Interview with Mark Mangano of Salesforce Watch and Scott Hemmeter of Perspectives on Salesforce
Mark Mangano is the author of Sales Force Watch, the top blog for independent Sales Force News, and Scott Hemmeter is the author of the Perspectives on Salesforce blog and also a successful Salesforce consultant.
I was at the Dreamforce ‘06 Conference investigating AppExchange, Saleforce.com’s 3rd party development and distribution platform because I was curious about opportunities for lone consultants and very small companies to produce software for the business web.
Scott and Mark were kind enough to talk to me about how many of the barriers to entry have dropped and how easy it is to get started in this world.
Tags: businessweb, dreamforce06, interview, podcast, salesforce
October 12th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
God, those scanning beeps in the background throughout the podcast. :-) They felt invasive - I asked a marketing buddy about it, though, and he said they’re 400 times easier than trying to get responses any other way, so I’ll accept his expertise on the matter. Hopefully the “beeps” get analyzed by Salesforce.com to make DF2007 even better than 2006, instead of never getting acted on like I’ve seen at other companies.
Great dual interview, and Tony I subscribed to your blog as an interesting new read. Mark and Scott are both really interesting contributors to the Salesforce community and I enjoyed meeting them at Dreamforce too.One request: I might be a podcast old fogey, but I would have loved to skim through a transcript instead of trying to listen to the whole thing. Is there a free service that does that transcription yet? Sorry if this is a really dumb or outdated question.
Keep up the great posts!
October 14th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Thanks for the kind words Chris. I really liked Mark and Scott and am very thankful that they took the time to talk to me. I think they did a great job of showing that there are opportunities for all levels on the AppExchange platform.
Unfortunately I don’t know of a free transcription service. I know that PodZinger does speech to text translation in order to offer full text search of podcasts. You can tell by looking at the results that the results are far from perfect.
Here’s a search for “Sales Force”
http://podzinger.com/results.jsp?q=%22sales+force%22&s=&sname=&mc=en-all&il=en
That’s not to knock Podzinger though. I think what they are doing is amazing.