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Congratulations to the 2024 Salesforce Marketing Champions! We are honored and excited that some of our own Sercante dragons were selected as part of this prestigious group. Let’s get...
During the Marketing & Commerce Keynote at Dreamforce 2024, Salesforce announced the latest edition of Marketing Cloud built on Data Cloud — Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition! Expected to be...
The Salesforce Winter ‘25 Release Notes are out! Let’s dive into what’s new in the Winter ’25 Release for Marketing Cloud Growth Edition. Streamlined Setup First things first. Salesforce...
The Salesforce Winter ‘25 release notes are out! Let’s dive into Winter ’25 highlights and what Account Engagement (f.k.a. Pardot) users can expect to see come October. Duplicate Management!...
In February 2024, Salesforce released Marketing Cloud Growth Edition, its first marketing automation platform built fully on the Einstein 1 Platform (a.k.a. “On Core”). Marketing Cloud Growth Edition has...
Salesforce Summer ‘24 release notes are out! Let’s dive into the latest features Account Engagement marketers need to know about. Send Operational Emails with Engagement Studio Marketers can now...
Even though Marketing Cloud Growth Edition just launched in February, it’s already receiving a ton of new features as part of the Salesforce Summer ‘24 release! I feel like...
As part of the Winter ‘24 release, Account Engagement users gained the ability to copy assets to and from Account Engagement Sandboxes. This allows marketers to test automations and...
Engagement Studio Programs (ESPs) are key for nurturing prospects until they are ready to send over to your sales team. But have you ever thought about A/B testing in...
Marketing Cloud Growth Edition builders enable marketers to build beautiful landing pages and forms with ease. The builders have a robust set of styling and functionality options that allow...
Since the announcement of Marketing Cloud Growth Edition on February 20th, we’ve been digging into the features of this new product as well as listening closely to the community’s...
Einstein Assistant is the latest AI functionality for Account Engagement. With the Spring ‘24 release, Account Engagement Advanced and Premium editions can utilize generative AI when creating marketing assets....
Earlier today, Salesforce announced the release of Marketing Cloud Growth Edition. This innovative new product is another option for marketing automation built natively on the Salesforce platform and comes...
Salesforce Starter was unveiled in August 2023 as an easy way for small-medium businesses (SMBs) to get started with Salesforce CRM. Historically, SMBs have found CRM systems to be...
As your business grows, so does your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement org. And that’s a good thing. Inevitably you’ll reach a point where your org is stretched too thin. ...
Salesforce Campaign Record Types are a great feature to employ when you have varying page layouts, required fields, Campaign processes, or teams for different types of Campaigns. However, often...
Salesforce Spring ‘24 release notes are out! Here are the most important features coming to Account Engagement that marketers should know about. Einstein Assistant More AI functionality is coming...
Recently I was perusing the Salesforce IdeaExchange for interesting features to upvote and came across a common issue with over 4k upvotes, “Automate contact owner update when account owner...
A Campaign Member’s First Associated Date records the date a Lead/Contact became a member of a Salesforce Campaign, and it’s a great metric to use in your reporting. First...
One of the great things about Account Engagement is that the same fields can be used over and over again for different interactions while keeping the full history of...
Account Engagement (fka Pardot) Scoring Categories and Lightning Builders are two great features to amp up your marketing and segmentation efforts, but they don’t exactly connect like typical Account...
Salesforce winter ‘24 release notes are out! Here are the most important features coming to Account Engagement that marketers should know about. Winter ’24 Highlights for Marketers Highlight #1...
Adobe’s Marketo and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (f.k.a. Pardot) are two of the most common marketing automation platforms I’ve worked with in my career as a marketer. When migrating...
It’s here! It’s finally here! It’s the Account Engagement Business Unit Bulk Asset Copy Flow. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (f.k.a. Pardot) Business Units have become my niche over the...
Account Engagement (Pardot) Optimizer BETA was released with the Spring ‘23 new features, but it has become “Generally Available” as of the Summer ‘23 release. This new feature promises...
The Salesforce Summer ’23 Release Notes are out and we’ve been combing through them to see how these changes will affect our clients and readers. This post includes what...
The Salesforce Spring ’23 Release Notes are out and we’ve been combing through them to see how these changes will affect our clients and readers. In this blog post,...
