The MarDreamies awards celebrate solutions marketing and sales professionals built to reach their goals using Salesforce. These solutions are especially impressive because they each rose to solve a specific challenge while utilizing technology to automate their way to greatness.
Winners of the MarDreamin’ awards get bragging rights for their team and company, a sweet prize pack, and a fancy trophy to remind them how awesome they are every day. And the MarDreamin’ team announced the MarDreamies winners during the After-Party, which took place November 3, 2022.
Check out this blog post to get details about the full MarDreamin’ conference — including information about watching all session and keynote replay videos.
MarDreamies Award Categories
The MarDreamies awards are divided into five categories to honor the teams behind the magic:
- Personalization Perfection: Right-time, right-message marketing
- Social Impact: Creating positive change through Salesforce
- Grassroots Innovation: Scaling small business with Salesforce
- Extending Salesforce: API-driven solutions
- Best in Show
You can find all the details about what went into choosing the award winners in this blog post.
2022 MarDreamies Award Grassroots Innovation Category Winner: FTD Disorders Registry
Here’s the solution that won the MarDreamies 2022 award for the Grassroots Innovation category, which recognizes teams that scale small businesses with Salesforce marketing tools. The MarDreamies Grassroots Innovation award went to FTD Disorders Registry, which was submitted by Sherry Harlass.
What does the FTD Disorders Registry do?
The FTD Disorders Registry (FTDDR) is designed to bring together the frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) community. This means persons diagnosed, their family members, caregivers, and friends as well as clinicians, scientists, patient advocacy groups, and the pharma/biotech industry.
Their goal is to advance the science and move faster toward finding treatments and cures for this spectrum of disorders, which includes:
- behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD)
- primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
- progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
- corticobasal degeneration (CBD) / corticobasal syndrome (CBS)
- FTD with motor neuron disease (also called FTD-ALS)
A diagnosis of FTD can be isolating, so the registry was created to be a resource for patients, families, and caregivers. We provide one location to collect and share de-identified data, promote research studies, and notify potentially eligible research study candidates.
How does FTD Disorders Registry use Salesforce to reach their goals?
The team at FTD Disorders Registry is technologically savvy and uses the Salesforce platform in a unique way to support the company’s mission. Specifically, the marketing team uses Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) to communicate with their audience while tracking campaign success so they can adjust their strategy when needed.
The FTD Disorders Registry collects data to help researchers and direct prospects to clinical trials in the search for treatments and a cure for a group of rare diseases, for which there currently are none. Maintaining data fields is critical for reporting on these diseases. When the team updated their enrollment forms, they added several new data points in Salesforce. An intricate Pardot campaign was built to collect this additional data from participants who joined prior to the update.
Turning to the Salesforce Community for Help
Marketing teams who have limited resources know the importance of relationship building within technical communities to solve challenges that go beyond their teams’ expertise.
As a small (3 people when campaign was initiated) nonprofit registry, FTD Disorders Registry lacked time, people, and knowledge to set it up. Thanks to a Spring of Salesforce opportunity, we learned by doing guided by a wonderful (volunteer) expert (in another state).
Assets the team built for this campaign included:
- 1 layout template
- 2 landing pages
- 2 forms
- 1 Thank You landing page on their website
- 6 email templates
- 12 Engagement Studio Programs
- 17 email lists
- 4 completion actions
- 6 operational emails
- 2 Thank you emails
Salesforce is the data collection tool from which enrollment and survey information is collected. The team then generated an NIH Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), which allows the sharing of data specific to a research participant without exposing personally identifiable information. They used Pardot to collect missing data fields, because they also use it to generate lists from these same Salesforce fields to send targeted emails about research opportunities.
Small Teams Use Grassroots Innovation to Accomplish Big Goals
The team at FTD Disorders Registry truly encompasses the spirit of the grassroots innovation category. The small team wears many hats and uses community resources to figure things out when necessary.
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