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can i use the marketing cloud with salesforce

by Dr. Gaston Bogisich Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing platform that has capabilities to support many facets of marketing including multi-channel campaign execution, dynamic customer journeys, pre- and post-campaign analytics including audience building and segmentation, social media engagement and advertising, and a data ...Dec 29, 2020

How does Salesforce use the Marketing Cloud?

  • Tokenized Sending. Use Tokenized Sending to send contact data that is too sensitive to store in your Marketing Cloud account database.
  • Data at Rest Encryption. ...
  • Marketing Cloud Shield. ...
  • Expired Marketing Cloud Account Subscriptions. ...
  • Suspended Marketing Cloud Account Subscriptions. ...

What are the capabilities of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

The first set of tools aims to predict, route, and solve customer needs, while the second set — voice, video, and text capabilities for digital contact centers — let customers reach out in the most convenient channel for them. Amid the pandemic, customer service has arguably become more important than ever.

How to create an automation in Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

Schedule Activities or Run Them Immediately

  • In Marketing Cloud, navigate to Automation Studio.
  • Click New Automation.
  • Enter a name for the automation, then choose whether to run the automation from a schedule or a file drop. ...
  • Drag your activities to the step sequence in the order you want them to occur. ...
  • Configure the activities in each step. ...
  • Save the automation when you finish. ...

How much does Salesforce Marketing Cloud Cost?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Pricing Overview. Salesforce Marketing Cloud pricing starts at $4800.00. They do not have a free version. Salesforce Marketing Cloud does not offer a free trial. See additional pricing details below.

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How does Marketing Cloud work with Salesforce?

Marketing Cloud connects discrete interactions, from any channel, on the customer's terms. It unites customer data with customer behaviors in real time to create more intelligent communications and interactions that respond to and anticipate customer needs.

How do I enable Marketing Cloud in Salesforce?

Connect to Marketing Cloud Within Salesforce CRMClick the plus icon to navigate to the All Tabs screen.Click Marketing Cloud.Click Connect to Marketing Cloud.Enter the username and password for the Marketing Cloud API User.Click Login.If successful, you see a screen to configure Marketing Cloud Connect settings.More items...

How do I link Salesforce to Marketing Cloud?

In Sales and Service cloud -Click Setup ----> Click Manage App ----> Connected Apps ----> Salesforce Marketing Cloud ----> Manage Permission Sets.Select the newly created permission set.Save changes.Click on Marketing Cloud tab. ... Click Connect to Marketing Cloud.More items...

Is Marketing Cloud free in Salesforce?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Pricing Overview Salesforce Marketing Cloud pricing starts at $4800.00. They do not have a free version.

What is the difference between Salesforce and Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is built to identify leads and guide them toward your product or service, while Salesforce Sales Cloud is built to close deals and bring in revenue.

Is Salesforce Marketing Cloud a CRM?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform for marketers that allows them to create and manage marketing relationships and campaigns with customers.

Which product is used to integrate Marketing Cloud instance with Salesforce com?

Kodish Potti Raja. Marketing Cloud is mainly used for maintaining the customer information for sending email and tracking customer activity. We can send emails directly from Salesforce via Marketing Cloud Connector and this email information is tracked in Salesforce.

Is Salesforce Marketing Cloud expensive?

Basic offers email marketing, content creation and integration for $400 a month. Pro adds automation features and starts at $1,250 a month. Corporate adds Journey Builder, mobile messaging and AI Einstein for $3,750 a month.

Why is Salesforce Marketing Cloud the best?

Marketing Cloud is one of the best and user friendly campaign development platform. Its integration with other applications are so easy. It gives us real-time decisioning and recommendations which is helping us to target more accurate set of customers by using Email, Mobile, IVR, and Call center channels.

Does Salesforce Marketing Cloud has future?

What is the future of Salesforce? The company recently reported that it will add data science capabilities to its Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud. Service Cloud lets users automate customer service tasks; Marketing Cloud lets marketers leverage data for predictive and targeted marketing.

When work flows, relationships grow

With Marketing Cloud and Slack, you can plan more quickly, act on insights instantly, and make partners part of the team.

Every moment counts. Your data has to keep up. With digital marketing software from Salesforce, it can

Whether you’re looking for enterprise-level email, marketing automation, digital advertising, data management, analytics, or anything else, Salesforce has you covered.

See why Salesforce leads the way

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Connect Your Users in Sales or Service Cloud

In a separate window, login to your Sales or Service Cloud instance with your user

Considerations

If you receive an error saying "There was an error communicating with Salesforce, verify your connected app is set up properly and try again" after attempting to enter in your Salesforce.com Username in Marketing Cloud, then your Salesforce user is likely not configured for authentication with Marketing Cloud Connect.

Marketing Cloud Basics

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Marketing Cloud Connect Setup

Configure Salesforce CRM and Marketing Cloud to share key data across your clouds.

