Consulting - Salesforce.com Experts

Like Eustace Consulting, get small and medium businesses onto salesforce.com.

... delivers Customer Relationship Systems, specifically SalesForce.com, to all different types of businesses.

... a Salesforce.com consulting company with a primary focus on developing and deploying Salesforce.com for customers. We’re mostly focused in the New England area, but we do have some customers in California and Texas. We’ve been in business since April of 2009 and since that time, we’ve worked with about 130 to 135 different companies.

... we’re expanding our scope and saying, ‘Wait, what do you do for email, what do you do for document storage?’ Because people are spending too much money on all these things when there are other more cost-effective solutions available.

... they can go to Google Apps for Business,which is cloud-based email, calendaring, contacts, and all the other features you would get with Microsoft Exchange.  All data is stored and hosted through Google, totally reliable, secure and saving companies significant amounts of money. And then, for document storage, we typically work with Dropbox or Box.net and work to migrate all of their data off old servers that they had previously had  to pay people to maintain.  We then move them up into the cloud and integrate everything into Salesforce.com.

They search in ‘Salesforce consulting Boston’ and we get some leads that way. We get leads from customer referrals, so when a customer has a good experience with us they refer us. Then, thirdly, and probably the biggest, is through our partner channels.

Concierge By City

Like a city-guide service, a prepay for a trip, or a-la-carte concierge per call, or prepay for year.

Recruit people in cities who are personable, will be there, and know the area so they can get things done - just like a concierge in a hotel.

Subsidized WiFi Chip for Embedded Devices

Manufacture a free or super-low cost for ethernet/wifi chipset.  Subsidy is made back because the device will "phone home" and occasionally do internet monitoring.

Online Voting Application

USA voters may be more comfortable using a USA vendor.  Offer to provide source code to USA governments who sign a contract.

An internationally-headquartered company, SCYTL, is now taking over online U.S. voting systems.

The company has previously faced questions about the security of its electronic voting technologies, which are now set to be deployed in 900 U.S. jurisdictions.

The firm already provides balloting for overseas U.S. military and civilian voting in nine states plus elections technologies in several districts.

App - Good listening

WSJ.com:

Ferrari argues that for listening to be effective, a participant in a conversation should speak only 20% of the time. Twenty percent. And when he does open his mouth to speak, he should demonstrate that he is "the Master of the Question."

Smartphone app that listens during a phone call and times who is speaking, then grades the call for listening.  Maybe could also do this in a meeting or with other conversations, by opening the mic.

No big money in this app.  Maybe a buck for the download.  Or free with stats going to a monthly subscription website that provides reports, guidance, coaching.

FEMA Spending Map

Put FEMA spending on a map that can zoom out/in.

Some FEMA spend info.

NameMyIdea.com NameMyBusiness.com

Online product name consulting.  Brief online form.  Person to create a name(s).


What should the name convey?  An emotion?  Highlight competitive advantage?

Exclude trademarks.  uspto.gov/ebc/tess

Add two words together.

Generate I R S Forms

Website to generate PDF letters to I R S to:
request master code;
request employment code;
challenge the employment code.

Want to not be a federal employee and not be [others...]

Gourmet Bacon

Read that curing meat and smoking meat is considered manufacturing and is prohibited in area zoned for agriculture.


Online single-sales and monthly subscriptions.  Gourmet, all-natural, different flavorings.

www.zingermans.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=G-BAC-3
3 month $99
6 month $189
Each shipment contains 12 to 16 ounces of artisan bacon, bacon stories, histories and recipes.
Bonus! Free awesome Pig Magnet with first club shipment.

Three Installments
Month 1: Applewood Smoked
Month 2: Kentucky Dry Cured
Month 3: Arkansas Peppered

Six Installments
Previous Bacons plus
Month 4: Virginia Dry Cured
Month 5: Tennessee Dry Cured
Month 6: Long Pepper

Reselling Gift Cards

Consulting and Website for Whistle Blowers

Whistleblower Web Reporting System
https://www.reportlineweb.com/Welcome.aspx?Client=cobank

Meal Planning

After this is rolling, the costs would be customer acquisition and retention.  If a person has this for a year, would they need the same recipes the next year?


Online weekly meal shopping lists.   Online coupon had $29 for 12 months ($58 Value).

