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Introducing Marketing Cloud Advanced
24Sep

Introducing Marketing Cloud Advanced

Salesforce has unveiled a series of innovations in its Marketing Cloud, (Introducing Marketing Cloud Advanced) designed to empower businesses with AI-driven tools and enhanced data capabilities to elevate customer engagement. These new features aim to deepen customer relationships, improve team productivity, and boost operational efficiency. Introducing Marketing Cloud Advanced One of the standout innovations is Marketing Cloud Advanced, an upcoming edition that integrates advanced automation and AI. This edition is designed to connect marketing journeys with sales, service, and commerce workflows, offering a more personalized experience across multiple customer touchpoints. Additionally, the introduction of Agentforce for Marketing will bring generative and predictive AI into the marketing realm, helping marketers create comprehensive, end-to-end campaign experiences. Steve Hammond, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Marketing Cloud at Salesforce, commented: “Today’s most successful marketers engage customers on their terms and act as value multipliers across the entire customer experience—whether helping sales or service have more personalized conversations or re-engaging inactive customers. Built on Data Cloud, Marketing Cloud is the only solution that unifies data across every department and moment in the customer lifecycle, powered by Agentforce Agents and automation, driving growth, loyalty, and optimizing ROI.” Agentforce for Marketing introduces several capabilities that streamline marketing processes. Marketers can now plan, launch, and optimize campaigns with ease. Agentforce allows marketers to set campaign goals and brand guidelines, after which the AI generates campaign briefs, identifies target audience segments, and drafts initial emails and landing pages. The system continuously monitors performance and provides data-driven optimization suggestions based on key performance indicators (KPIs). A key addition is Einstein Marketing Intelligence (EMI), which helps marketers manage and optimize cross-channel campaign performance. EMI automates the process of data preparation, enrichment, harmonization, and visualization, enabling marketers to measure campaign effectiveness and make informed decisions to improve return on investment. Furthermore, Salesforce introduced Einstein Personalization, an AI-powered decision engine that delivers tailored customer experiences. This tool allows sales, service, and commerce teams to engage customers in real time based on live interactions and data. Using Flow’s A/B split testing feature, marketers can select dynamic email content for different audience segments and track performance to adjust strategies effectively. Sarah Lukins, General Manager of Digital at Fisher & Paykel Appliances, praised the new functionality: “Salesforce enables us to seamlessly access all of our marketing, commerce, service, sales, and external data in one place and leverage AI for more targeted audience engagement. We can now deliver more relevant and consistent personalized experiences across email, ads, web, social, and service engagements.” The Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition will roll out to customers in North America, Europe, and Latin America, while Agentforce Personalization is expected to become generally available by next summer. Additional releases include expanded Einstein multi-language support and unified SMS conversation capabilities. These innovations are part of Salesforce’s ongoing efforts to equip marketers with unified and actionable data, enhancing the performance of marketing teams and fostering deeper integration across organizations. Through AI and automation, Salesforce is helping businesses deliver more personalized, connected, and seamless customer experiences. 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

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September 24, 2024in Data, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
demand generation web use cases for personalization
03Mar

