Tech researchers, analysts, journalists, bloggers and vendors agree that "Social CRM" is a hot sector, and validation of this is that companies are increasingly adopting it to engage and include their customers in business. But few people agree on a precise definition of what social CRM is and the #scrm hashtag on Twitter has frequent links to offerings as this market takes shape. The "Godfather" (or should we say General) of the social-CRM-definition-wars is CRM expert Paul Greenberg whose oft-referenced definition includes the position that social CRM strategies are a "company's response to the customer's ownership of the conversation" out there in social media land. In this we seem to all agree.

Social CRM as it applies to Bantam Live refers to both internal collaboration among a business team and external engagement with the voices of customers, prospects, and partners across the social web. Outside is in, inside is out. We explain...

Let's first start out with the internal social CRM aspects of Bantam Live. At the core of Bantam Live, in the dashboard, is the real-time activity stream, which fuses business data objects and communication among a team, so it can stay in the loop and collaborate. In Bantam Live, everything from status updates and team commenting to workflow activity updates (eg. progress on projects, completed tasks, and modifications to deals that a team is collaborating on) cascade in the stream.

This design is similar to the Facebook news feed and it's becoming all the rage in web-based business software. As Marc Benioff of Salesforce wrote on TechCrunch, it's "The Facebook Imperative" for software companies. As ReadWriteWeb said at our private-beta debut last summer, "Bantam Live is part CRM, part Twitter, and part Facebook for business teams." Even content from the web can be imported by users and displayed in the activity stream of Bantam Live, which leads us to the external part of social CRM.

While team members collaborate internally within the activity stream, they can also search from within their Bantam Live workspace out on social networks like Twitter. For example, if you're selling industrial solar panel technology to commercial office parks, you can search for keywords - say "solar panel recommendations" - and upon discovery import a new contact's full profile and the relevant tweet with one click into Bantam Live. From here, you can initiate workflows with team members to engage this new contact, and converse with the new contact for various CRM purposes, while maintaining all annotations and live feeds of this person from a single contact page in Bantam Live. All of this activity cascades in the real-time stream of the Bantam Live dashboard, where team members can comment and interact. For lead-generation (and soon other CRM features), Bantam Live makes the filtered and captured spontaneous content of Twitter transformative and valuable for sales and biz-dev people. As we've said, Thar's gold in them thar tweets!

Altimeter Group's Jeremiah Owyang and Ray Wang recently issued a report  that provides a framework and successful use cases of social CRM. In its broad spectrum, we'd say Bantam Live initially falls into the Sales and Collaboration categories of their Social CRM construct, specifically in the SMB space, for now. Interestingly, as we've suggested (see Hunter-Gatherer and Farmer in Social CRM), it's possible that the deeper social "relationships" (in the human bonding sense of the term) between two people will increasingly flourish in small and midsize businesses (without the restrictions of the large enterprise) and, moreover, in the sales and biz-dev end of the social CRM spectrum, more so than in the ephemeral and transactional nature of a customer service relationship with a brand and its on-duty rep. It may turn out that the sales and biz-dev end of the social CRM spectrum is the most richly authentic and social of all. Who knows? As we continue to build Bantam Live in the triad of CRM's domain in sales, marketing, and customer support, we'll find out.

Internal CRM collaboration among the team, external CRM engagement with prospects, partners, and customers, all managed in a social workspace with complimentary productivity and collaboration tools for business teams. That's the social CRM you'll find ...

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1. Lead Generation for Small Business CRM - Story From: BigContacts Product News Did you know that you can add contacts to BigContacts directly from your website? Many people use their web site to collect sales leads. Others use their web site to...
2. 2 Reasons What Your Sales People Tell You About Your Leads and Your Marketing is WRONG - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! When you need to know how your advertising and marketing are working, you ask your sales team. Learn why what they tell is wrong more often than not....
3. 7 Uncommon Free Tools For Marketers - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog The key to effective marketing is to create a “message to market match.” This requires you know and understand a lot about your market. It used to be difficult and...
4. Best practice: Bring cloud computing to your entire company with the AppExchange - Story From: Recent Ideas With hundreds of  applications—ranging from dashboards that extend Salesforce CRM to full-featured Financials applications—salesforce.com’s AppExchange makes finding and deploying new applications fast, easy, and secure. ...
5. Commence Lead Scoring Helps Shrink the Sales Cycle - Story From: Commence CRM Blog Is your sales team working on the most qualified opportunities, or chasing tire kickers?  Do you even know?  Most companies rely on the expertise of their sales representatives to qualify...
6. How Hoover’s Users Clean Up Inside-Sales Performance - Story From: CRM Buyer Companies seeking to steer highly qualified leads to their "closers" are faced today with a combination of competitive threats, information overload and hesitant buyer behavior requiring new strategies and tools...
7. 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...
8. How Salesforce uses AppExchange apps: iLinc web conferencing - Story From: Recent Ideas Nothing is more disappointing than spending hours preparing an online presentation only to have it result in a trickle of leads.  On the flip side, it can be overwhelming...

