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While implementing Pardot, we have all configured Domain Management settings. While setting up the Email Sending Domains, we add a basic few domains, whereas, we might be using a few more while making regular email sends.  One such incident happened with one of my clients. They decided to set up an organizational level domain in the Email Sending Domains while they also used a regional sub-domain for sending emails. Image: Domain Management Setting The problem arose when, in one of their Email Templates, instead of using the organizational level domain, they set a regional sub-domain as the sender. Hence, when they sent an email, it bounced back from the recipient’s system as it did not recognize Pardot as an authorized sender for that sub-domain. The reason for these hard bounces was listed as a DMARC authentication error with the text, DMARC policy; 'sub-domain' domain; Unauthenticated email', etc,. So the option was to either change the Sender email or to get the sub-dom

Have you tried creating an Engagement Program (EP) in Pardot and discovered strange ways in which it works? I have had my share of confusion while running an EP and then analyzing its reports. Last week I made a send using an EP. Due to some incident, the send got delayed. Once the incident was solved, I was informed by Pardot Support that it would take a while to clear the backlog for the Engagement Studio and for it to get back on track. But, by that time a day had lapsed and the EP had skipped about 8000 prospects and gone to the next step. Hence, here are some of the learnings that I got from using Pardot EPs: 1. Using a particular date for email send only when required: Had I not set a date on sending the 1st email in my EP, EP would not have marked the Prospects as "Email not sent. Past scheduled date." Setting the email send to 'Immediately' would have been a better option since there were no Triggers or Rules before that node. Image: Engagement Studio Email R

Enabling and using the Resubscribe Functionality in Pardot can turn out to be a tricky one.  To explain briefly, if a Prospect Unsubscribes from any of your Newsletters or clicks Unsubscribe from all on the Preference Center, they do not receive any communication from us. If they want to opt-in again for a Newsletter or Sign up for an event, they can now choose to resubscribe to start receiving reminders or invitations by email in the future from us. To enable this feature in Pardot a few steps need to be taken: The feature needs to be enabled from Pardot Settings Texts to be displayed on the Form, in the email and on the Resubscribe Confirmation page need to be provided. Email template needs to be created for the email that will be sent out with more information and the Confirmation Link when the prospects click the link on the form Form Layout template needs to be tweaked for this feature to work Let us start with step 1 here to enable the feature in Pardot. Image: Pardot Settings Se

Integrating Pardot with Third-party tools can either be as easy breeze or can be a nightmare. What seems pretty simple at the beginning can turn out to be a series of Support tickets going back and forth to resolve a minor but tricky problem. Today we will talk about integrating Zoom with Pardot. Zoom provides the app for Pardot at Zoom Marketplace . The integration is fairly simple to start with. Sign in to your Zoom Account using the Admin credentials. You can then follow the step-by-step Zoom Guide for the integration. I will not discuss these steps for integration here in details as the guide is pretty self explanatory. What I will discuss today is how to set up a Pardot Form to be used for registration of participants for a Zoom Webinar. This will help you to design your own form, include desired fields, track form submission and create them as new prospects in Pardot.  Note : One thing to keep in mind is that  Pardot only supports Zoom Webinars and  not Meetings. By setting up Z

While integrating Zoom with Pardot, I faced a lot of small issues which were bewildering. The Zoom technical documentation did not provide clarity on these issues and I had to open multiple tickets with Zoom Support to find the answers. You can well imagine the turnaround time on these tickets during these pandemic times. I am listing down a few of the issues that I faced and hope that the solutions provided will also help you sail through them. 1. To use  Pa rdot Account  or  Salesforce SSO : While installing the app for Pardot from  Zoom Marketplace , you get the choice to login using the  Pardot Account  or  Salesforce SSO . Now that Salesforce does not allow to have Pardot-only users for logging to Pardot Lightning, the only way to integrate Zoom with Pardot is to use Salesforce SSO option.  2. Using an Integration User while installing the app: Create a separate Integration User for this purpose with a  Salesforce  license. An  Identity  license will not work here. This Integrat