Thank you for the trailmix! The amount of available resources is truly overwhelming, so I really appreciate that you've taken the time to lay out a clear path. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate the effort you put into your Salesforce advise videos, David. They played a crucial role in solidifying my decision to start my journey with Salesforce. Before my accident two years ago, I was doing well, but since then, my mobility has been limited. After much contemplation between AWS and Salesforce, your videos helped me make a final decision. Thank you for your help and support. As you said, I will start with the Admin path.
I know this video is a year old, but your message is upbeat and positive and truly appreciated. I have been wanting to jump into this niche and you just made me want to go heads first. 47 years old but never to old to do something that interests me.
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! I've been searching for Salesforce advice as I have no prior experience in Salesforce and feel overwhelmed by the number of resources! THANK YOU for giving me the starting place because I know I can learn this!
Every Time i get depressed by thinking (whether i will get a job,how will i get experience, programming toughness, being late for programming carrer) while studying. I watch your videos again n again , to get a GOD level motivation
Thank you! This was a great video. The content is not only educational but funny to boot. The bit about how hard it is to fail the same multiple-choice exam five times cracked me up!
Thank you so much for providing others your knowledge and saving us huge amounts of time by focusing on the areas which are most utilized by businesses.
This video is just what I was looking for!! I'm an architect (as in buildings, not software) but lost my job cause of covid. Now I'm switching gears and jumping to learn salesforce, and this video (and your trail mix) is really great help. I really really appreciate it. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this video! I have been wanting to make a career change and this video solidified my decision! I appreciate you sharing your content.
I stumbled on your page somehow after finally watching all the "Best brownie recipe" videos on youtube. At this point, I knew I had finally masted the "procrastination Superbadge". My days at work have been reduced due to Covid and I've been struggling to give myself some structure to investing in myself. I've been working through Trailhead slowly but just picking at it really because as you said, there is just so much content available. The biggest struggle I've found is getting real-world advice and guidance on how to progress to achieving an Admin Certification. The trailhead you've created looks like exactly what I'm after. The 100+hr's of modules which will likely take me 200hr hours feel manageable because I think it will give me an understanding of Salesforce, and also where I need to go next. Thanks for creating this, hopefully, it doesn't lead to me hating you forever creating this Trailhead that I'm about to start.
David, you are an INSPIRATION! It is amazing that anytime after I see one of your videos, I feel more motivated and more in love with Salesforce! From a person with 0 technical background or Salesforce working experience, I can say that the first certification is the hardest one. You need a looot of motivation, hard work and focus in order to reach the finish line. Rest of the certifications will come naturally, in time. Also, I think that getting the Admin certification firstly is the foundation for a successful Salesforce professional. All the best and keep up the great work!
Im newbie on salesforce, I am coming from mulesoft and ESB tech. Thanks a lot to reduce the bagdes in order I can change my techonology stach easily and quickly. Thanks!!!
Cool Advice! Thank you. I would say the first months is the difficult one. In my example, I gathering information from everywhere and join into each meetup and related source which is mentioned "Salesforce" keyword. After figuring out I create my own path. As well as certs, I took my 1st admin in 3 months. But now I have more stronger feeling of what to do, and keep doing that.
Thank you so much David for your insights and advice! Our company just recently signed a partnership with Salesforce and have been driving the use of trailhead...but that’s about it. It’s like “Salesforce is going to do great things so go forth and learn, learn and learn.” But for people like me, it’s “where do I even begin? It is so exciting yet so overwhelming at the same time.” This video helped simplify the process so so much and I’m so happy I found it.😄 Thank you for sharing and sending you a digital high five for your amazing work🖐
Great video - you make my Sunday happy with those information. I just will keep my study in Salesforce but with more directions with your video.Thanks a lot !
Great ! This video helped me a lot to know salesforce, I am learning salesforce from next week for my next 10years career, feel lucky to see this video before I start to learn it.
This is one of the best guidance videos. Seriously you have made a clear path to follow. I'll definitely start doing the trailheads and tysm for motivating us and showing the correct path.
