Forbes ranked Salesforce.com as the most innovative company. Ranked number one means they beat Apple, Amazon and well……… everyone else. http://tinyurl.com/3semrha

We are excited to announce a better way to get salesforce.com training. www.LiveSalesforceTraining.com delivers personal one to one salesforce.com training to corporate teams globally. Our focus is on achieving quick results by developing custom training programs that are industry and process specific.

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• Personal, one-to-one
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• Exacting to your processes
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Typically, teams work with their dedicated instructor who is familiar with the company’s business and methodologies. This approach is more relevant and delivers better results and increased adoption than traditional generic training. Instead of slideshows and multiple answer quizes, LiveSalesforceTraining.com works in the actual salesforce instance. You see, learn, and then do. LiveSalesforceTraining.com delivers a superior salesforce learning experience.

The cloud based data services space is worth $3billion a year. Salesforce announced that it is buying Jigsaw thereby entering this lucrative field.

“With Jigsaw, we’ll make it as easy as Wikipedia to source data, as easy as iTunes to buy data and as easy as Facebook to stay updated as the data changes,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a statement. Jigsaw is a supplier of “crowd-sourced” data services.

Every business needs two things, more customers and more sales. Achieving those goals just became easier. Benefits can be realized with the following integrated efforts:

• Demand Generation
• Systems Marketing Automation
• Lead Qualification & Scoring
• Optimizing Marketing
• Lead Nurturing
• Aligning Sales & Marketing with Automation

First you must develop your own special workflows and business processes that align with Salesforce and Jigsaw.  After all, marketing is not a spectator sport.  You need to do your part. The process has to originate with you and must be specific to your business and customer engagement strategy. Communications can be based on sales stages, driven by product offerings, cross-sell and up-sell, sales channels, etc. In our world of automation, plug and play, and “there’s an app for that” we still need human input. It is not completely self-service.

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Many think that IF they are on Twitter or some other Social Network sites, all is well. Well maybe. We must get beyond the hype of the respective brands and not just place the icons on our home page like a fashion accessory. Social Media is a communication channel. Market segmentation and targeting can be effectively implemented if we just use common business sense. We must speak directly to our audience. This means that our message should match the interests of our followers. Salesforce.com does an excellent job segmenting and targeting.

On Twitter alone Salesforce has the following Twitter Channels:

@SalesforceNews
@AppExchangeNews
@AskSalesforce
@Forcedotcom
@SalesforceDocs
@Salesforcejobs
@SalesforceOffer
@SuccessProgram
@SalesforceAPAC

Imagine the same strategy for Toyota having a Prius, Camry, Corolla, Service, Parts, Future Cars Channels… Messages match the interest and we are speaking more directly and more one to one. Traditional business rules don’t get lost with Social Commerce they get amplified.