Hey everyone!
My company is sponsoring Midwest Dreamin' which takes place over July 15-17 in Minneapolis, MN.
If you want to attend but don't have the budget, we are giving away a ticket.
You can enter here!
Have a nice week y'all :)
Near the Castelo there is an aggressive guy blocking passage at threat of violence, sitting in a chair backwards. Unrolled cigarette in his ear.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Uc6Lzbhbh42wvoe18?g_st=ac
Complete tool that accosted me while I was vibing a few minutes ago.
Then his much heftier friend came along and also physically prevented me from going down the street.
I left the confrontation quickly, but it's a real problem.
No law enforcement in sight.
Rua da Cruz dos Poiais & Travessa da Arrochella
Anyone else?
One of my devs just had to fix a similar issue and it inspired this meme.
I can't count how often in the last 12 years I have made the wrong choice on what feels like it should be pretty dang easy hahahah
It's like a syntax brain teaser sometimes!
You can register for the session here: https://forms.gle/T41tWe3e6ytYnDcQ6
First 30 minutes presentation, last 30 minutes Q&A :)
Hope to see you there!
As I'm starting to use the app upon waking up, my dog is interpreting the signs of me getting up to make the bed and sitting as the start of the day.
So in the first minutes she puts her head in my hands, paws at me.
I'm treating it as just another sensation to feel, not giving her active attention, and moving on.
She seems to clue in after about a minute, and at the end I find her laying down almost relaxed because of my peacefulness. I then give her lots of love.
What do you do?
Do you isolate (if I did she might make more house longer)?
Do you restart after they leave you alone?
Thanks for the advice!
Hey y'all, Vuk here 😄
Next week I'm presenting at Portugal Dreamin' - hope to see some of you there in person!
To help me get a practice run in in front of a real crowd, I'll be hosting a online presentation on Tuesday, June 16th.
It will take place at 4pm BST (8:30pm IST, 11am EST, 8am PST).
The title of my presentation is: "How Do I Find Clients?"
The subtitle is: "The Blueprint For Independent Salesforce Experts"
It will be 30 minutes of presentation followed by an open Q&A!
I would love to have you join me, and you can get the meeting link here!
Hope to see you next week and have a wonderful weekend 😄
Hey!
This is Vuk from MVRK and I am hiring for a full-time Forward Deployed Salesforce Developer, which will be a full-time contract position with working hours expected in UK time (~8am to 5pm).
Initially your time will be split in the following way:
50% allocated to a long term client to act as a forward deployed Salesforce dev, assisting their admin team with support requests and tackling a backlog of configuration and development requirements.
50% allocated to an internal app development project.
We are looking for a confident and experienced Salesforce Dev that knows how to push back on user requests, can build declaratively and through development and understands when each solution is right.
All applications should be done through HERE ONLY.
Be prepared to share your experience and rate.
Please do not DM me if we do not yet know each other, it will not help your process.
Thank you all in advance for your time, obviously it won't be possible to choose everyone that applies.
I will do my best to share feedback with each applicant once the selection process is over.
Entering an old environment can definitely feel like the back rooms hahahaha
This article talks about my suggested method for building your Agency Sales Flywheel.
The steps, in brief, are:
Would love to hear your thoughts on this process!
I just tried Setup with Agentforce, and am pleasantly surprised despite facing a few hiccups.
The setup process is self-guiding, and the documentation found on Salesforce Help is pretty clear.
Building metadata (objects and fields) is incredibly smooth, and I love that the agent actually thinks about how it should document the objects and fields with descriptions and help text.
However, I was unable to get it to create a validation rule despite the fact it did a great job of understanding and creating the VR formula.
And, it seems because the org I tested in does not have Data Cloud, I was unable to have it create any flows.
But in both of the issues I faced, it did a good job of trying to give manual instructions to get the task finished.
Overall, for the first days of it existing, I am pretty pleased with the tool.
Have any of you tried it yet?
It says it is free but that it also consumes Data Cloud credits, so mixed message there. Anyone have a clear answer on the actual parts that ARE free?
About four months ago I posted here sharing how much money I made in the first two years of working solo, but I just had time this weekend to make a more thorough video on the topic.
And since our dear mod Bob allows videos here now, I wanted to share it with you all :)
Always happy to talk to anyone who wants to start working solo with their Salesforce skills!
It's a fantastic way to build a better life with your talent.
Dodi Friedenberg, the legend, has given me permission to share her original post here and we all need to absorb and understand this! Show her love on LinkedIn, she is awesome.
Her post follows bellow:
Important updates for Salesforce Admins:
1) On a rolling basis starting July 1, users with System Administrator privileges will no longer be able to use the Salesforce Authenticator App to log in and will be required to set up phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, such as Windows Hello or Touch ID on Mac, if you have those enabled, or physical key (e.g. YubiKey or Google Titan). A Password Manager like Bitwarden may also be adequate.
