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Alliance-Strategies Endorsements and Testimonials

"TimBaileyGR does an amazing job of explaining how to use social media more effectively. He goes deeper than the surface to help you from a social networking strategy and explain tools. Time well spent! I left with clear ideas of what I can do right away and a greater understanding of how I am just beginning to skim the surface." - Sylvia Ferronyalka, President and Executive Coach, Success Resources, Inc.

"Tim is a strategic thinker you can count on to deliver results. His depth and breadth of knowledge and experience in social media makes him a clear standout from the rest of the pack. He is skilled at communicating the business opportunities in social media and has identified executable, go-to-market initiatives for revenue enhancement. Tim is well-respected for his abilities to articulate issues and provide solutions. This is testimony to his ability for not just getting the job done but getting it done right." - Brian Handley, Business Development Executive, Emerson Corporation 

"Bailey totally gets social networking. He understands it cannot be ignored and can be used to great advantage when communicating with customers. He talked about how social networks and strategies can work best for individuals and businesses using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. His advice has helped me connect and do business in a way I could not have imagined before" DJ Cline, SDForum Media Fellow and Society for Technical Communication Associate Fellow, DJCline.com

“Tim is an intuitive guy with experience in several disciplines. Tim & I worked together on a few committees while we both served on the SDForum Executive Council. He was always the voice of reason in a group of occasionally cantankerous & independent thinkers, and his straightforward sensibility was invaluable in getting everyone on the same page, and in coming to good group decisions.” Dave McClure, Investment Program Director, fbFund Incubator

“Tim is a seasoned professional business/channel development manager. During Tim’s tenure at ScaleMP, Tim aggressively and successfully took on the business development role with OEM partners in generating early revenue for the company. Tim loves to evangelize and recruit partners and help them drive business. Tim is very organized, has great insights and is a creative professional and always finds a to turn a no into a yes. Tim has a cheerful, optimistic personality that makes working with him a great pleasure.” Manuel Hoffmann, VP, Channel Development, ScaleMP

"The Alliance-Strategies, Inc. team was able to work with our strategic alliance partners (ISVs and VARs) to produce outstanding results for SGI within a very tight time schedule. I was impressed with their ability to deliver excellent results in a very short time period and would definitely hire them again for other projects." - Susan Tussy, Global Alliances Manager, SGI

"Tim has remarkable negotiation skills, that create win-win situations, and build prosperous long-term relationships. I have witnessed Tim's successes in several extremely difficult negotiations. In these situations, it appeared the other party was negotiating from a much stronger position. Tim adeptly analyzed the situation, identified, and addressed the critical issues to drive the negotiations to a successful conclusion. In at least four situations, I know of, Tim saved his company between $35-40 million." -  Mike Gallup, VP North American Sales, Compaq Computer

“Tim’s workshop opened my eyes to the value and importance of social networking. Thanks to what I learned at his seminar, my company is three steps ahead of where we would have been from a social networking standpoint.” Ben Wright, Director of Strategic Marketing, High Street Partners, Inc.

“The workshop gives you dozens of ideas on how to get your message out more effectively to grow your business”. Steve Mezak, President, Accelerance, Inc.

“Tim Bailey was an effective, knowledgeable, and engaging speaker. I look forward to his next workshop!” Ranjani Sulur, International Client Operations Coordinator, Fisher Wealth Management

"Tim was engaged to evaluate an insider offer for the acquisition of our company. He was thorough in his business analysis, understood the various leverages well, and exposed the fundamental issues for decision making clearly. We certainly got our money's worth from his work." - Alan Nolet, President, TimbreCom

"Tim Bailey of Alliance-Strategies has provided the optimal combination of experience, market knowledge, and business acumen to successfully lead emerging companies like NXN Software through the business development and M&A process. Alliance-Strategies successfully worked with NXN Software to develop relationships with several strategic partners and identify appropriate acquisition targets." - Joe Platnik, General Manager of North American Operations and  Vice President of Sales and Marketing, NXN Software

"CoCreate engaged Tim Bailey of Alliance-Strategies, Inc. to fulfill a couple of critical needs. The first project was to set-up partnerships between academia and industry to study a problem common to 3D Solid Modeling in Mechanical Engineering. The second challenge was to determine what barriers stood in the way of corporate wide usage of an internet based collaborative enterprise software product. In both these assignments, the Alliance-Strategies team delivered results on time that exceeded our expectations.  Most impressive were the thoughtful insights synthesized from direct discussion with customers and users.” - Doug Johnson, Vice President and General Manager, CoCreate

"Tim is someone to work with - smart, insightful and focused. We were Board members together at SD Forum" - Dan’l Lewen, Vice President and General Manager, Microsoft  

“Tim worked as Business Development manager for ScaleMP and as a Product Manager I was glad that Tim was my contact. Tim evangelized the ScaleMP solution at Silicon Mechanics. We became interested and successfully tested their technology. ScaleMP than introduced a Blade version of their solution, which better fit our needs. Tim worked diligently with the ScaleMP management to meet our needs and provide us with ScaleMP’s latest technology at no additional expense. Tim is a closer.” Kirtan Shah, Product Manager: High Performance Computing & Storage, Silicon Mechanics

“Tim and I have worked together on a number of projects in the past few years, mostly in relation to SDForum. During that time, I've learned that he's a smart and articulate guy with good ideas, a knack for achieving consensus, and a willingness to do what's necessary to make projects succeed.” - William Grosso, Vice President of Engineering and Quality Assurance, Hipbone Corporation

“In a short seminar, Tim was able to introduce a variety of tools and best practices for almost any product or service business trying to incorporate social networking into their marketing strategy”. Jules Walker, Principal, Ravix Group

“Tim is a capable leader and focuses on achieving goals. I had the privilege to work with Tim after he became a consultant and experienced thoughtful goal oriented approach in delivering results for his clients.” - Paul Esdale, Vice President of Business Development, OpenMarket

"It is a pleasure for me to work with Tim Bailey as board members of the SDForum. 
Tim is always very engaged and full of ideas and energy. He is smart and knows the HiTech industry well, and I trust his judgment as it relates to HiTech business and technical issues" - Stans Kleijnen, VP Market Development Engineering, Sun Microsystems 

"Tim has worked with FRAX on Product Planning and tactical marketing. He has also given us guidance on raising money. Tim can quickly organize information to facilitate decision making or execution. An additional benefit in working with Tim is his positive, energetic approach to meeting challenges." - Peggi Jewett, President and CEO, Frax

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