Hi Everyone -

I'm sorry for the last minute change, but I wanted to pass along the updated address for Thursday's KC Salesforce.com User Group meeting. The new location address is:

Surewest Communications

14859 W 95th St

Lenexa, KS 66219

Enjoy the week!

BRIAN VESTLE  ::  SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

brianv@mailprint.com

MAIL PRINT  ::  816.459.8404  ::  816.694.5863 Cell ::  816.459.8407 fax  :: www.mailprint.com

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! Here's the long overdue info on our September User Group Meeting. I hope you all can attend!

RSVP

Please email Terri Hahn at terrih@mailprint.com by Noon on Tuesday, September 22nd.

Day and Time

Thursday, September 24th

9:00 AM to Noon

Host and Location

SureWest Communications

9647 Lackman Road

Lenexa, KS 66219

Agenda

9:00 - 9:15

Check In, Continental Breakfast, Networking

9:15 - 9:25

Leadership Introductory Comments

9:25 - 9:40

SureWest Communications Welcome Comments and Company Overview

9:40 - 10:35

InfoUSA Presentation on Their Use of Salesforce.com, Including an Introduction to their "Lead Profiler" Application As Well As Offering Some Great Insight Into Integrating With Third Party Data Providers

10:35 - 10:50

Sara Varni, Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.com to Present via WebEx on Some New and Exciting App Exchange Features

10:50 - 11:45

Birds of A Feather Breakout Groups

Sales, Marketing, Administrators, Data Quality/Reporting

11:45 - 11:55

Birds of a Feather Recap and Summary

Each group will provide a quick recap of what was discussed and their 5 key learning points to share with the entire group

11:55 - Noon

Closing Comments  

Be sure to bring your questions AND your answers to share with your peers.  Mark your calendars and save the date!

Have a great week!

BRIAN VESTLE  ::  SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

brianv@mailprint.com

MAIL PRINT  ::  816.459.8404  ::  816.694.5863 Cell ::  816.459.8407 fax  :: www.mailprint.com

Hello!

Thanks to everyone who attended the May User Group Meeting at American Century Investments (ACI). Special thanks again to Jim Lauterwasser, Troy Beaver, and Cory Cochran of ACI for providing some transparency and insight into their overall use of Salesforce from a Sales, Marketing, and Administrator perspective (as well as hosting the event).The presentation was a great way to kick-off the event and gave all of us a point of reference during the birds of a feather breakout groups.

As promised (although a little late), I have attached the summary of notes for each of the sales, marketing, and admin break-out groups.

Download Admin Break Out Session 5.28.09

Download Marketing Break Out Session 5.28.09

Download Sales Break Out Session 5.28.09

Hope this helps.

Looking forward to seeing all of you at the next meeting. We will start sendind out communication about the July event here in about a week or so. 

Brian Vestle

Senior Account Executive

Mail Print, Inc.

Here are the logistics and final agenda for our May KC Salesforce.com User Group Meeting next Thursday, May 28^th at American Century Investments.

RSVP
Please email Terri Hahn at terrih@mailprint.comby Noon on Tuesday, May 26^th.

Day and Time
Thursday, May 28^th
9:00 AM to Noon

Host and Location
American Century Investments
4400 Main St.
Kansas City, MO 64111

Parking Instructions
The parking lot just to the south of 4400 Main St. (between 4400 and 4500 Main St.) will be reserved for this event and blocked off for our use. Enter through the front door off of Main St. and signs will be posted for further direction.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30 Check In, Continental Breakfast, Networking

9:30 - 9:40 Leadership Introductory Comments

9:40 - 10:15 American Century Investments Welcome Comments and Presentation On Their Use of Salesforce.com From A Sales, Marketing, and
Administrator Perspective

10:15 - 11:30 Birds of A Feather Breakout Groups
Sales, Marketing, Administrators, Data Quality/Reporting

11:30 to 11:50 Birds of a Feather Recap and Summary
Each group will provide a quick recap of what was discussed and their 5 key learning points to share with the entire group

11:50 to Noon Closing Comments

Be sure to bring your questions AND your answers to share with your peers.  Mark your calendars and save the date!

I look forward to seeing you on May 28th!

Brian Vestle

Senior Account Executive

Mail Print, Inc.

Hi All!

Please save the date and mark your calendars for Thursday, May 28th from 9:00AM to Noon for our next KC Salesforce.com User Group meeting. American Century Investments will be hosting this event.

A detailed agenda with program, sponsor, and logistics information (including directions and parking instructions) will be emailed in the coming weeks as well as posted to this blog.

Please RSVP no later than Monday, May 25^th to terrih@mailprint.com.

If you have questions, feel free to call me at (816) 459-8404 ext. 238 or drop me an email at brianv@mailprint.com.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on May 28^th and picking up where we left off in March!

Have a great week!

Brian Vestle

Senior Account Executive

Mail Print, Inc.

Here are the logistics and final agenda for our March KC Sales Force User Group Meeting next Thursday, March 5^th at Hallmark.

RSVP

Please email Terri Hahn at terrih@mailprint.com by COB on Monday, March 2^nd

Day and Time

Thursday, March 5^th

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Host and Location

Hallmark Cards, Inc.

