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Familiar Tools Help Sales Team Drive Adoption, Centralize Critical Sales Information

Alberici is a general contractor based in St. Louis, Missouri, that generates U.S.$1.13 billion in revenue a year. Across 11 company divisions, sales staff managed customer and sales information on an individual level by using a combination of spreadsheets and e-mail, and then entering the data into a CRM system....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sales Team, Tool, Sales Information, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

Case studies 2009-05-01

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Desktop Sales Office 9 9.21 (Windows)

Sales professionals and sales teams sell smarter and win more by mastering contacts, deals, campaigns, appointments, and tasks within a framework built from the ground up for selling: Desktop Sales Office. Plan and prepare by crafting your messages, scripted talking points, and anticipated results, then target prospects and create demand...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows, Software On Sailboats, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2009-11-25

LeaderTask Company Management 6.6.7 (Windows)

LeaderTask Company Management is an easy-to-use yet reliable crm system for managing employees, projects, customer relationship and also for storing the entire corporate information. The program is used to: Effectively manage employees over the network: distribute tasks among employees, set deadlines, monitor the progress, control the results. More details... Maintain...

Tags: Employee, Microsoft Windows, Time Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Software, Sales, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Is Wikipedia maxed out?

Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...

Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification

Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...

Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Performance Monitoring, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks

What this means for B2B marketers:Trade publishers have tried, unsuccessfully, for years to build such on-line communities which they could control and mine. As it turns out, customers (C-level execs) like everyone else want to own and control their own networks. If customers are increasingly turning to each other for...

Tags: NETWORKING, social networking, network, social media, Astak

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Software and Order Administration 3.8.0.3 (Windows)

Software and Order Administration provide a toolkit for shareware authors, software companies, software resellers to administrate software and orders, with Software and Order Administration you can administrate your development and your orders easily, keep in touch with your customers in time. With Software and Order Administration you can record the...

Tags: Software, Administration, Microsoft Windows, SoftRM, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Niacin best for raising good cholesterol

i'm a pharmacist...and this article is a rubishDO NOT trust this type of cheap propagandaI'm also a pharmacist...agree!The "study" consisted of only 300 or so "patients"...not large enough to be statistically significant. Not only that, it was funded by a competitor to Zetia/Vytorin!Now, I'm not saying niacin...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, cholesterol, Health Care professional, CEC, Costco, pharmacist, Dana, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

SprinxCRM Free Edition 6.1.3 SR1 (Windows)

SprinxCRM is a full featured CRM solution. Contact information, relationships, business opportunities, orders, sales activities, marketing campaigns, planning, reporting and more can be handled by SprinxCRM helping you make the right decisions. Integrated with major business registers, e-mail functionality, and Microsoft Outlook. SprinxCRM works within an Internet browser. Therefore access...

Tags: Modification, Microsoft Windows, Sprinx Systems, SprinxCRM, E-mail, Remote Access, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Memo to AT&T: When you're in a hole, stop digging

AT&T and Apple were made for each otherBoth are whiny multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporations that sell substandard products and services to customers who don't know any better. Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!You said it exactly rightquote- [b]"You see, the company thinks consumers are too dumb to know the difference between 3G and non-3G...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., 3G, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

AppStore Sales 1.6.4 (Mac)

AppStore Sales it's small, but powerful utility for monitoring purchases your application in AppStore. Features: Support daily, weekly and monthly reports Auto-downloads daily reports from iTunesConnect Detail information for daily downloads. Count of purchases, updates and re-downloads Summary information for all application Various graphs and charts Count of new...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Banana Developers, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-11

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Motorola sells 100k Droids on opening weekend

Great screen ???? Only in the specs.Have you seen the Droid?? The screen is HORRIBLE. It is like looking at an old burnout monitor. Yellowish, blurry ... just plain UGLY.The pictures posted here and pretty much everywhere else aren't lying. The quality of the display in the Droid...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Inc., Droid, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Gas Station Software 11.1 (Windows)

Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of your sales. Store purchases, fuel sales, fuel purchases, price adjustments/shortage, paid-outs, assets, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory Tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Keep track of each of your fuel pumps and tanks,...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Agnitech, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Sales Force Management, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Apple.com (Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone)

RE: Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Apple.com (Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone)I too would be very bothered by the yellowness of the screen if these pics are acurate.Droid whitesIn looking at each of these pics, the white on the Droid seems very yellow. Is this eactually the case...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Droid, Apple iPhone, Screen Shootout

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05