ERP VAR STAR AWARD: ERP Consultant Greenstone Professional Services

The team at ERPVAR congratulates Greenstone Professional Services for providing the most popular guest blog article posted to date on the ERP consultant blog site.  Congratulations Ken Jacobson at Greenstone Professional Services for the very first ERPVAR STAR AWARD 2013!!  In keeping with the theme of the ERPVAR site, you actually get a puzzle globe not a star.  Runners up ERP VAR STARs will also be announced in this article.  We will provide statistics that reinforce our belief that blogging is a good and worthwhile activity.  Are you an ERP consulting firm who is still wondering why or how you can implement a blogging strategy?  Who has the time to blog anyway and why bother?  Whats the point?  Does it feel like pulling teeth to get your team members to help with providing blogging content? 

ERP consultants, like Greenstone Professional Services, are a wealth of knowledge and real-life problem solving experience that takes years and years to build up.  ERPVAR is, among other things, a guest blogging site where ERP consultants and ERP ISV solution providers and developers can share their knowledge and experience through the community. 

Greenstone Professional Services has been participating on ERPVAR for the last year and were early supporters of ERP VAR when it was in it's infancy.  Ken Jacobson and Jennifer Swiderski have been generous contributors with guest blogs with over 17 blogs contributed so far.  Greenstone Professional Services is a solution provider for the Sage X3 ERP solution that is aggressively building up a strong presence in the US.  Their sister company, The TM Group, are ERP consultants and resellers for Microsoft’s flagship midmarket ERP products, including Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Dynamics NAV. 

Drum roll...please!  Here are the results of the ERPVAR STAR AWARD 2013 awarded to Greenstone Professional Services.  The most popular blog post in the last 12 months was Greenstone Professional Services's article contributed by Ken Jacobson:  "Top 3 Reasons Sage ERP X3 Stands Apart from SAP, Microsoft Dynamics AX and Oracle"  We have found that people love to read ERP software comparisons.  Like it or not, shoppers want to compare options.  This blog had 485 views and counting.  This blog was shared through other ERP VAR social media circles which is critical for blog success and exposure and SEO ranking.  Congratulations again Ken and Jen and the entire team at Greenstone Professional Serivces and The TM Group!!  Please keep the great content coming!  We appreciate your early and continued support and your belief in us! 

Drum roll...again, please.  Here are the ERPVAR STAR 2013 runners up.  A big thank you to all that have contributed to blog on the ERP VAR site.  The 2nd place ERP VAR STAR 2013 is Alan Hardy and Leanne Koppen at esc software for another comparison blog "NetSuite vs. Sage 100 ERP Software: 11 Points to Consider"  This blog had 435 views.  We think you guys are great and appreciate your contribution!  The 3rd place winner is David Faye and Chloe Larnarch with Faye Businesses Systems Group for their blog "QuickBooks CRM Comparison: Method CRM vs. SugarCRM".  Another popular comparison blog with 424 views to date.  The 4th runner up is "ERP Implementation Strategies: The Pro’s and Con’s of Big Bang vs. Phased Roll-Out" by Jeanne Lee with e2b teknologies which had 406 views.  Thank you Jeane and Jim Mallory for all your support!  The 5th runner up is Mike Renner, owner of Computer Accounting Services, a Sage 100 ERP support provider based in Indio, CA. His populare ERP software blog is "How to create a credit memo in Sage 100 ERP (formerly MAS 90 MAS 200)"  Mike Renner has been a true blogging trooper with over 50 blogs submitted to date with a total of 3,600 + views.  Mike you will earn a future ERPVAR STAR AWARD for the most contributions.  Stay tuned...

Why should ERP consultants develop a blogging strategy for routine blog posts?  Chances are you already have many blogs waiting in line in your head.  Now it's time to get them out!   Do you have any ERP software comparisons you have researched or experienced in the past?  Have you ever migrated a customer from one ERP software to another and want to share their experience?  If you get an ERP software or business related question from a client, chances are there are others who have the same question.  Most likely, there are others who are using search engines like Google to find an answer to this exact ERP software question or business challenge.  When you blog on a particular ERP software issue or business challenge, that creates footprint in the search engines for others to find you and follow you for more information.  The more others validate your blog by liking and sharing it, the bigger your footprint gets for SEO purposes.  Let us know if you would like to start the conversation with an ERPVAR blog and SEO specialist to help with your blog strategy.

by Kathy Graham

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