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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,...
Dreamforce 2023 has come and gone, and wow, it did not disappoint. Not only was this my first Dreamforce, I had the honor of co-presenting the Marketing Cloud Release...
Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Progressive Profiling is an out-of-the-box functionality and a powerful solution for B2B marketers who want to get detailed prospect data without overwhelming them with a...
If your Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) email looks broken and you can’t figure out why, then you’re in the right place. In this post, we’ll look at common...
Prospect inactivity tells us just as much about a prospect as their activity does. An inactive prospect has a lower interest level and less openness to learn more about...
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...
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...
Handling multiple languages with Account Engagement (Pardot) forms has always been complex — especially when it comes to reporting. But there is a way to multi-language Account Engagement forms. 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...
As a marketing administrator within Salesforce, it is essential to understand your audiences and create a winning audience segmentation strategy. Without segmenting your audience, you will target the same...
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...
Imagine this — your marketing team is generating more leads than ever before. And at the same time, you’re facing a reduction in sales team staff. Sounds impossible to...
A score in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) is a numerical figure that is assigned to prospects once they engage with a tracked marketing activity. This could be anything...
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...
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 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,...
A form on a landing page or your website is often the final step in a nurturing process and represents the crucial point of conversion. According to Manifest, 81%...
Part of being a great marketer is to always evolve with your audience. Doing this intentionally is the key to an organization’s success. Luckily, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot)...
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...
Marketing A/B Testing is far from being anything new. In fact, it’s been around for quite some time. A/B Testing as we know it today first came about in...
The Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) and Salesforce integration can be used to pass data back and forth between Pardot and Salesforce. In this article, learn everything about the...
Are you spending hours upon hours curating engaging, click-worthy content, only to notice that you have low engagement, high unsubscribes and spam complaints? A list of opted-in prospects is...
Your website is one of your most important demand generation assets and a blog is a great way to increase your online presence by making you more visible on...
Recently, I was challenged with creating a landing page for event registration using Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot). The event had 15+ roundtable sessions in the morning (within 2-time...
We’ve previously talked about External Actions and External Activities, with some general ideas of how each can be applied separately. Where the real power comes in, is tying them...
Congratulations and welcome to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) family! Not sure where to start? We promise it is not as scary as you think it might be. ...
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...
The MarDreamies awards celebrate solutions marketing and sales professionals built to reach their goals using Salesforce. These solutions are especially impressive because they each rose to solve a specific...
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...
You’re a responsible marketer and adhere to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) Permission-Based Marketing Policy. You’ve enabled Marketing Data Sharing (MDS) rules to ensure that prospects who...
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...
The MarDreamies awards celebrate solutions marketing and sales professionals built to reach their goals using Salesforce. These solutions are especially impressive because they each rose to solve a specific...
The MarDreamies awards celebrate solutions marketing and sales professionals built to reach their goals using Salesforce. These solutions are especially impressive because they each rose to solve a specific...
The MarDreamies awards celebrate solutions marketing and sales professionals built to reach their goals using Salesforce. These solutions are especially impressive because they each rose to solve a specific...
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...
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...
Wondering if we recorded MarDreamin’ 2022 sessions and keynotes? Well look no further. We have all the MarDreamin’ replays you seek. MarDreamin’ is a Salesforce community conference that unites...
People change jobs all the time. Maybe they’re part of The Great Resignation. Or navigating a new career path after years of military service. But have you ever thought...
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...
Alas, Salesforce External Actions for Pardot is finally here. Until now, our options to have Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) trigger a third-party system have been limited to either:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An issue faced by many marketers using Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) is how to find a workaround for dynamic dependent picklist fields and Pardot forms that will reduce...
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’ve all seen email personalization mishaps. The power of Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) is really in its capacity to leverage data coming in from Salesforce and Pardot to...
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...
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...
Conditional Completion actions are coming to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot)! And they’re a game changer for adding complexity to completion actions on your marketing assets. This has been a...
Knowing the who, what, when, and how of Salesforce and Account Engagement (Pardot) sync behavior is key to understanding how you can use the integration to your advantage. If...
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...
You’ve conquered the Pardot Specialist exam* (Yipee!) and you’ve caught the Pardot bug. Next on your hit list is the Pardot Consultant exam, but what does it take to...
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...
It’s official — Pardot is going to be called Marketing Cloud Account Engagement going forward. This is a big, bold change. I have a lot of respect for whoever...
