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First Research Partners and Strategic Alliances

First Research has formed partnerships and strategic alliances with several industry leaders that strive to ensure all professionals have the necessary sales and marketing tools and solutions to be competitive. Each company is a leader in their own right, demonstrating expertise in a wide range of areas including technology, sales processes, sales training and sales tools.





America's Community Bankers (ACB) is the national trade association committed to shaping the future of banking by being the innovative industry leader strengthening the competitive position of community banks. ACB is committed to providing products and services that will help your bank improve its profitability and compete more effectively in its chosen target markets. The ACB Preferred Solutions Provider program identifies and recruits “Best in Class” vendors and service providers. When a product or service bears the ACB Preferred Solutions Provider seal, you can count on quality assurance from ACB’s due diligence process. ACB has endorsed First Research as a Preferred Solutions Provide and ACB members receive preferred pricing on all First Research Industry Intelligence Tools. Visit www.acb.us to learn more.



Baker Hill, an Experian company, has been focused on the banking industry, delivering proven solutions that address business process needs for more than two decades. Working as a trusted advisor, more than 1,100 financial institutions in all segments have drawn on our business expertise to improve critical processes and have chosen Baker Hill’s relationship management, credit origination and portfolio risk management solutions as their enabling technologies. Baker Hill has partnered with First Research to assist clients in obtaining information to support sales and relationship management activities by providing a central location of industry intelligence. For more information, visit www.bakerhill.com.



First Research Industry Profiles leverage content provided by Factiva. The Industry Profiles include relevant, selected headlines from Factiva’s collection of more than 10,000 business news and information sources.  Factiva’s news enhances First Research’s Industry Intelligence Sales Tools by providing additional industry-specific information and further improving success through every stage of the sales cycle.  To learn more, visit www.factiva.com.



Fintel is a leading provider of financial benchmarking and analytics designed to help consultants, banks, and companies improve their bottom lines through improved financial intelligence with the help of an exclusive dataset of over 900,000 private companies in over 900 industries. Fintel’s innovative solutions, such as the comprehensive analytical system FintelOnline2.0, allow companies to benchmark themselves against their industry, and work with “what-if” corrective scenarios in real-time. Fintel’s custom research has been utilized by many clients including the Brookings Institution, the United States Small Business Administration, and the Wisconsin Technology Council. Fintel’s leading edge solutions, both off the shelf and custom, can help government and corporate clients achieve their benchmarking, research, and consulting goals. Fintel is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. For more information, visit www.fintel.us.


Huthwaite is internationally acknowledged as the leader in sales performance improvement. Their research-proven selling models have been irrefutably proven to increase sales effectiveness, and are continuously being refined in response to real-world marketplace pressures and demands. Although best known as the creator of SPIN® Selling, the sales methodology that revolutionized consultative selling, Huthwaite continues to break new ground in sales effectiveness concerning areas such as major sales prospecting, value-driven selling and organizational alignment.

Companies today face increasing commoditization, foreign competition and shrinking market share. Partnering with Huthwaite helps them achieve a clear advantage over their competitors through disciplined sales behavior change. By maximizing selling skills, account strategy and coaching competencies, organizations can move beyond price-driven selling and become trusted advisors to their customers. For more information, call 703-467-3800, email info@huthwaite.com, or visit huthwaite.com.


First Research and Knotwork Consulting are working together to provide first class integration solutions for customers wishing to optimize and streamline the way that they use First Research Industry Profiles. By programmatically tapping into the First Research Web Services platform, customers are able to seamlessly present and analyze current industry challenges and opportunities from within their own systems.

Knotwork Consulting is a Raleigh NC based software consulting firm that specializes in custom software application development, systems integration and graphic design. Since 1997, the founders of Knotwork Consulting have been designing and delivering custom solutions for clients in a number of industries including Retail, Manufacturing, University Systems and Government. Our experience building and delivering enterprise systems for larger organizations enables our company to draw on past successes and lessons learned when helping smaller, growing organizations make the best use of today’s technologies. To learn more visit knotworkconsulting.com.


Our philosophy is simple: A bank’s sales force is only as good as its sales management process. High levels of sales team performance are a direct result of effective sales management. When we look at high performing sales organizations in banking, we always see three related elements: an articulated sales management process at every level of the bank; a clearly defined market management process; and a carefully positioned value proposition that guides face-to-face selling.

Our clients quickly learn that Sales Managers who make time to teach bankers how to use tools like First Research in planning and who coach important sales calls before the call see sales results improve every quarter, every year. For more information contact Ned Miller at 610-296-4772 or visit mzbierlyconsulting.com.


We build innovative software solutions that help our customers face the challenges of running a small or midsized business. Our solutions are flexible, affordable, and integrated. They are inspired by the customers and accountants who use them. Not the latest fad. What’s more, they are built to meet the needs, challenges, and dreams of business and organizations. And our products are defined by the most important measure of all: satisfaction by our customers.  For more than 30 years, companies that have joined the Sage Software family have assisted small and medium-sized businesses with a wide range of business management applications and services. Currently we support more than 2.4 million customers in the U.S. and Canada. Our applications cover a full range of business requirements including accounting, customer relationship management, contact management, human resources, warehouse management, specialized industry needs, among many others. sagesoftware.com

Sage Software created the Sage Software Accountants Network to better serve the accounting community and further assist them in building their practice and helping their clients. The Accountants Network offers flexible access to information, software and services that allow them to use Sage Software solutions internally and respond to their clients’ needs – without investing a great deal of time and money. sageaccountantsnetwork.com


The Sant Corporation is the leader in sales effectiveness software for businesses that require flexible, easy to use solutions to create proposals, RFP responses, presentations and other sales documents. Sant Suite™ is comprised of four modules that are seamlessly integrated into one software application: ProposalMaster™, RFPMaster™, ProSearch™ and PresentationBuilder™. Businesses choose Sant to improve productivity, increase sales and deliver accurate, consistent sales documents to their customers.

Sant and First Research work together to provide high-quality content for companies to use in their sales documents. Using First Research, Sant’s writers can deliver content development services in half the time of traditional methods. More importantly, Sant’s customers are extremely satisfied with the quality of the work. To learn more, visit santcorp.com or call (888) 448-7268.



Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company’s Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

Apex, salesforce.com’s on-demand platform, provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. All Apex components and applications can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, enabling all the innovation that Apex unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.

FirstResearch for AppExchange is one of more than 400 applications that are now available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.


“True partner. Collaborative. Results. Amazing.” Words bankers are saying when asked about St. Meyer & Hubbard. The firm helps clients achieve breakout results through sales and sales management education. SM&H delivers best-in-class training and tactical coaching in business banking, retail and wealth management. Their associates consult with Executive Management to review infrastructure issues that drive the effectiveness of the sales process. They help hone key skills and behaviors through in field and telephone mentoring. They execute best-in-class workshops employing tailored tools that speed bankers to conversation proficiency. SM&H is engaged at the nation’s most prestigious banking schools, speak at major national conferences and facilitate hundreds of in bank workshops annually. Modules such as Acquisition Rhythms, Making First Calls Count and Two Days with Jack have helped transition banks from common sales cultures to total Performance Environments by bringing learning to life and life to learning. To learn more, visit stmeyerandhubbard.com.