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Salesforce AppExchange Success Blueprint

By : Jakub Stefaniak
Book Image

Salesforce AppExchange Success Blueprint

By: Jakub Stefaniak

Overview of this book

Are you ready to turn your million-dollar ideas into reality? Salesforce AppExchange Success Blueprint is your ultimate guide to becoming a successful ISV partner and publishing your Salesforce applications on the AppExchange. This book covers every facet of the application development process, from the initial partnership establishment to smoothly preparing for security review and managing app releases. Packed with real-world examples, case studies, and detailed guides, it’ll help you master AppExchange development. Throughout this experience, you’ll discover how to create customer-centric applications that seamlessly integrate with external systems, ensuring a frictionless user experience. You’ll also navigate the intricate process of preparing for security reviews and managing app releases. In addition, you’ll delve into the critical realm of business strategy, addressing essential elements such as maximizing profitability, achieving operational excellence, leveraging analytics to make data-driven decisions, and effectively handling technical debt to maintain your app's robustness and scalability. By the end of this journey, you’ll possess a deep understanding of AppExchange development from both technical and business standpoints, making you well-prepared to excel in the Salesforce ecosystem. Let's embark on this exciting path together!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Setting the Stage
5
Part 2:Building Blocks
9
Part 3:Delivering Value
13
Part 4:Scaling for Success

Summary

And so, our jaunt through understanding the needs of our customers, identifying the job they wish to get done, and crafting our AppExchange applications accordingly comes to a close. This chapter has equipped us with the ability to align our applications to the tasks our customers need to accomplish, making our offerings not just relevant, but essential. It’s clear, now more than ever, that our understanding of customer needs, their pain points, and the journey they undertake, form the lifeblood of our success on the AppExchange platform. We gained insight into customers’ willingness to pay and designed pricing strategies that aligned with perceived value and maximized revenue. Ultimately, we learned to incorporate pricing considerations from the earliest stages of product design. This knowledge isn’t just vital—it’s the bridge that connects our customer-centric applications to the customers themselves.

As we prepare for the...