fastImport

[Anonymous]

I had 2 lists to import today.  One was about 75K and the other was about 55K.  Usually they would take around 2 hours minimum to import, even though they just have the one email address column.

They only took a few minutes and when I looked at them, in the subhead name it said: fastImport

I'm really happy about this, but I never saw any announcement about fastImport.  is it really an official improvement or am I dreaming? 🙂 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Official improvement! I was pretty excited myself. 

[Anonymous]

Why did Marketo keep it a secret?  It's not in the latest "What's New" section and if you search community it comes up blank. 

[Anonymous]

Hey guys,

Glad you liked it, it was something we put a lot of time in it. We were doing a staged roll out, so we didn't want to announce it until everyone had it (they do now). We'll announce it next release.

-Erik

[Anonymous]

Erik,

Glad to hear about this upgrade - nice work. I do have one suggestion though - I think there needs to be more robust notification options as some of the shorter list load so fast I can't send myself the notification in time.

https://community.marketo.com/marketoideadetail?id=08750000000JrYKAA0

Charlie

[Anonymous]

Hey Charlie,

If the list is so fast, why do you need the notification? We have the dialog in the top right with the results, do you need other information? I had thought that people only used the notification in order to know when something slow finished.

-Erik

[Anonymous]

Hi Erik,

I sometimes need the "existing leads imported" vs. "new leads into the system" info that the confirmation provides.

Charlie

[Anonymous]

We buy prospecting lists and some of our vendors give us credit if the lead is already in Marketo.  So I need the notification to tell me how many new leads were imported and how many were already there.  Then I send the email back to the vendor for the credit.

Speaking of notification, I wish it was available on the end of a long campaign.  I sync the prospecting leads over to SFDC and they can take over 24 hours to complete or more. 

[Anonymous]

Interesting. We'll look into it then.

[Anonymous]

Hi Erik,

Is the auto notification feature being rolled out? I noticed that my coworker has been getting them after import automatically while I still have to manually click on the Send Import Notification.

-Jason