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The difference between Salesforce List Email and MCAE List Email

Salesforce has been on a renaming tear lately. Lots of products, especially in the marketing space, have been renamed. This hasn’t always resulted in more clarity. Pardot is now Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, while Marketing Cloud Messaging/Journeys is now Marketing Cloud Engagement. Some of the larger renamings have gotten a lot of attention. One subtle […]

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How to Create Custom List Views for the Email Content Object of the Lightning Email Builder

This article pertains to the Account Engagement Lightning Email Builder, and the associated Email Content tab in the Account Engagement App in Salesforce– just to be perfectly clear what we are referring to!! Specifically, why does this object not behave like any other list view in Salesforce and allow you to create custom list views?

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How to Integrate LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms with Account Engagement (Pardot) – video

This is a video presentation from the Tampa Account Engagement (Pardot) user group that walks through this process that I outlined in an earlier blog post. While there are several ways to send LinkedIn Lead Gen forms to Salesforce (including this integrated method), if you are using Account Engagement (Pardot), there is one method that

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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 automation tools that we have available to marketers using Account Engagement (Pardot). These tools are Engagement Studio and Salesforce Flows. There’s also some cool tips on expanding the capabilities of Conditional Completion Actions.

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

LinkedIn has always been criticized as a bit of a walled garden. They would prefer that you do everything within the confines of the platform. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain that a LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscription will not allow you to export contacts from LinkedIn to your CRM. The

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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 it a go. Especially in combination with the new Conditional Completion actions, this opens up a whole new realm of interesting possibilities. Let’s explore one important one: existing customers/existing Salesforce records.

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How to Clear a Deduplication 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

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

The Pardot Lightning App was launched in 2018. As we begin 2022, why is the “Pardot URL” field still referring to the Pardot Classic app? And why do we have no off-the shelf internal reference in the Pardot Lightning App to the Pardot Prospect record in Lightning? I have no answer to these questions, but

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15 vs 18 Digit Salesforce Hashes: What’s the difference?

ndulge me for a moment while I wax poetic over Salesforce’s record identification method, and then give you some very practical tips on how to use the record ID’s in off-platform data manipulation. You may be aware of Salesforce’s clever way of identifying records with an ID that starts with 3 digits that identifies the

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