Although it started as a side gig, by June 1st, 2018, Shannon Gregg was consulting enough companies on best sales practices to establish her own viable full-time business–Cloud Adoption Solutions. Her highly popular speaking engagements at Dreamforce (2015), the SBI podcast, and universities naturally led to establishing her own company, where she continues steering businesses through their Salesforce challenges.
Although it started as a side gig, by June 1st, 2018, Shannon Gregg was consulting enough companies on best sales practices to establish her own viable full-time business–Cloud Adoption Solutions. Her highly popular speaking engagements at Dreamforce (2015), the SBI podcast, and universities naturally led to establishing her own company, where she continues steering businesses through their Salesforce challenges.
Cloud Adoption Solutions helps startups and small businesses across the U.S. get the most out of Salesforce.com through consultation sessions and technical support. Figuring out how to set up and use a CRM effectively can be frustrating and waste valuable time. Cloud Adoption Solutions understands that businesses in technology, healthcare, life sciences, real estate, financial services, and more need customized assistance with adopting, implementing, and utilizing Salesforce to its fullest capacity. They equip their clients with the knowledge and tools needed to be successful.
In “mini consultations,” Cloud Adoption Solutions dedicates time to connect with the client and identify current CRM issues. Businesses share what their current sales process looks like and what they want Salesforce to do for them, and a Cloud Adoptions Administrator creates a customized, enhanced version of Salesforce for that business. As a certified Salesforce partner, Cloud Adoption Solutions uses a whole team of experts–including a technologist, several full-time administrators, and a director of partnerships–to tackle Salesforce challenges and develop the best solutions.
With specializations in Sales Cloud, Lightning migration, business process automation and other Salesforce components, Cloud Adoption Solutions also assists businesses through administrative calls and technical support. Customers also have access to a pool of resources for optimizing their CRM and increasing revenue with Cloud Adoption Solution’s Salesforce eBooks, Salesforce Index Score course, and blog.
Even though Shannon was an expert in best sales practices when she joined her eforever group in January 2019, she and her business still benefitted from the relationships she built with her eforever peers. As her unofficial board of directors, Shannon’s eforever group provides a higher-level look at the financial decisions she makes for her growing business and her client relationships.
“I had one customer that terminated their relationship, and I can’t say I took it personally, but I thought, ‘Well, that’s a bummer.’ I brought it to my group, and they said, ‘Hey, you didn’t like that customer anyway. You’ve talked about them before. You guys don’t align, and that’s fine.’ When I left that meeting, I felt really great. So, I think every time we get another monthly recurring customer, that’s another milestone for us, but hearing the group say, ‘It’s okay to not have 100% customer retention because that was not a good customer for you,’ is cool.”
Shannon Gregg, founder of Cloud Adoption Solutions
Outside of running her business, Shannon continues to travel around the U.S. to give Salesforce talks. In 2017, she also co-authored the book, “It’s About Time: How to Do More of What Matters in the Time You Have,” a holistic approach for any busy person to take control of their time. She has appeared on the Salesforce Admins Podcast and returned to Dreamforce in 2019.
To start getting the most out of Salesforce.com, contact Cloud Adoption Solutions for a consultation or other assistance at info@cloudadoption.solutions. To engage Shannon for speaking events, visit ShannonGregg.com.
Entrepreneur: Shannon Gregg
Business: Cloud Adoption Solutions
Website: cloudadoption.solutions
Pittsburgh, PA
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