Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com’s chairman, commented in a speech at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando on Oct 19 that Apple, Facebook and Twitter Inc. are leading the latest iteration of cloud computing. Benioff said the first iteration of the cloud was led by companies like Google and Yahoo but now Facebook and Twitter are leading the move to…

It is often said that the first thing you need when getting started with Salesforce.com marketing is a web-to-lead form. Why is it your first step as a marketing professional? Web-to-lead is an out of the box functionality where you can create a registration form that inputs the contacts who fill out the form directly…

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…