Here are steps you can start taking today:
a. Make a note of your Org’s ID and keep it somewhere safe. Find it in Setup->Company Information (in case you need to log a case with Salesforce later)
b. Setup->Identity Verification, select “Let users verify their identity with a built-in authenticator such as Touch ID or Windows Hello” and save.
c. Each user with the System Administrator profile - or with Modify All Data, View All Data, Customize Application, or Author Apex - must specify a “Built-in” authenticator.
Click the Avatar or photo top right in Salesforce, choose “Settings,” choose “Advanced User Details,” scroll down to “Built-in Authenticators.” Click “Add.” Authenticate as you normally do. Click “Register.” Since I didn’t have Windows Hello enabled, but do use Bitwarden, this popped up Bitwarden for me. Under “Save passkey,” I chose my org. Next I named the Built-in Authenticator and Saved. (The default name says #1. You may have more than one in your password vault, but it may or may not be possible to add more than one Built-in Authenticator per Salesforce org.)
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2) “Step-Up Authentication” - a requirement to reauthenticate when exporting - and perhaps also for viewing - reports. On or after May 27, we can tweak how often users will need to reauthenticate in order to export (or view?) reports - between 2 and 120 minutes. Default is 120 minutes. Setup->Identity Verification->“Require step-up authentication within cool-down period” session-level policy for Reports and Dashboards.
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3) Email-based login will become the default login experience for the UI of login.salesforce.com and test.salesforce.com - scheduled to start in September. While users can still choose to log in with a username and password, prepare them for email to appear as the primary option.
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4) Salesforce now sends email only from verified domains. If you haven’t already set up (or updated) DKIM, here are two resources:
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~ END OF HER POST ~
My thoughts: these changes are total overcorrections by Salesforce. Instead of feeling like security, they come across as an in-your-face attempt to detach us from the UI of the system. Anyone else feel the same?
u/PabloHappySoup-io Pablo, I hope you don't mind me sharing a video about your product here! It has helped our team a lot already and I wanted to community to see it :)
Important Disclaimer: This is not sponsored, I am not a dx0 partner, my company pays for dx0, we bought it two weeks before the public release last week and I wanted to share three real scenarios where we have used it.
Hey!
This is Vuk from MVRK and I am hiring for a part-time Salesforce App Developer, which will be a temporary contract position as we embark on building our next free Salesforce app.
We are looking for a confident and experienced Salesforce Dev that has built and maintained 2GP apps.
All applications should be done through HERE ONLY.
Be prepared to share your experience, availability, and rates.
Please do not DM me if we do not yet know each other, it will not help your process.
Thank you all in advance for your time, obviously it won't be possible to choose everyone that applies.
I will do my best to share feedback with each applicant once the selection process is over.
Agentforce: what problems is it here to solve?
I don't see a clear answer...
Salesforce has swayed from its traditionally effective marketing approach in their Agentforce push and I believe it's hurting them.
They historically positioned products, in everything including the name, to solve specific problems in segments of business.
Think:
But with Agentforce? Completely the opposite!
The name is a tool - an "Agent" - not the problem it solves.
I remember at Dreamforce 2023 how the big initial push was "AI within the trust layer". Now it's "headless AI".
These are features, not business problems!
Industry is responding as you would expect. Most are asking "so what do I need an agent for?" If they are even asking anything at all.
And Salesforce is failing to answer that question effectively.
I remember at Dreamforce in 2017 how blown away I was by the KONE elevators FSL client story. The KONE CEO and Marc on stage at the keynote is burned into my retina.
How well the narrative of business problems and Salesforce's solutions was woven and told. Look I still remember it 9 years later...
That is marketing!
I have not seen a single compelling Agentforce client story yet.
If you have, share it with me please.
I have personally only seen the tool being used for case deflection in the real world by a client of mine.
20-30% case deflection is not a revolutionary technology result. It's just another tool for the job. This has existed for decades.
Over the weekend I spoke to a tech journalist after he saw my last post, and he asked "what are your clients asking you about Agentforce pricing?"
I laughed and told him that they are not even asking about Agentforce.
They are busy actually running their business.
So Agentforce, what problems are you here to solve?
I'm ready to be compelled!!
Edit:
For those joining late, yes I know this exists: https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/customer-stories/
What I'm looking for is stories like: https://youtu.be/ibA71WVz9uc?is=2-r8xOpVFD9NOtqv
That's a recording of a Salesforce CPQ global webinar from 8 years ago.
I was invited to demo thoroughly the solution I worked with a partner to implement at my then-employer. So I know good success stories can be told by Salteforce.
Why is Salesforce not able to tell stories like these yet with Agentforce?
Are there any like this that you know of?