1. How to Motivate Your Team Members over the Holidays
2. The Google Social Media Ultimatum
3. Is Your Staff Mailing It In? How to Raise the Bar:

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1. Calculate Sales Commissions & Manage Employee Performance with ease with Deskera CRM - Story From: Deskera Blog | Deskera CRM, Project Management, Employee Performance Management, Accounting & Financials and more! Deskera CRM lets you create & assign goals for your sales team. These goals can be effectively tracked using performance appraisal easily. All you need to do is to assign...
2. How to Motivate Your Team Members over the Holidays - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Sustaining team motivation during the holiday season is a tall order.  After all, your team members would probably rather be anywhere else than at work, and it’s difficult to keep...
3. Thanksgiving Spirit at the Office - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. This Thanksgiving I am making three desserts – a chocolate chip pumpkin cheesecake, layered pumpkin cheesecake brownies, and white chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies. While I do love to bake,...
4. Cyber Monday: Only the Beginning of Holiday Shopping on Company Time - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Today’s the first day back at work after a long holiday weekend.  It also happens to be Cyber Monday, the online equivalent of the day-after-Thanksgiving retail shopping phenomenon Black Friday....
5. To Retain Talent, Keep Tabs on Employee Engagement - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. The economy is beginning to show signs of recovery which means good things for you and your company. So you should be able to take a collective sigh of relief...
6. Creating a Customer Referral Engine - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.   John Jantsch is one of the top strategic thinkers in business today.  The author of the Duct Tape Marketing blog, John mostly focuses on marketing the small business, but...
7. How to Manage Your HEROes - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. In my last blog post, I defined the term HEROes (highly empowered resourceful operatives) and I wrote about how you can identify who your current HEROes are as well as...
8. More Ways to Optimize Training Dollars - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.   I’ve never had the experience of working full time for an organization that did employee training particularly well.  I think I know why. In today’s world, corporate loyalty is...
9. How to Manage Remote Employees - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. If you’re managing staff members who telecommute or work in a different location than you do, you’ll need to put extra effort into making the relationship work smoothly. Here are...
10. How to Manage Work Outside Your Area of Expertise - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Help! You know little about computers, and you’re suddenly in charge of overseeing the I.T. department. Or you can barely balance your checkbook and now your firm’s finance team is...

1. Striking a Balance Between Delivering Outstanding Marketing Programs And Impeccable Customer Service Just Got Easier
2. Delivering Delightful Customer Service
3. How Work Effectively Across Cultures

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1. Open Communication with a Talking Stick - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Have you ever attended a meeting where everyone talked and nobody listened? What a waste of time. Way too often team meetings turn into a “me-fest” where each person is...
2. Effective Teams Part 3: How to Influence Team Norms - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. In a recent post, I described how group norms can have a strong effect on team performance. With this blog post, I want to ask and address, how do these...
3. How to Motivate Your Team Members over the Holidays - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Sustaining team motivation during the holiday season is a tall order.  After all, your team members would probably rather be anywhere else than at work, and it’s difficult to keep...
4. Cyber Monday: Only the Beginning of Holiday Shopping on Company Time - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Today’s the first day back at work after a long holiday weekend.  It also happens to be Cyber Monday, the online equivalent of the day-after-Thanksgiving retail shopping phenomenon Black Friday....
5. Remove the Barriers to Real Work - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. On one of my favorite new blogs, TLNT, Brent Peterson provides some great suggestions from his book for how team leaders can remove the typical barriers to getting real work...
6. When Things Look Grim, Keep Your Team Positive - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Although there have been positive signs of recovery in our economy, there’s still lots of opportunities to find bad news. Pick up any newspaper, tune in to any 24 hour...
7. To Retain Talent, Keep Tabs on Employee Engagement - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. The economy is beginning to show signs of recovery which means good things for you and your company. So you should be able to take a collective sigh of relief...
8. The One Meeting You Shouldn’t Skip - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. I know, I know. You don’t need another meeting to attend. But this one is critically important to the success of your team and your company. If your team isn’t...
9. Prepare for Post-Recession Job Churn - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Yes, I know. You thought you were supposed to worry when the economy was in the tank. Well, I’m here to tell you if you’ve been a lackluster leader you...
10. 5 Difficult People and How to Work With Them - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. I believe that people are the most stressful part of any job. That sounds harsh. After all, most people are the best part of any job, providing social interaction and...

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1. 9 Helpful Small Business Organizations You Need to Know (Updated) - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog Where there’s a united interest in a cause, there’s a community for it. Small businesses are no stranger to community and there are many organizations available today that help entrepreneurs...
2. WSJ: Backpack helps small businesses, agencies and entrepreneurs - Story From: 37signals Product Blog The Wall Street Journal offers a look at sites that offer free software tools for managing a business and gives a shoutout to Backpack. Backpack helps small businesses, agencies and...
3. Article details how entrepreneurs use Basecamp and other tools to run an office-less business - Story From: 37signals Product Blog In "How to Run a Business Without the Office Space" [Atlanta Small Biz], Devesh Dwivedi talks about how he uses Basecamp to bring together team members in India, the Philippines,...
4. 5 Insider Tips to Get Your Business ‘Social’ - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog I joined Lamar Johnson and Joe C. on a local radio show discussion about social media advice for small business on his show, Social Media Secrets Revealed. During the hour-long...
5. 9 Small Business Marketing Tips for Black Friday - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Now is the time you should be constructing a good campaign to capitalize on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday or Cyber Monday. These faux holidays help retailers and merchants unload...
6. Saying Thanks - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Infusionsoft’s offices will be closed on 11/25 and 11/26 in honor of Thanksgiving. We’d like to take a moment to say thank you for being a part of our family...
7. Announcing: Infusionsoft Customer Referral Program - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog I’m excited to announce that today we’re officially launching the new Infusionsoft Customer Referral Program. The program is simple: any current Infusionsoft customer will receive 1 month of Infusionsoft free...
8. Black Friday: Activating the Greed Gland - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Truthfully, I’m hesitant to write this article. I have a hard time seeing the good in Black Friday. People get trampled by greedy shoppers. Family members who could be spending precious time...
9. Risks of Financing A Small Business on Credit Cards - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Financing a new business can require some careful planning and creative thinking, and the choices you make at this stage are likely to have major financial implications down the road....
10. Yup, He’s Arizona’s Business Leader of the Year! - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Last Thursday night, Infusionsoft CEO and Co-founder Clate Mask was recognized as the Business Leader of the Year at Arizona’s Governor’s Celebration of Innovation event hosted by the Arizona Technology...

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1. Traditional CRM is Not Delivering Desired Customer Experience Transformation Customer experience transformation is rapidly becoming a key business differentiator in the battle to retain customers and grow revenues and wallet share. But many businesses have yet to rise to...
2. Customer Feedback And The Building of Solid Relationships Here are several excerpts from a post by Ariel Maayan, the director of professional services at Kampyle, Customer Feedback And The Building of Solid Relationships: Like any successful relationship,...
3. Sales Experience Trumps Product and Price - Story From: CRM Outsiders Hey, I am not making this up, nor did I just search for some esoteric data that supports my argument either.  I have believed this for a long time; Marketing...
4. The Best Lock-In Strategy? Empower Your Customers! - Story From: CRM Outsiders SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin and Eucalyptus CEO former head of MySQL Marten Mickos sat down with Spikesource CEO Kim Polese at the Structure conference today. The talk was around SaaS/Cloud...
5. Don’t Let Social Derail Traditional Customer Support Goals - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is just a small thought – as I have far too many ideas that are too big for a tweet and not really epic blog material. But looking at...
6. Should Social Add Layers to Customer Service, or Strip them Away? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I read an interesting blog post by Sue Barret sparked by a Harvard Business Review article that argues that “customer delight” is less important than making life easier for your...
7. Knowledge Versus Experience - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been a bit distracted for the past few days, thinking about a few projects I am working on, as well as trying to create some original content for...
8. Control or Ownership? Either Way, the Customer Has It (Or Both)! - Story From: CRM Outsiders Without dragging us all back to a debate on the definition of Social CRM, it might be a good time to re-open the whole ‘control versus ownership’ part of the...
9. Going the Extra Mile for Customers – Even when it Bends Processes - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was talking to Paul Greenberg last week (and by the way, I’ll be moderating a webinar with him on June 7 on the topic of “Social Media: Hope or...
10. Can you sell with social? Only after building a solid relationship - Story From: CRM Outsiders By Chris Bucholtz As I keep saying, there are as many ways to use social media for your business as there are businesses. The best way to use it, of...

