Salesforce Marketing Cloud

09Oct

Case Study: Largest Native American Tribe in the US-Citizen Engagement for Tribes-Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS)/Health Cloud/Experience Cloud/Marketing Cloud and Mulesoft

Citizen Engagement for Tribes Salesforce Tribal Government MuleSoft Experience Cloud Health Cloud Public Sector Solutions (PSS) Health Cloud Experience Cloud Tribal Nation Solutions MuleSoft Marketing Cloud salesforce tribal government mulesoft Industry: Tribes – Government & Healthcare PROBLEM: SOLUTION: Implementation of Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS), Health Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud & MuleSoft: RESULTS: Like1 Related Posts Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more Salesforce Data Studio Data Studio Overview Salesforce Data Studio is Salesforce’s premier solution for audience discovery, data acquisition, and data provisioning, offering access Read more Salesforce Government Cloud: Ensuring Compliance and Security Salesforce Government Cloud public sector solutions offer dedicated instances known as Government Cloud Plus and Government Cloud Plus – Defense. Read more How Travel Companies Are Using Big Data and Analytics In today’s hyper-competitive business world, travel and hospitality consumers have more choices than ever before. With hundreds of hotel chains Read more

October 9, 2023in Mulesoft, Salesforce Experience Cloud, Salesforce Government Cloud, Salesforce Health Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Public Sector Solutions, Salesforce Success Stories

05Oct

Salesforce Marketing Cloud vs Salesforce Account Engagement

Understanding Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Exacttarget) compared to Salesforce Account Engagement (Pardot), and their differences. Distinguish between Pardot and Marketing Cloud with these highlights: Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (Marketing Cloud formerly ExactTarget) Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly named Pardot) The answer to all the above questions is no. Salesforce Account Engagement and Marketing Cloud – two equally powerful marketing automation platforms for very different use cases. Pardot (Account Engagement) is used for ‘considered purchases’ where there are long sales cycles and multiple decision-makers – which is typical of B2B, but not exclusively. Marketing Cloud is best suited to transactional purchases across multiple marketing channels – which is typical of B2C, but not exclusively. As time goes on, you’ll find more examples of organizations marketing to consumers that will be making a considered purchase, and on the flip side, more accounts (B2B) making transactional purchases, in high-volume, such as self-service commerce. ‘Is Pardot a part of Marketing Cloud?’ and ‘Is Pardot Included in Marketing Cloud?’ It depends on how you interpret ‘part of’, which could mean two things: Built on the same product architecture = no, Pardot is partly on its own platform, and partly on the core Salesforce platform. Marketing Cloud still exists on its own, not on the core Salesforce platform. Despite being renamed “Marketing Cloud Account Engagement”, the two do not function together, nor are sold together. Marketing Cloud still exists on its own, not on the core Salesforce platform. Like Related Posts Salesforce Data Studio Data Studio Overview Salesforce Data Studio is Salesforce’s premier solution for audience discovery, data acquisition, and data provisioning, offering access Read more How Travel Companies Are Using Big Data and Analytics In today’s hyper-competitive business world, travel and hospitality consumers have more choices than ever before. With hundreds of hotel chains Read more Marketing Cloud Account Engagement and Salesforce Campaigns The interplay between Account Engagement and Salesforce Campaigns often sparks confusion and frustration among users. In this insight, we’ll demystify Read more Integration of Salesforce Sales Cloud to Google Analytics 360 Announced In November 2017, Google unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with Salesforce, outlining their commitment to develop innovative integrations between Google Analytics Read more

October 5, 2023in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot)

01Oct

Get to Know Ampscript Marketing Cloud

AMPscript is Marketing Cloud Engagement’s proprietary scripting language designed for advanced dynamic content in emails, landing pages, SMS, and push messages. While incorporating basic programming concepts, AMPscript is user-friendly and accessible even to non-coders, enabling the creation of highly personalized and dynamic content. Its purpose is to expand Marketing Cloud Engagement functionality to facilitate one-to-one personalized communications, offering marketers a powerful tool to enhance their digital campaigns. AMPscript Functionality: AMPscript serves several functions within Marketing Cloud Engagement, including: Categories and Examples of AMPscript Functionality: Scenarios Where AMPscript is Utilized: Get to Know Ampscript Language Components of AMPscript: AMPscript provides the flexibility to create highly dynamic emails and content by leveraging variables, operators, and conditional logic. The subsequent unit covers basic functions and syntax to aid users in initiating their journey with AMPscript. Like1 Related Posts Salesforce Data Studio Data Studio Overview Salesforce Data Studio is Salesforce’s premier solution for audience discovery, data acquisition, and data provisioning, offering access Read more How Travel Companies Are Using Big Data and Analytics In today’s hyper-competitive business world, travel and hospitality consumers have more choices than ever before. With hundreds of hotel chains Read more Integration of Salesforce Sales Cloud to Google Analytics 360 Announced In November 2017, Google unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with Salesforce, outlining their commitment to develop innovative integrations between Google Analytics Read more Overlooked Costs of a Salesforce Implementation Let’s look at some frequently overlooked Salesforce costs. The goal is to provide businesses and decision-makers with a comprehensive understanding Read more

