When planning complex programs or campaigns in Eloqua, before building it out in the Program Builder or Campaign Canvas, how do you map-it-out?

Seems to take forever to load.

Do you want to increase form conversions with minimal customer effort? Do you wish a single email click-through could act as a form submission? Incorporate blind form submits in Eloqua! Learn how to create blind form submit links directly in your emails to gather Contact data with one click in this instructor-led, 3-hour course.

Eloqua 10: Blind Form Submits is now available in Eloqua University to All Access Education Pass (AAEP) holders. The course provides use cases for when blind form submits are a good solution along with step-by-step guidance to:

• Create a form with hidden fields and processing steps
• Build a blind form submit link
• Add additional processing steps to an existing form to support multiple blind form submit links in a single email

To learn more about this course, read the full abstract.

As the designer of this course, I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback about it. Please leave any comments or suggestions below.

Happy training,

Clementina

More Engage questions from me:). Can you tell I have a new rep using the product! It is great.

Anyways, my rep loaded a list into engage and there were several emails in the list that did not have names. After some investigation I saw that all of these people were marked as having invalid email address in Eloqua.  In my organization, when a email is deemed a hardbounce, it is removed from Eloqua and left in SFDC for manual intervention until a new email can be assigned.

My question is why didn't engage mark these people as having bad emails addresses? Shouldn't my rep be able to see that in the list of his bulk email send. Here are some screenshots:

All of these people in the above list are invalid emails as you can see from the screenshot below:

I am creating a custom subscription management page and have around 40 email groups I would like users to be able to manage their preferences on. I want the email groups in checkbox format and to be in multiple columns instead of one long list.

I am running into trouble. First I brought in all the email groups as single check box contact fields. This turns the page into a super long list of email groups - not desirable. I can set up the processing steps to make this work to subscribe or unsubscribe users to email groups, however, I want a more aesthetically pleasing look where the email group options would be in columns.

I am wanting a solution for the email group checkboxes to fall into columns. However, when I use the approach of adding a custom field group >> custom three column >> then uploading a pick list of all of the email groups, I cannot get the processing steps to allow for subscribes and unsubscribes. In the processing steps it looks like the whole entity checkboxes wants to match up with just one email group. I need the solution to allow for each email group under checkboxes to be able to map to a different email group in Eloqua and subsequently SFDC.

Can anyone help me out?

I want to be able to have my email group subscription textboxes in an aesthetically pleasing, multi-coloumn list instead of one long single item list. It is essential that the solution still allows for the processing steps to unsubscribe or subscribe users to that specific email group coordinating with the check box they either checked or unchecked.

This may not be a typical 'Imagine It' topic, but I wasn't sure where to post it otherwise and I did see some legal-related topics in this section.

So let's imagine, that you need to communicate with Business Partners of whome you do initially receive an email address to communicate with about business/relationship relevant topics and sometimes even legally-required information, such as product updates or portfolio phase ins/outs. However, at some point you find that this email address is not valid/used anymore and you do actually have another email address for that Business Partner contact.

But that business partner contact has not opted-in/subscribed using that email address.

Are you allowed to use that other (valid, but not opted-in) email address for your business partner relevant communications?

I am in doubt, because there is no specific opt-in for that new email address, but I think most laws do allow e-mail sending if there is an existing business relationship and the content of the email is relevant to that relationship.

Best regards

Roger

Wondering how many topliners know where to go vote up the feature that would make their life simpler.

We have captured of them in an ongoing post

If you could add one feature to Eloqua what would it be?

Our Development and  Cloud Operations Teams are currently working to resolve an incident that is impacting Bulk Imports and Exports, Lead Scoring and Firehose. We do not currentlty have an ETA for resolution. The next update is scheduled for 10:45 pm EDT ( UTC -4).

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**Update**

Sunday, October 26th, 10:45 pm EDT (UTC -4)

Our development and Cloud Operations teams continue to work towards a resolution. Actions have been taken to alleviate the symptoms for Bulk Imports and Exports, Lead Scoring and Firehose in the interim. The next update will be around 11:45 pm EDT (UTC -4)

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**Update**

Sunday, October 26th, 11:50 pm EDT (UTC -4)

The actions taken by our Development and Cloud Operations Teams have stabilized these services. Work is being done to correct the root cause of this incident. The next update will be Monday October 27th at 10:00 AM EDT (UTC -4)

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**Update**

Monday, October 27th, 10:05 am EDT (UTC -4)

The services remain stabilized, however our Cloud Operations Team is working to determine the root cause of the incident. The next update will be around 12:00 pm EDT (UTC -4)

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Monday, October 27th, 12:00 pm EDT (UTC -4)

Our Cloud Operations Team is currently working to determine the root cause of the incident. The next update will be around 2:00 pm EDT (UTC -4)

In October 2015, Oracle Eloqua will officially end support for the SOAP API.