2501 McGhee St.

Kansas City, MO 64108

Parking Instructions

I have attached a map of the headquarters complex.  Parking lot 31 will be open for people attending the meeting and should be available beginning at noon in case anyone comes in early.  We will check in at the guard station in the 8D Lobby (the blue dot on the map...not the main corporate entrance).  To get there from lot 31, you can walk straight through the rice center parking garage that has an entrance right across the street (once through the garage, need to go to the R level and the guard station is right there) or you can walk north on Gillham and walk through the visitor parking lot.

Download HQ Map

Agenda

1:00  to 1:15 - Check In and get your lunch

*FREE lunch sponsored by Engagement Systems – www.engagementsystems.com

1:15 to 1:20 – User Group Leadership Introductory Comments

1:20 to 1:30 – Hallmark Comments

1:30 to 1:50 – Engagement Systems Spotlight

1:50 to 2:30 – Birds of A Feather Breakout Groups

*Sales, Marketing, Administrators, Data Quality, Reporting, Mobile

2:30 to 2:45 - General Discussion and Update

*Each group will provide a quick recap of what was discussed and their 5 key learning points to share with the entire group

2:45 to 4:00 – Salesforce.com Spring 2009 Release Presentation

*Mark Epperson is a Senior Sales Engineer for Salesforce.com and he will provide the group insights an overview of the Spring 2009 Release

Be sure to bring your questions AND your answers to share with your peers.  Mark your calendars and save the date!

I look forward to seeing you on March 5th!

Brian Vestle

Mail Print, Inc.

Please save the date and mark your calendars for Thursday, March 5^th from 1:00 to 4:00 for our

next KC Salesforce.com User Group meeting. Hallmark Tributes and Hallmark Business

Expressions will be co-hosting this event with lunch sponsored by Engagement Systems

(www.engagementsystems.com).

A detailed agenda with program and logistics information (including directions and parking

instructions) will be emailed out next week as well as posted to this blog.

Please RSVP no later than Monday, March 2^nd to terrih@mailprint.com

If you have questions, feel free to call me at (816) 459-8404 ext. 238 or drop me an email at

brianv@mailprint.com.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on March 5^th and picking up where we left off in November!

Have a great week!

Brian Vestle

Senior Account Executive

Mail Print, Inc.

Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend the November 14th Kansas City Salesforce.com Users Group Meeting -- Details are below...

Send your RSVP to Jennifer.McDaniel@imagenow.com.

Questions -- Call Jason Kort at SoftVu at 913-233-8238.

Friday, November 14, 2008

11 AM to 2 PM

Perceptive Software Offices

22701 West 68th Terrace

Shawnee

,

Please click link below for directions.

http://www.imagenow.com/company/overview/directions.shtml

Agenda

11:00 to 11:15 - Check In and get your lunch -- FREE lunch sponsored by SoftVu.

11:15 - 11:30 - Introductory Comments

11:30 - 12:15 -- Break Out Groups - Dreamforce is Nov 2 - 5 and we wanted to learn what new and exciting information was discussed at the conference.  KC User Group members attending Dreamforce will lead each of the following breakout sessions. 

·         Sales, Marketing, Support, Administrators (Jarrod Kingston), User Adoption Tips & Tricks, Data Quality, Reporting

As in our last meeting we will break out into small groups for about an hour to work through various tips and tricks.  Be sure to bring your questions/problems AND solutions that you have found helpful.  Attending Dreamforce??? Please contact Jason Kort if you are interested in volunteering as a Break Out Group leader. 

12:15 to 12:30 -- General Discussion and Update

Each group will provide a quick recap of what was discussed and their 5 key learning points to share with the entire group.

12:30 - 2:00 – How Salesforce.com Uses Salesforce.com

Dixie Larson is a Senior Sales Engineer for Salesforce.com and she will provide the group insights on how Salesforce.com Sales Uses SF.com as well as an overview of Ideas and Winter 2009.

Be sure to bring your questions AND your answers to share with your peers.  Mark your calendars and save the date!

We look forward to seeing you on November 14^th!

I want to thank everyone who attended our September 17th meeting at American Century.  Brian Tolander from ACI was a great host at a great facility with easy parking.  We had about 54 people attending the event which is great for a fledgling group.  THANK YOU BRIAN.

In the light of thanking Brian's, I want to also extend a big THANK YOU to Brian Connell from Astadia for a great lunch and an insightful presentation from Chris Thompson during our Mini Admin Class.  Chris had some insight for us about some tips and tricks that I was able to come back and deploy almost immediately.  If you are having challenges with your SFDC launch Astadia is one of their largest partners.  It was apparent that they know what they are talking about.  You can reach Brian Connell at bconnell@astadia.com.

Additional thanks go out to Rob Hampton, Danny Wastler, Jason Kort, Tim Poolman, and Dixie Larson for their help in leading our small group discussions.  I will post the notes from each group as soon as I receive them.

I also want to comment about the great support we received for this meeting from the SalesForce.com team.  Tim Poolman, Dixie Larson, and Tyler Harnish were all from SFDC to support our event.

There are about 20 people (best that I can tell) from the area going to DreamForce in November.  Our plan is to come back from DreamForce and have a meeting in mid November.  Watch the blog and your email for the date, time and location. Of course those of you attending DreamForce be sure to check back to the blog for details on where we will be connecting for a little social time.

That is all for now... but keep your eyes peeled for more details and as always feel free to drop me an email or call.

Best wishes,

Gina M. Danner, CEO
ginad@mailprint.com

Mail Print, Inc.
816-459-8404
www.MailPrint.com