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Marketing Agents: The Next Frontier in Campaign Creation and Optimization For years, content creation and distribution have been key challenges for marketers. According to recent research from the Content Marketing Institute, 54% of B2B marketers lack the resources needed to produce high-quality content at scale. Similarly, B2C marketers often struggle to create consistent, repeatable, and scalable processes. On top of these challenges, they must balance resource management to ensure campaigns are efficient, impactful, and engaging enough to stand out from the competition. The solution to these challenges lies in marketing agents, powered by data and AI. These intelligent tools streamline content creation, optimize campaigns, and make marketing processes more efficient. At this year’s Dreamforce, Salesforce introduced Agentforce, a suite of tools designed to create, customize, and deploy marketing agents across the Customer 360 platform. As part of this launch, Agentforce Campaigns is already gaining attention from customers eager to harness its potential. According to Salesforce’s 9th State of Marketing Report, 71% of marketers plan to integrate generative and predictive AI into their workflows within the next 18 months. This insight explores how marketing agents, like those offered in Agentforce, can transform customer engagement while enhancing internal team productivity and collaboration. Redefining Campaign Delivery with Marketing Agents Marketing agents are part of a broader suite of AI-powered virtual assistants that collaborate with humans to streamline workflows and optimize decision-making. These agents analyze data, interpret requests, and execute tasks such as content generation, campaign optimization, and performance analysis. Salesforce’s AI agents are designed to be partners, taking on time-consuming tasks so marketers can focus on high-value, strategic activities. With marketing agents, teams spend less time gathering and managing data and more time delivering personalized, impactful campaigns. A key mindset shift is required to maximize the value of these tools: instead of asking, “How can agents make business as usual more efficient?”, marketers should think, “How can agents transform the way we deliver exceptional customer experiences?” Streamlining Campaign Creation with Agentforce Campaigns 1. Intelligent Recommendations for Focused Action Einstein, Salesforce’s AI engine, analyzes data and provides contextual recommendations to help marketers achieve their goals. Agentforce Campaigns takes this a step further by turning these static recommendations into actionable steps, such as adjusting an audience segment or creating an entirely new campaign. 2. Rapid Campaign Brief Creation Agentforce Campaigns can draft campaign briefs in seconds using natural language prompts. These briefs incorporate organizational goals and marketing guidelines, making them ready for review and sharing within Salesforce. This saves time and ensures alignment from the start. 3. Contextual Content Creation Once a campaign brief is approved, marketing agents can generate campaign content such as emails and landing pages. Agentforce Campaigns automatically drafts subject lines, body copy, and calls to action within branded templates. Content can be refined using natural language commands or manual adjustments to fit the brand’s tone and strategy. 4. Simplified Audience Segmentation Marketers no longer need SQL expertise to build audience segments. With Agentforce Campaigns, they can describe their target audience in natural language, and the AI translates this into the necessary segment attributes. 5. Journey Activation at Scale Marketing agents simplify the process of activating multi-channel campaigns. Using natural language prompts, Agentforce Campaigns can configure a draft journey, complete with personalized content, ready for refinement and deployment. Unlocking New Opportunities with Marketing Agents 6. Unlimited Content Variations Time and budget constraints often limit the number of content variations marketers can produce. Agentforce Campaigns overcomes this limitation by generating multiple personalized content versions in seconds. This allows teams to deliver highly tailored messages for different audience segments without additional effort. 7. Nuanced Segment Exploration Traditional segmentation often depends on data science teams, which may have limited capacity. Marketing agents empower marketers to build their own nuanced segments using natural language. For example, separate churn segments can be created based on engagement scores, location, or purchase history, enabling more precise targeting. 8. A Culture of Testing and Learning Testing often falls by the wayside due to time constraints. Marketing agents make it easy to embed testing into campaigns by automating journey flows, enabling marketers to adopt a culture of continuous experimentation and improvement without increasing workloads. Transforming Marketing with Agentforce By integrating marketing agents into workflows, businesses can improve productivity, enhance personalization, and scale campaigns like never before. Agentforce Campaigns enables marketers to automate routine tasks, explore untapped opportunities, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Marketers who embrace this shift will not only increase efficiency but also elevate their strategies, creating campaigns that are more targeted, impactful, and scalable. Note: Some features and services mentioned may not yet be available. Customers should base purchase decisions on currently available features. 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