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Client Services
5 Ways You’ll Benefit from a Center of Excellence
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For most organizations, your CRM program is successful and doing well. Now, it’s time to take your program to the next level. A Center of Excellence is an important model to adopt because it breaks down your CRM program into several elements each with a particular area of focus. This competency center will be able...
Financial Services
Stop Chasing the Customer: Building Relationships with a Unified Digital Platform
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I recently spoke at the Financial Brand Forum and heard the same thing over and over from businesses: we’re growing, but our processes aren’t. The frustration is understandable. To meet increasing targets for customer growth, wallet share, and processing efficiency, you need to be investing in the right technology and processes in order to scale....
Help & Training
Lightning Experience Adoption is a Key Push in the Salesforce Summer ‘18 Release
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If you haven’t made the move to Lightning there has never been a better time. The Lightning transition toolkit is chock full of great tools to help you assess your Lightning readiness. The Lightning Experience Readiness Check is available now and will help you identify Lightning ready users with one-click and will provide a report...
Help & Training
Showcase your Trailhead Badges with the Salesforce Summer ‘18 Release
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Trailhead is an amazing tool to learn about the Salesforce platform (and more) and to increase user adoption. In Summer ‘18, you will be able to display Trailhead badges on user profiles (and more) without having to implement any additional packages. This means you will be able to share and view your team’s accomplishments right...
Help & Training
Enhanced Collaboration for Chatter in the Salesforce Summer ‘18 Release
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For any organization on the Salesforce platform, Chatter is a core part of the daily workflow. In the Summer ‘18 Salesforce release, there are some exciting new enhancements coming that will make Chatter an even stronger platform for record collaboration and historical communication. We all know that you can tag your co-workers and groups from...
Communities
Allocate Resources with CalendarAnything and Salesforce Communities
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Did you know CalendarAnything works in Salesforce Communities? This is a great way to allocate resources between employees, customers, and partners because CalendarAnything allows you to see any of your Salesforce records on an actionable calendar through a date/time field. One of our clients, a wedding photography company, is doing exactly that! Its portfolio of...
Help & Training
Digital Transformation Begins With the Customer: Five Keys for Building a Successful CRM Roadmap
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Business leaders are becoming increasingly aware that they must embrace digital transformation to remain competitive. This can mean a number of things depending on the organizational maturity and marketplace. One thing it always includes is the idea of leveraging cloud technology to become more customer-centric. Cloud-based CRM has emerged as the platform of choice for...
Help & Training
How do you stay on top of Salesforce releases?
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Staying on top of Salesforce’s three releases each year can be a big task if you don’t have a proper strategy in place. Are you an admin on a Salesforce team or a solo-admin for your company? The smaller your team, the more daunting these releases may seem. Take advantage of these best practices to...
Tools
Wave Dashboards to Forecast Resource Availability
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As a business, Silverline has its own Salesforce instance just like our clients. We constantly strive to improve and innovate to stay one step ahead and solve challenges internally. We recently did an overhaul of our resource capacity process utilizing Wave Dashboards. Check out our story below: Challenge A request was made by our executive...
Help & Training
Dive into the Pardot Spring ‘18 Release Notes
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As you may or may not know, Pardot has a rolling release schedule where new features become Generally Available (GA) as they’re deemed ready. Some of these features may be contingent on the Sales Cloud release but most come out on a rolling basis. Below are features that will deliver an immediate improvement to your...