Salesforce and Facebook: Connecting
We loved today's virtual bear hug between Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com and Sheryl Sandburg of Facebook at Dreamforce. It reminded us of the embrace between Marc and Eric Schmidt of Google back in April, for a couple of reasons:
Redesign Your Website? Check these Simple Tips
There's no secret sauce and this site redesign was more about implementing the various things I have learned in the last 5 years. These tips will help people who are planning to launch a new website or getting a fresh coat of paint for an old...
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I had a chance to participate on a panel at the salesforce.com city tour in Santa Clara last week. I would say there were roughly 500 people in the audience, and it was fun for me to present as a salesforce customer. I was on the panel with Doug...
Read more about Salesforce.com Silicon Valley City Tour...A blurring between on premise and hosted CRM softw
Once upon a time it was pretty simple. If you wanted hosted CRM software you paid per person per month. If you wanted your CRM software in-house you purchased a perpetual license up...
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Does your sales team ignore the majority of leads marketing passes on? Marketers must develop a more intimate understanding of their target customer and the market that customer serves to generate qualified buyers that Sales won’t...
Read more about The 6 Principles of Deliberate Marketing...Google and salesforce.com - Like Peanut Butter and
Today, salesforce.com and Google announced a new toolkit to link Force.com applications to Google Apps. Now, Appirio already has five commercial applications that connect Google Apps and Salesforce.com. That's more than any other vendor, and three...
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IM Tutorial: Learn how to create an IM bot for Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM and other instant messaging...
Read more about Write Your Own IM Bot in 5 Minutes..."Cloud of Clouds"
2008 Recap In 2008, we saw the early seeds of a "cloud of clouds" emerging. It started in April with Salesforce and Google announcing integration between Google Apps and Salesforce to bridge the gap between Google's productivity applications and...
Read more about "Cloud of Clouds" ...Keyword Research-Blogging for Longtail Keywords
Blogs are excellent tools for capturing strong longtail keywords. The incidental nature of blog posts and the broad topics covered draw longtail searches like flies to honey. This phenomenon, popping attractive keywords into my blog analytics, got...
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