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1. Free Salesforce Lead Scoring App Launched - Story From: Recent Ideas Automatically prioritize your leads based on who they are and what they do with the new Force.com labs Salesforce Lead Scoring app!  Lead scoring is a great way to separate...
2. AppExchange App of the Week: DocuSign for salesforce.com - Story From: Recent Ideas This week’s app of the week – DocuSign for Salesforce brings you one step closer to the paperless office.  No more running down the paper trail trying to find out where...
3. Thoughts on SaaS Gov: Government Embraces Cloud Computing Conference - Story From: Recent Ideas Posted by Stacey Thiell on behalf of Dan Burton There has been a dramatic shift in government thinking about cloud computing. So much so, that I’m thrilled to be representing...
4. The Reinvention of the Cloud Computing Reseller - Story From: CRM Buyer A year ago, I suggested that the Software as a Service and cloud computing industry was entering a new stage in which vendors would begin putting greater emphasis on expanding...
5. Cloud Computing Adoption Rapidly Accelerates in US, State Governments - Story From: Recent 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...
6. Best Practice: Choose the right tools to customize and extend Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Make the most of Salesforce CRM by customizing it to your needs. Ranging from point-and-click tools to sophisticated development environments, there are tools for every need—and level of technical expertise....
7. AppExchange App(s) of the Week: CVM Solutions - Story From: Recent Ideas Patience is not my strong suit so I’ve been chomping at the bit to feature this week’s app(s) of the week.  CVM provides supplier management solutions for a who’s who...
8. Best Practice: 5 simple steps to reports and dashboards - Story From: Recent Ideas To track and improve business performance, you need reports that show trends as well as real-time dashboards for up-to-the minute information about your business. Salesforce CRM makes it easy to...

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1. Social Media Adoption by U.S. Small Businesses Doubles Since 2009 American small businesses are pushing the limits on new ways to improve efficiency in the prolonged downturn, including a steady increase in social media adoption. The third wave of results...
2. On our way to DEMO 2010! - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for an announcement… We’re excited to announce that we’ve been invited to speak at DEMO 2010 Conference. On Monday afternoon, Infusionsoft co-founder Scott Martineau...
3. Microsoft Dynamics “CRM5” Technology Preview Released Worldwide, On Premises and Online Today is a major milestone in the development of  the next generation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM , code named “CRM5” as we are pleased to announce the availability of the...
4. 7 Uncommon Free Tools For Marketers - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog The key to effective marketing is to create a “message to market match.” This requires you know and understand a lot about your market. It used to be difficult and...
5. Influence Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Between Saturday, April 24 th and Tuesday, April 27 th members of the CRM Research and Development Team will be hosting a series of discussion groups and forward-looking research sessions...
6. IDC Forecasts Tech Sales & Marketing Expenses to Grow Faster Than Revenue in 2010 The International Data Corporation (IDC) Executive Advisory Group forecasts that global sales and marketing expenses will to grow at 4.7% and 3.5% respectively in 2010, outpacing the projected 3.2% growth...
7. 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...
8. CRM Acceleration World Tour Kicks Off in NYC Next Week! - Story From: CRM Outsiders SugarCRM is literally EVERYWHERE this spring! Next week we kick off a series of events, on three continents to help new and existing CRM users get more value and ROI...

