Trailhead Release their Latest Schedule of Live Certification Prep Sessions for August 2021 - Friday 30 July 2021

When you are preparing for your Salesforce certification exam, every little helps. The Trailhead team have just released their latest schedule of live certification prep sessions for August. If you want to get ahead and hear from the experts, then sign up. MORE INFO

Getting Started with Salesforce Lightning Scheduler - Friday 23 July 2021

If scheduling appointments is a consistent problem in your business, or you need to upscale your current system, try the Salesforce Lightning Scheduler. This add-on could be a great tool if your business is growing, and you need an appointment scheduler with the advanced features to make your life easier. MORE INFO

The Salesforce Admins Guide to AI - Wednesday 21 July 2021

When you hear the word AI, what do you think of? Robots? Humanoids? A futuristic world where only Will Smith can save us? The truth is, AI is already integrated into our daily lives more than you may realise. Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are a form of AI many of us have in our homes or on our phones. So how have Salesforce got in on the act? MORE INFO

Multi-Factor Authentication is coming! - Wednesday 14 July 2021

Salesforce is the world’s most trusted enterprise cloud and with that comes an expectancy to keep accounts and data secure. And rightly so. That’s why Multi-Factor Authentication is an essential (and soon compulsory) addition to your Salesforce CRM. MORE INFO

Staff Spotlight - Laura Flowers - Tuesday 13 July 2021

We have a chat with Laura Flowers, who joined the team in June. Prior to becoming a Salesforce project manager and certified admin, she was a Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police. MORE INFO

Salesforce CDP – what was it? What is it? - Monday 5 July 2021

In the latest update from the Marketing Cloud June release – a small change current users will notice is that what was previously Customer 360, has now changed to CDP (Customer Data Platform), and while this isn’t a functional or a large integral change, it felt like a good time to cover one of Salesforce’s key products for those out there who aren’t familiar with it! MORE INFO

Marketing Cloud's Einstein just got better! - Friday 2 July 2021

Cometh the update, cometh the improvements! With the recent June ‘21 release, Marketing Cloud has seen a couple of key improvements made within the Einstein capabilities that exist. MORE INFO

The Future of Salesforce Flows - Tuesday 22 June 2021

I recently attended an event where a rough roadmap of upcoming flow features was shown. I got this screenshot. All the normal caveats apply that at the point I took this none of these releases were finalised. However, I believe everything intended for Summer ‘21 has been released, so hopefully that sets the precedent for the rest. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer '21 Release - Part 2 - Thursday 3 June 2021

Here is the second part of our Salesforce Summer '21 review where we take a look at our favourite updates to come from this latest release. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer '21 Release - Part 1 - Friday 28 May 2021

Take a look at the latest release where we review our favourite new functionality in the Salesforce Summer '21 release. There are so many exciting new release notes to look through, so we wanted to select our favourites and draw your attention to some of these incredible new changes. MORE INFO

Salesforce Maps - Summer '21 Updates - Wednesday 26 May 2021

In the Summer ’21 release, there are actually quite a few new features for Salesforce Maps. In this blog post, we will guide you through them. MORE INFO

Salesforce Learning Paths - Wednesday 26 May 2021

Imagine being a Learning & Development manager, keen to ensure your users get the right training at the right time. It’s difficult at the best of times, but now we have Learning Paths. MORE INFO

Time Limited Permission Sets - Wednesday 26 May 2021

A deeper dive into a Summer 21 feature that should be of great interest to admins. MORE INFO

Life as a Salesforce Consultant - One Year In - Saturday 22 May 2021

Work anniversaries bring with them a nice opportunity to not only celebrate friendships made and things accomplished, but also an opportunity to reflect on them - I say this as I come ever closer to my one-year anniversary working for Stimulus Consulting and working in the Salesforce ecosystem. MORE INFO

Introduction to Content Builder in Salesforce Marketing Cloud - Friday 21 May 2021

Have you ever wondered about all of the studios and builders in Marketing Cloud? In this blog, we thought we’d start with some basics for those of you new to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Let’s start with one of the core products in Marketing Cloud, called Content Builder. MORE INFO

