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Salesforce Communities 101

Salesforce Communities 101: How to Get Started

Typically, a community is defined as a unified group of individuals. When it comes to business and marketing outcomes, the word “unified” is the most important part of that definition. You want to be unified in your goals. Unified in product and brand strategy. Unified in the desire and passion to grow your customer and […]

5 Questions to Ask Before Creating an Employee Community

It’s been very encouraging to see so many companies come around to the idea that keeping employees happy means creating and maintaining an environment in which they can thrive. One of the biggest and easiest ways to do this is to ensure they have what they need at their fingertips through an employee community. Also […]

Lower Employee Attrition with Salesforce Employee Communities

As more and more companies start to realize the value of making their employees happy, there comes the need for community within the workforce. Having an employee community where employees can go to stay engaged, voice ideas, and get questions answered go a long way in lowering employee attrition. Enter Salesforce Employee Communities That’s where […]

Top 4 Spring ’18 Community Features to be Excited About

It’s that time of year again — the holidays are over, but we have something even better to look forward to: the Spring ’18 Release! I’m going to try to temper my exclamation points, bolds and all caps, but let me tell you, this release is beyond exciting! Let’s break down the Top 4 Areas […]

Top 5 Winter ’18 Community Features to be Excited About

It’s that time of year again, pumpkin spice starts to invade your food and drinks and Salesforce begins their Winter release process. Even though it’s still early and many new features are in preview or beta, I’m really excited about seeing these live in Lightning Communities! There’s quite a bit of new features coming to […]

Salesforce Community Branding and UX Design Tips

Beyond a customer’s perception of your company’s products and services, your brand identity and experience go hand-in-hand with every interaction they have – across marketing, sales, and service – with every touchpoint serving as an opportunity to further engage your customers. Your new Salesforce Lightning Community should not be an exception to this rule. A […]

Tailor Your Salesforce Community with Custom Theme Layouts

One of the biggest pain points of Salesforce Community templates we heard from our clients was that they didn’t want it to look like a “template” community. With the Winter ’17 release came custom themes, allowing admins and developers to create a custom branded community all while still being able to leverage Salesforce’s standard and […]

Favicons: Your Salesforce Community is Not Complete Without One

Whether you are the Championship-winning Golden State Warriors, the data center leader Equinix, or the versitle camera maker GoPro, your new Salesforce Community will need a favorite icon, also known as “favicon.” For the uninitiated, the favicon is the tiny icon that appears in the tabs of your browser as well as when you “favorite”, […]

Leverage Salesforce Ideas in Your Community

One of the greatest features you can offer your customer or partner base as a product-driven company is an idea engine. It allows those who use your product regularly to offer suggestions on how to improve it, features to add, or what new products to create. Giving the power to your customers to help make […]

Exploring the New Partner Central Template

Last year, Salesforce announced the release of Lightning Partner Community, allowing businesses to use Lightning to quickly deploy a rich and powerful community for their partner ecosystem. I couldn’t agree more with Kara’s blog on 5 reasons you’ll love Lightning Partner Communities given the success we’ve had and feedback on deploying Lightning Partner Communities for our […]

Organizational Change Management for Salesforce Communities

The Need for Change Management When implementing Salesforce Community Cloud for external users, companies don’t always implement the same Organizational Change Management (OCM) related activities as they do for their internal users. By applying OCM techniques to any aspect of the customer or partner journey, project stakeholders can better achieve their vision for building a […]

Lightning Communities: Global Action Headers Without CSS

Global Actions offer an easy way to create records in a Lightning Community without exposing all of the fields on the page layout. For example, a customer of ours recently wanted a way of capturing leads in their community, so we used a Global Action on the home page of the community to achieve this […]

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