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Spring Cleaning – Simplifying your Salesforce Reports

New in the Summer ’14 Release is the ability to mass delete reports- which is awesome! And if you haven’t read the Summer ’14 release notes you can see them here. With that new functionality comes some clean up. As a Salesforce Admin we can’t just go around deleting reports. Even though they may look […]

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The Moneyball theory to Salesforce Adoption

This weekend I had the chance to watch Moneyball again. For those of you have not seen the movie I’ll make it easy and give you a link to synopsis. Now, if you have seen the movie you might be wondering- “what does this have to do with Salesforce?” Well, everything. Thinking back to my […]

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The Importance of Salesforce Help Text

I love my mom. I even took her to a Customer Company Tour stop in Minneapolis. She was completely overwhelmed by everything she saw. During the keynote address she whispered to me “I don’t really understand everything he’s talking about, but it he is a really good speaker.” Now I know that a lot of […]

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So You’re a Salesforce Admin…What’s Next?

Last week I was listening to Shell Black on the Button Click Admin Podcast and something that was said really resonated with me.  Shell Black was talking about the differences between an “order taking admin” and that of a consultant.  I immediately started to think when admins make that progression from just doing what they’re […]

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Single Salesforce Admin: Time

Time.  That one pesky commodity that just doesn’t stand still.  Our society has been fortunate enough to see technology explode an exponential rate, allowing everyone to do more and in better ways.  But while the quantity of work to be done has grown, time still moves at the same rate.  This can be especially troubling […]

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ButtonClick Admin to Arduino Admin

What an exciting weekend this has been. I decided I needed a new hobby and went old-school. I actually stopped by a Radio Shack store and bought a starter Arduino kit. For most of us (including me) the Dreamforce 2013 keynote was one of the first times we understood how the connection between software and […]

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Salesforce User Fields- a practical application

It was about a year ago that Mark Slayton wrote  about Salesforce Global variables, it’s a great post and if you haven’t read it already I want you to add it to your reading list. Last week I was doing some work on the org that Jared and I use to manage the podcast- yes […]

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3 Lessons for a Salesforce Admin

From now on I’m going to refer to SXSW as “Nerd Spring Break”. This year was filled with great conversations, a ton of learning, and enlightenment. As a blogger and podcaster there were a ton of people to connect with and as a Salesforce Admin there were many lessons to learn and new technology advancements […]

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