the ACT! Users Group of South Florida Will Hold Next Meeting on March 1, 2004

Local ACT! Consultant Will Demonstrate Sales and Marketing Tools Using ACT!

Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) February 17, 2004 --The ACT! Users Group of South Florida will hold its next meeting on Monday, January 5 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach. Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The meeting is sponsored by local ACT! consultant and trainer Karen Fredricks of Tech Benders, LLC. For further information, contact Fredricks at 954-360-9909 or by email at ugsf@techbenders.com.

Ellen Bristol of the Bristol Strategy Group will be the special guest speaker. Her presentation, "Selling the SMART Way," is designed to show ACT! users the various sales techniques that are guaranteed to increase sales. The meeting will be preceded by a networking session and followed by a question and answer period conducted by Karen Fredricks.

According to Fredricks, "I am thrilled that Ellen has so graciously volunteered to share her presentation with the members of the ACT! Users Group." Although many of the members have mastered ACT!, they havent necessarily mastered the sales process. Attendees will learn how to incorporate these very important sales techniques into their daily ACT! usage,

Fredricks has over 20 years of computer consulting and training experience in South Florida, during which time she has acquired in-depth expertise in the operational requirements of a broad spectrum of businesses. Author of ACT! 6 for Dummies, Fredricks is an ACT! Certified Consultant, an ACT! Premier Trainer and a member of ACT!s Partner Advisory Council. She was selected to host the Fort Lauderdale stop of the national launch of ACT! 6.0, which took place in August, 2002. Fredricks is also a QuickBooks Pro Certified Advisor and author of copyrighted training materials for business users of QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Basic Windows and the Internet,

TechBenders, which was established by Karen Fredricks, provides technology consulting and training to business and industry. Its services include needs analysis to determine hardware and software requirements, installation of selected software packages and troubleshooting, software customization, and training. TechBender personnel are proficient in the most widely used business software packages, including ACT!, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, and the Internet.

Bristol is the driving force behind Bristol Strategy Group, the Miami-based company that has become the thought leader in sales-force effectiveness. Their innovative methodology, Selling the SMART Way®, provides a strategic approach to sales that produces consistent, predictable sales growth. Clients who adopt the SMART Way concepts have shown growth from 20% to over 100% within the first year. Ellens articles on managing sales performance have been published nationally and regionally. Named to the list of Miamis 100 Most Powerful Women in 2000, Ellen is currently in the process of establishing an affiliate program to make her training programs and consulting services available on an international basis. The company currently enjoys key relationships with many of the major providers of sales-force automation and customer-relationship management software products, including ACT!.