TEWKSBURY, MA--(Marketwire - September 24, 2010) - TimeTrade® Systems (www.timetrade.com), the world leader in online appointment scheduling, announced today the completion of a $5.6M financing round, led by Ascent Venture Partners with participation by CommonAngels and other returning investors. The round included the conversion of $1.7M in convertible notes issued in December 2009.
The financing will accelerate TimeTrade's product line expansion and to build out its sales and marketing teams. In August 2010, the Company shipped its new TimeTrade Workgroup Edition product as part of the expansion of its Appointment CRM™ strategy. TimeTrade supplies appointment-scheduling applications and SaaS platform services to a worldwide client base of customer-centric companies including Best Buy, Coldwell Banker, Sears and Sprint; as well as education and government leaders like the Mayo Clinic and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The product line expansion is focused on bringing these time-scheduling capabilities to workgroups and division-level sales, support and marketing teams through an easy-to-use Web-based application. With TimeTrade, these organizations typically save 10 to 20% of operating expense by streamlining the efforts and overhead involved in scheduling sales and service meetings with customers and prospects. TimeTrade's award-winning online appointment setting solutions supplant conventional scheduling methods such as cold calling, phone and email tag -- which are inefficient and tiresome for customers and company representatives alike.
The Company plans to use the proceeds of the financing to continue its product line expansion and to further build out its sales and marketing teams and programs to help meet the expanded demand for its products. The Company expects to announce further enhancements to its core Appointment Cloud™ architecture for online appointment scheduling services, and to introduce a key Lead Router capability that provides the world's first appointment-based lead generation engine.
"I was pleased that we were able to raise substantially more than we targeted. I believe this financing round solidly reflects the continued confidence and support of our investors and their belief in the growing role online appointment scheduling will play as a central element in the fabric of the Social Web and the increasing importance of online connections to how companies do business with other companies and with consumers," said Ed Mallen, CEO of TimeTrade Systems. "TimeTrade delivers tens of millions of appointments each year for our largest customers and we are excited about making this capability more readily available to more sales and marketing teams -- to help them accelerate the sales cycle, while also improving customer satisfaction that will drive loyalty and repeat revenue."
About TimeTrade Systems
As the worldwide leader in online appointment scheduling, TimeTrade's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions make it easy for customers and prospects to connect and converse with sales and service individuals inside a company. TimeTrade products enable real-time, rule-based appointment scheduling across team members, locations and timeslots to help companies make the personal connections that drive their business and accelerate their revenues.
For more than a decade, Fortune 500 multinationals, small businesses, government agencies, universities, sales teams, and individuals have chosen TimeTrade to help them better engage, interact with, and satisfy their customers -- across every stage of the customer lifecycle. TimeTrade's proven Appointment CRM™ solutions deliver bottom-line business results, drive lead nurturing and Inbound Sales™, while also increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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