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Accounts as Campaign Members

Accounts as Campaign Members with Salesforce (and Pardot, MCAE)

Accounts as Campaign Members is a feature within Salesforce that allows you to report on Campaign activity at the Account level. Simply put, in the same way that Leads, Contacts, or Person Accounts can be Campaign Members, Account records can also be added, collectively involving every Contact related to the Account in the Campaign.
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Why You Need to Stop Using Completion Actions on Custom Redirects

Form-free event registrations, double opt-in processes, ad click tracking… there are many use cases for adding Completion Actions on Custom Redirects. But in a cookie-free future, marketers will need to look elsewhere to automate actions based on link visits.
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When MCAE (Pardot) Cookies Prospects

Cookies are a big topic of discussion these days. Ever wonder when MCAE (Pardot) cookies your prospects?
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8 Ways to use a Form as a Mini Landing Page

Did you know you can use a Pardot / MCAE* form all by itself? It's sort of like a mini landing page. Since all Pardot / MCAE native forms have an absolute URL address with your custom tracker domain, they can be used as a mini landing page.
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Crafting Engaging On-Boarding Experiences

You’ve purchased Pardot.  You’ve sent your first list emails.  You’ve discovered automation rules and completion actions.  But now let’s take your Pardot investment to the next level- the Engagement Studio Program.   A great start in using Engagement Studio Programs is onboarding your new customers. Every Engagement Studio Program starts with a list.   Look at your data coming over from Salesforce…
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Has Apple (Mail Privacy Protection) Killed Email Marketing?

Apple introduced Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) in September 2021, designed to obscure (hide) any real opens by your prospects and the devices they are using (making location tracking less accurate). As MPP prevents Pardot, and other email marketing platforms, from accurately reporting email open rates. This sent marketers into a tailspin – reporting would become inaccurate, automation could fire unintended…
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Summer’22 Pre-Release – Pardot

It’s officially ice cream weather! Let’s be honest, when isn’t it ice cream weather? This means that the summer release is almost here. I’ve been looking through the Summer’22 release notes and have summarised my thoughts on the two key Marketing Cloud Account Engagement updates below. Streamline Automation Anyone who has been using Pardot for a while has felt the…
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Pardot vs. Hubspot: Part 2

Marketers spend so much effort developing and executing their marketing campaigns. Almost all marketers would agree with that. But what is often missing is a clear and concise way to report on the campaign results and this has a negative trickledown effect. If a reporting strategy isn’t put in place, the calculation of your return on investment (ROI) could become…
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Calculate Multi-channel Lead Acquisition Costs Using Salesforce

How much does it cost you to acquire a lead? Which marketing tactics actually resulted in successful interactions? You’ll be all too familiar that the digital marketing industry releases new innovations each year. Multi-channel marketing has become mega-multi-channel. Scaling up campaigns to take advantage of more channels is one thing – however, being able to pinpoint what’s actually working is…
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MCAE (Pardot) Email Builder Image Dimensions

When using the new Email Builder, you may struggle to find the correct image size for different column widths. Often, it’s a trial-by-error game. Does this look familiar? (See how the image needs resizing for smaller columns.) Here is a handy guide. It shows you the approximate Email Builder image dimensions for different column widths. You can print, cut, and…
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You Bought Pardot, Now What?

A number of years ago I received a call from a large enterprise asking me if we could assist them with implementing their marketing automation platform? Before we got into the specifics of what they needed I asked her this question, “what do you plan to do with your system?”  There was an awkward silence and she then replied, “what…
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Salesforce Campaign Flows

Create Campaign Member Statuses Automatically with Salesforce Flow

Salesforce campaign member statuses are hugely important but are often overlooked, or not used properly. The breakdown of which prospects are interacting, and when, will give you insight into how your campaigns are performing. Pardot (oops, I mean Marketing Cloud Account Engagement) can update Salesforce campaign member status based on a prospect’s engagement with each asset/campaign by using completion actions.…
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Pardot vs HubSpot Comparison Guide Part 1

As a demand generation agency, we at Invado Solutions are consistently asked for comparisons between different marketing automation platforms.  Having been in the marketing automation space for the past 20 years we can confidently say that 90% of marketers’ challenges are due to their lack of strategy rather than the marketing automation platform that they’ve chosen. That being said, there…
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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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Pardot ABM

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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