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If you had time to attend to all of your Salesforce.com needs you would have done so by now. Most users left responsible for building and maintaining Salefsorce.com don’t lack intent–they lack time, business acumen and technical expertise. These same folks are also often too close to their own organizations to be objective when it comes to analyzing and addressing business processes and protocols. Many Salesforce.com Administrators—even those who are certified—cannot fully appreciate how businesses operate and what KPIs users and managers need to run improve performance. We do. So you can appreciate what we say we bring to the table you invite you to watch our “Questions Your VP of Sales Should Be Asking But Isn’t” presentation from Midwest Dreamin’ in Chicago.

Each person on our staff has used Salesforce.com when in a sales, marketing, sales leader, project management, and finance positions. While it’s important that any services we provide be technically sound, they must also be pragmatic and practical. The most sophisticated configuration can fall flat if it’s not implemented to work for the people who use it—on the frontline, back office or corner suite.

From the Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case functions that very few Salesforce.com users take advantage of through to logging timesheets and expense reports from our phones through to generating and sending invoices, we run our entire company on Salesforce®. Make sure to ask the Salesforce.com partners you’re considering if they use Salesforce.com and for what business processes: Lead management, opportunity management, Account management, Contact management, Marketing?

There are so many native and a la carte bells and whistles to know about when it comes to Salesforce.com that typically only someone who’s studied for the certification exam would even know what is available. (Certified professionals are tested three times a year to ensure that they keep up with Salesforce.com’s releases. Verify the credentials of partner staff you’re considering here.)

We want our clients to be self-sufficient long after working with us. We’re happy to educate our clients on not only why recommend path A instead of path B, but also how configuration and coding was done. There is no black box when working with Able Cloud Advisors. We welcome your staff shadowing us and actively participating in every step throughout an engagement.

As can sometimes happen in our space, there is no bait and switch when you work with Able Cloud. The same fine folks who you talk to on your first phone call are the ones who will serve your team through your engagement. You won’t be courted by a savvy, sweet-talking executive only to be handed over to a junior staffer who doesn’t have the work experience or wherewithal to fulfill all the promises told to you when you signed the contract. We will, of course, always wear great shoes.

Our CEO Annette Abell authored a 5-day Salesforce.com System Administrator course that was published in 2014. We’re proud of her work. Ask for a free copy of the first two lessons. We promise you’ll learn more than you ever thought possible. The actual course spans 14 lessons chuck full of I-wish-knew-that-before facts that anyone with the System Admin profile needs. Buy the course book with online exercises here. And, no, we don’t get royalties.

Would we want to be your partner of choice because of this certification? Absolutely not. If all things between Able Cloud Advisors and another partner, our certification may merely aid your company in meeting diversity goals. Our CEO Annette Abell counsels many businesses on how to establish themselves and grow in the Salesforce.com Ohana or community. It’s not about the gender of the CEO. It’s about the value partners bring to their clients.