Demand Generation Web Use Cases for Personalization

Utilize effective personalization techniques adopted by businesses in online campaigns to stimulate demand generation. The term “demand generation” has somewhat faded from the marketing lexicon due to the emphasis on analytics, AI, and metrics for lead conversion. However, where does personalization fit into the broader scope of demand generation? Demand generation web use cases for personalization. Personalization plays a pivotal role in various aspects of demand generation: In lead nurturing, personalization is equally vital: Moreover, personalization is instrumental in lead acquisition efforts by delivering relevant experiences to all of your prospects. To effectively implement personalization, real-time insights into individual behaviors and interactions are essential. A comprehensive personalization solution should unify data from various channels and systems, enabling seamless cross-channel personalization. This includes “stitching” together anonymous and known user profiles, integrating data with complementary systems like CRMs and marketing platforms, and facilitating real-time omni-channel personalization. The key to successful personalization lies in understanding and addressing each individual’s unique needs and preferences. By adopting a customer-centric approach and setting clear objectives aligned with business goals, organizations can leverage personalization to enhance customer experiences, boost conversion rates, and drive measurable business growth. To execute a successful personalization strategy, organizations must: By following these steps and continuously optimizing personalization efforts, organizations can build stronger customer relationships, drive business growth, and maximize marketing ROI. Website personalization serves as the starting point for many companies embarking on their personalization journey. This entails ensuring that returning visitors encounter pages tailored to their previous experiences or recent purchases. It can also involve presenting new customers with product recommendations based on their current browsing session. The return on this initial investment can be substantial, with many companies witnessing a significant increase in conversion rates, sometimes by as much as 50% or more. For instance, a site converting 2% of visitors might see that figure rise to 3%, a dream scenario for digital marketers. Moreover, this boost in conversion rates can have far-reaching effects across marketing programs, leading to a reduction in overall customer acquisition costs. Tectonic now offers Personalization Implementation Solutions. The next stage in personalization maturity involves integrating a customer’s web and email experiences. This seamless connection between two major channels for customer engagement brings organizations closer to achieving an omni-channel personalization experience. Timely and relevant follow-up messages after a customer’s website visit or purchase can deepen relationships and enhance lifetime value without significant additional marketing expenditure. Finally, the ultimate goal is to extend personalization across all channels, ensuring consistent and tailored experiences wherever customers interact with your brand. However, achieving this can be challenging due to fragmented customer data across multiple channels, teams, and systems. An effective personalization solution should consolidate and synthesize this cross-channel information by maintaining unified customer profiles and enabling real-time omni-channel personalization. Testing is a crucial aspect of successful personalization efforts, allowing organizations to optimize campaigns and maximize engagement, conversions, and revenue. A robust personalization solution should facilitate A/B testing, measuring lift over control, evaluating impacts against specific goals, and filtering results by segment. Effective website personalization lays the foundation for broader personalization efforts across channels. By seamlessly integrating web and email experiences and extending personalization to all touchpoints, organizations can deliver tailored experiences that drive engagement, loyalty, and ultimately, business growth. By Tectonic’s Salesforce Marketing Platform Architect Shannan Hearne 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

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March 3, 2024in Einstein Insights, Generative AI, Salesforce, Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Optimization, Salesforce Sales Cloud
Einstein Predicted Email Engagement
31Jan

Salesforce Einstein Predicted Email Engagement

Access Einstein predicted email engagement data is on the email dashboard, categorizing contacts into personas based on engagement thresholds. Utilize detail pages to dig into prediction specifics and assess your audience health. Einstein Engagement Scoring is a feature that anticipates how a contact will engage with a brand and the likelihood of them making a purchase. This analysis relies on the contact’s email engagement data from the past 90 days, encompassing metrics like the number of emails sent, clicks, opens, etc. Einstein Predictive Email Engagement Scoring Einstein Predictive Email, specifically the Engagement Scoring aspect, foresees consumer engagement with email and MobilePush messaging. Leveraging customer data and machine learning, it creates predictive model. By assigning scores to contacts it indicates their likelihood to engage with emails and interact with push notifications. Salesforce Marketing Cloud introduces the Einstein Split activity in Journey Builder. Thus enabling marketers to target segments based on predicted email engagement scores. Different decision splits, such as Persona Split, Web Conversion Likelihood Split, Click Likelihood Split, Subscription Likelihood Split, and Open Likelihood Split, allow precise targeting based on various engagement factors. Email Engagement The email engagement heat map classifies subscribers into personas based on predicted email engagement: The clickTime Comparison feature illustrates changes in subscriber personas over time, providing insights into messaging resonance. For instance, an increase of 10,000 subscribers may show a 5,000 increase in the Loyalist bucket, with 70% transitioning from the Selective Subscriber persona. To utilize Einstein Engagement Scoring for Persona changes over time, a minimum of 14 days of active subscriber evaluation in each business unit is required. Einstein Engagement Scoring Einstein Engagement Scoring utilizes existing customer data and machine learning capabilities in Marketing Cloud to predict the probability of a contact engaging with marketing content. This is including emails and push messages. The generated scores indicate the likelihood of the contact opening or clicking emails and engaging with push notifications. Like2 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 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