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1. Get Ready for Convergence 2010 - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Convergence 2010 , the premier Microsoft Dynamics conference is here shortly (April 24-27) and this year the event is organized a little differently, beginning on a weekend and with a...
2. Top Ten Microsoft Dynamics CRM sites for 2010 - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Check out the most popular content and community areas available to help you create the perfect experience for your business. This is usually the most popular handout we provide at...
3. Look-up Data and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Import Data Wizard I am sure you are following the series of blogs introducing you to Import Data Wizard of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service update . This blog will help...
4. Survey: Microsoft Forefront Server Protection for Dynamics CRM - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Our friends on the Microsoft Forefront Server Protection team are conducting research to understand what applications you would like to protect, and how you would like them protected. One of...
5. Microsoft Dynamics “CRM5” Technology Preview Released Worldwide, On Premises and Online Today is a major milestone in the development of  the next generation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM , code named “CRM5” as we are pleased to announce the availability of the...
6. Invite: Second xRM Acceleration Lab in Redmond - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog With great success on 1st xRM Acceleration Lab in Chicago last Dec’09, we are ready to host our second xRM Acceleration Lab from 24 to 28 May’10 at the Platform...
7. Record Counter For Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Today CRM MVP Andriy Butenko talks about a solution he created using the plug-in technology. Andriy blogs regularly here . When you open Microsoft Dynamics CRM and select a view...
8. Hop On the Social CRM Express - Story From: CRM Buyer There's a huge discussion raging on the Internet started by a provocative question from Bob Thompson: Can you do social CRM without social media/networks? I find it curious that I...

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1. 10 Bits of Advice from the Online Marketing Summit - Story From: Recent Ideas A couple of weeks ago Lauren Vaccarello, Sr. SEM Manager, had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at the Online Marketing Summit in San Diego with some of the...
2. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
3. Best practice: 13 reasons sales reps love Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Regular use of Salesforce CRM is important to drive full adoption. To achieve this goal, sales reps need to know how the application benefits them, day after day. The bottom...
4. Best practice: Achieving outstanding CRM adminstration - Story From: Recent Ideas With cloud computing, system administration is much easier than with traditional on-premises software. Still, it’s critical that you fill the role of administrator—with one of your employees or by using...
5. Best practice: Get these must-have administrator tools - Story From: Recent Ideas Salesforce CRM has dozens of tools to help administrators do their jobs. This document highlights the best....
6. Best practice: 4 questions to answer for a successful portal implementation - Story From: Recent Ideas Rolling out a customer or partner portal involves careful planning and execution. This document will help orient you before you dive into a portal implementation....
7. Best practice: Tips for using incentives and rewards to boost adoption - Story From: Recent Ideas User adoption is key to making Salesforce CRM a success. To ensure high rates of user adoption you need a long-term strategy, with ongoing efforts to drive adoption. Find out...
8. Customize Email/ Letter Templates with Web Based CRM - Story From: BigContacts Product News With BigContacts, you have always been able create custom Email and Letter Templates that would merge standard (core) contact information into the body of either template type.We have recently expanded...

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1. Social Media Adoption by U.S. Small Businesses Doubles Since 2009 American small businesses are pushing the limits on new ways to improve efficiency in the prolonged downturn, including a steady increase in social media adoption. The third wave of results...
2. Best Practice: 9 tips for creating successful email campaigns - Story From: Recent Ideas Don’t waste marketing dollars on email campaigns that don’t produce results. Discover and make the most of new trends that optimize email marketing, for maximum return and highest open rates....
3. Best Practice: Quick, easy win for adoption: Create a compelling home page - Story From: Recent Ideas If your users find the application confusing, adoption will suffer. One way to fix that problem is to create a home page that gives users vital information at a glance,...
4. Best practice: 13 reasons sales reps love Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Regular use of Salesforce CRM is important to drive full adoption. To achieve this goal, sales reps need to know how the application benefits them, day after day. The bottom...
5. Best practice: Achieving outstanding CRM adminstration - Story From: Recent Ideas With cloud computing, system administration is much easier than with traditional on-premises software. Still, it’s critical that you fill the role of administrator—with one of your employees or by using...
6. Best practice: Get these must-have administrator tools - Story From: Recent Ideas Salesforce CRM has dozens of tools to help administrators do their jobs. This document highlights the best....
7. Best practice: 4 questions to answer for a successful portal implementation - Story From: Recent Ideas Rolling out a customer or partner portal involves careful planning and execution. This document will help orient you before you dive into a portal implementation....
8. Best practice: Turbo-charge customer communications with email templates - Story From: Recent Ideas Make your sales reps more productive, enforce your corporate look-and-feel, and ensure your messaging is always consistent and on point....

