What is Salesforce? Why are so many employers looking for people who have that skill? How do you use it? Is it a technology you would love enough to embark upon a career as a highly paid System Administrator or Consultant?
What is Salesforce? Why are so many employers looking for people who have that skill? How do you use it? Is it a technology you would love enough to embark upon a career as a highly paid System Administrator or Consultant?
If you're already working at a company that has Salesforce, you will finally learn how to apply best practices to get the most out of the tool and make your work life easier and perhaps even help you get that raise.
My income doubled within just 7 months after I learned to use Salesforce. I immediately realized I wanted to specialize in customizing the system, not just using it.
) We are also registered Salesforce Consulting Partners and ISV Partners, who have trained literally hundreds of new users just like you. We know that no matter how little you know now, you can absolutely learn to use this CRM if you are willing to do the work.
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Note: This course focuses on the Classic user interface with an introduction to the less popular Lightning user interface. Navigation is the primary difference, though some features are not available in Lightning, such as mass email.
Ready? Let's go. A great career is waiting for you.
Getting started.
Learn the lingo of Salesforce's own "language" to unlock the learning.
Learn to navigate the system to easily retrieve the records you need to work with.
Learn to work with this foundational object, the backbone of the entire Salesforce.com database.
Keep track of the people you do business with, by managing your Contacts.
Though Account may be the hub of the wheel to the database, Opportunities are to the sales team. Learn to successfully manage these key records, for ultimate success with the CRM.
Learn to access personal settings, including making one of the mostly commonly desired personal customizations.
Learn more popular personal customizations you can make, so that the system works the best way for you.
Keep track of your important interactions with automated To Do's and other activity records.
Learn to work with two additional types of Activity records, to truly turn this online database into a full Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for you.
In previous lessons we have talked about the versatility and usefulness of List Views. Now it’s time to learn how to create one and what to do with it.
Hope you enjoyed the course and learned a lot. Thanks for participating. Please leave a review. Thank you gift enclosed. See you next time!
You've done it. You've made it through all the lessons, and hopefully also done all the exercises. Not let's see how much you've retained of what you've learned, so that you can apply it in the real world. Good luck!
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