E-Mealz charts out a week's worth of dollar- and healthy-savvy dinner recipes to relieve the burden of kitchen-related stress. Each week, organized grocery listscustomized by family size, dietary desires, and store preferences”showcase flavorful culinary creations for discerning palates. Plans developed by working parents capitalize on sale items at stores such as Wal-Mart and Kroger, and an "any store" list can be used to navigate the aisles of other favored grocers. Family meal plans serve seven meals for three to six people, whereas plans for two are tailored to singles, couples.
Special vegetarian, gluten-free, low-carb, low-fat, and portion-controlled meal-plan options aid nongeneric eaters in assembling targets for their teeth and post-holiday fitness regimens. The Wal-Mart family plan supplies culinary sustenance to families of three to six for an average weekly cost of $75-$85 and takes advantage of the store's regularly discounted prices. A duo can fill a  Publix cart for $35-$45 a week, including side dishes.

Diabetic Testing

Is it possible to make generic testing supplies that fit in other's devices?


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577140830225124226.html
The Telcare device works much like a traditional meter. You insert a test strip into a slot on the meter, then prick your finger with a lancing device to get a drop of blood, touch the strip to the drop, and wait for the reading to appear.
The difference is the meter immediately sends results to its online database ...
While many diabetes meters cost well under $50, or are free (the money is in the test strips), the Telcare meter costs $150 for a starter kit that includes the meter, a wall charger, a case and accessories. The cost drops to $100 if you subscribe to a one-year supply of test strips. The strips cost $56 for a container of 50, or $36 with the subscription. Insurance may reduce these costs.


http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/149104/telcare-reporting

VoIP Services

What is the cost of blocks of phone numbers?  Do they get incoming termination credits?


freedomvoice.com

$10/month. Free activation.
300 Free Minutes Per Month
4.9¢ Per Additional Minute
10 Voicemail Extensions

Also $25 and $60 plans.

Appears inbound minutes are free. Caps on outbound minutes.



www.inphonex.com/services/voip-liteline.php
Pay As You Go service with an incoming phone number of your choice.
$6/month

Consultancy to help to administer federal highway dollars

WSJ article:

...

The main source of the shelters' funding is gasoline-tax revenue raised from Oregon motorists and then distributed as part of an alphabet soup of federal programs supervised by state and local bureaucrats. Grants Pass (named for Ulysses S. Grant's decisive, if distant, victory in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss.) has accumulated millions of Federal Highway Administration dollars to cut down on congestion and air pollution.

...

But to spend the money, Grants Pass must navigate a thicket of regulations. For example, because the city isn't certified to administer federal highway dollars, it was compelled to collaborate with Oregon's Department of Transportation. The DOT, citing its own limited staff, handed off some of those responsibilities to a private consultancy.

"That probably added $140,000 to our budget," said Scott Lindberg, the Grants Pass official in charge of grant writing.

Choose Your Bonus

Posting on paying bonus in USA silver eagles to minimize taxes.

Website to allow employees to choose their own bonus.  Website handles fulfillment.
Employer puts in $ amount, and employee can choose.
USA silver eagle
comp time days
frequent flier / hotel points
gift cards (maybe juice-up the amount, or offer free shipping or another coupong)

www.bonustime.com
www.bonuschoice.com

Compensation Consulting

Previous post on compensation software.

Consulting to help firms with this area:

... assist clients with the design and implementation of annual incentive plans that motivate and reward employees in congruence with company goals.
... services to companies in all phases of the incentive plan design process including:
Benchmarking Performance Measures
Benchmarking Target Payouts
Designing Employee Payout Structures
Modeling the Financial Impact of Incentive Plan Design Alternatives
Drafting Incentive Plans and Employee Communications

Didn't Take Action - Eye-Fi

Discussed this idea with parents about eight years ago.
Many models, with cheapest at $45.

Warehouse Inventory Management

Manage inbound and outbound material flows while providing operational visibility to all warehouse activities.

Letter From Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy

Free printable letter.
http://www.letterfromsanta.org

Upgrade to package of letter + door hanger + gifts.