What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a powerful tool that enables organizations to know, value, and assist their constituents, ultimately increasing loyalty and driving shared outcomes. Marketing Cloud is flexible enough to be used independent of other components that constitute the Salesforce Platform. However, the decisions around whether ...

What is Salesforce CRM?

While Marketing Cloud helps organizations communicate and connect with their constituents, the Salesforce CRM Platform (which, in this context, includes Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud with other possible components) serves to maintain a single view of the customer—including all demographics, account attributes, and a history of all touchpoints with the organization. In order to truly deliver a personalized experience for constituents using Marketing Cloud, each interaction must take into account the previous interactions and any other information about that individual. For example, when a user submits a form they can be entered into a series of emails designed to help them accomplish their intended outcome or learn about related offerings. If that same user already has a long history with the organization, messages may be different than if this is their very first interaction. Without a single source of truth for customer information, it becomes very challenging to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time.

What happens if Marketing Cloud doesn't identify a record as a duplicate based on a matching Contact?

This is where the problem starts to come in: if Marketing Cloud doesn’t identify a record as a duplicate based on a matching Contact Key, it will create a new contact record, resulting in multiple records in the Marketing Cloud database for the same contact—each with its own contact information, send history, and opt in/opt out preferences. Here’s what could happen next:

What is Dig Deeper Marketing Cloud?

Dig Deeper Marketing Cloud identifies subscribers/contacts with a single ‘Contact ID’. This ID serves to unite multiple unique identifiers like Email Addresses, Phone Numbers, Device IDs, or External System IDs. If Jane Doe has multiple email addresses or two cell phones registered in a database, Marketing Cloud enables SFMC to analyze all information about Jane across all devices in order to distribute the right message to the right device at the right time. This is all made possible by designing the system around one KEY.

Does Salesforce CRM need to be provisioned?

This, of course, introduces one significant challenge: all constituents that need to be included in communications distributed from the Marketing Cloud need to be provisioned in Salesforce CRM first. In other words, each Marketing Cloud subscriber must already exist in Salesforce CRM in order to have the Contact/Lead ID that is required for data to be passed between each system. While this may sound premature if you are at the beginning of your Marketing Cloud journey (particularly if your initiative is driven by marketing needs rather than CRM needs), creating contacts in Salesforce CRM prior to the Marketing Cloud will have a lasting impact on technical development and bottom lines. When installing Marketing Cloud Connect to synchronize data between Marketing Cloud and Salesforce, each Lead and Contact record that is synchronized from Salesforce will automatically be created in the Marketing Cloud with a KEY that matches their Salesforce Record ID. If using an alternative approach to load data to the Marketing Cloud from a system that is not part of the Salesforce platform (i.e. manual list import, automatic file upload from external application), Marketing Cloud will generate and assign a KEY to each contact that is different than the Salesforce CRM ID. For instance, when uploading a list of email addresses to Marketing Cloud directly, the KEY would be set to their email address. In a scenario where a matching email address exists in Salesforce CRM, there would then be two separate records in Marketing Cloud— one with email address as KEY and one with ContactID as KEY.

Does Dream Big use Salesforce?

Current state: Dream Big is using Marketing Cloud with a legacy, non-Salesforce, CRM application. What to do next: We recommend that Marketing Cloud be used with Salesforce for the greatest impact, mostly because of the features included with Marketing Cloud Connect. Each CRM system is unique and has its own set of features and integration options. Trying to set up end-to-end functionality between Marketing Cloud and a third party CRM application may or may not be possible compared to what you can do when used in conjunction with Salesforce CRM. If Dream Big plans to combine their CRM and Marketing Cloud data or build automated processes that involve both applications, they should work with their vendor or an implementation partner to determine what’s possible. Most likely, a heavy lift with custom solutions.

When do you need to update your customer profile?

On the other side of the equation is the need to update the customer profile when a user engages with a particular marketing campaign (or doesn’t engage). For example, a customer might express their interest in participating in a promotional event by clicking on a button in an email sent via Marketing Cloud. When the user takes that action, it requires a reaction—either to notify someone, automatically update their RSVP status, or send them a follow-up email. Other examples include customer service follow-up after a negative survey response or updates to marketing communication preferences and subscriptions.

What is changing?

The new Marketing Cloud login page will be available to all Salesforce Marketing Cloud customers. Your Marketing Cloud login credentials will stay the same, and you should continue to use them to log in to the Marketing Cloud. You do not have to do anything different to take advantage of the new page.

What action do I need to take?

No action is necessary. Continue to use your Marketing Cloud credentials to log in to https://mc.exacttarget.com/cloud/ .

Can you elaborate on the changes?

Apart from the look of the login page, we also enhanced the password reset and login experience for Marketing Cloud recently. Instead of contacting Salesforce, unlock your account by clicking the “Forgot Your Password?” link. While resetting your password, we don't lock your account for entering too many incorrect security codes.

Can I use my Salesforce credentials to log in to Marketing Cloud?

No, you should continue to use your current Marketing Cloud username and password to log in. Your Salesforce.com credentials will not work for the Marketing Cloud.

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