Getting Started with Salesforce

New to Salesforce Technology?  Don’t know where to start?

Here are some steps to get started with Salesforce.

Pre-requisite:

1. Knowing about Salesforce and how it works(Rough Idea)
2. Free Developer Account (For practicing purpose)
3. Acquaintance with OOPS Concepts

Firstly, try learning about Salesforce CRM which include all “point n click” features of salesforce.

After you get confident enough in Salesforce CRM, then jump into development in Salesforce using Apex (business logic) and visualforce (User Interface).

Books to refer for knowing more about Salesforce CRM:

1. Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook by Paul Goodey.  
2. Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook by Paul Goodey.
3. Force.com Workbook.

Books to refer for learning Salesforce development:

1. Development With force.com Platform
2. Apex Workbook
3. Visualforce workbook
4.  Apex study Guide
5.  Visualforce study Guide
6.  Force.com Developer Handbook (Especially for Dev401 certification)
7.   Last but never the least Salesforce Help.

There are lots and lots of videos by Salesforce (Dreamforce video) to explain each topic elaborately. There are training program videos specifically for Certification Dev401 and Dev501.

I would like to share few more channel were I found some well explained video’s on Salesforce. 

1. Shellblack.com,LLC
2. Salesforce

Subscribe to above YouTube channel and enjoy learning Salesforce in more effective way.

Keep updating your knowledge by learning about the features added in each release.

Good luck.