Migrating Files between Salesforce Orgs - Thursday 12 November 2020

Migrating data is a bit like marmite, you either love it or hate it. You need to have an understanding of how data is organised by tables, rows and columns in a relational database, plus have a very methodical and tenacious nature which you don’t mind being put to the test. So, if you’ve already switched off from this blog, data migration may not be your thing. MORE INFO

Salesforce Labs Favourites - Wednesday 4 November 2020

In our latest blog post, we take a look at some of the latest Salesforce Lab components that might be worth a look. MORE INFO

Salesforce Labs on the AppExchange - Case Timer - Friday 16 October 2020

Earlier today a colleague asked me my opinion on an interesting requirement. Someone he has been speaking to had said they wanted to be able to track how long team members were actually on a Case page so that they can track actual Case work times and not just how long since it was created. My response was that although I have not done it before personally, it sounds like something that should be possible at least to a point. MORE INFO

Salesforce Testing in Marketing Cloud - Friday 16 October 2020

It goes without saying, testing your emails is very important. Not just because the quality of our emails is important, but an untested email can have a negative impact on our Deliverability and Sender Reputation. In this blog, we will be going over the three internal Salesforce testing tools available in Marketing Cloud. MORE INFO

Salesforce Tableau meets Einstein Analytics - Friday 16 October 2020

When Salesforce bought Tableau in 2019, we were all eagerly waiting to see how Tableau and Salesforce Einstein Analytics would come together. Now wait no longer, we are now seeing the predictive capabilities of Einstein Discovery emerge in Tableau. We’ll tell you about it in this blog. MORE INFO

Salesforce Winter '21 Release Notes - Wednesday 7 October 2020

Take a look at the latest release where we review our favourite new functionality in the Salesforce Winter '21 release. MORE INFO

Salesforce Winter '21 Release - Changes to In-App Guidance - Tuesday 6 October 2020

In our first edition of a four part Salesforce Winter '21 Release blog series, we take a look at the new features that this release will add to the existing In-App Guidance. MORE INFO

Salesforce Winter '21 Release - The Newest Generation of Data Prep in Einstein Analytics - Tuesday 6 October 2020

We love working with Recipes to prepare data because Data Prep offers simplicity and functionality. With this new release we get an upgrade in both areas. The new interface focusses on high level data changes which makes it easier to view the flow of data from beginning to end. MORE INFO

Salesforce Winter '21 Release - View Org Changes in One Location with Release Updates - Tuesday 6 October 2020

Ever wondered where to go to view Release Updates within your Org? Three times a year, Salesforce releases updates to improve your experience as a customer, but the ones that are most relevant to your org can be easily missed and not taken advantage of! MORE INFO

Dynamic Forms in Salesforce Lightning Record Pages - Monday 28 September 2020

In this part, we will be taking a look at a new feature called Dynamic Forms. This allows you to place fields on your Lightning page in a similar way to other components. This is very new so I am sure we’ll see enhancements over time, but we’re going to look at the basics here. MORE INFO

What is Salesforce Workbench? - Friday 25 September 2020

Salesforce Workbench is a tool that brings together a number of advanced features and capabilities into one place. A lot of these can be done in other ways too, but Workbench brings all these together into one interface and in many cases enhances the usability. MORE INFO

Conditional Visibility in Salesforce Lightning Record Pages - Thursday 24 September 2020

Welcome to part two of our series on Lightning pages. Today we will talk about some of the options you have for using Conditional Visibility to control some components on your page and how these might wrap into an example business process. MORE INFO

Using Salesforce Lightning Record Pages - Friday 18 September 2020

Over the past couple of years we’ve seen big changes to page layouts and Lightning pages, which might seem overwhelming or confusing. This is the first of a multi part blog series on how you can use Lightning pages and the flexibility they can bring you, without jumping into heavy Salesforce development. Let’s start with understanding what makes up our Lightning pages. MORE INFO

What is Salesforce Social Studio? - Friday 11 September 2020

Social Studio is part of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud family and is a powerful Marketing toolkit to optimise every stage of our Social engagement. MORE INFO

myTrailhead – Trailmaker Enhancements to make Publishing even easier! - Monday 7 September 2020

Hot off the press, those lovely folks at Salesforce have released some enhancements to the Trailmaker tool that we use to publish myTrailhead content. MORE INFO

