Marketo will dedupe on the email address, so provided that the email address already exists in Marketo, it will pull that record into your program and onto your static list -- whic...
Adding on to what's already been said, in the Admin section under Email, have you enabled bot activity filtering(not reCAPTCHA)? And are you filtering out instead of logging? If yo...
Seconding everything@Katja_Keesomis saying, and also I want to add that you want to be sure that you're taking a close look at specifically what data you're importing in and unders...
How are you currently building your smart lists to distribute these emails? These fields can be used as filters in your smart lists to filter in (or out) the users who indicate cer...
You are correct in that you can only progress (higher step ##) or move laterally (same step#).
However, with your setup the way it is, you will be erasing the historical program a...
How are you organizing your emails within Marketing Activities? If everything of a particular type is stored within a folder, you can build specific reports based on the contents o...
If you have admin access, you may also consider looking into the activities sync as this will also push user activities over to Salesforce -- but this is not the same as a program ...
You will need to create smart campaigns for each email.
The way I would recommend it would be to have a template of a batch program that contains all your needed assets (emails, s...
Here are a couple of additional resources that might help:
Marketo Success Series: Email Programs
Marketo Success Series: Channel Building
Creating a Smart Campaign
As mentioned a...