October 1, 2023in Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Salesforce for Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality

29Sep

Salesforce and the Impact on Transportation and Hospitality

Capitalizing on the public’s eagerness to travel post pandemic, the travel and hospitality industry finds its most lucrative opportunity may be in 2024. Salesforce and the Impact on Transportation and Hospitality industries is here to help. A significant 44% of Americans are anticipated to embark on leisure holiday trips this year, emphasizing the need for the travel and hospitality sector to enhance customer services and, consequently, boost revenue. This is where Salesforce’s capacity to centralize customer data, interactions, and feedback becomes most valuable. In this blog post, Tectonic will delve deeper into understanding the pivotal role of Salesforce CRM in the travel and hospitality industry. Creating a real-time view of your guests helps to surprise and delight them across every interaction. Salesforce and the Impact on Transportation and Hospitality The suite of Salesforce for hospitality has digital abilities that help hotels, casinos, and resorts continually adapt to the changing expectations of their guests. Salesforce Sales Cloud helps scale revenue. Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Account Engagement customize engagements with guests. With Salesforce Flow and Case Management simplify and automate many of the time-consuming tasks that slow the hotel business down. The Influence of Salesforce on Customer Experiences Personalized touchpoints facilitated by Salesforce 360 degree customer view contribute to a seamless and cohesive customer journey, from the initial inquiry phase to post-trip engagement. Leveraging the platform’s capabilities, travel and hospitality businesses can devise targeted marketing campaigns that directly address the interests and preferences of their customers, leading to increased engagement and conversion rates. Salesforce’s impact extends to post-booking interactions, where businesses can sustain customer relationships by providing relevant updates, recommendations, and support throughout the travel experience. Salesforce enables businesses to transcend standard service levels, delivering moments of delight and genuine connection. With Salesforce and the Impact on Transportation and Hospitality is boosting business and customer satisfaction. Powering Salesforce for Tailored Customer Interactions The ability to deliver personalized customer interactions is pivotal in the travel and hospitality industry’s success. Through the robust capabilities of the Salesforce platform in customer data management and segmentation, businesses can create detailed customer profiles capturing preferences, past interactions, and feedback. This information forms the basis for crafting tailored experiences, from personalized recommendations and promotions to targeted promotional offers and invitations. Whether adding SMS texting, web personalization for returning visitors, or social media retargeted advertising, Salesforce has the right tools for your hospitality company and Tectonic has the experience to implement those tools for you. Salesforce’s marketing automation and personalization features enable businesses to deploy customized communication strategies, delivering the right message to the right customer over the right channel at the right time. Leveraging data-driven insights, businesses can orchestrate customer journeys that are highly relevant and engaging, fostering a sense of individuality and exclusivity. Integrating Salesforce with Your Booking and Reservation Systems Salesforce has significantly impacted the travel and hospitality industry by integrating with many booking and reservation systems. Seamless connectivity between Salesforce and these vital systems streamlines the entire customer journey, from initial inquiry to post-trip follow-up. This integration centralizes customer data and booking information, providing a comprehensive view of each customer’s interactions and preferences. This integration ability also decreases your time to market with a Salesforce solution and increases your return on investment. Reduced technical debt brings greater impact to the entire organization. Sales, Salesforce and the Impact on Transportation and Hospitality Enhanced collaboration between sales, marketing, and customer service teams is facilitated, ensuring a cohesive approach to customer interactions. With a unified view of all your customer data, teams can deliver personalized recommendations, offer timely assistance, and coordinate pre- and post-trip communication. Automation of processes such as booking confirmations and post-trip surveys enhances operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. Streamlining Marketing and Sales Efforts with Salesforce Marketing and sales efforts are integral components of a successful travel and hospitality business, and Salesforce offers tools and features designed to streamline these critical functions. The platform’s marketing automation capabilities enable businesses to create targeted campaigns, personalized communications, and automated workflows. By leveraging customer data and insights, businesses can craft highly relevant and engaging marketing initiatives, driving higher levels of engagement and conversion. Salesforce’s sales management tools empower businesses to track customer interactions, manage leads, and optimize the sales pipeline for improved conversion rates. With features such as lead scoring, opportunity tracking, and predictive analytics, Salesforce equips businesses with resources to drive sales efficiency and effectiveness. A centralized source of truth for guests allows marketing to hand warmed leads off to sales with complete information. Salesforce collaboration tools enable everyone on your property to see all relevant information to best serve guests and their unique needs. Travelers have a natural yen for exploration and excellent, personalized interactions powered by the Salesforce ecosystem allow you to know your customers where they are when they interact with you and provide them with the next best experience powered by CRM Analytics and Einstein. Salesforce, Tectonic, and You Salesforce serves as a catalyst for transformation within the travel and hospitality industry, enabling businesses to redefine customer experiences and elevate their offerings. As the industry embraces digital innovation and customer-centric strategies, Salesforce stands poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of travel and hospitality, driving sustained growth and differentiation for businesses that harness its potential. Tectonic has serious travel and hospitality industry experience positioning us to deliver a Salesforce solution customized for your business model and to deliver it quickly. As Salesforce Partners, Tectonic’s experienced team of Salesforce consultants can help strengthen your overall CRM strategy, enhance business workflows, and create a very powerful custom solution to delight your customers and empower your employees. Strategic Salesforce Consulting Partners provide solutions across Salesforce products and platforms customized to your business needs. Ready for a Hospitality or Travel Salesforce Implementation? Explore the possibilities of Salesforce for travel and hospitality or other Salesforce solutions based on your company’s goals. Tectonic is ready to partner with you, offering support at every stage of your Salesforce journey. Reach out online to request more information or

