Attention all marketing gurus and advertising players! Customer Relationship Management is here to stay and will be the driving force behind many of your most important marketing decisions.

SugarCRM, or Sugar Customer Relationship Management, will be pushing their software as a service market in order to increase visibilty. On October 5th, they’ll be telling the world in a live webcast titled “CRM: On Demand or On Site? Choose the Right Deployment Option.”

Although in marketing online I still contend that webcasts and podcasts are not yet large enough to drive huge sales, I do contend that marketing-geeks will be thrilled with the Sugar CRM webcast. Several promient customer relationship management software gurus will be in attendance for the webcast including; technology analyst Tim Clark, Sterling PCU’s GM of sales and marketing Christopher Edwards, and Sugar CRM CTO Jacob Taylor.

Some of the topics to be discovered in the live webcast include; ““Best practices for choosing an on-demand or on-site CRM system”; “16 decision points to consider when evaluating CRM deployment options”; “How leading customers are using CRM systems to better manage customers”; and “Two secret ingredients of any successful CRM initiative.” “CRM: On-Demand or On-Site?