Customer Connect Associates (www.customer-connect.com), long affiliated with Microsoft, has been named a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for the second consecutive year.  Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.  At the Gold level, partners have access to expanded resources and support, including a Technical Services Coordinator, access to the Partner Knowledge Base, priority listing in Microsoft Directories, and other top-level benefits.

Customer Connect has grown from Microsoft Registered, Certified and finally Gold Certified Status since their founding in 2000.  The firm hired Matt Wittemann, a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics CRM 4.0, to its staff in 2007, along with several other Microsoft certified experts.  These achievements indicate Microsoft’s recognition of Customer Connect’s contributions to the community.  They have also recently been named as a “Master” contributor to the Microsoft Dynamics area of Experts-Exchange and among the time 5 lifetime contributors after just 3 months of active participation.

“Needless to say, we are extremely proud to be included in this exclusive group,” says Geoff Ables, CEO of Customer Connect Associates.  “This is not only a recognition of our staff’s continued excellence with Microsoft CRM, but also of our expertise and leadership across the playing field.  We’re proud to be able to offer such highly-regarded services to our clients.”

Founded in 2000, Customer Connect Associates helps companies get customers faster and keep them longer by using their unique LUCK™ process for creating more profitable relationships. Clients include Travelocity, SAS, AMF, BB&T, LandAmerica, Textron/Jacobsen, AAA, Cardinal Health, Horry Telephone Cooperative, MedImpact, Doctor Directory, Sunbelt Rentals and Barnhardt Manufacturing.  Customer Connect Associates is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, a Salesforce.com partner, a DotNetNuke Gold Benefactor and a member of the 2007 Program Advisory Committee for the National Center For Database Marketing Conference.  For more information, please visit www.customer-connect.com