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Certification Prep
Alex Warneke

What’s in the Salesforce Secret Sauce?

What makes a ballerina, a world-class chef, or a civic activist great? Psychologist Angela Duckworth says the answer is GRIT — a power combo of passion and perseverance. I would argue – that GRIT is also the Secret Sauce for any current or aspiring Salesforce Professional.  Recently, I listened to

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Interview Prep
Alex Warneke

Crowdsourced Business Analyst Questions for Your Next Discovery

Asking good questions is a critical skill of any Salesforce Professional. In order to efficiently and effectively configure Salesforce for your client, you need to first understand their business and their needs.  As a fun exercise, I recently asked the Talent Stacker membership – As a Business Analyst – what

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Certification Prep
Alex Warneke

Getting Back on the Salesforce Bandwagon

On the road to becoming a Salesforce professional, sometimes life happens! Maybe you have to step away to support a friend or family member, maybe things get overly busy at work or with the kids, maybe you just need some time for self care. Whatever your reason – it’s okay!  

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A Win is a Win

When I started studying for the Salesforce Admin Certification, I expected to quickly learn about a software setup, how to do a thing in that software, and get a job using that software. All quickly, because I’m just that smarty pants, right? I ended up learning a lot I didn’t

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The Book Melange Project: Episode 1

Today, I begin my project of compiling 4+ years of sales/quotes/payment data from Amazon, Etsy, TextEdit, PayPal, and multiple styles of charts sent via Gmail, scraping data from Amazon to correlate to the data that didn’t come from Amazon originally, deciding how to handle the items that chunks of data

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Salesforce Tips & Tricks

Many thanks to Steven Trumble for this note!  Did you know that you can /* write comments inside of Salesforce formulas */ ??!?!? /* this is the syntax */ This will absolutely save my life, I just know it.

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