1. Pulling a “Heath Shuler:” The Right Way to Get Someone Else’s Job
2. How to Deal with an Unresponsive Colleague
3. Could Jobs’ Leadership Style Work Outside Apple?

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1. How to Do Great Work - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. How we define "great work" is as important as doing great work. Alexandra Levit, shares her personal experience and thoughts on different ways to approach your definition of great work...
2. How to Be a Good Conversationalist - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Conversation is one unique trait of being a human, and it is an important skill to have. It is the way we get to know others and go on to...
3. Pulling a “Heath Shuler:” The Right Way to Get Someone Else’s Job - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. The Nation sums up Congressman Heath Shuler like this: A chiseled ex-football star and devout Southern Baptist from the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina (WNC), Shuler was the prize...
4. How to Motivate Your Team Members over the Holidays - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Sustaining team motivation during the holiday season is a tall order.  After all, your team members would probably rather be anywhere else than at work, and it’s difficult to keep...
5. What to Do Before Day One: You Were Just Hired to Lead a Team..Now What? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Now that the dust has settled after the midterm elections, the US has found itself facing a plethora of new leaders who will soon be making important decisions for our...
6. Protect Yourself from a Downsizing Profession - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Many people don’t realize that industry downsizing will affect their jobs until it’s too late.  The answer?  Even if your position seems secure, be vigilant and proactive. Plan Ahead One...
7. How to Leave Your Job Gracefully - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Along with Penelope Trunk, I was recently interviewed by Rachel Mendleson at Canadian Business Magazine about how to leave your job without burning bridges.  Unlike Penelope, though, I don’t think...
8. Could Jobs’ Leadership Style Work Outside Apple? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Recently, CNNMoney and Wired ran a story about Steve Jobs and what it is like to work at Apple. Specifically, a key highlight of the article was about the internal...
9. 4 Ways Current Labor Trends Impact Your Career - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. I have been reading Laurence Shatkin since I was in college.  In the process of releasing the tenth edition of Top 100 Careers without a Four-Year Degree, he shared some...
10. Do You Talk About Yourself Too Much at Work? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Some people start out just wanting to share quality information, and so others listen to them in order to learn and reap the benefit of the experience and knowledge. Unfortunately,...

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1. How to Set Goals That Keep Your Team on Track - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Setting team goals and ultimately team member goals helps give your team purpose along with checkpoints for measuring success. That old adage “If you don’t know where you are going,...
2. Sales Leader’s Question and Answer - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Please join me in welcoming guest blogger Dave Kahle. Dave is the author of the newly released book "How to Sell Anything to Anyone Anytime.”...
3. What can we learn from the best sales people? - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is the second post in a series of guest posts from Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. He will be discussing best practices of the top sales people....
4. Sales Best Practice #45: Listens constructively - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This article focuses on Best Practices for sales people from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle A study of...
5. Sales Practices: Question and Answer - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is a Question and Answer article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle Q. I struggle with knowing how...
6. The Three Biggest Mistakes in Sales Presentations - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is a Sales Best Practices article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator.  Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle The sales presentation is the ultimate...
7. Best Practice #46: Plans for four aspects of every sales call - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is a Sales Best Practices article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle “You should have an objective for...
8. Sales Practices: Question and Answer #2 - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is a Question and Answer article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator.  Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle Q. How do you know how...
9. Sales Practices: Question and Answer #3 - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is a Question and Answer article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle Q. How do you...
10. Sales Practices: Question and Answer #4 - Story From: Commence CRM Blog This is a Sales Question and Answer article from guest poster Dave Kahle, author and leading sales educator. Follow Dave’s latest Tweets at @davekahle. By Dave Kahle Q. You have...

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1. Hassle-free depreciation calculations with Deskera Accounting - Story From: Deskera Blog | Deskera CRM, Project Management, Employee Performance Management, Accounting & Financials and more! Calculating and maintaining depreciation schedule can be a mind-boggling exercise, particularly with a wide range of fixed assets purchased over a large time period. Now, Deskera Accounting simplifies this task...
2. Track Recent Email Activity in Deskera CRM - Story From: Deskera Blog | Deskera CRM, Project Management, Employee Performance Management, Accounting & Financials and more! Deskera CRM allows you to save time in easily locating previous communication (email/phone) and recent activities, with your leads, contacts or accounts, each time you contact them. It simplifies your...
3. Twitter Tools: bit.ly Links Description: Twitter Tools is an excellent plugin for posting notifications of new blog posts to Twitter. However Twitter Tools just sends the URL to the new post normally which is then...
4. WordPress-to-Lead Plugin: A Free Contact Form Builder for WordPress - Story From: Recent Ideas Building Contact Forms in WordPress has Never Been Easier Finally WordPress + salesforce.com together! WordPress users have been asking for a way to capture leads directly into Salesforce CRM, instead...
5. Creating a 1 Page Marketing Plan for 2011 - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! SalesNexus online CRM highlighted its lead management capabilities while John Fox maps out your game plan for marketing success in 2011 - watch the recorded webinar Related posts:3 Ways to...
6. Marketing and CRM? Yes, It Makes Sense. (4 Part Series) - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences on how a marketing person or team could benefit by using a centralized online CRM. Related posts:Why...
7. CRM with Email - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! Combine automated Email Marketing with your CRM and you've really got a selling machine! Related posts:How to Choose an Email Marketing Solution CRM and Email Marketing are NOT Two Different...
8. Deskera CRM – May Release - Story From: Deskera Blog | Deskera CRM, Project Management, Employee Performance Management, Accounting & Financials and more! The best just got better. We’re glad to share with you the following updates to Deskera CRM which will help run your business better, easier, faster. Multi-File Upload — Save...
9. Cloud Computing – What are the Costs After the Subscription? - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! What are the hidden costs after the subscription when using a Cloud based solution such as Online CRM? Related posts:Moving ACT CRM to the Cloud Is Online CRM Safe and...
10. Deskera HRMS – July Release - Story From: Deskera Blog | Deskera CRM, Project Management, Employee Performance Management, Accounting & Financials and more! We want to share with you the latest update on Deskera HRMS. There are a lot of enhancements in the new release and we have fixed a few bugs which...

