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Techno Granny's Talk Cast about Zoho CRM

Gopal — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:59:42 -0700

Recently, Joanne Quinn-Smith of Techno Granny Show talked about customer relationship management domain and specially spent some time (~10 min) on reviewing our Zoho RM service. In her talk cast over TalkShoe, she also reviewed about our other services.

The Zoho Office Suite is a Web- based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications developed by ZOHO Corporation(formally AdventNet Inc.), an Indian-based company[1][2][3]. It was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products, such as spreadsheets and presentations were incorporated later into Zoho. [4]
Zoho applications are free to use at the entry-level and require a fee for more extensive or professional use.

Zoho CRM aligns your Sales and Marketing by integrating sales with campaigns, leads, sales pipeline, forecasts, etc. Award-winning, complete CRM solution. Zoho CRM offers all the modules and tools that you might need to run your sales & marketing.

URL: http://technogrannyshow.blogspot.com/2009/10/technogranny-comparison-of-salesforce.html

You can listen her talk cast (mp3 format; 28.15 min.) or download from TalkShoe.

By the way, Techno Granny Show is mainly focusing on the IT related education to baby boomers:

The Techno Granny Show was intitated to bring baby boomers and beyond up to snuff with 21st Century technology and in the process found some great friends across the ocean and not in the same generation. Now Techno Granny is committed to providing technology information from developers and users and try to translate it always in simple to understand terms.

Thank you Joanne for taking time to review our CRM service and introducing to your audience!

Gopal

A day in the life of a Sales Manager

Victor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:40:12 -0700

This video is focused towards illustrating the life that a Sales Manager lives each passing day.
A challenging yet interesting kind of job that is fun if tactfully handled and adventurous if skillfully tackled.

Watch to find if this is you!

Zoho CRM can help you manage this phase of your life's adventure skillfully.

Automate your sales activities with Zoho CRM.

Zoho CRM's Diwali wishes!

Rajesh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:08:28 -0700

Here's a wish, specially for you

And hoping sincerely, it really comes true

May lights, sweets and everything bright,

Ignite a start, with evil destroyed,

Let the festive spirit grip your souls,

With joy, prosperity and happiness untold..!!

WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY DIWALI..!!

Deepavali is a Sanskrit word - Deepa meaning light and Avali, meaning a row. It means a row of lights and indeed illumination forms its main attraction. It symbolises that age-old culture of India which teaches us to vanquish ignorance that subdues humanity and to drive away darkness that engulfs the light of knowledge. Deepavali, the festival of lights even to-day in this modern world, projects the rich and glorious past and teaches us to uphold the true values of life.

warm regards,
Team Zoho CRM

Driving fast

Rajesh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:24:10 -0700

There were a couple of posts in our internal blog discussing the effects of driving fast.

Do you think by driving fast, you prove that you are a great driver?
Do you think those who drivers fast are actually rash drivers?
Do you think if one has the control over his senses, can he become a good one though he drives fast?
Do you drive fast, just for the kick of it?

So many discussions and even there was a post about youtube videos whose subject deals with fast driving. The discussions pointed out that people consider those who drive fast as "rash" drivers generally. And there are drivers who have fine senses that help them drive fast and avoid accidents at the same time. I guess that is a gift only a few possess.

Generally speaking, the major root cause of accidents is SPEEDING. Even if you drive with complete control with all your senses awake, accidents may happen from external sources. In India, with the advent of world class express highways driving has become a pleasure as well as risky in few cases. I've seen some nuts who drive zig-zag inside a convoy scaring others and risking everyone's life. And some drive slow in a speed lane, thus blocking other vehicles coming behind. I usually drive to my home town which is 7 hours from Chennai, in my compact hatchback - Suzuki Alto. It is pretty basic with a 47 bhp petrol motor. In certain terms, the motor is just intended for city driving. But it can reach about 100kmph safely and pushing a bit further it reaches 120kmph. Beyond that, the car becomes unsteady. I've driven my car in all sort of speeds. Once I tried a 110kmph constant speed, then a 80kmph speed, and then a varying 60-80kmph speed. The results were good. During the 110kmph drive, my vision became narrower and whole body was very alert. There was thrill, and at the same time I had to be very cautious about zebra crossers and 2 wheeler nuts. The 60-80kmph was more of a lazy drive which created a back-ache because of long drive hours. The constant 80kmph gave me no super-duper thrills, yet it did not cause much discomfort. I was relaxed, had better control and wider visibility.

