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Ultimate Salesforce Blogs List

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blogsWith so many great individual and company run blogs out there, its hard to find a lot of them unless you follow the particular linked account on social media. To try and get around this, I thought I would compile the be all and end all, ultimate Salesforce blogs list. This will be updated whenever a blog that I haven’t come across is passed along to me as well (As I’m sure I’ve probably missed out some great ones!).  No matter whether you are an Admin, Dev, PM, Consultant or Executive member, together the blogs below cover a wide range of topics including tutorials, guides, opinion posts and interviews.

 

Administrator Blogs

ButtonClick Admin – The original Salesforce Admin blog. Mike Gerholdt’s blog, co-hosted with Gillian Madill, has been running since 2011. Providing Administrator guides, tutorials and an industry famous Podcast! Definitely one to check out.

ButtonClickSalesforce Weekly – Hosted by two UK based Salesforce MVP’s, Chris Edwards & Mike Gill. Salesforce Weekly gives us the run down on some key Salesforce features including release opinions and how to guides. Has a great focus on Visual flow & Process builder tutorials.

The Wizard News – MVP Brian Kwong brings you “The faux newspaper for the Salesforce professional”. Brian covers a great range of topics in his blog posts which also includes a Podcast and newly formulated “Wizard’s Apprentice” YouTube series.

Admin Hero – MVP Brent Downey’s Admin Hero has quickly become a staple blog for Administrators everywhere. Bringing you various Salesforce guides & tutorials but also explores ideas of how to further your career.

AdminheroSaasyForce – Lauren Jordan has only been blogging on SaasyForce for under a year but has already been credited with an MVP title. Lauren brings you tutorials & interviews with a focus on the awesome women in our Industry, including “Girly Geek of the week”!

Phil Walton’s Blog – MVP Phil is a real Salesforce Allstar who has been working on projects since 2004. Phil brings you great lineup of posts alongside his “Salesforce Tip of the week” which is delivered straight  to your inbox every Friday. Phil is now approaching his 150th consecutive tip!

Jenny’s Admin Tips – MVP & UK based Jenny Bamber brings us weekly Salesforce tips that almost everyone involved in the industry can benefit from. Jenny brings us news, opinions, tutorials and great overviews of Salesforce features.

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Rakeshistom – Mumbai based MVP & 5x Certified Rakesh Gupta has one of the best blogs out there for learning Visual Flow & Process Builder, as well as a multitude of other topics. Rakesh has also 3 published books.

EricForceField – Eric Dreshfield, 3 time MVP and leader of the Southern Indiana User Group brings us a brilliant opinion and event based blog that gives us an insight in events and how to get the most out of them.

KristiForce – Kristi Guzman,  brings us 8 years of experience as an Advanced Administrator into this great informative blog.

Simply Salesforce– MVP Johan Yu has been blogging on Simply Salesforce since 2012 and has one of the largest and most informative library’s of blog posts I’ve seen. You could spend an afternoon just looks through his 200+ posts!

Salesforce Bullet Blog – Ryan Lorenzen is a 4x Certified Salesforce veteran of 10+ years who has a lot of knowledge to impart. He shares his top tips & tricks in this fantastic informative blog.

Melissa Van Dyke – Melissa is a truly talented, experienced Admin. Her blog is jam packed full of useful posts, resources and a great Podcast too.

Cloud Architecture – MVP Francis Pindar’s blog has some really great content and as an expert in his field, has some really valuable opinions.  There are also some of the best “inside” posts of what being an MVP is like and how to get there.

 

Developer Blogs

SFDC 99 – David Liu’s SFDC99 has become one of the most popular Salesforce blogs out there, designed with a goal in mind to get point and click admins coding. David has a very good grasp on how to teach Apex after being self-taught and coming from a non-coding background, he is now a Salesforce Technical Architect at Google.
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Bob Buzzard – Keir Bowden is a true Salesforce expert. He is an 8 x Certified (That’s all of them!) MVP who is CTO at Brightgen, a Salesforce Platinum partner. The Bob Buzzard blog is great for aspiring developers and experts alike.

Jeff Douglas – One of the first Force.com MVP’s, Jeff Douglas knows what he’s talking about when it comes to developing on Salesforce. Jeff has been blogging for over 8 years and has built up a huge library of extremely informative posts.