Salesforce announced today that they’re changing the name “Pardot” to… drumroll… Marketing Cloud Account Engagement. Along with this rebrand, they’re changing the names of about a dozen products —...
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. ...
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...
An email preference center creates a happy medium for you and your audience. It’s a place where your people can let you know what interests them so you can...
When you have a ton of users in Pardot, controlling who has access to what they can view or edit takes time. But no one wants to spend a...
The Salesforce Winter ‘22 release introduced the ability to create a custom Lightning Web Component (LWC) for Lightning Email Content, and with Spring ‘22 we have the same ability...
Pardot (and marketing in general) does not suffer from a lack of resources; there are innumerable guides, blogs, white papers, walk throughs, opinions, perspectives, how to’s and how not...
I seriously felt imposter syndrome as a professional in the Salesforce and Pardot community — but I overcame those feelings by learning everything I could through Pardot training courses...
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...
It’s time to prepare for the Salesforce Spring ‘22 Release and how it will affect your Pardot instance. We get three major releases from Salesforce each year — Spring,...
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...
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...
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the conversations in the Pardot community about web browsers no longer supporting third-party web tracking cookies. If you haven’t, are you hiding in a cookie jar?...
The final day of ParDreamin’ 2021 kicked off with the second annual Demo Jam, which highlighted sponsors’ products by showing how Pardot customers can extend the capabilities of their...
The 3rd and final part of the form customization series is finally here! In part 1, I showed you how to implement the popular floating label technique and how to...
Higher education institutions around the world are embracing a digital future with the shift to marketing with Pardot. Teams are replacing the traditional ways of reaching prospective students, donors,...
The first-ever ParDreamies awards, which were presented during the ParDreamin’ 2021 VIP After Party, celebrate solutions marketing and IT professionals built to reach their goals using Pardot. These solutions...
The first-ever ParDreamies awards, which were presented during the ParDreamin’ 2021 VIP After Party, celebrate solutions marketing and IT professionals built to reach their goals using Pardot. These solutions...
The first-ever ParDreamies awards, which were presented during the ParDreamin’ 2021 VIP After Party, celebrate solutions marketing and IT professionals built to reach their goals using Pardot. These solutions...
Nonprofits that are using Salesforce have much to gain by incorporating Pardot into their marketing strategy. But, isn’t Pardot only meant for teams following a B2B marketing strategy? While...
The first-ever ParDreamies awards, which were presented during the ParDreamin’ 2021 VIP After Party, celebrate solutions marketing and IT professionals built to reach their goals using Pardot. These solutions...
When it comes to reporting on your marketing assets, the feeling of not knowing what tool to use can be quite overwhelming. I’ve been there! You’ve been asked to...
The first-ever ParDreamies awards, which were presented during the ParDreamin’ 2021 VIP After Party, celebrate solutions marketing and IT professionals built to reach their goals using Pardot. These solutions...
The ParDreamies awards honor community members for finding creative and thoughtful methods to reach business goals using the power of the Pardot platform. Individuals submitted their stories as independent...
Included in the Salesforce Winter ‘22 release is a beta feature that highlights the beginning of an integration between Pardot and Slack. Salesforce officially acquired Slack on July 21,...
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...
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....
The life of a marketing and sales consultant is never boring at Sercante, working with companies of all shapes and sizes on tasks both large and small. The days...
Pardot is delivering a whole new way to leverage your prospect data in the Salesforce Winter ‘22 release. Our earlier blog post covers this new feature and how to...
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...
ParDreamin’ 2021 is the only global virtual conference that lasts three days and focuses on all things Pardot and marketing automation. We’re pulling together marketing minds at all levels...
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...
I think we need to do more to celebrate the work that Pardot and Marketing Operations pros do. I’ll explain why. But first, a random story.
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...
The reliability of your data in Pardot and Salesforce is largely dependent on what you put in it and it starts with how you import prospects into Pardot. Luckily,...
Want to do something with your Pardot form that is not available in the editor? Try using JavaScript! Enhance your forms by using these 6 advanced Pardot form techniques....
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...
Should you switch to Pardot Lightning? Probably. The Pardot Lightning App has been available since the Winter ‘19 release, but many Pardot users still prefer the comfort of Pardot...
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...
It’s time to prepare for the Salesforce Winter ‘22 Release and how it will affect your Pardot instance. We get three major releases from Salesforce each year — Spring,...
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...
