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Marketing Cloud
What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization?
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Today, we experience personalization in many areas of our lives, from customizing furniture fabrics to adding heated seats to a new car. So why shouldn’t your marketing messages also be tailored to customer preferences? Personalization makes us feel acknowledged and understood by treating each customer as a unique individual. It strengthens the customer-company relationship, as...
Media & Entertainment
A Beginner’s Guide to Salesforce Media Cloud
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We often talk about the Salesforce journey. You start off with a basic version of a product, roll it out, and add on a more advanced version of the product. You expand, scale, and grow your Salesforce ecosystem from a crawl to a walk to a run. But what if you’re just at the start...
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The New Einstein 1 Platform: What You Need to Know
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One of the major announcements at Dreamforce was the news that the new Einstein 1 Data Cloud natively integrates with the Einstein 1 Platform. Users can now connect any data to create a unified profile of their customer and infuse AI, automation, and analytics into every customer experience. This is exciting news, but what does...
Media & Entertainment
Why Salesforce Media Cloud is a Must for Media Planning
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Sometimes it can be hard to see the glimmer of light at the end of the media industry tunnel. From two Hollywood strikes to declining ad revenue to money-losing streaming businesses, media companies face a lot of uncertainty as they try to get their share of advertising dollars. The multiple unknowns in media have led...
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6 Ways to Ensure Salesforce Data Security
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Government organizations, financial institutions, and healthcare providers are leaking private and sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and IP addresses from their public Salesforce Community websites. According to a recent article from KrebsOnSecurity, this is due to the potential misconfiguration of Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) software, which can leave data...
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7 Steps for Crafting an Effective AI Implementation Strategy
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September 19, 2016 is a significant date in Salesforce history. That’s when Salesforce Einstein was launched and brought the power of artificial intelligence to every Salesforce user. Skip to almost seven years later, and today Einstein runs more than 1 trillion predictions per week. Plus Salesforce has recently added even more AI capabilities with its...
Media & Entertainment
3 Strategies to Personalize Subscription Lifecycle Management
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“Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with—your household.” That’s the message that Netflix shared in May as it cracked down on password sharing. Millions of viewers groaned in response as their days of scrounging off family and friends came to an end. But despite industry doubts, the crackdown paid off,...
Media & Entertainment
Harnessing the Power of Salesforce Data Cloud for Marketing
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Publishing companies are soon facing the loss of Google Chrome’s third-party cookies support, which will most likely stop by the end of 2024. Without those cookies, it will be harder for publishers to gather user data, sell targeted segments to advertisers, and deliver on personalization. Publishers will have to rely more on their first-party data,...
Media & Entertainment
4 Generative AI Use Cases to Drive Ad Sales
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One of the first instances of AI showing up in the advertising industry was with a Lexus commercial. It was 2018, and Lexus used IBM Watson to create the first commercial entirely scripted by AI. The car company leveraged IBM Watson to analyze 15 years of car and luxury brand campaigns that had won Cannes...
Marketing Cloud
Salesforce Data Cloud: 7 Frequently Asked Questions
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According to the MuleSoft 2023 Connectivity Benchmark Report, more than two-thirds (69%) of organizations say they’re ahead of anticipated progress on their digital transformation projects. Yet IT teams continue to face several technology and process challenges that are preventing progress. At the top of that challenge list is integrating siloed apps and data (36%), making...