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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...
If you’re new to Marketing Cloud Engagement, you may be feeling overwhelmed. Salesforce’s powerful marketing platform can do a lot. And that comes with a steep learning curve. I’ve...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
One of the most common assignment needs for Salesforce leads and cases is to circulate these via a round robin assignment process. But assignment in the marketing, sales or...
Lead nurturing programs play a critical role in the sales process. That’s because nurtured leads have a shorter sales cycle and generate more sales-ready leads at a significantly lower...
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...
We’ve all been there. You’ve set up an awesome automation in Salesforce Marketing Cloud Automation Studio. But what do you do when you see errors? It’s time to put...
Many organizations assign Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) prospects who are not yet sales ready to a “Cold” leads queue in Salesforce so data syncs and is available for...
As inbound marketing efforts continue to grow across industries, marketers are having to come up with new ways to qualify the best of these new leads. Once they’ve been...
With Salesforce moving to Flow as its go to low-code automation tool, and Workflow Rules and Process Builder planned for retirement, it’s a good idea to migrate your existing...
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...
Do you have connected campaigns with Pardot and would like to see email engagement data in one place? In this blog, we are able to see how easy it...
We usually find common asks for customers to further personalize Pardot emails, specific account-based messaging on their website, and where sales reps can take the next step to drive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pardot lead assignment routing can trip up even the most experienced sales and marketing teams. There are so many different ways to assign your prospects within Marketing Cloud Account...
Lead routing with Salesforce Sales Cloud and Pardot can trip up even the most experienced sales and marketing teams. And choosing the right lead management strategy and tools to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you’re like me, then you often work with marketing tools that do not integrate nicely with Pardot forms. Maybe they claim to have a ‘direct’ integration with the...
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...
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...
The campaign member object in Salesforce represents the association between a campaign and a lead or a contact. While some standard lead and contact fields are available for the campaign member...
New campaigns in Salesforce have two default member status values: “Sent” and “Responded”. To customize the values, you can create them manually, set up “campaign templates” to copy the...
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...
Your event or webinar has finished and now it’s time for sales to follow up on those leads. A great way to automate sales follow up is to create...
If your company’s sales teams are organized by region, you’ve probably gone down a long and winding road as a Pardot admin, asking the question: How can I auto-magically...
Let’s start by saying that if you’re not using scoring categories in Pardot, you probably should be. If you offer more than one solution or service or have multiple...
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...
When people ask me why I want to work in the Salesforce and Pardot ecosystem, my answer is always the same — automation! Workflows! Personalization! (And usually with that...
I’ve always been kind of “meh” on the term account-based marketing (ABM) because it is so frequently misused. Some vendors try to use the label “ABM” to define a...
Hey Pardot friends, Maura here from the team at Qualified. I’m excited to have the chance to connect with this group of Pardot superfans! Today I want to dive...
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...
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...
If you have an internal SDR or BDR team and are looking to round robin prospects, you may have learned that Salesforce Lead Assignment Rules don’t make this super...
One of the tricky and little-known-things about Pardot is how the system handles blank values. If you’ve never had a reason to, you probably haven’t thought about it. But...
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...
Even with an abundance of documentation, there will always be some degree of trial and error with new features. Real life is pretty much always much nuanced than your...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to show/hide dynamic content based on URL parameters for any web page. This solution uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript instead of...
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