Dreamforce year round? Meet the Boston Superfans… - Story From: Popular Ideas
Dreamforce is our once-a-year chance to celebrate all things Salesforce—but you can get that Dreamforce feeling year-round with our local user groups. One of our largest user groups—the one in...
View ArticleWINNER for the Winter ‘12 Logo: Penguins! - Story From: Popular Ideas
Thank you for all your votes. The winner for the Winter '12 logo is Penguins! Other nominees: Log on to the IdeaExchange and start posting, voting and commenting on Ideas! Watch our Dreamforce '08...
View ArticleAppExchange All-Star: Alex Sutherland, Mavens Consulting - Story From:...
Alex Sutherland (@apexsutherland) has progressed through the full spectrum of roles over his past 6 years of working the Salesforce platform, from end user to technical architect and everything in...
View ArticleWinter ‘12 Sandbox Preview Window – AppExchange Instructions - Story From:...
If you plan to upload and/or install one or more AppExchange packages using your Sandboxes during the Sandbox Preview Window, you should use the chart below to determine your course of action. CRM...
View ArticleAppExchange Dreamforce “Can’t-Miss” Sessions List - Story From: Popular Ideas
6 by 60: The Top Six AppExchange Apps for Sales Overwhelmed by the volume of apps on the AppExchange? Not sure which ones are right for your business? Join us for this fast-paced session to learn about...
View ArticleAppExchange All-Star: Andy Ognenoff, GE Healthcare - Story From: Popular Ideas
Andy Ognenoff (@aognenoff) has been a member of the Salesforce.com community since 2005 as an administrator and developer in both large and small companies. He’s a certified advanced admin, developer,...
View ArticleScobleizer, Queener, Ritter, Gerholdt. 4 Killer Apps. It’s #AppQuest ‘11 -...
Four judges: Robert Scoble, Brett Queener, Gordon Ritter, Mike Gerholdt. Four killer cloud apps. With less than a week away, the AppQuest '11 finale is a must-see event at Dreamforce. Register for it...
View ArticleWe’ve Moved… Check Our New Blog - Story From: Popular Ideas
Today we officially made the move to a new blogging platform to provide a world-class user experience. Visit http://blogs.salesforce.com to check it out. This will be a phased migration so you'll...
View ArticleBig Advantages You Have as a Small Business - Story From: SalesNexus - Online...
Are you concerned that customers aren’t going to take you seriously because you’re not a massive corporation? Do you think you need to take steps to make your business look larger and more...
View ArticleCan CRM Help Businesses When Times are Tough? - Story From: SalesNexus -...
When the economy is in one of its all too frequent slumps, should your business even focus on CRM? Is worrying about CRM simply something that’s going to deplete even more of your limited resources?...
View ArticleYour Email Marketing Solution Can’t Do This - Story From: SalesNexus - Online...
Email Marketing is normally used by marketers. As it should be. However, if your objective is to generate leads for your sales team, then your sales team only sees “leads” that receive the email,...
View ArticleShould You Use Fear as a Marketing Tool? - Story From: SalesNexus - Online...
Recently, some marketing bloggers have advocated using fear as a marketing tool. Unlike many marketing tips that are pretty cut and dry, this one raises some significant issues: Is It Moral to Use Fear...
View ArticleShould Small Businesses Care About CRM? - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM...
As a small business owner, you’ve got a lot on your plate. In fact, you’ve likely had to learn how to act as a jack of all trades. Because you’re already juggling so many responsibilities, do you...
View ArticleYou Need to Say Goodbye to ACT Software - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM...
If you’ve been using ACT Pro for several years, you may feel like you’re better off sticking with it. Although it lacks many of the features you want, you may believe that making a change now is going...
View Article5 Reasons Salesforce is Overrated - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM and...
Salesforce has done a good job of marketing themselves as a leader in the CRM industry. However, are they actually able to live up to their marketing? If you ask many of the people who’ve tried them...
View ArticleSpam Words - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM and Email Marketing for...
200+ words that will get your emails snagged by Junk and Spam filters. This is not the definitive or an entire list of words that activate spam filters. It does give you a general idea of what to avoid...
View ArticleHow to Make Yourself a Better Salesperson - Story From: SalesNexus - Online...
Did you know that you can be a salesperson without even realizing it? Even if your title doesn’t have sales in it, if you are the founder or team member of a small company, a big part of your job is...
View ArticleHow to Create an Email Newsletter That Gets Results - Story From: SalesNexus...
Although email newsletters are not a new concept, they are still very effective. Whether you’ve already got a newsletter or are thinking about launching one for your business, here’s how to get the...
View ArticleThe Keys to Successful Sales Collaboration - Story From: SalesNexus - Online...
Many companies struggle to get their marketing and sales teams on the same page. Because of the disconnect between these important groups, companies miss out on a lot of opportunities. Although it may...
View ArticleWhy are People Saying Cold Calling is Dead? - Story From: SalesNexus - Online...
Recently, there has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about the death of cold calls. While there are those who defend cold calls and say they still work just fine, there are plenty of...
View Article5 Tips for Getting More Out of Your Email Marketing Efforts - Story From:...
Streamline Your Sidebar If you have a signup form in your site’s sidebar but aren’t getting as many new list subscribers as you’d like, Derek Halpern from Social Triggers says the best way to solve...
View ArticleWhat Should Visitors Do When They Get to Your Site? - Story From: SalesNexus...
Because so much time is spent on attracting new online visitors through organic, paid and social channels, many marketers and business owners forget that this is only half of the equation. While it’s...
View ArticleSales Force Automation – 15 Years in the Making - Story From: SalesNexus -...
If you’ve been in the sales game for a decade or more, you’ve seen a tremendous amount of change in the technology area. Remember ACT! Contact Management Software? Goldmine? These early sales...
View ArticleAre Facebook Ads Effective? - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM and Email...
As a tech-savvy Internet user, chances are you rarely notice the ads that run on Facebook. In fact, you might not see them at all as a result of using Adblock Plus. Because these ads have little to no...
View ArticleThe Importance of Using Testimonials - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM...
Whether you run a “traditional” business or have just developed a new iPhone app, you may think that testimonials are something that are only useful for websites in the fitness industry. While you’re...
View Article5 Tips for Making the Most of Brochures - Story From: SalesNexus - Online CRM...
One of the ways our platform can help your business is by taking steps out of repetitive processes. An example we commonly use is sending out brochures. We can make it extremely easy for you to ensure...
View ArticleHow Much Should You Charge for Your Products and Services? - Story From:...
If you integrate our online CRM software into your workflow, you will find that the difficulty of staying on top of tasks like sending out price quotes is eliminated. While we can take care of those...
View ArticleIs a Hole Causing Your Sales Process to Leak? - Story From: SalesNexus -...
Our focus is making it easy for you to track every component of your sales process. We ensure that information doesn’t fall through the cracks that could cost you a sale. While we make it easy to...
View ArticleService Cloud Basics: Auto-Response Rules - Story From: Popular Ideas
Every now and then I like to use this blog to take our readers back to basics and visit parts of the Salesforce.com application that they may have overlooked. Today's topic is none other than good old...
View ArticleShould You Care About Social Content Curation? - Story From: SalesNexus -...
Elad Gil, who works for Twitter as a result of them acquiring his startup, wrote a post called How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012. If this is the first time you’ve heard of Pinterest, don’t...
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