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Salesforce Marketing Cloud services

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Account set-up

You want to exploit the full potential of your data assets? And a consistent brand identity, across all channels, and want personalized, tailored communications across the entire customer journey? By harnessing Salesforce Marketing Cloud, we will help you achieve your goals. Key to effectively managing all communications is to set up your account in line with your needs. Our consulting services are geared to your industry-specific and business-specific imperatives, with the aim of delivering the best possible support for your sales and marketing strategies.

We will ensure your platform is easy for you to use and manage. And we will do more. Through skilled implementation and configuration, we will seamlessly integrate your legacy data. Drawing on our proven expertise, we will help you master early challenges and establish a lasting solution.

Our set-up services include:

  • A discovery workshop to identify your specific needs and goals
  • Design and implementation of a solution geared to your business case
  • Configuration of your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account
  • Design and set-up of a data model (lists, data extensions, contact builder), including integration of external data sources
  • Development and execution of an IP warm-up plan to build the reputation of your dedicated IP
  • Development of a made-to-measure, responsive drag-and-drop email template
  • Implementation of GDPR-compliant, channel-specific registration and de-registration processes
  • Establishment of automated, cross-channel communications processes using Journey Builder
  • Design and programming of tailor-made preference center
  • Introduction of sophisticated, automated data processes using Automation Studio
  • Training in line with your needs

Marketing Cloud Connect

Maybe your organization is already working successfully with Sales Cloud or Service Cloud from Salesforce. But are you aware of the huge efficiencies to be gained by employing this data for your marketing activities – and do you know what tool is best suited to this task? Or perhaps you are already reaping the benefits of Marketing Cloud but you do not have enough internal expertise or human resources to build bridges between the two systems? We can step into the breach.

By forging strong links between your Sales or Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud, you can unleash the full power of Salesforce: you will enjoy a fully integrated, constantly up-to-date 360 degree view of your customers – and seamless communications. When defining data-driven automation or creating a personalized customer journey via Marketing Cloud, you will be able to make use of any Sales or Service Cloud object. And you’ll be empowered to process response data in your Sales Cloud, and to generate in-depth reports. The result is consistent customer interaction across all touch points.

We are proven Marketing Cloud Connect experts. We can advise you on the best set-up and implementation, and on tight integration of Sales, Service and Marketing Cloud – including all necessary data transfer processes. We offer you a one-stop solution to your challenges from installation, to testing and troubleshooting, to staff training in interface management.

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An intelligent add-on. Publicare apps for Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Our apps extend and enhance the functional scope of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, e.g. with regard to GDPR compliance – in particular when it comes to data erasure and email validation.

Customer inquiries regarding data privacy will focus on two core issues: the data subject’s right of access (according to Article 15 GDPR) and their right to data erasure — “the right to be forgotten” (according to Article 17 GDPR). It is currently not possible to provide information on all personal data stored in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or to fully delete them.

The Publicare app enables you to quickly, easily and automatically identify all entries and links for a specific subscriber key, across all business units and data extensions – including system-related data, such as clicks, bounces and sents. Then this data can be combined and consolidated – either to provide information to the data subject, or to be deleted. You can even do this from within your CRM system via API interfaces. 

Deletion of data in Marketing Cloud

  • Custom-configuration of data extensions with regard to delete behavior
  • Batch processing of multiple deletion jobs via CSV upload

Access to data in Marketing Cloud:

  • Information provided in custom-configured reports
  • Output in a choice of formats: PDF, CSV or JSON
  • Query for just a single master data extension? Not a problem.
  • For each report configuration: process queue and Zip file with included data

An overview of the GDPR app:

  • User-friendly dashboard
  • Controlled via the subscriber key or customer ID
  • Individual inquiries or lists (batch processing)
  • Info output as text file or PDF
  • Deletion including documentation of erasure and log files
  • Information (access) and deletion possible in combination or separately
  • Installation and operation by a Publicare data architect, where required

Data storage and process automation

Data on erasure/report jobs is held in a database for 14 days, then deleted, including downloadable files. To avoid creating additional data sources subject to GDPR provisions, the app does not keep a history. However, you can use an API to connect the app to your own system in order to maintain your own history. Our development department can provide expert assistance.

