the Market Builders’ CRM for Institutional Investment Management® application which is built on native Salesforce and available through salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Using their proprietary methodology and experience to finish engagements on-time and on-budget, Harvest Solutions will provide the Salesforce CRM expertise for custom development using Apex and VisualForce. Harvest Solutions can also address complex integration requirements as well as enhanced reporting.
“We’re excited to launch a strategic relationship with Harvest Solutions because it will allow us to provide a more comprehensive set of services to our clients. Our clients will benefit from Harvest Solutions’ technical expertise and integration capability with the end-result being a more comprehensive Salesforce solution,” states Ray Dugas, President of Market Builders.
“The partnership with Market Builders allows us to expand our financial service offerings to our clients by providing users access to comprehensive selling, a 360° view of client data and all of the intertwined relationships,” states Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions. “Market Builders incorporates best practices gathered from over fifty institutional asset management implementations at many of the largest and most prestigious firms in the industry.”
About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.
About Market Builders
Market Builders provides perfect fit CRM solutions for the Investment Management industry based on salesforce.com, the leading on-demand CRM.
Market Builders has proven expertise designing and implementing successful CRM systems using industry proven best practices and has worked with many of the largest investment managers over the last 20 years. More than 60 projects in that industry have been completed and we have worked with 6 of the top 10 and over one third of the 100 leading asset management firms in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art CRM systems.
Waltham, MA, March 2, 2010 - Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced their partnership with HubSpot Inbound Marketing software. HubSpot is an effective tool for helping companies get found by qualified prospects that are looking for the products or services that you sell in search engines, blogs and the blogosphere, and social media and convert them to leads and ultimately, paying customers.
The key to marketing success requires an integrated methodology, utilizing the right tools, and then applying them with consistent effort. To meet the increasing marketing needs faced by customers, Harvest Solutions will utilize Salesforce CRM and HubSpot to deliver a tightly-integrated approach to Internet marketing, lead generation and management. With HubSpot and Salesforce.com certified statuses, we offer comprehensive marketing services designed to maximize the capabilities inherent in the HubSpot inbound marketing system integrated with Salesforce CRM to deliver a closed-loop marketing system that drives leads and revenue.
"We often find our clients are looking to improve the usage of their CRM system - typically in relation to campaigns and marketing efforts," said Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions. "With the HubSpot Inbound Marketing software, we are able to help our clients launch an integrated and streamlined marketing effort."
Pete Caputa IV, HubSpot Partner Program Manger states, "We are excited to have Harvest Solutions join the HubSpot Partner Program. As a CRM Consulting firm, Harvest Solutions brings wealth of CRM expertise - specifically Salesforce CRM - to the table. Their extensive knowledge of Salesforce CRM makes them a ‘go-to' partner for HubSpot-Salesforce integration projects."
About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.
About HubSpot
HubSpot, Inc. provides Internet marketing software that helps businesses get found online, generate more inbound leads and convert a higher percentage of those leads into paying customers. HubSpot's software platform includes tools that allow professional marketers and business owners to manage search engine optimization, blogging and social media, as well as landing pages, lead intelligence and marketing analytics. Based in Cambridge, MA, HubSpot can be found at http://www.hubspot.com. HubSpot offers free marketing tools at http://www.grader.com and hosts a free marketing community at http://inboundmarketing.com.
Waltham, Mass. and San
Francisco - Dec. 14 2009 - Harvest Solutions and the
Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and
business, today announced that Harvest Solutions
has joined the Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us Partner program. With Harvest Solutions consulting services, nonprofit
organizations can improve internal processes, gain efficiencies, and save money
on data management solutions by moving to cloud computing.
Harvest Solutions has extensive experience with a variety of
nonprofit clients and a focus on neighborhood development organizations. It has
been engaged by its clients to manage after school programs, classes and
neighborhood volunteers. As a Power of Us partner, Harvest Solutions offers a
30 percent discount to nonprofit organizations off of its standard consulting
rate. Additionally, the Salesforce.com Foundation offers 10 free licenses to
nonprofit organizations as well as a discount on any additional licenses.
"Our staff
understands the importance of giving back to the community which is evident in
the number of nonprofits our staff members support with their time and
financial commitment," said Sid Lejfer, president, Harvest Solutions. "Our
participation in the Power of Us will now allow us to bring our professional
expertise to the Salesforce.com Foundation nonprofit community."
The Power of Us partner program is designed to
increase the impact of the Salesforce.com Foundation on the global nonprofit
community by increasing the number of technology partners to provide add-on services
and products to non-profits further enhancing their ability to solve problems
faster using world class tools. The Salesforce.com Foundation also mentors
companies to successfully incorporate salesforce.com's 1/1/1 integrated
corporate philanthropy model - 1% Time, 1% Equity and 1% Product - so that they
too can do well, while doing good. Today there are more than 100 companies
around world that are part of the Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us
program.