September 29, 2023in Marketing Automation, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Hospitality Travel and Transportation, Salesforce Managed Services, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot), Salesforce Personalization, Salesforce Sales Cloud

19Sep

Audience Builder Marketing Cloud

Marketing Cloud Audience Builder dynamically generates targeted audiences from contacts stored in your account based on attribute and behavioral values. These audiences can be used to target or exclude contacts from your marketing activities. In today’s world, where a staggering 347.3 billion emails are sent globally every day, email inboxes have become increasingly cluttered. In your specific niche, you’re not the only one trying to reach your target audience; numerous others are vying for their attention. With consumers having a multitude of options, marketers bear the responsibility of positioning themselves in a way that makes it impossible for potential customers to overlook them. Achieving this requires embracing customer-centricity, which involves deeply engaging with different buyer personas by segmenting your contact list based on various parameters such as age, gender, location, interests, preferences, past purchases, browsing history, and position in the sales funnel. However, manually managing this segmentation, especially with a large contact list, can be overwhelming. This is where a dependable tool like Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Audience Builder proves invaluable. The SFMC Audience Builder empowers marketers to create granular segmentation frameworks based on demographic and behavioral data, making the execution of targeted campaigns effortless. It dynamically generates targeted audiences by utilizing contacts in your account and leveraging behavioral values and stored attributes as guiding parameters. In this overview, we aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of SFMC’s Audience Builder. Key Entities and Terminologies: Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

September 19, 2023in Data, Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud

