Free SalesForce.com account
Categories: CRM Tools
Written By: SOCOM Sales
If you are a professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, or a self employed maverick and need a better way to manage your contacts other than Outlook, you could use one of these. SalesForce.com is the leader in Enterprise CRM solutions and they offer free accounts to individuals. All of the features available to Enterprises are not available, but all of the basics which is all you really need to manage information is available on demand.
The personal edition is customizable so you can add logos, special links and setup email templates for mass communication. The reporting functionality is great. so if you want to get a quick graph of opportunities you are working on, or need to check when the last time you had a conversation with I have been using one for a couple years now and it has been extremely helpful when on the road and I needed to call Steve Jobs and didn’t have all of his contact information handy.
Get this and the integrated Outlook toolbar and you can automate the syncing of the data so it is always current.
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October 12th, 2007 at 1:17 am
[...] a professional, I use LinkedIn a lot and I have setup my personal SalesForce.com account to allow for LinkedIn searches right from my contacts list by modifying some basic code. You can [...]
January 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
[...] There are many options out there for a customer relationship manager (CRM) available. I guess they all have advantages and disadvantages but I have grown accustomed to SalesForce and have no issues with it. Besides using it for work to manage all my accounts and prospects, I also have a personal account that is available to anyone for free. [...]
December 20th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Thank you so much!
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