Salesforce.com’s DreamFore 12 By the Numbers

Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce is one such event marketers look forward to with lot of anticipation. San Francisco, California where thousands of registered attendees participated with lots of energy, enthusiasm and zeal. Dreamforce 2024 is the industry’s biggest & largest Business conference so far. Its now official to say that Dreamforce 12 was the biggest vendor run…

Dreamforce 2024 Highlights

Dreamforce is the most talked about cloud computing event of the year. This year’s Dreamforce was the tenth annual cloud computing event of the year. The 4 day long grand event kicked off on September 18th and wrapped on September 21st. Approximately 90,000 attendees from 65+ countries and about 350+ Dreamforce Exhibitors and almost 800…

Dreamforce ’12 Keynotes

Salesforce.com’s annual event has always been a gala event since the last 10 years. So was DreamForce 2024. It was held at Moscone Center San Fransisco, California. The DreamForce event gets bigger and bigger each year. With more that 350 Dreamforce Exhibitors, it is believed to be the biggest business networking party of the year….

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Salesforce Data Cleansing Solutions – For A Spotless CRM

If you are a Salesforce.com user and have an active account with a good amount of data being updated regularly within the CRM, then you would also have noticed the need to have your Salesforce data cleaned. If your sales machine is more efficient by using a great technology platform like Salesforce.com, then bad data…

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Metrics Shmetrics Who Needs All That B2B Lead Analytics?

Here is the report on the conversion of qualified web leads to oppotunities generated between Saturday and Sunday with an estimated closing time of between 2 and 3 weeks. Here is another report of total leads generated by various channels and the return on investement for the first half of last month. Here is the…

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Hoovers Vs Zoominfo For Your Business Executives Databases

Continuing from our last post on Linkedin Vs Jigsaw For Your B2B Business Contacts, we’ll move on to two more heavy weights as sources for B2B marketers and sales people to build their target lists of leads and locate business executives. Hoovers and Zoominfo are well established sources for locating business contact information with different…

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7 Simple Do’s To Maintaining A Clean CRM Database

A pet peeve for anyone in marketing or sales who has to work with CRM data while setting up their direct mail or other outbound campaigns is bad data. While there are great features when it comes to hosted CRMs like Salesforce.com, Sugar CRM, you will only realize the full potential of these CRM if…

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Do you sell to Salesforce.com customers? Do you know who to sell to?

Do you sell into companies which are are Salesforce.com customers? If the answer is yes then I can relate to your need to build a database of very specific contacts who are directly responsible for managing Salesforce.com for their companies in order to get any traction with sales and marketing campaigns. While the higher level…

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B2B Marketing Data Forecast – Blog, Twitter & Linkedin Info A Standard Data Field

An inside sales rep with the task of cold calling the CEO or high ranking executive of a fairly large organization over the phone would have a daunting experience even connecting. Getting past the gatekeepers and assistants is just part of the battle. Even if one is lucky enough to connect, its not always easy…