Make your Salesforce Project More Successful by Inviting a BA to the Party (Or Thinking Like One)


Today I welcome my good friend, Garry Polmateer as a guest blogger at CRMFYI. Garry is not only a Salesforce community rockstar, but he's planned and executed some great Salesforce implementations,

A Little Help from My Friends


In a demonstration of community and collaboration, Mike Gerholdt and I have created a blog post / demo video of utilizing inline Visualforce to display rich text info in standard page layouts without

Chatter-vantage #1 - No Need to Rush the Stage


Salesforce has created a conference attendee experience using Chatter that blows away all other conferences. Their Dreamforce Attendee Portal allows attendees to connect with speakers before, during

I Need You; to Join The Salesforce Channel Community


If you follow me on Twitter, it's hard to miss my regular status updates like,  "21 videos were posted to The Salesforce Channel today," but what's that all about? The Salesforce Channel is a website

Calling All Heroes! You Belong at Dreamforce


Earlier this year, I wrote about being a hero to your users, and the gist of it was that through social media, you can surround yourself with fantastic people who will make you a hero to your users. I

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My Dreamforce 09 Game Plan

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Jeff Grosse in Dreamforce, Social Networking, Sponsors | 2 Comments

The bags are almost packed.  I’m nearly ready to go.  Before I pack up the laptop for the trip, I thought I’d pass along some info on where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing at Dreamforce, just in case you’d like to find me among our newest 15,000+ friends.

New Attendee Orientation

Tuesday night at 5 PM in N134 is the New Attendee Orientation led by Tom Wong.  I’m going to be giving a few tips to the new attendees there and if you haven’t been to Dreamforce before, you really should plan to attend this session.  I’m not saying you should attend on account of me, it’s all the other stuff you’ll get out of it that I guarantee will be worth the effort to be there.

The Dreamforce TweetUp

Held in the Expo Tuesday at 6 PM, there will be a meeting of a whole bunch of Twitterers who have never seen each other in person before.  I’m excited because though I’ve been on Twitter for more than 2 years, it’s only in the last year that I’ve found it to be an invaluable business resource.  Yes, I said a business resource.  Come find out why Twitter is home to slew of activity about the Salesforce community.  If you don’t use or understand Twitter, stop by and see why you should consider trying it out.

Wednesday AM Keynote

Without a doubt, this is the keynote everyone goes to see.  I’ll be seated in the Press/Blogger section, madly Tweeting away.

“Increasing Speed to Value with the AppExchange”

Wednesday evening at 6 PM, I’ll be in the Campground Theater giving a half hour talk / Q&A about AppExchange apps that give some great value at no or low cost.

Speakeasy in the Cloud

My blog sponsor, Appirio, is pretty well known for the parties that they’ve thrown at the last few Dreamforce events and this year will be no exception to that.  This year, it’s being held at the Old San Francisco Mint.  If you don’t have an invitation to this event, there’s a waiting list you can add yourself to.

Birds of a Feather

Thursday at lunchtime, I’ll be found in the Insurance Industry area of the lunch room, specifically meeting with other Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates who use Salesforce.  I’m really looking forward to meeting those folks.

Cloud Crawl

Salesforce threw a mighty fine gig at Temple nightclub last year and once again, I’m going back.  This one is Thursday night and will likely be a pretty late night.

“There’s an App for That; Boost Sales with the AppExchange”

This is a Sales track breakout session Friday at 9:00 that I’ll be on a panel for.  I’m sharing the stage with some great sales people who have found some incredible value from the AppExchange apps they use.  Come find out what those apps are.

Between all that stuff, I’ll be attending breakout sessions, stopping by as many of the Expo exhibitor booths as I can and hitting some other parties from great companies like Model Metrics, Informatica, Reside, InsideView, Genius, and others.  To add more content to the blog in the coming weeks and months, I’ve got numerous interviews planned with some interesting executives.  You’ll hear more about those later.

