Going to Dreamforce? Let’s grab a coffee

Posted by Steve on Nov 6th, 2009 | no comments home title

Are you going to Dreamforce in San Francisco? If you are, let’s try and connect. Drop me an email at sharper at territoryplan dot com. I would enjoy connecting and talking about sales, trends, applications, or Football. It will be an intense but fun 4 days.

If you don’t know what Dreamforce is, it is a conference of Salesforce.com developers, and partners, users, and sales professionals . There should be around 12,000 people at the Moscone Center, and all of us are focused on Sales, CRM, and the use of Salesforce.com and Cloud Computing. I have already begun to connect with old friends, customers, and partners since San Francisco is a great place to catch up over coffee or a few drinks.

Conferences are a great way to catch up and a great selling opportunity… PROVIDED you know why people are there. People go to conferences to learn more stuff. They go to connect with other users and their peers. They don’t go to be in a 3 day sales call. Connect with prospects (as I intend to do) but leave the pitch and the hard sell at home. Come with value… something that will leave everyone glad they took the time to talk with you. (By the way, value is not defined as a bag, pen, bobble head, or even flash drive) Value is information, an upgrade, an offer, or something that helps your prospect get more out of the event. As for P2W.. We will have a couple of special offers that anyone at Dreamforce who gets my card can take advantage of.

How do you find me to get my card… look for the black T-shirt with something (hopefully) witty on it And look for the Dreamforce offer next week.