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A Day in the Life of a Project Manager at CloudAnswers

I'm Emily, and I've been a project manager at CloudAnswers for the last two years. It can be a nebulous role, but I like to say I act as a bridge between the product vision and tangible results, whether that is building a custom app for a client or one of our own Salesforce products. My typical day revolves around managing tasks, ensuring progress, and maintaining standards while adhering to project timelines.

March 22, 2024

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Salesforce custom report types - what are they, when are they useful

Reporting on your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data can give you real-time data-driven insights into your business

September 18, 2021

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Batch Apex Error Event - CloudAnswers Hackathon

A hackathon is an event usually put together by a tech organization. The event brings programmers together over a specific period to collaborate on a project.

June 28, 2021

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Tips for effective online sales

Technology has changed the approach to daily living. One of the main areas it has significantly impacted is e-commerce across the globe.

June 13, 2021

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Top reasons Why you should use Salesforce for your business?

Salesforce for business is cloud-based CRM software, with standalone applications for sales, customer service, and marketing.

February 18, 2021

5 Min Read

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Avoid the Salesforce Data Storage Limit

Use the free Google Drive and liberate your files in Salesforce by an CloudAnswers Google Drive Integration App. Avoid salesforce data storage limit.

January 6, 2021

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How to calculate ARR and MRR

How to calculate Annual Recurring Revenue and Monthly Recurring Revenue with Salesforce Data. Focuse on the reports be easily pulled and calculated in Salesforce.

November 5, 2020

4 Min Read

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Top 10 Salesforce apps of 2020

Businesses use the Salesforce AppExchange to research, download and install apps that can help better run their businesses. Check the list of ten best reporting apps for Salesforce.

October 13, 2020

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Why business owners should know AppExchange?

Business owners, who implemented the Salesforce solution, should be familiar with the AppExchange. Marketplace products and services help organizations configure their CRMs to fit their business needs. And AppExchange is more than business apps only. You can find components, consulting partners, and developers to help you extend the power of Salesforce and run your business with apps.

September 24, 2020

4 Min Read

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Waterbury PAL, nonprofit organization, helps more children with Salesforce

Salesforce’s nonprofit success pack allows PAL organization, whose goal is to help kids, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible citizens.

August 18, 2020

3 Min Read

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How To Make Your Salesforce Reports Run Faster

Get some some known tips and tricks which can make your Salesforce reports run faster. Most reports load in a matter of seconds.

July 28, 2020

4 Min Read

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3 fundamental sales KPIs that can be automated - new opportunities

Learn how to get the right KPIs out of Salesforce. Get to know everything about the top of the funnel health and use it to...

July 8, 2019

2 Min Read

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5 tricks to accelerate business with emailed reports using Report Sender

The top 5 tricks to accelerate business with emailed reports using Report Sender. #1 Disseminate Product Updates to Partners...

April 18, 2019

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Winners of the First CloudAnswers Open Hackathon

CloudAnswers open hackathon happens on a monthly basis. Teams are challenged to build apps that are related to Salesforce

January 9, 2019

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Salesforce Big Objects

Salesforce big objects allow you to store and manage a massive amount of data on the Salesforce platform.It provides a consistent performance

June 28, 2018

4 Min Read

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Using Promises in Lightning

Salesforce introduced Lightning platform a co...

June 16, 2018

3 Min Read

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Quotes and Opportunity Line Items - Add a Trigger to Sync Custom Fields

Background: Quotes in Salesforce represe...

May 24, 2018

4 Min Read

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Replace Code with Flows

In Salesforce, Flow is a tool that can show screens to users, ask questions, and process their input. A common use case is scripting calls for support agents. %

May 17, 2018

3 Min Read

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lightning:outputField rendering issue when using with lightning:recordViewForm

**Background:** lightning:outputField is the...

April 27, 2018

2 Min Read

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Stream logs to CLI with apex:log:tail

Salesforce DX is a new set of tools that stre...

April 24, 2018

2 Min Read

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CPQ Custom Quote Lines

Who is this for: Salesforce CPQ develope...

April 21, 2018

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Modify CPQ PDF Header and Footer

The Salesforce CPQ Header and Footer might wo...

April 21, 2018

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Spring 18 Lightning Experience Highlights

Salesforce's Release Notes for Lightning Expe...

March 27, 2018

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Lead Rotator Added to PowerPack

#### Lead Rotator added to PowerPack Cloudan...

February 1, 2017

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Lightning and JavaScript Buttons

Lightning is coming. You have played around w...

January 25, 2017

2 Min Read

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Must Do - Trailhead: Reporting

Salesforce is a lot of things. You can store ...

January 25, 2017

1 Min Read

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Spring '17 Developer Preview

Salesforce's Spring '17 release is coming soo...

January 18, 2017

6 Min Read

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Announcing PowerPack AppExchange App

When you have worked in over 100 orgs you get...

November 12, 2016

2 Min Read

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The four technical supplements that will help your email open rates reach peak performance

Email: The easiest way to either a high marke...

October 7, 2016

4 Min Read

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Out of aspirin? Reduce headaches with these 5 CRM software Best Practices

We’re not recommending that you can replace a...

October 6, 2016

4 Min Read

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Lead Nurturing Checklist

You operate or work within a medium-sized bus...

June 10, 2014

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