Recently we have set up web-form in one of our customers' blog (hosted by Blogger.com). This form is mainly used to capture the contact information for his mailing list.

 I am having trouble with a form I created, getting it to show right on my blog. I created a newsletter subscription form. When I add it on my site it doesn't display properly and I don't know what I am doing wrong. Can you send me instructions please?

We successfully embedded the web-form in his Blog within a few hours. Later, we thought this to be an interesting use case of our Web-form in a real-time scenario.

How to embed Zoho CRM - Web Form in Blogger.com?

1. Generate Web Form for Leads/Contacts/Cases module
2. In Blogger.com embed the Web Form code using Gadgets

To understand this easily here’s a Zoho Show presentation, which will tell you how it works:

Please do share your experience!
We will be happy to create more tutorials based on your business scenarios!





Rina

Setup - the crucial module in Zoho CRM has been given a minor face lift.. The face lift includes a categorization to the left side tree. We have introduced General, Tools and CRM Modules. Screenshot sample shown below.


General - is where you find the essential tools to setup and jumpstart Zoho CRM.
Tools - is where you find everything you need for user management, workflow and others
CRM Modules - The complete collection of links to setup all CRM modules.


Screenshot :




We believe this face lift will certainly reduce the number of scrolls, and give a better visual appeal than before. Let us know what you feel.

- Rajesh

Online software sales are set to increase in 2009 according to Gartner. This is in line with the fact that people are thinking in terms of getting more efficient, more mileage out of whatever software they have or in worst cases, looking out for low-cost, affordable, efficient alternatives.

Even as hardware sales decline, Gartner predicts that online software-as-a-service sales will rise by more than 20 percent in 2009.
 
The sales value is billed at around $10bn .The growth areas are those which have common processes and hence in the horizontal applications space - that would mean those who have global, distributed teams will have a big say in the future. They would benefit by moving to an online collaboration envirionment similar to Zoho.

The SAAS space has seen max growth in the last couple of years - ironically, it also has coincided with the worst economic times in living memory!
However, this purge will help move toward more rational software pricing and will benefit the end users by giving them choices at affordable rates - which they did not have in a useful format for quite sometime.

Factors that impede adoption of SAAS include the following -

• Data security concerns
• Competitive differentiation,
• Scalability and
• Vendor longevity

Shankar