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ATLANTA (May 23, 2012) – The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the state’s leading association dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of Georgia’s technology industry, today unveiled the members of the newly formed TAG Greater Augusta advisory board. TAG Greater Augusta is one of the organization’s newest chapters. It was developed to support the growth of the technology industry in the region and extend TAG resources throughout the state.

The advisory board includes:
•Joy Barr, Business Account Executive, Comcast Business Services
•Joshua Bolin, CEO, VanderMorgan Group
•Susan Caldwell, Area Director, The University of Georgia SBDC
•Gloria Dunbar, Chief Executive Officer, Hybrid Health IT
•Sean Frantom, Medical Software Trainer, Spherion at University Hospital
•Eric Frickey, Commercialization Manager, Savannah River National Laboratory
•Reed Gary, Senior Recruiter, CCCi
•Gordon Jones, Founder, President & CEO, Guardian Watch, LLC
•Glenn Kennedy, Deputy County Administrator, Columbia County
•Tamara Lopata, Marketing and Partner Development Manager, UTG Solutions
•Will McGee, Chief Information Officer, EDTS, LLC
•Chris McKinney, Associate Vice President, Georgia Health Sciences University
•Scott Monnig, Development Center Manager, Rural Sourcing, Inc
•Carolyn Rahn Newsome, Account Manager, CMA Technology
•Karyn Nixon, Executive Assistant, Mayor Deke Copenhaver’s Office
•Troy Post, Executive Director, Development Authority of Columbia County
•Elliot Price, Regional Manager, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute
•Rick Richards, President & Chief Medical Officer, Global Emergency Resources
•Kim Romaner, Chief Amplifier, Possibilities Amplified, Inc
•Brian Tucker, President & CEO, Greater North Augusta Chamber of Commerce

“The presence of technology businesses in Greater Augusta and the surrounding region is growing and we are pleased it has become such a focus for the region,” stated Tino Mantella, president and CEO of TAG. “TAG has received a very warm welcome in Greater Augusta and we are excited to have built such a strong advisory board. Extending our reach to Greater Augusta supports our efforts to become a truly statewide organization and help Georgia become one of the top states in the nation for technology.”

TAG is the largest technology trade association in the southeast with more than 16,600 members representing more than 1,700 companies.

Beginning in July, TAG Greater Augusta will kick off its Tech Tuesdays with a panel discussion on energy within the region. For more information on any of these programs, contact Heather Miner, director for TAG Greater Augusta via email at Heather@tagonline.org or via phone at (404) 920-2022.

About The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)
The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) is the leading technology industry association in the state, serving more than 16,600 members and hosting over 200 events each year. TAG serves as an umbrella organization for 30 industry societies, each of which provides rich content for TAG constituents. TAG’s mission is to educate, promote, influence and unite Georgia’s technology community to foster an innovative and connected marketplace that stimulates and enhances a tech-based economy. The association provides members with access to networking and educational programs; recognizes and promotes Georgia’s technology leaders and companies; and advocates for legislative action that enhances the state’s economic climate for technology. Additionally, the TAG Education Collaborative (TAG’s charitable arm) focuses on helping science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education initiatives thrive. For more information visit the TAG website at www.tagonline.org or TAG’s community website at www.TAGthink.com. To learn about the TAG-Ed Collaborative visit www.tagedonline.org/.

TPG Clients Share Personal Stories about their Own Revenue Marketing Transformations™
at SiriusDecisions 2012 Summit & Marketo Global User Summit 2012

ATLANTA, GA. May 22, 2012 – The Pedowitz Group, the authority on Revenue Marketing Transformation™ (RMT), announces its executive presence at two upcoming industry conferences this month: SiriusDecisions Summit 2012, May 22 – 24 in Scottsdale, AZ, and the Marketo Global User Summit 2012, May 23 – 24, in San Francisco, CA.

TPG President and CEO, Jeff Pedowitz will present at SiriusDecisions’ event on the topic of Revenue Marketing Transformation. Jeff will share how enterprise customers have utilized TPG’s proven, six-step process to begin transforming their marketing organizations from a cost center to a revenue center. Jeff has over 20 years of experience leading successful B2C and B2B organizations. His company has placed in the top 50 fastest growing private companies in Atlanta for the second consecutive year and was named a 2012 CRM Watchlist winner in the Consultant/Systems Integration category.

TPG’s Chief Revenue Marketing Officer, Debbie Qaqish, will deliver her Keynote address: The Journey to Revenue Marketing Transformation to over 1200 Marketo users on May 23. Summit attendees are agents of change within their organizations, leading the Revenue Marketing Transformation. Debbie will share the transformational journey of Alex Pelletier of Acquisio, who will join her on stage during this interactive session. Debbie, an internationally recognized speaker, author, and thought leader has been voted one of the top women to watch by the Sales Lead Management Association (SLMA).

Both executives were voted among the Top 10 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management by the SLMA.