Consulting - Identity Management

For cloud-only apps, how are they doing provisioning and identity management.  There should already by cloud provision/idM providers online.  What is their pricing model?
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Solutions Architect-Identity Management: Quest Software, Inc.
Job Category Sales; Technology
Position Type Full-Time, Employee
Experience 5-10 Years Experience
Desired Education Level Other
Date Posted January 8, 2011 (Reposted Jan 9)


Since 1987, we've earned the confidence and loyalty of our customers and employees while becoming one of the top five companies in the IT management industry. We develop innovative solutions to help our 100,000+ customers around the globe tackle the toughest IT challenges easier and faster - and save a ton of money. It's something we call Simplicity at Work. Not only are we about making things simple for our customers, but we are committed to making it easy for employees to love what they do while they're here. Through our dynamic work environment, extensive benefits, and casual dress code (just to name a few advantages), we don't overcomplicate things. Our employees continually have options and can choose what works for them, not the other way around. Quest is a place of possibilities.

It's simplicity at work for a more rewarding life.

As a member of the Presales team, you will play a key role as a technical liaison for Senior Sales Representatives and clients. You will be presenting and demonstrating Quest’s Identity Management Solutions at customer sites, performing white board presentations, architecture overviews, product walkthroughs and proof of concepts. This is a field position that requires 60 – 70% travel to clients. The position can be based in anywhere in the Western US.


Technical Requirements:

• 3+ years hands on experience in Identity Management, including experience in:

- User Provisioning and management

- Help Desk, User Self Service and password management

- Computer Associates Identity Management (or Netegrity)

- Multiple Directory Integration or Synchronization

- Account workflow and management

- Single Sign On and system integration to consolidate user accounts/identities


A key indicator of this experience would be a skill set that includes one or more of the following product suites:

- IBM/Tivoli Identity Management

- Oracle Identity Management (or Oblix/COREid/Thor)

- Computer Associates Identity Management (or Netegrity)

- MIIS (Microsoft Identity Integration Server or MMS (Microsoft Management Server) or Zoomit)

- SunOne Identity Management

- Novell Identity Manager

- BMC Identity Management (or Passlogix)


In addition, the candidate must have experience with one or more of the following technologies:

- Microsoft Active Directory

- SunOne Directory Server (or JavaOne/iPlanet Directory Server)

- Novell eDirectory

- LDAP

- NIS

- Kerberos

- Unix/Linux account management


Additional Requirements:

- Available to travel 2 - 4 days/week

- Excellent presentation, business, analytical, problem solving and communication skills (written and verbal)

- Demonstrated ability to successfully execute procurement activities: RFP responses, trial execution, installation and tuning

- B.A./B.S. in CS/CIS/MIS/Business or related field equivalent
 
Keywords: sales engineer, pre-sales, presales, pre sales, sales consultant, systems engineer, unix
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Oracle's white paper overview

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/identity-management/overview/index.html?origref=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/523406
Oracle Identity Management is a complete and integrated, next-generation identity management platform that provides breakthrough scalability; enables organizations to achieve rapid compliance with regulatory mandates; secures sensitive applications and data regardless of whether they are hosted on-premise or in a cloud; and reduces operational costs.

Oracle identity analytics.  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/testcontent/index-089952.html

Fischer Identity™ enables organizational effectiveness and agility, mitigates risk, controls costs and enables regulatory compliance.  Cloud or on-premise.
user provisioning and password management.
no need for coding.

aurionPro Sena
http://www.senasystems.com/practices/identity-management

Political Campaign Items

Create items for fans of political campaign.  These salt & pepper shakers might sell.

  These appear to be cheap plastic:
http://shop.boingboing.net/product/Retro-Arcade-Salt-Pepper-Shakers
$19.95

Datalogix - Software Engineer

DLX is a fast-growing, privately-held company on the cutting edge of digital media marketing. We made our mark by leveraging the power of purchase-based audience targeting to drive measurable online and offline sales. Today, our data includes almost every U.S. household and more than $1 trillion in consumer transactions down to the SKU level. No other firm is better positioned to deliver the right message to the right audience right now.

With a 10-year track record of sustained profitability and a true entrepreneurial work environment, DLX offers top talent all the excitement of a start-up environment with less of the risks. That's one important reason why two of the leading venture capital firms in the country -- Sequel and General Catalyst -- continue to fund our growth.

Oh -- and wait 'til you see the DLX world-class work environment. This position is located in our Boulder area office. It's a place you'll love going to every day, in a part of the country that delivers more than 250 days of sunshine each year

Job Description:

Datalogix is looking for a Software Engineer to join our existing development team. This position will involve day to day development of new and existing applications based on business requirements. Our work environment is very team oriented which requires good communication skills. We also value generalists over specialists, so the candidate will be expected to play a variety of roles as a member of one of our Agile development teams. We use a variety of technologies, however, we don't expect the candidate to know all of them, we only expect an eagerness to learn and work with all of them.

