CloudCoaching International Launches Two New Sales Coaching Applications for Dreamforce 2012

Sept. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- SAN FRANCISCO – SALESFORCE.COM DREAMFORCE – Coaching in the Cloud, a CloudCoaching International Service, today announced that two of its most popular coaching productivity tools, SuccessTracker and SkillBurst, will become part of the new Salesforce Work.com ecosystem. SuccessTracker and SkillBurst enable sales leaders and sales managers to provide effective one-to-one and one-to-many coaching directly from Salesforce. The two applications will be available for free for 60 days on salesforce.com's AppExchange, the world’s most popular cloud marketplace for social apps for business.

SuccessTracker enables managers to create performance plans linked to any object in Salesforce. SkillBurst enables managers to run high-impact best practice sharing meetings with their teams, leveraging a library of targeted skill development modules. The announcement was made today at salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2012 in San Francisco. Coaching in the Cloud will be in booth 1415 in the Dreamforce Expo.

Built on the Salesforce Platform, the world’s leading cloud platform for social and mobile business apps, SuccessTracker and SkillBurst are immediately available for test drive and deployment on the AppExchange at http://appexchange.salesforce.com/

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“We’re incredibly excited to join the Salesforce Work.com ecosystem in order to help provide sales managers a wide array of options for coaching their sales team in real time,” said Walter Rogers, President and CEO, CloudCoaching International.  “With SuccessTracker and SkillBurst, sales managers can easily create, administer and execute custom sales performance enablement plans directly within Salesforce.”

“Salesforce.com is committed to helping sales teams dramatically improve their productivity and effectiveness,” said Daniel Debow, VP, Salesforce Work.com. “Partners such as CloudCoaching International are leveraging the power of the Salesforce Platform and the reach of the Work.com ecosystem to help sales organizations sell better, together.”

Product Key Features
SuccessTracker allows sales managers to create custom metrics and enter specific targets for each of their sales makers, which can then be tracked in real time from the CloudCoach Tracker console to get a quick and easy heat map showing how well their team is performing against specific performance plans. Using Skillburst, sales managers may choose from a menu of pre-existing or custom-developed SkillBurst titles to develop specific skills. SkillBurst enables managers to deliver high-impact, low time-commit, best-practices sessions, deployed from Salesforce in the Cloud.

During Dreamforce 2012, on Sept. 21 from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m., Rogers will be leading a session as part of the Work.com track titled, “How to Build a Winning Sales Organization.” During the session, Rogers will be sharing insights from a new book he co-wrote with Tony Robbins that explores strategies and tactics to massively accelerate sales growth. The session will be held in Room 3009/3011 at the Moscone Center.

Dreamforce 2012 is the industry’s largest cloud computing and enterprise technology event, welcoming more than 70,000 registered attendees to experience the power of the social revolution. With more than 750 sessions and 350 cloud companies in the expo, attendees can participate in interactive sessions, hands-on training with cutting-edge technology, thousands of live demos and unparalleled networking. In addition, Dreamforce welcomes special guests Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group; Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric; Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State; Tony Robbins, Entrepreneur, Author & Peak Performance Strategist; and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Dreamforce 2012 offers attendees everything they need to connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways, under one roof.

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