14Sep

Snowflake and Customer 360 Data Model

What is data modelling in Snowflake? Snowflake and Customer 360 Data Model Data modeling is the process of organizing and mapping data using simplified diagrams, symbols, and text to represent data associations and flow. Engineers use these models to develop new software and to update legacy software. Data modeling also ensures the consistency and quality of data. What is Customer 360 Data Model? Snowflake and Customer 360 Data Model Customer 360 refers to a comprehensive view of a customer’s data, encompassing every interaction from website inquiries to product purchases to customer support tickets. It ensures that every department within a company accesses the same accurate information about the customer. Exploring Data Modeling in Snowflake Data modeling involves organizing and mapping data using simplified diagrams, symbols, and text to illustrate data associations and flow. Engineers utilize these models to develop new software and update existing ones, ensuring data consistency and quality. Unifying Business and Customer Data Break down silos and consolidate customer data into a unified platform using native-first and third-party connectors in Snowflake. These connectors securely ingest data from various sources, enriching customer profiles and resolving identities seamlessly. Enriching Profiles and Resolving Identities-Snowflake and Customer 360 Data Model Enhance customer profiles securely with a plethora of data sets available in Snowflake Marketplace. Resolve identities seamlessly using applications from leading providers native to the platform. Managing Consent and Responding to Data Subject Requests Adhere to customer data consent choices and comply with global privacy regulations by swiftly and effectively responding to data subject requests. Understanding the 360-Degree Customer View The 360-degree customer view is a coveted goal for B2C marketers, aiming to aggregate and unify customer interaction touchpoints. Achieving this comprehensive view enables businesses to better understand the customer journey, personalize experiences, and enhance engagement. Snowflake and Customer 360 Snowflake’s Data Cloud tackles the challenge of consolidating disparate data sources in Martech stacks. By collecting and unifying customer 360 data points into a SQL data warehouse, Snowflake empowers marketers to eliminate data silos and respond to customer behavioral trends promptly. Snowflake and Customer 360 Data Model: Evolution of Customer 360 The marketing technology landscape has evolved, with organizations shifting focus to centralized data and new marketing applications. This shift involves aggregating customer data centrally into Customer 360 profiles, enabling tailored marketing campaigns and improved customer experiences. CDPs: The Latest Incarnation of Customer 360 Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) have emerged as solutions to the Customer 360 challenge. By consolidating and organizing customer data, CDPs empower marketers to personalize customer journeys across channels effectively. Tectonic’s Role in Advancing Data Strategies-Snowflake and Customer 360 Data Model Tectonic assists businesses in embracing a composable architecture, future-proofing data structures, migrating data to the cloud securely, and creating a single source of truth for easy analysis of customer data. The Importance of Omnichannel Data in Marketing Understanding omnichannel data is crucial for marketers seeking to improve customer experiences and drive revenue. Omnichannel data encompasses every customer interaction, offering insights into behaviors, preferences, and values. Building a Customer 360 Crafting a holistic view of customers and their journey involves mapping touchpoints, identifying data sources, integrating data into a centralized location, and deriving insights to create customer profiles. Why a Robust Cloud Data Platform is Essential for Omnichannel A robust cloud data platform enables marketers to leverage a single source of truth, analyze streaming data, and facilitate collaboration across teams while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. “Being customer-centric requires us to have a data-driven culture. We must ask ourselves how we can optimize the supply chain, product design, predictability and propensity of customers to buy our products. These are all data challenges.” Fabio Luzzi, VP of Data Science and Engineering, Tapestry The 360-degree customer view is the Holy Grail of B2C marketers: often sought but frequently unattainable. Companies that aspire to the Customer 360 view seek to aggregate and unify customer interaction touchpoints — from online transactions, social media, forums, and physical touches to third-party interactions, customer support, and service — to better understand the customer journey, meet demand, and personalize the customer experience. The challenge, of course, is that the customer data is spread across these numerous, various touchpoints. Without system synchronization, errors and duplicate records can become an ongoing problem. In the not-too distant past, interactions were largely limited to physical touch points or the phone. With the explosion of new interaction platforms, the job of aggreggating these disparate data sources has proven to be difficult. To really get a handle on all this data, modern B2C marketers need to engage with data management, data storage, data analytics, and often ML and BI tools to merge, unify, and then analyze these transactions to drive business insight. SNOWFLAKE AND CUSTOMER 360 The number of tools deployed in the average Martech stack has exploded from just a few to more than 90 SaaS applications. Marketers have struggled to consolidate these disparate data sources to both quickly react to customer behavior and also to report internally on performance. Snowflake’s Data Cloud solves this challenge, which collects and unifies all customer 360 data points — semi-structured or structured — into an easy-to-query SQL data warehouse that integrates with leading data analytics, BI, ML, and data management tools. This allows marketers to eliminate data silos and react to customer behavorial trends with timely and personalized campaigns. The world of marketing technology has evolved quickly. Although the quest for a single customer view remains, organizations are now focusing on how to create new marketing applications that centralize data. There’s a not-so-quiet (r)evolution going on in the world of marketing technology. Privacy-driven changes in the digital ecosystem are forcing companies to adopt a first-party data strategy with Customer 360 profiles at its center. But that’s not what this revolution is about; Customer 360 profiles have been part of marketing systems going back to Salesforce’s original Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. What is changing is not the “what” —a single customer view, but the “how”. What if Customer Data was aggregated centrally, organized into

September 14, 2023in Salesforce Implementation Services, Salesforce Optimization, Salesforce Personalization, Snowflake

