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App of the Week – Give a hoot about your social cred with Salesforce for Hootsuite

App of the Week – Give a hoot about your social cred with Salesforce for Hootsuite

If your company has a strong Social Media presence, you no doubt will be getting compliments (and sometimes complaints) about your business on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, your statuses and pictures and blog posts are probably making their rounds and shedding light on countless potential new leads. Adding all those cases and leads to Salesforce could take you hours of copying and pasting, but now with Salesforce for Hootsuite, it’s all just a click away.

Hootsuite is a web application built with the Social Media power user in mind, and offers many ways to help you get a constant 360 view on all your social channels. Adding their Salesforce app gives you the ability to quickly add and update records straight to Salesforce without ever leaving your dashboard.

  • Create new Leads from Twitter and Facebook social profiles.
  • Create Cases from Twitter and Facebook messages.
  • Update information for existing Lead records.
  • Lookup records in Salesforce based on social profile data.

Check out Salesforce for Hootsuite today, and use it to enter all your new #df13 connections (that’s Dreamforce ’13, in case you’re lost)! On that note, the CloudMyBiz team will be clouding around at Dreamforce this week. We’d love to say hello to our Tip of the Week fans!

Tip of the Week – Salesforce help is just a #hashtag away on Twitter

Tip of the Week – Salesforce help is just a #hashtag away on Twitter

Have you ever gotten totally stuck with some problem in Salesforce and didn’t know where to go? Don’t worry, it happens to even the best users, admins, and even developers! Google is a great resource when you need help quick, but often times the answers you get don’t quite meet your needs and then you’re back where you started. Well, did you know you can leverage the power of social media to get help on Twitter?

There are tons of Salesforce experts out there, and when you need their help, all you have to do is type a quick note in Twitter, drop #askforce on the end, and then keep an eye on your notifications. Be patient, sometimes it can take a little bit before someone gets back to you, but when they do, you’ll be getting expert advice from someone who will walk you through the problem in 120 characters or less. If you’re not already on Twitter, sign up and start asking questions today!

-Jared and the Salesforce Guys