Category: Small Business

In a world where new tech startups appear on the landscape seemingly every hour, it’s important to pick the brains of successful entrepreneurs and see just how they’ve realized their small business success stories and stood out from the pack. Brian Spaly – CEO of Trunk Club Frustrated at trying... Read More»

Starting and growing a business can be equal parts exhilarating and stressful. On the one hand, there is no feeling like being your own boss, but on the other, there is no bigger stresser than knowing that failure has a considerable personal cost. In order to give you a hand... Read More»

This post was orignally published on the desk.com blog. Back in the early days when we first launched our online store, Bumblebee Linens, we were lucky if we got 5 orders a day. After all, in the beginning we had no social media presence. Our store did not yet rank... Read More»

As part of our jobs in Sales, we get to work with really incredible startups and witness their development at every stage. Some of those starts are trying to scale as they grow and others are just trying to find the shortest path to being successful. That said, almost every... Read More»

Eric Ries' "Lean Startup" is one of the foremost sources on entrepreneurship, yet many of his lessons are already being employed by those outside of Silicon Valley. This article shows how small businesses are using concepts like MVP, A/B Testing and Pivoting to run their businesses. Read More»

Transform your Small Business with CRM and Accounting Software A CRM application is an invaluable tool that will simplify the management of your small business. Implementing the right CRM can increase sales efficiency – you can close more deals, increase sales, and improve forecast accuracy. We’re not talking just a... Read More»

Today is salesforce.com's 14th birthday and like any other teenager, we are having a blast celebrating. Aside from eating delicious cupcakes, birthdays for us have other significance as well. This is the time to look back and reflect on our journey, what we have learned on the way, and how... Read More»

As mobile applications become a large part of our everyday lives, access to information has never been easier. Literally, the information you are looking for is at your fingertips. Until recently the options for small business owners used to be limited but as the mobile app marketplace grew so did... Read More»

by Kendall Thornton, social content manager at salesforce.com You might love everything about your product — it’s your baby — but do your customers? Your consumers are connected, intelligent, opinionated and often times have a lot to say about your products and service. Sometimes the truth hurts, but customer feedback... Read More»

We’re told that close, happy, mutually supportive relationships make the world go around. This holds true even for relationships between a business and its customers. You’ve all seen how love can spark between a brand and its customers. Happy customers rave about their favorite brands to whoever will listen --... Read More»