Jigsaw 3rd Annual Rainmaker Event in Las Vegas

I recently attended the 3rd Annual Rainmakers Event in Las Vegas from June 19th to June 22nd.
Jigsaw is a crowd sourced contact information platform that makes it easy for sales people to find the relevant contact details of people in their industry.

Rainmakers are Jigsaws most trusted and engaged users.  As a thank you for our hard work Jigsaw, who is owned by Salesforce, throws one of the greatest parties I’ve ever attended.  

Well it’s not all fun and games; the primary focus is to get hard user data about experience design, usability, and functionality from these Rainmakers.  Since we, Rainmakers, are using and interacting with the platform on a weekly or even daily basis our experience and pain points are high on their radar and they want to know about it.

I think this is a great way to get your super users involved and to give their feedback; put them up in a fancy hotel, feed them, and give them plenty of opportunities to interactive with the product teams to build a user driven top notch platform.  I can seriously attest from experience that it is a true pleasure to work with these guys.  It makes me want to work even harder every day to help them attain quality information.    

During the event we listened to keynotes from the top Salesforce people, interacted in roundtable discussions, and participated in user feedback groups.  After the main conference events we were given fun scavenger hunt tasks to complete for a chance to win some very cool prizes; like mac book airs, iPads, and Apple TVs.  Jigsaw also reserved the Ghost Bar on top of the Palms featuring a live band and all the free alcohol you could drink just to show their appreciation.
 
Overall the event left me feeling great! I met some interesting people, made some great connections, and didn’t have to spend a dime.  If you’re a sales person prospecting without Jigsaw I would say you’re pretty much dead in the water.  Do yourself a favor and get on board with Jigsaw.  Jigsaw (Salesforce) is a great company and I highly recommend giving it a try and maybe someday I’ll see you at the 4th Annual Jigsaw Event in Liva Las Vegas!

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Jigsaw Rainmakers Rountable Event

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If you are a business person looking to generate new business for your company the most important thing you should do is get on Jigsaw and start collecting people’s information that matters most to your business. 

I’ve been a Jigsaw Rainmaker for a number of years now and I can say that this service has helped me close more business than any other service, not to mention it’s free if you don’t mind doing a little leg work yourself. 

For those of you who are new to Jigsaw (which is owned by Salesforce.com), it’s a crowdsourcing service that allows you to find any person in any company.  It gives you their contact information in the form of work phone number, email, title, and mailing address.  This opens up new possibilities to prospecting.  Finding exactly the right person at the company you’re trying to get into is extremely helpful during the sales process. 

Image via WikipediaWhen you contribute to Jigsaw enough they give you rewards such as badges or ranks to show how great your data is to the rest of the community.  You start as a Prospector, then become a Closer, then a Maven and finally end at the Rainmaker status.  The Jigsaw Rainmaker status is difficult to achieve and Salesforce does a lot to reward you for your service. Salesforce show their support and love in a very meaningful way, from sponsored dinners to all out parties, and I for one appreciate it immensely. 

From one of these, such sponsored dinners in NYC I met a like-minded individual named, John Shin, who had a similar need, he wanted to become a better sales guy.  We talked about an idea that came to me after listening to veteran sales guy talk about his experience cold calling.  We decided it would be in our best interest to try and get a bunch of sales people together to discuss topics that would help us all become better sales people.  

The Jigsaw Rainmakers Roundtable event was born and we are holding our first event on January 18^th.  This event will be an open discussion about the topics of cold calling, prospecting, presenting and closing techniques.  You can even add your own topic for our experts to discuss openly.  Following this post will be all the details.  Please come and join us.  We will also have food and refreshments so come hungry.  

Sign Up Here: http://www.meetup.com/Rainmakers-Rountable/events/47349522/   

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