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A Salesforce Admin’s Out of Office Checklist

It’s Monday and for the next few weeks I will be on the road. I’m looking forward to meeting AwesomeAdmins at the Salesforce World Tour London on May 21st and Washington DC Admins on May 28th. With all of these upcoming trips I had to prepare to make sure that my team could stay in touch […]

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Learn How to Build Reports and Dashboards on Trailhead

“Did you know 90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years? There’s going to be 10 times more mobile data by 2020, 19 times more unstructured data, and 50 times more product data by 2020.” – Marc Benioff For both beginning and seasoned Salesforce Administrators, analytics within native Salesforce has become […]

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Dreamforce 2015 Admin Track Call for Presentations

We want YOU to present at Dreamforce! Dreamforce is coming, and we need #AwesomeAdmin content for the Admin Track! The Admin Track at Dreamforce 2015 is a platform for Admins to deliver and absorb engaging, actionable, and memorable content that helps them become awesome Salesforce Admins, drive success for their business, and elevate their careers. […]

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7 Salesforce Hacks to make life easier

Ever heard of life hacks? Like how you can make your shoes waterproof by using Burt’s Bees Wax and a hairdryer. Maybe you’ve even heard of growth hacks if you’re familiar with the startup world. Well here are 7 Salesforce hacks that will make you life easier. As a Salesforce Admin we want to make […]

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Salesforce CSI: Uncovering What was Previously Built

So, you’ve inherited an undocumented org…now what? You’ve started a new job. (Congrats!) You’re volunteering for a non-profit. (Go you!) You’re a consultant who’s just started working with a new client. (It begins!) You ask your new boss/supervisor/manager for the documentation of the Salesforce org and you get a blank stare and a shrug. Oh […]

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Users May Come and Go, But Their Records Must Live On….

These days people change jobs more than ever. And this means that your Salesforce users are constantly changing and shifting – folks leaving the company and new users being added when you add licenses or new services. As an Admin what do we do about deactivating users who leave the company? In this moment when […]

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How to give a great Salesforce User Group Presentation

Presenting at a Salesforce User Group is a great way to showcase what you have built in Salesforce and to share your ideas! And giving a presentation at a user group is a good way to get warmed up for presenting at Dreamforce- or in front of your company. However, if you don’t present a lot […]

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Getting the Most From Duplicate Alerts & Blocking

Spring ’15 introduced Duplicate Alerts and Blocking, powered by Data.com.  (Check out The Essential Guide to Duplicate Alerts and Blocking). We had a chance to sit down with Andy Louca at Thomson Reuters to discuss their work around duplicate management.  Andy and team participated in the pilot and beta of the Data.com Duplicate Alerts and […]

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Get your Chatter on!

If you’re a Salesforce Admin, one of the best things you can do for your users and for your own sanity is to understand how Chatter works and to begin using it yourself. The Chatter layer within Salesforce provides an awesome communication model throughout all of your Salesforce applications that you don’t need to invent, […]

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