IRVINE, Calif.--June 15, 2006--TechBiz Connection announced that its monthly forum will feature a distinguished panel of CRM experts and business executives who will discuss lessons they have learned and best practices that should be considered by today's business leaders in successfully implementing CRM on Wednesday, June 21, 2006, at 6 p.m., at Connexion by Boeing's headquarters in Irvine.

According to Jack Bicer, TBC president, CRM is as much about business strategy as it is about software. "The retention of current customers and acquisition of new customers is the life blood of all companies," Bicer noted, "and we have assembled a top-caliber panel of CRM experts and business executives who will demonstrate how CRM can increase revenue and profitability."

Topics to be covered include the top 10 critical success factors; customer-centric business strategies that work; avoiding CRM failures; attracting new customers; retaining profitable customers; and managing change profitably.

The panel moderator is Paul Ulyett, president of Windsor Consulting, which specializes in the business integration, cross organizational business process re-engineering and change management necessary to drive revenue and profits through CRM.

The TechBiz Connection Forum panelists include:

-- Don Stallings, director of large group sales, Blue Shield of California, who is currently leading a team to bring an external CRM solution to Blue Shield of California. Blue Shield is California's third-largest health plan with 3.3 million members and $7.5 billion in annual revenue.

-- Thomas Addis, regional vice president, Salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management. His primary focus is assisting customers in understanding how an on-demand CRM solution can meet their business and technical requirements to manage and share their sales, support, marketing and partner information.

-- David McQuiggan, entrepreneur-in-residence, Girvan Institute of Technology. His background includes senior-level management and CEO experience with both private and public companies. McQuiggan has managed operations in Asia, Europe and the U.S. including responsibility for a 600-employee flat-panel LCD module manufacturing plant in Beijing and a U.K. public company focused on the embedded computing, real-time passenger information display and digital signage markets.

The forum discussion and subsequent question-and-answer session is sponsored by Business Wire, Daly-Swartz Public Relations, iSeminars Int'l, Savvis, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and Brilliant Blue with Connexion by Boeing as host sponsor.

Admission to the TechBiz Connection event is $25 prepaid and $35 after June 20 and at the door. For further information and R.S.V.P., visit http://www.techbizconnection.org or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . TBC is located at 3943 Irvine Blvd. #216, Irvine, CA 92602.

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