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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...
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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...
The surest way to get a reaction from any Salesforce Admin is to mention multi-select picklists. They are notoriously hard to report on and can be challenging at times....
In today’s international and digital business landscape, modern marketers often coordinate messaging and strategy across multiple countries or regions. Luckily, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) is an ideal tool...
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...
This blog delves into the value that Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio provides to marketers (B2B and B2C). We’ll discuss Interaction Studio and its key capabilities with a focus...
For many Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) customers, using Pardot provides them with the tools necessary to communicate with their distinctive audience(s) in a personalized way. One common...
Have you ever finished working on an email template in the Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) Email Builder with all of its convenient features like: …only to start editing...
Have you ever wondered why sales and marketing teams combine Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement and Account Engagement (formerly Pardot), with Sales Cloud to reach their goals? Thinking about how...
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...
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...
In early March, Salesforce announced changes to how it serves content via go.pardot.com. In short, this impacts your Pardot content that might be placed on your website through iFrames. ...
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...
Dynamic Content is the built-in way to use Pardot to personalize marketing assets like emails. You can improve your email marketing performance, including click-through rates (CTRs), by providing the...
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...
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...
I’m so excited to finally launch version 2.0 of the Pardot Form Style Generator. With the new version comes a new UI and some cool new features, including customized...
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...
Snippets were added to the Pardot functionality toolset fairly recently as a way to help the marketers of the world stay organized and reuse their content across multiple templates...
Have you ever wished you could have multiple conditional form completion actions in a single Pardot form? If you answered “OF FREAKIN’ COURSE I HAVE”, you’re in luck because...
I once forwarded an anonymous email to five friends. It proclaimed: “We’ve been discovered, flee immediately!” I have not seen two of them since. I learned my lesson about...
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...
You presented, you lobbied, you conquered and now you have the fancy new tool — Salesforce Engage. GREAT! A few months later, your excitement has dwindled as you find...
Congratulations! Your email campaigns are rocking — engagement and revenue are up. Your boss has also noticed your handiwork and, in the spirit of “no good deed goes unpunished,”...
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...
I tend to nerd out when it comes to advanced form styling in Pardot. I get personal satisfaction from taking a form beyond its default “out-of-the-box” capabilities to meet...
You may want to devote time to keeping a clean mailable list in Pardot on a regular basis. Pardot has a default limit of 10,000 mailable prospects in an...
Dynamic lists in Pardot rock. They’re one of my favorite things to demo to a customer who has been working with Mailchimp or a legacy MAP that’s not connected...
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...
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...
A lot has gone down the weekend — and I’m not just talking about Game of Thrones.
So picture this scenario: Pardot says you can’t email someone. But you want to. So how do you override what the system says so you can send your gosh...
“How do I know if I’m emailing people too much?” …is one of the frequent concerns I hear when people are ramping up email marketing and/or launching a new...
I’ve had an opportunity to speak at several user groups and regional community events about GDPR, and the one question that always comes up is: “When is this coming...
Okay. I’m taking deep cleansing breaths right now over a really unfortunate discovery. I’m talking about when suppression lists meet AMPSEA. Wait, what’s AMPSEA? Some people love it. Most...
It was the best of email marketing, it was the worst of email marketing. If your inbox is anything like mine, it’s been absolutely crushed by all this GDPR...
Marketing automation was designed to support sales and achieve efficiency in reaching prospects at scale. But the benefits don’t stop there. Nurturing can be used for many other types...
I love a good challenge. Especially one about how to leverage Pardot functionality to its fullest potential to level up your marketing. So when the wonderful Kevin Baldacci from the...
Okay, before people start clutching their pearls, let me clarify… A/B tests are not a waste of time. But bad ones are. And there are a lot of bad...
But if you’re walking into an organization with a cobweb-encrusted subscriber list and a bunch of sales reps with their hands outstretched for leads - what do you do?
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...
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