About the Authors

Tom Wong claims he is the number one fan of Salesforce. He keeps a picture of the Web site on his desktop and a Team Edition football in his car. He sends his wife Salesforce meeting invitations. His friends say he can't talk about anything else.

Prior to writing the first edition, Tom was vice president in charge of CRM solutions for Theikos, a leading salesforce.com partner. And before then, he held several senior management positions at Gomez, another satis3 ed salesforce.com customer. He is a certi3 ed salesforce.com partner and has been involved in over thirty implementations impacting thousand of users.

Tom currently works for salesforce.com as Vice President, Dreamforce, where he gets to travel the world to bring together Salesforce customers, partners, employees, and other fans, to learn about the amazing new Saleforce features popping up to help you be successful with your business. He has an amazing and highly patient wife; a son who is a talented drummer; and a daughter aspiring to be a ballerina. They try not to discuss salesforce.com.

Liz Kao was an enthusiastic early adopter of the software-as-service (SaaS) model and has been a Salesforce user since 1999. Through the years, she has played both in-house and consultant roles at salesforce.com.

As a salesforce.com consultant and a member of salesforce.com's Professional Services team, Liz implemented dozens of CRM solutions for companies of all sizes across a variety of industries, including a Salesforce-native ...

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