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Many sales organizations organize their teams with an Inside Sales rep supporting a number of Outside (Field) Sales reps. In this situation, the Outside reps cover specific geographic territories getting support with establishing meetings and trip planning from their Inside Sales counterpart. Geopointe has always had very robust route planning features. These got even better...
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This morning, the fabulous Jason Venable demonstrated the new release of Geopointe, including some amazing new features, like our new Routing UI, Route sharing,  Change Ownership Action, and, last but not least, Geopointe for Salesforce1. Also, included at 23:21, in the Salesforce1 demo portion of the webinar, Jason shows off his new mobile app demo...
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The March 2014 release of Geopointe is now available on the Salesforce AppExchange. If you are an existing Geopointe customer, you can manually update your Salesforce production environment now, or you can wait until Saturday, March 1st, when the new release will be automatically pushed to your system. If you are not yet a customer,...
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Wow! February is almost over. The mythical Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow, and much of the US is experiencing some extra winter, but Spring is right around the corner, and with it new software releases!! Salesforce, of course, has their Spring 14 release, with some very exciting new features across all of their products,...
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Salesforce Activities – Drudgery or Valuable Operations Data? Sales professionals have a love-hate relationship with Tasks and Events in Salesforce.  Smart sales leaders and executives increasingly recognize the value of sales activity metrics, and the opportunity they provide for coaching, but field sales people are typically driven more by instinct and results, and the last thing...
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We believe Google has firmly established their place as the leader in the maps and geolocation space. We recently found this cool info-graphic that illustrates that fact. Source: Business-Management-Degree.net Lots of people, especially in the Salesforce world, have been talking about how they no longer have the ability to use the Google Maps API for...
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The concept of checking in to a location has grown in popularity over time with social apps like Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter, and the ubiquity of location-aware mobile devices.  But does sharing your location really have true business value? We think so, especially in the context of your CRM data. What if you could leave...
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Google has recently updated their terms of service for the Google Maps API. Starting February 1, 2014, the commercial use of the Google Maps API will require a Google Maps API for Business license. You can see a copy of Salesforce’s explanation here. What does this mean? Apps such as Find Nearby by Salesforce Labs and any...
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Working here at Geopointe, I don’t have much of a need to use it professionally for my day-to-day. Rather, most of my Geopointe interaction is on demos, over calls, or writing support docs. But that doesn’t mean I don’t use it. My social circle is full of running junkies; I’ve got one friend or another...
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Many Salesforce administrators are receiving emails from Salesforce (a copy is here) explaining changes occurring to the Google Maps API Terms of Service on February 1.  Google will no longer allow the free Google Maps keys to work inside of Salesforce because it violates their Terms of Service, which require these maps to be displayed publicly. As...
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