Well, the sunshine has come, gone and come again and incredibly it is almost 21st June, mid-summer.  The longest day of the year in terms of sunlight and all Jonathan could say to me was that it meant he could squeeze in another sales meeting.  Has the man no social life? We once again sponsored the Salesforce.com Essentials event held [...]

A Couple of Quick and Easy Time Saving Tips for your  Everyday Salesforce Experience .  By Jason Egan Hi Everyone, 2 simple tips from me this month that could save you at least 2 minutes a day, 14 minutes a week, 12 hours a year ! #1 Easy login with chrome extension Fed up with having to enter those pesky [...]

Asperato are bringing all the benefits of GoCardless to the Salesforce platform Asperato has updated its best of breed AppExchange Salesforce solution to enable users to collect Direct Debit payments via GoCardless, the addition of GoCardless sits alongside the more traditional card payments such as Visa and Mastercard. When you run your business on Salesforce CRM, you’re in good company. Over [...]

Best Practices for handling a Lightweight Salesforce.com Project and Management Issue?  By Kesava Gollapalli When managing Salesforce.com projects, organisations should have a framework in place to ensure that the projects are handled efficiently. Salesforce.com projects are often tricky to manage as the approach followed to manage these projects differs slightly from typical project management approaches used for other applications, methodologies. [...]

Have you backed up your CRM system? By Geraldine O’Reilly Whether you use Salesforce.com or any of the other CRM systems out there, one thing is certain; as your data grows it becomes ever more critical to the running of your business. Your CRM system is the one single place that has all the data you need to help grow [...]

How to Delete “Test” Leads that have been Converted. By Stephen Bellhouse When initially setting up a Salesforce system users often create practice ”Test” Leads. They will in turn convert these “Test” Leads so as to establish and understand what would happen if it was an authentic Lead. These “Test” Leads may later taint your Lead Conversion Reporting so therefore it [...]

  Newsletter, January 2013 A Note from Jim Maher, Chairman As the newly appointed Chairman of Cloud Consulting Ltd, I would like to welcome you to our first Monthly Newsletter of 2013. We’re pleased to provide you with updates on Events & Training, easy to follow Top Tips, our chosen Partner of the Month along with links to other important [...]

The Best Free Apps on the AppExchange by Mark Richmond AppExchange, Salesforce.com’s wildly successful and much-imitated applications marketplace, offers over 1000 different software products that users of the platform can install to help them with a range of business functions from HR, to Customer Services, and Email marketing to Gamification. The quality of these programs runs the gamut from “poor” [...]

If you’re attending Cloud force in London today, here is some advice based on my experience yesterday. Talks vs Developer zone: There are three levels of information available to developers, all situated on the top level. The most visible for the programme is the Presentation Series on force.com, database.com and heroku. Second is the Developer Zone where there are a variety [...]

Have you experienced Cloud Fatigue yet? I have. I first felt it coming on last year when as a company we ran 3 Cloud events in 1 month (in London, Belfast and Dublin just to give ourselves a challenge!).  As a new company this is what you do in order to build your market.  That made a total of 15 [...]