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Hi everyone, I’m an intern for Salesforce Asia Pacific Region and am trying to learn more about the competition that Salesforce faces in the large enterprise companies sector. My areas of concern are mainly UI accessibility and ease of use, training, pricing, implementation and software capabilities and security. Please be brutally honest. I just wanna hear your thoughts on this and don’t have any biases towards or against any of these organizations or products. Your inputs would be really helpful for my internship. Thanks 🙂 submitted by /u/rd294 [link] [comments]

Big Idea or Enduring Question: How to find all record-triggered and scheduled-triggered flows for an object?  Objectives: After reading this blog, you’ll be able to:  Find out all record-triggered flows for an object Find out all scheduled-triggered flows for an object and much more Business Use case Arda Turan is
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Last Updated on April 26, 2022 by Rakesh GuptaBig Idea or Enduring Question: How to count the number of selections in multi-select picklist? Objectives: After reading this blog, you’ll be able to: Count the number of selection in multi-select picklist  understand how PICKLISTCOUNT formula works and much more  Business Use
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People often think that because I run a self-care startup, I must live a perfectly balanced life. Even I assumed that I knew the boundaries and habits I needed to put in place to take care of myself while running my company.And yet, despite spending the past three years building Silk + Sonder—thinking about self-care every day, writing monthly journaling prompts for our members, and even being the voice of the audio meditations on our app—I recently found myself experiencing burnout like I never had before.It wasn’t caused by a major company event or life crisis, just the typical requirements of being a founder. Every day, I was switching between big-picture thinking and putting out short-term fires. I was constantly making decisions across operations, product, marketing, and growth. I had been saying yes to every meeting and was constantly finding another problem to tackle.Without me really noticing, my personal care habits started slipping: I wasn’t going to the gym, wasn’t eating the right foods, and was feeling pressure to keep the people in my life happy even though I had less social time than ever. I was overextending myself, but as a founder, I’m so used to operating outside my comfort zone and facing challenges left and right that I didn’t think anything of it.Until one day, when I woke up with a headache so intense that I couldn’t even look at my phone. I took some Advil and hoped it would subside by the time I finished my morning journaling—but found I couldn’t even look at the words on the page. When I started feeling nauseous, I knew something was wrong. I managed to eke out a text to my assistant to clear my calendar for the day, then texted a founder friend for advice. “I think you’re experiencing burnout,” she said. I was in disbelief because I always associated burnout with heightened anxiety, not debilitating exhaustion.I spent the next eight hours lying on the couch doing absolutely nothing. I needed to unplug, but even my go-to unplugging tools like a book or a podcast felt too draining.After a day of rest, I was thankfully ready to get back in action. But I knew that if I didn’t address the root cause, I’d be incapacitated again before I knew it. And while some good, old-fashioned self-care spurred my immediate recovery, the long-term solution involved deeper changes in how I was approaching my work.Here are the strategies that have helped me escape and avoid the burnout cycle since.I started by reassessing my energy needsImmediately, I knew I needed to make some adjustments in how I was spending my time so that I could better protect my energy.Making my calendar work for meFirst, I looked for ways to rework my calendar. I tend to operate best when I have two to three hours of focused work a day, but leading up to the burnout I had been ignoring that structure. So I blocked off some uninterrupted work hours each day and looked for meetings I could cut from my calendar, such as recurring check-ins where updates could instead be shared asynchronously.Using an energy map to delegateI also revisited how I was spending my time by creating an energy map: writing down all my daily and weekly tasks and categorizing which of them charged or drained me. I knew I wanted to spend most of my day on energy-giving activities, so this became an instant guidebook for what I needed to delegate. I noticed that sourcing candidates and taking the screening calls was draining a lot of time and energy, and it could readily be handed off.  To this day, I’ll create a new map when my to-do list feels like it’s getting out of hand.Reserving time for myselfFinally, I looked for ways to recommit to my wellness needs. I started pre-booking workout classes throughout the week so I wouldn’t neglect exercise and became more intentional about spending my weekends filling my cup with activities like journaling, reading, and fun social outings.The “wheel of life” from our Silk + Sonder journals is one of my favorite tools for figuring out which areas of my holistic well-being could use some attention.I’ve worked on strategizing instead of reactingOne of the problems that led to my burnout was that I had fallen into reaction mode, constantly playing whack-a-mole with every question, need, and problem that came up. I knew that I had to get more strategic about how I was approaching the needs of my business so that I could focus on the most important tasks, rather than being pulled in a thousand directions.Choosing one primary goal every dayI started by adopting a technique we recommend in our Silk + Sonder planners, in which you pick one thing to get done each day that will make everything else easier. I like to focus my one thing on expansive creative thinking for my business or tasks that make me a more effective CEO. I know that, unless the company is literally burning to the ground, these should take priority over other tasks that come up throughout the day.Carving out dedicated time to do your “one thing” can be valuable whether you’re running a business or just trying to figure out how to prioritize your daily work tasks.Setting realistic expectations with my teamI also had to be more transparent about when I could address questions or review deliverables from my team members, even if it wasn’t on their deadline. I’m always tempted to stop what I’m doing and address their needs—especially when I’m holding them back from getting something done—but I found that communicating realistic timelines has been better received than over-committing and under-delivering (or working myself into the ground to deliver anyway).Empowering my employees to make their own decisionsFinally, I’ve been working on removing myself from every business decision. If a teammate comes to me for input in an area I don’t know much about, I’ll be honest with them that, while I’m happy to talk through it, I trust their expertise. This helps empower them with the knowledge that they can make decisions without me. All around, it’s been better for them, better for me, and better for the business.I’m consistently building new positive habitsFinally, I’ve found that the journey to create healthy habits to avoid burnout is a continuous one. Not only have I regularly had to adjust or recommit to habits when I feel burnout creeping on again, I’ve had to remind other people in my life of my needs. After all, I am the best advocate for my own well-being.Habit trackers are a favorite journaling tool of mine for actually sticking to new healthy patterns.Reducing notifications & checking messages on my own timeFor instance, to reduce the temptation to context switch and reshift intended priorities, I’ve disabled Slack notifications and email previews from my phone and computer. I am aware of my tendency to invite distractions in—especially if they help others move faster—but I’ve realized that, more often than not, my involvement can wait. To preserve time for flow and creative thinking, I check these accounts a few times per day on my schedule. I use this same approach in my personal life, reminding my fiance and family members that, just because I’m not in a meeting, doesn’t mean I’m available for personal or home-related questions.Training my team on when to treat something as urgentPeople know that if there’s a true emergency they can text or call me, but I’ve also been working on training my team on knowing when something is truly urgent. I encourage them to ask themselves, “Is this so urgent that whatever Meha is working on, she needs to stop right this second to help deal with it?”It’s hard to do this when you feel like everyone is looking to you, but ultimately I think founders put more pressure on themselves than they need to. I’ve found that my team appreciates my trust in them, as well as my transparency around my needs. In fact, they respect that I’m setting myself up to do my best work for them and for the business.

