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Published:
December 12, 2019

Salesforce For Dummies

Overview

Your easy-to-follow guide to the world’s leading cloud-based CRM software

Salesforce gives your business an edge in tracking relationships and managing sales, marketing, customer service, and support operations. Salesforce For Dummies help you take advantage of key platform functionality and focus on making the most of its many features. Learn best practices to determine the right configuration to suit your business needs, and how to use apps, build widgets, and configure features to personalize your system for your business. Explore prospecting for leads, managing accounts, maintaining contacts, tracking products, calculating forecasts, and monitoring each customer’s service and support interactions with your business. Collaborate with colleagues by sharing information across a 360-degree view of all customer interactions, enhance your online marketing, gain real-time visibility into sales, and close deals faster.

  • Get started with configuring Salesforce and set up the apps that your business needs
  • Discover the latest updates to Salesforce, including Flow Builder, Lightning, and Einstein
  • Improve business performance with reporting insights, collaborative communication features, and integrated sales and marketing processes
  • Find new ways to improve productivity and reduce administration time

Salesforce For Dummies is the fully updated, best-selling guide that helps new and existing users get up to speed with the world’s top CRM.

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About The Author

Liz Kao has played both in-house and consultant roles at Salesforce. As a consultant and a member of Salesforce’s Professional Services team, Liz implemented dozens of CRM solutions and built numerous AppExchange apps. Jon Paz is a Salesforce consultant who has worked with enterprise clients to deliver world-class solutions to perplexing business challenges.

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Unlike traditional software, Salesforce is software-as-a-service (SaaS). You sign up for a subscription and log in through a browser, and the software is immediately available. You may need to make some adjustments to make all aspects apply to the details of your business. There’s no purchase, installation, or hardware setup required!

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If your company’s instance of Salesforce is just a few years old and the Lightning Experience is enabled by default, congratulations! You have a fairly young instance of Salesforce, and hopefully the guidance we’ve given you in this book can ensure your Salesforce customizations use best practices that will scale for the future.
Salesforce.com drives much of its feature updates based on its existing road map and requests from customers just like you. A few times a year, Salesforce.com comes out with a new release of its award-winning service. That’s the benefit of these cloud-based business applications, because the infrastructure isn’t maintained by you.
As customers, employees, and partners began building custom Salesforce applications (or apps), some bright person came up with an idea: Wouldn’t it be great if other customers like you could simply try, download, and install these custom Salesforce apps without having to build them on their own? iTunes uses the web to distribute music, so why shouldn’t enterprise applications work the same way?
Salesforce has an easy-to-use wizard that steps you through importing your Campaign Member updates, Leads, Accounts, Contacts, and custom objects. If you’re a system administrator or you have the right profile permissions, you can perform these tasks for your users.For other objects’ legacy data (such as Opportunities, Cases, and Activities) that you want to have in Salesforce, you have to enter information manually or use the Data Loader, which is a data import and export tool that comes with Enterprise and Unlimited editions to automatically migrate data into Salesforce.
Salesforce comes packed full of great tools to help you win more deals, get more leads, and provide better customer service. This brief guide will help you understand how Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud help make you more productive and efficient. How to use Sales Cloud to win more deals Sales Cloud helps companies increase their sales success in a number of ways.
Unlike traditional software, Salesforce is software-as-a-service (SaaS). You sign up for a subscription and log in through a browser, and the software is immediately available. You may need to make some adjustments to make all aspects apply to the details of your business. There’s no purchase, installation, or hardware setup required!
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