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1. Small Business CRM, Part 5: How to Save a Troubled Implementation - Story From: CRM Buyer A successful CRM implementation starts with good preparation. It is a good idea to document the goals and objectives of the small business first and test the system with the...
2. CRM for the Small Business, Part 5: How to Save a Troubled Implementation - Story From: CRM Buyer A successful CRM implementation starts with good preparation. It is a good idea to document the goals and objectives of the small business first and test the system with the...
3. CRM for the Small Business, Part 6: How to Get Your Sales Staff to Buy In - Story From: CRM Buyer One of the greatest challenges to the successful implementation of a CRM solution is winning employee participation and cooperation. "It's a quandary," said Craig Klein, president and CEO of SalesNexus....
4. Best practice: 13 reasons sales reps love Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Regular use of Salesforce CRM is important to drive full adoption. To achieve this goal, sales reps need to know how the application benefits them, day after day. The bottom...
5. Best practice: Achieving outstanding CRM adminstration - Story From: Recent Ideas With cloud computing, system administration is much easier than with traditional on-premises software. Still, it’s critical that you fill the role of administrator—with one of your employees or by using...
6. Best practice: Get these must-have administrator tools - Story From: Recent Ideas Salesforce CRM has dozens of tools to help administrators do their jobs. This document highlights the best....
7. Best practice: Tips for using incentives and rewards to boost adoption - Story From: Recent Ideas User adoption is key to making Salesforce CRM a success. To ensure high rates of user adoption you need a long-term strategy, with ongoing efforts to drive adoption. Find out...
8. Best Practice: 5 steps to a successful implementation - Story From: Recent Ideas Whether you’re just starting out or are in the middle of an implementation, this document can help guide you to success. ...

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1. Tools for Thinking in the Moment - Story From: CRM Buyer I've recently been looking at a couple of applications that don't readily fit into the idea of conventional CRM but which are nonetheless valuable front-office tools that can make CRM...
2. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...
3. Best practice: 13 reasons sales reps love Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Regular use of Salesforce CRM is important to drive full adoption. To achieve this goal, sales reps need to know how the application benefits them, day after day. The bottom...
4. Best practice: Achieving outstanding CRM adminstration - Story From: Recent Ideas With cloud computing, system administration is much easier than with traditional on-premises software. Still, it’s critical that you fill the role of administrator—with one of your employees or by using...
5. Best practice: 4 questions to answer for a successful portal implementation - Story From: Recent Ideas Rolling out a customer or partner portal involves careful planning and execution. This document will help orient you before you dive into a portal implementation....
6. Best practice: Tips for using incentives and rewards to boost adoption - Story From: Recent Ideas User adoption is key to making Salesforce CRM a success. To ensure high rates of user adoption you need a long-term strategy, with ongoing efforts to drive adoption. Find out...
7. Best practice: Turbo-charge customer communications with email templates - Story From: Recent Ideas Make your sales reps more productive, enforce your corporate look-and-feel, and ensure your messaging is always consistent and on point....
8. Best Practice: Choose the right tools to customize and extend Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Make the most of Salesforce CRM by customizing it to your needs. Ranging from point-and-click tools to sophisticated development environments, there are tools for every need—and level of technical expertise....

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1. Cloud Reality Check: Vendors Will Grow Mindshare, not Market Share in 2010 Forty-three percent of enterprises cite cost savings as their top reason for moving their infrastructure to cloud computing. Does today's tight economy mean 2010 will be the year enterprises fully...
2. Marc Benioff Unveils a Breakthrough in Cloud Computing - Story From: Recent Ideas Join us April 8 as we announce exciting news on the future of cloud computing. Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will announce our newest innovations in a live...
3. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
4. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...
5. Best practice: 13 reasons sales reps love Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Regular use of Salesforce CRM is important to drive full adoption. To achieve this goal, sales reps need to know how the application benefits them, day after day. The bottom...
6. Best practice: Get these must-have administrator tools - Story From: Recent Ideas Salesforce CRM has dozens of tools to help administrators do their jobs. This document highlights the best....
7. Best practice: 4 questions to answer for a successful portal implementation - Story From: Recent Ideas Rolling out a customer or partner portal involves careful planning and execution. This document will help orient you before you dive into a portal implementation....
8. Best practice: Tips for using incentives and rewards to boost adoption - Story From: Recent Ideas User adoption is key to making Salesforce CRM a success. To ensure high rates of user adoption you need a long-term strategy, with ongoing efforts to drive adoption. Find out...

