Add subscribers to a Journey from a CloudPage using Fire Entry Event

Firing an Entry Event is great for injecting contacts into a Salesforce Marketing Cloud journey, especially if you need to be able to inject them from an external system or a website. It's also useful when you're creating a custom form on a CloudPage and would like to replicate the behavior of SmartCapture forms, which …

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Salesforce-style spinner for use on CloudPages

Spinners are loading indicators that can be shown when retrieving data or performing other operations. We will use a common spinner that Salesforce Lightening users are familiar with - the full documentation can be found here. This spinner is a Lightning component, which means that it cannot be directly used on a CloudPage. My awesome …

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Create a CloudPages form with an image/file upload option

The HTML <input> tag specifies an input field where the user can enter data. An input field can vary in many ways, depending on the type attribute. The <input> elements with type="file" let the user choose one or more files from their device storage. The file can then be manipulated using JavaScript in order to …

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Exception handling in Salesforce Marketing Cloud emails

"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst" should be every marketer's motto when it comes to creating contextual personalized content. Your company's reputation could be easily tarnished if you send out buggy emails, that's why exception handling should be an essential element of your email strategy. In this article, you will learn about …

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Custom profile and subscription center integrated with Sales/Service Cloud

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple, yet fully customizable profile and subscription centre integrated with Sales and Service Cloud. Bear in mind, that the script utilizes a couple of standard and custom Sales/Service Cloud fields, which you will need to adjust based on your Salesforce CRM setup - the full …

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