Orca Wallpaper Max Effgen, August 13, 2012September 5, 2014 Lazy days of summer are here. Took a Whale Watch tour in the San Juan’s this weekend and was able to catch this awesome breech by one of the JPod’s J-14 “Samish”. Click the image for a 1920 x 1200 wallpaper freely available for personal, non-commercial use. You can check… Continue Reading
Blue Angels Wallpaper Max Effgen, August 5, 2012November 30, 2013 The Blue Angels are back in Seattle for Seafair. Here is a wallpaper from today’s show. Click the image for a 1920 x 1200 wallpaper freely available for personal, non-commercial use. You can check out my entire portfolio at Salmon Bay Photography. Continue Reading
Thank You Ichiro! Max Effgen, July 23, 2012April 17, 2017 By far and away the most exciting baseball player I have ever seen play is Ichiro Suzuki. Traded from my Mariners yesterday. As a fan, thank you for 12 exciting seasons. Continue Reading
Pipeline and Forecasting Max Effgen, July 18, 2012 In my experience, pipeline/forecast is one area of a CRM system that changes frequently. Way to frequently. Fortunately, these changes require less coding changes today through Windows Workflow Foundation (Dynamics CRM) and Workflow Automation (Salesforce) that in CRM days of old. Not going to comment on whether it is right… Continue Reading
Social CRM Strategy Max Effgen, July 9, 2012 Social CRM came up in a recent conversation. Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer and Salesforce’s multiple buys in this area has validated a market that was a huge question mark 3 years ago. Like any business process application I recommend that following: Keep it simple. Know your customers. Show them the… Continue Reading
CRM Integration Max Effgen, June 11, 2012 One of the biggest challenges that CRM systems have is integration with back end systems. In the cloud with hosted CRM, this in some ways is actually a bigger challenge than it was in the past. From CRM to ERP Pipeline and Forecast data are the most common and most… Continue Reading
Hyperdecanting Max Effgen, May 14, 2012 Or how to make 20 Buck Chuck… A friend, who works for Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, mentioned this “hyperdecanting” method in passing — over beers. He had not tried it. I was intrigued. I now consider myself a budget oenophile and enjoy surprising friends with how good a decanted bottle of… Continue Reading
Fenway Park turns 100 Max Effgen, April 24, 2012December 1, 2013 I have been fortunate to attend some amazing baseball games. Fenway’s 100th anniversary game last Friday will join that list — not for the Red Sox play, but for the amazing pre-game celebration. Nearly all living, former Red Sox players took the field. The best seats I have ever been… Continue Reading
Great 5 minute video on Entrepreneurship Max Effgen, April 12, 2012 Entrepreneurship is… from Tyler Mayeno on Vimeo. This video came out just about a year ago. It still is inspiring. Richard Tait on dreams, passions and entrepreneurship. I have been lucky enough to meet Richard a few times. He is nothing short of inspirational. The video will not tell you… Continue Reading
The 4P’s and pricing data Max Effgen, April 8, 2012 The 4 P’s (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) are the standard Marketing Mix. This is not just MBA “marketing fluff”, the P’s are where the rubber meets the road in CRM, namely quote generation. There is a bigger but untalked about 5th P (Problems) that haunts pricing and quotes. Product… Continue Reading