The API also enables the quick-and-easy automation of processes such as data cleansing, and providing information to data access requests. Only the initial configuration requires manual effort. The API comprises a REST interface. Using available end-points, you can initiate the corresponding processes and check their status.

Customer inquiries regarding data privacy will focus on two core issues: the data subject’s right of access (according to Article 15 GDPR) and their right to data erasure — “the right to be forgotten” (according to Article 17 GDPR). It is currently not possible to provide information on all personal data stored in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or to fully delete them.

The Publicare app enables you to quickly, easily and automatically identify all entries and links for a specific subscriber key, across all business units and data extensions – including system-related data, such as clicks, bounces and sents. Then this data can be combined and consolidated – either to provide information to the data subject, or to be deleted. You can even do this from within your CRM system via API interfaces.

Deletion of data in Marketing Cloud

  • Custom-configuration of data extensions with regard to delete behavior
  • Batch processing of multiple deletion jobs via CSV upload

Access to data in Marketing Cloud:

  • Information provided in custom-configured reports
  • Output in a choice of formats: PDF, CSV or JSON
  • Query for just a single master data extension? Not a problem.
  • For each report configuration: process queue and Zip file with included data

An overview of the GDPR app:

  • User-friendly dashboard
  • Controlled via the subscriber key or customer ID
  • Individual inquiries or lists (batch processing)
  • Info output as text file or PDF
  • Deletion including documentation of erasure and log files
  • Information (access) and deletion possible in combination or separately
  • Installation and operation by a Publicare data architect, where required

Data storage and process automation

Data on erasure/report jobs is held in a database for 14 days, then deleted, including downloadable files. To avoid creating additional data sources subject to GDPR provisions, the app does not keep a history. However, you can use an API to connect the app to your own system in order to maintain your own history. Our development department can provide expert assistance.

The API also enables the quick-and-easy automation of processes such as data cleansing, and providing information to data access requests. Only the initial configuration requires manual effort. The API comprises a REST interface. Using available end-points, you can initiate the corresponding processes and check their status.

Email address validation can be performed at various points in your process:

1) Validation via the form on your website

You can verify email addresses the moment they are entered, ensuring you only accept valid credentials into your Marketing Cloud. This means you avoid communicating with trash addresses and spam traps. When implemented for your newsletter subscription form, or any other online form, our app indicates any errors immediately upon entry of an email address, and suggests corrections (for instance, if a domain name has been misspelt, such as gmxcom instead of gmx.com). Your list will be kept clean, your hard bounce rate will fall, and you will enjoy an enhanced sender reputation

2) Live validation within a customer journey

In this instance, validation takes the form of a custom activity and can occur at any point along the journey. You can configure the validator for each specific journey in line with your need

3) Batch validation before launching a campaign

You can validate multiple addresses before you launch your campaign. You receive an enriched list with details of reachability and integrity of each address. The list can be used, for example, as the basis for updating your contacts or your all-subscribers’ list.

Our app operates in complete compliance with the GDPR, and never stores your customers’ email addresses in plain text. Instead, it compares hash values. As a result, if a customer requests data erasure, you have no need to act. And if there is a request for access, there is no need to include use of the app.

Publicare’s Process Monitoring App monitors the processes in your Marketing Cloud implementation and alerts you as soon as an error occurs. This way, you always know whether your processes are working properly, and can immediately react when something goes wrong with your emails, automated procedures or data processes.

Learn more about the Process Monitoring App.

Data-driven marketing for sophisticated 1:1 communications

Salesforce Marketing Cloud means customer journeys are much more than just emails. To create a personalized 1:1 Customer Journey across all channels and end-points, we can integrate the following:

  • SMS text messages with Mobile Studio
  • Push notifications with Mobile Push
  • Management of ads on Facebook, YouTube and Google with Advertising Studio
  • Integration of DMPs (data management platforms) in order to enrich user data
  • Predictive intelligence for personalized recommendations in emails, on websites and online stores with Salesforce Einstein
  • Social media monitoring and community management – with Social Studio
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Salesforce Audit

Put your Salesforce Marketing Cloud setup to the test – with Publicare’s Marketing Cloud Health Check!