Google 360 Analytics Dashboard in Marketing Cloud

13Sep

Salesforce Audience Insights

Salesforce Audience Insights By Tectonic’s Marketing Consultant, Shannan Hearne Salesforce Marketing Cloud is so much more than just an email sending platform. This insight explores how it can power your advertising.; Marketing Cloud offers robust audience segmentation capabilities, empowering marketers to effectively segment their customer base. The integration of AI through Audience Insights enhances this power. Formerly known as Advertising Studio, the platform is now recognized as Marketing Cloud Advertising. Audience Insights provides a deeper understanding of customers by unveiling unique characteristics, interests, and behaviors of user groups interacting with your ads and converting. By connecting Marketing Cloud Advertising to paid media channels, you can optimize your audience strategy, gaining a unified, cross-channel view and assessing the effectiveness of first-party audiences through a dedicated dashboard. Key features of Audience Insights include: To leverage Audience Insights, your Marketing Cloud Intelligence admin needs to configure it before connecting Advertising to paid media channels. This integration allows you to analyze the effectiveness of first-party audiences with a single, cross-channel perspective. As a Marketing Cloud Advertising customer with a Marketing Cloud Intelligence license, you gain access to comprehensive audience and campaign analytics through Audience Insights for Marketing Cloud Advertising. This application is conveniently available in the Marketing Cloud Intelligence Marketplace. Utilize the Audience Insights for Advertising Studio dashboard to refine campaigns using first-party audiences. Additionally, the Marketing Insights for Sales Cloud solution facilitates a deeper understanding of how marketing efforts and spend translate into revenue, offering insights into the sales funnel and guiding strategic decisions. Salesforce Audience Insights The Marketing Insights for Sales Cloud solution utilizes objects such as Leads, Opportunities, Accounts, Contacts, Campaigns, and Campaign Members to provide a holistic view of marketing and sales alignment. Setting up your digital advertising strategy within Salesforce, particularly through Advertising Studio, yields significant benefits. Integration with Google Analytics 360 expands your digital marketing and analytics possibilities. Advertising Studio seamlessly connects with advertising platforms like Google Display Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, AdWords, Gmail, and YouTube. Are you ready to employ the full power of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Advertising Studio? Contact Tectonic today. Like3 Related Posts 50 Advantages of Salesforce Sales Cloud According to the Salesforce 2017 State of Service report, 85% of executives with service oversight identify customer service as a Read more Salesforce Artificial Intelligence Is artificial intelligence integrated into Salesforce? Salesforce Einstein stands as an intelligent layer embedded within the Lightning Platform, bringing robust Read more Salesforce’s Quest for AI for the Masses The software engine, Optimus Prime (not to be confused with the Autobot leader), originated in a basement beneath a West Read more Salesforce Data Studio Data Studio Overview Salesforce Data Studio is Salesforce’s premier solution for audience discovery, data acquisition, and data provisioning, offering access Read more

September 13, 2023in Marketing Automation, Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Advertising, Salesforce Sales Cloud

12Sep

Case Study: Large Faith-Based Religious Entity/Nonprofit-Salesforce Marketing Cloud/Nonprofit Success Pack

Undergoing a profound revitalization and restructuring process that combines six existing Provinces into a single, unified Province that will better serve the organization and its constituents’ needs. nonprofit salesforce marketing cloud success pack

September 12, 2023in Salesforce for Nonprofits, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Salesforce Success Stories

23Aug

Financial Services and Customer Engagement

Here are the key insights from the 2023 Global Customer Engagement Review regarding the current landscape of customer engagement in the financial services sector, along with recommended strategies for driving activation, monetization, and retention among brands in this space. Financial Services and Customer Engagement. Did you know that it takes an average of seven touchpoints for a customer to purchase what you’re selling? From the first time they see your product or brand somewhere until they hand over their hard-earned cash, there is a lot involved. However, there is a huge difference between sales teams slowly nudging the customer towards the purchase and a sales rep aggressively badgering the customer to buy. What happens in these seven steps is something called sales engagement. For a comprehensive overview of global customer engagement trends in 2023, refer to the 2023 Global Customer Engagement Review, which includes insights from a survey of 1,500 VP+ marketing decision-makers across 14 global markets. Sales engagement is a broad term that describes all the interactions that happen in the sales process between the sales development representatives and the customer. If you want to improve your sales team’s success, investing time and money in your sales engagement strategy is one of the best ways to achieve this. Sales engagement touchpoints can be any of the following: There are many channels for sales engagement and leaving them out to chance is dangerous and hurting your sales efforts. In order to improve your sales efforts, you need to be intentional about how you communicate with customers and when. This is why many sales teams carefully analyze each customer interaction and invest in sales engagement platforms. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more Guide to Creating a Working Sales Plan Creating a sales plan is a pivotal step in reaching your revenue objectives. To ensure its longevity and adaptability to Read more 50 Advantages of Salesforce Sales Cloud According to the Salesforce 2017 State of Service report, 85% of executives with service oversight identify customer service as a Read more