1. Stuck With a Bad Boss? You’re Not Alone
2. How to Prepare as the Interviewer
3. 5 Leadership Predictions for 2011

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1. How to Lead in 2025 - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. The business world will change dramatically in the next 10-25 years.  For one thing, due to a declining worldwide birthrate, the U.S., China, India, Europe, and parts of South America...
2. 5 Leadership Predictions for 2011 - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. 2010 is quickly coming to a close, and fortunately, so is the recession that left most leaders fearing for the future of their organizations.  As you think about strategies for...
3. Leading Means Taking Advantage of Teachable Moments - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Are you frazzled, worn out and tired of doing everything because your team members can’t manage to get even the smallest task right? It’s time to take a look in...
4. To Retain Talent, Keep Tabs on Employee Engagement - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. The economy is beginning to show signs of recovery which means good things for you and your company. So you should be able to take a collective sigh of relief...
5. How to Orient a New Team Member - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. When I remember new hire orientations of jobs past, I think of watching cheesy, outdated videos, completing a marathon of poorly photocopied forms, and being escorted to an empty cubicle...
6. Giving Ownership to Employees – Literally - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Over at the Intuit Small Business blog, Gil Zeimer has some terrific how-to advice for motivating employees through ownership in the business.  According to Gil, such ownership helps to attract...
7. Are You Getting Stale As a Leader? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Often in team-based organizations, the question about how long a team leader should remain in that position surfaces. There are different schools of thought on this, anywhere from a defined...
8. How & When to Tell Your Boss You’re Pregnant - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. I recently had my second child, and so lately I’ve been a bit more active on birth boards, or online discussion forums related to pregnancy, childbirth, and child rearing.  One...
9. Think You May Get Fired? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. While writing my new book Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths You Can’t Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success, I met a guy named Sebastian.  Sebastian told...
10. 3 Ways to Manage Employee Bonuses This Year - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. It’s the question on all of your team members’ minds.  Now that the holidays are upon us, will bonuses be handed out despite the still-poor economy? Over at the Intuit...

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1. Small Businesses Crave Marketing Automation With yesterday’s news of Constant Contact acquiring contact management software provider Bantam Live, I thought I’d share our take on what this means for small businesses. We appreciate what Constant...
2. Marketing Automation Success Story: The Original Runner Company - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog The Original Runner Company is a perfect example of the new breed of businesses scaling efforts and growing sales with the help of marketing automation. Based in Montclair, NJ, it...
3. Marketing Automation Success Story: JEB & Company - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog JEB & Company specializes in IT consulting, providing small to mid-size businesses in the greater Phoenix area with computer support and network service. Using Infusionsoft, they are doing a better...
4. Marketing Automation Success Story: TopDog Health & Rehabilitation - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog With a staff of just four and a small-business budget, Dr. James St. Clair, owner of TopDog Health & Rehabilitation, didn’t have the time or resources to contact and follow...
5. Marketing Automation Success Story: KFNX Radio - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog One of the cool customers we have is a radio station, KFNX, in Phoenix, Ariz. KFNX was voted one of the top 10 radio stations in the state by Ranking...
6. Marketing Automation Success Story: SellMoreNow.com - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Rich Bohn of SellMoreNow.com publishes books and online reviews about the CRM industry. Over the last 20 years, Bohn has created a successful publishing business where he’s written about nearly...
7. Marketing Automation Success Story: Mint Social - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Mint Social, based in Phoenix, is a social media marketing and online branding company. They get businesses found in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and in social networks where over...
8. Marketing Automation Success Story: Michael Port & Associates - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog What do Sex and the City, All My Children and The Pelican Brief all have in common? Infusionsoft customer Michael Port. Port runs one of the largest and most respected...
9. Marketing Automation Success Story: Trainz - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog In writing these marketing automation success stories over the last several weeks, I’ve seen some common trends and I’m sure more will emerge as I interview other small businesses. Small...
10. Mission Possible: Marketing Automation Helps Printer Bees Build a Colony of Loyal Customers [Part 2] - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Recently, I shared how Infusionsoft customer Printer Bees increased the productivity of their lead capture and follow-up activities using Infusionsoft’s sales and marketing software. Now, I will explain how they use...

1. When Things Look Grim, Keep Your Team Positive
2. Use Feedback to Enable Continuous Improvement in Your Team
3. How to Respond to a Rude E-mail

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1. How to Be a Good Conversationalist - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Conversation is one unique trait of being a human, and it is an important skill to have. It is the way we get to know others and go on to...
2. Miscommunication Can Derail Even The Best Planned Project - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Managing projects, both large and small, can be a challenge. Coordinating tasks, managing scope, monitoring resources, scheduling deliverables, and keeping everyone in the loop all require lots of juggling to...
3. Is Your Open Door Policy Broken? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Have you wondered lately why no one has popped into your office? After all, you told everyone you had an open door policy. Don’t they get what that means? Well,...
4. When Things Look Grim, Keep Your Team Positive - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Although there have been positive signs of recovery in our economy, there’s still lots of opportunities to find bad news. Pick up any newspaper, tune in to any 24 hour...
5. Things to Consider When Giving Feedback - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Giving feedback is one of several paradoxes in management. It is undeniably true, yet seemingly contradictory, to realize that we must provide both criticism and praise in order for people...
6. 5 Signs Your Project is Doomed - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Not all projects are created equal.  There will be some that will make your career, and others you’d rather just bury deep in the bowels of your organization’s data servers,...
7. How to Turn Mistakes Into Opportunities - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. No matter how much education we have, no matter how many training courses we take, no matter how much motivation we have to succeed, and no matter if we have...
8. Your Top Questions on Managing Your Boss - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. One of the biggest determinants of your quality of life at work is the relationship you have with your boss. And yet too often when faced with a frustrating boss,...
9. What to Do When You Can’t Give a Positive Reference - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. A reader recently asked me: My former assistant a few years back couldn’t keep up with the workload and I was close to letting her go when she ended up...
10. How to Manage Work Outside Your Area of Expertise - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Help! You know little about computers, and you’re suddenly in charge of overseeing the I.T. department. Or you can barely balance your checkbook and now your firm’s finance team is...

1. Climbing the Corporate Ladder As a Virtual Employee
2. QuickBase Is Looking for New Talent. Tell Us What Makes You Tick!
3. Database Software for Human Resources and Employee Management

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1. Are Experience and Skills Overrated? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. I was talking to the CEO of a management consulting firm the other day and was surprised to hear him say that he doesn’t require new consultants to have –...
2. How to Make a Lateral Move - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. In a lateral move, a strong employee takes on a new position at the same level as his former position. Most companies encourage these because they are mechanisms for keeping...
3. How to Lead in 2025 - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. The business world will change dramatically in the next 10-25 years.  For one thing, due to a declining worldwide birthrate, the U.S., China, India, Europe, and parts of South America...
4. How to Motivate Your Team Members over the Holidays - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Sustaining team motivation during the holiday season is a tall order.  After all, your team members would probably rather be anywhere else than at work, and it’s difficult to keep...
5. Cyber Monday: Only the Beginning of Holiday Shopping on Company Time - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Today’s the first day back at work after a long holiday weekend.  It also happens to be Cyber Monday, the online equivalent of the day-after-Thanksgiving retail shopping phenomenon Black Friday....
6. How to Orient a New Team Member - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. When I remember new hire orientations of jobs past, I think of watching cheesy, outdated videos, completing a marathon of poorly photocopied forms, and being escorted to an empty cubicle...
7. How to Manage Your HEROes - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. In my last blog post, I defined the term HEROes (highly empowered resourceful operatives) and I wrote about how you can identify who your current HEROes are as well as...
8. Prepare for Post-Recession Job Churn - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Yes, I know. You thought you were supposed to worry when the economy was in the tank. Well, I’m here to tell you if you’ve been a lackluster leader you...
9. How to Grow Your Own Talent - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Is your company failing at recognizing and growing internal talent? Unless you are leading in a spunky tech start up company, it’s likely that your team is older and staffed...
10. 3 Ways to Manage Employee Bonuses This Year - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. It’s the question on all of your team members’ minds.  Now that the holidays are upon us, will bonuses be handed out despite the still-poor economy? Over at the Intuit...

