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Good morning, my org want to create leads for marketing touches on contacts. Is this a bad idea?

In my opinion it will create duplicate leads, muddy reporting, potentially cause cold calls on existing customers, and affect our HubSpot to Salesforce sync.

Is this worth pushing back on, or can all of these be handled?

They say for reporting which I’ve suggested using campaign members (leads come through campaigns), and notifications which I think should be done through tasks or emails.

Edit: For example, if marketing touches occurs on a contact from HubSpot. It creates a task and marks it as complete, they want me to read this task, create a lead, and link the lead to the contact so they know it’s existing. Once it’s worked, it will be used to make an opportunity and linked to the existing contact.

Edit 2: I pushed back again, this has been an on going thing and I was close to just letting them, but you guys encouraged me. I got a lot more buy in this time, and we are setting up a meeting just to discuss it.

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I work full time as the primary Salesforcr developer at a small org (~600 users).

I want to improve my skills, ideally get into consulting, but still fairly new. I'm one certification away from the System Architect certification, but I wonder if they are higher value avenues at this point.

Should I keep going with certs, trailhead and super badges? Take a Udemy course on LWCs with lots of hands on projects? Apply like crazy to get a consulting role to get more experience? Build a free app exchange product ($4k is a lot for security review and under strict IP contract)?

Just want to get better and looking for direction. I know experience is key, but I can't speed that up directly.

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