August 23, 2023in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud

12Aug

Marketing Cloud Tik Tok

TikTok Introduces No-Code Integration for Salesforce Marketing Cloud TikTok has launched a no-code integration for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, designed to help advertisers transfer leads generated by their campaigns to Salesforce in real-time. This new integration ensures that leads captured on TikTok are automatically synced to Salesforce Marketing Cloud, eliminating the need for manual lead downloads by advertisers. Benefits of the Integration: Salesforce first enabled Commerce Cloud users to sell through TikTok in July 2022, positioning TikTok alongside other major social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. This broadened the marketing and sales avenues for merchants. The new TikTok integration is available on Salesforce’s enterprise cloud marketplace, AppExchange, for businesses utilizing the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Why This Integration Matters: Introducing TikTok AdZ: Filling the Gap in Salesforce Marketing Cloud Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Advertising Studio did not previously integrate with TikTok, leaving a significant gap in the market. The new app, TikTok AdZ, created by Cezium, fills this gap by integrating TikTok advertising with marketing and CRM data, adding value in four key ways: 1. Acquisition: 2. Nurturing: 3. Retention: 4. Media Bidding Optimization: Key Features of TikTok AdZ: Target Using First-Party Data:With third-party cookies depreciating, TikTok AdZ allows advertisers to use first and second-party data for targeted ads, ensuring compliance with consumer privacy laws. Growth of Brand Awareness:Build a strong follower base on TikTok by creating custom audiences from existing customers or email subscribers and targeting them with exclusive promotions, influencer campaigns, and product demos. Audience Matching:Utilize TikTok’s lookalike audience feature to target users similar to your existing audience, increasing the likelihood of conversion. Audience Suppression:Optimize advertising spend by suppressing ads for unsatisfied customers or recent complainers, focusing on audiences more likely to convert. Use TikTok in Journey Builder:Leverage unified data to create personalized, contextual, and human engagements across marketing, commerce, service, and sales through multi-step automation in Journey Builder. Hyper-Personalization:Enhance personalization efforts with features like geotargeting, upselling and cross-selling, seasonal promotions, abandoned browse retargeting, and abandoned cart recovery. Summary As one of the largest social platforms globally, TikTok is essential for modern advertising strategies. TikTok AdZ streamlines the process, offering the tools needed to create personalized and effective ads that target the right audience on TikTok. Embrace this powerful integration to stay ahead of the competition, streamline lead generation, and watch your conversion rates soar. Reach out to your TikTok Rep or Salesforce Account Executive to get started today. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

August 12, 2023in Salesforce Marketing Cloud

11Aug

Multi-Channel Campaigns

Leveraging Salesforce for Multi-Channel Campaign Management with Tectonic In today’s dynamic marketing landscape, businesses need to connect with their audience across multiple channels—email, social media, web, and beyond. Managing these campaigns effectively can feel like juggling too many balls at once, especially when aiming to maintain consistent messaging, track performance, and maximize ROI. That’s where Salesforce, paired with expertise from Tectonic, makes all the difference. Salesforce simplifies multi-channel campaign management, helping businesses stay organized, boost engagement, and achieve measurable results. Let’s dive into how this powerful platform, supported by Tectonic’s expertise, takes campaign management to the next level. The Challenge Marketing teams often face obstacles like: The Solution: Streamlined Multi-Channel Campaign Management Salesforce, with Tectonic as your trusted partner, transforms the complexity of multi-channel campaigns into a streamlined and effective process. By integrating channels, automating workflows, and delivering real-time insights, businesses can engage their audience and achieve exceptional results. 1. Centralized Campaign Planning Salesforce Marketing Cloud provides a centralized platform for planning and managing campaigns across channels—email, SMS, social media, and paid ads—all from one dashboard. This unified view ensures messaging and branding stay consistent while fostering seamless collaboration across teams. Tectonic enhances this process by ensuring your Salesforce environment is optimized for your specific needs. 2. Personalized Messaging at Scale Salesforce’s AI-powered tools, such as Einstein AI, analyze customer data to craft personalized content for every audience segment. These tools allow businesses to create tailored emails, ads, and social media posts that resonate with specific groups. With Tectonic’s guidance, you can implement personalization strategies that drive engagement and conversions to new heights. 3. Real-Time Performance Tracking Salesforce consolidates campaign performance data into a single platform, providing real-time metrics like open rates, click-through rates, social engagement, and conversions. Customizable dashboards allow your team to monitor results at a glance, enabling quick adjustments for maximum impact. Tectonic can help design these dashboards for clarity and actionable insights. 4. Automation for Efficiency Managing multi-channel campaigns involves countless tasks, but Salesforce automates processes such as scheduling, triggering emails, and personalizing messaging based on user behavior. By streamlining these repetitive tasks, your team can focus on creativity and strategy. Tectonic’s expertise ensures these automations are tailored to fit your business workflows perfectly. 5. Seamless Integration Across Channels Salesforce integrates with platforms like Google Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram, consolidating data into one ecosystem. This eliminates the need for manual data collection, saving time and improving accuracy. Tectonic ensures these integrations are set up seamlessly, so you can focus on running impactful campaigns. Strategies for Success with Salesforce Why Tectonic + Salesforce? Tectonic combines deep Salesforce expertise with a keen understanding of marketing challenges to help you fully unlock the platform’s potential. Together, Salesforce and Tectonic empower businesses to achieve more efficient, impactful, and ROI-driven campaigns. Ready to revolutionize your multi-channel marketing strategy? Let Tectonic guide you to Salesforce success. Content updated December 2024. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

August 11, 2023in AI Tools, Data, Google, Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud