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1. 2 Reasons What Your Sales People Tell You About Your Leads and Your Marketing is WRONG - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! When you need to know how your advertising and marketing are working, you ask your sales team. Learn why what they tell is wrong more often than not....
2. Sales reps are in for a tough 2009, but CRM sales software may help, survey says Just about everyone agrees that 2009 is going to be a tough year for business, but it could be particularly difficult for those in sales, judging from the results of...
3. Best Practice: How salesforce.com manages Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas As your company grows, so should your implementation of Salesforce CRM. In this document, salesforce.com shares its best practices for managing the application.  ...
4. Best Practice: Quick, easy win for adoption: Create a compelling home page - Story From: Recent Ideas If your users find the application confusing, adoption will suffer. One way to fix that problem is to create a home page that gives users vital information at a glance,...
5. Best practice: Tips for using incentives and rewards to boost adoption - Story From: Recent Ideas User adoption is key to making Salesforce CRM a success. To ensure high rates of user adoption you need a long-term strategy, with ongoing efforts to drive adoption. Find out...
6. Best practice: Turbo-charge customer communications with email templates - Story From: Recent Ideas Make your sales reps more productive, enforce your corporate look-and-feel, and ensure your messaging is always consistent and on point....
7. Best practice: Bring cloud computing to your entire company with the AppExchange - Story From: Recent Ideas With hundreds of  applications—ranging from dashboards that extend Salesforce CRM to full-featured Financials applications—salesforce.com’s AppExchange makes finding and deploying new applications fast, easy, and secure. ...
8. Best practice: 9 reasons why sales managers love Salesforce CRM - Story From: Recent Ideas Managing all aspects of sales productivity takes work. By providing 360-degree visibility into the sales process, however, Salesforce CRM makes that work easier—and more effective—than ever before....

(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 called Analytics and it allows you and your sales team to visually analyze your deal flow and sales performance. With various, filterable charts you can now better understand what's going on. Pie charts on deal stages and categories, sales performance and deal probability graphs, team leader boards, and year-to-date and trailing 12-month booked revenue can also viewed. Check it out in the Deals section on the Analytics link.

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1. Halloween Treat: Mobile Access - Story From: The Bantam Blog Introducing the sweet treat of iPhone and Blackberry optimized access. Now you can thumb through your team's evil activity stream while the kids scurry about the neighborhood for sugar. You...
2. We Win a Bet - Story From: The Bantam Blog Whatever happened to bold statements like, "I challenge you" or "I dare you" in the realm of a wager? Yesterday we came across a sweet tweet about Bantam Live that...
3. Note to Beta-Users: We’re Out of Beta! - Story From: The Bantam Blog Our beta program has just ended and we've launched the the commercial version of Bantam Live with paid-subscription plans that require credit cards for sign-up. All plans will include a...
4. New Features. More Cowbell. - Story From: The Bantam Blog If our customers ask for more cowbell, we should probably give them more cowbell! Login to your team's account and really explore the workspace. New in the Dashboard Linking in...
5. 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...
6. New CRM Module: Sales Pipeline Management - Story From: The Bantam Blog Today we're releasing pipeline management functionality to better view and manage deals you're working on. Relatedly, as noted in the post above, you'll also see that when you make modifications...
7. Design Enhancement: Mixing Meta with Narrative in the Activity Stream - Story From: The Bantam Blog At the core of Bantam Live is the real-time activity stream, which is all about the sharing of time, being together in the moment of business activity, integrating business apps/workflows/data,...
8. What is Social CRM in Bantam Live? - Story From: The Bantam Blog Tech researchers, analysts, journalists, bloggers and vendors agree that "Social CRM" is a hot sector, and validation of this is that companies are increasingly adopting it to engage and include...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
4. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
5. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
6. Report on who has administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Do you know who has a profile that may be a security risk?  Have you been audited and needed to quickly determine what profiles contribute to that risk? The...
7. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
8. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
4. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
5. Remove unused profiles by running user reports - Story From: Recent Ideas Few people I've spoken with realize that they are continuing to maintain profiles that aren't assigned to any users. As a result, everytime they create a field, record type,...
6. Report on who has administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Do you know who has a profile that may be a security risk?  Have you been audited and needed to quickly determine what profiles contribute to that risk? The...
7. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
4. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
5. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
6. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
7. Report on who has administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Do you know who has a profile that may be a security risk?  Have you been audited and needed to quickly determine what profiles contribute to that risk? The...
8. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
4. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
5. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
6. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
7. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
4. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
5. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
6. Report on who has administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Do you know who has a profile that may be a security risk?  Have you been audited and needed to quickly determine what profiles contribute to that risk? The...
7. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Creating Custom Objects More Securely - Story From: Recent Ideas Administration should be as easy as pressing a big red button have everything automatically turn out the way you want. Take custom objects and their permissions for example. It's very...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
4. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
5. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
6. Remove unused profiles by running user reports - Story From: Recent Ideas Few people I've spoken with realize that they are continuing to maintain profiles that aren't assigned to any users. As a result, everytime they create a field, record type,...
7. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
8. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
4. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
5. Report on who has administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Do you know who has a profile that may be a security risk?  Have you been audited and needed to quickly determine what profiles contribute to that risk? The...
6. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
7. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Creating Custom Objects More Securely - Story From: Recent Ideas Administration should be as easy as pressing a big red button have everything automatically turn out the way you want. Take custom objects and their permissions for example. It's very...
2. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
3. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
4. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
5. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
6. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
7. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Use descriptive names and the description field [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas The corollary to 'a rose by any other name is still a rose', is 'a profile by any other name is still a profile'.  But what you name your profiles...
2. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
3. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
4. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
5. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
6. Remove unused profiles by running user reports - Story From: Recent Ideas Few people I've spoken with realize that they are continuing to maintain profiles that aren't assigned to any users. As a result, everytime they create a field, record type,...
7. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
8. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...

