Ribbit delivers…my news.

June 8th, 2009 by Chris Cranis | located in Productivity, Salesforce | trackback

Ribbit for Salesforce offers some amazing sales productivity tools where you can dictate your activities from the field, and have them flow through salesforce.com just by using your mobile phone. It is the most obvious feature with the most value.

Until yesterday, I overlooked what I now consider Ribbit’s unsung hero; the Mobile Backup within salesforce.com.

For 42 weeks, my wife and I have been expecting our first baby boy. It is something you dream about for years and plan carefully with your partner. You prep for EVERYTHING around the house and the car. You prepare your pets for a new arrival. You get everyone ready for the news that there is a new addition to your family.

On the big day, you charge your camera and cell phones and make sure that you have AC plugs at the ready. If you are like me and bring your laptop everywhere, you have that bag ready to go. Everyone waits with baited breath. It is a time for high anxiety and overwhelming joy. You drive to the hospital and in between checks on your wife in the front seat and looking for hospital parking, you’re on your Bluetooth talking to your mother-in-law and close friends giving them the scoop. The last thing you hear them say is, “call us as soon as you know something”. Easy enough right?

THEN……you get to the hospital and see the dreaded sign that forbids mobile phones.  Wait, what? What do you mean no mobile phones? How can that be? Everyone has a phone. Some people have 2 or 3. That is nonsense! What is a father-to-be to do? How do you continue to make and take your calls and share the best news of your life to your family and friends?

Ribbit for Salesforce to the rescue.

Once I logged on to the hospital wi-fi (a service they offer for free if you can believe that), I opened up Salesforce and was immediately able to start making calls via the Ribbit Flash Phone to my family and friends with the news that I am now the proud father of a baby boy!

Now, if only Ribbit could change diapers, I would be set.

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