With Publicare’s Salesforce Marketing Cloud Health Check, we not only provide you with compact information on how to enhance your current setup and processes. Our certified Salesforce Marketing Cloud consultants give you comprehensive documentation showing how far you have come with your account implementation and based on this, we work out individual recommendations for development potentials and options for action.

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Email marketing – the basis for a successful communications mix

Email is pivotal to interactions with customers and prospects. You can communicate with your target group in a way that is personal, reliable and low-cost. But if you are to make full use of the many possibilities of email marketing, and to embed it effectively within your marketing mix, you need professional planning and implementation. Our full-service solutions will save you time, energy and human resources.

Our service offering includes the following:

  • Concept development for campaign and editorial calendar planning
  • Development of copy and graphics
  • Production and distribution of emails via your Marketing Cloud account
  • Development of landing pages and forms with CloudPages, including automatic follow-up communication
  • Programming with AmpScript and management of dynamic content

Training, support and consulting

Our certified consultants can help you with your Salesforce Marketing Cloud questions and challenges. We will give you personalized training in line with your priorities and preferences, enabling you to become an expert in your own right – and empowering you to work confidently and skillfully with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Our offering includes:

  • Advice on issues such as contact acquisition and deliverability
  • Planning and implementation of automated cross-channel campaigns with Journey Builder
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud user training
  • Support for Marketing Cloud users
  • And much more besides

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Content Builder E-Mail templates

With the tailor-made templates for the drag-and-drop editor of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, we offer our customers the highest level of user comfort while making sure that the emails produced are optimally displayed across all common email clients. With more than 15 years of experience in implementing professional email templates, we know exactly what to look out for when planning and producing customized templates. In combination with the technical possibilities of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Content Builder, we open up completely new ways of email production for our customers. Whether content block-based integration of product feeds, image and content databases or highly individual content dynamization via AMPScript – we know how to implement the optimal solution for your application.

Our services at a glance:

  • Consulting and concept development
  • One-stop shop for design and programming
  • Implementation of email templates and content blocks
  • Development of special solutions based on the Content Builder SDKs
  • Automation, dynamization and localization of content
  • Testing and quality assurance in all relevant clients
  • Consulting and implementation of template rollouts across complex business unit structures
  • Comprehensive user documentation
  • Training your employees and sharing insider tips and tricks

Cross-cloud and cross-channel Journeys

The right message at the right time through the right channel

The Salesforce Marketing Cloud Journey Builder includes everything that is needed to implement successful automated Journeys. We support you in bringing together the potential of your data with the technical possibilities of Journey Builder. Whether sophisticated lifecycle or cross- and upsell Journeys, we conceptualize individual and cross-channel Journeys and implement them if desired. From target group segmentation over the connection of the Sales and Service Cloud via cross-cloud activities, to Journey analyses and optimization and the development of your own Custom Activities – we offer complete solutions that suit your needs.

Our services at a glance:

  • Consulting and conception of cross-cloud and cross-channel Journeys
  • Target group definition, setup of the Entry Audience and all necessary data processes
  • Conception and implementation of all Journey assets – online and offline, from email, SMS, social and push to direct mail
  • Creation of the Journey in Journey Builder
  • Implementation of A/B test scenarios
  • Integration of Advertising Audiences
  • Integration of print campaigns via Automated Direct Mail by optilyz
  • Delivering content on all digital channels: email, SMS, push, social, ads, etc.
  • Development of Journey Builder extensions via Custom Activities, e.g. for the control of onsite pushes, the validation of email addresses, postal addresses and telephone numbers or the connection of call centres
  • Connecting the Commerce Cloud, Sales and Service Cloud as well as the Community Cloud
    Setup of automated reports, execution of analyses as well as the development and execution of Journey optimizations

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