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Pardot Completion Actions

Top Summer ‘22 Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) Updates

It’s been a wild season with multiple updates sprinkled in between the releases – namely Pardot rebranded to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, the go.pardot.com security update, and the ever-changing privacy landscape – you may be relieved to hear that the Summer ‘22 release is relatively light on Pardot updates. We could call this the “release of the completion action”. Plus,…
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Demand Generation vs. ABM

  In 2014, I was a speaker at an ITSMA event in California and it was the first time I had been to a B2B marketing event where Account Based Marketing (ABM) was the focus of the event. At the time, Jon Miller had just started Engagio and Terminus was in its infancy stages. For many of the attendees, this…
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Pardot Custom Field Mapping with Salesforce: The API Field Name Trap

Pardot custom field mapping is more challenging than you may think. In Pardot, you have the Prospect object – in Salesforce, however, there are more objects at play. Salesforce Leads and Contacts are separate records that represent the same person – in Pardot, these “people” records are combined under one umbrella (“Prospects”). Someone can either be a Lead or a…
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Baking Marketing Insights into Salesforce Record Pages

A recipe for success from Slalom’s Pardot kitchen. The more Pardot integrates with Salesforce, the more marketing information there is to surface within the platform. From read-only Pardot fields to dashboards, organization is crucial for keeping your Salesforce record pages from looking like a kitchen junk drawer.
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Dynamic Lists to Clean Up Your Database

Lara Black inspired and contributed to this blog. Are you trying to keep your mailable limit down?   Marketers often find themselves creeping close to their mailable limit and either have to clean out the MCAE (Pardot) database or pay up.   Go to Pardot Settings > Account Settings > Usage and limits to see where you stand. Look at your current…
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How to Clear a Dedupliction Error from the Sync Queue (and stop it from happening)

The Pardot-Salesforce Connector Sync Queue is one of those things that a good admin knows to check regularly, and one of those things that, maddeningly, has no way of sending you a proactive alert that there's something "stuck" in it. One of the most common reasons that something gets stuck is that the Salesforce duplication rules are in place and…
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Warning! Do not Pass Go.Pardot.Com

Plus a bonus note on a little-used but handy way to use Pardot (MCAE*) FormsThere's already been a fair amount written about the upcoming security upgrades to Pardot that impacts how content served if you embed forms using go.Pardot.com on your website instead of a custom tracker domain (which if you don't have one set up, do this asap). In…
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Pardot First-Party Tracking

Third-party cookies have been the pinnacle of tracking and marketing for many years. If you’ve had Pardot’s default tracking code set up on your website for a long time, odds are you are using third-party tracking. However, in 2020 web giant Google announced they would be phasing out third-party cookie tracking by 2022. Other browsers like Safari, have options to…
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A Quick and Easy Way to A/B Split Your Marketing Automation Database

Sometimes it's helpful to be able to split our data into a couple of chunks to make it more manageable. Maybe we want to A/B test a subject line, or simply to candence sending times in an automation. Here's a really simple way to automatically split your database so you can use that split in any list or automation. 1.…
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Salesforce Campaigns

7 Tips for Working With Salesforce Campaign Member Status

All Campaign Members in Salesforce have a “status” which describes the level of engagement the individual has had with the Campaign. Campaign Member Status examples include “Sent”, “Responded”, and any other statuses you wish to add to suit your marketing campaign. Campaign Member is an object in Salesforce. When a Lead, Contact, or Person Account is added to a Salesforce…
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Pardot Security Update: Content Using go.pardot.com

Effective April 22 2022, Pardot (Account Engagement) will be rolling out a security enhancement to protect customer data. Certain types of forms have the potential to stop functioning– emphasis added for a reason. The roll-out will impact Pardot customers who are using the default go.pardot.com domain for their marketing assets. The alternative (now imperative) method is to set up a…
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Salesforce and Pardot Naming Conventions Best Practices

When your organization is implementing systems like Salesforce and Pardot, they are likely focused on the automation features that will soon be making their jobs much easier. When thinking about strategy, it’s important to think about all the assets you’ll need to create and map out the logic and operation of those assets once they are put in place. While…
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Pardot Tracker Domain

Introduction to Pardot Tracker Domains and Vanity URLs

Tracker domains enable any landing pages, forms, and files hosted in Pardot (that you create there) to have links that appear as your own brand – without compromising on the prospect activity tracking that Pardot-hosted assets provide. Vanity URLs take this one step further enabling you to write your asset URLs to your liking (ie. the piece of the link…
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Pardot Redirects

6 Use Cases for Pardot Custom Redirects (Marketing Links)

Custom redirects enable you to track link clicks on your marketing content (your website), on third-party websites, and other locations. A
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SYSTEM UPDATE: Check your Pardot Settings

Salesforce updated Pardot for security reasons. If you embed Pardot forms or other content in iframes, include JavaScript in that content, and serve this content over the default go.pardot.com domain, you need to make updates.  Otherwise, your forms may break after April 22, 2022. I will be referring to Pardot in this blog with its new name: Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (MCAE). Am…
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