Category
For the last seven years, I’ve been enamored by a marketing analytics tool (who among us hasn’t, I’m sure), Datorama, or Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence. MCI, as we’ve come...
Marketing Cloud on Core (also known as Marketing Cloud Growth or Advanced Edition) can now track how marketing efforts contribute to revenue! With the Spring ‘25 release, Salesforce introduced...
I must confess that I have built my fair share of boring unremarkable dashboards. It haunts me to think of all those past reports that are now collecting dust...
Autonomous AI is transforming the way organizations operate, and Salesforce’s Agentforce is at the forefront of this revolution. The product was made generally available by Salesforce in October 2024....
Student expectations today are vastly different than they were a decade ago. It’s causing technology leaders at the most successful educational institutions to rethink their data infrastructure and student...
I recently ran into a situation where a client needed to exclude select campaign types from being populated as the Primary Campaign Source field on opportunities. While this might...
Today, I’m excited to share how you can create a comprehensive Salesforce campaign hierarchy report that groups by grandparent, parent, and child levels (hierarchy) on the Campaign Object in...
Collecting customer feedback can be a transformative tool that propels your business to new heights, and getting customer feedback through Salesforce is possible through a few methods. Armed with...
It’s time for part two of our three-part series on getting the most out of your Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence, or Datorama, instance. Part 1 of the series touched...
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...
LinkedIn Lead Gen forms are definitely a favorite for those creating LinkedIn Ads, but what happens after people fill out the form? Ideally, you continue to market to LinkedIn...
We get it. With all the reporting tools out there it is hard to know which one is correct (or what a tool is named this week). In this...
Marketing Cloud Intelligence (formerly known, and forever in my heart, as Datorama) is a deep platform for marketers who have Salesforce in their tech stack. It’s a robust tool...
One of the biggest trouble spots I see with customers customizing in CRM Analytics and B2B Marketing Analytics (B2BMA) is using recipes and joins — specifically when it comes...
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...
Marketing Cloud Intelligence (previously known as Datorama) is a tool that offers many potential uses. But with those uses comes the uncertainty that you are using the tool to...
It’s very common for sales and marketing teams to leverage title-based “personas” to influence their activities. Knowing who you are speaking to can radically alter the message content, type,...
At 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday 9/13, the second full day of Dreamforce, I was sitting in front of my computer curious and a little anxious. I was using...
Deciding if you’re ready to team up with an analytics reporting partner or consultant can be a real head-scratcher. How do you even know if you are ready? But...
If you’re getting ready for a Salesforce Data Cloud implementation, then this post will get you ready for it. There are so many buzzwords with this particular Salesforce product...
The last blog post in this 3-part series may have left you wondering if you should buy or build a customer data platform (CDP). We’ll answer that question in...
Thinking about implementing a CDP? Understanding the main components of a customer data platform (CDP) is a good way to make the decision. A CDP is not a marketing...
A customer data platform (CDP) is a unified customer database where many different external and internal sources are collected, cleaned, and aggregated to build rich individual customer profiles. These...
Components are a hidden gem in the CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau) toolbox. You can re-use them in any dashboard and then centrally make changes that affect any dashboard where...
Hey there! So, I wanted to chat with you about something that can be a bit tricky but super important in the world of marketing: capturing UTM parameters. You...
Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) offers the opportunity for marketers to give their sales team the information they’ll want, notifications worth paying attention to, and truly actionable insights about...
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...
Contrary to the opinion of just about everybody in marketing, all your marketing leads are not “Hot” and the sales team is not lazy. The issue is that sales...
So you’ve spent hours gathering requirements, picking datasets and creating the most beautiful report the world has ever seen. And then, while presenting your amazing work to leadership you...
In our wonderful digital world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to track offline events and interactions with marketing and sales efforts. People still love sending gifts in the mail to...
Email marketers swim in constant data. While analytics often inform decision making, the flip side of that coin means your competitors also use data to do the same. To...
Looking for a way to view your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) data within Salesforce? Not fully satisfied with data you’re able to view in the Account Engagement Reports?...
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...
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...
How often do your Salesforce and marketing platform admins talk to each other? If you selected any of the above, you’re not alone. I’m here to tell you, no...
Sometimes the standard Campaign Influence models that come with Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) just don’t quite fit what you are looking to measure. We recently went through the...
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...
Salesforce and Pardot connected campaigns bridge two distinct campaign reporting functions into one powerful feature. Prior to 2019, Salesforce and Pardot campaigns were independent of each other. But with...
Salesforce has robust native reporting capabilities that come out of the box. But what happens when you need more? What CAN you do? This Salesforce native reporting overview will...
With Pardot B2B Marketing Analytics Plus, you are able to bring external data, use an intuitive and customizable dashboard, activate Discovery Stories, and take advantage of Einstein Prediction Builder....
In this blog, we will talk about data completeness, data hygiene, and data completeness KPIs to get you to have a better understanding and practice with Pardot B2BMA as...
The Salesforce Summer ‘22 Release is sending lots of love to CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) users in the form of updates and new features that make reporting work...
Getting marketing team access to your Salesforce org breaks down company siloes and can lead to enriched data you can use for things like Einstein campaign reporting. So, you...
