When building drip nurturing programs, we often came across scenarios where it’d be useful to either jump forward or re-combine branches. A good example of this is when a prospect opens one of your emails, you may want to notify a user, but then continue the rest of the drip program logic. Alternatively, you may want to skip forward to the “conclusion” of a drip nurturing program if a prospect interacts with an email in a particular way.

Today, we’re excited to formally announce the ability to jump forward to any “future” email send step:

This more flexible control over the flow [...]

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We’ve seen a significant uptick recently in folks interested in using our API to do really neat things, such as integrating custom CRMs, CMSes, and other third party data providers. As a product manager, it has been rewarding to get more feedback from users on where next to focus our API development efforts to keep expanding the depth and breadth of data available via our API.

Today, I’m excited to share a few recent improvements we’ve made to the API based on user feedback, starting with the addition of the ability to create, update, read, and query prospect accounts. Prospect Accounts [...]

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Rejoice! We’ve just released a big upgrade to most of the tables we use to show prospects throughout Pardot by adding the “View” drop-down that allows you to filter by active, assigned, unassigned, mailable, never active, etc. This “View” drop-down has been available on the main prospect table for quite a while, but it’s even more useful in the context of other areas.

Some great examples of using this to easily pull numbers or segment on the fly would be filtering a list by assigned or un-mailable prospects (bounced or unsubscribed), or filtering a campaign by never active prospects.

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Good news! We’ve enhanced our import process to store a history of all imports, as well as the particular new or updated prospects included in that import. This makes tasks like going back to a previous import to tag, segment, or filter those prospects much easier.

The import log lives on the first page of the Import Wizard, and can be filtered to show only your imports, or imports by any user:

Additionally, you can drill in to each past import and filter the prospects based on whether they were created or updated (because they already existed) during the import:

Last but not [...]

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Ever since the launch of our new email preference pages, we’ve heard a lot of requests from clients far and wide to allow full customization of the copy in both the unsubscribe and email preference pages. This also has an additional benefit of making these pages fully internationalize-able (is that a word? it is now!).

As you can see, every single bit of the copy/language can be tweaked, down to the error messages, confirmations, and submit button. We can’t wait to see everyone put this to great use to make some great looking subscription preference pages!

 

 

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Pardot now supports bulk import of opportunity data from any external system! Just like our existing prospect import and user import wizards, this one makes it a cinch to get a large amount of opportunity data into the system and makes sure you’re taking advantage of the full end-to-end campaign ROI reporting, one of the most powerful parts of the Pardot platform!

The opportunity importer is available for anyone not using our salesforce.com or SugarCRM connectors, as those connectors automatically sync up opportunities already. To import opportunities, head over to Import OpportunitiesĀ under the Administration section inside Pardot. The opportunity importer will [...]

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Pardot’s WYSIWYG email editor just got a big upgrade! Not only that – we’re also rolling out 36 new email layouts to go along with it.

The new email editor is a huge improvement over the old WYSIWYG and will make it easier than ever for you to get those important newsletters and announcements out to your prospects and clients. The new email layouts have been developed to take full advantage of all the new advanced features of the editor, and are great examples of email design best practices for getting your emails to render correctly in every email client.

During my [...]

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Sometimes, a marketer or sales user may receive a “Delivery Status Notification” message indicating that an email failed to reach its intended recipient. In email parlance this is known as a “bounce”; 99% of the time, these emails come back to Pardot and we will automatically handle this for you. The other 1% of the time, these emails wind up in your inbox.

Why does this happen? Unfortunately, not all email servers follow the rules when it comes to responding correctly – usually because they are running old, out of date software or are configured incorrectly.

What should you do with [...]

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