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Interact Commerce Corp. Launches Interact.com
Next generation Internet service for selling professionals integrates 42 best-of-breed Web services into the applications and devices salespeople use every day
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--Aug. 8, 2000-- Interact Commerce Corp. (Nasdaq: IACT), the leading provider of interactive selling solutions and makers of ACT! and SalesLogix, Tuesday launched Interact.com, an online subscription service that delivers a host of powerful Web-based services into the applications and devices selling professionals use every day.Interact.com brings the Internet to the daily lives of sales professionals by enabling business-critical contact and relationship data through a network that operates for them on a 24x7 basis.
Interact.com introduces a next generation Internet service to seamlessly integrate an interactive selling network ``in-context'' with selling professionals' current productivity tools.
Using ACT! 2000, Outlook, their mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), selling professionals can schedule Web conferences, receive news on clients and prospects, order leads, execute e-marketing campaigns, and create customized Web sites to communicate with clients.
Interact.com makes sales professionals more productive than sales portals because it isn't a destination that sends you to separate services, rather, it brings the services and data directly into your applications.
To enable the industry's first interactive selling network, Interact Commerce has partnered with 19 leading software, communications and Web services companies to provide services that help selling professionals sell more efficiently and effectively.
These partnerships make more than 42 services immediately available to the 3 million individuals and 8,700 Corp.s using ACT!, the world's leading contact management application, the 30 million users of Microsoft Office, and Sprint PCS users.
``Interact.com is a key part of our ongoing mission to help customers interact more, sell more and grow faster,'' said Pat Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Interact Commerce Corp.
``Selling professionals spend most of their time disconnected from the Internet, which makes portals useless most of the time. Interact.com integrates Web services natively into the tools salespeople already depend on, a completely new approach that for the first time makes the Internet truly valuable for the sales community, and it does it around the clock.
``While our ACT! users are the first to benefit from Interact.com; soon SalesLogix users will also be able to take advantage of this great, new service.''
Interact.com Benefits
Some of the unique benefits of this service include:
Same environment, more services, no learning curve. Because Interact.com services are integrated within the devices and applications selling professionals already use, training time doesn't take away from sales activities. Services are ``in-context'' of the application making them useful immediately.
Data is consolidated across multiple devices and applications. Selling professionals increasing their use of electronic tools often find that their client data is fragmented among contact managers, mobile phones and PDAs. Interact.com consolidates this data so that it can be accessed and reused no matter which tool the salesperson uses.
Forty-two extended services make client relationships more productive. The services within Interact.com were selected based on their ability to deliver real value to selling professionals. Some of the many services include sales leads; Web site and e-commerce site creation; marketing services including e-mail campaigns and banner ad campaigns; company research; news, including business, world, industry, financial, weather and sports; Web conferences; private e-workplaces; travel services and weather information; directions and maps; and small business services.
New services integrate with existing customer records. The services within Interact.com integrate with the information selling professionals already keep in their sales applications and devices, giving them a single customer view. For example, a Web conference scheduled with a customer is automatically logged into the customer's history and notes record, leads ordered off the Internet can be automatically downloaded into the selling professional's existing prospect database, and a mobile phone call launched from the live contact database on the Internet will also be logged in ACT! notes and history.
Community offers support and training. Interact.com lets selling professionals join an online community in which they can trade tips and techniques, access sales training and motivational workshops, and find advice from noted sales gurus.
Availability and Pricing
Interact.com is available immediately through Interact Commerce Corp. The first release of Interact.com supports ACT! 2000; Microsoft Outlook; Web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs. Upcoming releases will add support for SalesLogix2000 as well as additional sales management applications and PDAs.
Pricing is as follows: Existing ACT! and Microsoft Outlook users: monthly fee is $19.95; 12-month pre-pay is $169.95. New ACT! users (Interact.com and ACT! subscription): monthly fee is $29.95; 12-month pre-pay is $249.95.
All users are eligible for a free, 60-day trial. As part of the trial, users with a previous version of ACT! can upgrade to ACT! 2000 for $49 (a savings of $50).
About Interact Commerce Corp.
Interact Commerce Corp. enables individuals and organizations worldwide to interact more, sell more and grow faster.
The company's products include ACT!, the market-leading contact manager used by more than 3 million professionals, SalesLogix, the fastest growing customer relationship management platform used by more than 2,700 companies, and the Interact.com business, the premier interactive selling network.
Each of these solutions integrates all aspects of the selling process, from mobile sales professionals to support, marketing, accounting and eBusiness partners. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Interact Commerce can be found on the World Wide Web at www.interact.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements.
Important factors that may cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: risks associated with recent acquisitions; our ability to implement new marketing strategies; market demand and acceptance; the impact of competitive products and services; risks associated with the timing and successful completion of technology and product development and commercialization; the effect of economic and business conditions; the ability to attract and retain technical and management personnel; changing relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners, including the company's indirect distribution channel; and other risks detailed in the company's annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2000.
Interact Commerce undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
SalesLogix is a registered trademark of Interact Commerce Corp. Interact.com is a trademark of Interact Commerce Corp. ACT! is a registered trademark under exclusive license to Interact Commerce Corp. by its owner, Symantec Corp., in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks or registered marks are owned by their respective holders.
Editorial Contact:
Kathrina Tobias
Interact Commerce Corp.
480/368-3859
mail to:ktobias@interactcommerce.com
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