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Are you stuck with a Salesforce that no one is using?

Salesforce Implementation

Salesforce Adoption Specialists

Implementing Salesforce successfully requires more than just software installation. Many businesses struggle to achieve full adoption because they overlook critical planning, partner selection, and proper user training. To maximize your investment in Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, it’s essential to understand what should be considered in a Salesforce implementation, how to choose a Salesforce implementation partner, and follow a comprehensive Salesforce implementation checklist.

Salesforce Adoption Specialists

Our Clients

What Should I Consider in a Salesforce Implementation?

The first step in any Salesforce project is understanding your organization’s goals, workflows, and unique challenges. Start by mapping your current business processes and identifying areas where Salesforce can automate or improve efficiency. You should also assess your existing data for accuracy and completeness, since clean, structured data ensures smoother migration to Salesforce. Beyond data, determine which tools — such as ERP, marketing automation, or support systems — need to integrate with Salesforce, and evaluate how your teams interact with CRM systems so you can plan strategies to ensure active adoption. Finally, decide which features require customization and which can use Salesforce’s standard functionalities to reduce complexity, and ensure your setup meets all regulatory requirements and security best practices.

Considering these factors upfront reduces the risk of failed adoption, missed deadlines, and wasted resources.

Salesforce Support

From start to finish

From seamless implementation to ensuring adoption across all roles and departments, we provide tailored support every step of the way. With immediate access to a team of Salesforce specialists—without the burden of a full-time budget—streamline your operations and grow your business.

All-in-one Solution

How to Choose a Salesforce Implementation Partner

Choosing the right Salesforce implementation partner is crucial for a successful rollout. A qualified partner will guide your organization through planning, configuration, and adoption. When evaluating partners, prioritize those who are certified in Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and relevant Salesforce products, and review their case studies and client references to confirm experience with similar projects. Make sure they follow a structured implementation process that covers planning, execution, testing, and training, and that they offer training sessions for all users along with ongoing support post-implementation. The best partners also work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure everyone is aligned on goals and expectations.

A skilled implementation partner not only configures Salesforce correctly but also ensures your team adopts it efficiently.

Salesforce Adoption

FROM START TO FINISH

Salesforce Implementation Checklist

A comprehensive Salesforce implementation checklist helps organizations stay organized and ensures no critical steps are missed. The process begins with pre-implementation planning, where you define goals, assign project roles, and create a clear timeline. From there, data migration comes next — this involves cleaning, structuring, and moving data from legacy systems into Salesforce to ensure accuracy from day one. Once data is ready, system configuration sets up Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud to match your specific business workflows, followed by workflow automation to configure automated processes for leads, opportunities, and customer support tickets.

With the system configured, user training ensures that sales, support, and management teams each receive sessions tailored to their roles and responsibilities. Before going live, thorough testing and QA validates that all workflows, dashboards, and reports function correctly. 

Finally, post-deployment support keeps the momentum going by monitoring adoption, optimizing processes, and providing ongoing assistance as teams settle into the new system. Following a checklist ensures efficiency, reduces errors, and drives higher user adoption rates.

Salesforce Sales Cloud Benefits

Salesforce Sales Cloud centralizes sales data, giving teams visibility into leads, opportunities, and deals. When combined with training and proper implementation, it helps sales teams track and manage leads efficiently, forecast revenue accurately, collaborate across teams using shared dashboards, and automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on selling.

Proper Salesforce implementation ensures that Sales Cloud is aligned with your business objectives and daily sales processes.

Salesforce Adoption

FROM START TO FINISH

Salesforce Service Cloud Benefits

Salesforce Service Cloud improves customer support by centralizing cases, automating ticket routing, and providing real-time dashboards. With Service Cloud in place, teams can resolve customer issues faster, gain insights into support performance, and collaborate with sales for a seamless customer experience.

Including Service Cloud in your Salesforce implementation ensures both sales and support teams work from a unified platform.

Training and User Adoption Strategies

Even a perfectly implemented Salesforce system will fail without proper training. Focus CRM provides Salesforce training for sales teams and support teams to ensure everyone understands dashboards, reports, and automation tools. Effective adoption strategies include role-based training tailored to different departments, hands-on sessions built around real-life workflows, gamification and incentives to encourage participation, and continuous support along with refresher sessions post-implementation.

Effective training increases user confidence and adoption rates.

Post-Implementation Optimization

Salesforce evolves constantly, so post-deployment optimization ensures your instance remains efficient. Focus CRM supports this through regular audits to identify gaps or bottlenecks, workflow enhancements based on usage patterns, updated dashboards that reflect current KPIs, and support for new Salesforce features as they are released.

This continuous improvement ensures long-term success and maximum ROI.

Leverage Our Expertise

Sales Cloud

Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Quotes, Cases, Campaigns

Service Cloud

Case Management, Service Console, Omni Channel Routing, SLA’s, etc.

