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Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By : Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer
Book Image

Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By: Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer

Overview of this book

Salesforce is the world's leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, helping businesses connect with their constituents and partners. This book will give you a comprehensive introduction to managing sales, marketing, customer relationships, and overall administration for your organization. You'll learn how to configure and use Salesforce for maximum efficiency and return on investment This book will teach you how to create activities, manage leads, manage users, set up security, customize your UX, work with third-party applications, build flows, develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns and much more. Packed with real-world business use cases, this Salesforce book will show you how to analyze your business information accurately to make productive decisions for your business. As you advance, you'll learn how to build various reports and dashboards in Salesforce to derive valuable business insights. Finally, you'll explore tools such as Salesforce Flows, approval processes, and assignment rules to achieve business process automation and set out on the path to becoming a successful Salesforce administrator By the end of the book, you will know how to manipulate Salesforce to achieve your business goals
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
21
Assessment
22
Other Books You May Enjoy
23
Index

Creating lead assignment rules

Lead assignment rules are a great tool for assigning lead records automatically. Knowing the capabilities of lead assignment rules will lead to fewer clicks for your users and quicker business process execution when working with leads. Lead assignment rules are created in the Setup section of Salesforce. Let’s learn how to create a lead assignment rule.

Business use case

You are the Salesforce admin for XYZ Widgets. The sales manager has a use case where any new lead created in Salesforce needs to be assigned to a specific user based on the State/Province field of the lead. Leads with a state/province of New York will be assigned to one user, while leads with a state/province of New Jersey will be assigned to another. Let’s learn how to build this.

Lead assignment rules in action

To create a lead assignment rule, we need to perform a few steps:

  1. Navigate to the Setup page | the Home tab | Feature Settings | Lead...