Zoho News
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Major Update To Zoho Campaigns – Well… Not So Fast
- Zoho announced a major downgrade to Zoho Campaigns that removed A LOT of features.
- But, after much public and internal backlash, have reversed the decision.
- For the full context of what happened and what is going to happen, you may wish to listen to this week’s CRM Zen Show. (Sorry for the teaser. =] )
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Zoho ContactManager EOL Announcement
- Zoho Announces EOL for Zoho ContactManager by September 30, 2021.
- Here is a guide by Zoho to Migrate ContactManager to Bigin.
- Zoho Announces EOL for Zoho ContactManager by September 30, 2021.
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Zoho Service Outage PSA
- Servers were down for Zoho SalesIQ, Zoho Sign, Zoho People, Zoho Desk, and Zoho One from on Mar 23, 2021, from 06:56 AM CDT to 09:35 AM CDT (2 hours 39 mins).
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Zoho CRM March Updates
- Zoho CRM Adds Enhancements To Deal Stage & Stage Probability Mapping.
- Zoho CRM Gets UI Enhancements For Dashboard “Manager View”
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Zoho Workerly Adds AI-Powered Photo Logging
- This recent addition allows agencies to better manage time clocks to prevent “buddy punching” with its new photo logging feature for Zoho Workerly.
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Zoho Cliq Adds New Navigation Sidebar
- This recent addition streamlines your existing views making it easier to navigate through Zoho Cliq.
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Zoho Recruit Adds Custom Portal
- Extend access to your clients to create, edit, or delete certain records you wish to share.
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Zoho Introduces Zoho Marketing Plus
- This newest addition is a unified platform for marketing teams to bring together all their marketing activities under one platform.
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This new bundle includes:
- Brand Studio (NEW)
- Does not appear to be included with Zoho One, yet.
- Campaigns
- Social
- MarketingHub
- Survey
- PageSense
- Meetings
- Backstage
- Analytics
- Workdrive
- Brand Studio (NEW)
Mobile App News
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Zoho Sheet Introduces Exclusive iOS and iPadOS App
- Create and edit spreadsheets on the go!
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Zoho Mail Android App Adds New Alert
- You now can activate a new folder alert in the latest version (v2.4.19) of the Zoho Mail Android app.
Implementation of the Week
- Daily check-in automation via Creator app pop-up forms
- Zoho Creator is Zoho’s most flexible app building solution
- Zenatta uses this tool internally for client engagement, and project management
- Creator can use Deluge (Zoho’s on platform scripting language) to control HTML elements on load of a new page
- Using this, a form is presented to team-members in select roles the first time they load the system
- Form allows team members to highlight workload, availability, and goals for each day
- Submission of the form is routed to a management Cliq channel via API to notify project managers of team-member submission
This Weeks Read
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What Consumers Want to See on Company Websites by Geoffrey Colon
- Wondering what consumers want to see on your website? This 6-minute read gives you 9 things to consider.
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Do Blog Posts Actually Lead to Purchases by Pamela Bump
- A quick 6-minute read taking a look at how blogs are still a viable marketing strategy.
New Blogs, Videos, and Resource Guides
- Zenatta Blogs
- New Resource Guides
Application / Plug-In of the Week
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Feedly
- This is my favorite news application & RSS reader. I use it every day and it is in a class all by itself.
- Feedly is an aggregation service reader application that gathers and organizes web content into a cohesive experience.
- It can pull in content from websites, news outlets, blogs, digital publications, and YouTube.
- Feedly can be viewed in a web browser, and also has native applications for Mac, iOS, and Android
- Free Version and $6, $12, and $18 a month versions with various features.
Tips and Tricks
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Zoho Sign Beginner’s Guide – Settings
- We wrap up our series with this 9-minute video tutorial covering all of the settings for Zoho Sign.