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Vancouver Sales Event with Gittomer and Port

Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid and Beyond Booked Solid and Jeffrey Gittomer author of The Sales Bible and the Little Red Book of Sales series, are speaking in Vancouver at an event called "Sales Innovation in a Changing World". If you're interested in attending, I've secured a discount code ...

Salesforce.com launches Service Cloud 2

Ok, I seriously dropped the ball on this one as I did a media interview with Salesforce about the luanch of the Service Cloud 2 yesterday with oodles of time to post before the press embargo was lifted - oops! Better late than never right! Without further ado.... Salesforce launched their new ...

Breaking News: Salesforce.com Introduces New Contact Manager Edition

Salesforce.com has just announced their latest product offering: Salesforce Contact Manager, a one stop contact management application for individuals. Over ten years ago the company started with a dream of owning the Enterprise CRM market and now, they've taken things to a new, micro level by empowering individuals to tap ...

Back in Business!

That's right folks...Salesforcetimes.com is coming back online. And what better way to do it than with a great new announcement from Salesforce.com! Stay tuned, tomorrow morning I will tell all.

Sales is From Venus, Marketing is from Mars

Recently I've had the pleasure of working with Jonathan Klein, Founder and General Partner at Topline Strategy Group. Here is an article he wrote on the topic of sales and marketing alignment and the importance of fact-based decision making: SALES IS FROM VENUS, MARKETING IS FROM MARS By finding common ground, sales ...

Salesforce Times: We’re Hiring!

As some of know, my day job when not working on Salesforcetimes.com is in providing Internet marketing and social media marketing consulting services. Lately, despite the downturn in the economy, I have been getting busier and my posting on Salesforce Times has taken a hit as a result. I've decided the ...

Russian Scientists & the B2B Sales Process

What Can a Tough Russian Scientist Teach Us About B2B Sales Process? In his groundbreaking book "The Goal", Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt tells the fictional story of Alex Roga who manages a metalworking plant that is at risk of being shut down because of its inability to efficiently drive products through ...

Sales 2.0: Why the Recession is Making it Imperative To Change the Way We Sell

More and more continues to be written about the shift to Sales 2.0 in this difficult economic climate. With the Sales 2.0 Conference coming up in San Francisco on March 4th, I thought I'd share this great article I received today from Anneke Seley, coauthor of the new book: Sales ...

Salesforce.com’s New Look: new site in beta

I just noticed a link at the top of Salesforce.com's site that takes you to a new beta site they are testing. Looks pretty cool and is obviously focused on the concept of Cloud Computing. What do you think about the new look?

Salesforce.com Spring 2009 Released: Major New Features

Salesforce.com released the 28th generation of its on-demand CRM today: Spring 2009 edition is here! In the past year alone, Salesforce.com has added 200+ features to its already robust platform. Spring 2009 does not disappoint with an additional 50 features being rolled out. Among these features are two major upgrades involving service ...