How to Hire a Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant:
A Complete Guide

How to Hire a Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant

Look, In This Changing World, Everyone Has To Run Their Shop And Attract More And More Customers Towards Themselves But all these tasks are very tricky and very troublesome.

So Salesforce Commerce Cloud gives you the facility to hire a consultant who brings customers for you, explains new things to you, and tells you which things you can do easily.

If you are not able to do something, then that consultant will do all the work for you. But to do this work, you will have to read the entire article.

What Is Salesforce Commerce Cloud?

Salesforce Commerce Cloud is a system where you can create an online business, earn money, and manage it. Here you can do payment, customer information, product inventory, payment tracking, and many other things in one place. It is available for all business models like B2B, B2C, D2C.

But it is very complicated. If you want to grow your business, then you need a guru who can explain to you how Salesforce works and what are the features that can help you. So here Salesforce Commerce Cloud introduces a consultant.

A Salesforce Commerce Cloud consultant provides you with comprehensive hand-holding support.

Why You Need A Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant?

Everywhere there are experts in their respective fields and consultants who help people and tell them how their business can grow. How it can be taken forward. Salesforce Commerce Cloud consultants also do the same work, they help you from creating an online store to growing it.

  • Customisation: In Salesforce, you can completely customize your online store. You can change its branding tone, color, style, fonts, theme, and many other things to give a new look to the store which helps in changing the world. The consultant helps you in this.
  • Integration: It takes a lot of effort to organize and connect many things in one place, but the consultant does all the work for you. Whether it is making payments, managing the store’s data, creating products inventory, the consultant connects all the plugins in one place and creates a great store.
  • Optimization: Whether the shop is online or offline, no customer will visit it until it is optimized. In online, we have to optimize its speed, website responsiveness, mobile optimization, pixel optimization, theme, color, and many other aspects. And if we want to rank it then we have to do complete deep SEO. But if we do not know SEO then the consultant helps us and does all this work.

What Does A Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant Do?

The consultant does everything for you from sowing a seed to making it a tree. Let me tell you the whole thing.

  • Set Up Your Store: Starting your store, filling out its basic settings, and connecting your brand domain.
  • Design And Customisation: It transforms your store from ugly to a princess. Its design, coloring, fonts, themes, responsiveness makes your website look like a beautiful girl. Customers will be attracted by seeing the website. And they will bookmark your website.
  • Connect Your Systems: There are many tasks to be done on a website like accounting, customer service, payment, product inventory, product managing, query handling etc. So the consultant makes all the work simple by connecting all the plugins.
  • Make Your Store Faster: According to Google, if your store is taking more than 2.5 seconds to open anywhere, then it is bad and the customer will back out immediately and leave from there. That is why the consultant makes your website very fast so that any person sitting anywhere in the world can access your website quickly.
  • Help With Ongoing Support: After all the work is completed, the consultant helps you like your father.

What To Look For When You Hiring Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant

There are a lot of things we need to keep in mind before hiring our consultant, so let me tell you which ones.

  • Experience: Hire only consultant with 2+ years of experience because he has very good knowledge of problem solving.
  • Problem-Solving Skills: The consultant has to understand the problem very deeply, analyse it, and solve it quickly. He has to keep your store error free, so select the consultant only if he knows how to solve this problem properly.
  • Technical Knowledge: He should have complete knowledge of SFCC. How the code works, how to connect the plugin, how to collect payment, all these things should be useful. And he should also understand the technical terms.
  • Communication Skills: We need a consultant who can explain big technical terms easily and solve even very difficult problems easily.

Where To Find A Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant

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You will find consultant like water in different places, but let me tell you how to find the best and qualified consultant.

  • Salesforce Partner Network: There are 400+ qualified consultants with 5+ years of experience available in the Salesforce Partner Network. You can choose any one of them as per your choice and make your life and store better.
  • Freelance Website: Consultants are available on websites like Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer, Findwork etc. Those who work on project to project or monthly basis.
  • LinkedIn: You will find star-shining consultants only on LinkedIn, who are highly qualified, intelligent, and their problem-solving skills will be excellent. Reading reviews, seeing recommendations, viewing profiles, seeing followings, and then hiring them.
  • Referrals: You can find a good consultant by asking other business owners or friends.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant Hiring Fees

Different types of consultants charge different amounts. Some will demand money from you based on their experience, some on their high skills, and some on their good communications and solving problems.

  • Experience: More years of experience comes from their ability to solve problems quickly. They solve all problems in no time. If the consultant has worked for 2+ years then he will charge you based on his experience.
  • Location: Consultants from USA, UK, Canada will charge more money. But those from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal will charge less. Because the currency is high and the skill is also excellent.
  • Project Size: There is a saying, the more sugar you add, the better the taste, so the smaller the project, the lesser the money, and the bigger the project the more money. Consultant will charge you according to your store.

Many consultants charge a whole month’s salary upfront, some charge a day’s salary, and many work on an hourly basis, for example, $10 or $20 per hour.

Hire a Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant: Step By Step

  1. What You Need: First of all, if you have any store or technical problems, then we can proceed with them, because without a problem, there is no need for a consultant.
  2. Check Their Skill & Experience: Ask him how long it takes to solve your problem and how. Ask for his experience, take his biodata of previous projects, ask people how he works, understand him completely.
  3. Talk To Them Deeply: Even after having knowledge of everything, talk to him about getting a new store made, or adding a feature, or installing a plugin, or solving a technical problem. Understand his behavior, how he talks, how he can solve the problem.
  4. Read Reviews / Recommendation: Check his LinkedIn profile, see how he has worked before, if everything is perfect then make an agreement and get the terms accepted.
  5. Now Hire: If everything looks right then hire him on project basis or on hourly basis.

Conclusion

We have explained to you in detail Hire a Salesforce Commerce Cloud Consultant, how you can talk to him, explain your problem to him and build a great store. How to take consultancy charges, and how to accept the terms and conditions to find a great consultant. Read and understand everything carefully and only then hire a consultant.

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