Salesforce Small Businesses Blog
Want to meet your vendor partner Dell at Dreamforce?
Our annual user conference is around the corner? Have you signed up yet? You can register and learn all about Dreamforce by clicking here. Let me offer you another reason to come. Greg Davis, the Vice President and General Manager, Americas Channel Group wants to meet you.
If you are an authorized Dell partner and you want to spend some time with Greg Davis please email amorehouse@salesforce.com. She will work with Greg's team and arrange times for you to meet.
This is a great opportunity to sit down and share with Greg Davis what's working and what you'd like to see improved. It's also a great chance to establish a relationship with your Dell channel chief.
Using Salesforce to manage CRM and your vendor partners
How many vendors do you work with? What tool are you using today to run your business? Have you ever wondered why you can't use a best in class CRM system like Salesforce and have all your vendor programs integrated? 
Imagine looking at one Dashboard across all your vendors and seeing the status of your pipeline.
Here are two demonstrations for you to watch to explain how this is possible with Salesforce.com.
1. Click here for an overview presentation explaining CRM + vendor management in one system.
2. Click here for a demonstration of a system designed to manage CRM and vendor from one system.
Both these presentations are each ten minutes long. I've also included the powerpoint deck so you can review and share with your team members.
CRM for Solution Providers: A Blueprint for Success in 2008
Click here to register for this event. The event will be available to view afterwards on demand. The event is set to start at 1 pm east coast time or 10 am west coast time.
This event is focused on providing answers to solution providers and small and medium size businesses on how to leverage CRM to drive business growth.
Topics include:
• Key benefits of on-demand CRM
• Proven steps to better customer and vendor management from one, centralized system
• Strategies for achieving user adoption and improved visibility in minutes
Are you working with any of these high tech companies???
If you're working with any of the vendors listed below and want to be able to share leads, opportunities, accounts, contacts, activities, pipelines, or any custom data from your own salesforce CRM system to their salesforce CRM system, activate "salesforce to salesforce" and invite your contact to set up a secure connection and share data.
Success Site for Small Business Launched
Welcome to the first blog posting of the success site for small 
business.
This site is 100% focused on helping small businesses grow and be more successful. Ask yourself, what are you doing to make your business more productive? With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of small businesses, what are you doing to rise above the crowd?
Take a look at what Acceleration is doing. Check out this CRN webinar where Eri Golembo of the top e-marketing solution provider, Acceleration, demonstrates how his sales team uses Salesforce to manage leads more effectively, builds a better relationship with vendor partners, and closes more deals. Now Eri has something he never had before an end-to-end customer view backed up by seamless sales and marketing integration. And his sales team loves it.
Click here to listen to the netseminar.
If you're interested you can Download cmp_webinar_s5s_updated_ec.ppt and share the presentation with your peers and colleagues.
Over the next few weeks and months we'll be sharing best practices and tools to help you:
1. Drive more leads and grow your business
2. Drive revenue growth and sales success
3. Maintain full executive visibility
4. Manage your vendor relationships
5. Partner with more companies
Make CRM your business' competitive advantage.....
