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Keeping Updated On Your Database in Salesforce
One of the things that I’ve discovered administering CRMs is that it’s useful to keep an eye on what is changing on a day to day basis. This can help you identify data quality issues as they develop. If your volume is very high you might want to think twice about this [...]
Read moreInline Salesforce Campaign Summary Charts via Google Charts API
The Google Charts API provides an easy way to include inline charts in Salesforce detail pages. The Google Charts API provides a REST interface that lets you retrieve a static image by requesting a URL with parameters for the data points in the chart. We can combine this with formula fields within Salesforce [...]
Read moreDisable Validation Rules by Record in Salesforce
I’m currently working on a Salesforce CRM implementation at work and wanted to share a simple feature that you can build into your Validation Rules. Validation Rules are great at insuring that your data meets certain minimum standards since they apply whether the data is entered manually via the web UI or via an import [...]
Read moreThe Most Important Google Analytics Report — Landing Page versus Bounce Rate
If you are only going to devote time to run a few Google Analytics reports you should make sure that they count. It is easy to focus solely on pageviews, visits, and absolute visitors but these really don’t help you create a lot of actionable insights. I haven’t posted to this blog recently, but [...]
Read moreGoogle Analytics Advanced Segmentation
I’ve found that a lot of nonprofits are adopting Google Analytics to start collecting better web traffic metrics. What inevitably happens is they pay attention to the basic measures of “engagement” with their website — visitors and page views. These aggregate measurements, while important and easy to understand, don’t really lead to any [...]
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