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Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud

By : Greg Gifford, Jason Hanshaw
Book Image

Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud

By: Greg Gifford, Jason Hanshaw

Overview of this book

Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) allows you to use multiple channels and tools to create a 1:1 marketing experience for your customers and subscribers. Through automation and helper tasks, you can greatly increase your productivity while also reducing the level of effort required in terms of volume and frequency. Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud starts by discussing what automation is generally and then progresses to what automation is in SFMC. After that, you’ll focus on how to perform automation inside of SFMC all the way to fully running processes and capabilities from an external service. Later chapters explore the benefits and capabilities of automation and having an automation mindset both within and outside of SFMC. Equipped with this knowledge and example code, you'll be prepared to maximize your SFMC efficiency. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll have the skills you need to build automation both inside and outside of SFMC, along with the knowledge for using the platform optimally.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Automation Theory and Automations in SFMC
5
Section 2: Optimizing Automation inside of SFMC
11
Section 3: Optimizing the Automation of SFMC from External Sources
17
Section 4: Conclusion

Best practices

Before we get into the details around best practices, we need to become familiar with the basics and create a base to build upon. Without a strong foundation, you will find lots of gaps and faults in your creation and it will fail fairly easily. Think along the lines of a house of cards on a windy day sort of situation.

So, to help set you up for success, we will begin with the basics to ensure we pass valuable and usable information and skills across to you. When we say basic, we really mean basic. Let's begin at the very beginning. What exactly does best practice even mean?

Best Practice

Best practice, as defined by Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/best%20practice), is a procedure that has been shown by research and experience to produce optimal results and that is established or proposed as a standard suitable for widespread adoption. Or, in other words, through trial and error, this method has shown the best success and is...