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What You Should Do Before an Enterprise-Wide CRM Implementation
Implementing a constituent relationship management (CRM) application can be a difficult project for organizations with multiple large complex departments. An assessment of the organization's CRM strategy,...
Dreamforce 2013 is over. In theory, you've bodily recovered from the walking, talking, learning, and partying. Now what? How can you best leverage all the stuff...
Thank You Letters: Leveraging Donation Split & Conga Composer
How are you currently generating thank you letters for your donations? More importantly, how can you generate a thank you letter from a donor that has...
I got into a discussion with a client recently about ethical consulting. I’ve had this discussion with colleagues, co-workers, friends and mentors through the years, but...
Don’t Be a Fish Out of Water: Preparing for a Salesforce Migration
Each Salesforce organization is housed at one of Salesforce’s data centers. Salesforce calls these groupings of clients instances and it is a good practice as a...
Too often, in my experience, I’ve had clients treat a Salesforce implementation as a discrete moment in time: “We wanted Salesforce, we got Salesforce, we have...
The Future is Now: Taking your Chatter Publisher Actions Mobile
Chatter Publisher Publisher actions allow you to perform simple tasks such as creating child records from within the record’s Chatter feed. Read more about publisher....
Guarding Against Online Fraud on #GivingTuesday: 3 Expert Strategies
#GivingTuesday, one of the biggest fundraising days of the year, is coming up. This post contains tips to avoid fraud on #GivingTuesday and throughout the year....
More and more nonprofit organizations are using Salesforce to power their mission and create additional value for their constituents. The flexibility, openness and expansive ecosystem of...
5 Fundraising Processes You Should Track in Salesforce
Fundraising is hard work. It requires excellent relationship-building skills, a strong understanding of the funding landscape in your community, and strategic decision-making. Salesforce can be a...
Common Pitfalls When Implementing Salesforce for Nonprofits: Custom Object Overkill
The key to the success of your Salesforce implementation is moderation and this is especially true when it comes to custom object creation. Even if an...
