Well in the lazy hazy days of summer looks like I forgot to upload our conference call. With David Taber, Consultant and Author, Salesforce.com Secrets of Success: Best Practices for Growth and Profitability. That call was recorded and can be downloaded Download SFUG It was well attended and a great success we can try something like this again for the right presenter.

The Next Meeting will be Oct 22 at Alteva HQ at 4:00 PM More to come.....

After much debate we are having a holiday party once again same as last year just an upgrade to the location. LeBow College of Business on Dec 17th 2-8 Same venue as last year 6 vendors three time slots. The presentation rooms are outstanding. Networking to follow. More to come......

Despite some audio issues at Dave & Busters the meeting was attended well 50 plus users came to hear our sponsors speak. Some folks did hang out after the meeting I had to leave.

These are the presenations I have as I get the other I will post them

Eran Agrios SalesForce Download Philadelphia User Group Presentation

Chip Terry Zoominfo Download ZoomInfo SF Overview

Thanks also goes out to Keven Miller from Salesfusion

Next Meeting Details coming soo

Philadelphia SalesForce Users Group Sponsored Event

Spring Fling Meeting and Networking

At

Dave & Buster’s in Old City

Summary of April Philadelphia Salesforce.com User Group Meeting:

The meeting began early with a presentation by Steven Woods who discussed Digital Body Language and Salesforce.com: Deciphering Customer Intentions through CRM and Marketing Automation.  Many details about the topics he discussed can be found through the links below:

·         Steve’s Book: Digital Body Language

·         Steve’s Digital Body Language Blog

·         Eloqua website

A Salesforce.com product manager discussed the benefits of the improved AppExchange.  The AppExchange currently features almost 800 different apps ranging from over 312 free apps to very robust enterprise applications.  If apps on the exchange are intimidating to you, I suggest trying a free app like Drivenable’s Draggin’ Role.  This way you can become comfortable with installing apps while benefitting from a popular, useful and easy to use tool. 

This was followed by a presentation by Jesse Middleton of CRM Manager about using Salesforce with Google Apps.  This demo showed how easy it is for companies to integrate Google Apps into Salesforce, and some of the many benefits of the integration.

The final presenter was me, Maria Pergolino, and I presented on some tips and tricks for Salesforce.com users.   In this I discussed how I keep up to date on news about Salesforce.com and related products, how to become involved in usability testing, explained the Service Cloud, and discussed admin certification and premier training.  My slides can be found on Slideshare.   

Guy closed out another great meeting buy talking about the June event at Dave & Busters.  Mark your calendars, as this event will be held on June 25^th.  Details can be found on the Philadelphia Salesforce.com User Group Blog. 

For additional updates and news about the group, feel free to follow the group on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/phillysfdc. 

Hope you enjoyed the event, or join us at the next one if you missed it! –Maria Pergolino

Our meeting will be at Dave and Busters in Old City Philadelphia. You can check the website for directions http://www.daveandbusters.com/Locations/default.aspx

The Agenda

    2:00 - 2:30 Registration & Networking

    2:30 - 3:15 SalesForce What is new and exciting

    3:30 - 4:15 Zoom Info

    4:30 - 5:15 Sales Fusion

    5:30 - 6:00 SalesForce helping early adopters

    6:00 - till ?? Stay and play on your own

First exciting news we are having a joint meeting with the Non Profit Users on June 25th at 2:00pm. It is a vendor sponsored meeting by Salesforce, Sales Fusion, and Zoom Info at Dave and Busters in Old City. Plenty of parking, plenty of food, bring some extra cash and your game face for a great networking opportunity.

Ok now I can admit I totally embarrassed myself last week it took 3 attempts to get the right date for next weeks meeting, Just shows you that I am over worked. At least that is my story and I am sticking to it.

On 23rd we will have Ritesh Gandi from Alteva discuss Content Manager, Jesse Middleton from CRM Manager discuss Google Apps integration, and Sara Varni from Salesforce will call in and discuss the new AppExchange.

The Meeting will be at Alteva 111 South Independence Mall Suite 700, ( The Bourse Building ) Philadelphia, PA any questions just ask gyasika At Altevatel.com

We had "Four Excellent Presenations"

The First was driving user adoption by Dean Graham Download Driving User Adoption 

The Second was done by Steve Wohleking of ACF Solutioins White Paper Here

But Maria Pergolino stole the show with the Excel Connector for Salesforce.   You can reach her the google group or you can find her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/inboundmarketer.
http://www.slideshare.net/Inboundmarketer/salesforce-excel-connector-presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/Inboundmarketer/salesforce-spring-09-release-presentation

We had standing room only as we filled all 35 seats we may need to look for a bigger location soon

We are considering a small vendor sponsored event at Dave and Busters just before the summer break.

We will be meeting again Feb 26th at Alteva offices. 4:00 to 7:00 PM

111 South Independence Mall Suite 700 Philadelphia PA ( 5th and Market ) The Bourse Building.

The topic of this month's meeting will be :Things I wish I knew when I first started using SalesForce"

We are planing 4 presentations that will last 30 minutes each

Agenda 4:00 – 7:00 PM

·         4:00 – 4:15 Networking and Introductions

·         4:15 – 4:45 Dean Graham / NPower PA ( 30 Min )

o   Driving User Adoption

·         4:45 – 5:15 Steve Wokleking /AFC Solutions ( 30 Min )

o   Process Automation

·         5:15 – 5:45 Guest Speaker

o   Inactive picklist value removal ( 30 Min )

·         5:45 – 6:30 Maria Pergolino / Shunra  ( 45 Min )

o   Using Excel Connector for data Quality and Record Changes

o   Highlights form Winter 09 Release

·         6:30 – 7:00

o   User Group Business and Networking

WOW What an event!

As a follower of this thread you know that we had a vendor sponsor event on November 20. We had a total of seven vendors particapate. The idea was to have a way for the vendors to directly interact with the users, users learn a bit from the vendors, and network amongest ourselves. Mission accomplished

75 users and over 100 people had a chance to learn network and celebrate.

I am told one vendor had a sale at the event

To get a flavor of what occured here is Alteva's presentation on You Tube

Here are some snaps of the networking part of the evening

All in all a sucessfull evening and look forward to trying it again

Directions are Here

Read on for more information about the

Philadelphia Sales Force Users Group

Thank You for coming to this page. The idea here is to keep information here about the SalesForce Users Group. The first thing that needs to be covered, if you want to be a member please sign up on this page ( see Column to the left of this Blog "Join Now" ). That is the easiest way for us to reach you about up coming events like this one. Anyone can become a member there is no cost to join the group and it is a great way to help share information and gain knowledge.

Now more information about the event. We do have a door prize being offered by Polycom a Canon PowerShot SD750 You must be present to win the camera and register at the desk.

2:00 - 2:30 Registration and Networking

2:30 - 3:15 The first two presentations

3:30 - 4:15 The second set of presentations

4:30 - 5:15 The final set of presentations

5:30 - 6:00 Users group business and door prize winner announcement

6:00 - 8:00 Drinks, Food and Networking

Please invite anyone that you think could benefit from this event. If it goes well we could do this again.

Feel free to leave comments below or suggestions. Look forward to seeing everyone.

As always, I am availible to assist Guy Yasika Alteva 215-789-4030 gyasika@altevatel.com