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Adding CC: to Marketo emails?

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Anonymous
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Hello Nation!

Is there a way to add CC email(s) onto a email sent via Marketing automation? I tried doing multiple, comma-separated emails in the reply-to section with no luck.

For context, I want to send out an automated email from myself, but also CC the client's sales rep so we can both stay in the loop in case there is a reply to the email.

Thanks for the help!

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Paul_Johnson
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Paul_Johnson
Level 5

So excited that this feature has been added!

https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Email+CC

Dan_Stevens_
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

I would be very careful if you plan on using this extensively as it could really skew your reporting and throw a bunch of false positives.  According to the docs:

  • If a CC recipient clicks a tracked link in the email, click activity (like all other engagement activity) will be associated with the email's main recipient. Additionally, they may click through to a page with Marketo’s web tracking code (munchkin.js), causing them to be cookied as the main recipient.
Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

Curious how folks are solving this today without using the CC feature. There are three common scenarios that would result in the same experience you describe:

  • Your Marketo email is forwarded to a colleague/contact (even worse, to an alias)
  • A public/shared computer is being used where the device was cookied by someone using the computer previously
  • One of your email recipients reaches a landing page (with mkt_tok in the query string, as is default for all Marketo links), then clicks in the address bar, copies and shares the link broadly on the web or via email.

To get a true CC, you are going to get the experience that the links are tracked for the individual on the To line. There is no technical way around that. However, we do offer tools (like disabling tracking OR just the mkt_tok) from your links. Finally, in some scenarios for using this feature, our customers actually do want to see activity even if it was the CC individual taking action (EA for a CEO). Similarly, if you're CC'ing account owners on many emails going out, they can setup rules in their email client to store these emails in specific folders, as well as understand that the email should not be interacted with unless they are taking action like replying to the thread (which is the primary use case for this feature).

One final piece that may be confusing for people is that this is not a Marketo auditing feature, like our BCC experience. In the future, we may expand our email archival capabilities to offer more functionality. But, this CC feature we launched is intended for customers who do truly want to create threads from the Marketo emails and feel that the benefits are essential to how they do business. For some of our customers in Financial Services industry, this is a key way they intend to send important marketing correspondence to smaller, select audiences.

Justin

SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Yes, this (however predictably) totally harmful to tracking. Too bad.

Sant_Singh_Rath
Level 7

I don't think this option is available in Marketo emails.

Best regards,
Sant Singh Rathaur
Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

Workin on it!

Navin_Watumull
Level 2

Do you have an ETA on when the cc'ing ability will be available?

Grégoire_Miche2
Level 10

The idea here is the place to go and check.

-Greg

Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

There are also some 3rd Party solutions available for reply-to management, where you can control how replies are managed for various campaigns.

Anonymous
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What 3rd party solutions?

Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10
Anonymous
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I am only saying this for the record: there is an option to to BCC every single email to another address (every individual recipient results in a BCC).

You do not want to do this unless you have a regulatory need.  I'm only mentioning it for completeness.

Other than that, you either have to make sure the sales rep's address is also a member of their smart list/segmentation, or use Send Alert as @Todd mentions.

Bill_Staples
Level 1

Hi Jaime, Could you please share the instructions on how to BCC every single email to another address in Marketo? Thanks.

SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Bill, you open a case for this. It's not a UI thing.

Bill_Staples
Level 1

Thanks. I did open a case, but thought I would inquire with others who already went down this path. I'll just hold tight and wait for a response from Marketo Customer Support.

Navin_Watumull
Level 2

What was the solution here? Is there a way to bcc (or cc) one particular email address on a batch of emails?

SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

I believe the underlying Marketo infrastructure is being prepped for this feature, but as far as I know it hasn't been made generally available.