On May 11, 2021, Salesforce and Pardot users experienced a Salesforce outage related to a domain name service (DNS) issue. Salesforce was down for about four hours because of an “emergency break fix” that wasn’t successful.
The Salesforce outage affected Pardot. However, Pardot remained up and running even if marketers couldn’t log in to their specific instances.
Author: Mike Creuzer
I blur the edges of what Pardot can do using the API and custom integrations
One of the Pardot Marketing experts at Sercante (theSpotForPardot.com), focusing on the 'hard' bits of Pardot and Salesforce. I bend Pardot to my will and integrate it with other tools.
I connect the massive marcom stack together in useful ways.
My hammer is being a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack developer yet I speak the lingo and operate with Sales and Marketing teams.
I am a chronic tinkerer and fixer and blend all the hobbies together.
Considerations for Integrating Pardot + Sitecore
Pardot and Sitecore
Sitecore is a powerful Website Content Management System. We can use Sitecore and Pardot together to great effect. There are a few Sitecore capabilities which we will want to use to compliment Pardot, and a few features we want to use in conjunction with Pardot.
Continue reading Considerations for Integrating Pardot + Sitecore
Pushing Pardot: How to use Dynamic Content With More Than 25 Options
BY MIKE CREUZER and ROB WALTER
Pardot Dynamic Content is great, but only if you need fewer than 25 variations for a piece of content.
“MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE VARIATIONS?”
…you might be thinking.
“Perhaps you need to be more specific with your audience segmentation!”
…you might say.
You might be right.
But for global marketing operations teams, 25 variations can be a vexing limitation if they want to keep things automated. Continue reading Pushing Pardot: How to use Dynamic Content With More Than 25 Options
Behind the Pardot Curtain: New API Methods Are Here!
BY MIKE CREUZER
As one of the chief “Pardot API Geeks” here at Sercante (no, it’s not a real title, but I think it really should be) I’m really excited about two big changes to the Pardot API – one of which was confirmed on this week’s Pardot Product Roadmap webinar.
Wait, you don’t know what you can do with the Pardot API? Then you must’ve missed this post. I’ll forgive you if you open it a new tab and read it later. Continue reading Behind the Pardot Curtain: New API Methods Are Here!
The Barracuda Firewall Frenzy & How It’s Impacting Pardot Bounce Rates
BY JOANNA ROTTER & MIKE CREUZER
This week, you may have noticed lower-than-average email deliverability from your Pardot email sends.
That’s probably because of the Barracuda Email Firewall issue that occurred this week, which incorrectly blocked more IPs than usual from many email vendors — including Pardot. Continue reading The Barracuda Firewall Frenzy & How It’s Impacting Pardot Bounce Rates