Marketing Account Engagement

B2B Marketing Automation

Experience Cloud

Customer or Partner Portals

Non-Profit

Fundraising, Program Management, Grantmaking

Custom Development

Custom Objects, Process, Automation, Custom Screens

Integrations

Connecting to 3rd Party Systems

3rd Party Apps

Payment Processing, Web Forms, Mail Merges, E-signatures, etc.

Adoption

Dedicated team to ensure your team maximizes its use

Sales Cloud

Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Quotes, Cases, Campaigns

Custom Development

Custom Objects, Process, Automation, Custom Screens

Service Cloud

Case Management, Service Console, Omni Channel Routing, SLA’s, etc.

Integrations

Connecting to 3rd Party Systems

Marketing Account

Engagement, B2B Marketing Automation

3rd Party Apps

Payment Processing, Web Forms, Mail Merges, E-signatures, etc.

Experience Cloud

Customer or Partner Portals

Adoption

Dedicated team to ensure your team maximizes its use

Non-Profit

Fundraising, Program Management, Grantmaking

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Our Typical Client

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B2B/ Small/ Medium Business

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5 To 100 Salesforce Users

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Don’t Have Anyone Internally To Support With Salesforce

Our Typical Client

  1. B2B/ Small/ Medium Business
  2. 5 To 100 Salesforce Users
  3. Don’t Have Anyone Internally To Support With Salesforce

Whats Your Situation

Looking for a CRM

Building a sound foundation for your Salesforce platform begins with having the right sales process in place that drives your organization’s data flow. Our experience has shown that many organizations lack a unifying sales process and is a primary reason for Salesforce implementation failure. With our expertise, we will help you choose the best processes for your sales organization’s specific needs and then streamline and modify them to improve workflow throughout.

Salesforce Enhancement And Cleanup

  1. I am paying for Salesforce, but no one is using it.
  2. I don’t trust the data created in Salesforce and therefore, cannot rely on analytics we hoped it would provide.
  3. I have no one to proactively train my users to achieve the user adoption we require.
  4. I have no one addressing and being responsible for the ongoing administrative requirements that are presenting themselves.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What should I consider in a Salesforce implementation?

    Consider business processes, data quality, integration needs, user adoption, customization, and compliance. Proper planning upfront ensures smoother deployment and adoption.

  • How do I choose a Salesforce implementation partner?

    Choose certified experts with experience in Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, verified client references, a structured methodology, and training capabilities.

  • What is included in a Salesforce implementation checklist?

    Planning, data migration, system configuration, workflow automation, user training, testing, and post-deployment support.

  • Why is user adoption critical in Salesforce implementation?

    High adoption ensures accurate data, better reporting, efficient workflows, and ROI from your Salesforce investment.

  • How long does a typical Salesforce implementation take?

    Standard implementations take 8–16 weeks. Complex or customized projects may take longer depending on integrations and workflows.

  • How can Focus CRM help with Salesforce implementation?

    Focus CRM provides end-to-end services, including planning, partner guidance, checklist-based deployment, training, and post-deployment support to ensure adoption and success.

  • Can Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud be implemented together?

     Yes. Implementing both provides seamless sales and support collaboration, improving customer experience and internal efficiency.

  • How often should Salesforce systems be optimized post-implementation?

    Regular audits and optimization every 3–6 months are recommended to ensure maximum efficiency and adoption.

Client Testimonials

Working with Lisa, Kyle and Bruno has been an absolute pleasure. They understood what our vision was, and they were able to deliver exactly what we had in mind. Their team is extremely knowledgeable and offered great support and creative solutions throughout the entire process. They are all very detail-oriented and constantly followed up when they said they would.

Adam has a deep understanding of Salesforce and has provided outstanding support, helping us customize this software to add significantly more value to our company. Adam is a pleasure to deal with, understands our business, provides solutions, and can be relied on to get the job done in a timely manner.

Wanted to reach out and express our appreciation to the Focus team, for your dedication of being our “personal trainer” for our Axis Communications team, for the purpose of become proficient with SalesForce. Axis Communications has made significant progress during our time together, and now we are in a position for SF.com to be a productive and effective tool for us.

Thank you again for helping us make so much progress and for staying so on top of our improvement. It feels like your team is invested in the success of your team and every dollar we spend with you is worth it! It’s hard to provide a service oriented firm with a 10/10 review but we’ll give that to you!

The transition was seamless. My team is really engaged and they like working with Sarah. She understands our business model very well and she is always open to suggestions, recommendations, and she experiments with new ways to reach to my team.

Support is great; we have unlimited support from your team if my people have any questions or if they need more training on a specific topic.

I just wanted to take a minute to tell you that so far everything has been great. The guys are using Salesforce properly now and I have noticed major differences in my day-to-day management of the activity.

