http://www.successrabbi.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Live blogging of CloudCamp LA 2009 [gallery link="file" columns="2"] The Organizers 5:15pm - About 10 people so far... 5:30pm - The amazing Persian food arrives thanks to CKK. The lamb is amazing - and the hummus! 6:30pm - Thanks to our sponsors: RIGHT SCALE, Microsoft Azure, alestic, Cisco, Axis Technical Group, & 3 tera. They ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/09/cloudcamp-la-2009/ Sometimes the flexibility of Salesforce.com can be intimidating. Whether potential buyers, admins, or users, wrapping your head around all the various tools available to you and imagining how you might used them can be challenging. Sometimes it is the most simple example that starts the wheels turning and leads to ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/08/make-it-more-readable-enforce-case-w-simple-workflow-rules/ When it comes to business, using flexible tools in the wrong place can make your profitability flexible too. Every business does it for at least a short time but the successful will proactively innovate to avoid the high cost it brings with growth. Here's a short test to see where ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/08/is-your-profitability-flexible-heres-a-possible-solution/ One of the biggest challenges with any database, especially when they are easy to use for your whole team, is keeping the data accurate. The most common problem is duplicate data due to the variance in spellings, abbreviations, and other ways that information can be stored with a slight variance ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/07/salesforce-com-data-cleansing-on-a-shoestring-budget/ As a Digital Coach, I leverage Basecamp in my business and coach others to do so as well. It helps managers better manage and everyone executes better because they know what is expected by when in a simple, easy to understand fashion. One of the underused elements of Basecamp is it's ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/07/how-to-make-tables-easier-to-create-use-in-basecamp/ During both of my last two online coaching sessions, my client has asked me about the way I have setup my own web browser, Firefox. Specifically, they wanted to know how I could have over 20 open Tabs at once and still remain sane. The ability to have multiple pages in ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/06/organize-your-growing-set-of-browser-tabs/ We've all seen our email inbox explode as a project starts out and all the team gets going. Your inbox starts to look something like this soon after the project begins: Re: New Website Project Re: Fwd: New Website Project Re: New Website Project Re: Re: Fwd: New Website Project Re: Call Your Mother Re: New ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/06/your-inbox-re-re-fwd-re-new-website-project-huh/ In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed the difference between a [Business] Account and a Person Account. Moving from a Business Account to a Person Account is very common and the converse can be as well so how do we make this easy to do? Let's review the requirements to create ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/05/understanding-business-accounts-and-person-accounts-part-2/ An issue came up with a client recently that will help other Salesforce.com users I'm sure. The issue relates to the increasing use of unique and long numbers in business. From account numbers, merchant numbers, to Tax ID numbers, we have lots of numbers to keep tabs on. Salesforce.com is a ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/05/avoiding-number-formatting-problems/ How you store your client information inside Salesforce.com makes a big difference. One area where this is very clear is Accounts and Contacts. Salesforce began as a business tool and therefore focused on business to business (B2B) relationships. Therefore, the Account object is oriented toward a business or company by ... http://www.successrabbi.com/2009/05/understanding-business-accounts-and-person-accounts-part-1/