Feel more confident as a budding admin or end user by kicking ass at Pardot quality assurance testing. (includes downloadable PDF checklist) We’ve all been there before. Everything is...
Get a solution for Protected Campaign Member Statuses in Pardot and step-by-step instructions for installation. We go through all the effort of setting up beautiful Salesforce Campaigns, naming standards...
Whether you’re an experienced Pardot admin or relatively new to the Pardot platform, passing the Salesforce Pardot Specialist Certification exam is a great way to demonstrate your skills and...
Learn how to change your data columns to rows in Pardot B2B Marketing Analytics/Tableau CRM.
The ability to designate Pardot Accounts as campaign members is finally here! Included in the Salesforce Spring ‘21 release is a beta feature that’s going to make many Pardot...
When speed to lead is important, clean Pardot data is key. In sales, a lot can be said about timing. Catching a prospect on a good day, at the right...
User roles within Pardot are often discussed from the perspective of capabilities rather than core competencies. A quick google search for “Pardot Admin” will tell you what an admin...
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...
In 2004, I received a prestigious award “Outstanding Achievement in The Field of Excellence.” If I’m honest, it was printed by my best friend — he’s much smarter than...
On May 11, 2021, Salesforce and Pardot users experienced a Salesforce outage related to a domain name service (DNS) issue. Here's how Pardot users and admins can address...
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...
Prospects now more than ever are demanding personalized content. For the last 4 years, adding the first name for personalization in emails has been the default. Unfortunately, that alone...
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...
Your Pardot forms don’t have to be boring. With a little extra CSS you can create beautiful Pardot forms with customized checkboxes and radio buttons. In this tutorial, I’ll...
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.
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...
As Salesforce continues to rolls out Pardot SSO across all accounts, many Pardot users are now being greeted with the following error message when trying to login to Pardot:...
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...
Want your Pardot form to match your brand? This can be done by using the Pardot form CSS generator or by writing some custom CSS. If you add custom CSS it...
Nearly 90% of marketers are using email (think tools like Pardot) to reach their audiences on a weekly basis, according to Oberlo. And people get roughly ~120 emails a...
The Pardot User-Migration deadline is fast approaching. There is a lot of guidance on setting up our human users for success, but what about our code? So we wrote...
The Salesforce SSO deadline is fast approaching, and there isn’t a lot of specifics out there on how to make changes to our custom code & scripts that talk...
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...
In only a few weeks, Salesforce is moving all Pardot users to single sign-on (SSO) and all API integrations must use Salesforce OAuth. If you’re adjusting the Pardot plugin...
This past year has been a great year for Pardot Admins everywhere. With each new release, Pardot has grown in functionality and has also become more integrated with Salesforce....
Let's digest the three most common Pardot Salesforce Connector errors we see marketing automation admins continuously face.
Ace your Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialist exam by using this practice exam to test your Pardot knowledge. This practice test contains 50 multiple choice questions and covers most of the topics on the...
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...
Last week was ParDreamin’ 2020, the first Pardot specific conference ever. The event brought together 3600+ members of the Pardot community from 65 countries for 4 days of content....
Day 4 of ParDreamin’ kicked off today with a Demo Jam. Sercante’s own Celine Newsome and Mike Creuzer helped to lead us through 3-minute demos from our sponsors. The...
Day 3 of ParDreamin’ kicked off today as Pardot’s Product Team dived into the exciting product roadmap for 2021 and beyond (complete with a hilarious introduction music video –...
ParDreamin’ sessions kicked off today bringing in over 3,400 people represented across 65 countries. Over the course of the week, we will hear from 58 speakers as they share...
We know you are busy with a mountain of JIRA support tickets to go over before the end of the year so let me keep this brief. Supporting a...
This year has been interesting to say the least. You might have just started your first marketing job that requires Pardot experience this year or maybe you ended up...
ParDreamin’ is less than a week away. But you already knew that right? You’ve seen it all over Twitter and LinkedIn for the past month or so. In fact,...
ParDreamin’ is less than a week away. Has your marketing team at your nonprofit organization or higher education institution signed up yet? Giving Tuesday has just passed and many...
A virtual community event focused on all things Pardot
Pardot offers 2 methods for embedding forms on your website; embedding using an iframe, and form handlers. While the embedded iFrame forms allow marketers to have control over updating and configuring the forms,...
Back in June, Salesforce announced that the way we work with the Pardot API will be changing and that, beginning in early 2021, all Pardot users will be required...
