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Message from our CEO
Summer is here, and we at CDS are trying something new. Because
we have a growing company with young employees (many of which are starting families),
we are experimenting with a summer vacation shutdown. This will enable most
of our folks to get a much needed vacation without interruptions from work.
Of course, our server folks will be on the job as usual.
We've completed the latest version of the CDS Catalog (see
details in article below) and continue to extend our partnerships to enable more
exposure of your models to Designer Engineers - more news on that after the July
4th week shutdown.
In our last newsletter we asked
to cooperatively market with you to drive traffic to your and our websites
- we're delighted to report multiple successes already:
1. Press Releases - we continue to do regular news releases with many customers with
great results - for example Google "catalog data solutions" + hytec to
see the online mentions of our CDS/Hytec release.
2.
Article in US Fastener Journal May/June
issue - see article entitled
"Multiple Benefits of Publishing Parts Catalogs Online- Why you should give
3D CAD away rather than hide it away?" and featuring the
following CDS customers Accurate Screw, Buckeye, Captive Fastener, J.W. Winco, Ohio Nut and Bolt, Stock Drive Products.
3. Article in Time Compression Technologies magazine Sep/Oct
issue - See article entitled
"Configurators Build Symbiotic Relationships with
Engineering Web Site Visitors"
and featuring CDS customer case study on Emerson Power Transmission.
Please join us in some
or all of these cooperative marketing activities - the only cost to you is your
time to help prepare and approve press releases, case studies and articles.
Best regards
John Major
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'You & us' Coop Marketing
Once your product information,
including CAD models, is available online, you need to maximize the number of design
engineers and buyers finding it. CDS can
help via three cooperative marketing activities:
1.
Marketing Messages
- to build traffic to your
and our web sites:
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Free Joint Press Releases to announce coming
implementations, launched sites, significant milestone measurements (Search Google,
Yahoo or MSN with the string "catalog data solutions", including
the quotation marks, to see recent CDS and customer joint media exposure)
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Free Case studies - we'll publish these
on our web site and work to get them published in the press (e.g.
CADalyst)
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Free Whitepapers
- we include case studies
in our whitepapers and get them published (e.g. Time Compression Technologies Magazine,
American Fastener Journal)
2. Targeted Exposure
for your CAD Models - we connect CAD engineers with
your CAD models by featuring your web site inside leading 3D CAD systems and
industry portals
3.
Free User Surveys - to ensure your customers are satisfied with the solution we're hosting
for you. For example the above graph came from the JW Winco user survey
and illustrates how important online designers regard CAD downloads when selecting
a supplier [Tip: use the CDS
Lead Generation Module to collect email addresses in exchange for downloads then
send newsletters, promos, satisfaction surveys]
If you'd like to join us in any or all of these cooperative activities contact us for
a discussion. Lastly we've created the CDS
referral program to reward customers who introduce new business to CDS - please
see the promo details in this newsletter.
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CDS Technology Update
We're delighted to announce the
latest version of the CDS Catalog - now including CDS Locator technology for detailed
spec and attribute search in a spreadsheet-like interface. Here's a roundup
of the most important features but please click on the product names to download
the data sheets:
CDS Catalog - click here to try the new release and find a Gates Hose
- Interactive online catalog - 3rd generation version
- Search - parametric, attribute, graphical and keyword - using CDS Locator technology
- Interoperability - easily add to existing HTML web site
- RFQs - users submit requests
for proposals online
- Sales lead registration - optionally available, including integration directly to your CRM
system
- ecommerce - optionally available, including credit card transactions
- Integration - directly to your CRM system or ERP Systems for pricing, order processing,
sales leads..
- Business metrics - reports and graphs ranging from page views to most popular categories
to repeat orders
CDS ModelServer
- 2D & 3D CAD model
downloads - dynamic generation
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