Apply Design Thinking to Your Email Marketing
Salesforce CRM and Sales Managers FTW (For The Win)!
Eliminate the need for unwarranted meetings and give time back to your employees and yourself with these moves from the Sales Manager Playbook.
Celebrating Ten Years of Arkus
Happy Arkyversary! We’re celebrating ten years as a company in the cloud with this look back and some new news.
Transitioning and Transferring to a Salesforce Career
Insight in moving from one industry to a career in the Salesforce ecosystem and the approach to thrive.
First Time Flownatic Tips
Here are some of the most complicated Flow concepts that took me some effort to master, but simplified, along with some advice to make your life as an admin easier.
Email Design for All Prospects: Accessibility in Pardot
Designing your emails in an accessible way is a necessary step in email marketing, and Pardot comes with out of the box features to ensure your emails are accessible to everyone on your list.
Stream in Place - Episode #315 of CloudFocus Weekly
Need something to stream? We go over our biggest and best streams we have been sheltering in place with.
Salesforce Resources for Students: Contests
Part three of a recent graduate’s guide to navigating the Salesforce ecosystem and the resources available to help students achieve success.
It’s Not Just Your Org: Why Raiser’s Edge Migrations are Difficult
We do a lot of Raiser’s Edge migrations at Arkus — no, really, we even did a webinar about it — and one of the guarantees during the migration process is there will come a time that the question is raised ‘why is this so difficult?’ Let’s address that now.
Ten Years of the Arkus Blog
The Arkus blog turns ten this month. Let’s take a look at the highlights from a decade of Salesforce, GTD, and cloud computing news.
Salesforce Resources for Students: The Community
Part two of a recent graduate’s guide to navigating the Salesforce ecosystem and the resources available to help students achieve success.
Salesforce Resources for Students: Trailhead
Part one of a recent graduate’s guide to navigating the Salesforce ecosystem and the resources available to help students achieve success.
Flow Bits – Keeping your DML Outside of the Loop
Flow Builder is a powerful declarative automation tool that can be used in countless ways to improve your organization’s Salesforce user experience. This post is part of a series of helpful hints and tips to help you build better flows. If you’re new to Flow Builder, start here.
How Animal Crossing Reminded Me of Salesforce Implementations
Three highlights on how playing the video game Animal Crossing underlined strategies on how to successfully implement Salesforce.
Trailhead for the New Nonprofit Admin - 2020 Edition
A beginner’s roadmap for when you are expected to become your organization’s Salesforce subject matter expert on the fly.
Admin Tools vs Coding: Take your Rollup Summaries to the Max
In this post we’ll take a look at how an admin can implement rollup summary fields in scenarios where it would not be possible directly without additional development.
Summer 20 Ideas Delivered
Salesforce again delivers on Ideas from the Trailblazer Community in the Summer ‘20 release.
GTD and the Power of Defer in OmniFocus
A look at how to combine four different GTD® principles into a practice using OmniFocus and the power of deferring.
Salesforce Report Types Explained
In this post, we explain what a Salesforce Report Type is, what it does, and how you can use custom Report Types to get your job done.
Building Trust with Your Nonprofit Website
Is your nonprofit’s website trustworthy? Learn how you can utilize design elements and content strategy to build trust with users.
Summer 20 for Flownatics
Not obsessed with Lightning Flow yet? Summer 20 is trying to change your mind.
8 Tips After 800 GTD Weekly Reviews
After 15 years of practicing Getting Things Done (GTD®) here are eight tips after the subsequent 800 Weekly Reviews.
Summer 20 Release Highlights
Let’s check out some of the new features that Salesforce is introducing in the Summer 20 release.
Marketing in the Time of Crisis
Build trust with your marketing and messaging when it's needed most.
Virtual Everything - Episode #314 of CloudFocus Weekly
Two times this year. Say it ain’t so. We catch up on all things blog, talk about Dreamforce 20 and give our picks of the week.
Constituent Wars Part II: How Raiser’s Edge Gifts Translate to Salesforce
Our migration journey continues with tips on moving gifts, campaigns, appeals, and more from Raiser's Edge into Salesforce.
5+1 Admin Tips: Troubleshooting Emails and Process Builders
In this post we’ll take a look at how an admin can troubleshoot some of the most common issues with emails and Process Builders in Salesforce.
Batch Gift Entry Options for the Nonprofit Success Pack
Help for the happy problem of having a lot of gifts you need to enter — fast!
COVID-19 - Episode #313 of CloudFocus Weekly
Has it been that long? Welcome in 2020 with our first episode and like every podcast, discuss COVID-19 and Tiger King.
Lightning Page Tips for a Better User Experience
Suggestions on how to provide an interface that will keep users focused and productive.