"The
Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us initiative allows our partners like
Harvest Solutions to join us in helping nonprofits utilize technology to
empower their missions. With Harvest Solutions implementing an integrated
philanthropy model, there will be an even greater impact on the nonprofit
community long term," said Suzanne DiBianca,
executive director, Salesforce.com Foundation. "We applaud Harvest Solutions
for contributing its services and employee time to nonprofits that may benefit
from its consulting expertise."
About the Salesforce.com
Foundation
The
Salesforce.com Foundation is the global leader in integrating philanthropy and
business through its 1/1/1 integrated philanthropy model
http://www.sharethemodel.org. The 1/1/1 model harnesses the power of
salesforce.com's people and technology through 1% Time, 1% Equity and 1%
Product to increase the effectiveness of nonprofits in pursuing their social
missions. Since the Foundation's inception in 1999, employees have given more
than 165,000 hours of their time; more than 7,300 nonprofits in 70 countries
are using donated and discounted Salesforce CRM licenses as part of the
Foundation's 1% Product Donation Program
http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/product; and numerous organizations are
benefiting from technology-related grants. For more information on the
Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org.
Waltham, MA, November 3, 2009 - Harvest Solutions today announced a comprehensive set of new marketing services for its clients. The new marketing offerings are designed to maximize the inherent marketing functionality of Salesforce.com, combined with complementary tools, to deliver a closed-loop marketing system that drives leads and revenue.
The key to marketing success requires an integrated methodology, utilizing the right tools, and then applying them with consistent effort. To meet the increasing marketing needs faced by customers, Harvest Solutions will utilize Vertical Response and HubSpot to deliver a tightly-integrated approach to Internet marketing, lead generation and management. VerticalResponse is a leading provider of self-service email marketing, online surveys and direct mail services empowering small businesses to easily create, manage and analyze their own direct marketing campaigns. HubSpot is an inbound marketing tool that helps companies get found online. HubSpot helps convert traffic into leads and paying customers through website optimization, social media management, optimized landing pages, lead intelligence and marketing analytics. The combined solution enables closed-loop marketing, linking lead intelligence from your website and campaigns into Salesforce, and generating detailed marketing reports showing which leads or campaigns are producing customers.
"We often find our clients are looking to improve the usage of their CRM system - typically in relation to campaigns and marketing efforts," said Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions. "By offering these marketing services, we'll be able to help our clients launch an integrated and streamlined marketing effort."
Harvest Solutions is teaming up with Jeff Scholes, founder of Scholes Marketing, to provide these comprehensive marketing services. Jeff brings over 10 years of experience successfully leading marketing efforts for B2B software and technology companies.
"I'm thrilled to be partnering with Harvest Solution. One of the biggest marketing challenges I see with customers involves the ability to effectively manage their online presence and easily capture, analyze, measure and report on marketing performance. With the right tools in place, and the right lead generation and Internet marketing programs, companies become better positioned to quickly make informed decisions and confidently know when marketing efforts need to be fine-tuned, repeated or ended."
Marketing consulting services will include optimizing and managing website and Internet marketing, defining and creating the right mix of lead generation tactics, analyzing and measuring marketing performance, and reinforcing these marketing efforts through compelling marketing communications including blogs and social media. All services -from strategic plan development to tactical execution- are intended to help increase leads and sales revenue through a closed-loop marketing approach to marketing.
About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.
Waltham, Mass., September 16, 2009 - Harvest Solutions today announced its services are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange. Harvest Solutions is a salesforce.com partner and an excellent source for consulting and training.
With Harvest Solution's services, customers can get assistance deploying Salesforce CRM or integrating the application to work with existing business systems. The firm's services include: site survey, needs assessment, QuickStart program, business process review, design and development, data integration, data migration, project management, training, and support. Harvest Solutions' entire services offering may be found at the AppExchange, http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000001gZjPEAU.
"Our relationship with Harvest Solutions began during a SQL to Salesforce CRM integration project that began to deteriorate. Harvest Solutions quickly understood our complex business requirements and gaps for project success. The firm's consulting services saved the project and helped us realize customer success. It's been a true pleasure working with Harvest Solutions," said Eddie Treizman, director of operations, Dial 800, Communications.
"As a cloud-based application, Salesforce CRM allows us to offer a cost effective and flexible solution to customers," said Sid Lejfer, president, Harvest Solutions. "Due to the nature of cloud computing, the emphasis of our services is around addressing and resolving critical business issues in moving to the cloud."
"The number of services available on the AppExchange continues to grow with the addition of Harvest Solutions," said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com. "Harvest Solutions' offerings allow users to realize customer success with Salesforce CRM in the cloud."
About the Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 120,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 63,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.
Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.