1. When Team Leaders Don’t Get Along, It’s Bad News for Everyone
2. Affecting Positive Change to IT Service Management by Influencing Up
3. Welcome to the New QuickBase Team Collaboration Blog

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1. Effective Teams Part 2: Examples of Team Norms - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Team norms are basically relationship guidelines that develop gradually. Team members develop particular ways of interacting with each other over time until those habits become behavioral expectations. A team can...
2. Effective Teams Part 3: How to Influence Team Norms - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. In a recent post, I described how group norms can have a strong effect on team performance. With this blog post, I want to ask and address, how do these...
3. How to Set Goals That Keep Your Team on Track - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Setting team goals and ultimately team member goals helps give your team purpose along with checkpoints for measuring success. That old adage “If you don’t know where you are going,...
4. What to Do Before Day One: You Were Just Hired to Lead a Team..Now What? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Now that the dust has settled after the midterm elections, the US has found itself facing a plethora of new leaders who will soon be making important decisions for our...
5. How to Orient a New Team Member - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. When I remember new hire orientations of jobs past, I think of watching cheesy, outdated videos, completing a marathon of poorly photocopied forms, and being escorted to an empty cubicle...
6. Is 360 Feedback Right for Your Team? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. Taking a self-report assessment (such as the DISC or MBTI or many others out there) can be great for self-awareness but the report can also be biased because it is...
7. How to Create a Team Charter for Success - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. You’ve probably had an opportunity to be part of a team that wasn’t as successful as you’d hoped. It isn’t much fun to watch a team struggle and never find...
8. The Rewards of Assuming Positive Intent - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. We live in a time when public discourse has become hostile, conspiracy theories abound, and the uncertainty of the economy has people covering their backs in an effort to protect...
9. Resolving Conflict Within Your Virtual Team - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. More companies are beginning to see the benefits of letting employees work from remote locations, noting the increased employee satisfaction, reduced turnover and improved productivity from such an arrangement. But...
10. What to Do When You Can’t Give a Positive Reference - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive. A reader recently asked me: My former assistant a few years back couldn’t keep up with the workload and I was close to letting her go when she ended up...

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1. What is IT’s Role in the Social CRM Revolution? - Story From: CRM Outsiders Cruel dictator? Benevolent gatekeeper? Ignorant chump? All these words could describe your IT department’s stance to social media and how your organization drives business value out of the social revolution....
2. Moving into the “How” from the “What” of Social CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I thought about a question mark at the end of the post title, and left it off for some reason. But I do feel that we are in a gray...
3. “Social Silos” and the Need to Keep CRM in SCRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders As part of the marketing team at SugarCRM, I am charged with defining and communicating our social CRM strategy. And interestingly, I do so on two levels – what we...
4. Breaking the Social/Sharing – Life/Work Divide… - Story From: CRM Outsiders Mitch brings up some good points about adoption vs. adapting when it comes to social business. For many in the CRM industry, I think they see “social” as a sort...
5. Leaders, Managers and Social Media - Story From: CRM Outsiders I think one of the exciting things about social media, and what has made it such a hot topic is the way that it seemingly amplifies the voice of the...
6. Breaking Down the Social Silos: Qontext - Story From: CRM Outsiders More and more we are hearing about companies looking to ditch email in favor of more social tools – cleaning out the inbox as it were. I do not think...
7. Tibco’s Tibbr – Where’s the Customer in all This? - Story From: CRM Outsiders After more than a year of silent anticipation (that’s a nice way of saying “no one really cared”) integration giant Tibco is launching its first stab at social with its...
8. Is Sales Ahead or Behind the Social CRM Learning Curve? - Story From: CRM Outsiders When discussing the advent of the social business, I always hear questions like “where do we start?” and “what departments will/are most affected by social media?” The answer, to be...
9. CRM Outsiders Gets a New…Outsider? - Story From: CRM Outsiders When I left SugarCRM to head up marketing efforts at Basho Technologies earlier this year, my main concern was around CRM Outsiders. I mean, SugarCRM has some great thinkers and...
10. The data helps the relationship, but the relationship drives the sale - Story From: CRM Outsiders By Chris Bucholtz A few years ago, I did a webinar with some respected thought leaders in the area of sales about the impact data was having on selling. No...

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1. Leveraging Social Profiles vs. Social Selling - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been swamped with Sugar 6 release stuff – and haven’t had a ton of time to blog or even get on Twitter to see what’s up. Thanks to...
2. Don’t Let Social Derail Traditional Customer Support Goals - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is just a small thought – as I have far too many ideas that are too big for a tweet and not really epic blog material. But looking at...
3. Moving into the “How” from the “What” of Social CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I thought about a question mark at the end of the post title, and left it off for some reason. But I do feel that we are in a gray...
4. Should Social Add Layers to Customer Service, or Strip them Away? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I read an interesting blog post by Sue Barret sparked by a Harvard Business Review article that argues that “customer delight” is less important than making life easier for your...
5. Breaking the Social/Sharing – Life/Work Divide… - Story From: CRM Outsiders Mitch brings up some good points about adoption vs. adapting when it comes to social business. For many in the CRM industry, I think they see “social” as a sort...
6. Five Reasons Why Salesforce.com’s Chatter Will Fail - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been watching the concept of Chatter for a while now. On the one hand, I could kick myself for not making more hype out of Sugar Feeds, the...
7. Leaders, Managers and Social Media - Story From: CRM Outsiders I think one of the exciting things about social media, and what has made it such a hot topic is the way that it seemingly amplifies the voice of the...
8. Is Social a “Meatball on the Spaghetti” or “Layer in Your Lasagna?” - Story From: CRM Outsiders Ok, I realize this post’s title may qualify for the most ridiculous I’ve done yet…but bear with me.  I promise it will (kind of) make sense in a bit. I...
9. Tibco’s Tibbr – Where’s the Customer in all This? - Story From: CRM Outsiders After more than a year of silent anticipation (that’s a nice way of saying “no one really cared”) integration giant Tibco is launching its first stab at social with its...
10. Is Sales Ahead or Behind the Social CRM Learning Curve? - Story From: CRM Outsiders When discussing the advent of the social business, I always hear questions like “where do we start?” and “what departments will/are most affected by social media?” The answer, to be...

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1. Cloud Computing Adoption Rapidly Accelerates in US, State Governments - Story From: Popular Ideas Posted by Phil Novack on behalf of Dan Burton, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy   Each week lately brings exciting news of how government at all levels is adopting...
2. Accelerating Enterprise Cloud Computing Adoption in the Insurance Industry - Story From: Recent Ideas Posted by Daylan Burlison on behalf of Renny Monaghan, vice president of industry solutions, salesforce.com It's an exciting time for the insurance industry, which hosting its largest event of the...
3. Force.com Labs State of the Labs - Story From: Recent Ideas I’ve been working with Force.com Labs for a few months now and wanted to highlight some recent changes. Chatter Labs launched on April 8 and contains 18 Chatter specific apps...
4. Life after Lotus: How Perceptive Moved to the Cloud - Story From: Recent Ideas On July 28th salesforce.com invited Perceptive Software to join us in a webinar focusing on how they managed to successfully migrate their Lotus Notes apps to the Force.com cloud platform. ...
5. Accorto fast-tracks its way to the cloud with Force.com - Story From: Recent Ideas What’s the fastest way to launch a new cloud computing application? Veteran software entrepreneurs Kathy Pink and Jorg Janke would tell you that it’s by building on the Force.com...
6. AppExchange App(s) of the Week: Survey Force & Chatter Cloud Swarm - Story From: Recent Ideas There are so many awesome new apps that have gone live on the AppExchange in the last few weeks, I couldn’t just feature one.    My two apps of the week...
7. Alex Dayon: Cloud 2 Changing the Game for CRM in 2011 - Story From: Recent Ideas Recently salesforce.com executive vice president of CRM Alex Dayon spent some time in New York, Boston and San Francisco meeting with influencers and members of the media.  Alex talked about...
8. Alex Dayon: Traditional CRM is Losing to Cloud 2 CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas By Alex Dayon, EVP CRM, salesforce.com What I love most about my job is talking to our customers and helping to make them successful. Whether it be at industry conferences...
9. AppQuest ’11: Round 1 Voting Has Begun. Help us Pick the Next Cloud Idol - Story From: Recent Ideas The wait is over. The AppQuest '11 Top 16 Apps are here, and what happens next is up to you–their destiny falls squarely in your hands.   Round 1...
10. Cloud Talk: CA Technologies - Story From: Recent Ideas CA Technologies develops in 1/2 the time and with 1/3 fewer resources with Force.com For more than 30 years, CA Technologies has been a leader in IT management software....