The Pardot WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor Icon Glossary saved me SO much time and energy when I was first learning how to build email...
Pardot automation rules are a great way to set repeatable processes in motion and save yourself from repetitive admin tasks. Most Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) users employ automation...
When it comes to email marketing, creating beautiful emails with riveting content is only half the battle. Sending emails to the right prospects at the right time is just...
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...
Dynamic lists are by far my favorite Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) automation tool. These “smart” lists automatically update and can be used for everything from Recipient and Suppression...
Summer ’23 Release Update: With this release, Salesforce is re-allowing the Account Engagement Opt-Out field to be set to “Use Most Recently Updated”. However, We’ll leave this blog post...
Queue Sarah McLachlan’s “I will remember you,” because the Pardot Classic App in Salesforce is officially retiring on Monday, October 17, 2022. Remain calm! The retirement of the Pardot...
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...
Nothing is more frustrating than when you experience a slowdown in your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) org. I just need this one Dynamic List to run, why is...
Balancing all the emails your teams want to send to Prospects versus how many emails the Prospects want to receive is difficult. Email your Prospects too often and they...
I have a rather embarrassing story from my pre-Einstein campaign reporting days. When I started out as a Salesforce admin (i.e. I got told I was the new admin...
I’ll admit, I’ve been neglecting looking into Einstein for Pardot (us admins have enough to do!). And I was somehow under the impression Einstein for Pardot came with an...
As a Pardot admin, I try to stay up to date on all the new features and functionality coming to the Pardot platform. Some new features are announced way...
I’ve seen a lot of information about implementing the new Lightning Email Builder, but I wanted to get into the nitty gritty details of how to build Lightning Email...
The Pardot Winter’ 22 release includes a new way to add content to emails you create using the email content builder in Pardot Lightning. Custom components allow marketers to...
In the Salesforce Winter ’22 release, Pardot launched the new drag-and-drop Landing Page builder, which allows users to create natively responsive landing pages and control when pages are published...
The Salesforce Winter ‘22 release made the Pardot Prospect Mailability upgrade permanent for all orgs. And it also introduced four new user abilities that allow for more control over...
Pardot is delivering a whole new way to leverage your prospect data in the Salesforce Winter ‘22 release. Similar to webhooks, the new Pardot External Activities feature allows users...
Campaign naming conventions are a must have. They keep your campaigns organized, improve reporting, and provide key information about the campaign at a glance. However, campaign naming conventions can...
Pardot announced some big prospect mailability changes in their Summer ‘21 release, and those changes are becoming permanent for everyone with the Winter ‘22 release. So, let’s break down...
Spam and junk data is the bane of my Pardot Admin existence. Nothing irks me more than seeing sales was notified of a form fill from [email protected], or that...
Incorporating dynamic content and variable tags is an excellent way to personalize your emails, forms, and landing pages. But viewing where dynamic content and variable tags are in use...
Implementing Pardot Business Units (PBUs) is like putting together a very intricate puzzle where you have to analyze each piece before putting it into place. There are a lot...
Wait, what is Marketing Data Sharing?!? If you are not familiar with Marketing Data Sharing, it essentially allows you to restrict which leads, contacts, opportunities, and/or custom objects are...
In this post I’ll cover all the considerations and options you have when upgrading your pardot connector and help you squash those “this upgrade is irreversible” anxieties.
Before we dig into the meat of this post and some cool ways you can personalize your marketing efforts with Pardot Advanced Dynamic Content, let’s take a step back...
Have you updated your scoring & grading recently? This is one of the most impactful and often underutilized areas of Pardot. In a recent blog post, I broke down...
Pardot Grading is a great way to identify prospects who meet your ideal buyer persona, but I find a lot of Pardot users neglect to set up their Grading...
A question I come across a lot in the Pardot and Salesforce Success Community is how to change Salesforce picklist values on a field synced with Pardot. A recent...
Junk data — it’s an inevitable problem in any Marketing Automation system. I’m talking about the [email protected] prospects of the world and other erroneous records that you just don’t...
The team at Sercante gets along pretty well most of the time. But there are two pervasive areas of contention that will get our crew fired up real quick:...
Are you trying to send something to opted out prospects in Pardot and wondering if operational emails could be a fit? This article breaks down everything you need to...
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