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Expert advice on Salesforce Sales Cloud CRM, Account Engagement (Pardot), ActiveCampaign plus other random sales & marketing topics as they strike me.

Pardot is not Dead

You may have heard a Mark Twain quote that goes something like "Rumors of my death have been grossly exaggerated". Even that quote is an...

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How to use Pardot as Your Digital Bouncer

Have you ever wanted to create an event RSVP form but wanted to control who can actually fill it out?

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How to Create a Link to the Pardot Lightning App Prospect in your Salesforce Leads and Contacts

An easy-to-implement solution to create a field for your Lead for Contacts that links to the equivalent Pardot prospect lightning record.

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How to Track Wordpress Site Search with Pardot

An overlooked feature of Pardot is the "Prospect Query" function. Here's how to use it for searches on your own website.

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How to Activate Email for Automation in the New Lightning Email Builder

Clicking the "Activate for Automation" option in an email allows you to make that email available to use in an Engagement Studio automation

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How to Force Sync your Entire Pardot Database the Quick and Easy Way

One basic behavior of the Pardot/Salesforce databases is that the only way a record will sync is if there is a change to that record on...

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A mind-blowing One-Click Pardot Resubscribe Method for your Website

Sometimes ideas just come together. A random confluence of several concepts will crystallize into one brand new idea that you get so...

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What is a UTF-8 CSV and Why Should I Care?

UTF-8, or "Unicode Transformation Format, 8 Bit" is a marketing operations pro's best friend when it comes to data imports and exports....

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Start Tagging Assets in Pardot

Tags seem to be one of the more underutilized features in Pardot. And even more underutilized than using tags on prospects is using them...

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How to Create a Dynamic Calendly Link Using Pardot HML

Does your sales team use Calendly to schedule client meetings? Wouldn't it be cool to be able to create a dynamic link in your emails...

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Can you create two records in Pardot from one form handler?

What if you had a scenario where you wanted to create 2 Pardot records from a single form submit? For example, you wanted to offer a way...

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Who's the Sender on Your Pardot Emails? The Hidden Risks in Using Assigned Users.

You may know you have multiple options for who is the sender on your Pardot emails. They are as follows, from the least to the most...

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Pardot's New 2-Click Unsubscribe: not perfect, but enable it anyway

Pardot has just released 2 click unsubscribe for all orgs in the Spring '21 release. While this feature is still very much in "MVP"...

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Who is B2BMA Integration Anyway?

Here's an easy way to update to B2BMA Integration user's profile so it's clear "who" it is (Pardot).

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Creating an Endless Loop RSS Newsletter

How to use ActiveCampaign's RSS and Looping Automations Feature to create a hands-off newsletter. I spend much of my time working in...

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Pardot Authentication Retirement FAQ

It's time to stop ignoring the increasingly urgent messages in your Pardot org about Salesforce SSO being required after Feb 15th and do...

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How to Create an NPS Survey in Pardot

I've heard the question more than once: "Can you do a simple survey in Pardot?" The answer is an unqualified "Yes!" And the most...

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Cool Handlebar Merge Language {{HML}} Tricks: Pardreamin 2020 Session

I originally presented this content at ParDreamin 2020. It explains all the fantastic things you can do with the new handlebar merge...

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Opted Out vs Do Not Email

In Pardot it's definitely not the same thing... It seems so simple, doesn't it? Email Opt Out. Until you look at Pardot and see that...

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Migrating from Pardot Salesforce Connector V1 to V2: What I Found

What happens when you push that "irreversible" green button to upgrade?

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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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