Salesforce Contact Management: Best Practices for Statuses, Merging and Moving Contacts
We have spent a lot of time working with companies using Salesforce and we understand the issues you run into when managing contacts. This video will cover our recommendations for effectively managing your people data in Salesforce in a B2B environment.
We will review the following:
How to manage the status of your contacts
How to identify multiple primary contacts for a company
How to update your contacts when they change companies
How to use Department and Management Level to make email list pulls easier
How to merge duplicates in Classic
How to merge duplicates in Lightning
How to Create a Custom Button to Open Record in Classic
Link to Article on Blu Ninjas with Visualforce Page Code and Custom Button URL: https://bluninjas.com/how-tos/contact...
Salesforce Resources:
Manage Contacts: https://help.salesforce.com/s/article...
CHAPTERS:
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Manage Contact Status & Inactive Reason
1:42 Identify Multiple Primary Contacts per Company
2:44 Manage Contacts who leave a company
4:26 Contact Department and Management Level
7:32 How to Add Potential Duplicates Component
8:21 How to Merge Contacts from Lightning
9:15 How to Merge Contacts in Classic if Duplicate Rules are not triggered
11:02 Create Custom Button to Open Contact in Classic
14:41 Wrap-up
Music:
Song: Your Natural Habitat
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Song: Seclusions
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Song: Sultry Sun
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Music:
Song: Finding Balance
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Song: Sheltered Waters
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About the Moderator: Cheryl Fernandes is a certified Salesforce Architect with 12 years of experience working on the Salesforce platform with a focus in the insurance and financial services industries. Despite not having an IT background, Cheryl found herself becoming the accidental admin at her previous company, and it turned out to be a life-changing opportunity.
Fueled by her passion for Salesforce and the remarkable transformations it can bring, Cheryl took a leap of faith 7 years ago and started her own consultancy, Blu Ninjas. As a registered Salesforce partner, she has been providing exceptional services and solutions to clients, while continuously honing her expertise in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Now, Cheryl is on a mission to inspire and empower Salesforce professionals worldwide through Blu Tiger Academy. Let us know what you are interested in, what business problems you cannot solve and what you would love to learn more about.
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