ACT! Advisory Board Gets Veteran ACT Consultant

Houston, TX – November 1, 2005 – Susan Clark, an ACT Certified Consultant from Houston TX, has been elected to the ACT Advisory Board (AAB). The AAB represents certified ACT Consultants from all over the world and collaborates with the ACT product development and management teams on a monthly basis to help guide ongoing development of the #1 selling contact and customer management software from Sage Software. This will be the third term on the board for Clark.

Clark is the president of Cornerstone Solutions, Inc, one of the largest ACT Certified Consulting firms and leading Value Added Resellers in North America. She is a veteran ACT Certified Consultant and an Authorized Premier Trainer. She has also been spotlighted on ACT’s web site as one of the premier consultants in the world. She also facilitates the Houston Area ACT Users Group.

“I am so excited about returning to the board and working with the ACT product management team,” said Clark who has served on the board twice before. “I really am a fanatic about the product line and am looking forward to being involved in its future direction. Plus I am really excited for my customers. Now I can really be an advocate on their behalf.”

ACT by Sage
ACT created the contact and customer management software category in 1987. Today, ACT is the preferred choice of over 2.5 million users and more than 30,000 corporate license customers to help increase productivity by managing the appointments, activities, documents, and notes/histories required for effective customer communications. ACT helps individuals, small business, and corporate workgroups improve bottom-line results by automating and customizing key aspects of the sales cycle to provide better forecasting and opportunity tracking.

About Susan Clark and Cornerstone Solutions
Susan Clark is the author of the recently released “The Official ACT for Sage QuickStudy Guide”. This is the fifth book she has written for software vendors, including one about Palm use. She is the founder of Cornerstone Solutions, Inc, whoses focus is helping clients understand and take advantage of technology. Clark also facilitates the Houston Area ACT Users Group. For more information, visit the website at www.cornerstonesolutions.com or call (713) 661-5095. Before forming Cornerstone Solutions in 1987, she was the Director of Marketing for a Fortune 500 oilfield service company. Clark earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and her MBA from the University of Houston. She lives in Houston with her husband of 30 years and 2 teen-aged sons.

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If you’d like more information about this appointment, or to schedule an interview with Susan Clark, please contact Ginger Ney at 713-661-5095 or ney@cornerstonesolutions.com