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Play by Play: Demystifying Salesforce Marketing Cloud

by Shane Smyth and Don Robins

This course provides an in-depth review of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, including its essential features, tools, and capabilities, and sets you up for your first journey.

What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real-time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Demystifying Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Shane Smyth, and Don Robins demystify the capabilities of Marketing Cloud in the marketing landscape and provide a baseline for terminology & features. They review the core concepts of ‘personalized marketing’, walk through the different builders and studios needed to establish a solid foundation, and discuss many of its concepts such as data extensions, types of data, personalization and more. By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid understanding of Marketing Cloud fundamentals and have a foundation for working with it.

About the authors

Shane Smyth has been in the Salesforce ecosystem for several years as an expert in the marketing space, specifically in regards to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform. Through years of being a Salesforce consultant across several industries, Shane has experience in taking a company to true personalized communication with customers using Salesforce's technology.

Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing. Certified as a Platform II Developer and an award winning Salesforce Instructor, he's presented and taught at annual Dreamforce conferences since 2010. He delivers Salesforce developer classes and workshops around the US and abroad, and manages a team of instructors ... more

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