JIGSAW'S CLOUD COMPUTING NEXT CRM WAVE

With a database of over 19 million business contacts and growing, Jigsaw is a formidable powerhouse for data sharing and Customer Relationship Management.  Nearly 4 million companies have joined, uploading & sharing their business contacts to our vast database.  The results are staggering.  With such a strong foundation, Jigsaw has generated millions of dollars in revenue by selling these contacts to other companies.

What’s so special about Jigsaw?

Based in San Mateo, California, Jigsaw is web-based directory of business cards and company records.   Companies like Innocentive, Threadless, Spreadshirt, iStockPhoto may claim to be crowd-sourcing, but in reality they’re just knowledge banks.  They provide lists of resources, which might be useful, but they don’t actually do anything for you.  In today’s world, people aren’t looking for more info to sift through.  We need to be more efficient with our time and resources.  Other companies just give you more data.  Jigsaw gives you contacts and more importantly it gives you results. 

Many sites like Wikipedia are written by knowledge-enthusiasts who want to see their ideas in print.  It can be useful if you’re researching a paper, but not if you’re running a company.  Jigsaw’s community is primarily made up of Sales, Marketing, and Human Resource professionals.  They know how to make sales and marketing more efficient for you. 

“We have a unique way of building our database in a crowd sourced way, and we’re distributing it as a steadily evolving innovative service,” Jim Fowler, CEO.

How did it all start?

Jigsaw started in 2003 as a collaborative online business directory.  Quality leads were hard to come by, and sales people were under more pressure than ever.  Networking can be exhausting and time-consuming.  How many leads can you generate at one event?  It’s just not efficient.  In today’s world we can’t afford to waste all that time for what could end up being a wrong number.  It was time to innovate.  With a world growing increasingly fast-paced, paperless, and wireless, we needed a tool to match its momentum.  A pocket full of business cards or a brown book full of scribbled numbers just won’t cut it anymore. 

That’s why Jigsaw was founded.  This way the world’s top professionals can get together & collaborate, across the country and even the world.  They can communicate, uploading and sharing legitimate leads to increase productivity and sales.  It’s a competitive world, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work together.  Now Jigsaw boasts 800,000 members who can contribute to and even correct data.  It’s like a giant Rolodex, but instead of holding a few hundred cards, it holds millions.  Keep an eye-on Jigsaw a rising CRM set to launch its cloud computing Fusion Data Cleansing solutions.

About Author

Mr. Rickman is a respected analyst, innovative expert in business development and media news services with over 30-years experience, published worldwide. He is also the author of several books including Eight Billion People.  Mr. Rickman holds advanced business and technical degrees from Boston University. For more information visit : http://www.sustainablevirtualbiz.com  or  call (503) 621-4953.