Re: Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

Anonymous
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Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

I'm trying to set a date in a reoccuring email to update automatically.  For example, the date i want to reference in the email is the first Wed of every month.  I was thinking a token would be the best way to do this but i'm not sure how to set this up.  I see that i can set a token for one date but not sure if i can set additional logic.  Any help here would be awesome.  
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Grant_Booth
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Re: Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

Hi Kristy, try creating a custom lead field to hold the date, and then have a recurring smart campaign which updates the field's value earlier that day using the {{system.date}} token:
https://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000LBvaCAG

I hope that helps!
Dory_Viscoglio
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Re: Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

An alternative method here (which is a little more work, but would also work) is to create 12 emails for a year, and in the send email flow you could use the add choice step, and say if date is January 1 - 31, send email for Feb; if date is Feb 1 - 28 send email for March; etc. 
Anonymous
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Re: Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

Dory, 

How would you dynamically change the date within the email in your scenario? 
Anonymous
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Re: Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

Grant, 

How do i set a date in there as an initial? Do i have to create a fake lead? 
Dory_Viscoglio
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Re: Tokens for Reoccurring Dates

Hi Kristy, I'd create the 12 emails for the entire year right now, so it isn't really dynamic, but you would be able to set it and forget it for the year.