the small business app market: desk.com, do.com and more - dreamforce 2012 - 9/21
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Power to the "pro"-sumer! The opportunity to sell to small businesses is tremendous but also calls for a new breed of app. Join us to hear how companies like Desk.com and Do.com have applied best practices from the consumer world to deliver professional apps that are easy to trial, deploy, and maintain. Learn how you can optimize your go-to-market plans when targeting this segmentTRANSCRIPT
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The Small Business App Market: Desk.com, Do.com, and More
Richard Hasslacher, salesforce.com Director, ISV and Channels @rhasslacher
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Richard Hasslacher Director, ISV & Channels twitter @rhasslacher
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Social Revolution
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Trends in SMB
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Building blocks of SMB apps
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Manav Monga Co-Founder and PM, Do by Salesforce ���twitter @xmanav
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Social Productivity Everywhere
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SMB Landscape Today
Cloud
Behave like consumers
Marketplaces
Try and Buy
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Building for Small Businesses
Release early and often
Build features that apply to everyone
Measure & Iterate
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Reaching Small Businesses
Qualified businesses
Freemium
Referrals
Interoperability
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How Does Do Help Small Businesses
Fast
Simple
Flexible
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Contactually Fast integration: 2 days, 1 engineer
Contacts and Tasks integration
Open API
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Chris Abad VP Product, Desk.com @chrisabad
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All about me.
I’m a designer, developer, and Internet entrepreneur.
Former founder and CEO of a social gaming company.
Acquired by News Corp.
Interested in social behavior within web-based and
mobile products.
Passionate about high-quality user experiences.
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All about Desk.com
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The bar has been raised for appealing to SMB’s. They have higher expectations.
Best-of-class user experience.
Use it on the go.
Integrate with social channels.
Simple, friendly pricing.
Creating an app for SMB’s
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Must-have’s, if you’re going to connect with your market:
Speak their language.
Grab their attention. Fast.
Leverage the ecosystem.
Be visible in marketplaces.
Reaching SMB’s
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Desk – how we developed an app for SMB
Simple
Friendly
Effective
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David Barrett Founder
@expensify
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All about Expensify
"Expense reports that don't suck!" Import your credit card, SmartScan receipts with your mobile phone, export to accounting, reimburse with direct deposit.
- Over 1M users across 150K companies
- Over $2M in expense reports processed daily
- Expense management leader for SMB
- No sales, no marketing
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Not much: Classic techniques still don't work
- Paid acquisition still too expensive
- Partners still not interested
- Field of Dreams: they still don't come.
How has the SMB landscape changed?
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There is no one magic bullet, you need a full clip:
- Incredibly obvious design,
- Pretty enough to look credible,
- Not too pretty you're afraid to change,
- Laser focus on what matters,
- Acceptance that you're wrong, and
- Unbelievable patience.
Creating an app for SMB’s
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New options exist that didn't even 3 years ago:
- Mobile
- Viral / word of mouth
- Ecosystems
Reaching SMB’s
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How our App addresses SMB
1. Mobile: Employees sign up for free app 2. Viral: Submit/approve qualifies the lead 3. Freemium: Activity threshold forces paying 4. Word of mouth: User delight closes the loop
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Case Study: Team Rubicon
Flashmobs that Save Lives in Disaster Regions
"We get a lot of spontaneous volunteers [who] need reimbursements
rapidly since they are fronting the costs." Jake Wood, Founder
- Hundreds of ex-military volunteers
- Reimburse mileage, medical supplies, etc.
- Operate in Africa, Haiti, Pakistan, China, Burma, US
- Currently helping hurricane victims in New Orleans
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The science of incenting right!
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See Us @ Booth 706
Express is native Force.com In the market for 18 months 270+ customers 95% CSAT 36 reviews @ 4.5 – 5.0
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IT IS THE BEST OF TIMES
IT COULD BE THE WORST OF TIMES
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Inbound
You reach them
They reach you
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CRM Effectiveness Sales Motivation Revenue Growth
X X X
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• 28 Sales reps using Express • Visibility for the reps • Motivates and aligns • Eliminates the error rate • Cloud enables plug-in to Salesforce
“Xactly gives us error free, comp visibility to both finance and sales.”
James Mayfield Business Analyst
Cascade Orthopedic Supply
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David Barret
Expensify
Richard Hasslacher
ISV & Channels
Scott Broomfield
Xactly
Manav Monga
Do.com
Chris Abad
Desk
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