New Salesforce Standard Profile? Yes Please! - Thursday 3 September 2020

Many of you Salesforce admins and developers can immediately recite the standard Salesforce profiles. It was likely one of the first things you learnt. But did you know in the Summer ’20 release a new standard profile was added? MORE INFO

Becoming an Expert in Einstein Analytics - Friday 21 August 2020

We’re often asked by our customers how to learn more about a certain product. We all know about Trailhead and the volume of fantastic resources available there, as well as Salesforce Help and the Trailblazer Community. However, sometimes navigating your own path can have its challenges where there is so much out there. MORE INFO

Work/Life Balance and the new Normal - Friday 14 August 2020

Our Director Jo writes about her experience with working from home since March this year. She talks about what it has taught and given her and whether this way of working could be the new normal. MORE INFO

Salesforce Administrator Training Courses - Spread out your Learning Over Two Weeks! - Tuesday 11 August 2020

So, you want to take a training course and learn all there is to know about Salesforce administration – great! You’re too busy to take a week off work – not so great. However, good news is here! Those lovely people at Salesforce have a new offering for students wishing to attend the Admin Essentials for New Admins (ADX201) or Admin Essentials for Advanced Admins (ADX211). MORE INFO

Marketing Cloud: Single Send Journeys versus Send Flows - Wednesday 5 August 2020

If you have used Journey Builder recently, you probably noticed that Salesforce Marketing Cloud have introduced a new feature called “Single Send Journey”. This is allowing you, as a user, to create a one off send of a single email to a Data Extension through the Journey Builder interface. MORE INFO

Enhance your Single View of the Customer using Marketing Cloud Connect - Monday 3 August 2020

Many of our Salesforce Marketing Cloud customers use Marketing Cloud as a standalone product, however, it is simple to connect Marketing Cloud with the Sales, Service or Community Cloud in order to take advantage of the customer data in these Salesforce Clouds. MORE INFO

myTrailhead Summer '20 Updates - Friday 24 July 2020

In our other blogs we’ve covered so many great new features, but this time around we want to focus on one of our favourite products, myTrailhead. Let’s take a look at the updates in the Summer '20 release. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer ’20 release: Our Roundup – Edition 3 - Thursday 23 July 2020

Are you a Marketer who would like to make it easier to gather more customer information? Well in the Summer '20 release Marketing Cloud is introducing us to Interactive Emails. MORE INFO

Staff Spotlight - David Cooke - Friday 17 July 2020

For our next Staff Spotlight, we talk to David Cooke, our second Graduate Consultant. He loved the idea of being a maths teacher once upon a time. He enjoys playing rugby and going to the gym. His previous work experience includes working on set with Margot Robbie, featured in Hell Boy and a year and a half spent in the world of IT B2B sales. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer ’20 release: Our Roundup – Edition 2 - Wednesday 15 July 2020

Would it be another release if we don’t mention Flows? It feels like Flows have been getting a lot of love with each recent update to Salesforce, and Summer ‘20 is no exception. MORE INFO

Staff Spotlight - Liam O'Shea - Friday 10 July 2020

For our next Staff Spotlight, we chat with Liam who is one of our new Graduate Consultants. He studied Business at the University of The West of England in Bristol. His work background includes working on room service at the Marriott, customer service at Homebase and estate agency. He's a snooker lover and is very thrilled at the opportunity Stimulus has given him. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer ’20 release: Our Roundup – Edition 1 - Thursday 9 July 2020

During this time of social distancing, it may seem as if this release has taken a bit of a back seat in our minds, but never fear Stimulus Consulting is here to ensure that you can peek at some of the highlights of Salesforce’s latest offerings. MORE INFO

New Features in Salesforce Reporting - Tuesday 30 June 2020

In this blog, we are going to focus on a couple of the newer features in Salesforce Analytics that have been released over the past year, and although they may be small, they certainly are powerful. MORE INFO

Staff Spotlight - Karen Causley - Friday 26 June 2020

For our next Staff Spotlight we speak to Karen, our Accounts Assistant. She was once a self-employed administrator that allowed her the flexibility she needed for her young family. She loves travelling, crafts and the fun and laughter that the Stimulus office always provides. MORE INFO