Trailhead helps but it is also good if you have an actual project and practice it on live environment. It is also good to fail and learn from those mistakes.
I can tell you that I've spent a considerable amount of my free time giving out free advice to complete strangers on the internet. Hi, I'm Ned, and I'm trying to learn SalesForce to get a relevant job and break into the IT industry!
You are an amazing mentor! I learned a lot about not only how to learn about salesforce but also how to persuade people to listen to you and believe in you -A skill I can use for my audience to change lifestyle to get healthy...I am a lifestyle change coach and trying to influence the change.....What is one key to success you think is helpful to you in building this channel?
Hi David Im from Bolivia.... i think in my country there are a few organization that has implement Salesforce yet.... thnks for this video this motivates me to learn more about Salesforce and to be one step ahead when Salesforce is better known in Latin America.
This is super motivating and encouraging! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and distilling your experiences into these gold nuggets!! I'm getting furloughed from my beloved job soon; learning on Trailhead feels like another door might open. Fingers crossed! Thanks again for your top-notch uploads!!
Thank you David for the guidance. One of the best videos in your channel. Loved it. Will try to get 5 certifications. Also, I am putting my 2% every time whenever I write an email or whenever I do something and it has brought me good results. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and love you!!!!!
On another note, it’s easy to see why you work for Google. You are a cool dude and you love what you do. Keep doing these, they are great and not too many people on UA-cam are doing it yet.
David, I just got started in Salesforce last week and really want to learn and get the certifications. I’ve been in a non IT background all my career and want to advance. Your videos and advice are a real inspirations and a boon to all budding Salesforce admins. Thanks a ton for being humble and sharing this valuable information to inspire others to do as well as you’re doing! 👏🏼
I believe work experience is pretty important the first day I was given a test class for a trigger handler. The trigger handler was 1000+ lines big I needed to just get the code coverage from 76-80%. It took me two weeks. If I have to do a similar thing two months later it would take me 2-3 hours tops.
This was so helpful I am on a boot camp at the moment which is extremely helpful for me because I am already in a community with people like me. but my problem is that I don't live in the US I live in turkey and thats why it's very hard to find jobs even in EU countries closer to where I live. Could you make a video about how can non-US citizens actually land a job in the IT sector in the US?
I'm switching from construction where I own my own business. I'm starting on trailhead and unsure where to start. Any tips to other videos directed to someone like myself please help! Ty for all your help!
Man! this is a really fresh, yet deep video for a complex topic like salesforce. Thanks a lot for your time giving free advice online! Really thanks. I myself just found your video after a couple of hours Getting Started with Trailhead and realizing that even though they have so many trails it's very hard to build a learning path of my own that makes sense with my time availability and SF experience (virtually 0). If I may be so bold as to ask for some of your advice for me, and hoping you ever get to read my comment, I would like to ask what do you suggest in terms of SF training or resources for a guy like me: - B2B sales experience and chemical engineering background. - Implemented Hubspot service hub for a medium b2b supplier to solve logistics and customer claims (sounds bigger than it is, and we literally used only the free features of HS). - Good with computers, yet not a highly skilled programmer or developer. - Limited time to learn, 3hours/day top. Thanks!
OMG--OMG David this is gold for free...:) and I don't think you are a foul giving all this info ---- "what goes around comes around" . Cheers! I'll keep an eye on you :D
So if I want to get my Salesforce Admin Certification as quickly as possible, should I just go through that Trailmix or should I focus my time on the Trailhead badges you are suggesting? I want to get my admin cert the absolute quickest way possible... probably a silly question, but how should I do that?
I am one of those people that aren’t meant to be a developer. Everything is SO hard for me. Concepts just don’t sink in easily, but I don’t give up. So far it’s been working out well.
David K. Liu Well I made it to Salesforce Ranger and I just passed my admin certification. Getting ready to do two more. It’s funny.. I wasn’t making great money for having 3 kids and I remember all those nights and mornings wondering if it was worth it. Every once in awhile I would put my resume out there and I got a call.. when I did the phone interview I thought... at least this will be good interview experience. That went really well though.. to make a really long story shot. I got my first Salesforce job, not only that.. the company I currently worked for offered me 25k more to stay... I didn’t because I wanted to do only Salesforce. I am so happy I did this and I’m not stopping anytime soon.