As a part of their presentations, audience members will have an opportunity to conduct their own Revenue Marketing Assessment and see, privately, how they compare to their peers.

About The Pedowitz Group – Connecting Marketing to Revenue™

The Pedowitz Group (TPG) is the world’s largest full-service Revenue Marketing Agency. A two time Pacesetter winner, TPG helps global clients transform their marketing organizations from cost centers to revenue centers by assessing and optimizing six controls: strategy, people, process, technology, content and results. As the authority on Revenue Marketing Transformation™, The Pedowitz Group has helped over 1000 clients begin the journey to driving predictable, repeatable, and scalable revenue results. For more information on how TPG helps clients become successful Revenue Marketers®, visit www.pedowitzgroup.com or blog.pedowitzgroup.com.

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Media / Analyst Contact:
Elizabeth Fairleigh
thE Connection, Inc.
elizabeth@econnectionpr.com
404.874.4562

Funnel Fixer™ reveals WHO, WHAT and WHEN and builds intelligence for LeadLife’s soon to be released Forecast Validator™ for CEOs and sales management


LeadLife Solutions (www.leadlife.com), the only provider of a premier lead management solution that combines people and technology, announced today a complimentary new website visitor tracking tool called Funnel Fixer. The free tool captures critical information about website visitors browsing your site, including detailed information on pages viewed, providing you with powerful sales and marketing insights.


“Many businesses are still struggling with lead and opportunity visibility – their websites are great marketing tools, but they’re also something of a black hole that doesn’t reveal who is visiting and why,” said Lisa Cramer, President and Co-founder of LeadLife. “Funnel Fixer not only identifies who is coming to your site, it also tracks their digital behavior so you know what products, services and demos have their attention and for how long.”


Funnel Fixer helps identify leads that convert – as well as those that don’t – and provides salespeople with important intelligence to identify sales ready prospects, enabling sales to customize their strategies. Stay tuned for LeadLife’s next announcement of a new tool specially designed for CEOs and sales management that will utilize Funnel Fixer’s database of information to better predict and validate the accuracy of sales forecasts. (Go to leadlife.com/index.php/technology/forecast-validator/ for a sneak preview of the Forecast Validator.)


Funnel Fixer’s highlights include:


• Visitor Insights™ – Companies will know who’s browsing their sites, even if visitors don’t fill out a form. Detailed page tracking includes time spent on pages, search words used, referring URLs, company information and auto-links to Jigsaw and LinkedIn. Daily emails with visitor detail are pushed to company users’ inboxes.


• Prospect Interests™ – Links all previous anonymous digital behavior to a prospect once they fill out a form on your website. This sales intelligence is sent to your company’s inboxes on a daily basis. As a result, it is possible to tailor sales and marketing messages to the unique needs of each qualified prospect.


• Buying Signs™ Outlook Add-in – Improves close rates at the bottom of the sales funnel by giving sales reps real-time alerts when prospects are reviewing information sent to them. Users that send emails via Microsoft Outlook receive detailed tracking on prospects’ opens, clicks, which web pages they viewed, and more.


“LeadLife’s Funnel Fixer has closed the gaps on our website that allowed qualified prospects to slip through our fingers,” said Ben Howerton, CEO of Point Dynamics, LLC. “We now have the ability to identify who is looking at our website, what they are interested in, and when they are reviewing sales and marketing materials. Our sales reps are now fully armed with the data needed to turn prospect digital behavior into revenue – we’re improving our close rates and increasing sales efficiency by being able to focus our sales and marketing efforts on each prospect’s perceived needs.”


“Beyond having a marketing automation technology that yields critical information for companies to improve their sales and marketing results, a key value-add LeadLife offers is its lead management experts who work directly with clients to optimize and implement their marketing campaigns,” said Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Nucleus Research. “Whether companies have large marketing staffs or have limited resources as a small or mid-sized business, every company can benefit from having a dedicated specialist assigned to their account who knows how to implement lead management best practices to improve marketing ROI.”


Funnel Fixer is an ideal complement to LeadLife’s complete solution that helps companies improve sales conversion and profit from sales successes. Funnel Fixer users can seamlessly upgrade to the full technology to take advantage of LeadLife’s automated marketing and lead nurturing, sales rep alerts, the new Forecast Validator, CRM integration and much more.


It only takes a few minutes to download the no-cost Funnel Fixer tool. Go to leadlife.com/index.php/funnel-fixer/


To stay in the know, subscribe to LeadLife’s informational blog, follow LeadLife on Twitter or “like” the company on Facebook. LeadLife also has a company page on LinkedIn.

