Tim Forbes

Posts by Tim Forbes, VP of Products and Marketing

Register now for Soapbox User Summit on May 8th - early bird pricing through April 8th!

Eager to get more out of your Soapbox site? Want to hear the inside scoop on new features coming soon to Soapbox?

Join your friendly PICnetters for the second annual Soapbox User Summit on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in Washington, DC!

Register today for early bird pricing!

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Online event management enhances attendee info collection - all integrating with Salesforce

What do you get when you take Soapbox Events and expand its options for collecting attendee information as part of the reservation process?

Why, online event management that's made to order and integrates seamlessly with Salesforce.

'Cause sometimes you just need to ask "Want fries with that?"

Oven roasted french fries

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Causeway Interactive joins Soapbox Engage Partner program

Causeway logoA big shout out to the good folks over at Causeway Interactive, the latest certified Soapbox Engage Partner.

Causeway connects nonprofit organizations with technology to help them operate more effectively, connect with larger audiences and raise more money.

In other words, they are a match made in heaven for us and our Soapbox Engage platform!

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Who's Keeping Your Salesforce Clean?: Soapbox Engage Partner Guest Blog from CloudFixer

PICnet is proud to welcome CloudFixer as the latest certified Soapbox Engage Partner. CloudFixer automatically improves, cleans and maintains your Salesforce instance for you. In this guest blog post, they share tips from their data custodial expertise that can benefit your nonprofit.


ehren-150x150 By Ehren Foss, Founder and Managing Partner of CloudFixer


This nonprofit-focused Salesforce stuff is pretty snazzy, don’t you think? People are building everything from online fundraising apps and wealth data sources to special migration tools and lots of other things to lower the cost of doing good.

Soapbox Engage and Soapbox Mailer for Salesforce have assembled several widely trusted components (Joomla and Amazon Web Services) into something many nonprofits need, like simple event signups, donation forms, and a mass email tool integrating with Salesforce.  These basic components can be quite a challenge to assemble and interconnect without a service like Engage.

It's the "little" things that can bog down a DIY nonprofit person, like mobile-friendly templates. Having many of these snags taken care of by the platform is a plus. I also like how Soapbox unobtrusively inserts data as Leads, thereby working more seamlessly with the many different Salesforce data models we've seen in the wild.

One other "little thing" that can drag down your organization is data hygiene. If you aren’t careful, you might not end up so happy with duplicates, staff turnover, and unused reports.

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