 

 

As we launched our Customer Preference Center at the beginning of this year, it opened up an entirely new world of hypersegmentation possibilities. Now, the creative utilization of many of our features will enable you to deliver a message always tailored to individual needs and tastes, and turn your CDP into the Customer Intimacy Platform, building long-lasting relationships.

In many of our articles, you will find all kinds of praises for zero-party data. Well, we focused on them for a reason:

it is  the best answer to data privacy regulations and the cookieless eCommerce world, it enables you to create a business model around a very efficient CVL-ROI approach, it’s the only dataset type the companies can honestly call green data

But also:

zero-party data allows you to go back to the roots of commerce, a one-to-one approach to the customer, which is exactly what the overwhelming majority of customers expect from the brands today.

In this article, we will show you how to do it exactly and what CDP features will provide you with the necessary tools.

In other words, we will show you the practical means for hypersegmentation. But first …

 

A few tasty stats to awaken the imagination

 

77% of marketing ROI comes from segmented, targeted, and triggered campaigns. Non-targeted campaigns show a 50% lower CTR than segmented campaigns. Segmentation leads to 3 to 5% increase in returns on promoted sales. Segmentation causes companies to be 60% more likely to understand customers.Only 4% of companies segment with multiple data types.  Using personas makes 90% of companies more knowledgeable about their customers

The obvious benefits of targeting make us wonder, why so shockingly few companies combine the datasets. Especially when zero-party data enrich profiles built on first-party behavioral information.

 

Website automation – personalized content with zero-party data

 

With Website automation you are able to deliver in real-time, contextual, fully automated, and personalized touchpoints. It enables creating advanced scenarios of providing content for the website, such as:

pop-up and exit pop-updisplaying consent forms of Web Push notificationsopening Live Chat windowchanging text in the chat bubbleperforming any javascript on the website

When you create a scenario, you configure the set of customer features and indicate which behavior on the website should trigger a particular content.

Now imagine this, combined with zero-party data

Example:

Using Customers Preference Center, the online shop gathered information, that the particular clients preferred color is red, and that she likes summer dresses, it also acquired information about her price range. 

Rules of Website Automation work for both anonymous and monitored contacts. In this case, it will aid our efforts towards monitored ones. Now all this data can be activated when creating automation rules. You can now:

greet the customer with the pop-up containing the selection of red dresses in her price range.start Live Chat with the proposition of all products in her price range, fitting her the type of dresses she specified. display the exit pop-up with the selection of shoes fitting both the summer red dress and the price range.

