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Freeing Information and the Aaron Swartz Loss

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Web founder Berners-Lee makes the argument that certain information should be available universally. He made his points at the world economic forum in Davos. Berners-Lee said that information is in silos. You are unable for example to share images in one Social Media account with another. This is even though the pictures are yours.

In addition, accessing and disseminating information that should be public is often criminal with severe legal consequences. Laws are not keeping up with technology.

Accessing and sharing certain information can help society in general. This may include public health issues and infrastructure data. The argument goes that having this information in the public domain can help bring about solutions. It does exclude information that revolves around national security and similar.

With Aaron Swartz, some feel that the government overreached. The prosecution threatened a 35-year jail sentence and $1M in fines. Aaron Swartz committed suicide.

Web founder Berners-Lee: Share info, improve the world

How to Prepare for Your Interview

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You completed your Salesforce training and even became Salesforce certified. Now it is time to get a job.

The first 5 of the 50 Most Common Interview Questions:

1. What are your strengths?
2. What are your weaknesses?
3. Why are you interested in working for
[insert company name here]?
4. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?
5. Why do you want to leave your current company?

(view the rest)

Last week we published some rather unique (strange) interview questions. This included questions from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce and others. Today we will show you some more mainstream interview queries. Moreover, you will learn how to prepare for these interviews.

You can develop and practice answers. Even follow the advice of experts.


Free Webinar: Boost Your Sales with Reports and Dashboards

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Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM EST

Who should attend

This course is for corporate sales and marketing teams, including your:

  • CEO
  • VP of Sales
  • Sales Managers
  • VP of Marketing
  • Marketing Managers
  • Team leaders and members
  • Salesforce AdministratorsBottom of Form

Learn Salesforce.com Analytics for Smart Selling

Program highlights include:

  • Getting started with the Sales Cloud
  • Effective use of reports and dashboards
  • Tips and best practices
  • Questions and answers from experts

Your business decisions are only as good as the information you use to make those decisions. Salesforce Analytics for Increased Sales, teaches you how to identify and release hidden sales data from within Salesforce. Then learn to transform that data into actionable business intelligence for increased sales.

Remove LinkedIn Connections

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If you are being spammed, or simply annoyed by a LinkedIn connection, delete them.

Just follow these easy steps.

  1. Login to LinkedIn
  2. Hover over Contacts
  3. Click on Connections
  4. Click “Remove Connections” (on right- below navigation bar)
  5. Select by checking those you want removed
  6. Click “Remove Connections”

It is that simple to take control of your LinkedIn!

Why Your CRM is Failing

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If you are like most managers, you have heard it all before.

I do not use my CRM because:

  1. It is too difficult to use
  2. Too many clicks
  3. Takes too long to enter information
  4. The information is wrong
  5. I am too busy to use it
  6. I am computer phobic (don’t laugh)
  7. I am successful without CRM
  8. Management uses the information to “beat us up”
  9. Once the information is in the system, I do not know how to use it
  10. Fill in your reasons_________________________________

Your Fixes:

  1. Invest in setting up your CRM to align with your business and processes- one size does not fit all
  2. Train your team with salesforce training or whatever other CRM you are using
  3. Set-up basic reports identifying:
    1. Pipeline Stages
    2. Open Quotes
    3. New opportunities
    4. Lost sales
  4. Create a CRM Owner- invest in an Administrator
  5. No Excuses- stop complaining, you must use the system, this does mean you

Tell us what you think. Why did your implementation fail? Why did your implementation succeed?

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