Salesforce.com is probably one of the most used and well known CRM applications out there. Companies like Siemens, Starbucks and Dell trus Salesforce.com as their tool for managing the relationships they have with their customers.

With that in mind, Jep Castelein, a contributing blogger for genius.com, came up with a great list of 10 applications to enhance your Salesforce.com even more, saving you a ton of time in optimizing your marketing strategies.

Here is the article: 10 Best Marketing Apps for Salesforce

If you have already created your awesome business plan, pitched your project and got some money from an angel investor or if you’re bootstrapping it and paying from your own pocket, now it’s time to get organized and create a project management strategy to get it off the ground.

There are many great and inexpensive tools out there that help you growing your idea into an actual tangible project. Yet outsourcing is not always the best option due to strategic decisions, we also present some interesting options to get feedback to your designs, PHP frameworks and the best way of handling your support tickets, all using 3rd party applications, which means less infra-structure and fixed costs for your company!

We hope you enjoy the list. Please comment if you know other/better tools.

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This video, created by Benchmarks Email crew, gives us a great overview of the importance of email marketing and surveys as a cheap yet very effective way to gather your users feedback and shape your products or services to their needs.

Read more here: 10 Good Reasons To Use Email And Web Surveys

E-mail Marketing is one of the most effective ways to market your business, and is probably the most used form of direct marketing known to us today. It has the ability to send customized messages to your target market and you can track the exact result and return on investment each campaign brings you.
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WordPress is known as the best open source blogging platform out there. But, specially after version 3.0, it has become a very powerful Content Management System as well and there are many great free WordPress themes popping up every day.

And yet again, the guys at WebdesignerLedger did a great work posting an article with a list of 10 great “Clean and Minial” WordPress Themes you can use for free on your next project!

Enjoy: http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/10-free-clean-and-minimal-wordpress-themes

Every designer has its own secret collection of Photoshop Brushes. They are meant to be like real brushes, making it possible for you to draw with them. But, with the help of technology, they have become much more than that!

Why should you use Free Photoshop Brushes?

It is so easy to create brushes from real images, that they became much more than just regular paint or calligraphic brushes, they are whole images that can be applied to your current artwork in Photoshop. They enhance your art – making it possible for you to add awesome graphic elements to your image – and, of course, save you a lot of time.

Today you can find every kind of Free Photoshop brushes you need. There are options that start with more abstract cloud or naturepeople silhouettes or famous world landmark brushes brushes and go up to more detailed . Whatever you need, you can find a great brush that replicates it.

But, finding great brush sources is not as easy as it seems. You have many websites, but only a few are well organized and have easy to find brushes. That is what we will try to bring you with this post.

PS – do you guys have trouble previewing your brushes? Just install this.
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An american designer called Henry Jones wrote an article for the WebdesignLedger where he came up with a great list of the 10 Best iPad Apps for Websigners.

But what does a list like this include anyway? Well, he found out website development, sketch, display, web statistics, wordpress, project management and mockup apps!

Check the list out here: http://webdesignledger.com/tools/10-best-ipad-apps-for-web-designers

A Content Management System is a great tool to easily update your site or blog and keep the readers interested and coming back to read more. We have already posted an article about the The 10 Most User Friendly Non Hosted CMS’s were we brought up some very good and easy content management systems that you can easily install and use on your server. But this post is different.

Here we focused on power, not usability. Below you will see a list of The 10 most powerful (and FREE) Content Management Systems with which you will be able to create stunning websites or even portals with many advanced features such as “user login and password protected pages”, “news management”, “e-commerce modules”, “blog posts” and many other options/modules available for each of those great systems – without having to code everything from scratch!

Check them out and comment if you have something else to share! To preview most of those CMS’s, click here.
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The guys at TheTop10Blog have published a list created by Tanja Muller (@SmartTipps), who has pulled together all of the most useful Twitter tools and clients that she uses every day.

Some names on the list include some well known apps such as TweetDeck and HootSuite but there are many other cool twitter tools on this list:

Check them out at: http://www.thetop10blog.com/top-10-twitter-tools-clients/

Wireframes are essential for any kind of application or website mockup development. It makes you think before actually creating and helps you discuss the usability of your new project with your peers (clients or partners).

Wireframes also avoid misunderstandings with clients when creating web projects and help them having an idea of what the project is all about, before even touching code.

With that niche in mind, a lot of companies are creating wonderful wireframe and UI applications, many of them free or at a very low monthly cost, and they will help you sketch your new online project or software in a few hours.

Check them out below and, as usual, comment if you have another great tool to share. Ah, and if you like this post, please retweet and share it with your followers.
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