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1. Creating Custom Objects More Securely - Story From: Recent Ideas Administration should be as easy as pressing a big red button have everything automatically turn out the way you want. Take custom objects and their permissions for example. It's very...
2. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
3. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
4. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
5. Manage profiles & audit user permissions using the API - Story From: Recent Ideas Often, when I discuss using the web services API with an admin, I get a response that the API is for programmers and something they want to avoid.  I...
6. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
7. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Use custom profiles where possible [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas You may have already read my blog posting on creating custom objects more securely. Because standard profiles are unchangable and we now default custom object permissions 'off' on net...
2. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...
3. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
4. Troubleshoot profile changes with the Setup Audit Trail [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I find that for many organizations, auditability is treated in a similar way to keeping tax records around for the past ten years;  you know that you need it, but...
5. Report on who has administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Do you know who has a profile that may be a security risk?  Have you been audited and needed to quickly determine what profiles contribute to that risk? The...
6. Automate profile management using the Force.com IDE [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas While user permissions are supported in the Web Services API, almost the rest of the profile's controls are supported in the metadata API (see API definition) and can be...
7. Top 10 Profile Best Practices - Story From: Recent Ideas It starts simply and innocuously: one admin with one profile. As your implementation grows to greater than 1: > 1 app, >1 region, >1 lines of busines, > industry, >1...
8. Reduce users with too much administrative rights [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas Giving out Modify All Data, Customize App, or Manage Users to other users is like giving the ultimate power in the salesforce.com universe.  And with total power comes... a...

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1. Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009 Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The...
2. The Long Island Iced Tea of Collaboration Apps - Story From: The Bantam Blog Bantam Live mixes microblogging, messaging, profiles, project & task management, social CRM, file sharing, calendaring and stirs that with people, content, and data in an online collaboration platform. With its...
3. Know the Future of Open Source? Let us Know! - Story From: CRM Outsiders I often forget these days how the world of technology used to be…closed systems, expensive and exhaustive buying cycles, frustrating integration scenarios. It’s amazing that in just about a decade,...
4. Social Media and Virtual Meetings in Product Development: Using Collaboration Technologies to Bring Products to Market Quicker In a newly released report, Aberdeen Group found that top manufacturers were able to dramatically reduce their product development lead times, while increasing product quality, by leveraging community collaboration tools....
5. iPhone Gets Down to Business With Open Source BI App - Story From: CRM Buyer Users of apps from BIRT, the open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project, will be able to access them on the iPhone starting Monday. Actuate, which founded the BIRT...
6. Survey Totes Up Value of Excellent Online Customer Service - Story From: CRM Buyer Excellent online customer service may be worth $17.3 billion in 2010, according to a new Ovum survey commissioned by StellaService. That's the round figure for the 10.7 percent premium the...
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. B2B CRM, Social Selling and the Value of Open Source - Story From: CRM Outsiders Sometimes, the simplest technology change can enable the most profound change in business processes. I just had a talk with our new CMO Nick Halsey about something that we have...

