Lately, I’ve found that many clients are looking for ways to effectively manage their Social and
Search relationships within their CRM (Customer Resource Management) strategy. As most of our
clients are also Salesforce.com users, I thought a helpful post would be a review of our favorite
Social/Search Appexchange Apps. While some of these apps are extensions of larger solutions, I
still thought it would be helpful to see how these popular tools integrate into the CRM ecosystem.
SalesView – Mashup tool to help automate lead intelligence. Salesview automatically scoures the
web and social networking to find the most relative and real time data concerning your contacts,
prospective companies, and customers.
GetSatisfaction – We are a customer of GetSatisfaction, and use it as our mini-customer community
node our website sidebar (feel free to reach out). The GetSatifaction app directly ties all community
outreach into your Salesforce customer support screens for quick response and tracking.
Salesforce for Twitter – Free app for establishing a Twitter Support Node within Salesforce.com.
Search, monitor and Tweet directly from your Saleforce customer support screens. Easily track
service tickets and conversations initiated from Twitter outreach.
Adwords – Essential application for any Salesforce customer who invests in Google Adwords. This
application identifies which ads, keywords, and Adgroups create specific sales leads and
opportunities.
Salesforce Content: Free online tab within Salesforce.com where you can post
and exchange quotes, competitive win information, sales powerpoint presentations
and other sales documents. Send documents SFDC -to-SFDC and to your customers
without the hassle of attaching it to any email where it will be lost in a
spam box.
Salesforce Chatter – Releasing in 4/2010, gives Salesforce a tremendous opportunity
to be the default private social network for the enterprise. By linking user profiles
to traditional CRM screens such as, support tickets, opportunities, accounts, and user groups,
the impact Chatter could have on enterprise social networking could be exponential. Imagine
having to only log into Salesforce for not only traditional CRM activities, but also
IM, Microblogging, Collaborating, Social Monitoring and even sync Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook
feeds.
Salesforce.com for Google Docs. Similar to Salesforce.com Content,
create documents and spreadsheets, collaborate and share information with
your peers by connecting Salesforce.com with the Google Docs Suite.
Lately, many clients are looking for ways to effectively manage their Social Networking and Search Marketing relationships within their CRM (Customer Resource Management) strategy. As most of our clients are also Salesforce.com users, (more)