Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

Mikes_Jones
Level 8

Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

If I send an email using the Marketo add-in to an email that is not in our Marketo databse, will that lead be created and have activity created for? Thanks!

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Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

Yes!

Mikes_Jones
Level 8

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

What kind of information, exactly? First and Last name? How about company name? Only ask because our Salesforce instance, which syncs with Marketo, requires a lead to have those fields or else it won't sync to Salesforce.

Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

No, it can't have first and last name. All we have to work off is the email address...

Mikes_Jones
Level 8

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

So guessing we can just fill in the rest of the info manually? Thanks!

Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

Absolutely. I believe if you log an email you received with Marketo, then if First & Last name are present we record it. But when you are sending we won't have that.

Mikes_Jones
Level 8

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

So hypothetical: I send a Marketo message through Outlook to a new lead. Marketo then creates a new record with only their email address. Then that lead replies to the email, does Marketo now have their first and last name?


Thanks!

Dan_Stevens_
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

No.  They would either need to submit a form; or already exist in your DB, at which point, the activity would be merged with the existing lead record.

Justin_Cooperm2
Level 10

Re: Sending Email Using Marketo For Outlook to new lead

Yeah, any reply is going directly to your inbox and Marketo has no ability (or right) to sniff it. The plugin does have a way to "log a received sales email" manually, however, which is what I was referring to.