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Choosing the Right Sync: Smart Campaign Flow vs. 1:1 Marketo Program-Salesforce Campaign Sync
When it comes to syncing Marketo Programs with Salesforce Campaigns, most users know there are two primary approaches:
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Using Marketo APIs the Right Way—Avoiding FormSubmit for Lead Upsert
To enhance security and maintain the integrity of lead data, Marketo has a rate limit on form post submissions from a single IP address.
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Why Marketo Duplicates Salesforce Leads When Using Queues—And Ways to Handle MQL Contacts
If you've ever tried to assign a Salesforce contact to a queue via Marketo Engage, you may have noticed something odd: instead of updating the existing…
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Optimizing Inbound Data Integrations into Marketo using Queue Age + Size Limits
When building inbound integrations into Marketo Engage, efficiency and reliability can pull in opposite directions.
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Handling Marketo API Rate and Concurrency Limits with Exponential Backoff
Integrating with Marketo's REST API requires management of rate and concurrency limits to ensure reliable and efficient data operations.
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The Case of the Missing Leads: When Static Lists and Partitions Don’t Align
It started with a simple question:
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Why Your Email Shows a Midnight Send Time (But Didn’t Deliver Until Evening)
If you've ever scheduled an email in Marketo using the "Send in recipient time zone" feature and noticed that the send time shows much earlier than…
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Why Marketo Shows an Opportunity When Salesforce Does Not
One common point of confusion for Marketo and Salesforce users teams arises when a record in Marketo shows an associated Opportunity, but the…
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Why Email Delivered Can Appear Before Email Sent in Marketo—and What to Do About It
If you’ve been digging into lead activity logs in Marketo and noticed something strange—like emails showing as Delivered a few seconds before they were…
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