Who is Sales Spider
Sales Spider is America’s #1 business social network for Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs). Sales Spider has approximately 500,000 members and is growing by 30,000 a month.
Sales Spider is a free social network. Members use the social network to expand personal networks, host and view live webinars and videos, place free classified ads, and gain instant & free access to over 30,000 sales leads and business opportunities, updated daily.
Sales Spider works with over 75 government agencies and departments to provide business tools, resources and information to help small businesses succeed. The company has multiple technology patents pending.
Demographic Overview
- 71% SMB Business Owners
- 27% C- Level or VPs
- 85% between 30-55 years of age
- 93% from companies sized 1-100 employees
Opportunities
Sales Spider offers two distinct opportunities enabling Enterprise Companies to reach the SMB decision maker.
- Advertising – There are multiple digital advertising placements and unique media available: banners ads, e-newsletters, email, co-registration, webinars, video advertising, user messages, and customised sponsorships.
- Branded SMB Social Network - an Out-of-the-Box, On-Demand solution that provides organizations with a fully functioning business social network in 30 days. This platform allows enterprise companies to launch Branded Business Social Networks with a pre-populated base of members to connect with (currently 500,000), plus pre-populated business content. Ideal for companies who sell multiple products for cross selling and client aquistion.
Leading the Field
 Selling Power magazine called Sales Spider one of the world’s Top 50 Sales Websites. “Sales Spider is leading a revolution in b2b sales … Must review!”
In August 2008, Sales Spider was named the world’s 3rd most innovative company on the Fast Company Fast 50 for 2008. Please Click here.
In July 2008, MSNBC.com clearly identified Sales Spider as the leader in social networks for business owners. See the chart to the right.
Management Team
Russell Rothstein – Chief Executive Officer & Director
Russell Rothstein is the President and Founder of Sales Spider. A business social network, Sales Spider was launched in March 2006. Rothstein brings his resourceful experience in business and software development, sales and marketing.
Sales Spider is a business social network featuring $25 Billion worth of qualified sales leads, networking with thousands of business professionals, classified ads and online tradeshows to his users – for free. Within 12 months of Sales Spider’s launch, the site has attracted over 600,000 unique visitors and is growing by 100% a quarter.
Sales Spider’s co-branding partners include Salesforce.com and Google. Google’s co-branding initiative involves the first and only social network site in North America where users get paid by Google to surf.
Prior to the development of Sales Spider, Rothstein was the President and Founder of NorthPath, a Sales Outsourcing company offering lead generation and field sales outsourcing to leading technology companies.
Previous to NorthPath, Rothstein served in numerous sales and application capacities for Oracle, and was awarded Highest Performing Territory Sales Representative in Canada for 1998. Before Oracle, Russell was the Managing Partner and Founder of Bizware, a software supply chain for retail petroleum and major convenience stores. He successfully built Bizware into the industry market leader before selling to a Nasdaq listed public company in 1995.
Rothstein holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario and a First Class Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economics from McGill University in Montreal.
Jeffrey Schwartz – Board of Directors
Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Dorel Company Ltd.
Shortly after obtaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Montreal’s McGill University, Jeffrey Schwartz joined Dorel Company Ltd., the juvenile product manufacturing operation established by his father several years earlier. Already endowed with strong financial acumen, the experience rounded out Jeffrey’s abilities, providing him with an important operational and sales background.
Originally, Vice President, Juvenile for Dorel Industries (the public company), Jeffrey was named Vice President, Finance in the late 1980s and later Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. These positions have become increasingly strategic over the years, as the Company has evolved through various acquisitions to become a global consumer products leader in juvenile and home furnishings. Jeffrey currently oversees the finance function at all Dorel companies and regularly deals with the many financial analysts who follow the Corporation.
Today, Dorel is a global consumer products company, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of juvenile products, among the top two ready-to-assemble furniture manufacturers in North America and the largest US bicycle distributor. Sales in 2003 were US$1.2 billion with US$75 Million in Net Income. Sales in 2004 are expected to exceed US$1.8 billion with Net Income appreciating considerably.
Arthur Yallen – Board of Directors
Arthur Yallen has extensive experience as counsel and advisor to a wide range of clients in the corporate and management sectors.
A graduate of Montreal’s McGill University, Arthur received an honours B.A. in Economics in 1984. In 1987, he received his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, and has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1989.
In 1990, he founded and became the principal of Yallen Associates, a boutique law firm in Toronto. Yallen Associates represent a diverse roster of clients including investment bankers, corporations and special interest groups, as well as owners and managers of professional sports teams, professional athletes and representatives of professional athletes.
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