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Sharif Shaalan
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Sharif Shaalan

Sharif Shaalan was first introduced to Salesforce as an end user in 2007. His range of experience, from a sales rep to technical architect, helped him successfully lead more than 100 implementations including projects that were showcased on the main stage at Dreamforce. In 2013, Sharif was chosen as a Salesforce MVP, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Sharif is a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences and has obtained more than 10 Salesforce certifications. He is the founder and CEO of Agile Cloud Consulting and continues to be an active Salesforce community contributor
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Timothy Royer
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Timothy Royer

Timothy Royer is the VP of Delivery at Agile Cloud Consulting and a Salesforce Certified Application Architect. Timothy began his Salesforce career in 2012 as an accidental administrator and has since participated in a number of implementations in a variety of roles. Timothy has experience as a Salesforce customer, a Salesforce partner, and as a member of the Salesforce.org professional services team.
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Working on forms with web-to-lead

Using web-to-lead is an easy way to generate HTML code that you can drop into your website to create a lead capture form. A lead capture form is generated outside of Salesforce but creates a lead directly in Salesforce when the form is saved. This can take the form of a Contact Us page on your website or any other form where you would want the information to be automatically added to Salesforce. Let's see how this is done:

  1. Click on the gear at the top of the page (see label 1 in the following screenshot) and choose Setup (see label 2 in the following screenshot):

Clicking on Setup in the preceding screenshot brings you to the administration section of Salesforce.

  1. Next, type web in the quick-find box (see label 1 in the following screenshot). This will bring up Web-to-Lead. Click on the link (see label 2 in the following screenshot), as in the following screenshot:

  2. Clicking on Web-to-Lead brings you to the Web-to-Lead settings page. On this...

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Sharif Shaalan

Sharif Shaalan was first introduced to Salesforce as an end user in 2007. His range of experience, from a sales rep to technical architect, helped him successfully lead more than 100 implementations including projects that were showcased on the main stage at Dreamforce. In 2013, Sharif was chosen as a Salesforce MVP, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Sharif is a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences and has obtained more than 10 Salesforce certifications. He is the founder and CEO of Agile Cloud Consulting and continues to be an active Salesforce community contributor
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Timothy Royer

Timothy Royer is the VP of Delivery at Agile Cloud Consulting and a Salesforce Certified Application Architect. Timothy began his Salesforce career in 2012 as an accidental administrator and has since participated in a number of implementations in a variety of roles. Timothy has experience as a Salesforce customer, a Salesforce partner, and as a member of the Salesforce.org professional services team.
Read more about Timothy Royer