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Best Practices for Troubleshooting RCE Program Opportunity Analysis Report Issues

Brian_Law_MKTO
Marketo Employee
Marketo Employee

Here are some tips to troubleshoot RCE Program Opportunity Analysis issues:

Issue

Suggested Remedy

It is difficult to sort by program in RCE

Create a program naming convention which is easy to sort by. For example, try starting all program names with YYYY for year and MM for month. Include the day if the program is an event. If there are multiple workspaces add the workspace to the program name.

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It is difficult to include or exclude certain programs in RCE

Include a program type abbreviation

(e.g. Seminar = SMR vs Road Show = RDS) in the program name

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Marketo users are creating programs with the incorrect channel

Try reducing the amount of channels to avoid confusion when creating a program from scratch. Build program templates with the correct channels already set. Create a cheat sheet highlighting the correct channel to use for each type of marketing activity.

Marketo users can’t remember which program status equals Success

Label the success status with “Success”

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Marketo users are forgetting to create smart campaigns to set success

Start by reducing your statuses to have as few as possible. Marketo will automatically set a record to the first program status when a record fills out a Marketo form on a Marketo landing page or when a record is imported directly into a program. Try creating program templates with a smart campaign that sets success.

I am unable to filter my report by program cost timeframe

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Add period cost to your programs.

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I didn't add the cost to any of my programs but I still want to see the programs appear in my report

To ensure your programs will appear in RCE reporting regardless of whether you included a period cost or not, set all non-operational channel analytics behavior to inclusive.

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I am not seeing all programs when I filter by a tag

Tags created after the program is created will not appear in the existing programs. If you add tags later they will need to be manually added to all existing programs. Make sure all tags are required and remember a “-None-” or “-Not Applicable-” option. Double check that the program missing in your report has the correct tag value.

Acquisition attribution (FT) is being credited to the incorrect program

Change the acquisition program and reset the acquisition date using a token (e.g. {{lead.Created At}} or {{lead.SFDC Created Date}}) Remember you can’t reset the membership date to the original date. If necessary remove the record as member of the original acquisition program, it doesn’t happen automatically when you change acquisition programs.

I changed acquisition programs but the records are still members of the original program

When you change acquisition programs it doesn’t automatically remove a record from the original acquisition program. Run a flow step if necessary to remove the record from the original program.

Opportunities synced from a CRM are not appearing associated to a records in Marketo

Make sure the CRM Opportunity Object is being synced to Marketo. Check that opportunities are associated to contacts via contact roles or is the primary on the opportunity.

The opportunity amount (pipeline or revenue won) is not appearing in the Program Opportunity Analysis report

Make sure there is an amount in the standard opportunity amount field.

The Program Opportunity Analysis report is showing Acquisition attribution (FT) but is not showing Success (MT) attribution

Check to make sure records are reaching success in the program where it was acquired.

The Program Opportunity Analysis report is showing Success attribution (MT) but is not showing Acquisition attribution (FT)Check to make sure you are setting acquisition for all records.

If you have additional remedies for resolving issues please add them below. Thanks!

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5 Comments
Aubrey_Morgan
Level 3

This is super helpful, Brian! One question: I'm trying to find total opportunity amount (not just portion of credit) in the Program Opportunity Analysis report. The goal is to identify which programs are most successful in influencing our largest opportunities, but it's difficult when it's broken up by credits.

Brian_Law_MKTO
Marketo Employee

Hi Aubrey, if the program acquired a record the total amount of opportunities plus amount created after the record was acquired will show in the report. I am unaware of being able to filter the report by opportunity size.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi Brian, Thanks for the rundown. We are having issues with a Nurture program showing in RCE- we search and every other nurture shows up but not the one we're looking for. We are using the program a bit unconventionally so no people have been put in a stream even though there are members in the program. Could this be why it's not showing? Is there a certain set of criteria for a program to show in RCE?

Thank you!

Brian_Law_MKTO
Marketo Employee

Hi, the program should still appear even with no members. Is the channel analytics behavior set to inclusive? Have you tried adding a test record as a member of the program?

Mackenzie_Warre
Level 2

This is really helpful! Thanks for creating this!