Have you tried to map an important Salesforce field in Pardot, only to realize it’s not available in the Pardot field mapping dropdown list? Yeah, me too. The most...
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...
As part of the Salesforce Summer ’20 release, Pardot announced support for first-party cookies in an open beta. Some Pardot users’ reaction to the news: YAY! The rest of...
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...
Whether you’re new to account based marketing or your strategy centers on ABM, you’re going to want to check out the Terminus + Pardot integration. Terminus’ recent blog post...
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...
One of the most highlighted and versatile Pardot features is the Engagement Studio program. Plain and simple it is the most flexible feature Pardot has when it comes to...
GDPR and CASL compliance are just a few reasons to add an explicit opt-in message or a privacy policy to your Pardot forms. In this post, I’ll show you...
Pardot form handlers allow you to use your forms to post your data to Pardot. A Form handler is a great alternative to use instead of Pardot iFrame forms....
Building landing pages in Pardot can be an interesting challenge because, depending on your needs and the skillset of your team, there are multiple ways to go about it.
Pardot users were greeted this morning with a new announcement banner on their home screen when logged into Pardot: This banner linked them to a help & training article...
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...
One of our recent posts outlined the need-to-knows about Pardot Sandboxes. In this one, we’re going to go a bit deeper on how to put this to work in...
Have you heard the news? At long last, Pardot Sandboxes have arrived — sparking joy in the hearts of many admins. Here are 9 need-to-knows to keep in mind...
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...
Have you visited the IdeaExchange before? In a nutshell, it’s a place where you can submit product enhancement ideas and vote on existing ideas with simple thumbs up or...
Building and sending emails is Pardot’s bread and butter. The ability to customize the look and feel, decide exactly who to send to, and how you want to use...
A few weeks ago, my team posted an offer for a Pardot Admin Bootcamp Scholarship. The idea was that we’d offer 1-3 spots in our paid training course for...
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...
The relationship between sales and marketing departments is not always the stuff dreams are made of. In fact, sometimes it can be a real nightmare with both sides pointing...
The economic ripple effect of everyone screaming “the sky is falling” is making that a reality for many businesses. Many B2B companies are experiencing drops in sales and interruptions...
Want to be able to restrict the date range of a date picker within your Pardot forms? The default date picker with Pardot does not provide this option, but...
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,”...
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...
You've seen the warning - now learn what's really involved with that Pardot/Chrome 80 SSL SameSite Cookie email that's been going around.
As one of the chief “Pardot API Geeks” at Sercante (no, it’s not a real title, but I think it should be), I’m really excited about two big changes...
New year, new… email marketing game? This article covers a few quick tips and tools to level up your email marketing game with Pardot.
I’ll admit it. As a marketing professional, I was a bit nervous the first time that I heard the term “marketing automation.” My first thought was that somebody was...
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...
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 Salesforce AE recently asked me if we had a best practices guide for migrating to Pardot from Eloqua, Hubspot, or Marketo. My team at Sercante does these frequently...
The 2nd part of the form customization series is finally here! In part 1, I showed you how to implement the popular floating label technique and how to create searchable,...
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...
Pardot is designed to be an easy-to-use, flexible tool to power email marketing and automated communications with clicks not code. But let’s be real: code is pretty darn handy,...
If I hear someone complain that they don’t like the email and landing page editor in Pardot, my first thought is: “your implementation partner didn’t set your templates up...
One of the newest additions to the Sercante team, Skyler Nakashima, recently wrote an awesome post on How Pardot’s New Handlebars Merge Language Improves Personalization. Spoiler alert: it’s exciting...
The first hurdle is deliverability and getting into a user’s inbox. The next one is enticing email opens. Learn how to leverage preview text to encourage opens.
I’ve been enjoying the last few weeks of summer… particularly Pardot’s announcement to update to the syntax of their variable tags from Pardot Merge Language (PML) to Handlebars Merge...
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...
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...
I could not be more impressed with the Qualified team and the conversational marketing tools they are building for Pardot. The Qualified team recently invited me to discuss all...
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...
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:...
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...
Gravity Forms is one of the easiest tools to create advanced forms for your WordPress website and with some customization they can be integrated with Pardot. In this post,...
Do you know you can turn any email template into a Pardot email template? With a couple of modifications to the HTML, you can have a fully functional Pardot...
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...
If you’re a current Drift user or have been eyeing the platform, good news — Drift has an integration with Pardot. Let’s break down the key elements of the...
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...
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