Salesforce provides a free account for those looking to learn the platform. So you can sign up for your own Salesforce organization, complete with two Enterprise level user licenses. This is worth roughly $300/month in licensing fees, and enables you to follow along with the lectures of this course.
If you have your own Salesforce account at work, I recommend that you go ahead and take advantage of a free account of your own, that you can keep for life (since you may end up not retiring from the company you are currently with). Having a fresh, new instance of Salesforce also helps you to avoid messing up your Production work environment in Salesforce and to have your own instance more closely resemble what I walk you through.
This lecture takes you through the Salesforce User Interface, at an introductory level. The initial screen to register your phone number with your Salesforce account is also shown. The Application Menu and Tabs are introduced and explained, along with a glimpse of your home page.
Now that we are signed up and logged in, it's time to get familiar with the Salesforce home page. We cover searching for Salesforce records, creating new records via the Quick Create menu found on the home page, accessing the Calendar, your Tasks, and your Recycle Bin.
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In this lecture I introduce you to the Personalizing Salesforce section of the course and let you know what lies ahead. And then we jump in to setting up your My Profile page.
