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Check Snovio.Snovio is a combination of tools developed to streamline your workflow.It offers the following tools:Web appEmail Finder & Email VerifierAll emails collected through the Chrome extension or API will be stored on the Prospects page of your account. Then, you can verify your emails by one or in bulk through lists directly in your account, or through the Chrome extension.Email Drip CampaignsBuild your own email drip campaign with triggers, timers, and goals using the drag-and-drop campaign building tool. Choose one of the lists of prospects in your profile to send your campaign to. Use personalization attributes to get better results. Analyze your drip campaigns in real time. You can even pause and edit your campaigns after they’ve been launched.Domain SearchFind and collect all email addresses connected to a domain. This tool is also available as a Bulk Domain Search.Company Profile SearchFind companies with contacts based on their location, industry, size, founding date, name, or specialties.Social URL SearchUpload a list with links to social profiles and receive a list of email addresses associated with these profiles.Emails From NamesUpload a CSV file with first name, last name and domain name to find email addresses in bulk.LinkerFill in the Job Title, Skills, and Location fields and receive a list of pages to search your prospects on. Use Email Finder extension to collect your prospects.Technology CheckerChoose the technology and receive a list of websites using those technologies.Chrome extensions (directly connected and synchronized to the web app)Email FinderCollects emails on any website you visit. Just find the website you need to collect your prospects on and launch the extension. All collected emails will be sent to your Snovio profile for further use.Email VerifierWorks together with the web app to verify emails right as you collect them. Makes it easy to verify individual emails and analyze the collected emails.Email TrackerMonitors how many times your sent emails have been opened and links clicked. Available as a free standalone Chrome extension that integrates seamlessly into your Gmail interface.Web Technology CheckerVisit your prospects’ websites and immediately see what technologies they use.APIEmail FinderEmail Verifier

SFDC is so broad, I can safely say one could spend their entire career learning, modeling and certifying themselves for various aspects of the platform. There's just basic SFDC (Salesforce.com) and then there are other areas; Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Heroku, Data.com, etc.The best advice I would give before even attempting to do anything "real" is to do the following;1. Sign up for a developer account (it's free - forever)2. Go through the http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Force.com_workbook - examples by examples.It's basically all there - The problem I find is that people with software developer experience try to "beat into submission" their current experience to the SFDC platform.That, IMHO why SFDC is seen as "hard to learn" - it's not that it's hard. it's just hard to mentally ditch your previous experience (or at least tweak the heck out of it).Some For-instances -*. The APEX language, even though it's "java-like" is simply not Java.*. The Visualforce language, although "HTML-like" is simply not HTML or javascript. Further, the architecture of how it works is completely different from how thing work in typical web server environments.*. SOQL/SOSL Data queries are not SQL.The typical scenario is, many companies that have big expensive development staffs that try to just "pick up" SFDC, run into huge problems. Usually involving large licensing fees (upwards of $65/month/user to $250/month) and some completely befuddled developers....And then in come the consultants - billing out at about $250/hour (and up)Soon companies can be hemorrhaging money.SFDC has a lot of advantages - multi-tenant architecture, guaranteed availability, mobile apps, APIs, great, friendly user interface, internationalization, JSON/RESTful interfaces, lots of extensibility, a great user community.... and lots more.BUT- Learning the SFDC platform is infrastructure programming, pure and simple, with a lot of "clicks-not-code" activity.I've found it hard to convince java programmers, for instance, that (s)he can implement a workflow and/or Validation rule to do what they need to do, rather than sling a bunch of lines of code into a trigger or anonymous APEX to have things done.To learn Salesforce, throw your java/SQL/HTML (well most of your HTML) experience away, and just make it through the workbooks in the link I provided above.... THEN - determine if it's for you.There are so many specific tricks to learning how to build a really robust SFDC implementation, that it can seem daunting at first.... however, it's absolutely amazing to me how many people simply have not gone through the workbooks.... It's usually my first question: "have your developers gone through the Force.com workbook?"

Lot of people here, including Jeff Nelson have tried to answer this. But I feel none of the answers are COMPLETE (sorry Jeff). I would also try to answer it based on what I feel.Lets start with Google.Google is a company based entirely on Web. Almost all of Google's product - Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google+, Hangouts, Youtube are based out web. Also, most of its profit comes because of web (mostly ads).Since all the products are web based, they need to be run on a browser. Before Chrome, browser market was dominated by IE and Firefox. As Jeff correctly pointed out, its not good if your success depends so much on an application (browser) which is not controlled by you. However, I don't think Google feared of some anti-competitive changes in IE as much as it feared of the (lack of)progress of IE. By progress, I mean supporting new, open web based technologies (html5, native video playing capabilities, etc.). Though Mozilla claimed that its dedicated to supporting new technologies, the progress wasn't satisfactory. IE on the other hand never bothered much about it anyway. But support for these new technologies was crucial for Google to enhance its user experience and also to allow more rich set of applications (e.g. Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc) to be run on browser. Also browsers were getting more and more bloated and slow, resulting in bad user experience which in turn force people to use internet less and less which in turn was not good for Google. So, in a way, browsers were acting as a bottleneck for expansion of Google's business (and their ultimate aim of building a StarTrek Computer) and Google could do nothing about it.This was before Google decided to take things into their own hands and created a fast and beautiful browser - Chrome. In the beginning it was all about speed because that was what Google was mainly concerned about. Then it started adding support for latest web technologies in Chrome with a breathtaking pace. Speed combined with some really innovative features (Omnibar, The combined wrench menu, the clutter free design, the separate-tabs-in-separate-process design) made Chrome rise through the ranks and it soon became the number one browser in market. With this, Google gained control on one of the most important missing piece of their business model.The popularity of Chrome also forced other browsers to improve quickly. Mozilla changed its release cycle to be of similar period as that of Chrome (Remember how we had only Mozilla 4.0 from 2002 to 2010 and how we are running Mozilla 29 right now). IE also improved quickly as compared to its historical pace. This was good for Google as it improved user experience on the web which in turn benefited mostly Google and its web products.All the above points to non-tangible earnings for Google.Now about the tangible earnings (actual money):-Chrome also allowed Google to collect more and more data about users (the omni bar is brilliant but also sends all the keyinput to Google even if the input is not a search query but a website that user directly want to go to). This allows Google to serve better targeted ads and in-turn earn more profits.Lets move on to Microsoft and IEFew things are similar to Google and Chrome -1. Default search is Bing. So earn money through ads.2. Learn more about users browsing habits, preferences, etc. Serve better targetted ads - earn more money.3. Having the most dominant product in market is always beneficial. You can bend lot of rules according to your wish. Promote technologies which are beneficial to you, etc.Now something different:-Microsoft has a lot of products / apps / systems designed for enterprises (most of them run on IIS - microsoft's own webserver). Also, IE support something called ActiveX which in my opinion is the ugliest thing I have ever see. Lot of other enterprise focused companies have designed many tools which are served by IIS (and many of them use ActiveX). You could see that in your own company's internal portal - the employee management system, the workflow management system, the web encryption system, the bloated ActiveX's and what not. Most of these products do not run properly, if at all, in other browsers. For Microsoft to continue to earn money from enterprises, it is necessary that they continue to maintain a browser which can run all these ugly products. So IE.Now Mozilla:-They mostly earn money through donations and from Google. Google pays them money to keep Google search as the default search engine (Just like it pays money to Apple to keep Google as default search engine on iOS). Google in-turn earns money by serving ads to people using Google search on Firefox.