Seattle Salesforce.com User Group
I attended the Seattle Salesforce.com User Group today for the first time. They used to have their meetings in Kirkland (not convenient) but this last meeting was at F5, just a mile from our offices so I stopped by.
It was fun. ExactTarget was the sponsor of the event and did a walk through of their email marketing tool which looks quite powerful. One off sends, batch sends to Campaigns, differential unsubscribes, and built in ability for mail recipients to update their Salesforce.com record. Cool. I’ve got clients who need this kind of functionality and connection to Salesforce.com. I’m going to look into it more to see if it’s a fit, and what admin and template creation looks like, and of course cost.
I had the opportunity to plug DemandTools. Not many in the group had heard of them, so I was happy to sing praises of my favorite Salesforce.com partner.
Another take away from the meeting–there are lots of companies looking for Salesforce.com consultants to help them with custom code. If you’re into Salesforce.com and near Seattle you could definitely make a living on this work. After the meeting I was approached by two different folks about helping them customize their Salesforce.com instances. There’s work out there if you want it!