A good driver has the ability to drive a vehicle in such a way making the passengers feel safe. He also possess the art of comfort driving. This means no sudden braking, no sharp turns, no thrusts and very calculative driving that doesn't make the passengers move from the seat. It takes time and patience to develop such a skill.

Do not drive fast always, but only when it is required so. Keep improving your driving skills such that it makes people love to travel with you happily!

- Rajesh Sundaram

After SETUP, what's next?

Rajesh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:42:54 -0700

The next thing we are working on the UI front is - unified visuals in detailed view for all themes. This unified visuals will help in more readability and reduce page clutter. Additionally we are analyzing the User management module in Zoho CRM. Our focus is to simplify the subscription purchase and managing users in the CRM system. Will post more details later. :-)

- Rajesh

[What's Cooking?] Detailed View is getting an update

Rajesh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:53:21 -0700

Time to show a preview of the small visual update for all detailed views in all modules. To improve readability and maintain a "clear" visual we removed all colors. The group headers will be "BOLD" and black in color. The labels will be in Gray and "Required fields" will be in BOLD Gray. We are evaluating this design and hopefully this should get through in a week or so.

- Rajesh

Capture Contacts from Blogger.com to Zoho CRM

Rinasagayamary — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:57:33 -0700

Recently we have set up web-form in one of our customers' blog (hosted by Blogger.com). This form is mainly used to capture the contact information for his mailing list.

I am having trouble with a form I created, getting it to show right on my blog. I created a newsletter subscription form. When I add it on my site it doesn't display properly and I don't know what I am doing wrong. Can you send me instructions please?

We successfully embedded the web-form in his Blog within a few hours. Later, we thought this to be an interesting use case of our Web-form in a real-time scenario.

How to embed Zoho CRM - Web Form in Blogger.com?

Generate Web Form for Leads/Contacts/Cases module
In Blogger.com embed the Web Form code using Gadgets

To understand this easily here’s a Zoho Show presentation, which will tell you how it works:

Please do share your experience!
We will be happy to create more tutorials based on your business scenarios!

Rina

Zoho CRM - Setup gets a minor facelift

Rajesh — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:55:10 -0700

Setup - the crucial module in Zoho CRM has been given a minor face lift.. The face lift includes a categorization to the left side tree. We have introduced General, Tools and CRM Modules. Screenshot sample shown below.

General - is where you find the essential tools to setup and jumpstart Zoho CRM.
Tools - is where you find everything you need for user management, workflow and others
CRM Modules - The complete collection of links to setup all CRM modules.

Screenshot :

We believe this face lift will certainly reduce the number of scrolls, and give a better visual appeal than before. Let us know what you feel.

- Rajesh

Online Software Sales To Increase in 2009

Shankar R — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:14:40 -0700

Online software sales are set to increase in 2009 according to Gartner. This is in line with the fact that people are thinking in terms of getting more efficient, more mileage out of whatever software they have or in worst cases, looking out for low-cost, affordable, efficient alternatives.

Even as hardware sales decline, Gartner predicts that online software-as-a-service sales will rise by more than 20 percent in 2009.

The sales value is billed at around $10bn .The growth areas are those which have common processes and hence in the horizontal applications space - that would mean those who have global, distributed teams will have a big say in the future. They would benefit by moving to an online collaboration envirionment similar to Zoho.

The SAAS space has seen max growth in the last couple of years - ironically, it also has coincided with the worst economic times in living memory!
However, this purge will help move toward more rational software pricing and will benefit the end users by giving them choices at affordable rates - which they did not have in a useful format for quite sometime.

Factors that impede adoption of SAAS include the following -

Data security concerns
Competitive differentiation,
Scalability and
Vendor longevity

Shankar

Newest Zoho Autos : Zotos-II

Shankar R — Thu, 7 May 2009 03:16:58 -0700

Hello Folks!

Sorry to keep you all waiting. Was held up trying to make some new marketing iterations take off.
The results have just now come in. Wanted to share the same with you.

So here goes ..

PS:Do spread the word!

Shankar