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January 31, 2024in Einstein Insights, Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce Sales Cloud
31Jan

Improving Customer Experiences with Salesforce

In 2023, sustaining competitiveness demands businesses to prioritize personalization and agility in their customer experience (CX) strategy. Brands need to build customer relationships and provide experiences that exceed expectations. If not, your connected customer will find a competitor who can. Improving Customer Experiences with Salesforce begins with initial implementation. Salesforce plays a critical role in achieving customer success as it serves as a central hub for customer data, streamlines communication, and offers valuable insights for customized customer interactions. It also allows for the tracking of customer behavior and preferences, enabling proactive and personalized support. Salesforce did not invent Customer Success, but the company quickly built what has become the number one customer relationship management platform to help their customers provide great experiences to their customers. Here are strategies to enhance your customer experience program: Enhancing Customer Experience for Brand Loyalty: Advance Personalized Experiences: By concentrating on these core areas, organizations can navigate the evolving CX landscape, delivering exceptional customer experiences. Tectonic is poised to collaborate, customizing Salesforce tools to craft remarkable customer experiences. If a friend ignores a call, text, or email, it probably doesn’t bode well for the relationship. As with friendships, customer relationships bloom when individuals feel understood. Relationships weaken when customers feel that businesses don’t appreciate their personal preferences, whether that’s remembering they enjoy romantic comedies, or that they would rather be contacted by email. Improving Customer Experiences with Salesforce The customer experience is broader and deeper than just the level of service received. Customer experience is the total perception of the company, interaction by interaction, from the first touchpoint to the last. This may include navigating the website, talking to sales reps over the phone, visiting a store, sampling a product or service, and experiencing an onboarding phase after a purchase. CRM may be a modern term, but the importance of nurturing customer relationships is age-old. The role of the customer experience has shifted in recent years, becoming one of the most crucial brand differentiators. Let’s explore how leveraging Salesforce can create customer experiences that surpass expectations and foster long-term relationships. As products become less distinguishable by brand and price, a great customer experience has become essential for companies to differentiate themselves. What are the 4 E’s of customer experience? Then come the 4Es – Economic, Efficient, Emotional, and Empathetic experiences, which focus on making your customers’ journey worthwhile. Every interaction should offer value for money (Economic), be easy for the customer (Efficient), generate positive feelings (Emotional), and show customers you get them (Empathetic). Like2 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 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 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

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January 31, 2023in Salesforce Experience Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud
Einstein Send Time Optimization
24Jun

Salesforce Send Time Optimization Einstein

Einstein Send Time Optimization (STO) in Marketing Cloud Engagement revolutionizes message delivery by leveraging machine learning to predict the most effective times for engagement. This feature aids marketers in enhancing email and push notification engagement by automating the analysis of each contact’s optimal send time. Key Highlights of Einstein Send Time Optimization: Einstein Send Time Optimization, available with Marketing Cloud Einstein terms, offers a powerful tool for marketers seeking to personalize and optimize the timing of their email and mobile messages, thereby maximizing engagement. Content updated February 2024. Like1 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

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June 24, 2022in Einstein Insights, Marketing Automation, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
17Mar

What is Email Studio in Marketing Cloud?