Responsibilities include:
*Working as a member of an Agile Software Development Team to help implement new functionality based on business requirements.
*Developing new programs and supporting existing programs in Linux and Windows environments.
*Interaction with the Datalogix business and operations teams will be required to assist them in working with clients and working through technical implementation and customer service issues.
*Performance testing in a high volume Internet infrastructure.
*Developing primarily server-side solutions in C# and Java.
*Developing in a variety of database technologies including; Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL and Netezza.
*Limited development, testing and troubleshooting of Javascript and HTML.
*Writing scripts and programs to process and move large volumes of data.
*Troubleshooting of web server issues and incoming web requests from partners and clients.

Skills and Qualifications:
*Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field preferred.
*Experience working with Javascript and HTML is required.
*Experience developing in either C# or Java is required.
*Experience in either PHP or Perl is required. Linux (Emacs or Vi) experience is required.
*Hands-on experience with administration or development of web servers is required.
*Knowledge of either Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL server is required.
*Internet Ad serving or high volume web site experience is preferred.
*Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment Willingness to work with clients and perform technical customer support is required.
*Strong communication skills required to interact with Agile team members.

Currently, third party candidates and candidates requiring visa sponsorship will not be considered for this position

Jessica Quintana | HR Coordinator | Datalogix
303.327.1721 d | jessica.quintana@datalogix.com

We're hiring. See our Careers page at datalogix.com/careers

Real Audiences. Real Results.

Facial Recognition Deterrence

Contacts, sunglasses, or pretend reading glasses that hinder facial recognition.

• Obscure bridge area (between eyes, forehead/nose intersection
• Glass/plastic coating to prevent transmission of IR/UV to hinder eye color determination.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ultraviolet
http://en-us.transitions.com/en/experience/default.aspx

Manage Prescription Drug Claims

Manage prescription drug claims for employers, government agencies, and health plans.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) is a third party administrator (TPA) of prescription drug programs. They are primarily responsible for processing and paying prescription drug claims. They also are responsible for developing and maintaining the formulary, contracting with pharmacies, and negotiating discounts and rebates with drug manufacturers.

SXC purchased a provider.

HealthTrans, is a privately held company formed in 2000 and based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. We process approximately 100 million claims annually for clients, representing 15.3 million lives and approximately $4 billion in prescription drug spend.
HealthTrans has a proven history in administering discount health plans, and managing one of the three largest discount drug programs available in the United States. Currently HealthTrans has 10.6 million discount pharmacy cardholders nationwide, saving members nearly $225 million since 2006.

Manage RFPs

Request For Proposals begin the contracting process.

Manage creation of RFPs and publication for competitive bid.  Manage bid process.  Manage awarding contract.

2011 top 10 apps

http://lifehacker.com/5870288/top-10-under+hyped-web-apps-2011-edition?tag=lifehacker-top-10

Prepaid Air Travel

  Company to aggregate the following and sell use to small companies/individuals.

• Contract with airlines to pre-buy blocks of seats (specific flights or anytime use).
• Pre-buy time on fractional airlines.
• Pre-buy entire flights and sell/manage for sports team travel.
• Pre-buy entire flights during high-value days such as day before Presidential winners party.

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,1360,2964,00.html
Upfront discounts of up to 25% or fixed fares for the duration of the active contract
Available plans ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 annually

http://www.united.com/press/detail/0,6862,52653,00.html
Elite Prepaid Travel Card will also reward purchasers with a 5 percent discount on domestic United, United Express and Ted flights

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52227,00.html
United PassPlus Exec
With PassPlus Exec, you can fly to domestic destinations on premium fares (F, J or Y) and receive a 25% discount off the published fare. International fares (F, J, Y or B) receive a 25% discount off the published fare.

The Funding Place .com

Website with processes to fund any size.

ChipIn
Micro loans
Small LLC with share ownership tracking
Non-public shareholders selling shares in secondary unlisted market
Go public with Dutch auction

Online Commission Aggregator

searchOutHunger.com
Search engine where click payments go to non-profit.
Web browser toolbar search.