This week we are podcasting live everyday from the Admin Zone at Dreamforce! Today we talk to Sarah Franklin, Senior Director Admin Marketing at Salesforce who helped bring the Admin zone to life. For Admins visiting the Zone Sarah is one to seek out- not only does she have a passion for helping Salesforce Admins […]

This week we talk to Mary Scotton, Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com, whose mission is to educate and enable Administrators and Developers building on the Salesforce1 Platform. She has over 20 years of software development experience, a passion for enabling non-programmers to build powerful business applications, and a drive to increase diversity and inclusion in […]

On my work desk I keep a few books that are my go-to reference guides, I use them almost everyday. And despite having almost constant access to the internet I still use these few books. As a new Salesforce Admin or even an experienced one the vast amount of resources that you have access to […]

This week on the podcast we talk to Adam Seligman who is the Vice President, Developer Relations at Salesforce.com about the intersection of Admins and Developers. We find out that while visiting Dreamforce 2013 Hackathon Adam’s daughter learned how build on the Salesforce platform and built an amazing app! Adam gives us insight into what Salesforce […]

“Can you spend an hour or two getting so-and-so up to speed on Salesforce”? I would have to say that sentence is my number two pet peeve next to “Can you dump this in Salesforce?”. But that aside, what do you do when you need to swap out Admins or bring a new Salesforce Admin […]

This week we talk to Paul Greenberg who has been called “the godfather of CRM, the “Walt Whitman of CRM” and even “the Bob Dylan of CRM”. He is the author of the best selling book “CRM at the speed of light: Social CRM Strategies, tools and techniques for engaging your customers. Now in its fourth […]

Editor’s note: This is a popular blog post, so we’ve updated it with the latest information and resources on September 8, 2020. In my experience, the email or phone call starts out something like this: “I clicked on this [insert link, account, etc. here] and I’m getting an ‘Insufficient Privileges’ error… I know I should […]

This week we are kicking off a 2-week series featuring best selling authors to get you Dreamforce ready! Today we talk to David Taber who is the author of the Prentice-Hall book, “Salesforce.com Secrets of Success,” and the CEO of SalesLogistix- a certified Salesforce.com consultancy focusing on improvements to client business processes in conjunction with SFA and […]

Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the Salesforce User Group meeting in Ft. Lauderdale and in Tampa with podcast co-host Gillian Madill. Going to user group meetings is a great way to connect with other Salesforce Admins, Developers, and Users- it makes you feel less like you are stuck on “Admin island” and more […]