Your August 2020 AppExchange Briefing

This month, we’re covering how manufacturing companies are achieving sustainability through tech, the rise of the rapidly growing Salesforce Community in Macedonia, and how a nonprofit is using Mogli SMS to help open doors to higher education. 

15 Free Solutions Built by Salesforce Employees in 2020

If you’re looking for free, helpful apps to extend Salesforce, look no further than the 15 new Salesforce Labs solutions that were released in 2020.

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Goodbye “Good Enough” Apps. Hello, “Design-First” Experiences.

Whether you’re building an app for your employees or your customers, you owe it to your users to give them the right tools to get their work done. This article will help you do just that. 

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Enfabebe Updates Emails in Real-Time During COVID-19 with Movable Ink and Salesforce

Enfabebe, a Mexico-based club for expectant and recent mothers, turned to Movable Ink to keep families informed during the pandemic. We spoke with Alison Lindland, SVP, Strategy at Movable Ink, to learn more. 

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Sustainability & Innovation: Lessons from the Manufacturing Industry

We sat down with Cindy Bolt, Salesforce’s Senior Vice President and General Manager for the manufacturing, automotive, and energy industries’ go-to-market team, to learn how manufacturing companies are pursuing sustainability. 

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How to Know if Your Business is Headed for Success or Failure: 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Weekly

Read about the 5 questions you should be asking yourself on a weekly basis as a startup founder and business owner.

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4 Partners Share Their Experience with the Marketing Cloud Developer Certification

We asked four partner superstars who recently acquired their Marketing Cloud Developer certification to share their experience and insights.

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Building the Salesforce Community in Macedonia

Read about how the Salesforce Community in Macedonia, a country of about 2 million citizens, has shown an amazing growth to more than 300 members in the first year since its foundation.

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Here’s How This Nonprofit is Using Salesforce and Mogli SMS to Help College Students

Read about how Richmond Promise opens the door to higher education in Richmond, CA, and the AppExchange solutions they are using to manage every step of a student’s involvement. 

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Thinking Beyond the First Year and When to Find Funding

Get inside the mind of Timo Olkkola, CCO and Co-Founder of Flowhaven, a cloud-based branding and licensing solution based out of Finland, in the latest episode of the Trailblazing Entrepreneurs

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How Customer Care Experiences Build Brand Loyalty

Read about why brands must focus on customer loyalty, and what great customer care teams are doing to build relationships with shoppers that foster loyalty.

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AppExchange Live Recap: Leslie Tom Answers FAQs

AppExchange’s SVP of Marketing, Leslie Tom, took to Twitter to answer customers' most burning AppExchange questions. Check out this recap of the pawsome virtual event.

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GPS Tracking Company Supports 10,000 Customers with Vonage and Salesforce

Robert Gavin, EVP of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Vonage, shared with us how RAM Tracking is leveraging technology to help its employees work from anywhere.

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Meeting Healthcare Systems and Patients Where They Are

Read about how Geneia and Salesforce joined forces nearly three years ago to better serve the needs of healthcare organizations looking to deliver high-quality, lower-cost care.

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How Optimizing Sales Tax Can Indirectly Boost Your Bottom Line

Discover how Optimizing sales tax collection by choosing the right provider can increase your eCommerce business’s conversion rate while decreasing your team’s sales tax headache.

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Best Practices to Scale Your Business for Growth

Read about best practices that will help you scale your business to not only take it up a notch but to also ensure that it continues to thrive.

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AppExchange Mavericks: Enhance Business Automation with UiPath

In this episode of AppExchange Mavericks, Salesforce MVP Jeff Grosse chats with Brandon Brown, Director of Integrations at UiPath, to learn more about why business automation has become more valuable than ever in today’s world.

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Salesforce Named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: SaaS Marketplaces Q2 2020

We are honored to share that Salesforce has been recognized as a Leader by Forrester in its most recent update of The Forrester New Wave™: SaaS Marketplaces, Q2 2020. Read more.

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This Salesforce Admin Shares Her Top AppExchange Apps and Insights

Read our conversation with Kim Wargo, the Salesforce admin with FineMark National Bank & Trust, about her favorite AppExchange solutions and how she uses them. 

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15 Lightning Web Components by Salesforce Labs to Explore

We challenged employees to test their innovation by building Lightning web components to solve a wide variety of business cases. Here are 15 of the most imaginative.

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Why You Don’t Need to be an Expert to be an Entrepreneur

Put in your earbuds and hit play for our interview with Victoria, Co-Founder and COO of Phrasee, where she shares her entrepreneurial journey and the decisions that took her to where she is today.

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This Trailblazer Shares 5 Rules for Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities

Jenifer Robertson, a Salesforce architect with T-Mobile, went being a military spouse, to entering parenthood, to pursuing a career in technology, to earning an MBA. Here’s her story. 

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