The CRM Zen Show – Episode 53 – It’s Decently Buggy

Zoho News

• Cliq for iPad
  • A nice overhaul of Cliq for the iPad.  It is no longer a blown-up version of the phone application.
• Commission-free event ticketing and instant payout on Zoho Backstage
  • Zoho takes on Eventbrite
• Zoho Projects Update Round-up
  • 3 Updates, including subtasks in Kanban Views.
• Zoho Analytics Updates
  • The weekly updates continue. The big one being that the number of recipients for emailing reports & dashboards has been raised from 5 to 25.  You can now specify up to 25 recipient mail ids when you mail reports. 
• Related Emails in Zoho CRM iOS app
  • This is a really big update for those that use the Zoho CRM Mobile Application.  You can now see related emails in the mobile app. Android to follow soon.
• Password Protection in Zoho Sites
  • Yes.  You can now password protect blogs and pages in Zoho Sites.  

Things We Noticed and The Bug Report

• The Slow Move to Flat Design and Consistent Product Icons
  • Zoho’s icons are slowly changing.
• Blueprint Transitions Increased from 5 to 10
  • From Zoho: Considering the spike in usage, and support requests of common transition in Blueprint. We have increased the earlier common transition from 5 to the newer limit of 10 common transitions per blueprint. 

Community Updates

• Zoholics Developers – Oct 2-3 – Pleasanton, CA
  • We will be there.  Going to be a good conference.

This Weeks Reads

• How Zoho is solving its own talent problem with Zoho University
  • By Jon Reed – diginomica @jonerp 
• Zenatta Blog of the Week

• • 5 Phone Pitch Strategies (+ Prompts) To Close More Calls

Application / Plug-In of the Week

• Zoho Invoice add-on for Gmail
  • You can now view invoice inside of Gmail.  Nice extension.

Tips and Tricks

• Webinar Replay: 
  • Leveraging Zoho Sign’s advanced features to complete paperwork faster
    • Zoho Sign Product Manager – Sai Anand
    • This is a great deep dive into Zoho Sign and worth the 48 minutes.