Zero-party data will enable you to hyperpersonalize all the messages in the pop-up and Live Chat channels.

 

Custom Modal Designer – pop-us on time and preferred device

 

Custom Modal Designer is an advanced creator that allows you to create not only pop-ups containing a form, but also pop-ups with only graphics. Extensive visual personalization options for each widget will make your popups catch the attention of every user. The Designer allows selected groups of users to display pop-ups containing special offers based on their behavior on the website and CDP data.

In addition, you have the option of setting the exact location, display time, and pop-up display pause time. 

This is a perfect opportunity to utilize the information about the message time and frequency, gathered via the Customer Preference Center.

Example:

Our customer, a fan of red dresses, specified in the Customer Preference Center, that she would like to receive information about the products. You can easily adjust the time of display according to the customers’ preferences.

Also, remember, you can ask virtually any question using Customer Preference Center if you feel it will be useful for your operations. For example, if you asked your customer whether she prefers to browse on the computer or smartphone, you can design a graphical pop-up with Custom Modal Designer specifically to fit the specification of the preferred device, which will save you a lot of work.

 

Personal Shopping Inbox – a great supplement to the Customer Preference Center

 

The Personal Shopping Inbox combines the benefits of several marketing tools. First and foremost, it is a notification center and wishlist combined with recommendations and loyalty program information. It combines One-to-One Messaging, Wishlists, Special Offers, and Recommendations in one fully customizable personal space for each and every website visitor.

Among the possible applications of Personal Shopping Inbox you will find: 

boost in-store conversions, increasing cart value, collect zero- and first-party data.

Example:

Our customer, as it turns out, is looking for much more than red dresses. Her Wishlist is full of autumn products, like wool tights, trousers, and coats of various colors. This is all zero-party data, not in any way worse than this collected via the Customer Preference Center. It will become a great feed for Website Personalization, pop-ups generated in Custom Modal Designer, and Recommendations that are a part of the Personal Shopping Inbox. You can easily pick and recommend products related to her choices, within the preferred price range.

And since we started talking about recommendations

 

Recommendation Frames – customers’ preferred products right on the main page

 

Product recommendation frames are the most modern tool enabling full personalization of the offer presented in your online store, for both monitored and anonymous users, using its own unique technology to place frames on the website.

To understand it better – here is how it may look. Not only product has been personalized, the looks also can be adjusted to fit the style.

 

 

Remember, the following example will be completely customized, so the exact look from the creator may look completely different. It is up to you and your needs. 

Example:

This is the place, where our red summer dress-loving customer, who also likes coats and trousers in the time of autumn, should see all the products related to her preferences, within an interesting price range, right after she enters the website. The combined data from Wishlist and Customer Preference Center are the perfect feed for Recommendation Frames. Usually, recommendations are based on first-party data and customers’ online behavior. Recommendation Frames in SALESmanago can easily be built on much more reliable zero-party information.

 

Web Push Notifications – the perfect mix of zero and first-party data

 

Dynamic Web Push notifications are brief, customer data-driven messages with personal recommendations displayed in a browser window that can be sent as both mass and 1-to-1 communications.

The perfect combination of datasets to feed Web Push notifications is zero and first-party data mix.

Example:

Exactly as in the case of Recommendation Frames, data from the Customer Preference Center and Wishlist will provide you with the perfect set of information, when it comes to zero-party data. The difference is the time of a message – notifications can be sent at time preferred by the customer. Combining the feed with first-party behavioral information will get you the best results.

 

Personalized banners – because why not personalize all website?

 

Personalized banners allow you to tailor the content of your website to specific users’ interests. This content can be adjusted by the segmentation tool or the stage of the funnel where the contact belongs. The content can also be adjusted to the automation rules tool.

And we are not talking about the old definition of segmentation. Traditionally, eCommerce segmented customers according to demographic, psychographic, behavioral, and geographic characteristics. But these days are long gone now as new marketing tools allowed for hypersegmentation. According to Cap Gemini hyper-segmentation is “advanced and real-time customization of offerings, content, and customer experiences on an individual level.”.

It is not about creating just a few segments, capacious enough to contain relatively large groups of people, so everyone can fit somewhere. Hypersegmentation means creating as many segments as possible, sometimes only for a moment, even for a single customer, to deliver an extremely personalized experience. 

There is only one condition for such action to make sense – such segments must be actionable.

Example:

So basically yes, you can have as many website content compositions as many customers you have. In time, when your relationship with the customers matures and you will amass enough zero-party data, our red dress fan will see a completely different website, then her, sport wear-loving colleague, visiting the same online store. 