Hi David great lesson, i'm gonna take salesforce seriously from now on and as you said let's meet next year as person and will chat on salesforce journeys.
Hello David!! your videos are awesome, thank you very much!!! One question for you: for getting the Sales, Service or Advanced admin certs, would you recoomend always paying for the courses that SF suggests? they are very expensive for me.. do you think that alternative courses would do it? like... udemy??
Love the content on this channel! Thank you for the insights. I'm curious if there are a healthy segment of remote consulting positions looking for Salesforce admins/devs?
David, as I understand it, every Salesforce admin test is different. If you fail the first test, you have no guarantee that you will get the same test twice nor do you have any way of taking your original test questions with you to study so could elaborate on what you said about failing the same test twice? Thanks.
Thank you for the trailmix! The amount of available resources is truly overwhelming, so I really appreciate that you've taken the time to lay out a clear path. Keep up the great work!
David, you are amazing for going through each and every badge for us. Please know we are forever grateful for your dedication and help you give us!
Thanks!!
I appreciate the effort you put into your Salesforce advise videos, David. They played a crucial role in solidifying my decision to start my journey with Salesforce. Before my accident two years ago, I was doing well, but since then, my mobility has been limited. After much contemplation between AWS and Salesforce, your videos helped me make a final decision. Thank you for your help and support. As you said, I will start with the Admin path.
All the best Wittus 😁
@@dvdkliu Thx. Which exam should I prepare first as a new coming?
I don't think I've ever seen someone more likeable on UA-cam. I had to sub!!
Same
I know this video is a year old, but your message is upbeat and positive and truly appreciated. I have been wanting to jump into this niche and you just made me want to go heads first. 47 years old but never to old to do something that interests me.
Go get em buddy 👊👊
thank you Liu such a beautiful read.Just started learning this monday looking forward to getting most done by december
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! I've been searching for Salesforce advice as I have no prior experience in Salesforce and feel overwhelmed by the number of resources!
THANK YOU for giving me the starting place because I know I can learn this!
You got this!!!
@David. Thanks, Brother. I appreciate the support. Back to the books (online, of course)!!! Ohana.
Every Time i get depressed by thinking (whether i will get a job,how will i get experience, programming toughness, being late for programming carrer) while studying. I watch your videos again n again , to get a GOD level motivation
You got this Parag!
Thank you! This was a great video. The content is not only educational but funny to boot. The bit about how hard it is to fail the same multiple-choice exam five times cracked me up!
Something about him, makes him the best UA-cam blogger I’ve watched.
Thanks lol
just starting and am like wow. You are a great teacher man
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Mr. David, thanks for letting me know Salesforce system. I expect that those to be related to my future job action.
Thank you so much for providing others your knowledge and saving us huge amounts of time by focusing on the areas which are most utilized by businesses.
Thank you for this video. It will give clear direction to get into Salesforce.
This video is just what I was looking for!! I'm an architect (as in buildings, not software) but lost my job cause of covid. Now I'm switching gears and jumping to learn salesforce, and this video (and your trail mix) is really great help. I really really appreciate it. Thank you!!
Cheers!!!
David is the man! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you so much for this video! I have been wanting to make a career change and this video solidified my decision! I appreciate you sharing your content.
I stumbled on your page somehow after finally watching all the "Best brownie recipe" videos on youtube. At this point, I knew I had finally masted the "procrastination Superbadge". My days at work have been reduced due to Covid and I've been struggling to give myself some structure to investing in myself. I've been working through Trailhead slowly but just picking at it really because as you said, there is just so much content available.
The biggest struggle I've found is getting real-world advice and guidance on how to progress to achieving an Admin Certification. The trailhead you've created looks like exactly what I'm after. The 100+hr's of modules which will likely take me 200hr hours feel manageable because I think it will give me an understanding of Salesforce, and also where I need to go next.