Salesforce Global Actions: The quick navigation that most people forget about - Thursday 13 May 2021

If you have ever used Salesforce, you will be aware that more often than not, there is more than one way to do something. Whether that is creating records, navigating or editing, there is usually more than one option. MORE INFO

Easy Wins to Enhance Page Layouts - Introducing Enhanced Lightning Grids - Monday 10 May 2021

Salesforce is often categorised as an “out of the box product”, and by that we mean that from Day 1 of your deployment, there are standard features/functionalities already up and running that allows you to start using it straight away. The issue with this, however, is that sometimes we just assume this is how Salesforce should look like/be used like; and typically, we start adjusting our preferences to be better aligned with the “out the box” functionality. A prime example of this is the general user interface (UI). People assume that the fields/page layouts/related lists etc. should stay the same. It isn’t until someone shows an alternative view, do we appreciate how much far we can go with our customisation. MORE INFO

Salesforce MobileStudio (MobileConnect) - Wednesday 5 May 2021

With mobile phones being part of our life more and more these days, it goes without saying that being able to market though SMS and MMS is something many companies have started looking into. And while we may love Salesforce Marketing Cloud as the tool we go to for email marketing, I wonder how many us know it can be used for our mobile communication too. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer '21 Sneak Peaks - Wednesday 28 April 2021

I thought I’d call out a few of the things that stood out to me from a quick review of the release notes. I got hold of a preview org so have had a play with a few of these myself, whilst others I have just read about and will need to wait to get hands on. MORE INFO

Salesforce Summer '21 Release Timeline - Monday 19 April 2021

The Salesforce Summer ‘21 release is fast approaching and I’m looking forward to having a play around with some of the changes. I thought I would do a quick note on the timelines for the release so that no one misses anything. MORE INFO

Einstein Activity Capture - Friday 16 April 2021

Starting in Winter ’21 Lightning Sync will not be available to new Salesforce customers. So, our focus will be on the replacement, Einstein Activity Capture. MORE INFO

Creating Custom Trailmixes in myTrailhead - Tuesday 6 April 2021

One of the great ways of assigning a learning journey in myTrailhead, is to create a custom Trailmix. MORE INFO

How to Deactivate Your Old System Admin in Salesforce - Thursday 25 March 2021

If you have an org where the person who originally created it, or the system administrator has moved on and no longer takes part in day-to-day admin, you may have come across the fun involved in disabling this user. MORE INFO

myTrailhead Storage Sync - Wednesday 24 March 2021

We’ve just seen another update in myTrailhead, which we think many of you will like. If you have been working with Trailmaker (where we create myTrailhead content) for some time, you will have been aware that content is stored in your cache. Therefore, should you clear your cache or use an incognito window, you will lose the content in your workspace. Now we have myTrailhead Storage Sync. MORE INFO

Flow Updates in Spring ‘21 - Wednesday 17 March 2021

Salesforce have been putting massive effort into flows over the last few releases and Spring ‘21 is no different. Firstly, the obligatory rebrand for anything they put significant effort into. Lightning Flow is now called Salesforce Flow. A minor difference but worth noting when searching for help. It seems like the focus here has been to close some of the gaps between flow builder, process builder (which is the same underlying technology) and workflow rules. I will run through some of my favourite changes. MORE INFO

How to become a Salesforce Certified Administrator - Friday 12 March 2021

Back when the Salesforce Certified Administrator certification was released, in around 2008, there were very few resources out there to pass certification. I’m proud to say that I was one of the first 100 certified admins in the world – as a certified Salesforce instructor delivering the admin workshop, we all needed to lead the way. MORE INFO

Stimulus Consulting: An Analytics David Among Goliaths - Friday 12 March 2021

We have some very exciting news to share with you. Read more to find out! MORE INFO

International Women's Day 2021 - Get to know more about Jo. - Monday 8 March 2021

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we thought it would be great for you to get to know a little bit more about our wonderful Managing Director, Jo. Without her and her husband Phil, there would be no Stimulus. MORE INFO

Spring '21 Tableau CRM Beta Features - Thursday 18 February 2021

Extra, extra read all about it! Einstein Analytics is now known as Tableau CRM. MORE INFO