Partner Recruitment Mash Up with Google Maps
Mar 7, 2006One of Salesforce's Partner Management subject matter experts, Todd Janzen, has created a day in the life for a channel manager trying to recruit more partners. (Thanks Todd!) This demonstration is available for you to review. Click here to access the demonstration. Besides the business value of being able to more effectively and efficiently recruit more partners using Salesforce, Todd has creatively enabled a real cool feature. 
He's created a channel map showing the number of partners that have submitted an application to become a partner. How many of you have wished you could easily create a channel map or white space analysis? He created the channel map using Google Maps. Here is an example of how new partner prospect registrations show up on a Google Map. Visit the Partner Management feature page for full details on Salesforce.com's Partner Management and Partner Portal solution.
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Pheonix Technology has gone live with web 2 lead to manage parnter recruitment. Here is a link. Take a look.
https://forms.phoenix.com/TPNPhase2a/SFDCChannelPartnerI.aspx
Posted by: Elay Cohen | March 10, 2006 at 01:56 PM
We are interested in how to do this Google Maps mash up to show the location of plain old leads and contacts. Is this documented anywhere how to duplicate Todd's work?
Posted by: Darin | May 18, 2006 at 01:28 PM
http://crmsuccess.blogs.com/crmsuccess/2005/02/integrating_goo.html
I'm checking for more detailed documentation on this.
Posted by: Elay Cohen | May 18, 2006 at 07:43 PM
Todd has created something extremely useful. Partner Management is great and all, but the killer app for this is leads and contacts. This would make planning multi-day trips to Los Angeles so much easier! I could get a regional view of where exactly people are located. If you look closely at Todds' screenshot and watch his demonstration, it appears you can simply choose from a pick list what info you want displayed on the map. We need to persuade Todd to give us the mash up. It is very cool!
Posted by: Kevin | May 19, 2006 at 04:30 PM
I found this posting from the AppExchange Developer Network Blog: Google Maps Hacking for Sforce: Sample Now Available http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2005/06/google_maps_hac.html
I believe this sample has one criteria row but with a few slight modifications multiple rows could be added.
Posted by: Todd | May 23, 2006 at 08:59 AM
On a different but related note, here is a link to a mash-up that outlines ZIP Code boundaries in Google Maps. This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Maybe someone could convince John Wehr to publish an AppExchange App? http://zip-code-boundaries.com/
Posted by: Todd | May 23, 2006 at 09:35 AM