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1. 5 Question Friday: Joey Novak - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog This week’s 5 Question Friday is about one of our talented developers, Joey Novak. Joey helps make our e-commerce features work correctly and helps make our beta Email Builder awesome....
2. 5 Question Friday: Derek Solomon - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog This week’s 5 Question Friday is about one of our passionate account managers, Derek Solomon. Derek wows customers with his empathetic, caring and genuine customer service. When he’s not handling...
3. 5 Insider Tips to Get Your Business ‘Social’ - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog I joined Lamar Johnson and Joe C. on a local radio show discussion about social media advice for small business on his show, Social Media Secrets Revealed. During the hour-long...
4. 5 Question Friday: Kathy Sacks - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog Today’s 5 Question Friday is about our vice president of Communications at Infusionsoft, Kathy Sacks. Kathy recently joined our executive team and has kicked our communications strategy into high-gear since...
5. The Concept of Narrowband Marketing - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog I’m going to share an interesting and useful concept for you known as narrowband marketing. It very much covers how marketers today need to act in order to maintain relevance...
6. 5 Question Friday: Richard Tripp - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog This week’s 5 Question Friday is about our VP of Product Management here at Infusionsoft, Richard Tripp. Richard leads the direction of our product such as introducing features and enhancements...
7. Marketing Monday: Permission Expires in 3, 2, 1… - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog A great question came in last week from Mario. He quoted some email marketing advice we give in our Internet Marketing Guidebook. Question: From an excerpt found in the Internet Marketing Guidebook: Old...
8. 25 Email Marketing Tips and Tactics - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Many marketers and non-marketers share a mutual concern for doing email marketing the right way. They often wonder if the emails they’re sending are making it to the inbox and...
9. Black Friday: Activating the Greed Gland - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Truthfully, I’m hesitant to write this article. I have a hard time seeing the good in Black Friday. People get trampled by greedy shoppers. Family members who could be spending precious time...
10. Small Business Saturday: Resources for Entrepreneurs - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog Small Business Saturday is November 26, after Black Friday and before Cyber Monday, where people are encouraged to support local entrepreneurs by patronizing their businesses. Whether you’re a business owner or...

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1. Are Desktop CRM Solutions Giving Way to Software as a Service (SaaS)? - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Businesses looking for customer management software solutions better known as CRM, have numerous alternatives to choose from, but for those looking specifically for desktop or on premise CRM software, the...
2. Commence CRM Offers Solution for Stranded Goldmine Customers - Story From: Commence CRM Blog February 4, 2010 - Commence Corporation has announced a competitive upgrade program for small businesses currently using the Goldmine contact management software.  More than a year ago FrontRange announced that...
3. Customers Share Thoughts on Future Product Releases - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Commence Corporation customer relationship survey results for 2010. Customers share their thoughts on service and future product releases in this CRM survey....
4. Commence Announces New Product Release with Year End Celebration - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Commence Corporation hosted a miniature golf tournament to celebrate the release of a new version of their cloud based CRM product that incorporates a Project Management application and a Customer...
5. Are You Paying Too Much For SalesForce.com? - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Just over a decade ago Salesforce.com introduced Customer Relationship Management software (CRM), delivered over the Internet as a SaaS CRM service. Being the first to market provided them with the...
6. Commence Delivers Unique Hybrid CRM Hosted Offering - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Photo owned by davidgsteadman (cc) When people think about hosted CRM software they think about using the Internet to access their data.  This is because the majority of CRM...
7. Contact Management Users Express Interest in Commence Online CRM - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Commence Corporation, one of the leading providers of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, is experiencing a higher than usual interest in their online CRM software from users of traditional desktop...
8. From Hosted CRM to Cloud Based CRM - Story From: Commence CRM Blog “Customers who thought they had a handle around the different deployment models of CRM software have been thrown another curve ball” says Larry Caretsky, president of Commence Corporation.  “Today everyone’s...
9. Cloud CRM Vendors – Not For Beginners - Story From: Commence CRM Blog The hype about cloud computing is all around us from television commercials, to businesses to college campuses and for good reason. Cloud computing has shown to provide exceptional value...
10. Commence CRM Well Positioned for Continued Growth - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Companies seeking Customer Relationship Management software solutions (CRM) traditionally focus their attention on industry giants Microsoft and Salesforce.com, but if there is a true David vs. Goliath story in this...

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1. The Power of “Local Social” for Global Brands - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been throwing the ideas I’m about to spit out around in my head for almost a week. Spurred on by a great notion about the ridiculousness of “business...
2. Salesforce.com’s Chatter and the Conundrum of B2B “Social” CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders All the talk I’ve heard in the past couple of years around the social revolution and its pertaining to CRM is that all businesses need to become more customer-centric. This...
3. Twitter Escalation Proves the Need for Great Core CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was having a bit of a bad day yesterday. My Comcast internet connectivity was spotty, and Webex had a blip and did not allow me to speak on a...
4. Should Social Add Layers to Customer Service, or Strip them Away? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I read an interesting blog post by Sue Barret sparked by a Harvard Business Review article that argues that “customer delight” is less important than making life easier for your...
5. Treating Customers Like End Users, And Vice Versa… - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have to say, I was a bit surprised to get back to the grind after the holiday weekend, and not see my last blog post ripped to shreds in...
6. Using Social Media? Tell Us About It! - Story From: CRM Outsiders Are you searching social networks for leads? Connecting with potential partners on LinkedIn? Are your support agents reaching troubled customers with Twitter? If you are using social media as part...
7. Leaders, Managers and Social Media - Story From: CRM Outsiders I think one of the exciting things about social media, and what has made it such a hot topic is the way that it seemingly amplifies the voice of the...
8. Social Apps Need to Grow Socially, NOT by Pushy Salespeople - Story From: CRM Outsiders I just saw that Yammer landed a cool $25 million in new funding.  While that says a lot about the economy and the interest and expectations VCs have for the...
9. Is Social a “Meatball on the Spaghetti” or “Layer in Your Lasagna?” - Story From: CRM Outsiders Ok, I realize this post’s title may qualify for the most ridiculous I’ve done yet…but bear with me.  I promise it will (kind of) make sense in a bit. I...
10. Get Social at SugarCon!!! (And Get a Great Rate) - Story From: CRM Outsiders I am freshly back in the office (OK, maybe fresh is not the right word, more like jet-lagged and overwhelmed with emails and projects) after an awesome two-week press tour...

