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Cloudforce 2 Tour: San Jose

Join the Force By Design team at this event on Tuesday, June 22nd at the San Jose Convention Center. The agenda includes a Keynote speech delivered by Marc Benioff, followed by 18 breakout sessions for sales, customer service, developers, IT executives, ISVs, and entrepreneurs. Lunch is included. It’s a great place for networking with peers, [...]

Vote for our Dreamforce Presentation

Our client Spencer Bolles and one of our founders, Micaiah Filkins, are trying to get on stage at Dreamforce! Would you help us? We just need you to sign into the Ideas Portal with your standard salesforce.com user login and vote for the paper below. https://sites.secure.force.com/dreamforceideas/ideaView?c=09a30000000GzZs&id=08730000000HZT0&returnUrl=/apex/ideaList%3Fc%3D09a30000000GzZs%26sort%3Drecent Please send this to everyone asking them to vote [...]

It’s that time again: Dreamforce ’10

Mark your calendars! It’s the event that all of us Cloud fanatics look forward to every year! Be a part of the experience: hear the latest in Salesforce.com news, interactive sessions, guest speakers, a great place for networking! Where: Moscone Center, SF When: December 6-9, 2010 Take advantage of Salesforce.com’s special early bird offer: $799 [...]

AppExchange gets an upgrade!

Salesforce.com introduces Aloha Apps! Aloha Apps have special permissions that allow them to run without encountering Object and Tab limits among other advantages. We highly recommend searching through these apps and installing a few of them! Some of our favorite Aloha Apps include: FinancialForce – An online accounting system built completely on Force.com platform. What [...]

Useful Salesforce.com Short Hand and Keyboard Shortcuts

Many of us spend our entire work day in Salesforce.com. Since we create and update so many records in a day, small time savers really add up over the course of a work day. These tips will help you save valuable time inside the system. Phone Number Formatting Short Hand Type any domestic US phone [...]

Creating year-over-year-to-date Comparison Forumlas

Have you ever had a metric that you wanted to see on a graph showing where you are this year versus lastyear?

The Modern and Chic Suggestion Box

There is hardly an organization today that does not have a wooden box in the office that has a slot in the top and is meant to accept suggestions for anyone willing to take the time to write an idea down on paper. This has been an old standard that we have all come to [...]

Use the Force(.com)…..

Nearly every IT department has a number of projects that the business users have asked for, however there is not yet time to take care of these projects. Sadly this list is rarely completed, leaving resentment in the minds of the business users and the IT group feeling overwhelmed. In every organization that already uses [...]

Getting the most from Salesforce.com in today’s economic climate

The current economic climate is challenging. Budgets are tight. You’ve wisely committed to Salesforce.com to help you maximize your marketing, sales and/or customer service departments but you also need to maximize ROI. This means getting more for less. More sales in less time. Solving customer issues with less internal effort. In our experience, the following [...]

Officially a fan of Google Chrome (Beta)

This week we have seen no shortage of commentary on the Google Chrome browser. Today I am going to give you my take on why Chrome is a superior browser for the key web apps that I use on a daily basis. So to set the stage, I am a functional consultant who spends most [...]