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Reporting on Unique Values in Salesforce
Marketing attribution remains a hot topic within B2B marketing circles as everyone tries to be smarter with their budgets. While we could have endless conversations on how granular you need to get when measuring B2B marketing campaigns, one aspect remains consistent: the Salesforce Campaign object is a great option for capturing Marketing touch points. Capturing…
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How to Use Lightning Web Component (LWC) Slots
Lightning Web Component Slots are a valuable tool for any Salesforce Developer to add to their arsenal. In this blog, we’ll review what they are, what they do, and how to use them. What are LWC slots? A slot ( ) is a placeholder for markup that a parent component passes into a component’s body.…
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Getting Started with CRM Analytics (Formerly Einstein Analytics)
Many enterprises leverage Salesforce for its native reports and dashboards to understand their data and performance. However, over the last few years, with “the volume of customer data has been growing exponentially every day, exploring data manually has become a bigger challenge” (click here to read more). CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM, formerly Einstein Analytics)…
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CloudKettle: Year 8 By the Numbers
Archived Content: This article was originally published by CloudKettle prior to its acquisition by Bell and integration into Ateko. It is part of a historical series documenting the growth and benchmarks of the team that now forms Ateko’s dedicated Salesforce practice. Transparency. Honesty. Accountability. These are the values that drive us as an organization and…
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BANT: A Dead Easy Method for Qualifying Leads
BANT, purportedly created by IBM, is widely used, generally accepted, and easy-to-understand method for qualifying leads. What does BANT stand for? The acronym BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline. (MarketSplash has a great analysis of each BANT component here.) Download the Free BANT+C App BANT+C is a free app for Salesforce, from Ateko, that…
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What is Salesforce CMS?
Salesforce CMS or Content Management System provides the means to create, manage and deliver content from a central location. What makes it powerful is its capacity to deliver that content to multiple channels. This means CMS content can be used in multiple Experience Cloud sites (communities), in Marketing Cloud, Heroku, in Lightning Experience apps and…
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Please do not try to build your own Lead Routing Solution in Salesforce
I beg of you. Don’t do it. One might assume that an organization that provides high end resources to enterprises would want to build big complex things. And in some cases that is true – myself and our team overall enjoy solving very complex problems. But we have also been working in the Salesforce ecosystem…
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How CRM Analytics Benefits the C-Suite
CRM Analytics can be a significant asset to any organization with large volumes of data, especially if much of that data exists in Salesforce. By combining powerful analytics, data transformation tools and custom reporting with a seamless Salesforce integration, the benefits are clear to any Business Intelligence (BI) professional. But before any investment in BI…
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CloudKettle: Year 7 By the Numbers
Archived Content: This article was originally published by CloudKettle prior to its acquisition by Bell and integration into Ateko. It is part of a historical series documenting the growth and benchmarks of the team that now forms Ateko’s dedicated Salesforce practice. CloudKettle has always had transparency as one of its core values and that is…
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Top 10 Marketing Cloud Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Mistakes can be made when using any enterprise platform and Marketing Cloud is no exception to the rule. Most user-based mistakes are caused by taking shortcuts, like an inadequate implementation, failing to invest in training, or not testing. However there are always some mistakes that are inevitable and all part of the learning process. Someone…
