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Please consider the link  below if necessary to learn more about Email Link Performance Report before you proceed further: - http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Email+Link+Performance+Report Let's say here that you sent an Email out and you ran the Report after to retrieve data about Click Link(s) in it by Leads who received and opened it. You may realize that the Link: http://go.xxxxxxxx.com/xxxx-xxxxxxxxx_rsvp.html  is not in the related Email xxxxxxxxx.Invite.Invitation. Is it a bug? Remember that there are two ways to edit/view any Marketo Email:  HTML  & Text Version as shown below: You must be only looking into the HTML Version for the link which is not enough to identify this as a Bug. How is it possible? Marketo Users often clone an original Email to create a new one, modify its content and send it out after approving it.  Once the Email in question reaches targeted Leads mailbox, some of them open it in Text version with the possibility to click a Link(s) in it. So, if you missed to convert the HTML version to Text (when you don't have the "Automatically Copy From HTML" option checked) before you approve it, it will be sent out with a link(s) which belongs to the cloned one. How to avoid this? ALWAYS REMEMBER to convert HTML to Text Version (Copy from HTML) if you decide to not go for the automated option before you approve an Email. Particularly, when you clone an existing one.
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You may want to track history of Marketo Forms filled out by your Leads so you can identify which Form was filled out first or last. What I am going to share with you today, will give you an idea about how you can easily implement this under your Marketo instance. 1.  Requirements 1.2  Field(s) You will have to create two (2) Fields under Marketo only, if you don’t want their data to be synced to your CRM account. Otherwise, the Fields must be created under Lead/Contact Objects in your CRM (E.g. Salesforce). Make sure there are visible to the Marketo Sync User and that he has Read & Write access on it. They will be then synced to Marketo and ready to use.  Let us name the Fields here  Last Form & Last Form History. Links below must be useful for creating Fields in: -  Marketo:  http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Create+a+Custom+Field+in+Marketo -  Salesforce: https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=adding_fields.htm&type=0 Note that an Admin Role is required in both cases. -  Fields should be “Text” type as shown below: 1.3  A Trigger Campaign -   A Trigger Campaign that will fire when a Lead fills out any Form as shown below under the Smart List Tab: -  And the Flow should be set as the following:                                                                                Remember to set the Campaign under the Schedule Tab so a Lead can go through the Flow every time. Please consider the link below to learn more about it: -  http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Edit+Qualification+Rules+in+a+Smart+Campaign 2. Expected result   When a Lead fills out a Form, if the Last Form field is empty it will be updated with the Form name. And so the Last Form History. The next time he fills out another Form, the new Form name will overwrite the existing data in the Last Form Field. The Last Form History one will be also updated.
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                                                   This article is ONLY valid for Marketo-MS Dynamics integration. WHEN? In a situation where Data in Fields that are blocked from update in Marketo failed to sync over to the corresponding CRM Fields at the first place. REASONS: Fields wrongly mapped, not visible to the Marketo sync User in CRM, system failure, Read-Only Fields in CRM. You may want to update those Fields in MS Dynamics (E.g. Inferred City, Lead Source, etc...) at some stage, here is what you can do. 1. Export Lead/Contact Records from your CRM with the Fields that you would like to update 1.1   Create a Quick View Form to make sure only records with required Fields are exported In the default solution, using the solution explorer, expand the Entities node and select the entity you want to create a new quick  view form for. Expand the entity and select the Forms node. Choose New and select Quick View Form. This will open the form editor. In the form editor, choose Form Properties in the Form group of the Home tab. In the Form Properties dialog box, enter a Form Name and Description to differentiate this quick view form from any others and close the Form Properties dialog box. Edit the form to add the fields you want. In this scenario, I will be updating the Lead Source Field under Lead Entity. 1.2   You can now export the List using the EXPORT TO EXCEL option   1.3   The exported File will look like the following: Note that there are hidden columns on this file, once you edit them, the file will be corrupted. They are very important while importing the final List to update the records in MS Dynamics. They are used to identify the targeted Leads/Contacts so they can be updated accordingly.  This is how the file will look when you unhide them. Do not unhide those 3 Columns otherwise the file will be corrupted. If you attempt to do so, you will get an error when you try to import the List later into Microsoft Dynamics. 2. Update exported File accordingly Note that if the number of records to be updated is huge, you may consider exporting the List of Leads in question from the related Marketo instance. Again, only with the required Fields (E.g. Full Name, Email & Lead Source). Sort the two Lists alphabetically from A to Z to make sure the Marketo List records in cell 1, 2,3… match the corresponding CRM ones. Then copy all data in the Lead Source Field from the Marketo List and paste it into the CRM one. This can be done also by VLOOKUP (https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/VLOOKUP-function-0bbc8083-26fe-4963-8ab8-93a18ad188a1). The final List should look like the one above:   2.1   Save the List as .csv file.  Other supported formats: Text (.txt) Compressed (.zip) Excel Spreadsheet 2003 (.xml) Excel Workbook (.xlsx) Note that the maximum file size allowed for .zip files is 32 MB. For the other file formats, the maximum file size allowed is 8 MB. 2.2   Now import the updated List into CRM by clicking on IMPORT DATA   2.3   Select the file to be imported into Microsoft Dynamics from its location   When you proceed, you will be asked to map the Marketo Fields with the CRM ones accordingly if required during the process as shown below: Continue with next steps until completion. 2.4   Result – Lead Source Field updated successfully in your CRM   All done!
