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Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud
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Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud

by Greg Gifford, Jason Hanshaw
April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
Audiobook available
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Chapter 2: SFMC Automation Tools

Every good SaaS worth its salt has automation capabilities. They have moved from being a cool feature to being necessary for success. Any good system will offer a variety of options to help optimize or create efficiencies in workflows. Whether they are baked-in and user-friendly or more developer-based and require technical skills and knowledge, there are almost always some automation capabilities. This could be a ton of different things, such as the following:

  • A drag-and-drop scheduling tool
  • A canvas-based pathing and logic tool
  • Server scripting capabilities
  • Widget functionality
  • API capabilities

Each one of these gives you the ability to interact with the platform outside of general UI capabilities, allowing ...

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ISBN: 9781803237190