Unfettered Blog

A collection of random thoughts on how people, places and things in our fascinating world connect to sales and marketing, and what we can learn from it.

Use this simple trick to quality check your list email builds before sending

You should be using the built in email render testing in Account Engagement (F/K/A Pardot) to check the appearance of your emails before...

Flows vs Engagement Studio: What to use When?

I recently gave a talk to the Philadelphia Trailblazer marketing user group, discussing how to think about and apply the two multi-step...

Change to Account Engagement (Pardot) File Access Behavior

Pardot file access now loads the file in a browser tab, instead of downloading!

How to Submit LinkedIn Forms to Pardot (Account Engagement) via Zapier

This article concerns how to send data from LinkedIn Forms to Pardot using Zapier.

I'm Speaking at Dreamforce!

I'm speaking at Dreamforce 2022 on Thursday, Sept 22 at 9:30am PT, at the Magic Falls Theatre in Moscone West, Level 2. I'll be...

Slack Markdown, @Mentions, and other Tricks for the New MCAE (Pardot) Slack Connector

Now that the Pardot (Marketing Cloud Account Engagement / MCAE ) Slack connector is out of beta, more people are probably willing to give...

The Difference Between Interest and Intent

How do you know the difference between a good lead and a bad lead? It really comes down to a simple analysis of interest and intent....

Conditional Completion Actions Overview

The eagerly awaited conditional completion actions feature is now available in Summer '22 release of MCAE/Pardot. So what can you do...

The Power of the Median

No, I'm not talking about the strip between two lanes of a road, I'm talking about the statisitical median. The value that represents the...

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...

How to Clear a Deduplication Error from the Sync Queue (and stop it from happening)

How to clear a duplicate error from the Pardot-Salesforce sync queue.

Time to Add GA4 to your Analytics Tags

If you or your website admin has gotten an email that looks like this in recent days, here's why you should pay attention to it. The...

Warning! Do not Pass Go.Pardot.Com

Plus a bonus note on a little-used but handy way to use Pardot (MCAE*) Forms There's already been a fair amount written about the...

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...

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*As of April 2022, Pardot has been renamed Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, as part of Salesforce's effort to organize all the marketing products under the same platform umbrella. "MCAE" is simply the same Pardot we know and love under a new name. The product is temporarily being referred to as "Marketing Cloud Account Engagement powered by Pardot."

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