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Good advice, but incomplete and misleading in some areas -there are 5 other ways to capture (and log) consent (contract etc) - this is not simply about “did I have checkbox ticked) and some cases.   Explicit consent is only required if you‘re  processing sensitive data. Art 4(11)) ... View more

yeah annoyingly yes 😞 ... View more

It could be poor setup on Marketo for sure on your pod then.  IMHO they made a terrible mistake with not going fully managed/hosted (hopefully something they will fix with the move to GCP). ... View more

50,000k is standard now for renewal I believe.  We had 10k but recently upped it to 100,000k per day (1m across all our instances) and it's fine. ... View more

Best way is an export via a API.  If you have a decent API limit it shouldn't take too long - a few weeks.  We bring everything down nightly into warehouses for analysis.   This includes Leads and all Lead Activity for the last 4 years. ... View more

The lag is expected.  "Corona" is just a name they use for the Solr indexes they use to index your data (Note: you don't need to be on Orion to have Corona).    The lag is where your data is cached or changing and needs to be replicating.  If you have an ever changing DB i.e. Change Data Value etc then you will experience a small lag on load.  ... View more

We use this : SSIS Integration Toolkit for Marketo   It is one of the gave seen/used.  We looked at Cdata as well as rolling our own via Talend but the performance of the Kingswaysoft connector as well as their customer service has been brilliant. We asked for several features to be built into the product (such as a limit on the number of API calls made) and within a week or so we had it! if you are not restricted by API call limits or have a large set - then just set it up, and deploy to an SSIS catalog. ... View more

Also note that Workspaces and Partitions are "free" in the new pricing model so worth speaking to our AM in order not to spend unnecessarily. ... View more

No errors for me following the docs, I can successfully request/grab the data - but - the mix of plain text separated by comma and JSON is extremely odd and useless IMHO.   For now I would stick to using a connector like Kingswaysoft (though I will think about how I can use this API going forward) ... View more

Sure and apologies on the delay in response - I have been working on a large project and have been heads down! ... View more

Around 30 Activity Type (our leads are in Salesforce already and we link via ID) ... View more

Yes, DB size was always the driver when we purchased Marketo (8 instances) - we never had a user limit on who could access it and to be honest - I can't see a reason to introduce it now. ... View more

We haven't use it with Wave but we do use it with Tableau.  Wave is fairly restricted in it use tbh - what we do is fire it into into DW using SSIS (Leads, Activities etc) and mine it that way - far quicker and more efficient. ... View more

RCE is also ridiculously slow which can make it hard to get any meaningful use - I heard also that RCE is being overhauled/replaced? ... View more

When this happens it will be awesome!!   it is sorely needed and to be honest - very strange it doesn't exist already?  +1 Any update? ... View more

Marketo is great tool no question but deep analysis of campaign data is near impossible in the tool itself - you are best to look at API/data inetegration and getting the info into a Datawarehouse ... View more

Hi Farooq, The Alteryx connector, although easy to use, does not bring down the necessary level of detail you need to do this (no idea why it missed such a glaring thing?!) - you will need to create your own workflow within Alteryx - this will need to do the following: - Obtain an Access Token - Obtain a Paging Token - Iterative Macro to loop over each relevant Activity ID (10 - Open Email , 6 - Send email etc) to get each page of data - Write to the DB N ... View more

Kickbox +1 from me.  And ridiculously cheap and good value for money ... View more

I think for us, and perhaps everyone, is the ability to get the data out of Marketo to blend together with other sources and to place into a datawarehouse.  The API limits are very very limiting ... View more

We have definitely seen a lot of lag in the past (mostly down to poor programs or order of execution choices) but since we had our pod moved to new infrastructure it has been blisteringly fast (less customers, more power 😉 NOTE RE: Corona (or to be more precise Marketo's re-branded name for Apache Solr) will and can produce a little lag on UI and database retrieval as the indexes get rebuilt / updated with changes.   ... View more

if you are going HTTPS on your side you need to ensure that your Marketo LP's are also HTTPS - It's a fairly straightforward process to get Marketo to setup SSL - just supply the cert and follow the instructions in the doc attached. Once installed and ready to go you will need to: Re-approve all landing pages, which you can do in bulk by going to Design Studio, then clicking on “Landing Pages”. You can now multi-select pages and unapproved and approve again via the “Landing Page Actions” menu. It is also recommended to change all images, JavaScript files and other external links in landing pages to HTTPS, otherwise users may get an “Insecure Content on Secure Pages” error. Also update any images that are hard-coded into the template. If you include a Marketo landing page on a secure website using an iframe, you will need to load the secure version of the landing page, otherwise the end user will get a security warning. If you use a Marketo Form on a Non-Marketo Page, you will need to update the Post URL to HTTPS. If you do a server-side post to a Marketo Form and you use your CNAME as the Post URL, you also need to change that to HTTPS ... View more

Correct - especially on iPhone where it marks as an open no matter what. ... View more

I think we also need to be wary of noting "bugs" (there are some 😉 in Marketo when things like IP are not bugs - they are, in most cases, facts of life.  If you are on a shared IP range (you are on more than one f you are) you will hit a spam trap pretty much at least once every day and more than likely due to other orgs mailings - if it your mailings then your data may have a spam trap in it or be poor quality.   Do you know where your instance/is?  UK or US? The issue with deliverability is people expect 100% or compare it with previous rools...which, in marketing and with things like mass mailings to Outlook/Yahoo etc - is unlikely to happen. ... View more

Have you signed up/attended the London User Group yet?  ... View more

There is no question that Velocity is great feature but it does have its fairly significant drawbacks - can't be used with Snippets, spome of the more useful VTL libs are not switched to name a few. ... View more

To remove any of the gaps in content created by velocity - add a ## at the of each variable you output - this will remove it. ... View more

Yep, this is an out of the box feature for Marketo (as long as the record is known to Marketo) ... View more