Salesforce Email Studio is a robust email marketing tool within Salesforce Marketing Cloud that maximizes the potential of data and automation to establish meaningful customer relationships. This platform enables the automation of transactional communication and facilitates the sending of personalized messages to specific target groups. Customize Account Branding with Sender Authentication Package (SAP): Enhance your account branding through the Sender Authentication Package (SAP), a tool provided by Marketing Cloud. SAP features include custom account branding, a private domain for email sending, a custom domain for CloudPages, a dedicated IP address, and reply mail management. Upon purchasing SAP, you will receive an email from [email protected] 1–2 days after your contract activation. This email includes the SAP Quick Start Guide and a personalized form to set up your SAP. IP Address Warming: When you become a Salesforce Marketing Cloud customer, the assigned sending IP addresses have not been previously used for email delivery. Email service providers are wary of emails from IP addresses lacking a sending history. To establish trust, it is recommended to warm up or ramp up new IP addresses gradually. Microsoft notes that 80% of unrecognized connections attempt to deliver spam or malware, making senders guilty until proven innocent. Warming involves slowly increasing email volume to build around 30 days of sending history, allowing ISPs to recognize and trust the new IP address. Tectonic assists our clients with proper IP warming. Warming Guidance: During the warming period, focus on sending to the most active and engaged subscribers. The initial sends are crucial for ISPs to determine sender IP address reputation. Factors such as list size, quality, and subscriber engagement influence the warming period’s duration. Recommended volume targets can be achieved by splitting large sends, migrating smaller-volume campaigns, or creating non-time-sensitive campaigns specifically for warming. Important Considerations: Adhering to warming guidance is essential to mitigate deliverability risks. It is advised to follow the recommended volume targets and adjust sending practices during warming to avoid suboptimal delivery, deferrals, bulk folder placement, or email blocking. Target Audience Expansion: During the first three weeks, focus on new or actively engaged subscribers. In the fourth week, expand to subscribers with engagement in the last 60 days. Around week six, add subscribers who engaged in the last six months. Beyond six months, consider suppressing unengaged subscribers to minimize spam trap risks. Email Studio Navigation: Use Email Studio’s primary navigation toolbar and navigation pane to access various features. The toolbar is located under the Marketing Cloud header, and the navigation pane can be hidden or resized as needed. Custom navigation allows the creation of horizontal tabs for a more tailored user experience. Email Studio Capabilities: With Email Studio, create and send personalized emails, ranging from basic newsletters to complex campaigns. Deliver promotional, transactional, and triggered messages while tracking and optimizing performance. After setting up domains and importing subscribers, Email Studio empowers users to craft high-quality content for their email campaigns. For more information on Salesforce’s Email Studio, contact a Tectonic representative today. Like1 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

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March 17, 2021in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Salesforce landing pages
12Oct

Landing Page Split Testing

A/B testing, also known as “split testing,” involves conducting experiments with two or more variants of content, such as a landing page, email, or ad. These variants are presented to different segments of your audience to determine which one performs better. Split testing optimizes pages that best encourage your visitor’s requested call to action. In an A/B split test, two or more versions of a landing page (e.g., version A and version B) are randomly displayed to visitors, and the best-performing version is chosen as the “winner.” Subsequently, the winning version is displayed to all incoming landing page visitors. Landing Page Split Testing Process The typical process for landing page split testing involves establishing conversion goals, identifying areas for improvement, and creating a test hypothesis, such as changing the CTA button color or headline text. A split test, in particular, compares two entirely different versions of a landing page to assess which design aesthetic yields better conversions. A/B landing page split testing allows you to act as a scientist, making data-driven decisions based on how people behave when they interact with your page. For instance, if you want to test which landing page headline generates more leads, A/B testing provides a systematic approach. Rather than making changes blindly, A/B testing allows you to gather evidence by sending half of your traffic to one version and the other half to a different version, helping you determine the most effective option before implementing broad changes. Never underestimate the value of your landing page headline. Here are some great tools from Wordstream. Split testing is especially beneficial for pages with significant changes, such as completely overhauling a homepage, rewriting a product detail page, or various landing pages changes and updates. It is recommended for testing complex back-end scenarios, like different checkout processes involving technically intricate page logics. Like1 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 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 Top Ten Reasons Why Tectonic Loves the Cloud The Cloud is Good for Everyone – Why Tectonic loves the cloud You don’t need to worry about tracking licenses. Read more

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October 12, 2018in Salesforce Sales Cloud

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