Launch Sales and Marketing's Brandt Page has been selected by American Express to contribute to its Twitter OPEN Forum platform to offer advice to small businesses and to help them grow.

Salt Lake City, UT -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/13/2010 -- American Express has selected Brandt Page, CEO at Launch Sales and Marketing LLC, to contribute to the global financial services leader's OPEN Forum Pulse along with other preferred business leaders to offer advice to small businesses. American Express created its OPEN Forum Pulse Twitter platform as an aggregate source of sound business information for small business owners. Additionally, OPEN hopes to facilitate conversations between business owners to stimulate growth. Mr. Page and Launch will offer sales and marketing tips to OPEN's users and followers.

According to their site, the American Express OPEN platform "was designed for small business owners to search and learn from insightful, business-related tweets and share ideas with others."

"It is an honor to be part of this group," stated Brandt Page. "Along with setting qualified appointments for our clients, Launch has been offering sales advice on Twitter to over 3,000 followers over the past year. To be able to extend the impact of those tweets to small businesses who utilize American Express and its OPEN Forum Pulse is excellent. It helps Launch with its core focus and mission of helping companies fill their sales pipelines."

Twitter is becoming a great source of information for businesses and individuals alike. Launch utilizes Twitter to communicate sales tips and sales help to their followers on a daily basis. Launch Tips have included: keys to success for selling on the phone, how to network and create relationships, how to close more sales and schedule more qualified appointments, lead generation and qualification, as well as how to be a better entrepreneur.

More information on the OPEN Forum Pulse at http://pulse.openforum.com. Twitter users can follow Launch at http://twitter.com/LaunchSales and Brandt Page at http://twitter.com/brandtpage. More information on Launch can be found at http://www.launchsalesandmarketing.com.

About Launch Sales and Marketing LLC
Launch Sales and Marketing LLC provides high quality, scalable, and expert outsourced sales and marketing for businesses. The primary focus is business-to-business inside sales for technology products and services companies. Launch is an essential component of a business-to-business sales solution. Whether you are an established firm or a start-up that wants to grow faster, fill your sales pipeline, leverage sales efficiencies, or add sales revenue, Launch is the answer.
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Launch Sales and Marketing distributes its first free research paper focused on five lethal sales mistakes that companies are making and provides solutions to those mistakes.

Salt Lake City, UT -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/09/2009 -- In preparation for the holiday season, Launch Sales and Marketing has published 5 Lethal Mistakes of Sales Professionals and How To Solve Them to help companies increase their sales during the traditionally slow time of year and throughout 2010. Launch has already begun releasing the paper to its clients.

Launch expects this to be the first in a series of research papers focused on helping companies increase their sales.

"We are so excited about this paper," explained Brandt Page, Launch's CEO. "Over the past year, we have visited with a number of companies selling phenomenal products or services but they were not hitting their sales goals. In looking at their sales and marketing plans, we saw some fundamental mistakes being made. I figured that if these companies were experiencing these problems, then there has to be a number of other companies out there with the same problems."

Containing data from numerous sources, Launch wrote 5 Lethal Mistakes to offer some practical advice to companies and to show them:

* How to beat their competitors to their prospects
* How to tap markets that are not looking for them
* How to dramatically increase the probability of qualifying a prospect
* How to increase the quality and quantity of their leads
* How to leverage your own resources to increase your sales revenue

Interested parties are welcome to download the paper at Launch's web site: http://bit.ly/5Lr5NR

About Launch Sales and Marketing LLC:
Launch Sales and Marketing LLC provides high quality, scalable, and expert outsourced sales and marketing for businesses. The primary focus is business-to-business inside sales for technology products and services companies. Launch is an essential component of a business-to-business sales solution. Whether you are an established firm or a start-up that wants to grow faster, fill your sales pipeline, leverage sales efficiencies, or add sales revenue, Launch is the answer.
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Salt Lake City, UT -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/25/2009 -- Rising quickly to the top, Launch Sales and Marketing LLC is ranked 6th by The Utah Student 25 Awards that recognize the achievements of today's top student entrepreneurs, the businesses they have created, and their economic impact.

Utah Student 25 last week announced 2009 winners to an audience of more than 300 at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah Student 25 announced Launch Sales and Marketing as the 6th ranked top student founded business in the State of Utah.

"As the founder of Marketstar Corporation and managing director of Mercato Partners, I understand how targeted lists, lead qualification, and appointment setting are essential to sales growth," states Alan Hall, Managing Director of Mercato Partners. "For emerging businesses, outsourcing these sales functions can really help accelerate growth. Launch Sales and Marketing is the right sales partner to accomplish these mission critical activities and it would be wise to utilize their services."

Launch is known for filling the sales pipelines of their clients with qualified appointments and leads. Launch is able to find targeted lead lists that provide an essential piece of the sales process to make 100-150 calls per day per sales professional to create 20-60 scheduled appointments per month for their clients.

"I have watched hundreds of businesses struggle with finding, qualifying and meeting with new customers," said Joe Grover, Director of Junto Partners. "Launch Sales and Marketing brings the expertise, process and tenacity to get this job done efficiently and professionally. These guys are cold calling pros and using Launch to augment an internal sales team just makes sense."

2009 Utah Student 25 finalist companies employ more than 100 workers and collectively produce $3.9 million in annual revenue. The Utah Student 25 selects businesses based on revenue growth and profitability.

About Launch Sales and Marketing LLC:
Launch Sales and Marketing LLC provides high quality, scalable, and expert outsourced sales and marketing for businesses. The primary focus is business-to-business inside sales for technology products and services companies. Launch is an essential component of a business-to-business sales solution. Whether you are an established firm or a start-up that wants to grow faster, fill your sales pipeline, leverage sales efficiencies, or add sales revenue, Launch is the answer.

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