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1. Who Owns the Customer Relationship? - Story From: CRM Buyer OK, some people thought my last post was somehow bearish on social CRM, but I don't agree. I am trying to be accurate about what we ought to reasonably expect,...
2. Social Data: What Defines It? And, Who Owns it? - Story From: CRM Outsiders Yesterday’s Salesforce.com/Jigsaw announcement got me thinking, and it certainly had a lot of us internally thinking. But, truth be told, the kind of data services story (and the implications of...
3. Crowd-Sourcing, Customer Data and Choice in the Salesforce.com Cloud Model - Story From: CRM Outsiders My recent post on Salesforce.com’s acquisition of Jigsaw garnered a lot of comments. First of all, thanks for everyone joining the convo – I would love it if more people...
4. Friday Social CRM Thought – Access Controls, Firewalls and True Customer Enablement - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is one of those thoughts that I think we all feel – but rarely gets talked about from a vendor perspective. From a social CRM perspective, one of the...
5. Does Social CRM Favor Your Worst Customers? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was reading the Social CRM Pioneers Group on Google, owned and operated, if that is such a thing in the social media world, by the Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang...
6. Relationships are Critical, but there is More - Story From: CRM Outsiders Last week I was not very nice to an author who focused on data, and not trust as the ‘tie that binds’ regarding relationships. You can agree, or disagree, but...
7. The Value is still with Customers, but Looking Beyond is OK - Story From: CRM Outsiders I followed up a post written by Brian Solis yesterday, and shame on me, I am doing it again. But, today’s post was not really written by Brian, it was...
8. Salesforce.com’s Chatter and the Conundrum of B2B “Social” CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders All the talk I’ve heard in the past couple of years around the social revolution and its pertaining to CRM is that all businesses need to become more customer-centric. This...
9. Leveraging Social Profiles vs. Social Selling - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been swamped with Sugar 6 release stuff – and haven’t had a ton of time to blog or even get on Twitter to see what’s up. Thanks to...
10. VRM, Who Has Relationship Responsibility Anyway? - Story From: CRM Outsiders We have made it through the heatwave, but it is possible that this particular author has suffered some lasting effects of the heat. While CRMOutsiders is supposed to take an...

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1. Sage to World: “Forget SaaS, Let’s Just do Cloud.” - Story From: CRM Outsiders I wanted to get a “Jump the Shark” type reference in the title of this post – but it didn’t make sense, and frankly is a pretty played out term....
2. Listening to Your Customers is not New - Story From: CRM Outsiders If listening to your customers is not new, nor is taking feedback and advancing a product based on enhancements from the field new, then I guess Social CRM is not...
3. Where Multitenancy Fails, the Sugar Open Cloud Steps In - Story From: CRM Outsiders Note:  This is the first in a series of posts on Outsiders by SugarCRM co-founder Clint Oram. I wanted Clint to share his ideas and vision around some very “Sugar...
4. The Open Cloud – Come for High Availability, Stay for Ownership and Control - Story From: CRM Outsiders While I was traveling through Europe for our CRM Acceleration events over the past several months, some interesting things were happening on the SaaS/Cloud front back here in the U.S....
5. Transparency Is A Characteristic, Not A Goal - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been witnessing some strange things lately, not sure if you have noticed it too. For one, it is nearly 95 degrees outside, and I live in northern Vermont....
6. The Socialization of IT - Story From: CRM Outsiders I know the subject line sounds kind of creepy. But, Co-conspirator Martin Schneider wrote a few weeks ago “What is ITs role in the Social CRM Revolution” and I could...
7. Some Thoughts on Open – from SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin - Story From: CRM Outsiders Outsiders Note: This is the first  Outsiders post by SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin. As Larry explains below – the immense buzz around SugarCRM’s landmark release of Sugar 6 revived some...
8. Creepful – The Gray Area Between Insight and Knowing Too Much - Story From: CRM Outsiders Setting the Stage: You are doing some research, getting ready to purchase a new life insurance policy. The research starts slowly, you go to a few websites, figure you will...
9. Twitter Escalation Proves the Need for Great Core CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was having a bit of a bad day yesterday. My Comcast internet connectivity was spotty, and Webex had a blip and did not allow me to speak on a...
10. “Social Silos” and the Need to Keep CRM in SCRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders As part of the marketing team at SugarCRM, I am charged with defining and communicating our social CRM strategy. And interestingly, I do so on two levels – what we...

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1. Want to Speak at Dreamforce? Call for Papers is Open! - Story From: Recent Ideas   Salesforce.com has just opened the official Dreamforce 2010 Call for Papers and we are looking for customers who will inspire the Community.  If you have a best practice...
2. Summer ‘10 Release: Check out what the Chatter’s all about! - Story From: Recent Ideas Summer ’10 brings new and exciting ways to collaborate within your organization as well as with your customers. With Salesforce Chatter, you can bring the best of social networking to...
3. Ziplining Outside Salesforce.com - Story From: Recent Ideas One of the perks of working here at Salesforce.com  is the location. There's always something interesting going on, from massive pillow fights on Valentine's Day to ice skating during the...
4. Drive clicks, leads, and revenue with syndicated Salesforce content - Story From: Recent Ideas Build your credibility on ours   What’s in a name?  Quite a lot, when you’re salesforce.com—the world’s largest, best-loved CRM and cloud-computing solutions company. Let your site visitors, prospects,...
5. Changing our own Game! - Story From: Recent Ideas Last week we hosted another event in our Chatter webinar series.  Veteran Chatterers, Scott Holden and Robin Daniels showed how using Chatter internally here at salesforce.com has been game changing...
6. Looking for an IT help desk solution that can keep pace with your business? - Story From: Recent Ideas On June 10th, 2010 Salesforce.com invited Chad Haftorson, Principal Product Manger at BMC and Stephen Hendrick, Group VP from IDC to speak at our live webinar.  Chad and Stephen joined...
7. Enterasys Networks: Chatter Lets Us Collaborate in Real-Time, Move Deals Forward - Story From: Recent Ideas As we approached the big day today when Salesforce Chatter becomes available to the world, we asked salesforce.com customers who participated in our private beta to share a few thoughts with...
8. Art Technology Group: Chatter Is the Glue That Brings Everything Together - Story From: Recent Ideas Last week we brought you the first post in a series where we asked salesforce.com customers who participated in the Salesforce Chatter private beta to share a few thoughts with...
9. Chatter Keeps INTTRA in Sync from Shanghai to South Africa to Mumbai - Story From: Recent Ideas Since Salesforce Chatter became available worldwide on June 22, we have shared success stories with you from salesforce.com customers who participated in the Chatter private beta and who are now...
10. AppExchange All-Star: Rhonda Ross, Audatex - Story From: Recent Ideas Rhonda is the lead Salesforce administrator at Audatex, a Solera Company that delivers technology solutions, shared services, and consulting for the insurance and claims industries.  She's an Advanced Salesforce Administrator...

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1. Crowd-Sourcing, Customer Data and Choice in the Salesforce.com Cloud Model - Story From: CRM Outsiders My recent post on Salesforce.com’s acquisition of Jigsaw garnered a lot of comments. First of all, thanks for everyone joining the convo – I would love it if more people...
2. The Application of Social CRM Vs. “Social CRM Applications” - Story From: CRM Outsiders I just had an interesting working session with Jan Sysmans, director of product marketing here at Sugar. While we were working on some presentation slides for some sessions we will...
3. Friday Social CRM Thought – Access Controls, Firewalls and True Customer Enablement - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is one of those thoughts that I think we all feel – but rarely gets talked about from a vendor perspective. From a social CRM perspective, one of the...
4. What is IT’s Role in the Social CRM Revolution? - Story From: CRM Outsiders Cruel dictator? Benevolent gatekeeper? Ignorant chump? All these words could describe your IT department’s stance to social media and how your organization drives business value out of the social revolution....
5. Leveraging Social Profiles vs. Social Selling - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been swamped with Sugar 6 release stuff – and haven’t had a ton of time to blog or even get on Twitter to see what’s up. Thanks to...
6. Don’t Let Social Derail Traditional Customer Support Goals - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is just a small thought – as I have far too many ideas that are too big for a tweet and not really epic blog material. But looking at...
7. Moving into the “How” from the “What” of Social CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I thought about a question mark at the end of the post title, and left it off for some reason. But I do feel that we are in a gray...
8. Should Social Add Layers to Customer Service, or Strip them Away? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I read an interesting blog post by Sue Barret sparked by a Harvard Business Review article that argues that “customer delight” is less important than making life easier for your...
9. “Social Silos” and the Need to Keep CRM in SCRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders As part of the marketing team at SugarCRM, I am charged with defining and communicating our social CRM strategy. And interestingly, I do so on two levels – what we...
10. Five Reasons Why Salesforce.com’s Chatter Will Fail - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been watching the concept of Chatter for a while now. On the one hand, I could kick myself for not making more hype out of Sugar Feeds, the...