Woman Code Heroes – Newley elected MVP Kieren Jameson has only been running her blog for under a year but its already making a big impact. Kieren’s blog covers various developer introduction posts designed to get you up and coding in now time!

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Sforce Ninja – 5 x Certified Siddhesh Kabe brings us a mix of Developer and Administrator tutorials. Siddhesh has been blogging for over 6 years and is also the author of the Force.com Developer Certification Handbook.

Salesforce Hacker – Get a view of the Salesforce world from a Salesforce employee! Adam Torman brings a wealth of experience to Salesforce Hacker and has been regularly blogging for 2 years, bringing you tools, tricks and tips.

I Write Crappy Code – Great blog aimed at advanced developers that are looking for code samples, tricks & tips

Flex & Salesforce – Blog run by Haribabu an Advanced Developer out of India. Long running Developer blog with a lot of great content.

Andy In The Cloud – Described as “One of the best dev blogs out there”, Andy Fawcett’s blog has a huge back catalogue of Dev posts and is also updated very regularly with rich content.

 

Marketing

Pardot Blogger Girl – Alex Coffey’s Pardot Blogger Girl is one of the best blogs I have seen covering Pardot and marketing automation. Great blog for anyone who is looking to get into marketing automation or, like most people, has been flung into it!

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Company Blogs

Salesforce Blog

Salesforce Developer Blog

Salesforce Marketing Blog (Exact Target)

Alvorden – Very well written blogs headed up by Matthew Botos, a Salesforce Technical Architect & MVP

Appirio – Global cloud Consultancy that has multiple blogs that specialise in different Cloud areas.

Apttus – The Apttus Quote-to-Cash blog: your source for sales, IT, legal and revenue thought-leadership, best practices and industry tips. Where leaders go to read, learn and grow.

X-Author – X-Author by Apttus: the secret weapon to driving 100% Salesforce adoption. This blog shares the latest news on Salesforce admin tips, technology, productivity, and more.

Conga – #1 Salesforce document generation tool that gives you the latest insights to maximise Conga

Cloudsocius –UK based consultancy that has a very active blog covering various areas inside of Salesforce and the industry

Cloud for Good – Leading Salesforce blog for nonprofits

CRMScience – Salesforce consultancy that has a rich active blog, mainly posting around Apex & Developer content

Internet Creations – Varied blog with a lot of interesting Salesforce posts along with handy industry posts.

Makepositive – UK based pure-play Salesforce consultancy giving you great tutorials and insights into Salesforce features

Walk me, Rainforce – Amanda McDonald blogs about all things Salesforce for Walk me

Red Argyle – US based consultancy with a varied active blog.

Shell Black – Fantastic blog including admin, consultancy and certification resources led by a Salesforce MVP All star!

Tquila – Another UK based pure-play Salesforce consultancy that has recently been acquired by Accenture. Great easy to follow tutorials & news.

Westbrook –UK based consultancy bringing you tutorials, product insights and opinion posts

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    Asish Kumar Behera

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    Hi
    I have contributing from last 3 years in my blog. All my post always points to solving developement issue or some trcky way of developing things by apex programming .
    Salesforce4u
    http//:salesforceworld4u.blogspot.in

    Thanks
    Asish

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      Dominic Carubba, CPT

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      To be clear… blogs that help the end user learn how to use Salesforce more effectively.

      I’ve been training end users for years and not that I teach the Admin class as well, I see that while many adoption issues have to do with the end user understanding the productivity benefits of Salesforce (or any CRM) it’s also the design of the User Interface (UI), workflows, etc. (let’s just call it “customization”) that make it easier for adoption to occur.

      After training thousands of end users, it seems that the message of “Productivity and Effectiveness” is often lost or overlooked by the more technical aspects of the tool and all that it can do for the company (ie – the Executive Non-Users).

      For the stakeholders, executives and company to receive the true ROI potential of Salesforce it MUST work for the sales user or customer service user in the way that they work to make them more productive.

      If you know of a resource, I’d love to hear about it. If not, then I might have to start blogging.

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    Duke

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    That’s a great list. I found it very late. Keep rocking ben.

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    JobOnCloud

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    Hi Ben, first of all very thankful to you for sharing like this info. It was very helpful to me as well as for the learner to know everything about salesforce platform and they can make bright their career.

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