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sameet

8 karma · joined April 6, 2009

Co-founder of a startup based in India - Creative Riot Software - creativeriot.com
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sameet··on Show HN: Full-fledged CRM inside your Inbox (Kind of Rapportive for Sales Teams)
http://crminbox.com/screenshots

Screenshot 1: Contextual / editable view when reading an email related to a customer

Screenshot 2: Social profile of all people involved in the conversation / account

Screenshot 3: Works well with other social plugins such as Rapportive

Screenshot 4: Activity stream view to look at a timeline of updates

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CRMinbox is an attempt to integrate CRM deeply with the email.

Customer Relationship Management is largely about effective communication, isn't it?

Isn't the point of communication itself a better place to manage customer relationships...rather than trying to aggregate information about accounts, deals, tasks, updates, contacts - in a separate silo - an independent (sometimes loosely integrated) CRM app.

Trying to make the CRM (information) easy to access and update.

Example usage:

- You open an email (from a customer / partner etc.)

- Corresponding account(s) are automatically identified and related information - deals/contacts/tasks/social profiles of people invovled - is shown in a contextual sidebar right next to the email.

- You need to post a status update / change the status of a deal. So you click on the piece of information you wish to edit, change it, press enter - done.

No going through several clicks / postbacks...no need to leave your Inbox, head to another system to log/share/update information.

sameet··on Building a 30 million kWh Social Power Array using Facebook, PC Power Management
Absolutely! And 100 kWh /year is a very conservative estimate, almost pessimistic. Most of the studies claim savings in the range of 600 kWh - so 60$ per computer per year. For those who have the habit of keeping their PC on all night, savings would be much higher - more so for organizations with large networks.