Picture the scene… You’re using a custom amount field on your opportunities (or even multiple amount fields) in Salesforce. You notice that your Salesforce Campaign Influence reports are not...
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...
Looking for a way to capture lead source data from across pages on your website and pull that data into your CRM? Since we use Marketing Cloud Account Engagement...
Twice in the span of less than a week, two different clients had questions or issues related to Salesforce campaign activation. I had my fair share of questions and...
On October 14 2021, Google announced a replacement for Universal Analytics, which they’re calling Google Analytics 4 (GA4). You might be wondering, how does this impact our businesses’ use...
Creating a Salesforce marketing dashboard is an effective way to see how you are doing against your marketing targets. What channels are most effective for generating pipeline? How many...
Ever wonder how you can optimize real estate in your Salesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau) dashboard? A great option is using toggles. There are several types of toggles. You...
We marketers have pivoted our strategies to comply with GDPR in the past, but a recent court ruling may have us scrambling to change the way we use Google...
Ever wished you could facet, filter and do other magic on a dataset that also had aggregated data from a summary table in Tableau CRM? There is a way!...
If you’re new to using Salesforce campaigns, then this blog post is the perfect starting point. Use these 5 tips to make your life easier as you dip your...
Are you embarking down the Pardot Business Unit (PBU) path with your org? There are a number of considerations when choosing if multiple business units are right for you....
In September 2021, Apple privacy changes will start having a big impact on Pardot email marketing reporting metrics. Are you ready to pivot your reporting strategy in response to...
Integrating Pardot with Zoom webinars allows you to not only collect prospect activity in real time, but also track attendance, handle communications, and send sales new leads quickly and...
This post was originally published on February 2, 2021. After this post was published, Salesforce released the ability to check if a field has been changed. Previously, the solution...
Learn how to change your data columns to rows in Pardot B2B Marketing Analytics/Tableau CRM.
In this blog, I’ll walk you through how to prevent a lead source from being overwritten in Salesforce and how to activate and test it. Create a validation rule...
Collecting accurate data is essential to your marketing strategy so you can continually optimize it to fit your goals. In most cases, companies capture data through form submissions and...
You have your lead lifecycle set up, your scoring set up, and the marketing qualified leads (MQLs) are flowing in. Now it’s time to pull reports in Salesforce to...
Capturing data is a key piece of any marketing strategy. It’s imperative that you capture the right data so you can continue improving your marketing efforts. Pardot is the...
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...
Did you know you can add report charts to your campaign page layout in Salesforce? Adding report charts will give you insight into a particular campaign’s performance without creating...
As our Pardot integrations are coping and adjusting to using the Pardot API with Salesforce SSO users, one of the new requirements is to provide the Pardot Business Unit...
Want to know how many accounts or companies attended an event, webinar or interacted with a marketing campaign? This metric can be difficult for marketers to pull in Salesforce because reports by default...
In this post, I’ll show you how to create a page that asks for feedback as to why the prospect is unsubscribing. The goal is to use the standard...
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...
As a marketing team, you spend tons of time and resources building marketing campaigns that drive people to your website. Your website is the perfect place for prospects to...
Splash – a super-powerful event marketing platform – helps organizations make in-person and virtual marketing efficient and successful. Splash lets you create branded registration forms, custom event promotions like...
A common theme that I’m hearing from clients is the need to show demonstrated ROI related to their marketing initiatives. Sound like anybody you know? I recently posted about...
Want to be able to report on how many marketing touchpoints have occurred your leads and contacts? With some help from an App from the Salesforce App Exchange, you...
BY MIKE MORRIS What you don’t know about auto-association could be completely ruining your campaign influence reports in Salesforce. Let that sink in. Now that I have your attention,...
Salesforce campaigns can help you track each of your marketing initiatives in detail. These can include online advertisements, emails, or more specialized marketing events such as demos and tradeshows....
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...
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...
The Pardot Google Analytics connector is awesomesauce. And it’s remarkably low maintenance — but there are some nuances, and it’s still one of the things I get the most...
We have more data than ever to gauge marketing performance. The Don Draper era: “I know half of my advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half” …just...
Valentines day is the perfect day to give somebody something special. So I wanted to share a resource with the Pardot community to address a longstanding pain point: Auto-fill...
You might already be tracking MQLs in Salesforce or in Pardot, but are you tracking all the information you need for enhanced reporting? I’ll walk you through the 3...
I met someone at a Pardot event a few weeks ago who told me about a fascinating start-up. It’s called SalesTing (Sales + Marketing, get it?) and their mission...
Standard campaign statuses are essential to have consistent reports within Salesforce, but there’s no easy way to bulk create new statuses within the UI. In this tutorial, I’ll show...
I learned a new buzzword today: “technical debt.” I don’t know how I went so long without hearing it, because it is ALL. AROUND. ME. Technical debt is...
Identifying which campaigns and channels have influenced an opportunity is a key piece of information to see which marketing campaigns are the most effective. In this tutorial, I’ll walk...
Subscribe to The Spot
Martech Resources
Shopping consultants or jobs? Wanna join the action? Here’s everything you need to solve all the marketing technology things.
Quick Links
Get The Spot
The Spot for Pardot newsletter delivers a healthy dose of martech to your inbox — and nothing more.
© 2024 The Spot For Pardot | All Rights Reserved Sercante LLC.4