 

Wrapping up

 

You are able to action all the information gathered via Wishlist, and, first and foremost, Customer Preference Center, to hyperpersonalize:

time and content of all the messages that are being sent to the customerscontent and style of all the banners and recommendationsand even the whole of your website

to the needs and preferences of even a single customer!

Orchestrating most of the mentioned functionalities may require some resources and effort, or even require elements of the Enterprise bundle. If you want to utilize them, contact us! 

 

In 2022, it’s clear that Instagram is no longer just a photo-sharing app.
Not only has Instagram become a thriving social media channel with all sorts of video, Story, and even live stream features, but it’s even evolving into a shopping platform that fuses e-commerce and social media together.
And, our recent survey of 580 Instagram marketers found that using the app’s shopping tools enables the highest ROI of any Instagram strategy.
But with a wide variety of shopping tools popping up in feed-based posts, Reels, Live video, Stories, Guides, and the dedicated Shop tab, it can be challenging to figure out where to start.
To help marketers and business professionals like you, let’s take a deep dive into Instagram’s shopping tools to find out:

Which Instagram Shopping Tools Perform Best?
Using Instagram shopping tools is the strategy with the highest ROI and also the strategy used most by Instagram marketers. Most importantly, it’s just getting started.
While just 37% currently use the app’s shopping tools, 94% of them will increase or maintain their investment this year. On top of that, 1 in 3 plan to use Instagram shopping tools for the first time this year.

Also, marketers who leverage Instagram’s shopping tools are 15% more likely to say their Instagram strategy was effective last year than those who don’t. So which tools perform best?
Of the shopping tools, Instagram Live Shopping and Instagram Shops have the highest ROI and are the most leveraged.

Additionally, the use of both live shopping and shops will grow significantly in 2022, with 55% planning to try Instagram Shops and 48% planning to use Instagram live Shopping for the first time.

Instagram Feed Post Shopping, Instagram Stories Shopping, and Instagram Guides Shopping are all used by over 1 in 3 marketers and also lead in terms of ROI.
Reels Shopping has the lowest use and ROI, however, 42% of Instagram marketers plan to use Reels Shopping this year, the 3rd highest of any Instagram shopping tool.
Should You Sell or Launch Products Exclusively Through Instagram Shopping?
Using Instagram Shopping tools is a powerful marketing opportunity, but should you also have an external website to sell your goods and services?
41% of Instagram marketers say most of the brands they work with use Instagram shopping tools exclusively and don’t have a separate website, while 59% use a mix of both.
83% of Instagram marketers say they have worked with a brand that launched a product exclusively on Instagram and 59% of them say launching exclusively on Instagram is better than launching elsewhere.

Launching a product exclusively to your Instagram audience can also be a great way to boost brand loyalty and reward your followers.
This is just one of the many benefits marketers are seeing from using Instagram’s shopping tools. Let’s take a look at what other benefits marketers are getting from social shopping.
The Biggest Benefits of Instagram’s Shopping Tools
Leveraging Instagram shopping tools comes with a wide range of benefits, most notably increased product discoverability, a simplified shopping experience for your customers, ease of partnering with influencers, and the ability to integrate your products into content, making it look more authentic.

I mentioned how Instagram is focused on helping creators monetize their content, and one way to accomplish all of the above is to leverage Shopping from Creators.
While not exactly new, this feature was initially rolled out only to a select few influencers in 2019. It took until March 2022 for Instagram to officially announce that it would be expanded to all users in the U.S.
Shopping from Creators allows influencers to tag your brand’s products directly in their posts, so users can find and purchase products without leaving Instagram. This combines all the benefits listed above, and excels at making partnering with creators easy and look authentic.
Despite all the benefits selling on Instagram offers, there are also challenges. Let’s dive into the top struggles marketers face with Instagram’s shopping tools.
The Biggest Challenges of Instagram Shopping Tools
The top two challenges marketers face with Instagram shopping tools seem to contradict each other – while 38% of those who use Instagram shopping tools struggle with making sales, 45% are having problems due to too many sales and supply chain issues.
Another 37% complain about selling fees, which are currently at 5% per shipment, with shipments under $8 racking up a flat fee of 40 cents. However, fees are being waved through June 30, 2022, to help small businesses recover from the pandemic.
36% of Instagram sellers also take issue with the fact that they don’t have full access to the shopping tools the app has to offer. As the app fully embraces social shopping in 2022, you can expect access to open up to more users.
Social Shopping Is The Future
There’s never been a better time to start selling on social media, and Instagram is the best place to do it.
If you’re ready to get started, take a look at our 2022 Instagram Marketing Report for a detailed breakdown of which strategies, features, and formats are most effective on the app. For a few examples of how brands leverage Instagram Shopping, check out this post or this detailed ultimate guide.
Curious about your overall Instagram strategy, beyond Shopping? Check out our Instagram Engagement Report for even more data.