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1. Web Based CRM Software & Google Analytics – Track Email Campaigns - Story From: BigContacts Product News BigContacts offers seamless integration with VerticalResponse to deliver a suite of award winning marketing tools. (On-demand e-mail marketing, online survey and direct mail solutions) VerticalResponse now integrates with the free...
2. Gartner Reveals Key Customer Relationship Management Predictions for 2010 and Beyond Facebook will be the No. 1 social network in all but 25 countries, according to Gartner, Inc. In countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and Japan it will not...
3. Capsule integrates with Google Apps - Story From: The Capsule CRM Blog We’re excited to announce our long requested integration with Google Apps.  Google approached us late last year to ask us to participate as a launch company in their new Google...
4. CRM for the Small Business, Part 5: How to Save a Troubled Implementation - Story From: CRM Buyer A successful CRM implementation starts with good preparation. It is a good idea to document the goals and objectives of the small business first and test the system with the...
5. “The State of Marketing 2010” Survey Results Unica Corporation, a provider of marketing software solutions, announced results from its global survey of marketers, titled "The State of Marketing 2010." Results revealed a number of key findings on...
6. “Show Me the Value,” Say Recession-Weary Consumers The late ‘90s mantra of “Show me the money” has morphed into “Show me the value,” reflecting a new focus by consumers hungry for value in all its forms, according...
7. 7 Uncommon Free Tools For Marketers - Story From: Infusionsoft Blog The key to effective marketing is to create a “message to market match.” This requires you know and understand a lot about your market. It used to be difficult and...
8. Create a governance policy for creating profiles [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas I spoke with an administrator last week who is responsible for enforcing her governance policy.  When anyone asks her to create a one-off profile, her standard response is that unless...

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1. Web Based CRM Software & Google Analytics – Track Email Campaigns - Story From: BigContacts Product News BigContacts offers seamless integration with VerticalResponse to deliver a suite of award winning marketing tools. (On-demand e-mail marketing, online survey and direct mail solutions) VerticalResponse now integrates with the free...
2. 3 Radical Changes in the Way People Buy Today - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! The way people buy has changed for good. Traditional marketing and advertising won't work like it used to. You have to understand the process most buyers go through when making...
3. 4 Fallacies in Marketing and Selling that Cause You to Waste Money and Destroy Profits - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! The Game Has Changed. What most entrepreneurs THINK they know about marketing and selling is wrong. Know what you don't know and profit from it....
4. 2 Reasons What Your Sales People Tell You About Your Leads and Your Marketing is WRONG - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! When you need to know how your advertising and marketing are working, you ask your sales team. Learn why what they tell is wrong more often than not....
5. 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....
6. 8 Metrics You Must Know about Marketing, Leads and Sales - Story From: Sell, Sell, Sell! You can't manage what you don't measure. Its not as hard as you think to measure what matters most. Whether you're using a fancy CRM solution with Marketing Analytics or...
7. 5 Often Overlooked Ways To Optimize Your Website Content Here is an excellent post by Michele Linn (@michelelinn), a marketing consultant with her own firm, Linn Communications,  5 Ways To Find the Perfect Keywords for Your B2B Content:...
8. Free Salesforce Lead Scoring App Launched - Story From: Recent Ideas Automatically prioritize your leads based on who they are and what they do with the new Force.com labs Salesforce Lead Scoring app!  Lead scoring is a great way to separate...

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1. Trying out Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online even easier in the R4 release - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog The best moments creating software are when you see your hard work directly have a positive impact on your customers. With the recent CRM Online R4 release, one of our...
2. CRM Software Free Trial Loyalty lab introduces free trial of loyalty CRM software for consumer brands, loyalty lab CRM, labs, saas, brands, customer management, software, news about books, entertainment. CRM software integration information business.com salesnow is...
3. Sharing Data across Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deployments The CRM E 2 team is pleased to announce the release of two complementary documents, a white paper and a build guide, related to Sharing Data across Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
4. Look-up Data and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Import Data Wizard I am sure you are following the series of blogs introducing you to Import Data Wizard of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service update . This blog will help...
5. Influence Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Between Saturday, April 24 th and Tuesday, April 27 th members of the CRM Research and Development Team will be hosting a series of discussion groups and forward-looking research sessions...
6. Second Site: Online Accessibility for the Visually Impaired - Story From: CRM Buyer As the population ages, financial institutions and other service providers will have to learn to adapt their marketing approaches to appeal to a sector that has high disposable income and...
7. 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...

