SMARTWORK SOLUTIONS EXPANDS MANAGEMENT: CHRISTIAN GERICKE AS NEW CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER (CRO)

With immediate effect, Christian Gericke (45), takes over the newly created position of CRO at smartwork solutions GmbH. Gericke will be responsible for the worldwide marketing and sales of SMASHDOCs, a web application for jointly creating, discussing and reviewing documents. In his role, he will also work with resellers and strategic partners such as integrators, OEMs and ISVs.
Christian Gericke
Gericke comes with vast international experience in the area of business enterprise licensing. Before joining smartwork solutions, he worked for the software company Acrolinx. In January 2014, Gericke took over as Vice President Sales & Global Client Services, for the EMEA and APAC region. As head of the global Services and Support business, he was responsible for significantly pushing sales growth in the respective regions. Furthermore, Gericke is a well-known speaker on the topic of Content Marketing at several European conferences (inc. LavaCon in Dublin and CMCX in Munich). Prior to Acrolinx, he worked for Hewlett-Packard as Regional Business Manager, responsible for the DACH countries and Eastern Europe for seven years.
Christian Marchsreiter, founder and CEO of smartwork solutions is more than pleased with the newest addition to the team: „Christian convinced us straight away with his in-depth business expertise, international network and impressive track record. He is the perfect person for the current stage of our product SMASHDOCs.
Christian Gericke is also looking forward to his new tasks: „SMASHDOCs is a powerful application, able to solve the serious, recurring problems and deficits in word processing. Given my two decades of experience in the content business, I will be able to contribute significantly to the upcoming internationalisation and further growth of the company.“

About SMASHDOCs

The smartwork solutions GmbH developed SMASHDOCs as a web application for easily and quickly writing and reviewing documents within or between enterprises. All changes are tracked in one single version of a document instead of creating multiple versions. With its revolutionary change tracking technology, SMASHDOCs can consistently highlight changes that are new to the user. Comparing versions manually and proof-reading consequently become superfluous.
It is possible to use SMASHDOCs as a SaaS solution on smartwork solutions‘ German-based servers or as a Managed-Private-Cloud or On-Premise installation in an enterprise network. Thanks to the flexible API, SMASHDOCs can be easily integrated as a new tool for existing web applications like social intranets, document management, content management or file sharing solutions. The Munich-based company was founded it 2013. For more information see also www.smashdocs.net.

http://www.smashdocs.net/christian-gericke-as-new-chief-revenue-officer/

Status update on my job situation

Still getting questions why I disappeared from the Acrolinx homepage and about my status:
I decided to leave and will announce my new company and the exciting position in August (next week!).

Monday wisdom

Low hanging fruits are often not good as they  don’t get a lot of light. It might be easier to pick but maybe not that tasty. #Mondaywisdom 

Content Marketing Consultants or making the splash!

You all remember the guys in a public swimming pool.

They happen to appear in groups, a group of five maybe – one is either ugly, small, fattish or all of the above.

So, what are they doing? Do they get all the attention they want or they think deserve?

No, of course not! What are they doing about it?

They make a belly-flop and everybody is wet!

Does this make any sense? Any impact on the public? Do they get the blonde? Are they perceived differently by their friends? No, of course not!

A clear symptom, I observed a lot on conferences and in the media. Bashing colleagues especially from a different continent, making statements that the industry has failed, declaring an own point of view without any sense, is the big splash they are trying to make. 

Nothing wrong with having an edge or making a point! And no need to agree with anyone.

But these attention getters in the swimming pool share the same fate. They are still alone after the dust settled. Everybody is looking once the bomb hits the water, then they might get wet and then they fall into contempt. What an idiot!

The discussion in Germany – triggered by Thomas Strerath, CEO Jung von Matt – and all the replies were such a splash. Totally irrelevant, no tangible outcome, a lot of Ego-Content and no improvement at all !

 

 

 

Build it on your own land

I spent a couple of days in Oslo, Norway and attended the Epic Content Marketing Event.

On this event, I met one of the most inspiring guys I got to know for a long time – Jeff Bullas. We met at the speaker`s dinner, spent some time together during the conference and had a few nights out!

One result is this blog now … my first post!