Marketers Marketing-Cloud-Account-Engagement-Specialist Salesforce Study Notes

 A hard bounce refers to an email that permanently bounced back to the sender because the address is invalid. A hard bounce occurs when the prospect’s email address is incorrect, the domain name does not exist, or the sender is suspected as spam and/or has been blocked7. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement marks prospects with hard bounces as undeliverable and prevents any further email sends to them8. A hard bounce is different from a soft bounce, which is a temporary delivery failure due to reasons such as a full mailbox, a server outage, or a message size limit9. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement retries sending emails to prospects with soft bounces until they are delivered or until they reach five soft bounces, after which they are marked as undeliverable

 Custom redirects are special URLs that track link clicks and conversions for any online marketing content, such as banner ads, social media posts, or third-party websites. You can use custom redirects to measure the effectiveness of your online advertising campaigns and track the behavior of prospects who click on your links. References: Custom Redirects, Create Custom Redirects

There are three ways the Marketing Manager can create a new prospect in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement. They are:

• Click the “Send to Account Engagement” button on a Salesforce Lead. This option allows the Marketing Manager to send a one-to-one email to a lead in Salesforce using an Account Engagement email template. If the lead does not already exist as a prospect in Account Engagement, it will be created automatically and synced with Salesforce1
• Manually add a prospect in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement. This option allows the Marketing Manager to create a new prospect record in Account Engagement by entering the prospect’s email address and other information. The prospect can then be added to lists, campaigns, or engagement programs2
• Import a .CSV file with the prospect’s email address. This option allows the Marketing Manager to import a list of prospects from a .CSV file into Account Engagement. The file must contain the prospect’s email address as the first column, and can also include other fields. The imported prospects can then be assigned, tagged, or added to lists or campaigns

The best way to be able to track the number of visitors who access a file on a web page that the company does not own is to use a custom redirect. A custom redirect is a Marketing Cloud Account Engagement feature that allows you to track any link on your website or a third-party website and measure the clicks and conversions. You can create a custom redirect for the link to the file and use the custom redirect URL instead of the original link on your web page. This way, you can track how many visitors click on the link and access the file, and also see which prospects are interested in the file. A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement form, a Marketing Cloud Account Engagement tracking code, or a page action are not suitable for this purpose, as they are used for different scenarios. A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement form is used to collect visitor information and convert them to prospects. A Marketing Cloud Account Engagement tracking code is used to track the page views and activities of visitors and prospects on your own website. A page action is used to perform certain actions when a prospect views a specific page on your website. References Custom Redirects