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1. 5 Question Friday: Nicole Shoots - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog This week’s 5 Question Friday is about our marketing and event coordinator, Nicole Shoots. Nicole is the person behind every great event that Infusionsoft puts on – namely, InfusionCon, Revolution...
2. Friday Social CRM Thought – Access Controls, Firewalls and True Customer Enablement - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is one of those thoughts that I think we all feel – but rarely gets talked about from a vendor perspective. From a social CRM perspective, one of the...
3. 5 Question Friday: Joey Novak - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog This week’s 5 Question Friday is about one of our talented developers, Joey Novak. Joey helps make our e-commerce features work correctly and helps make our beta Email Builder awesome....
4. 8 Ways to Be a Thought Leader - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog Thought leadership is a critical component to an effective, modern marketing strategy. For small businesses especially, it’s one of the best ways to cut through the clutter and compete against...
5. Revolution Tour Hits the Big Apple - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog I’ve never been shy. Could be that I’m from New Jersey, or the fact that I’m a Pisces. Or both—don’t know. But it sure comes in handy a ton when...
6. Infusionsoft’s Biggest Fan Contest - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog If a picture tells a thousand words, how many words does a video, blog post or a Facebook Wall post tell? We’re looking for our biggest Infusionsoft fan to help...
7. 5 Customer Support Changes You’ll Love - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog I’m happy to share a handful of updates pertaining to our customer service that we provide to all Infusionsoft users. The changes we’ve made will result in better service, faster...
8. The Infusionsoft Success Path, Revisited. - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog When did the last software purchase provide you a complete guide to using it effectively? None that I can think of. We’re making a few changes (and have made) to...
9. 5 Question Friday: Kathy Sacks - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog Today’s 5 Question Friday is about our vice president of Communications at Infusionsoft, Kathy Sacks. Kathy recently joined our executive team and has kicked our communications strategy into high-gear since...
10. 5 Question Friday: Richard Tripp - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog This week’s 5 Question Friday is about our VP of Product Management here at Infusionsoft, Richard Tripp. Richard leads the direction of our product such as introducing features and enhancements...

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1. Does Social CRM Favor Your Worst Customers? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was reading the Social CRM Pioneers Group on Google, owned and operated, if that is such a thing in the social media world, by the Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang...
2. Listening to Your Customers is not New - Story From: CRM Outsiders If listening to your customers is not new, nor is taking feedback and advancing a product based on enhancements from the field new, then I guess Social CRM is not...
3. Relationships are Critical, but there is More - Story From: CRM Outsiders Last week I was not very nice to an author who focused on data, and not trust as the ‘tie that binds’ regarding relationships. You can agree, or disagree, but...
4. The Power of “Local Social” for Global Brands - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been throwing the ideas I’m about to spit out around in my head for almost a week. Spurred on by a great notion about the ridiculousness of “business...
5. Salesforce.com’s Chatter and the Conundrum of B2B “Social” CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders All the talk I’ve heard in the past couple of years around the social revolution and its pertaining to CRM is that all businesses need to become more customer-centric. This...
6. Leveraging Social Profiles vs. Social Selling - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been swamped with Sugar 6 release stuff – and haven’t had a ton of time to blog or even get on Twitter to see what’s up. Thanks to...
7. Don’t Let Social Derail Traditional Customer Support Goals - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is just a small thought – as I have far too many ideas that are too big for a tweet and not really epic blog material. But looking at...
8. Moving into the “How” from the “What” of Social CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I thought about a question mark at the end of the post title, and left it off for some reason. But I do feel that we are in a gray...
9. Should Social Add Layers to Customer Service, or Strip them Away? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I read an interesting blog post by Sue Barret sparked by a Harvard Business Review article that argues that “customer delight” is less important than making life easier for your...
10. Customer Support Through Twitter – Take Two - Story From: CRM Outsiders About 10 months ago, I wrote a post regarding the use of Twitter for customer service “Why do people think Twitter is a good Customer Service Platform“. We have matured...

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1. A Tale of Two Social CRM Cities: NYC and Atlanta - Story From: CRM Outsiders I checked the Twitter stream on Monday about 10am and it was a bit funny to watch the Sugarites  messages come through. With the beginning of the world tour, people...
2. The Value of Patience in an Instant Gratification World of Social CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I just want to reiterate how happy I am to have Mitch Lieberman not only contributing to the Outsiders blog – but doing so in an increasingly independent and though-provoking...
3. The Value is still with Customers, but Looking Beyond is OK - Story From: CRM Outsiders I followed up a post written by Brian Solis yesterday, and shame on me, I am doing it again. But, today’s post was not really written by Brian, it was...
4. SugarCRM World Tour Rages On – Germany and Holland this Week! - Story From: CRM Outsiders First off, I want to thank Mitch for all the great posts, ideas and conversations on Outsiders while I’ve been traveling. Mitch is truly one of the brightest minds in...
5. Do You Appreciate Your Support Organization? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I am confident in my own convictions, I have been saying it for a long time. I know that I was not the first to say it, but here it...
6. The Socialization of IT – Part II - Story From: CRM Outsiders In Part I of this series (it was not a series before, but now that there is a Part II…) I started to dissect a research paper, highlighted by Irving...
7. Leveraging Social Profiles vs. Social Selling - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been swamped with Sugar 6 release stuff – and haven’t had a ton of time to blog or even get on Twitter to see what’s up. Thanks to...
8. Remember, No One “Owns” a Relationship - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was going to continue the comment thread in Mitch’s last post on VRM but I think it warrants its own post. Mitch hints in the title about the “responsibility”...
9. Moving into the “How” from the “What” of Social CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders I thought about a question mark at the end of the post title, and left it off for some reason. But I do feel that we are in a gray...
10. Knowledge Versus Experience - Story From: CRM Outsiders I have been a bit distracted for the past few days, thinking about a few projects I am working on, as well as trying to create some original content for...

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1. Yankee Group 2010 Predictions: From Crisis Comes Opportunity Yankee Group unveiled its annual predictions, projecting that 2010 will be a year of rebuilding for the communications sector. While the economic crisis has permanently changed how consumers, enterprises and...
2. Holding Social Media Marketing’s Feet to the Fire - Story From: CRM Buyer Accountability is essential for any company that wants to be successful. Without it, there is no way to know whether what you're doing is working or could be done better....

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1. CRM Survey in Europe Shows New Customer Acquisition Rises to Second Priority in 2010 Customer relationship management (CRM) is weathering the economic downturn better than many other enterprise software applications, according to a recent European survey conducted by Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that CRM...
2. Gartner Reveals Five Social Software Predictions for 2010 and Beyond Gartner offers five key predictions for social software:By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.Greater availability of...
3. Automated Bid-to-Win: Shrink the Sales Cycle, Seal More Deals - Story From: CRM Buyer As sales organizations endeavor to escape the constricted economy of the 2009 recession, one of their most significant barriers is stagnant progress in terms of bringing their sales cycle under...
4. New Feature: Deal Customizations - Story From: The Bantam Blog In addition to the new pipeline management module released today, we've also added the ability to customize your deals in three new ways, as noted here... Customize Categories: In Bantam...
5. New Module: Analytics for Deal Flow and Sales Revenue - Story From: The Bantam Blog (Note: image above has partial view of analytical charts; to see all, please login.) Today we released a new module following last week's release of sales pipeline management. It's...
6. Salesforce.com’s Jigsaw Buy: The End of Advertising? - Story From: CRM Buyer Salesforce.com's buy of Jigsaw is the latest, most indicative market mover in the transition to a lead generation economy. Twitter's forays into a sponsored tweets business model announced last week...
7. Marketing Spending by High Tech and Telecom Providers Will Increase in 2010 Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 percent of 2010 HTTP marketing...
8. Worldwide Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Software Market Grew 4 Percent in 2009 Worldwide business intelligence (BI) platform, analytic applications and performance management (PM) software revenue surpassed $9.3 billion in 2009, a 4.2 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $8.9 billion, according to...
9. Survey Indicates More Than 95 Percent of Organizations Expect to Maintain or Grow Their Use of SaaS Through 2010 More than 95 percent of organizations expect to maintain or grow their use of software as a service (SaaS), according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Survey respondents cited significant...
10. AppExchange App of the Week: Marketo Revenue Cycle Analytics - Story From: Popular Ideas Marketo has done it again with this week’s App of the Week:  Revenue Cycle Analytics- Marketing Reporting, Forecasts & ROI.    As a marketer myself, this app speaks to me as...

