Author: Jack Corrao iii

6 “Best of Breed” Platforms To Draw Visitors To Your Pardot Marketing Funnel

For your marketing funnel, Pardot is a powerful B2B marketing automation machine that works 24-7-365 to increase the velocity of your funnel with incredible synergy with Salesforce. The software is attractive to organizations everywhere because of its ability to engage better than anything else, but there are ways for users to really ramp up their results using supplementary marketing programs.

If you combine Pardot with these six top of the funnel (Awareness Phase) tools, you can save time and see a substantial boost to your marketing efforts!

Marketing Funnel
The Network Is Your Customer,” by David Rogers (Yale University Press, 2011)

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Pardot’s Engagement Studio – Triggers Overview

Pardot’s Engagement Studio enables marketers to further customize their nurturing programs for their prospects, customers, and even partners. Engagement Studio has three main features that let you build your campaign around: Actions, Triggers, and Rules. Actions “do something”, Triggers “Listen for something”, and Rules “Check something.” Here we will be discussing Engagement Studio Triggers.

Drip Programs offer users 2 triggers: “has prospect opened email” and “has prospect clicked link”. (Note: Engagement Studio allows users to choose which link click to look for when using the “has prospect clicked link” trigger!). Let’s dive deeper into the new available triggers Engagement Studio provides us.

The following are new Engagement Studio triggers that can listen from the prospect’s activity record.

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Pardot’s Engagement Studio – Actions Overview

Pardot’s Engagement Studio enables marketers to further customize their nurturing programs for their prospects, customers, and even partners. Engagement Studio has three main features that let you build your campaign around: Actions, Triggers, and Rules. Actions “do something”, Triggers “Listen for something”, and Rules “Check something.”

Let’s dive deeper into the new available actions Engagement Studio provides us.

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Corrao Group Named Winner of 2016 HOT in San Diego

Corrao GroupWe’re happy to share with you that Corrao Group has been named a winner of their 2016 HOT in San Diego Award! We are honored to be mentioned alongside some amazing San Diego companies like GoFundMe, Events.com, Qualcomm Life, Suja, and Taphunter.  Owler is a business information platform used by over 15 million companies worldwide. We’re among the top 0.03% most popular, top trending companies on Owler. Pretty neat!

Each year, Owler recognizes the top trending companies in cities around the world. They sifted through over 15 million companies on our platform to find the most award-worthy businesses, and wound up with 4,500 winners across the 600 most popular cities on Owler. Recipients are chosen based on several different metrics, including number of followers on Owler, insights collected from our community, social media followers, and blog posts over the past year.

We are exceedingly proud to be one of the popular, top trending companies in San Diego.

If you would like to learn more about Corrao Group, please feel free to contact us.

Pardot Engagement Studio 3 Features

Over the last couple months Corrao Group has been participating in Pardot’s Engagement Studio Beta program. We have built our own programs in addition to maximized the potential of customer’s programs who were selected for the Beta trial. While every new feature of Engagement Studio is valuable, we will keep you updated with features you do not want to miss.

Today’s post is going to be a high level overview of the 3 available features of Engagement Studio: Actions, Triggers, and Rules.

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How Do Lead Nurturing Programs Work?

Lead nurturing programs have a variety of benefits, most of which you may have read through already from multiple pieces of content. For this reason I am not going to show you the list of benefits that have been copied and pasted around the web but instead I am going to show you how you can actually achieve those benefits. Some programs have the end goal of guiding their prospects through the sales cycle while another program can have the goal of simply educating their prospects. The goal of these lead nurturing programs can differ but the approach to these programs should be similar, if not identical, each time. The process should be standardized and start with choosing the type of nurture campaign, choosing the audience, selecting the nurture’s flow and content, followed by reporting on the overall nurture campaign. We are going to walk through the process of building a successful lead nurturing program. 

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Dreamforce 2016 Parties: Nightlife Edition

dreamforce 2016

Mindtouch Pre-Game Party | Oct 3rd

dreamforce party

Mindtouch is hosting party to pregame for Dreamforce. Meet Dreamforce attendees before the conference while enjoying drinks and games.

Location: Hotel Zephyr

Time: 6pm-9pm

Event link: https://mindtouch.com/info/dreamforce-happy-hour-zephyr/?instance_id=122

Sponsor: Mindtouch

 

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Pardot’s New UI

Pardot understands that its users have different opinions, interests, likes and dislikes, which is why they want to make sure that their users have the best experience. Their team of usability experts have the important role of finding ways to improve the user experience for you and its future users. Today, April 21st, they announced what enhancements have been made to increase the user’s experience as well as efficiency. Let’s take a look at those new features. 

Updated Fonts and Styling 

The new styling is designed to make it easier to navigate throughout the Pardot system and is also pleasing to the eye. The styling attracts the eye to the data that the user wants to see and the new colors and buttons make it easier to decide on what are the next steps. 

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How to Automate Everything With Pardot

Pardot automation is more than just marketing machine. It’s an everything automation machine. We have proven that it can automate Marketing,  Sales, Sales Operations, Project Management, Accounts Receivable, and more. With this kind of potential, Pardot is not a purchase, it is similar to hiring a Virtual assistant. However, this virtual assistant only costs $0.34 an hour.

Heres you how Pardot accelerates these parts of your company:

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