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1. IT Organizations Will Spend More Money on Private Cloud Computing Investments Than on Offerings From Public Cloud Providers Through 2012 Despite the economies of scale offered by public cloud providers, private cloud services will prevail for the foreseeable future while public cloud offerings mature, according to Gartner, Inc. Through 2012,...
2. Dude, Did Marc Benioff Just Read my Mind? - Story From: CRM FYI It’s kind of scary, but I think he really did. I was just drafting an email to my favorite User Experience team at Salesforce. I wanted  to discuss any future...
3. Cloud Reality Check: Vendors Will Grow Mindshare, not Market Share in 2010 Forty-three percent of enterprises cite cost savings as their top reason for moving their infrastructure to cloud computing. Does today's tight economy mean 2010 will be the year enterprises fully...
4. Survey: Live Chat Helps Convert Customers Bold Software announced the second annual release of a report detailing the industry’s most comprehensive research on the effectiveness of live chat technology. While 2009 findings included insights such as...
5. Best practice: Bring cloud computing to your entire company with the AppExchange - Story From: Recent Ideas With hundreds of  applications—ranging from dashboards that extend Salesforce CRM to full-featured Financials applications—salesforce.com’s AppExchange makes finding and deploying new applications fast, easy, and secure. ...
6. The Reinvention of the Cloud Computing Reseller - Story From: CRM Buyer A year ago, I suggested that the Software as a Service and cloud computing industry was entering a new stage in which vendors would begin putting greater emphasis on expanding...
7. Cloud Computing Adoption Rapidly Accelerates in US, State Governments - Story From: Recent 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...
8. 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...

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1. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Rollups – Fixes and Issues (and a warning) - Story From: Webfortis - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solutions Microsoft recently introduced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Rollup 8 (it is available here). It has some nice fixes and updates over Rollup 7, which we detailed in our post located...
2. Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM via App Fabric - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog I am excited about the Microsoft’s Azure initiative. App Fabric is a part of Window Azure platform and as indicated at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure , makes it simpler to connect cloud and...
3. Nuts & Bolts: Outlook Synchronization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog The CRM E 2 team is pleased to announce the release of the Nuts and Bolts article Outlook Synchronization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 , which is available for download...
4. Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 9 on Thursday, February 11, 2010. The links below will take you to the necessary information...
5. Top Ten Microsoft Dynamics CRM sites for 2010 - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Check out the most popular content and community areas available to help you create the perfect experience for your business. This is usually the most popular handout we provide at...
6. Sharing Data across Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deployments The CRM E 2 team is pleased to announce the release of two complementary documents, a white paper and a build guide, related to Sharing Data across Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
7. Microsoft Dynamics “CRM5” Technology Preview Released Worldwide, On Premises and Online Today is a major milestone in the development of  the next generation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM , code named “CRM5” as we are pleased to announce the availability of the...
8. Influence Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Story From: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog Between Saturday, April 24 th and Tuesday, April 27 th members of the CRM Research and Development Team will be hosting a series of discussion groups and forward-looking research sessions...

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1. CRM Project Plans – Where Does It All Go Wrong? Here are several excerpts from a post by Richard Boardman, CRM Project Plans – Where Does It All Go Wrong?: For those of you currently planning a CRM project,...
2. 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....
3. Social Media and Virtual Meetings in Product Development: Using Collaboration Technologies to Bring Products to Market Quicker In a newly released report, Aberdeen Group found that top manufacturers were able to dramatically reduce their product development lead times, while increasing product quality, by leveraging community collaboration tools....
4. Sales reps are in for a tough 2009, but CRM sales software may help, survey says Just about everyone agrees that 2009 is going to be a tough year for business, but it could be particularly difficult for those in sales, judging from the results of...
5. A Customer Centric CRM Software Selection Technique In the present business environment, business owners, business owners have a lot more requirements because of the hi-tech world we live in. The goal for making new investments in their...
6. Tools for Thinking in the Moment - Story From: CRM Buyer I've recently been looking at a couple of applications that don't readily fit into the idea of conventional CRM but which are nonetheless valuable front-office tools that can make CRM...
7. Mass Edit profiles using Enhanced Profile List Views [Profile Best Practices] - Story From: Recent Ideas In an earlier blog, I discussed the importance of naming and using a profile's description.  What I find talking with admins is that they really need a way to compare...
8. Remove unused profiles by running user reports - Story From: Recent Ideas Few people I've spoken with realize that they are continuing to maintain profiles that aren't assigned to any users. As a result, everytime they create a field, record type,...