Assessing Salesforce’s platform and ecosystem
This is a really good “state-of-the-union-roundup” of where Salesforce is right now. A top-10 position in the tech industry, impressive growth and doing it’s best to answer the critics of public cloud technology.
ReadThe Core of Salesforce Einstein
Ever wonder how Salesforce could implement such a revolutionary feature on a well-established platform? With the acquisition of BeyondCore this became entirely feasible, so much so that it is Live and available for use.
ReadPredicting the unknown with AI
In the world of marketing automation, we’re striving to send the right message, to the right people at the right time to increase engagement with our brands. But can we take that a step further with Artificial Intelligence through increased targeting and personalisation, automating real-contact with customers or predicting what consumers want before they even […]
ReadSalesforce Administrators – check out this awesome blog!
Sometimes, with so much content coming out of Salesforce, it’s hard to keep up with the latest news. Well Salesforce admins, look no further. Salesforce Admins blogs (https://admin.salesforce.com) bring together helpful tips, tricks and guides along with podcasts and videos for all your admin needs – why not check it out?
ReadImproving the Marketing and Sales Relationship is Not a New Challenge
This great HBR article from 1989 highlights that automating marketing and sales processes to improve the relationship and productivity is by no means a new concept. Successful businesses have been trying to improve efficiency and process management between these two key departments for decades!
ReadIs Marketing Automation for you?
If you’re considering Marketing Automation or already have a solution but not sure you’re using it to it’s full potential, this is a great list of Q&A’s that will help you think more thoroughly about how to plan, integrate and resource your Marketing Automation strategy.
ReadWave for B2B Marketing (Pardot)
I am very excited to see how Salesforce will be expanding the reporting capabilities of Pardot using the new Wave platform. For me this was the only area that I thought Pardot needed to improve. With this in place Pardot will be an easy decision for any organisation wanting to market to companies using the […]
ReadHeroku – One Less Headache for your Developers?
I recently attended a Partner event at the Salesforce tower, the subject – Heroku. “Well that name certainly doesn’t give anything away,” I thought!
ReadLess Work Required To Write Salesforce Lightning Components? I’m in!
Salesforce Lightning is a modern interface with some nice architectural ideas (e.g. event-based communication between modules). It is clearly the direction that SF want to go, but we have always been put off by the lack of some features that we are used to having in Visualforce.
ReadSalesforce Development Is Finally Growing Up
When I started writing code on Salesforce, we typed code into a basic text-input on the setup pages. There was no auto-complete, no collaboration tools, and no version control, deployment was difficult… In fact, if it weren’t for the platform itself being so powerful, it would have been a complete dead-end.
ReadEmail Marketing is Still Very Much Alive
The landscape of email marketing has changed enormously in the past few years. Now, success in email marketing doesn’t rely on gathering huge numbers of addresses but more on segmenting your audience, automating communications and being much more targeted.
ReadAccount Engagement now allows Dynamic List Segmentation based on Public List Opt-in Status
Account Engagement has recently released an additional rule for Dynamic Lists that has largely gone unnoticed, but is hugely powerful and adds much-needed functionality to the platform.
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