Generating barcodes and QR codes in Salesforce Marketing Cloud

QR codes and barcodes can make your subscriber's life much easier and drive engagement with your platform. Barcodes are typically used for sending tickets, vouchers and discounts to your subscribers. Similarly, QR codes can also be used for sending tickets, etc., and allowing your subscribers to use their smartphones to easily access information or websites …

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Customize your Marketing Cloud account with your company’s branding

Marketing Cloud's Brand Builder lets you easily change the color scheme of your Marketing Cloud account based on the colors of your company's logo. The updated color scheme will be visible to both your users and your subscribers. Once you upload a file with the logo (it needs to be a *.JPG or *.GIF and …

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Simple Marketing Cloud App hosted on a CloudPage

DISCLAIMER: The Marketing Cloud App component has been designed for use with externally hosted apps. Use any alternative solutions presented in this article with caution. The settings we are going to use are simplified compared to the ones required by externally hosted apps, so make sure that only designated users have access to the apps …

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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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Testing email load (download) speed

The size of an HTML email can impact both deliverability and subscriber engagement. An email that requires long time to load can lead to lost interest, that's why it's important to optimize your emails for better performance. Acceptable email download speeds according to Email on Acid are: 3G connection: Less than 4 seconds4G connection: Less …

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