Thanks for creating this, hopefully, it doesn't lead to me hating you forever creating this Trailhead that I'm about to start.
David, you are an INSPIRATION! It is amazing that anytime after I see one of your videos, I feel more motivated and more in love with Salesforce! From a person with 0 technical background or Salesforce working experience, I can say that the first certification is the hardest one. You need a looot of motivation, hard work and focus in order to reach the finish line. Rest of the certifications will come naturally, in time. Also, I think that getting the Admin certification firstly is the foundation for a successful Salesforce professional. All the best and keep up the great work!
Thank you so much, David. Your videos are really inspirational and so simply explained. Deeply appreciate the guidance!
Thanks!!
Im newbie on salesforce, I am coming from mulesoft and ESB tech. Thanks a lot to reduce the bagdes in order I can change my techonology stach easily and quickly. Thanks!!!
Cool Advice! Thank you. I would say the first months is the difficult one. In my example, I gathering information from everywhere and join into each meetup and related source which is mentioned "Salesforce" keyword.
After figuring out I create my own path.
As well as certs, I took my 1st admin in 3 months. But now I have more stronger feeling of what to do, and keep doing that.
Hi David , can you please guide me data architect exam. Im preparing same also following trailhead.
Thank you so much David for your insights and advice! Our company just recently signed a partnership with Salesforce and have been driving the use of trailhead...but that’s about it. It’s like “Salesforce is going to do great things so go forth and learn, learn and learn.” But for people like me, it’s “where do I even begin? It is so exciting yet so overwhelming at the same time.”
This video helped simplify the process so so much and I’m so happy I found it.😄
Thank you for sharing and sending you a digital high five for your amazing work🖐
I just discovered your channel and really appreciate your content. Your delivery is also very entertaining! Looking forward to watching more videos.
Thanks!!!!!
Im psyched watching this video! Awesome video.
Thanks!
This is amazing 🤩 thank you so very much David
Great video - you make my Sunday happy with those information. I just will keep my study in Salesforce but with more directions with your video.Thanks a lot !
Great !
This video helped me a lot to know salesforce,
I am learning salesforce from next week for my next 10years career,
feel lucky to see this video before I start to learn it.
Cheers!!!
Amaziiiiiing thank you!! Have my first Interview tomorrow for Salesforce. Was nervous but you made my day.🤓
How did the interview go? Did you get your first Salesforce job yet?
@@ucbx no i did not, they even did not send me an email like unfortunately bla bla bla.
Welcome to real world for me!
This is one of the best guidance videos. Seriously you have made a clear path to follow. I'll definitely start doing the trailheads and tysm for motivating us and showing the correct path.
@@dvdkliu tysm for replying to my comment!! I didn't expected u will reply 🙏
I am your huge fan😇
Trailhead helps but it is also good if you have an actual project and practice it on live environment. It is also good to fail and learn from those mistakes.
David, thanks! 👏
I can tell you that I've spent a considerable amount of my free time giving out free advice to complete strangers on the internet. Hi, I'm Ned, and I'm trying to learn SalesForce to get a relevant job and break into the IT industry!
Thanks for providing this guided path
Your advices are really helpful. Thanks a lot!
Glad it is helpful for you!!
Thanks David, what you are doing is amazing. Sharing the knowledge that too humbly. God Bless You.
Amazing top quality advice and information. Your whole channel is dope. Thanks and God bless 🙏
Thank you Thomas!!
You are an amazing mentor! I learned a lot about not only how to learn about salesforce but also how to persuade people to listen to you and believe in you -A skill I can use for my audience to change lifestyle to get healthy...I am a lifestyle change coach and trying to influence the change.....What is one key to success you think is helpful to you in building this channel?
Thx! For me I feel I have a mission with this channel - which helps give me great focus!
Hi David Im from Bolivia.... i think in my country there are a few organization that has implement Salesforce yet.... thnks for this video
this motivates me to learn more about Salesforce and to be one step ahead when Salesforce is better known in Latin America.