10Aug

Differentiating Pardot and Marketing Cloud

August 10, 2023in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot)

salesforce marketing cloud interaction studio

03Aug

Marketing Cloud and Einstein

AI has emerged as an effective solution to tackle the challenges arising from the sheer volume and rapidity of data in the marketing landscape. This article delves into some cutting-edge functionalities presented by Einstein within the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, showcasing how these features empower marketers to enhance performance and streamline their workflows. Einstein for Marketing Cloud uses Salesforce’s AI to help you best evaluate and implement your marketing activities. Use valuable insights on audiences, send time, engagement frequency, and your content to best target your customers. Deliver information to your customers when they need it and how they need it. Einstein in Marketing Cloud offers a range of opportunities for you to analyze, automate, and optimize your content. Use the apps throughout Marketing Cloud platforms to gain insight and better target your audiences. Salesforce Einstein for Marketing Cloud In the dynamic realm of marketing and sales, the pursuit of refining strategies is perpetual. Einstein Social Insights Within the Marketing Cloud’s Social Studio feature, marketers can publish content, engage in conversations, and analyze social data. Einstein augments this platform, introducing AI-powered capabilities: These advanced features empower marketers to optimize social strategy, fostering brand loyalty. For instance: Einstein Vision for Social With over 3 billion images uploaded to social platforms daily, Einstein Vision for Social equips marketers to analyze and derive insights from images. Marketers can train Social Studio to recognize images related to their brand, including products, logos, scenes, and food. This enriched data allows for a deeper understanding of brand followers, facilitating engagement and measurement of marketing efforts. Lookalikes Einstein lookalikes leverage lookalike modeling, identifying common traits among current customers to target new customers with similar characteristics. This tool streamlines the process, allowing marketers to create rich audiences and segments for modeling purposes using first, second, and third-party data in Audience Studio. Einstein Journey Insights In today’s consumer-centric world, Einstein Journey Insights helps marketers comprehend customer journeys by tracking interactions across touchpoints like web browsing and email. Advanced attribution modeling enhances engagements and event sequences, leading to specific goals such as purchases or product reviews. Interactive reports and visualizations enable marketers to optimize campaigns by comparing planned journeys with organic consumer journeys. Einstein Content Tagging Personalized and engaging messages demand an organized library of content. Einstein Content Tagging and image recognition technology automatically add and update content tags and metadata, helping marketers manage their assets efficiently. Smart Orchestration Einstein Send Time Optimization determines the best time to send an email or push notification. Einstein Engagement Frequency evaluates your contacts and identifies the optimal number of email messages or push notifications to send. Marketing Cloud Intelligence As marketing budgets increase, the need for ROI and superior customer experiences rises. Marketing Cloud Intelligence delivers AI-generated insights through automated regression modeling and statistical analysis. Einstein Marketing Insights sifts through data to identify high and low performers, enabling marketers to make informed decisions swiftly and optimize strategies for better results. The Einstein features in Salesforce Marketing Cloud present myriad opportunities for marketers to optimize their performance and work more efficiently. By harnessing these AI-powered capabilities, marketers can make informed decisions rapidly, fostering better brand engagement and higher ROIs. Tectonic is ready to assist you in deploying Einstein for Marketing Cloud. Contact us today. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

August 3, 2023in Einstein Insights, Marketing Automation, Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce Marketing Cloud

02Aug

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Explained

Discover the dynamic capabilities of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, an all-encompassing platform meticulously engineered to elevate digital engagement, refine marketing strategies, and personalize customer interactions, ultimately fostering satisfaction and driving revenue growth. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, affectionately known as SFMC, encapsulates Salesforce’s suite of tools meticulously designed for multi-channel engagement, digital marketing, automation, analytics, and personalization. Operating as a Software as a Service (SaaS), this platform offers a wealth of functionalities along with supplementary add-on features from Salesforce and third-party vendors via the Salesforce AppExchange. Within the expansive realm of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, an array of products facilitates diverse marketing processes, including executing multi-channel campaigns, orchestrating dynamic customer journeys, analyzing marketing performance, implementing personalization strategies, conducting digital advertising campaigns, and managing data effectively. Key Components and Features: A standout feature is the seamless integration of Salesforce’s artificial intelligence, Einstein, which enhances functionalities across the suite. For instance, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement offers personalized email content recommendations, optimized send times, and real-time messaging performance monitoring. Highlighted Features: Let’s delve deeper into Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement to exemplify its capabilities: Data Management: SFDC Marketing Cloud Engagement operates on a relational database, enabling the creation of customized data models aligned with organizational needs. It seamlessly integrates data from various sources, facilitating segmentation, personalization, and automated activities triggered by data changes. Is Salesforce Marketing Cloud Right for Your Organization? Marketing Cloud caters to diverse industries and company sizes, offering customizable solutions to enhance customer engagement and drive business outcomes. Notable success stories include increased email open rates at Coca-Cola Germany and cost reductions at Adidas through automation. Considerations: Ultimately, Marketing Cloud empowers organizations to deliver personalized, engaging customer experiences, driving desired business outcomes, and fostering lasting relationships. Like Related Posts 50 Advantages of Salesforce Sales Cloud According to the Salesforce 2017 State of Service report, 85% of executives with service oversight identify customer service as a Read more Salesforce Data Studio Data Studio Overview Salesforce Data Studio is Salesforce’s premier solution for audience discovery, data acquisition, and data provisioning, offering access Read more How Travel Companies Are Using Big Data and Analytics In today’s hyper-competitive business world, travel and hospitality consumers have more choices than ever before. With hundreds of hotel chains Read more Marketing Cloud Account Engagement and Salesforce Campaigns The interplay between Account Engagement and Salesforce Campaigns often sparks confusion and frustration among users. In this insight, we’ll demystify Read more

