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Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps

A practical, field-focused guide to managing leads, opportunities, accounts, activities, and forecasts in Salesforce

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.9
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps Course

Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps is a practical course designed to help sales professionals use Salesforce with confidence in daily selling work. You will learn how to manage leads, opportunities, accounts, activities, and forecasts while building cleaner habits that support better Sales performance.

Build A Strong Salesforce Sales Workflow

  • Learn Salesforce foundations so you can navigate records, apps, tabs, search, and home pages efficiently.
  • Manage leads from capture through qualification and conversion without losing important customer context.
  • Keep opportunities, activities, accounts, and contacts organized for stronger pipeline visibility.
  • Use reports, dashboards, forecasts, and collaboration tools to prepare for reviews and improve Sales execution.

Salesforce Essentials for Sales Reps is A practical, field-focused guide to managing leads, opportunities, accounts, activities, and forecasts in Salesforce.

This course walks sales reps through the core Salesforce skills needed to work accurately and consistently in a modern Sales environment. You will begin with the foundations: getting oriented in Salesforce, understanding Sales records, and navigating the tools you use every day.

From there, you will learn how to manage leads from capture to qualification, convert leads properly, maintain account and contact records, and use activity history to build a clear relationship timeline. The course also covers opportunity creation, stage updates, close dates, amounts, probability, and pipeline hygiene so your pipeline reflects real Sales activity.

You will also develop a practical daily Salesforce routine for logging calls, emails, meetings, tasks, follow-ups, and next steps. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Salesforce more confidently, prepare for manager reviews, read dashboards and reports, contribute to accurate forecasts, and turn Salesforce into a reliable part of your everyday Sales workflow.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Salesforce Foundations

3 lessons

In this lesson, sales reps get oriented inside Salesforce so they can move confidently through the workspace before working with leads, accounts, opportunities, activities, and forecasts in later less…

Lesson 2: Understanding Salesforce Sales Records

20 min
This lesson explains the core Salesforce sales records a rep works with every day: leads, accounts, contacts, opportunities, activities, tasks, events, notes, files, and campaign history. It focuses o…

Lesson 3: Navigating Home, Search, Apps, and Tabs

17 min
In this lesson, sales reps learn how to orient themselves inside Salesforce Lightning so they can move quickly between the work that matters: leads, accounts, contacts, opportunities, tasks, and dashb…

Lead Management

2 lessons

Lesson 4: Working with Leads from Capture to Qualification

22 min
In this lesson, Professor Christina Ross walks sales reps through the practical lifecycle of a Salesforce lead: how leads enter the system, what information must be checked first, how to prioritize fo…

Lesson 5: Converting Leads Without Losing Context

19 min
In this lesson, sales reps learn how to convert qualified Salesforce leads while preserving the business context that makes follow-up effective. The focus is on preparing a lead record, checking for e…

Customer Records

2 lessons

Lesson 6: Managing Accounts and Contacts Properly

21 min
Accounts and contacts are the foundation of customer records in Salesforce. In this lesson, sales reps learn how to create, update, and maintain clean account and contact data so the team can understa…

Lesson 7: Using Activity History to Build Relationship Context

18 min
Activity History is one of the fastest ways for a sales rep to understand what has happened with a customer before making the next move. In this lesson, learners practice reading calls, emails, meetin…

Opportunity Management

3 lessons

Lesson 8: Creating and Updating Opportunities

22 min
In this lesson, sales reps learn how to create and maintain Salesforce opportunities so the pipeline reflects real selling work. The focus is on practical opportunity hygiene: choosing the right accou…

Lesson 9: Understanding Stages, Close Dates, Amounts, and Probability

20 min
In this lesson, sales reps learn how the four most important opportunity fields work together: Stage , Close Date , Amount , and Probability . These fields are not just administrative details; they dr…

Lesson 10: Maintaining Clean Pipeline Hygiene

21 min
Clean pipeline hygiene means every open opportunity is current, credible, and useful for action. In this lesson, Professor Christina Ross shows sales reps how to maintain opportunity records so manage…

Daily Sales Workflow

3 lessons

Lesson 11: Logging Calls, Emails, Meetings, and Tasks

19 min
In this lesson, sales reps learn how to keep Salesforce activity records clean, useful, and current without turning logging into busywork. The focus is on calls, emails, meetings, and tasks: what to l…

Lesson 12: Planning Follow-Ups and Next Steps

18 min
Follow-up planning is where Salesforce becomes a daily selling tool instead of a record-keeping chore. In this lesson, sales reps learn how to turn every call, email, meeting, and customer interaction…

Lesson 13: Using List Views to Prioritise Work

20 min
List views turn Salesforce from a database into a daily work queue. In this lesson, sales reps learn how to use standard and custom list views to identify the right leads, opportunities, accounts, and…

Team Collaboration

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Collaborating with Notes, Chatter, Mentions, and Files

17 min
In this lesson, sales reps learn how to collaborate inside Salesforce without scattering deal information across private inboxes, chat threads, and local files. The focus is on practical use of Notes,…

Pipeline Visibility

3 lessons

Lesson 15: Preparing for Sales Meetings and Manager Reviews

21 min
This lesson teaches sales reps how to prepare for sales meetings and manager reviews by making Salesforce pipeline data clear, current, and defensible. The focus is not on building reports from scratc…

Lesson 16: Reading Reports and Dashboards as a Sales Rep

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how to read Salesforce reports and dashboards from the perspective of a working sales rep. The focus is not building complex analytics, but using existing pipeline views…

Lesson 17: Contributing to Accurate Forecasts

20 min
This lesson teaches sales reps how their daily Salesforce updates affect forecast accuracy. It focuses on practical field behaviors: keeping opportunity amounts, close dates, stages, forecast categori…

Salesforce in Practice

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Building a Personal Salesforce Routine

18 min
This lesson helps sales reps turn Salesforce from an occasional data-entry task into a reliable daily operating system. It focuses on building a personal routine for reviewing leads, updating opportun…
About Your Instructor
Professor Christina Ross

Professor Christina Ross

Professor Christina Ross guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.