You are the best David ... And I like your energy. Yes I am starting Salesforce now 😊😊😊
Thank you welcome!!!
wow thanks for creating the trailmix really appreciate your efforts on this.
David your an inspiration! Just the content you provide, I really appreciate it.
David K. Liu legend has responded!
Great info. You’ve got a new sub
This is super motivating and encouraging! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and distilling your experiences into these gold nuggets!! I'm getting furloughed from my beloved job soon; learning on Trailhead feels like another door might open. Fingers crossed! Thanks again for your top-notch uploads!!
You are a god-sent. Thank you so much!
Thank you David for the guidance. One of the best videos in your channel. Loved it. Will try to get 5 certifications. Also, I am putting my 2% every time whenever I write an email or whenever I do something and it has brought me good results. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and love you!!!!!
On another note, it’s easy to see why you work for Google. You are a cool dude and you love what you do. Keep doing these, they are great and not too many people on UA-cam are doing it yet.
David, I just got started in Salesforce last week and really want to learn and get the certifications. I’ve been in a non IT background all my career and want to advance. Your videos and advice are a real inspirations and a boon to all budding Salesforce admins. Thanks a ton for being humble and sharing this valuable information to inspire others to do as well as you’re doing! 👏🏼
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Hello Sandeep bro did you get job in salesforce?? If yes share me your experience..
Hey how are things now? I'm where you are three years ago
Thanks David! You answered so many queries I had in mind...
Eagerly waiting for the next one🙂
Best one yet David! I really liked the inspirational yet grounding ending. Cheers mate :)
Thank you so much for the valuable information. I am a new bee to the SF ecosystem. This pushed me to the next level!
Great vid man
legend!!!
@Captain Sinbad “Watches one David K. Liu video”
Great video! I've watched a number of your videos and also took a course of yours in PluralSight. Keep up the great work, man!!
Thank you Karey 😁😁😁
Thank you for the motivation, I will definitely complete my Salesforce Admin Certifications this year.
God bless you for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏻👏🏻👌🏼😊
Thank you so much David
Thank you David!
I believe work experience is pretty important the first day I was given a test class for a trigger handler. The trigger handler was 1000+ lines big I needed to just get the code coverage from 76-80%.
It took me two weeks.
If I have to do a similar thing two months later it would take me 2-3 hours tops.
A year later…. I’m hoping your still around. Appreciate your effort ❤️
HI!!!!!
Thanks David. You have cleared so many doubt.
Good stuff man! Very Useful
Wonderful videos.... Please keep making such video.
Thanks!
Amazing contribution from an expert Salesforce person. Thank You 😊
Thanks, David for all this valuable information.
Great video! Thank you David.
Thx!
Thank you so much David. This is really eye opening. I am going to invest more time wisely!
Awesome info. Need more such videos from u David. Thanks 🙏
Thank you David!
You're videos really helping me a lot. 👍
I will be a Salesforce developer before the end of the year!
Two days to go, did you become a developer?
@@innocentrage1 no. Still studying. Covid threw a monkey wrench in my plans. But I’m not giving up!
@@willa.3416 Awwr, you're inspiring me.
Keep it up 🤍 i have done two weeks bootcamp for admi exam and I feel comfortable 80% to do it 😀, 7 hours a day though 😅
@Mr. Chocolate it’s like any news thing. It’s gonna be challenging. You just gotta commit.
OMG you are the man. Thanks for the knowledge and the laughs!
Thanks for your advice! Question though, is the 'Most important badges' trailmix meant for studying for the first administrator's badge?
This was so helpful I am on a boot camp at the moment which is extremely helpful for me because I am already in a community with people like me. but my problem is that I don't live in the US I live in turkey and thats why it's very hard to find jobs even in EU countries closer to where I live. Could you make a video about how can non-US citizens actually land a job in the IT sector in the US?
You are awesome David.. a great inspiration to me.. hats off to you..
This is really helpful! Thank you!
Cheers!
Another amazing video! Thanks so much!
I'm switching from construction where I own my own business. I'm starting on trailhead and unsure where to start.
