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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

Adding contact roles for opportunities

Contact roles refer to people you communicate with to close a specific deal. You could have one or more contact roles, depending on the opportunity. First, let’s look at how to add new contact roles that may not be on the default list. To do this, navigate to the setup and configuration section of Salesforce:

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Figure 5.9: Navigating to the button to create a contact role for an opportunity

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are several steps to follow if you want to add or edit the roles that come up when adding a contact role:

  1. Go to Home (1) | Feature Settings (2) | Sales (3) | Contact Roles on Opportunities (4).
  2. On this page, click on New (5) to add a new contact role or edit any existing roles.

Now that we have seen how to add roles as needed, let’s add an actual role:

  1. Navigate to the Contact Roles section of the opportunity to add a contact role, as in the following...