I'm a web, database, and network architect based in NYC, with specializations in the financial services, publishing, and SaaS sectors.
I build complex Marketo integrations for companies large and small... and can make Marketo forms and emails do things you never thought possible!
Check out my blog at https://blog.teknkl.com, which has Marketo-specific technical insights you won't see anywhere else, along with wider topics from my programming and systems work.
Recently got confirmation that avery large German ISPstilldoesn’t like tracked links in Marketo emails. By “doesn’t like” I mean their webmail totally chokes and displays the (par...
I can hear your inner thoughts: “Don’t dowhatnow?Marketo already enforces the rule that two programs can’t have the same name (at the same point in time).”
Ah, but that rule isn’...
Being paranoid about encoding — URL encoding, HTML encoding, UTF-8 encoding,anyencoding — helps avoid uncomfortable post-mortems.
But here’s one type ofapparentencoding bug that’...
Interesting thread over in the Products discussion area, where userDNasked:
I am trying to create an unsubscribe form that has various values for the reason someone is unsubscri...
Some apps (but not Marketo) are far too open-minded about underscores in host names. Here’s one SaaS setup guide saying underscores aren’t “web best practice,” but allowing them a...
@Kevin_Tuttle1 wouldn’t advise using contains() directly on the String value because it can lead to unexpected results when subvalues have text in common.
Rather, use a proper spl...
Know what youdon’t want every recipient seeing if they click your CTA? A completely blank screen with the URL stuck on the tracking link:
And you don’t want them seeing this (no...
A client gets regular uploads of quarterly sales data into Marketo custom objects. They send a “your recent activity” email to customers when each quarter ends or a few days after...
Behold a very simple Marketo form that auto-fills 3 familiar fields from the current query string:
(Of course this setup is wildly insufficient for multitouch tracking, but that...
FWIW, I've found placeholder.com to be must less reliable than fpoimg.com for serving placeholder images
Could be! I use gifpng.com usually. But when the placeholder service is b...