Disqus - Latest Comments for pmohara

Re: A Fond Farewell

Pamela O'Hara — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:20:06 -0000

Hey Leo, I'm very sorry for the timing on this and wish we had another choice. But we needed to get the information out as soon as possible to give folks a chance to make decisions. I will reach out via email, as well, to see if there is anything we can do to help.

Re: New Sales Tools in Batchbook: Easy Customization and Fully Mobile

Pamela O'Hara — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:17:16 -0000

Hi all - thanks so much for all of the great feedback and encouragement. As Tony suggests, this is the first of what will be an ongoing series of releases of functionality in the new Deals tab. So please do keep sharing your thoughts and +1s on how these tools are working for you so we can keeping making it better.

Re: Communications Refresh, Plus a To-Do Calendar Feed!

Pamela O'Hara — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:13:02 -0000

Hi Andrew. Thanks for the question and glad you are interested in new features we are rolling out. We are pretty excited to start launching our new sales management tools in the next few weeks. We'll keep you updated as it rolls out!

Re: Disqus Integrations: Engaging Superusers with Batchbook

Pamela O'Hara — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:08:05 -0000

Thanks for sharing our news with the Disqus community, Amanda. We're very excited about this integration and would love to hear what you all think. Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback for us. ~Pamela, CEO @batchbook

Re: How Do You Handle Work/Life Balance?

Pamela O'Hara — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:11:40 -0000

Thanks for sharing, Kira. I was in a similar situation before starting BatchBlue. My daughters were in daycare part-time, so I would try to work my part-time consulting work around that, but it was a constant struggle. My final straw came when I had to arrange a relative to travel half an hour to care for the kids so I could go to a prospect's office to be told in person I did not get the job. I decided I needed to control my own destiny, but that responsibility carries with it a whole new set of challenges.

I love the idea of an "entrepreneurial help group" to keep sharing our stories. We should brainstorm on that.

Re: Did You Get The Memo? CRM’s Are Now Social!

Pamela O'Hara — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:09:10 -0000

Thanks for including Batchbook, Miguel, and for going the extra mile to research user experiences with all of the systems in your article. We're hearing the same things you did and already have some slick improvements to the import process launching shortly. Thanks for the story - let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.

Re: Where Do All the Other Contacts Go?

Pamela O'Hara — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:31:59 -0000

Hi IdentifyUS. Thanks for chiming in and I appreciate your raising these issues. Not to worry, my suggestions for limiting the number of contacts in Batchbook is not because of data storage or processing issues, but more for relationship issues. You can have a large number of contacts stored in Batchbook, and in fact many of our customers do. But our feeling is that to develop better relationships with your customers & potential customers, you are better served by focusing in on a smaller number of contacts, listening as much as talking and keeping in regular contact with them. While you can keep as many contacts as you like in our system, I think it is important that you know we are focusing our product development efforts on the tools that will help you find the right people (from your social streams, blog comments, newsletter lists, etc.) and stay in regular contact with them. I'd love to hear more about how we can help you with that.

Re: Blogworld Buys Ramon’s Small Business Summit and Small Business Technology Tour

Pamela O'Hara — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:50:16 -0000

Congrats, Ramon! No one deserves success more. This conference has been invaluable to me personally and professionally. So many amazing relationships started here. I'm excited to see what lies ahead and am so glad I had the chance to "know you when". You are an inspiration.

Re: Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

Pamela O'Hara — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:01:53 -0000

Sorry - excruciating is too strong and I should have been more specific. Where I have had pain is when Google forces me to use my default account (mainly on Android and in Hangouts) and has not given me a way (that I could find) to switch. I tried to delete my personal G+ account which wreaked havoc on my Android apps and I could not join Hangouts with anyone who I had circled in both accounts. It's all early adopter pain that I am willing to accept, and it seems they are working quickly to correct. This morning my G+ Android app prompted me to choose which Google account to use - a new and very welcome feature.

Re: Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

Pamela O'Hara — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:04:30 -0000

Jon, logging to Google+ this AM I was prompted to choose between my personal and work (Google apps) account. Until now I had excruciatingly conflicting G+ accounts. If you had influence on this, thanks! If not, well timed!

Re: SXSW 2012 - Dancing w/Giants: How Start-Ups Do Deals w/Titans

Pamela O'Hara — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:00:10 -0000

We're excited to share some inside stories and advice on building great partnerships with the most successful builders in our industry. http://blog.batchblue.com/d...

And for the sports enthusiasts, we'll have a professional cricket player, as well.

Re: SXSW 2012 - Small Biz Can Do Big Things With Technology

Pamela O'Hara — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:30:27 -0000

Ramon is the most energetic person I've ever seen take over a room. His passion for small business is incredibly motivating. And he knows a thing or thousand about technology.

Re: List of Companies Providing Social CRM Offerings

Pamela O'Hara — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:41:06 -0000

Hey Jeremiah - thanks for ideas around stepping up to the social media challenge and for the offer to continue to highlight companies that are trying to do just that. I'd love to get our product BatchBook (http://batchblue.com) listed. We are a social CRM product, we integrate with a number of social media tools, we run a weekly small business Twitter chat (http://sbbuzz.biz), we co-founded a virtual coalition of ~50 integrating SaaS companies (http://thesmallbusinessweb.com) and chimed in with our own thoughts on your article - http://blog.batchblue.com/c...

And here are a few 3rd party endorsements -
- Today's article in DestinationCRM http://www.destinationcrm.c...
- Our mention in Brent Leary's "It Takes a Community to Raise a Customer" http://technology.inc.com/m...
- and more http://www.batchblue.com/pr...

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again for the thoughtful article.

Re: Social CRM for the Small Biz Crowd with BatchBlue CEO Pamela O'hara

Pamela O'Hara — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:22:52 -0000

Hi Brent - thanks again for the chance to come talk about BatchBook, social CRM and South Carolina politicians. As always, it was a great pleasure chatting with you. I love getting your insight on our efforts - you have such a talent for getting to the small business owner's point.

Re: Social CRM - The Video

Pamela O'Hara — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:30:13 -0000

Thanks for posting your great presentation, Brent! I enjoyed it in person and can now share it with some colleagues and customers. Good stuff.