And now, I’m off to finish zipping up the suitcase and get some sleep.  If I’ve never met you before, I hope to meet you this year at Dreamforce.  If we’ve met before, it’ll be great to see you again.  And if you’re not able to make it to Dreamforce this year, fear not.  You can put Dreamforce 2010 on your calendar right now.  It’s December 6-9, 2010 and it’s once again in San Francisco.  I look forward to making your acquaintance there.

Five Reasons to See Model Metrics at Dreamforce 08

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Sponsors | 2 Comments

 

  1. Model MetricsModel Metrics is a recognized leader in training people on Salesforce.com.  They now have authorized training centers in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis where they are now the place to get trained in those cities.  Their consistent push to excellence has helped them achieve this level of partnership with Salesforce which very few companies reach.  This is a stringent program and was not easy to achieve.  Visit Model Metrics to see how they can train you or your team so you can do more with Salesforce.com.
  2. They’re breaking new ground in mobile platforms for Salesforce.com.  Last year at Dreamforce they showed off 2GO for Tablets, an online / offline productivity powerhouse for reps on the go with tablet PCs.  Earlier this year at Dreamforce Europe, they showed off an app for Renault that demonstrated using Visualforce on the iPhone to choose a car, select the options you wanted, and find where a car to those specs was, all built natively on Visualforce.  Since July, they’ve already released two iPhone apps and have another on the way.  Expense2GO is an easy to use expense management system, synched with Salesforce.com that saves time doing expenses and even makes it fun.  Their newest app deserves its own place as reason number three to visit them.  
  3. Search2GO for Salesforce – Ever wanted to get at your address, phone, and email details for your Accounts, Contacts, Leads, and Opportunities, but don’t have the dough for a mobile license of Salesforce?  Now you don’t need it.  You can lookup all that and dial directly through the app with only your login, password, and security token for Salesforce.  In other words, it’s simple API access to your data from Salesforce, into your iPhone.  I downloaded the app and it’s great.  You can even download the app for only $9.99 until November 7.  Then the price goes up to $19.99.  It’s a one time fee, not a recurring cost like Salesforce Mobile.  If you need access to this kind of data, this is the way to get it cheap and easy.
  4. Meet me at Johnny Foley’s Irish Pub.  Tuesday, Model Metrics is sponsoring an election night extravaganza from 8 PM to midnight at Foley’s Irish Pub.  It’s a great time to hang out, watch the election results come in, and make new friends at one of the best Irish pubs in San Francisco.  Come have a pint with me.  
  5. Finally, Model Metrics sponsors CRMFYI and I’d appreciate if you’d stop by and tell them that you read my blog and heard more about them here.  I’m glad to have them on board with me because they’re leaders in consulting, training, apps development, and a whole lot more.  Whether you see them on mainstage during the keynotes, in their booth 625 in the Expo Hall, at the Salesforce Mobile Lounge, in the Oh Zone, or at Foley’s, you’ll be glad you stopped by.  

 

I’ll see you there.

CRMFYI Welcomes Model Metrics as a Sponsor

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Sponsors | Leave a comment

Model MetricsI want to extend a warm welcome to Model Metrics as a sponsor of CRMFYI. Model Metrics is a Salesforce.com Premier Consulting Partner, which means to you is that Salesforce is not one of the things they do, it’s all they do.  They have a great team of developers and consultants that are ready to take on your business process and technical challenges.

If you didn’t catch the Visialforce demo from Model Metrics at Dreamforce Europe earlier this year, check out this video.  Scroll through the video highlights of Dreamforce to find Adam Caplan, the Model Metrics CEO show off an app they built.  Adam shows a demo of Salesforce running on the iPhone in a way you’ve never seen before.  The demo shows walking into an auto dealership and selecting the car you want on an iPhone, then finding where that car is available.  You wouldn’t guess it was Salesforce on the back-end, but it is.

More than just consulting services though, Model Metrics now has a great iPhone app called Expense2GO which brings together enterprise expense reporting, Salesforce.com, and the iPhone.  See much more about Expense2GO from Model Metrics and from my review of it here at CRMFYI.  Even better, take it for a test drive in the iTunes App Store.

In the coming months, I’ll be introducing you to more about Model Metrics so check them out and see what they can do for your organization.

Thank you Model Metrics for sponsoring CRMFYI!