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Custom approval processes are a powerful Salesforce feature for data process automation. Anytime that you want someone to double-check something before it goes live in your Salesforce database, an approval process can help to automate many of the manual tasks involved, taking a lot of tedious back-and-forth out of the equation.

In bigger companies, the number of stakeholders grows, and with it[…]

In today’s tech-driven world, relationships and interactions with our customers, peers, and colleagues are important keys to success in business. Everyone wants to develop closer relationships with the people that they work with or buy from.

Customers want to build closer, trust-based relationships with the brands and products that they love. Employees, especially in a world that is becoming[…]

Salesforce is a powerful tool for account-based marketing and sales. For many of the largest B2B companies in the world, it is the go-to tool for managing enterprise sales teams.

But your Salesforce ABM strategy is only as effective as your ability to organize data in a way that makes it easy to identify the most influential stakeholders within an organization and deliver messages that resonate[…]

HubSpot and Salesforce are two of the most popular marketing and sales platforms in existence today. Naturally, each platform specializes in specific areas and provides unique benefits, leading to many companies integrating both platforms into their daily processes.

Bad Salesforce data can suck the life out of your marketing campaigns and sales initiatives. Duplicate Salesforce data, missing data, inaccurate data, outdated data — it all adds up over time as prospects and customers have negative experiences engaging with your brand. Poor-quality data costs US companies up to $15 million annually as it leads to problems with productivity and effectiveness.

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Your CRM is responsible for storing your most critical customer data. It’s that data that you use to contact customers and prospects, personalize engagements, and put your teams in a position to succeed in their interactions.

One of the most critical fields that you collect in a CRM is customer and prospect phone numbers.

Along with emails, phone numbers provide the most direct way to[…]

As companies begin to expand the number of ways in which they use Salesforce within their organization, they look for more in-depth and automated ways to take care of specific tasks in the system. And ever-expanding reliance on Salesforce means that manual tasks can become a huge slow down across your organization.

Apex triggers within Salesforce are designed to help you automate certain[…]

Do you want to customize the object pages that your Users see in Salesforce? Are you confused about how to go about it? Maybe you aren’t sure if you should be using page layouts or record types — particularly if the solution you need is a bit more complicated with multiple variables.

Often, users will find that Salesforce has two similar features or functions and it can be difficult to discern[…]

There is nothing more aggravating than hitting your Salesforce API usage limit.

Your company grinds to a halt. Apps stop talking to each other. Data is blocked from being added to your CRM. Maybe certain pieces of your sales software stack stop working altogether.

Then you’re forced to buy more and increase your API limit, just to keep the wheels turning. Or sit around and wait for the 24-hour[…]

Duplicate accounts in Salesforce can be a serious problem for account-based sales and marketing teams.

Duplicate accounts break your single customer view and can cause confusion among your teams. The contacts and stakeholders for that organization may be split up between both accounts. The same is true for any important account notes that are left by your teams, which means that in the future[…]