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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Grégoire Michel Apr 11, 2017 9:27 AM (in response to Anna Haire)Hi Anna,
This question belongs to the Products section, so please move it here, so that more people would see it and be likely to answer. About Community is for assistance about the community itself.
I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do.
Generally speaking, engagement programs are not well suited for scenarios where you need to wait some specific events, add some wait steps, etc... Default programs with smart campaigns will do better job.
Also, in your case, I would probably use separate smart campaigns, the second one using a trigger to detect what you call "The Step".
But if you were a little more explicit about what you are trying to do, my answer might be also some relevant and more accurate
-Greg
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Anna Haire Apr 11, 2017 9:32 AM (in response to Grégoire Michel)Thanks for the heads up on posting to the correct section! Ok, let me try to be more explicit.
There are 4 stages in the lifecycle.
1. Registration
2. Upload
3. Create
4. Initiate
A user can move through these on their own all in a day, but some people get stuck in the various stages. We have email content created to encourage them to take the next step if they stall. With an engagement program, as soon as I add someone as a member, they will fall into the cadence. My smart campaign to add them to the engagement program triggers based on Salesforce activity and can happen on any day of the week. How can I make sure they have a full 48 hours before they get the first email in the stream?
I also needed a way to change their status to engaged to move them to the next engagement program based on their activity. That's why I thought engagement programs would work best.
Open to suggestions!
Anna
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Grégoire Michel Apr 11, 2017 9:41 AM (in response to Anna Haire)1 of 1 people found this helpfulHi again Anna,
OK, that's clearer
In the flow that adds people to the engagement program, if you add a "wait 2 days" prior to adding people to the EP, then you can make sure that they will always have AT LEAST 48 hours before getting the first email. But this is a minimum, not a maximum. the max will depends on when in the next cast after the 48 hours delay expires.
I would rather use a regular flow to do this:
Smart list:
- Trigger: change data value, attribute is stage, new value : Registration
Flow:
- wait 48 hours.
- send email - choices
- If stage is registration - email X
- else do nothing
- wait X hours
- send email - choices
- If stage is registration - email X
- else do nothing
- wait X hours
- send email - choices
- If stage is registration - email X
- else do nothing
then you do the same for the other stages
-Greg
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Anna Haire Apr 11, 2017 11:26 AM (in response to Grégoire Michel)Thanks for your thoughts on this Greg. Let me take a run at it using your idea and see how it works.
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Anna Haire May 1, 2017 9:27 AM (in response to Grégoire Michel)This is how I set it up. We tested it and it's been up and running a few days and seems to be working great. Thank you for your help!
Anna
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Grégoire Michel May 1, 2017 11:41 AM (in response to Anna Haire)Hi Anna,
Great
Pls mark it as answered.
-Greg
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Veronica Holmes Apr 11, 2017 4:40 PM (in response to Anna Haire)Hey Anna, while I'm inclined towards Gregoire's idea myself, make sure you do some reading up on using Programs in Engagement Streams. This can sometimes allow you the "wait, then check if they meet the criteria" flexibility you are looking for.
Veronica
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Anna Haire Apr 13, 2017 9:21 AM (in response to Veronica Holmes)Thanks Veronica, I'll take a look!
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Dave Cunningham May 1, 2017 12:36 PM (in response to Anna Haire)Not sure if this is relevant, but at Summit last week they showed how there would eventually be wait steps available in Engagement Programs. This was a part of their product announcement.
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Grégoire Michel May 1, 2017 12:51 PM (in response to Dave Cunningham)Hi Dave,
This will be, once it's available
-Greg
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Anna Haire May 3, 2017 8:01 AM (in response to Dave Cunningham)That would be awesome. I'll be watching for it!
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Re: Engagement Program with specific timing for email send
Dan Stevens. May 3, 2017 8:23 AM (in response to Dave Cunningham)Not necessarily "wait steps" - which can be done today using child programs - but "dynamic send times" based on the time zone associated to each lead/person record. Can't wait for this!
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