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Badge-A-Day: Large Data Volumes

Badge-A-Day: Large Data Volumes

Learn all about Salesforce best practices for large data volumes in my first-in-the-series “Badge a Day” challenge! One of the great things about Salesforce is the educational materials they make available to their users via trailhead.salesforce.com.

They've gamified Salesforce in a way that makes learning the complex, in-depth, and (let's face it) at times intimidating suite of products they offer their customers.

So, as I continue my journey toward architect status, I've decided to challenge myself to earn a badge a day, Monday-Friday, for the rest of the year. The first badge I'll cover is Large Data Volumes. 

Welcome to the Force Factory!

It's the inaugural post of the Force Factory blog. I thought I'd take a second to let you know just what exactly this blog is all about:

  1. Salesforce.com. I'm a huge SFDC advocate and evangelizer. The Salesforce platform has fundamentally altered the way we do business and transformed the way we think about sales and service to our customers.
  2. Sales Operations. Sales Ops is my wheelhouse, and I'm constantly looking at ways to improve how I serve my organization. While this blog's primary focus is SFDC, I'll spend some time posting information that's helped me better direct our sales team. This includes training, selling methodologies, proposal development, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and contract lifecycle management.
  3. Data-driven Marketing. I use Hubspot, Pardot, and (hopefully) soon Marketing Cloud. Data in Salesforce is both a blessing and a curse. You have tons of it, now how do you read it? Where is the signal in the noise? Understanding the information in your database is critical to effectively growing your company, so I'll focus some of my time pursuing this topic.

What you won't see here are tons of coding. I'm a declarative programmer, meaning I spend most of my time building the infrastructure and defining procedures, flows, etc. within the existing framework and capabilities of SFDC. I don't do a ton of APEX or Visualforce coding, and to be honest, the Salesforce Success Communities have this roundly covered.

I hope you enjoy The Force Factory.

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