What SMBs should be integrating into their CRM, for today and tomorrow

| By David Spark
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At the CRM Evolution Conference in New York City I sat down
with Brent Leary, co-founder and partner of CRM
Essentials
, to talk about what SMBs are successfully integrating into their
CRM package today and what should they be doing in the future.…


Automate your Sales Quotes with Socket App for Zoho CRM

| By Sharanya R
3


This is a guest post by Michael Walsh of Deversus Software Inc.

Socket, an

Online Quoting Software as a Service
 that recently launched to the public, now integrates seamlessly with Zoho CRM. Socket allows your employees and customers to share the same simple, automated quoting system to save time and receive more leads with automatically calculated, generated, and e-mailed PDF quotes.

Socket lets you easily create your own Items (products/services), specify their pricing, and bundle them together in Quote Forms, which represent what your quotes will contain. You can easily plug the Quote Forms you create directly into your own website to allow customers to build their own instant quotes. Once set up, Socket handles all of the heavy lifting in creating, e-mailing, and tracking your quotes.…


Getting Organized – Google Tasks integration with Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects

| By Naveen
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We’ve continuously been working on adding more enhancements to Zoho applications in

Google Apps marketplace
. Just last week we announced “Zoho CRM Contacts/Calendar sync with Google Apps” and got great feedback. Today, we’re very excited to announce Google Tasks integration with two of our top products in Google Apps marketplace,

Zoho CRM
and

Zoho Projects
.

This integration provides a unified platform for tracking all your tasks in one place. Usually, users tend to maintain sales related tasks in CRM application, projects related tasks in project management app and personal tasks in another application. The confusion arising out of such multiple platforms can now be avoided with this integration.

Zoho Creator – Zoho CRM Integration : A success story of Credible Systems

| By raagavan
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Guest post by Mark Thurman of Credible Systems:


Credible Systems joined the


Zoho Alliance Partner Program
 2 years ago, with Zoho Creator as their main focus, and later expanded their scope to include Zoho CRM, Zoho Reports, & Zoho Projects. Founded in early 2009 by Mark Thurman and Sarah Treanor,


Credible System
 is a consultancy focused on helping organizations of all sizes and types, leverage the growing power of cloud-computing. Their clients range from schools and SME’s to much larger enterprises. Here is how Mark

sees it all:



The Client:


We were approached by a European-wide consultancy to assist them with extending the functionality of Zoho CRM. The client provides a broad range of business consultancy services to blue chip organization across Europe.


If integration costs more than software, It is a bug, not a feature

| By Raju Vegesna
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This quote from Microsoft from PC World article caught my attention.

For every $1 Microsoft makes on its software, partners make $8.70 in additional revenue servicing and customizing these products

I actually consider this a bug, not a feature of the traditional software model. It may be good for Microsoft and its partners for generating business. But look at it from a customer’s perspective. This means, for every $1 they spent on purchasing software, they end up spending $8.70 in customizing and servicing the software.

Among other things, SaaS makes integration easy. Our own integration, with both internal and external apps, is a great example of this. We launch a new integration almost every week. Try doing this with installed apps.…


Sync App for Zoho CRM and ExactTarget

| By Sharanya R
1


This is a guest post by
Clint Wilson, founder of Cazoomi.

ExactTarget is a global Software as a Service (SaaS) leader that powers all types of interactive marketing messages through a single, integrated platform.

Zoho CRM is used by many of our Cazoomi members to grow their
business and email marketing is a key initiative for the majority of
them to keep their customers up-to-date with what is happening in their
businesses.

At Cazoomi, we have created an integration service for those businesses which are using
ExactTarget & Zoho CRM. We partnered with a key ExactTarget powerhouse in the Bay Area, Pierry Interactive, to enable some of our largest Zoho CRM & ExactTarget subscribers to easily get these systems to talk to one another.…


OneSaas integrates with Zoho CRM (Announced at CeBIT Australia, 2011)

| By Sharanya R
1


OneSaas is a Software-as-a-Service cloud integration platform that is designed to solve the challenges of integrating separate Cloud-based or On-Site software solutions. By integrating popular platforms from CRM, eCommerce, Invoicing, Email Marketing, Event Management, Project Management and Accounting, OneSaas gives you a way to simplify and optimize your business processes.

This is a guest post by Corneliu Tusnea of OneSaas.

When your business data like contacts, invoices, and product inventory is in the cloud, you can work from anywhere.

And you can use your favourite tools, such as Zoho CRM to stay on top of client sales, MailChimp for email marketing, and Shopify to host your online store. But what happens when your business data lives in two or three different Saas applications?…