Service Cloud

A Customer Engagement Lesson From Portland’s TriMet MAX Light Rail

Last week I traveled to Portland for a customer meeting. The meetings were productive and I was leaving with a strong sense of collaboration and excitement from our customer. Portland is known for it’s great public transit system, TriMet, which means that most people don’t even use a car when visiting. When it was time to go, they urged me to take advantage of the city’s oft touted MAX light rail train to the airport. I was waiting for a Red Line train, but, as luck would have it, the Red Line was delayed due to an accident. (more…)

Desk.com versus Service Cloud

Choosing The Right Support App To Grow Your Business

If you’re trying to select a support app for your business there are enough options to make this task rather daunting. Two of the most talked about service-desk support tools are Desk.com and Service Cloud – both from Salesforce! By leveraging cloud-based tools to deliver outstanding service, companies will ensure that their customers are faithful to their products and even recommend them to their peers. Depending on the size and scope of your company, Desk.com or Service Cloud will help you meet and exceed your service goals and become a truly customer-focused organization. (more…)

YesVideo Wins Service Surfboard Award

San Francisco, Calif. — October 16, 2014 — West Coast Consulting Group, the San Francisco based Cloud consulting firm announced today that its customer YesVideo, has won the Anytime, Anywhere Service Surfboard Award at Dreamforce 14. The Surfboard Awards recognize key salesforce.com customers for their commitment to service, innovation and success through use of the Service Cloud or Desk.com. Other award winners included Coca Cola, Walgreens and The Home Depot.

yesvideo-award (more…)

Top 10 Checklist for your Service Cloud Deployment

With many successful Service Cloud implementations, West Coast Consulting Group has developed a top 10 checklist for deploying the Service Cloud to global call center operations.

Service Cloud Launch Photo

Below are ten steps we suggest following, prior to ‘Go-Live’:

1. Single Point of Contact
When going live, the level of activity and emotion tends to run high and things can be chaotic if there are too many points of contact. Having a designated single point of contact from the customer team minimizes noise and confusion and makes the cut-over go much more smoothly. (more…)

September 1st, 2014|Categories: Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning, Service Cloud|

Manage Operations without Hardware and Software

Silicon Valley companies are focused on launching their products to the market rapidly. They don’t want to waste time on setting up operations.  They need to spend their efforts on finding the best talent and staying ahead of their competition.  Agile companies do not want to make operational investments in hardware or software that needs to be changed out or maintained over time.  Instead agile companies are looking to manage their operations using applications that take care of themselves. (more…)

January 15th, 2014|Categories: Sales Cloud, Salesforce, Service Cloud|
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