Salesforce & Financial Services Cloud data migration

Your data in Salesforce. Clean, complete, on time.

Redtail, Wealthbox, a legacy org, a spreadsheet nobody trusts: I’ve moved all of it into Salesforce, 100+ times in 20 years. Fixed fee. Reconciled to the record. And I’m the person 35,000 Salesforce professionals learn migration from.

You’ll leave knowing what it’ll take, what it’ll cost, and whether you need me at all. Sometimes you don’t.

20years in the Salesforce ecosystem
8xSalesforce certified, including Data Architect and Financial Services Cloud
100+Salesforce data migrations delivered
35,000+Salesforce professionals learning migration from me on YouTube
Who hires me

Acquiring a practice, moving to Financial Services Cloud, or a partner who needs someone to own the data?

Three services, one page. Pick the one that sounds like you.

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  • Acquirers: an acquired book lands in your Salesforce in about four weeks, fixed fee
  • FSC: households, relationships and financial accounts modeled before a record loads
  • Partners: a migration lead who slots into your implementation and hands over a clean org
Client work

What it looked like for other firms

WEALTH ADVISORY · NEWPORT BEACH, CA

~6 acquisitions a year

Each acquired practice arrived on Redtail with its own household logic and years of email archives. Now every acquisition lands in the same FSC data model on a predictable timeline.

MULTI-OFFICE FEE-ONLY RIA · INDIANA

A repeatable intake process for every acquisition

A nationally ranked fiduciary firm with about 30 years in practice and offices across the state. Each acquired practice’s client data lands fast and clean, with privacy preserved between offices and no duplicate records created against custodial data feeds.

SALESFORCE PREMIUM PARTNER · CINCINNATI, OH

Migration lead on a partner-led implementation

An Inc. 5000 Salesforce consultancy brought me in to own the data side of a client implementation: legacy records mapped, cleaned and loaded while their team stayed focused on the build.

The process

Same seven steps, every migration

Same order every time, which is most of why they finish on time.

01

Plan

Scope, timeline, who does what, what “done” means

02

Prepare

Sandbox setup and a brutally honest audit of the source data

03

Map

Every source field to a Salesforce field, or a documented decision not to

04

Transform

Clean, dedupe, restructure, strip the junk, shape it so AI tools can read it later

05

Load

Bulk API, parent-before-child order, no row-lock surprises

06

Validate

Record counts, spot checks, and a reconciliation your compliance team can file

07

Deploy

Delta load, cutover, and I stick around for the first week

Elise Pottinger, Salesforce data migration architect
Who you’d be working with

Hi, I’m Elise Pottinger

Twenty years in the Salesforce ecosystem as an admin, architect and business analyst, and somewhere along the way I became the person people call when the data migration is the scary part. I like the scary part. Untangling fifteen years of someone’s client notes and watching them land in the right household is a good day.

I teach exactly what I do to about 35,000 people on YouTube, so the next migration you run doesn’t have to involve me at all. Based in Louisville, Kentucky; working with clients everywhere.

AdministratorAdvanced AdministratorApp BuilderBusiness AnalystData ArchitectFinancial Services CloudSales Cloud ConsultantService Cloud Consultant
Rather do it yourself?

Good. I’ll show you how.

Salesforce Masterclass

The full data migration methodology, taught the way I actually do it: source analysis, mapping, transformation, load order, validation. Templates, not theory.

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Tutorials

Step-by-step Salesforce data migration tutorials from real projects: Data Loader, Flows, validation-rule bypasses, FSC, and connecting Claude to your sandboxes.

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Salesforce Masterclass on YouTube

Over-the-shoulder walkthroughs of real migration problems, Data Loader setups, FSC household building and the occasional rant about row locks.

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What it’ll take, what it’ll cost, and whether you even need me.