For example, I helped Andre put a quote together this morning and when I asked him for the information he simply said “it’s in Salesforce” and it only took me a matter of seconds to get all the info I needed to produce the quote based on his notes in the Opportunity on Salesforce.
Thanks again.

In my 12 years as a business owner, I’ve met few are as organized and effective as Donna. She approaches every day with a high level of energy and passion. This coupled with her sound analytical skills, make her an invaluable asset. During the last 3 years Donna was the lead in implementing a CRM system, taking our sales team to a new level.

Donna has been providing services to P & P for over a year now. When we started working with Donna, the first thing we noticed is that any task was done on time or sooner, regardless of complexity. Since then we have discovered her more advanced talents which are many, but the ones that are most notable are performing complex data analysis, identifying key KPI’s and Quarterly Priorities (QP’s), HR management, and quarterly planning. Donna just has a great head on her shoulders, she smart organized and “get’s it”, she had helped me with a number of difficult situations with professionalism and speed.

Lisa is a detail-oriented manager that kept everyone focused and on their timelines. She was always available for questions, easy to work with as her input is straight forward and honest. It has been a pleasure.

Focus CRM proactively leads our adoption every day with a dedicated team that works hand in hand with ours. You do everything a full-time internal CRM champion would do and more … at a substantially lower cost. As long as we use a CRM, we will always need someone to run it. We see a great future together with Focus being that “someone”. Looking forward to another year together!

I have had the pleasure of working with Lisa for close to a year now and she is the ultimate professional. She is a great listener and is quick to report back with solutions. If it’s results that you’re looking for then Lisa is the person for you. As for her attention to detail…I have yet to meet her equal.

Lisa is a highly motivated individual with great ideas as to how to process information in an office setting. Lisa worked with me to help set up our Salesforce CRM program five years ago; we are still using many of her ideas even now.

I had the opportunity and privilege to work with Lisa in 2010 on our implementation of Salesforce. I don’t know if I could say enough positive things about Lisa and her abilities. Her depth of knowledge of Salesforce was impressive and significant in our success. When it came to the project, ours was one of the most complex implementations tackled by Focus . Lisa was directly instrumental in our on-time and successful rollout last year. I have enjoyed working with Lisa and am proud to recommend her.

Lisa is a highly skilled, experienced and details oriented professional. In 2015, I hired Focus to design, program, implement and train my staff and I on a customized CRM solution using the Salesforce.com platform. Lisa Rodrigues was the project lead and in less than 3 months, Lisa had our system up, running and our staff using the system religiously. She was very committed to understanding how our business operates and responded to our questions with an incredible ability to convey her knowledge of Salesforce.com in a manner that was fun to learn and easy to understand. I would highly recommend Lisa Rodrigues and the Focus team to anyone looking to improve the efficiency and success of their business.

Sarah’s Saleforce.com expertise is extensive.   She keeps an eye on their progress, and constantly emails our team asking how she can help or pointing out functionality they could & should be using within the Salesforce application.

Sarah is ALWAYS available.   As I work all hours of the day and night Sarah has interacted with me in the early mornings, late evenings.  Any time I need her she is there.  She has been a true asset to our team and is always available to train me or our team members on the numerous tools she has at her disposal.

In a nutshell, we have found Sarah to be excellent to work with! She has a very nice and accommodating personality, sense of humour, desire to help, is a so knowledgeable with Salesforce and, in particular, turns around changes and ideas for sf.com extremely quickly.

We have a team of 7 reps, male and female, with varying degrees of experience and Sarah works well with them as a group and in one on ones.

I can tell that Sarah takes pride in her work and has always been well prepared and is always respectful of our time and schedule.

Lisa Rodrigues has been fantastic to work with. When we first went live with SF, she made herself available morning, noon, nights and weekends. In the time since, she has remained tremendously responsive. She’s never failed to return my e-mails or phone calls in the same day, even if only to assure me that she’s working on a solution to my problem.

Our company had been using Maximizer, which had become unsupportable and required a full system replacement.

Yes I would recommend Darren’s team for your SFA. It is a significant investment to purchase and set up a SFA program and I now believe we would have made the same mistakes and received only part of the systems benefits if we did not have assistance from outside the company

So far this has been something we would never have been able to do without all of their help, and we do hope that this will continue. We have many different personalities and technology levels in the office and it was key that your team was able to work with each personality/level and again they have proved to us they have all of the requirements to do this and everyone is feeling very involved and really appreciate the different levels of help/service they have all individually experienced.

Working with Lisa has been absolutely amazing. When it comes to implementing a CRM into a transitioning company I would recommend her 10 fold. She was quick to realize those that were succeeding and those who may have needed a little more hands on efforts and never missed a beat.

Our team is feeling very comfortable and confident and we owe this to Lisa.

I just finished a training session with Zain and wanted to let you know how much I appreciate his guidance in using SalesForce. He has been very helpful with his gentle guidance and I can tell, he has a smile on his face at the other end of the phone.