Mike Gerholdt

Mike Gerholdt is the Senior Director of Salesforce Admin Evangelism at Salesforce. He is part of a group of World-class Admin Evangelists who are helping Salesforce Admins realize their dreams by being technology leaders and advancing their careers.

What Salesforce Admins can learn from Taylor Swift

Chances are good that if I’m out for a walk there is a Taylor Swift song on rotation. One day after a walk a few news items showed up in my Facebook feed about Taylor Swift, curiously I clicked on them. After reading them I learned that Taylor Swift is great at creating memorable experiences. As […]

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Kevin Richardson on getting to the Why

This week on the podcast we talk to Principle Customer Success Manager, Kevin Richardson. Kevin shares with us a great approach that he uses with customers to understand features and functionality by asking Why. While this may sound simple this is a powerful way to understand feature requests. Kevin also gives us a great example […]

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Increase Mobile Adoption with the Salesforce1 Wizard

The Salesforce Winter 15 release was packed with exciting new features for Admins- Lightning Process Builder, Data.com Duplication, and many more. There is one you shouldn’t overlook and that is the Salesforce1 Wizard. If you listen to the ButtonClickAdmin Podcast you have heard Gillian say numerous times that “Admins live in the setup menu” so […]

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Jordan Mangini on Being a Salesforce Admin at Salesforce

This week on the podcast we talk to Salesforce Admin at Salesforce- Jordan Mangini. Jordan is a Senior Application analyst at Salesforce with a BS in Computer Science. Jordan talks us through his journey to Salesforce- hint: he loves math! As well as gives us some insight into how Salesforce manages user requests. The key […]

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Getting Ready for Lightning Process Builder

For Salesforce Admins Christmas came early this year with Lightning Process Builder- which is among the many epic features in the Winter ’15 release. We did an amazing demo in the Admin Keynote at Dreamforce this year to show the Lightning Process Builder in action, as we prepared for the keynote the real power of […]

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Jared Miller on the Salesforce Winter 15 Release

This week on the podcast we talk to former co-host and Director-Customer Success at Configero, Jared Miller. TL:DR- We cover features that Admins need to know about in the Salesforce Winter 15 release! The Salesforce Winter 15 release is packed with goodies for Admins, and coming off of Dreamforce we know that you might not […]

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Solving Common Salesforce Problems

This last weekend I re-watched Apollo 13. I love that movie and from what I’m told it’s a great retelling of that moment in history. One scene that struck me and inspired this post is a speech by Gene Kranz (Ed Harris), where in a room full of disagreeing engineers he says: “Let’s work the problem […]

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John J Wall on wearables, marketers, and Dreamforce

This week we talk to John J Wall who speaks, writes, and practices at the intersection of marketing, sales, and technology. He is the producer of Marketing Over Coffee, a weekly audio program that discusses both new and classic Marketing with his co-host Christopher S. Penn, and has been featured on iTunes. His work has been profiled by CBS Evening […]

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3 Dreamforce takeaways for Salesforce Admins

This is the year of the Salesforce admin! At Dreamforce 2014 we inspired you to be great business leaders, helped you harness your superhero powers, and empowered you to help others succeed. We devoted an entire zone to helping you hone your superhero skills and with an energetic keynote we turned the spotlight on you to […]

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