Below is a list of the most useful free Salesforce apps for marketing users. Whether you’re in charge of generating leads, proving ROI, managing trade shows and events, Public Relations or just plain marketing analytics; these apps will improve your efficiency and give you access to new marketing sources. Salesforce Marketing Calendar: The benefit of…

Barron’s published a cover story on private cloud, Saturday Oct 23, stating that ‘Big companies are quickly adopting new computer networks known as “private clouds.” That may mean trouble for major tech suppliers”. The article  predicts a secular decline in tech spending and that it will be difficult for tech vendors to grow revenue. Read more.

Integrating Google Apps with Salesforce.com is a great low cost way for small businesses to improves users’ collaboration, communication and sharing of information. Salesforce for Google apps (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs) is available and free for all Salesforce users. A premier version with advanced features and direct customer support is also…

Since Salesforce.com rolled out their Adwords integration in 2007, many marketing users rushed to install the free package not knowing what the effect of this integration will have on their Adwords account. If you’re using the Optimize Ad Rotation method to run your ads in Google (i.e: Optimize: Show better performing ads more often) you MUST read…