About LeadLife Solutions
LeadLife Solutions is the only provider of a premier lead management solution combining people and technology. At LeadLife, we power our first-class marketing automation technology (the “brawn”) with lead management experts (the “brains”) to help clients maximize sales opportunities. Our specialists augment your staff with the time and expertise to build and execute marketing campaigns. With LeadLife’s flexible and intuitive software, we can help you increase the value of your lead generation dollars online/offline, qualify sales leads, shorten sales cycles and increase your marketing ROI. At LeadLife it's not only about leveraging automation, but also delivering lead management best practices to increase marketing and sales success. For more information on our marketing automation bundled services, please visit leadlife.com or call 1-800-680-6292.

ATLANTA – May 21, 2012 – CorFire, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA today announced that Jon Squire, chief marketing officer at CorFire and Tom Zalewski, vice president of sales will both present at the NFC Solutions Summit in Burligame, Calif. to be held May 22-24, 2012.

Zalewski will speak on NFC mobile payments in a pre-conference workshop on Monday, May 21. The session will look at how NFC mobile payments work, how they are provisioned to consumers’ mobile devices and how they are accepted through the merchant payments processing infrastructure.

The NFC Ecosystem Roundtable Panel will be held on Wednesday, May 23, where Squire and fellow panelists will discuss whether there is sufficient interoperability in the NFC ecosystem today from the perspective of chip vendors, trusted service managers (TSM) and reader manufacturers. Didier Serra, executive vice president and general manager for the United States for INSIDE Secure will moderate the panel.

“NFC is gaining more attention and adoption rates, in the U.S. in particular, are starting to increase,” Squire said. “Both discussions will provide a complete view of what the various players in the mobile ecosystem need to do to continue driving this momentum and benefit from NFC solutions.”

To view a social media version of this release, visit here.

About CorFire
From retailers to handset manufacturers to financial institutions to mobile network operators, organizations today need a proven way to extend their brands and enable their customers to use smartphones as a channel for commerce. With its proven industry expertise, CorFire helps all organizations in the mobile ecosystem deliver on the promise of an environment where consumers can live life mobile. As the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA, CorFire leverages the billion dollar financial backing of its parent company, SK C&C, with its 10+ years of mobile payments experience to provide a scalable and trusted technology that helps companies quickly and securely move their mobile commerce platforms forward.

Headquartered in Atlanta, with a second office in San Francisco, CorFire offers three core technology solutions: its Trusted Services Manager (TSM) platform - CorTSM™, a robust mobile wallet platform - CorPay™, and Cor360 - a state-of-the-art suite of mobile marketing services. For more information please visit www.corfire.com.

For CorFire:
Jackie Parker
Arketi Group
(404) 929-0091 x220
jparker@arketi.com

Jon Squire promoted to CMO to head marketing & sales; Industry veteran Tom Zalewski joins to deepen telecommunications and NFC team

ATLANTA, May 21, 2012 – CorFire, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA and the leading provider of mobile technology solutions, today announced the promotion of Jon Squire to chief marketing officer, now leading all sales and marketing activities, and the addition of Tom Zalewski as vice president, sales to the management team.

Over the past year, Squire served as senior vice president of business development & strategy from the San Francisco office working directly with clients, partners and prospects. Squire has spoken at several industry events including RAMP, US Advanced Payments Summit and at Payments Innovation Institute at Harvard Faculty Club.

“While Jon’s track record speaks volumes about his contributions to CorFire’s growth, his knowledge and insights will continue to help him guide our marketing efforts to reach our target markets,” said Sang Yook, chief strategy officer. “Jon’s expanded role will empower our ability to provide world class solutions for our partners and clients, which is key to our ongoing success.”

Zalewski brings more than a decade of experience in the mobile payments space and more than 20 years in the telecommunications industry to his role. Before joining CorFire, Zalewski served as president at Aikon Consulting, LLC, has played an integral role in many of the first NFC and pre-NFC (RFID) mobile payments trials and pilots and helped create a Trusted Service Manager joint venture in 2006.

“Tom’s addition to our team will accelerate our growth in North America and around the globe,” said Yook. “His industry experience and pioneering attitude will help us connect with valuable decision makers in the mobile ecosystem and strengthen our efforts in moving the mobile lifestyle forward.”

To view a social media version of this release, visit here.

About CorFire
From retailers to handset manufacturers to financial institutions to mobile network operators, organizations today need a proven way to extend their brands and enable their customers to use smartphones as a channel for commerce. With its proven industry expertise, CorFire helps all organizations in the mobile ecosystem deliver on the promise of an environment where consumers can live life mobile. As the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA, CorFire leverages the billion dollar financial backing of its parent company, SK C&C, with its 10+ years of mobile payments experience to provide a scalable and trusted technology that helps companies quickly and securely move their mobile commerce platforms forward.

Headquartered in Atlanta, with a second office in San Francisco, CorFire offers three core technology solutions: its Trusted Services Manager (TSM) platform - CorTSM™, a robust mobile wallet platform - CorPay™, and Cor360 - a state-of-the-art suite of mobile marketing services. For more information please visit www.corfire.com.

For CorFire:
Jackie Parker
Arketi Group
(404) 929-0091 x220
jparker@arketi.com