Any tips to other videos directed to someone like myself please help! Ty for all your help!
Ok I'm on board...we have this at work. I want to learn more than being an end user.
Welcome !!!
Man! this is a really fresh, yet deep video for a complex topic like salesforce. Thanks a lot for your time giving free advice online! Really thanks. I myself just found your video after a couple of hours Getting Started with Trailhead and realizing that even though they have so many trails it's very hard to build a learning path of my own that makes sense with my time availability and SF experience (virtually 0). If I may be so bold as to ask for some of your advice for me, and hoping you ever get to read my comment, I would like to ask what do you suggest in terms of SF training or resources for a guy like me:
- B2B sales experience and chemical engineering background.
- Implemented Hubspot service hub for a medium b2b supplier to solve logistics and customer claims (sounds bigger than it is, and we literally used only the free features of HS).
- Good with computers, yet not a highly skilled programmer or developer.
- Limited time to learn, 3hours/day top.
Thanks!
OMG--OMG David this is gold for free...:) and I don't think you are a foul giving all this info ---- "what goes around comes around" . Cheers! I'll keep an eye on you :D
😋
So if I want to get my Salesforce Admin Certification as quickly as possible, should I just go through that Trailmix or should I focus my time on the Trailhead badges you are suggesting? I want to get my admin cert the absolute quickest way possible... probably a silly question, but how should I do that?
Hey David, thanks for the motivation. stuck with 2 certifications for a long time.
ayy thank u man again, definitely appreciate the info +motivational tips. hope yr doing good, nd much love to you
Thank you 😁😁😁
I am one of those people that aren’t meant to be a developer. Everything is SO hard for me. Concepts just don’t sink in easily, but I don’t give up. So far it’s been working out well.
David K. Liu
Well I made it to Salesforce Ranger and I just passed my admin certification. Getting ready to do two more. It’s funny.. I wasn’t making great money for having 3 kids and I remember all those nights and mornings wondering if it was worth it. Every once in awhile I would put my resume out there and I got a call.. when I did the phone interview I thought... at least this will be good interview experience. That went really well though.. to make a really long story shot. I got my first Salesforce job, not only that.. the company I currently worked for offered me 25k more to stay... I didn’t because I wanted to do only Salesforce. I am so happy I did this and I’m not stopping anytime soon.
@@Will-if7wp great story Will ! Good luck to you
You really made my day!! Thanks David :-)
He said “just 65%” but I was straight A student all through high school and college and I still found the exams challenging.
Probably because the questions are really poorly written, especially for certain exams (admin). You're probably smarter than 99% of us 🤣
Fantastic trainer with an awesome since of humor!
Great video, thanks!
Thanks!
Great content, thank you!
Hi David great lesson,
i'm gonna take salesforce seriously from now on and as you said let's meet next year as person and will chat on salesforce journeys.
Excellent video. Thank you so much for the inspiration. You rock.
Very good video to motivate newbies . thank you
Great Job! Your speach more like motivational :)
Hello David!! your videos are awesome, thank you very much!!! One question for you: for getting the Sales, Service or Advanced admin certs, would you recoomend always paying for the courses that SF suggests? they are very expensive for me.. do you think that alternative courses would do it? like... udemy??
Thank you David
Love the content on this channel! Thank you for the insights. I'm curious if there are a healthy segment of remote consulting positions looking for Salesforce admins/devs?
Devs yes, admins nearly non-existent
@@dvdkliu great! Thank you!
I came here to learn Salesforce, but subscribed because you are wearing a pitbull project tshirt, assuming you are an advocate for the breed. ✌️
Thanks for another great video David! Is it important to take notes while working on badges?
Great Stuff, David.
David, as I understand it, every Salesforce admin test is different. If you fail the first test, you have no guarantee that you will get the same test twice nor do you have any way of taking your original test questions with you to study so could elaborate on what you said about failing the same test twice? Thanks.
Generally true. There is a pool of questions it'll use. There is a high likelihood of overlap however and the overall categories are the same as well!