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Relationships in Financial Services Cloud: Clients and Households

October 12, 2020October 23, 2020

Relationships. One would think that building a great relationship structure in Salesforce’s Financial Services Cloud would be less complex than maintaining relationships in person, but often it is not. Relationships in FSC require a bit of trial and error, defined business processes, and some patience. Having completed a dozen FSC implementations as of this writing, […]

Lightning Sync vs Einstein Activity Capture: Battle of the Salesforce Calendar Integration Tools

August 19, 2019June 14, 2021

Update on May 8, 2020: Salesforce will no longer allow orgs to enable Lightning Sync after Winter ’21 (source). Salesforce is encouraging its clients to move to Einstein Activity Capture and is positioning it as the long-term activity capture product. Ah, the good old email and calendar integration discussion continues! Salesforce has had integration tools […]

Getting Ready for Auto Enablement of Lightning Experience in Winter ’20

August 12, 2019September 23, 2019

The time has come! For all those that were curious as to the shelf life of Salesforce Classic, it appears we are nearing the end. Classic has been dying and Salesforce is working their clients away from the death bed by moving them to Lightning Experience starting with the Winter ’20 release. It’s time to […]

Salesforce Features To Skyrocket User Productivity and Adoption

August 5, 2019January 8, 2020

Salesforce has done a great job of implementing new features over the last few years to help drive user productivity and adoption. Some of those features were cloud specific functionality (only available in Service Cloud for example) which have made their way to Sales Cloud. And, with the advent of the Lightning Platform, the technology […]

The Complexities of Lightning Experience and How to Keep From Losing Your Mind

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019

Lightning Experience offers Admins a whole new set of tools to customize your Salesforce org. But, if you aren’t careful, you’ll quickly configure yourself into a complex, webbed mess which will be hard to maintain, and harder to hand off to someone else. I recently wrapped up a Salesforce implementation and was working on the […]

5 Tools to Check Your Salesforce Email Sender Reputation

June 3, 2019June 18, 2019

This is a guest post from Siva Devaki of MassMailer. Could your email sender reputation be keeping your emails from reaching their destination? If your email sender reputation is bad, your emails could be ending up bounced or re-routed towards spam. Yet, in order to determine whether this is happening, you need a way to […]

You Are Going To Fail

May 6, 2019April 13, 2021

Here’s a word of encouragement: You are going to fail. Well, that wasn’t the encouraging part, but hopefully what I’m about to say will be. In life and our careers, we have competing priorities and a limited amount of time. We’ve all faced this. Moving into a consulting role several years ago made this even […]

Understanding the CAN-SPAM ACT and Salesforce

February 11, 2019June 18, 2019

This is a sponsored post from MassMailer – an Admin Hero sponsor. As an email marketer, there are a number of regulations you need to follow — one of the most important of which is the CAN-SPAM Act. Implemented in 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act is a measure that is intended to cut down on unsolicited […]

What I’ve Learned as a Salesforce Consultant

January 7, 2019June 18, 2019

Transitioning from a System Administrator to a Consultant provided a bit of a learning curve, but I’ve learned so much over the last few years. With so many folks looking to leap, or have recently made the leap from customer to partner, I wanted to share some of my thoughts, and some tips that have […]

My Top Public Speaking Pet Peeves

August 13, 2018June 18, 2019

Public speaking can be a frightening experience for some. For others, public speaking comes naturally. Either way, public speaking requires a set of skills which, if mastered, can make all the difference in a presentation. I recently attended a Salesforce event with several speakers, and instead of taking notes about the session content, I was taking […]