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Three Ways Salesforce Admins Can Deliver Impact

Three Ways Salesforce Admins Can Deliver Impact at Any Organization

For years we’ve been talking about digital transformation—how technology can overhaul how businesses function. At Salesforce, we focus on how you can use our platform to create drastically better customer experiences that are connected in ways you never thought possible. The pandemic encouraged lots of organizations to start their digital transformations since customers and users […]

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Build a Blog: A New Series to Help You Jumpstart Your Own Admin Blog

Now more than any other time I can remember, Salesforce Admins are busy—busy working with business analysts on new or improved processes, busy learning about a new Salesforce feature, busy volunteering in the community, and busy balancing stakeholder requests. This is why it’s more important than ever that you share your perspective with the community […]

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Sandboxes vs. Scratch Orgs and How to Use Them

Sandboxes vs. Scratch Orgs and How to Use Them

A best practice for building and configuring new solutions is to always build and test outside of your production org. But what org type should you use for building and testing? There are many resources that break down sandboxes and scratch orgs separately—but on the Admin Relations team, we often hear from admins who want […]

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Save Time with the Your Account App

How Salesforce Admins Can Save Time with the Your Account App

As Salesforce Admins, you’re expected to be the expert in all things Salesforce—and that often includes details of your company’s relationship with Salesforce. We know how important it is for you to be able to access key details of your Salesforce subscriptions and contracts, manage billing details, get copies of key documents, and even add […]

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How to Use UX Principles to Shape Your Security Model

How to Use UX Principles to Shape Your Security Model

Congratulations! Your organization, Awesome Admin Automotive, made the investment in Salesforce. You’ve absorbed so much great content and can’t wait to dive right in and try out all the new bells and whistles! While it’s a very exciting journey ahead, as Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why” suggests, it’s important to first take some time […]

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Free Resources for Admins

6 Free Resources Available Today for Salesforce Admins

No matter where you are in your Salesforce Admin journey, constant learning and growth is important to your career development and technical skills. Luckily, Salesforce Administrators have access to tons of free resources to deep dive into product areas, hone business skills, and connect with other Salesforce Admins to learn tips and tricks. Here are […]

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Getting Started as a Salesforce Admin

If you’re new to the Salesforce Admin community, this blog post will outline several resources on getting started in understanding core responsibilities! Whether you’re just getting started, you’ve recently found yourself taking over more admin responsibilities, or you earned your admin certification years ago (or something in between those things), you’ve come to the right […]

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How to Invoke a Flow from a Global Action

It’s great that we can invoke a flow from an object-specific action, but what if you need to invoke a flow from a global action? You COULD embed the flow in a Visualforce page; however, if you were to do so, the flow wouldn’t run in the Lightning skin. You’d get the ugly-looking Classic flow […]

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