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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.
Joined the community 23-07-2014
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  • Re: Understanding a Spike in Click Activity

    The newer mail scanners scan all links, and expect that only to grow in share (as long as link prescanning is done it all). Older ones (still in use in-the-wild) scanned only the first, somewhat bizarrely.Remember, the mail scanners are designed so they can't be evaded by malicious actors. So if you...

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  • Re: Understanding a Spike in Click Activity

    It won't apply to filters/bots that "click" other links, but they seem to be the exception at this point.Mail scanners that click all links are definitely not the exception... don't know where you'd get that idea. A scanner is useless if it doesn't click all links.

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  • Re: Fun Fact Friday: GOTCHA! Webhooks and Revenge of the Rich Text

    Like you said in your last sentence, the real error here was attempting to represent an apostrophe at all in the name of a field.The straight quote (') is actually more problematic than the curly quote-as-apostrophe (’) in data processing scenarios, because the straight quote has a reserved use in m...

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  • Re: Marketo Tokens: Ins and Outs

    That's cool that you found it, since it continues to frustrate me that the default behavior is broken.

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  • Re: Marketo Tokens: Ins and Outs

    You must not track mailto: links (you need to turn off tracking). Read this: Stop tracking mailto: links (if you want them to work)​

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  • Re: Marketo Tokens: Ins and Outs

    I did not actually set up a Rich Text token. Instead I edited my HTML behind the CTA button to now be, Click Here for Survey ... or something like that ... OK, a {{lead.token}} behaves equivalently to a text {{my.token}}.This might work?Have you tested it? It's the standard setup.

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  • Re: Marketo Tokens: Ins and Outs

    You should hardcode "http​://" or "https:​//" but the hostname isn't necessarily "www," so you should keep that part of the token.The way that Marketo scans email content for trackable links requires this setup for standard text tokens.Note that in contrast, Velocity (email script) tokens -- used fo...

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  • Be smart about “dummy” email addresses

    Sometimes you need a valid-looking email address as a placeholder, but you need to be sure that it truly doesn't exist — and that it's unique across your whole database. For example, a lead's Email Address can be blank or have a basic syntax error (username missing @domain, only a domain wi...

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  • Those bulletproof buttons are also *tracking*-proof, though (here's th...

    Some time back, the folks at Campaign Monitor contributed the go-to fancy button builder for cross-device emails, Bulletproof email buttons. If you haven't seen it, it looks like this:Their compatibility testing was an awesome donation to the MA community, but there's a problem with the generated co...

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  • Re: A Few More Email Scripting Examples

    JD, if you search my Community posts on Velocity, you'll see several examples of this.

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