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Want to hear an exciting story? Meet Erik Fong. This former Apple employee ran for City Council in California in 2013. Not surprised yet? He now has a successful consultancy business built with zero marketing.  

The name is [Winged Eagles](https://www.wingedeagles.com/). The Seattle-based management consulting group is focused on the [Salesforce.com](https://www.salesforce.com) platform. What they do is helping other businesses to create and develop strategies using Salesforce as their single source of truth. Which implies a competitive advantage in data analytics, AI, productivity, and in general terms the evolution of a business.  

When Erik ran for City Council, a former Mayor gave him a tip: *“You have to meet at least 5,000 people before the day of the election.”* And that was precisely what he did. Fong lost the elections, but he won an amazing network that would help him set the basis for Winged Eagles. So far, all his business prospects came from that network. 


## From California to Seattle

The first challenge he faced was probably to get used to Seattle’s weather. Not an easy one. After that, he noticed he had valuable contacts isolated in different apps. Most of them spread between [iCloud and Google Contacts](https://www.piesync.com/google-contacts/icloud/). Naturally, the Salesforce consultant had to centralize them in Salesforce. 

> “Two reasons motivated me to search for a solution to sync my contacts. The first one was to organize my contacts and centralize them in Salesforce. The second one was to find the best syncing service to recommend to my clients. For that, I first had to try it myself,” says Erik. 

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When Erik started searching for a syncing solution, he tried a handful of similar tools. During his research, he detected two common problems: lack of customer support and slow syncing.

> “One of the things I love about PieSync is that when I had a problem I used the customer support chat and my problem was solved in less than 5 minutes. It’s also a very fast sync. Head and shoulders above any other tool I tried,” says Erik.

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This is how his current connection between Google Contacts, Salesforce, and iCloud looks like: 

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After a quick configuration, he relies on the fact that everything is working automatically:

> “PieSync does everything that I need in the background. I don’t need to log into Salesforce and then be frustrated if I forgot to add something. After the setup there’s no need for any manual labor,” says Erik. 

## “A trustworthy tool”

Another advantage of Fong’s integration is the possibility to see how his contacts are actually syncing in real time. Thanks to the manual sync button in PieSync’s dashboard, if he can keep track of the contacts he is updating in each app. “With similar tools, you just have to sit down and wait for the sync to happen. With PieSync I can actually see what’s going on between Salesforce and my other apps,” says Erik. 

But the best benefit for Erik is trust.

> “It takes a long time to find a piece of software that you can trust with your data. PieSync is just that, trustworthy. I recommend PieSync to basically all my clients,” says Erik.


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# Salesforce iCloud 2-way contacts sync

Apple fans will be happy about this one! Get your iCloud contacts synced into Salesforce. You’ll have access to all your leads and customer data when you need it most. Best of all - no more data entry! Everything is automatically synced into Salesforce for you (and vice versa if you wish!)

PieSync enables you to have your contact or lead information in all your devices and across your software stack. If you are using iCloud and Salesforce you can create personalized workflows between these apps with a 5-minute setup. 

Erik Fong, Principal Consultant at [Winged Eagles](https://www.wingedeagles.com/) and former employee at Apple, shared with us his experience with PieSync:

> “PieSync does everything that I need in the background. I don’t need to log into Salesforce and then be frustrated if I forgot to add something. After the setup there’s no need for any manual labor (...) It takes a long time to find a piece of software that you can trust with your data. PieSync is just that, trustworthy. I recommend PieSync to basically all my clients.”

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## 5 Steps to make your life easier: 

### 1. Select your apps

On the PieSync dashboard, choose Salesforce and iCloud and authorize your apps. iCloud needs to have a specific app-generated password created in order for you to use PieSync. Follow the link on the pop-up in order to generate one.

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### 2. Select the type of contact you want to sync 

For Salesforce, you can choose to sync leads or regular contacts: 

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### 3. Configure your Sync

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The rules for a two-way sync are already set up for you. They read __IF a contact is in iCloud THEN sync the contact between iCloud and Salesforce. And IF a contact is in Salesforce THEN sync the contact between Salesforce and iCloud.__

### 4. Choose which contacts to sync

Now you might want to just have your own contacts from Salesforce in your iCloud contacts. In this case, make the second as follows:

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__IF a contact is in Salesforce and Owned by Me THEN sync the contact between iCloud and Salesforce.__


### 5. Map your custom fields

You can also sync custom fields, in this example, we’re syncing the “Department” field in iCloud with the “Department” field in Salesforce.

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## Check how it works: 

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## About iCloud
With Apple's [iCloud](https://www.icloud.com/), you'll always have up-to-date versions of all your photos, notes, documents, contact lists, and more. The service keeps all your devices in sync, allowing you to share information between your computer and other mobile devices at home or office. 

Now you can sync iCloud with these apps:  

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## Benefits of Using PieSync

#### No more Data Entry Errors
PieSync syncs all your contacts 2-ways across your favorite cloud apps, so you only have to enter customer data once. Because you only have to enter your data once, you’ll dramatically decrease manual errors. How’s that for clean data?

#### No more import/export of your contacts
Most cloud apps work with import/export functions, which means you have to periodically remember to update your cloud apps with new data. With PieSync, you no longer have to spend hours with manual labor. PieSync automatically transfers your data, and any updates you make, in real-time, across all your connected cloud apps.

#### Sync changes in your favorite cloud apps and iCloud in real-time
This saves you from having to manually go through your database to find a contact to update. When you add a new contact, it would automatically sync with your other apps.  

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#### Share accurate customer information across the different departments of your company.

Are your marketing, sales and customer service teams working from separate platforms in data silos? Data silos are inefficient and make communication between your teams and customers difficult. 

Nothing frustrates customers more than having to repeat their story each time they have contact with your company. Which is why you need to sync your data silos together so your teams can have a 360° overview on every customer, at all times. 

With your sales, marketing and customer care platforms all synced together, you’ll turn the average customer into brand advocates.  

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### Related Article: [ Top 5 Problems with Big Data (and how to solve them)](http://blog.piesync.com/problems-with-big-data/?utm_source=launch&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=icloud&utm_content=5problemsdata)

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## How is PieSync different from Zapier?

Zapier is great for one-way data pushes.  If you’re using webforms on your website and you want to push that data to your CRM, Zapier is what you need. 

It is a trigger based app and will only operate when a trigger is pulled, pushing all the data to another database. But in this process, Zapier won’t check if an update is necessary and it won’t sync data. 

If you try to set up a “sync” with Zapier, you’re taking a very high risk of your data being over-written. Their app isn’t built for syncing data, it’s built for, well, zapping data. So it is good for one-time data pushes. 

PieSync checks to see if an update is needed and then it syncs the new data. You can also choose which app is your “source of truth” so you won’t accidentally sync the incorrect information. PieSync is great for when you want to continuously sync correct, up to date, error free information across your cloud apps.

## Learn how to create your connection

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You can always visit our [Support Center](http://help.piesync.com/connector-apps/i-cloud) to get extra information about this connection. 
   
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With Apple's iCloud, you'll always have up-to-date versions of all your photos, notes, documents, contact lists, and more. The service keeps all your devices in sync, allowing you to share information between your computer and other mobile devices at home or office. 

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With Apple's iCloud, you'll always have up-to-date versions of all your photos, notes, documents, contact lists, and more. The service keeps all your devices in sync, allowing you to share information between your computer and other mobile devices at home or office.


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