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It is an interesting dichotomy that while writing custom code allows you to manipulate the system in very sophisticated ways, every bit of custom code that you write reduces the flexibility of your Salesforce platform by a very small degree, because it requires more specialized skills to keep running and to modify. Read more to learn about consideration.

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RingLead provides a suite of data quality and sales enablement applications for Salesforce.com. Our applications arepowerful yet simple to use and they easily integrate with most marketing automation platforms including Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, ExactTarget, Act-On Software, and more. RingLead has been a Salesforce partner since 2003 and we’ve worked with over 2,000 companies across 5 continent.

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Some of the biggest angst for my clients comes at the end of a project. Wrapping up an implementation brings all sorts of mixed feelings: pride and excitement, but also a fair share of trepidation. Read more to learn about tips for user adoption.

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Read 12 reasons why Dreamforce is hard to wait for. See you at Dreamforce 2013.

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There’s a lot of talk about Best Practice in the nonprofit sector, and having consulted on projects large and small, I want to take moment to relate this concept to implementing Salesforce. So much of a Salesforce implementation happens outside of Salesforce, I find that organizations eager for change and growth can lose sight of this when in the midst of an implementation project.

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Causeview: Combines all of your donor management activities into one simple and powerful system. It manages donations, campaigns, events, receipts, acknowledgements, major gifts, and provides powerful reports. It’s on the cloud; access it anywhere in the world.

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As a system administrator, it’s not only your job to ensure that reports are created, data is kept clean, and new fields and workflows are created. It is also to make sure that your colleagues, the end users, are properly trained and feel comfortable in the Salesforce.com environment.

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Whether you arrange for training from a consultant, manage it yourself, or use some combination of the two, there are a few techniques you can employ to ensure everyone comes out of the experience as confident and enthusiastic as possible.

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Easily generate custom proposals, account plans, contracts, presentations and emails with content from multiple objects and related lists. Works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF forms and HTML email in single, batch and scheduled operations.

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From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to the donation cycle from pledge to payment. Learn how.

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You choose a platform, signed with an awesome implementation partner who can translate your needs into technology, and you are extremely excited to get started. Wait… are you really ready to start the implementation?
From our experience at Cloud for Good this is not always the case. Many organizations want to start the implementation immediately after they chose their implementation partner. Everyone wants to get up and running on the new system as soon as possible. To make sure that you and your organization are ready, you should review and answer the questions in this post.

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Are you sometimes confused about where to go to get the answers you need in using Salesforce at your nonprofit? As you may have discovered there are many resources available for Salesforce users including the Answers community on Salesforce, LinkedIn groups, Google groups and more but wouldn’t it be nice to have a central repository for resources related to using Salesforce in the nonprofit and education space? Well the Salesforce Foundation thought so too and they have been hard at work creating the Power of US Hub, a new online user community built on the new Salesforce Communities. The Foundation describes the Hub as “a robust online community where members can share ideas, get support, and collaborate.”

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