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You Enabled Account Engagement (Pardot) Email Builder Before the Winter ’22 Release? KNOW THIS!
You’re a first-mover, and you turned on Account Engagement’s Email Builder before the Winter ’22 release (Before October 2021). Nice! Follow these steps if you want to use Email Builder templates for Engagement Studio email drip campaigns. Email Builder Go into the Email Template tab and click on an email template. Do you see Activate for Automation in the top right corner? If you see [...]
ParDreamin Picks for 2021
I am an oversized ParDreamin’ advocate, but I didn’t watch a single recorded session…until now. I finally had a break between clients and my kids’ youth sporting events to get caught up. Here are my top 2021 session picks. How to watch ParDreamin’ Before you start, I have two tips. You can download the speaker slides to get a quick peek at the content. This [...]
7 Nifty Features of B2B Marketing Analytics (B2BMA)
I love uncovering little surprises. (Like the time I found a miniature plastic spoon on the bottom of the yogurt container.) Amazing! Here are a few “spoon” features of B2BMA. Notifications B2BMA lets you view or add notifications. When a value passes a specific threshold, you can set a notification to get real-time alerts to key metrics. Create notifications by selecting Set Notification from the [...]
Account Engagement Business Units 201
Now that you’re getting comfortable with business units let’s get into some details that often raise questions. #1 How to manage inbound prospects with forms for multiple business units Imagine managing your inbound prospects through forms. In this instance, you have a single form, and a field value will direct the prospect to the correct BU. Here is an example of the steps (using two [...]
How to Effectively Add Opportunity Contact Roles (Flow)
Flows can be scary to create, but Opportunity Contact Roles are important for Account Engagement's campaign influence reporting. Here are the blueprints to create a Flow that automatically adds opportunity contact roles to the opportunity when the opportunity is created. I'm still new to Flows, so Sofia Davis-Kos from Cloud Masonry created this for me. I've used it with many companies to give them Opportunity [...]
Introducing Account Engagement’s (Pardot) Landing Page Builder
Coastal Cloud’s Account Engagement Consultant Danielle (Dani) Reeve collaborated on this blog. Need a landing page, but you don’t have HTML/CSS skills? No problem! Account Engagement’s new landing page builder may be right for you. Salesforce released a new drag-and-drop landing page builder in the Winter 2022 release. It comes exactly a year after the Email Builder, and if you are familiar with creating drag-and-drop [...]
Account Engagement (Pardot) Winter ’22 Release Favorites
While I was at Dreamforce this week, I bumped into several Account Engagement experts. So...naturally I stopped and asked them about their favorite Account Engagement Winter '22 release feature. Here's what they said: Jennifer Schneider - Account Engagement Classic is retired "If you're you're not on Lightning, do it yesterday!" The Account Engagement Classic app will no longer be available for new accounts on October [...]
Become a Account Engagement (Pardot) Whiz With These Helpful Tips
These tips are from my friend Claudia Hoops, a Account Engagement consultant at Destined. She posted these insights on LinkedIn, and I grabbed a handful that had the most engagement. #1 - Page Action Counter Page Actions are a nifty, but powerful Account Engagement feature and, in my experience, often underutilized. They allow you to overlay specific pages on your website with Account Engagement [...]
Setting up Business Units – Video
Account Engagement Business Unit Video Configuring Account Engagement Business Units for the first time is a little scary. Watch this short, ten-minute video to see how it's done. (I wish I had this when I set up my first Business Unit!) Setting up Business Units (0:00) Start with these steps before you configure your business units: Add the necessary Salesforce Profies Assign [...]
Demystifying Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection
Apple’s new privacy protection made me sigh. Marketers dodged a downhill-rolling boulder with Google’s announcement to stop third-party tracking, only to find another serious obstacle (Apple’s new policy) right behind it. Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection blocks email senders from knowing if email recipients opened their email. It also masks the IP address so it can’t be linked to other online activity or used to determine [...]
Account Engagement (Pardot) Business Units 101
Some things are better separate. Here're a few examples: pizza and bananas, French fries and ice cream, and certain Account Engagement prospects. Sometimes Account Engagement prospects need to be segregated. Keeping them apart makes more sense. Or, for system configuration or legal reasons, marketers do NOT want prospects intermingling. What are Account Engagement business units? Marketers can separate their Account Engagement database into groups called [...]
Set Up a Resubscribe on your Account Engagement (Pardot) Form Handlers
Account Engagement's resubscribe feature is golden. It lets an unsubscribed prospect opt back in again after they fill out a form. Resubscribe works great – if you use Account Engagement forms. But, oh… you use form handlers. Sorry. I see many companies using form handlers, and none of them have a resubscribe process. One solution is to use form handler completion actions to trigger an [...]
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