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Fight Email Marketing Fatigue: Pardot Recency and Frequency Dynamic Lists

Erin Duncan

Fight Email Marketing Fatigue: Pardot Recency and Frequency Dynamic Lists

With the holidays coming up, I can bet all of our inboxes are overflowing with marketing emails letting us know about can’t-miss deals, the best gifts, order before X date to get your gifts in time or you will disappoint your entire family (ok maybe not that aggressive, but you get it).  I can also […]
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Pardot Marketing Data Sharing Rules: Prevent Duplicates in Salesforce

Mike Morris

Pardot Marketing Data Sharing Rules: Prevent Duplicates in Salesforce

You’re a responsible marketer and adhere to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) Permission-Based Marketing Policy. You’ve enabled Marketing Data Sharing (MDS) rules to ensure that prospects who have not opted-in are not syncing to Pardot. Now you get a call from your Salesforce Admin about Pardot creating duplicates in Salesforce. In this post, […]
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Uncover Marketing Magic with Pardot Custom Redirects

Dominique Beaudin

Uncover Marketing Magic with Pardot Custom Redirects

The marketing magician has many tricks in the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) toolkit. One of those magical tools is the Pardot custom redirect.  What makes a Pardot custom redirect special? It allows you to segment and get the right data at the right time as your customers and potential customers interact with your marketing […]
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Unified Analytics: Find Reports and Dashboards Faster in Analytics Home

Dominique Beaudin

Unified Analytics: Find Reports and Dashboards Faster in Analytics Home

If you’re like me, you hate spending half your life looking for things that have been filed already. I have reports in CRM Analytics and Salesforce, and it feels like a waste of time to have to look in two places.  I also hate having to “guess” what previous reports/ dashboard might already exist before […]
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Sales Cloud 101 for Pardot Marketers

Cara Weese

Sales Cloud 101 for Pardot Marketers

As Marketing Cloud continues to grow and integrate more and more with Salesforce, the good old days of marketers working in silos within Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) are long past due. Today, modern marketers are being asked to manage both the marketing operations and Salesforce, requiring a multifaceted skill set. It can be difficult […]
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Marketing Cloud Personalization: 3 Use Cases and Implementation Tips

Sarah Smith

Marketing Cloud Personalization: 3 Use Cases and Implementation Tips

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement has so many complex ways to create personalized experiences for the audiences the platform touches. And if you haven’t gathered from the title, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization (formerly Interaction Studio… RIP Interaction Studio) is a great way to level up your personalization game. This is for the pros who have long […]
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Podcast Preview: NextThingNow with Guest Andrea Tarrell

We all know constant changes are inevitable in the realm of marketing technology. So, having a pulse on what’s coming and what we know to be true is essential.  ICYMI – Sercante Founder and CEO Andrea Tarrell recently joined the UpperRight team on the NextThingNow podcast to share her thoughts on the future of MarTech […]
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Mike Morris

Don’t Let Good Leads Go Bad in Salesforce Queues

Many organizations assign Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) prospects who are not yet sales ready to a “Cold” leads queue in Salesforce so data syncs and is available for reporting. The problem is that Pardot can’t reassign these leads once they “score up” and many get stuck in the cold leads queue in perpetuity. In […]
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How to Choose a Salesforce Marketing Reporting Tool

Dominique Beaudin

How to Choose a Salesforce Marketing Reporting Tool

Not sure which Salesforce marketing reporting tool is the best for showing the results of your campaigns?  With so many to choose from between Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot), and CRM Analytics, it can be difficult to nail down what reporting tool is the best fit for you.  While all the tools described […]
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Salesforce Winter ‘23 Release: Platform Highlights for Marketers

Jordyn Jaffer

Salesforce Winter ‘23 Release: Platform Highlights for Marketers

The Salesforce Winter ’23 Release Notes are out, and they include important features for marketers who are on the Salesforce platform.  We get three major releases from Salesforce each year — Spring, Summer and Winter. Each Salesforce release includes upgrades and enhancements that affect Salesforce orgs in different ways.  So, if you’re using and managing […]
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