Does anyone have a work around for a wait until the x of the month in a wait step?

Michelle_Tizian · ‎04-30-2013

I am setting up a drip campaign and the wait step is specificially for the 20th day of a month. But I'm not seeing that as an option and I saw that someone submitted this as an idea: Wait until the x of the month

Does anyone have a work around for this?

Anonymous · ‎05-01-2013

Michelle, as your leads are added to the new campaign, you can add them to a Static List and then have a recurring smart campaign that runs as a batch on the 20th of each month on the leads in the Static List. After it runs, it would remove the Leads from the Static List and the process would start all over again.

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Anonymous · ‎04-30-2013

I did some digging around and it looks like 1 month is exactly 1 month.

Example:

campaign triggered on Jan 13
1 month wait step
rest of flow on Feb 13

January is a 31 day month

campaign triggered on Sep 14
1 month wait step
rest of flow on Oct 14

September is a 30 day month

So a one month wait step will last till the exact day of the month, and they both resumed after the wait step within an hour of the time that the step began. I know that doesn't exactly solve the concept of "wait till X of month" but still you can trust a 1 month wait step beginning on the 20th to resume on the 20th.

Anonymous · ‎04-30-2013

It's not perfect but I use tokens and date tokens in my programs. I put all send dates (e.g. 20-01, 20-02, 20-03) as date tokens in my program setup. In the flow I choose date token for the wait steps. This enables the flow to mail every 20th of the month. Make sure to add an additional wait step of 10 hours to make sure it doesn't send at 0:00.

Anonymous · ‎04-30-2013

Hm, now that is an excellent question, Elliott! One that I have just publicly asked - https://community.marketo.com/MarketoDiscussionDetail?id=90650000000PbKRAA0

Anonymous · ‎04-30-2013

Rick, that sounds like a good workaround, but if you wait 1 month after a specific date, does that wait until the same date one month from now or does it wait 30 or 31 days? How does it handle a situation where it is the 31st of the month and you tell it to wait 1 month and the next month has 30 days or 28/29 days?

Anonymous · ‎04-30-2013

When is the email before the 20th day of the month email going out? Could you set one wait step to the 20th of a specific month and every wait step thereafter for 1 month?