Brent Frei's blog

Smartsheet Simple CRM and Google Apps - Harmony

Brent Frei — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:30:26 +0000

Coupling Smartsheet Simple Sales Pipeline, Customer Support and Marketing Campaign Management into Google’s Email, Calendar and Docs makes for a very straightforward small business CRM solution.... Read more

Right Place, Right Time - 3 SaaS Segments, 14% Growth, $8.5 Billion

Brent Frei — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:38:09 +0000

Smartsheet has been on a growth tear over the past 6 months. It’s been quite fun. Today, more good news. Gartner published their market projections for global software-as-a-service (SaaS) in three categories well served by Smartsheet. Project Management, Collaboration and CRM.... Read more

Balihoo - Managing Local Marketing Programs for National Brands

Brent Frei — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:29:39 +0000

Andrew Piron – Director of Program Management... Read more

A Rumble in the NW Tech Jungle - Sizing up the Competition

Brent Frei — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:20:37 +0000

This is a guest post from Concur EVP Elena Donio, who is responsible for the creation of Concur Breeze, an online expense reporting solution for small business.... Read more

Smartsheet - An App Suite in a Sheet

Brent Frei — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:12:27 +0000

“An App Suite in a Sheet” – possibly the most concise description of Smartsheet we’ve seen yet. The folks at The Launchpad have written a tight synopsis of Smartsheet with that title.... Read more

Is Google's #AppTuesday a Secret Gist Marketing Campaign?

Brent Frei — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:10:01 +0000

Last month, Smartsheet and Gist entered into a cage match focused on generating the most customers from the newly available Google Apps Marketplace. Both Concur and Napera have asked to be included in the bet. Like us, I assume they’re interested in winning free versions of Gist’s product and free beer for their teams.... Read more

Memorial Day - The Freedom to Work

Brent Frei — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:20:31 +0000

Some of the Smartsheet team is honoring the men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free by working today. We’ll never be able to repay them, but we’re doing our best to make the most of our freedoms – particularly our economic ones.

It seems others around the country have done the same, as the phone continued to ring the whole day. Two particularly interesting interchanges had us chuckling.... Read more

Project Management with Salesforce - RPX Customer Spotlight

Brent Frei — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:57:12 +0000

RPX Corporation is the preeminent provider of patent risk solutions for companies that use technology to create and sell products and services. Since its founding in 2008, this San Francisco-based company has redefined the intellectual property landscape by connecting companies, capital and deep patent expertise to provide a rational alternative to litigation.... Read more

Smartsheet vs Gist in a Google-Off

Brent Frei — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:20:53 +0000

The Seattle tech community is tight enough that we often cross paths in odd ways. The most recent involved colleague-from-Onyx-past Amy Pelly (Kelleran). She’s now at Gist, and she used our post on the Google Developer Blog to reinforce Gist’s decision to enter the Google Apps Marketplace. Her email to us said: ... Read more

The Next Generation Career: Crowdsourcing Consultant

Brent Frei — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:10:56 +0000

Millions of online workers are waiting each day for the thousands of companies that request their special services.... Read more