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1. Our View of Chatter: Salesforce is Following Us! - Story From: The Bantam Blog We've always admired what Salesforce.com has done in paving the way for the adoption of on-demand, software-as-a-service architecture across the business landscape. It seems they've evidently returned admiration for us...
2. Plan for Success with Tips on Deploying Salesforce Content - Story From: CRM FYI I’m excited to bring you a guest blog post today from Mike Gerholdt, a fellow Salesforce blogger and avid Twitterer. So your back from Dreamforce and your all jazzed at...
3. 3 Ways to Measure Advertising and Marketing Return Easily - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! Measure what advertising is generating profits and what's not. 3 easy ways to do it and increase sales and profits quickly....
4. Salesforce Setup; Now Even Easier - Story From: CRM FYI Staples may have the corner on that “Easy button” thing, but Salesforce now has an “Easy box.” It’s called Setup Enhancer for Salesforce and it’s about to make navigating the...
5. Salesforce Chatter Goes Private Beta for 100 Customers - Story From: CRM FYI Amid all the hoopla around Google Buzz, Salesforce is making some buzz themselves in the Enterprise space with the announcement of a Chatter private beta to 100 customers today. When...
6. What the iPad Means for salesforce.com - Story From: Popular Ideas Steve Jobs has done it again.  He’s delivered a product that makes life easier and work more fun.   Users of the new iPad will be able to run business...
7. 4 steps to getting started with Salesforce CRM and Google AdWords - Story From: Recent Ideas Salesforce CRM and Google AdWords can help your organization track and measure the success of your Google advertising efforts....
8. Don’t Forget B2B CRM - Story From: CRM Buyer While we're on the subject of the customer relationship, it's important, even vital, that we do a better job of teasing apart customer types. It seems to me that the...
9. Salesforce.com and Jigsaw: One Half of a Good Idea - Story From: CRM Outsiders I think I would have preferred to call this one 1/100000000000th of a good idea…but it was less catchy. Today Salesforce.com announced it will acquire business contacts data service Jigsaw...
10. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Closing the Deal With Electronic Signatures As sales organizations endeavor to escape the constricted economy of the 2009 recession, one of their most significant barriers is stagnant progress regarding bringing their sales cycle under control. Recent...

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1. SugarCon Speaker Spotlight: Agency Q - Story From: CRM Outsiders The day after the close of a quarter (and a GREAT one at that) is traditionally a more relaxed day in the office. I WISH. So much is going on,...
2. The Power of Social Listening Here are some excellent words of advice from Doug Stephens, President of Retail Prophet Consulting, on how to get started with social media, If a Brand Falls in the...
3. Relationships Run on Trust, not Data - Story From: CRM Outsiders Every once in a while I read an article that gets me going, in a not so good way. Well, today we hit that once, in the while. It is...
4. Relationships are Critical, but there is More - Story From: CRM Outsiders Last week I was not very nice to an author who focused on data, and not trust as the ‘tie that binds’ regarding relationships. You can agree, or disagree, but...
5. Do You Appreciate Your Support Organization? - Story From: CRM Outsiders I am confident in my own convictions, I have been saying it for a long time. I know that I was not the first to say it, but here it...
6. Salesforce.com’s Chatter and the Conundrum of B2B “Social” CRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders All the talk I’ve heard in the past couple of years around the social revolution and its pertaining to CRM is that all businesses need to become more customer-centric. This...
7. Creepful – The Gray Area Between Insight and Knowing Too Much - Story From: CRM Outsiders Setting the Stage: You are doing some research, getting ready to purchase a new life insurance policy. The research starts slowly, you go to a few websites, figure you will...
8. VRM, Who Has Relationship Responsibility Anyway? - Story From: CRM Outsiders We have made it through the heatwave, but it is possible that this particular author has suffered some lasting effects of the heat. While CRMOutsiders is supposed to take an...
9. Remember, No One “Owns” a Relationship - Story From: CRM Outsiders I was going to continue the comment thread in Mitch’s last post on VRM but I think it warrants its own post. Mitch hints in the title about the “responsibility”...
10. Don’t Let Social Derail Traditional Customer Support Goals - Story From: CRM Outsiders This is just a small thought – as I have far too many ideas that are too big for a tweet and not really epic blog material. But looking at...

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1. SugarCon Speaker Spotlight: Mike Vetter – CEO of DataSync - Story From: CRM Outsiders Leading up to the SugarCon event, I will be highlighting some of our partners speaking at the event. SugarCRM has created an amazing ecosystem of technology, ISV and VARs in...
2. SugarCon Spotlight: Become a Sugar Reports Master! - Story From: CRM Outsiders Before delving into my continued spotlights on some key SugarCon sessions, I wanted to thank Mitch Lieberman for stepping in and adding some great ideas, opinions and observations on outsiders....
3. SugarCon Speaker Spotlight: Tobias Kunze Briseño – Makara - Story From: CRM Outsiders All too often, simple SaaS vendors make the claim that their tools are what cloud computing is all about. Man, is there so much more to the cloud story. Consuming...
4. SugarCon Speaker Spotlight: Alfresco CEO John Powell - Story From: CRM Outsiders The nature of just what defines “CRM data” is changing. It would be nice to think that we can store EVERYTHING that has to do with your customer interactions inside...
5. Inbound Marketing Primer – Hubspot’s Dharmesh Shah at BrainSell’s Acceleration Event - Story From: CRM Outsiders I just wanted to thank everyone involved in the Boston CRM Acceleration event held last week, hosted by Sugar partner BrainSell. I had some great interactions with the speakers and...
6. SugarCon Speaker Spotlight: Agency Q - Story From: CRM Outsiders The day after the close of a quarter (and a GREAT one at that) is traditionally a more relaxed day in the office. I WISH. So much is going on,...
7. Open Source, Open Clouds, And Bringing Telephony and Unified Communications to the Masses: Fonality (SugarCon Speaker Spotlight) - Story From: CRM Outsiders When it comes to open source at the top of the stack, SugarCRM has proven that disruptive business models can work very well. But, I would argue that there is...
8. SugarCon 2010 Recap – In a Word: Awesome! - Story From: CRM Outsiders The past three days have been a whirlwind of amazing conversations, presentations, making new connections – and just plain fun. What an amazing event, thanks to all of our customers,...
9. The Best Lock-In Strategy? Empower Your Customers! - Story From: CRM Outsiders SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin and Eucalyptus CEO former head of MySQL Marten Mickos sat down with Spikesource CEO Kim Polese at the Structure conference today. The talk was around SaaS/Cloud...
10. “Social Silos” and the Need to Keep CRM in SCRM - Story From: CRM Outsiders As part of the marketing team at SugarCRM, I am charged with defining and communicating our social CRM strategy. And interestingly, I do so on two levels – what we...