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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Where Marc Benioff Puts His Money

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in News | Leave a comment

zocdocYou don’t often hear where executives put their money, but an interesting story this morning tells where Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have put some of their own money.  They’ve helped startup ZocDoc with $3 million in Series A funding.

ZocDoc helps patients get doctor and dentist appointments quickly, online.  You can check out more from TechCrunch as well.

$3 million to either Marc or Jeff is not much money at all, for where they are in life, but considering the success each of them has experienced in their respective companies, it makes you think that they must believe it’s a good venture.  I wonder if it’s built at all on either a Force.com or EC3 platform…..

Marc Benioff to join TechCrunch 50 Expert Panel

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Integration, News, Predictions, Tools | Leave a comment

TechCrunch 50Marc Benioff is no stranger to Web 2.0, but it’s interesting that he’s not only going to watch TechCrunch 50 next month, he’s joining the panel of experts who will sort through the best of the best Web 2.0 companies and ideas.

TechCrunch 50 is a mini-conference of 50 hand-picked startup companies that get to pitch their products and ideas to a team of experts, advisors, and investors. It started last year as TechCrunch 20 40 where personal finance service Mint.com was crowned the winner.

I have no doubt Marc will provide some great advice and feedback to these companies he talks to. He really started his own Web 2.0 revolution. What I find more interesting though is that Marc will also be looking for his next acquisition target. What better place to seek a product or idea to augment Salesforce.com than a best of the best startup conference.

Just about two years ago, Koral did it’s pitch at Demo 06 and within nine months, Salesforce bought them and made the product known as Salesforce Content.

What will it be next? I’m anxious to see.

Find out more about the panel of experts and TechCrunch 50 at TechCrunch.