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Is your Salesforce instance a race car?

Growing up in the midwest my Saturday nights were often filled with dirt track action and the sound of screaming engines. I love racing! I love racecars and everything about them- they have one purpose in mind: go as fast as possible. Every nut and bolt has a single purpose- make the car go faster. […]

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How to study for a Salesforce Certification Exam

By far the most popular questions I get emailed to me are around Salesforce Certifications and how to study for the exams. While I’ve been lucky that for each of my three certifications I’ve been able to go to a Salesforce Admin or Developer course. Right now I’m working to getting my Sales and Service Cloud […]

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Your Guide to the Improved Salesforce Setup Menu Interface

New in the Summer ’13 release, Salesforce improved the Setup user interface with an Improved Salesforce Setup Menu Interface. Now for the experienced Admin the first time you enable the new interface it will take you back to the first days of being an Admin- at least it did for me. But worry not, I’ve put together […]

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How to make your Salesforce Page Layouts awesome

For as much as I would like to think I’m a web designer- I am not. I think web design is fascinating especially if you look at web pages from just a few years ago to now- so much has changed. But Salesforce Admins- to some degree- have to be web designers. I mean we […]

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Salesforce Visual Workflow – Advanced Flows

‘For the second part of the Salesforce Visual Workflow tutorial, I’ve asked Keith Sadler, Consultant (and Flow guru) from Appirio to return and expand on some really cool functionality and advanced features. We are going to build off of the original Flow that was designed for creating a Case from a Lead record that was accidentally […]

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Getting to the Why?

I believe that every Salesforce Admin can revolutionize their company. As a Salesforce blogger I believe that in order to fulfill the mission of making every Salesforce Admin a revolutionary- I need to provide a balance of strategic and tactical posts on this blog to keep our skills sharp. A recent tweet from Kevin Richardson […]

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Salesforce Visual Workflow – Getting Started

Intro by Mike: This week it’s my pleasure to introduce you to one of the smartest problem-solvers I know. Last year at the Dreamforce to you event in Orlando I was lucky enough to meet Keith Sadler, Consultant at Appirio. Over a few beers we had a great discussion about reporting, workflows, and why Sriracha rules. […]

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Learning Salesforce.com Workbench Part 2 (Guest Post)

“Last week I introduced you to fellow Salesforce MVP Brian Kwong. He is the Salesforce Wizard and has the hat to prove it. He has been a Salesforce Administrator for six years. In addition to being a ButtonClick Admin, Brian also utilizes Salesforce Apex and Visualforce. You know he is a driven MVP because he took […]

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Learning Salesforce.com Workbench Part 1

Knowing your data tools is a ButtonClick Admin habit, and it goes without saying that I love the Excel connector– I’ll be having Ron Hess on the ButtonClick Admin podcast very soon. And while I haven’t neglected the Salesforce Workbench I’ve always wanted to have someone who can adequately give it the justice it deserves. […]

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