August 2, 2023in Marketing Automation, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Advertising

Contact Builder is responsible for aggregating customer data from multiple source into a single customer view, known as the contact model in marketing cloud. For more information refer to the official documentation. Audience Builder is a segmentation tool, that abstracts the traditional SQL process for building segments and allows marketers to build segments by dragging and dropping them. For more information, please refer to the the documentation. Contact Builder has been moved to the Audience Builder tab

31Jul

Audience Builder Contact Builder

Contact Builder, formerly known as Audience Builder, is a robust tool within Marketing Cloud designed to manage data associated with contacts, referred to as ‘people’ records. This platform provides access to both demographic and behavioral information, which is organized into ‘attribute groups’ (such as abandoned carts), ‘events,’ and ‘populations,’ allowing for efficient segmentation of data. The primary distinction between Audience Builder and Contact Builder lies in their functionalities within Marketing Cloud. While Audience Builder focuses on segmenting data, Contact Builder serves as the tool for defining the data model within the Marketing Cloud ecosystem. Contact Builder is integral to data management within Marketing Cloud and will continue to play a central role in the platform’s operations. Marketing Cloud Audience Builder has empowered marketers to create finely segmented audiences based on behavioral and demographic data. With its retirement, the question arises: “What comes next?” To address this, Marketing Cloud offers engagement marketing tools powered by AI, enabling marketers to activate their data and deliver personalized campaigns at scale to enhance customer lifetime value. These tools include: Email Marketing: Cross-Channel Analytics: “After adopting Salesforce Marketing Cloud and using it to hyper-target our audience, we are able to reduce the waste of our current marketing budget and become more efficient with spending on initiatives that deliver better results“ Kyall MaiSVP & Chief Innovation Officer, Esquire Contact Builder vs. Audience Builder Contact Builder serves as the central hub for managing attribute values associated with each contact within Marketing Cloud. It maintains a comprehensive database of contact information and facilitates the organization and linkage of data from various sources, including ERP systems, CRM systems, and POS systems. This tool offers a unified view of customer interactions with the brand, enabling personalized communication across channels such as email, SMS, and push notifications. Audience Builder, now known as Contact Builder, dynamically creates targeted audiences based on stored attribute and behavioral values of contacts. These audiences are generated according to specific rules and criteria defined by the user. Audience Builder helps marketers segment contacts effectively, allowing for precise targeting or exclusion from marketing activities within Marketing Cloud Engagement. Key Features and Functions: Contact Builder: Audience Builder: While both Contact Builder and Audience Builder are essential components of Marketing Cloud, Contact Builder takes precedence as the primary tool for managing contact data and enabling personalized customer interactions. Audience Builder, now integrated into Contact Builder, continues to play a vital role in audience segmentation and targeting within Marketing Cloud Engagement. Contact Builder is responsible for aggregating customer data from multiple source into a single customer view, known as the contact model in marketing cloud. For more information refer to the official documentation. Audience Builder is a segmentation tool, that abstracts the traditional SQL process for building segments and allows marketers to build segments by dragging and dropping them. For more information, please refer to the the documentation. Contact Builder has been moved to the Audience Builder tab. Like1 Related Posts Salesforce Data Studio Data Studio Overview Salesforce Data Studio is Salesforce’s premier solution for audience discovery, data acquisition, and data provisioning, offering access Read more How Travel Companies Are Using Big Data and Analytics In today’s hyper-competitive business world, travel and hospitality consumers have more choices than ever before. With hundreds of hotel chains Read more Integration of Salesforce Sales Cloud to Google Analytics 360 Announced In November 2017, Google unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with Salesforce, outlining their commitment to develop innovative integrations between Google Analytics Read more Overlooked Costs of a Salesforce Implementation Let’s look at some frequently overlooked Salesforce costs. The goal is to provide businesses and decision-makers with a comprehensive understanding Read more

July 31, 2023in Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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