Newton® Launches Affiliate Program

Newton Software has debuted the Newton® Affiliate Program, a third-party sales program for its smart, easy-to-use, recruiting technology, Newton®. The program allows qualified individuals to refer Newton® to friends, contacts, and companies and earn a percentage of the revenue generated from each sale. Ideal affiliate partners include agency recruiters, contract recruiters, human resources consultants, and other service providers.

Interested parties can sign up for the program on the Newton Software website. Approved affiliates will receive a unique code via email.  Approved Newton® affiliates can then distribute their code to interested parties.  When a company becomes a paying customer of Newton® the referring affiliate will earn a commission.

“There is quite a demand for this type of affiliate program in the professional recruiting communities where Newton® is quickly gaining momentum. Many contract recruiters have expressed interest in recommending Newton® to their clients and now we can easily empower them to do so,” said Steve Hazelton, Newton’s® CEO and Chief Product Officer. “With the Newton® Affiliate Program, our partners can provide more complete, effective recruiting services to their clients while generating a little additional income.”

Jeff Winter, General Manager of GravityPeople, Silicon Valley’s most established technology recruiting firm became the first affiliate partner 4 months ago during a beta test of the program.  “The Newton® Affiliate Program has given our team the ability to recommend easy-to-use, affordable software to our clients. Having been in technology recruiting for nearly 12 years, we have seen plenty of ATS software applications and nothing compares to Newton’s intuitiveness.  Newton keeps our clients organized and generally improves the recruiting process allowing my team to focus on identifying and managing talent, not chasing hiring mangers around.”

Jonathan Chenard, Practice Manager at Union Hill, a recruiting consultancy, said, “The Newton Affiliate Program has been a great opportunity for my firm to extend the services we provide to our clients. As a recruitment consulting firm, we have been actively providing both support and training for Newton software. Now, through our affiliate code, we offer our clients a convenient and efficient way to purchase Newton. ”

“We want to apply Newton’s key values of innovation, collaboration and ease-of-use to the entire business ecosystem. We have an innovative business model that enables us to create unique programs that provide value to our partners and customers,”  said Joel Passen, Newton Software’s Co-Founder. “Our best advocates are those that have used Newton on a daily basis. Referring Newton is the ultimate compliment and we want to provide as much incentive our community as much as possible.”

Companies and individuals that would like to participate in the Newton® Affiliate Program can simply visit the affiliate website (http://www.newtonsoftware.com/affiliate-program.php) and fill out a short application.  Approved affiliates will receive a unique affiliate code typically within 24 hours.

About Newton®
Newton® is web-based recruiting software that uses smart technology to simplify hiring. Newton® offers the quickest and easiest way for small and medium sized businesses to organize and manage recruiting. Newton® is a native SaaS application that leverages Web 2.0 technology to empower companies of any size to create an efficient and effective recruiting process, which boosts productivity and lowers costs associated with hiring.

About Newton Software
Newton Software develops and markets smart, easy-to-use, web-based technology for small and medium sized businesses.  By offering, free trials, pay-as-you-go contracts, and all inclusive purchase plans Newton software is breaking new ground in the way business technology is designed and delivered.

Newton™ v3.5 Release is Live Today!

Today we released version 3.5 of Newton™. Only six weeks we have elapsed since our last release and this was actually a fairly large upgrade. Going forward, we are going to accelerate our release cycles introducing enhancements every four weeks or so. Stay tuned for information on v3.6, which will include our game-changing analytics feature.

In the meantime, here are the highlights of release v3.5:

• Advertise your jobs for FREE on Indeed and Simplyhired  – get candidates for open jobs faster
• New careers site option: Show job locations on your careers site, including international support
• Customize your “Thanks for Applying” Message to candidates who submit their resume to your careers page- let’em know your careers site isn’t a black hole
• Capture and track candidate source data from job advertising sites– know where you are getting your best candidates from
• Edit “Source” Values – easy to add unique candidate sources like alumni boards, niche job boards, etc.
• Various UI improvements make using Newton™ easier to use than ever.

 60% of the feature enhancements in v3.5 stem from customer suggestions. We love customer feedback.  Thanks to all of our valued customers for their suggestions, comments, and encouragement.

UNBOUND Technologies Selects Recruiting Software from Newton for Applicant Tracking

UNBOUND Technologies

June 15, 2009 - UNBOUND Technologies offers marketers an unparalleled understanding of consumers and influencers inside the social networking ecosystem. UNBOUND enables users to fully grasp the size, depth and scope of the social media landscape, allowing marketers to discover and engage consumers where they learn, communicate and interact – online via social networks.

Because of the insights created by UNBOUND’s totally unique data, detailing how more than 260 million users utilize and organize on social networks, marketers can generate new ideas and provoke conversations.  With UNBOUND’s service companies can analyze the impact of their marketing and advertising messages and spend to influence brand profiles and buying behavior.

UNBOUND’s competitive drive to be the pioneer and market leader in social network intelligence has created exciting career opportunities for qualified candidates. Recruiting software from Newton Software allows UNBOUND to be organized, proactive and efficient so they can acquire the best talent easier and more consistently than less-prepared competitors.

“The social networking space is rife with opportunities and moving very quickly. It is critical that we attract the right talent and maintain a dynamic, efficient recruiting program. Newton’s built in workflow keeps our process on track and allows us to monitor our program in real time”, says Brian Killen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

For more information about UNBOUND Technologies visit their website:  www.unboundtech.com

About Newton Software
Newton Software is a technology company that develops smart, reliable, innovative business software. Our first product, Newton, is on-demand recruiting software developed to simplify the hiring process through smart technology. Newton is a native SaaS application that leverages Web 2.0 technology to empower companies of any size to create an efficient and effective recruiting process, which boosts productivity and lowers costs associated with hiring.

Learning from Guy Kawasaki Ten Commandments

From “Ten Commandments from Entrepreneurial ‘Evangelist’ Guy Kawasaki“:

Guy Kawasaki

Churn, baby, churn: “Always improve. Listen to customers for ideas. That’s difficult, Kawasaki said, because an innovator or entrepreneur must often ignore the advice of naysayers and “bozos” who say it can’t be done. Once it is done, and the product reaches the hands of customers, it’s time to start listening to their feedback. “Once you ship, then you flip,” Kawasaki said.”

Kawasaki’s recent presentation at Penn Engineering provided some extremely insightful advice on how to approach the marketplace and succeed as an entreprenuer.  The point above resonates strongly with the product development cycle at Newton Software.  Always listen to your customer base and continue to develop your product with the clients ideal functionality and features in mind.

For the full article hosted on the Wharton Entrepreneur site, visit: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2258