Synopses & Reviews
Manage your customers and your teams, and close more business with salesforce.com!Salesforce.com is like an assistant for your sales, customer service, and marketing efforts — one that never takes a day off and never asks for a raise. Grab this book to learn how to make the most of it! From navigating salesforce.com to performing common tasks that relate to your accounts and contacts, this guide will get you going in no time.
- Understand your customer — track important data so that you can develop solutions that deliver value to your customers
Improve customer service — track and resolve customer service issues
Track your sales — follow the process from lead to close and see how to maximize your productivity
Expand the funnel — generate and pursue more sales leads and boost your revenue
Maximize marketing efforts — use Salesforce with Google AdWords and manage your Internet marketing
Measure your performance — make the data available to sales reps, managers, and executives
Strengthen partner relationships — track and associate partners' deals for better insight into your top partners
Integrate with other applications — Salesforce can work with financial and ERP applications for greater value
Open the book and find:
- Expert advice on accessing and navigating salesforce.com
Tips for creating, updating, and organizing your accounts
How to track opportunities
Options for building product catalogs and managing price books
Secrets for improving marketing campaigns
Solutions to better support your sales team
Synopsis
- What the book covers:using salesforce.com to solve business challenges, navigating salesforce.com, personalizing your system, prospecting leads, managing accounts, developing contacts, managing activities, sending and tracking E-mail, tracking opportunities, managing products and price books, calculating forecasts, managing your partners, driving demand with campaigns, understanding Salesforce service and support, analyzing data with reports, seeing the big picture with dashboards, customizing salesforce.com, extending salesforce.com beyond CRM, migrating and maintaining your data, and more.
- Updated coverage of the new version:Revised throughout to cover the latest updates and enhancements made to salesforce.com.
- Series features:Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummiesseries for more than a dozen years.
Synopsis
Ready to start solving business challenges with CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software? Interested in the latest enhancements and updates to Salesforce.com?
Salesforce.com For Dummies, 3rd Edition, has just what you need!
Salesforce.com is like an assistant for your sales, customer service, and marketing efforts — one that never takes a day off and never asks for a raise. Because it’s an Internet service, you sign up and log in through a browser, and it’s immediately available. Salesforce.com For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to choose the right edition of Salesforce.com, and then how to use it to:
- Prospect, manage accounts, develop contacts, and calculate forecasts
- Manage your customers and your teams, and close more business
- Analyze, migrate, and maintain your data
- Track and resolve customer service issues
- Generate and pursue more sales leads and boost your revenue
- Use Salesforce with Google AdWords and manage your Internet marketing
- Integrate Salesforce.com with ERP applications for greater value
- Make sales data available to sales reps, managers, and executives
- Follow the sales process from lead to close and see how to maximize your productivity
You already know how competitive business is today, so there’s no time to lose! Salesforce.com For Dummies, 3rd Edition gets you going with this all-important CRM technology right away.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
About the Author
Tom Wong claims he is the number one fan of Salesforce. He keeps a picture of the Web site on his desktop and a Team Edition football in his car. He sends his wife Salesforce meeting invitations. His friends say he can’t talk about anything else.
Prior to writing the fi rst edition, Tom was vice president in charge of CRM solutions for Theikos, a leading salesforce.com partner. And before then, he held several senior management positions at Gomez, another satisfi ed salesforce.com customer. He is a certifi ed salesforce.com partner and has been involved in over thirty implementations impacting thousand of users.
Tom currently works for salesforce.com as Vice President, Dreamforce, where he gets to travel the world to bring together Salesforce customers, partners, employees, and other fans, to learn about the amazing new Saleforce features popping up to help you be successful with your business. He has an amazing and highly patient wife; a son who is a talented drummer; and a daughter aspiring to be a ballerina. They try not to discuss salesforce.com.
Liz Kao was an enthusiastic early adopter of the software-as-service (SaaS) model and has been a Salesforce user since 1999. Through the years, she has played both in-house and consultant roles at salesforce.com.
As a salesforce.com consultant and a member of salesforce.com’s Professional Services team, Liz implemented dozens of CRM solutions for companies of all sizes across a variety of industries, including a Salesforce-native purchase requisition system used by salesforce.com’s own Global Marketing division. She developed more than a third of the applications created by salesforce.com for the debut of its AppExchange directory, the fi rst online service for sharing on-demand applications.
Her insights for new administrators are shared with thousands of visitors to salesforce.com’s best practices Web site, successforce.com.
A veteran of the enterprise software industry, Liz lives in San Francisco and has worked at Oracle, NetSuite, and salesforce.com in marketing, product marketing, product management, sales, and professional services. In addition to writing about Salesforce and the AppExchange, she advises non-profi ts and SaaS startups on a variety of product needs. In her spare time, she searches for undiscovered culinary delights, and enjoys the natural surroundings of the Bay Area.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: Salesforce Basics.
Chapter 1: Looking Over Salesforce.
Chapter 2: Navigating Salesforce.
Chapter 3: Personalizing Your System.
Part II: Tracking Sales.
Chapter 4: Managing Accounts.
Chapter 5 : Developing Contacts.
Chapter 6: Managing Activities.
Chapter 7: Sending E-Mail.
Part III: Driving Sales.
Chapter 8: Prospecting Leads.
Chapter 9: Tracking Opportunities.
Chapter 10: Tracking Products and Price Books.
Chapter 11: Managing Your Partners.
Part IV: Optimizing Marketing.
Chapter 12: Driving Demand with Campaigns.
Chapter 13: Building Your Internet Marketing Channel.
Chapter 14: Driving Sales Effectiveness with Document Management.
Chapter 15: Performing Fast and Accurate Support.
Part V: Delivering Excellent Customer Service.
Chapter 16: Managing Your Customer Service Solution.
Chapter 17: Analyzing Data with Reports.
Part VI: Measuring Overall Business Performance.
Chapter 18: Seeing the Big Picture with Dashboards.
Chapter 19: Fine-Tuning the Confi guration.
Part VII: Designing the Salesforce Solution.
Chapter 20: Customizing Salesforce.
Chapter 21: Extending Salesforce Beyond CRM.
Chapter 22: Migrating and Maintaining Your Data.
Part VIII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Drive More Productivity.
Chapter 24: Ten Keys to a Successful Implementation.
Index.