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We are excited to launch a new onboarding guide for SMB customers who purchased our Lead Management solution. This was developed for practitioners and provides a framework for how to build effective, scalable campaigns in Marketo within the first few months. It covers topics including the revenue funnel, attracting/acquiring/engaging leads, lead nurturing, customer marketing, sales and marketing alignment, and reports.
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Marketo Users often create a Trigger Campaign to trigger "Clicks Link” or “Open Email” activities on AB Test Email Program. They are surprised that they cannot find the emails in question under the Smart List drop menu for the trigger (1). Or, they successfully selected the Emails without issue and activated the Trigger Campaign, but after all it is throwing errors (2). What happened? 1. When Emails are used under AB Test Email Program, their name is wrapped with the Program Name + Test Type Name. E.g.  TEST AB TESTING.Whole Emails Test (it will look different depending on Test Type you select. But, it will always start with the Program Name). Then, targeted Emails name can be located under Constraint Trigger “Test Variant” as shown below (Emails Name here are Email A/Email B & Test Type: Whole Emails):   Note that Link & Test Variant can be found under “Add Constraint”. Also, it is very important to approve the AB Test Program before you create the Trigger Campaign otherwise those data won’t be available there for you to use. 2. Errors can be the result of not activating the AB Test Email Program before doing so for the related Trigger Campaign. Because, if it is activated in the first place there is no way to find the Emails' Name under the Trigger Smart List. Meaning that after initiating the AB Test, the system can no longer retrieve the targeted Emails name. Consequently, you get an error under the Trigger Campaign Smart List and it won’t fire.          
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Setting up the right statuses is really important for reporting. It allows you to conduct better analysis and make the right decisions. It is important that you define the statuses for your program as well as what success means to you. In the example above we have an invitation for a boat event. The statuses are: invited, registered, no show and attended. For this particular case Success is based on attendance. Other businesses decide to chose registration as a success, specially those businesses who are in the lead generation game. If you have not defined the statuses of that particular program you can always do it at a later stage. You need to go to Admin / Tags / Channels. You also need to create the campaigns that will define the different program statuses. This as an example of the campaigns that I created for one of my customers. This is an example of one of the campaigns that defines a change in Program Status. We are defining REGISTERED as program status. When our form is filled (Smart List) the flow is change program status to registered. For event programs it is particularly important that you define Program Statuses.  This will also give you other options for setting up campaigns such as email reminders for people who were invited but they haven't registered yet.
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Note: This originally appeared on our LaunchPoint partner, Elixiter's, website. Filter Operators: How to Define the Perfect Smart List String Fields Smart Lists are probably the single most important thing to learn in Marketo. They are extremely powerful and flexible. Their sole purpose is to define a group of people. Knowing how to use Marketo smart list filters and their operators will ensure you capture the exact group of people you need. An operator is part of the smart list that lets you get specific, narrowing down your group with clearly defined criteria. It lets you describe your filter or trigger in straight-forward language. The available operators are different depending on the type of field you are using. This article will cover smart list string fields, its operators and how to use them to get exactly what you need. String Fields A String field supports up to 255 characters and stores them all on a single line. A few examples of string fields are: Name Fields Email address City Company Name Job Title Industry Acquisition Program Name Lead Source Clicked on Web Page String Field Operators All string field filters have the following operators to help you define your smart list criteria: Operator Definition Is Exact match (not case sensitive) Is not Anything EXCEPT exact match Starts with First letters of string match Contains Any letters together in the string match Not contains No letters together in the string match (opposite of contains) Is empty No value (NULL) Is not empty Records with ANY value When to use Operators Knowing what operator to use to get the group of people you want is imperative. Operators directly impact smart list result. If you’re not careful, the wrong operator will include incorrect leads or exclude vital leads in your smart list. Below is a table to help you decide what string field operator to use when to use and an example of the results: Operator When to use Example Results with Job Title Field Is Use when you need only exact criteria Is “Manager” will return leads only with this title.Leads with titles such as “Senior Manager”, “Marketing Manager” or “managing” will be excluded from results. Is not Use when you need to exclude specific criteria Is not “Manager” will return leads who do not have this exact match.Leads with titles such as “Senior Manager”, “Marketing Manager” or “managing” will beincluded in results. Starts with Use when you want a group of people who have similar first letters in a string field. Best used in fields that don’t have a lot of variation. Starts with “Marketing” will return leads who have this in the first letters of their job title.Leads with titles such as “Marketing Director”, “Marketing Associate” will beincluded. “Chief Marketing Officer” and “Director of Marketing” will be excluded. Contains Use when you need a group of people who have similar letters anywhere in a string field Contains “marketing” will return leads who have this anywhere in their job title.Leads with titles such as “Marketing Director”, “Marketing Associate”, “Chief Marketing Officer” and “Director of Marketing” will all be included. Not contains The opposite of Contains. Use this when you need to exclude a specific criteria. Not Contains “Accounting” will return ALL leads that do not have this in their job title. Is empty Returns only fields who are empty (NULL). Is Empty will return only leads who do not have a job title listed on their account. Is not empty The opposite of “is empty”. Returns all leads who have any value in this field. Is not Empty will return ALL leads who have a value listed. Still having trouble with your smart list results? Contact us for assistance with a custom solution. Related How Tos: Marketo Fields: How to Translate Checkbox Fields Into Text Using Formula Fields
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