09 Jan

What Sales Productivity Looks like with Gmail and Salesforce


If you’re a sales rep, you’re probably strapped for time. You’ve got a quarterly goal to hit, but you’ve got calls, demos, emails, lead generation, follow-ups, activity tracking, and invoices to tend to. Every minute that you’re not selling is another minute that you’re not using to hit your sales goal. So how do you [...]

02 Jan

The Most Valuable Resource in the World


… is time. Money is renewable. Time is not. When it’s gone, it’s gone. Let’s say you live until you’re 79, the average life expectancy for someone living in North America. That’s less than 700,000 hours. One third of it will be spent sleeping, another tenth of it will be spent commuting – and many [...]

20 Dec

3 Keys to Work Productivity for Remote Workers


Working from home, coffee shops, and alternative locations are becoming more of a reality for workers in North America. The benefits seem so obvious: no commutes, working in your PJs, and all your facilities at your disposal. But what about the underlying challenge? How do you maintain work productivity? When your job requires a high [...]

29 Nov

Peace of Mind is your Startup’s Currency


It is extremely difficult and very competitive to win consumer mindshare. There are great products and services that are not being used because they have failed to prove they’re 10x better than the existing alternative. Yes.  TEN TIMES.  That’s the threshold of incremental improvement a new product must provide to overcome the switching cost a consumer [...]

21 Nov

Adding a Day of Productivity Back to your Week


Ecquire is a on mission to give every user of business web services an extra day of productivity to their week. Whether it be email, calendars, marketing software, sales software, customer service, or even social media, you are constantly logging in between and tabbing into these services. Even if you’re the most hardened, disciplined, inhumanly [...]

18 Nov

Say Hello to Ecquire and Goodbye to BCC


Have you ever sent an email to a contact and then realized “damn, I forgot to BCC them to Highrise”? It wasn’t a cool feeling for us either.  So we fixed it. Imagine if there was a way for you to always remember to BCC contacts to Highrise. Even better, imagine if there was a [...]

16 Nov

Master your Sales Pitch with a Simple Email


I’ve never heard someone who’s excellent at business development complain about email. Not once. Why? Because they know that emails just simply mirror real life conversations. There’s actually very little difference between these 2 modes of communication and if you’ve mastered one, you’ll be able to do well at the other. So let’s get down [...]

22 Oct

Unleashing Our Salesforce Monster


Over the last few months we’ve heard your requests for a smarter, faster, better-looking Salesforce integration. We put all your feedback together and realized the intelligent way to go about this wasn’t to fix a few things here and there, but rather to completely reinvent how we work with Salesforce. Oh, and do a complete [...]