Hi Rob,
There are more than one way to achieve this in Marketo. In your writing, though, 2 notions are combined:
- Triggers, which are the mechanism by which Marketo reacts to prospects actions and other prospects related events (such as when a prospect data field is updated). Triggers are used to start flows of actions. the combinations of one (or a few) trigger and some actions is a smart campaign
- personalized / dynamic content, which is Marketo feature by which the Marketer using Marketo can create content that fits various situations
In your case, you could just prepare a few emails and a few smart campaign that just do something such as "if someone completes some data, send him an email asking him to complete an action"
You could also prepare a smart campaign that selects a list of people and send them en email with the following rule: if the lead has completed his profile, send him email A (with a CTA to the actions), otherwise, send him email B (with another CTA). This will be a batch smart campaign, wince it does not react to an event, like triggers do, but let you select some leads in you Database and launch a flow of actions to this target list.
Finally, you could use an even more sophisticated feature, as per Conor's proposition above, that combines both a segmentation of your DB (creation of self maintained segments in a segmentation that split you database) and dynamic content, which are single emails which content is changed automatically based on the segment a lead belongs. But I strongly recommend that you do not try this technique until you are first familiar with the others.
-Greg
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