Why?

With our first RESTful API release back in 2010, we committed to building out a new generation of APIs to interact with Oracle Eloqua. REST is an architectural style that provides flexibility, semantic design, and a consistent way to interface with the desired resources. RESTful APIs also use the existing standards of the HTTP protocol, rather than the SOAP protocol, making it a great choice for web-based applications.  Since 2010, we’ve continuously improved our RESTful APIs, while SOAP has remained in maintenance mode.

The time has come to announce to our development community that the future of our APIs lies with REST.  Deprecating the SOAP API will protect our developers from the disappointment that may come from building code on technology that we are not investing in going forward.

What does this mean for developers?

Existing integrations built on the SOAP API will continue to function as usual until October 2015.

After October 2015, the SOAP API will not be altered, even upon the discovery of a defect.  The support team will no longer provide assistance for SOAP API related issues.

Next steps:

Our current RESTful APIs (Application API, Bulk API, and the AppCloud Developer Framework) already provide most of the capabilities that are offered by the SOAP API.    We are committed to closing any significant gaps before deprecation in October 2015.

Developers should begin migrating their code to one of the RESTful APIs as soon as possible.

What are the plans for Oracle Eloqua APIs going forward?

We are excited to announce that our commitment to an open platform continues to expand. We are in the process of building  new versions of our existing RESTful APIs that will offer all of the existing functionality of the Oracle Eloqua APIs, as well as  new capabilities that have not been previously offered.

A new and improved documentation site was also recently launched, which will be the home for all of our API documentation going forward.  Find it HERE.

If you have questions, post a discussion to Code It!

Our Cloud Operations Team is currently investigating an incident impacting the ability for some clients utilizing IP restrictions to log in to the application.  We do not currently have an ETA for resolution. The next update is scheduled for 9:30 am EDT (UTC - 4)

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Our Cloud Operations Team is currently still investigating the root cause of this issue. The Next update will be around 10:30 am EDT (UTC -4)

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**Update: Monday, October 27th 10:35 am EDT (UTC -4)**

Our Cloud Operations Team is currently working on implementing a fix for this incident. The next update will be around 11:30 am EDT (UTC - 4)

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**Update: Monday, October 27th 11:07 am EDT (UTC -4)**

After analysis by our support teams, it was determined that the incident resulted from a configuration issue. The configuration issue has been resolved and production use of your Eloqua service has been restored. Oracle is also reviewing the monitoring, alerting and standard operating procedures related to the incident. After these reviews are completed, additional appropriate corrective actions identified during the reviews will be taken.

iris Germany is a leading integrated marketing and communication agency, serving it’s clients through global reach and local focus. Through a combination of strategy, technology and creativity, iris Germany provides the broad range of marketing services with focus on dialog and online/e-mail marketing and cross-channel approach that deliver real results for even the most complex products and industries. Our clients include Adobe, Allianz, Alphabet, Axway, BMW, DATEV, Hewlett-Packard, Kraft Foods, MINI, NetApp, Nikon, Roche, Royal Caribbean, SAP, Siemens, SingTel, Symantec, Trustwave and others. Founded in 1998 as Pepper, iris Germany is a full service agency employing 80 marketing professionals in Munich. In 2014, we joined iris worldwide – the global creative innovation network. iris has over 1000 employees working in 14 offices across North and South America, Europe and Asia and works with clients such as MINI, adidas, Barclaycard, Samsung and Shell.

What we are looking for:

You are expected to have collected some experience in marketing, IT consulting, or IT project management after or during your studies in IT, Media or Marketing. You should be familiar with the implementation of HTML forms and landing pages and should at least have had an introduction to Eloqua or a similar program – as well as with the process of Nurture Flows and Lead Generation. If your skillset is rounded off with very good German and English skills, there’s a good chance that you’re perfect for the position and we look forward to receiving your application.

About the role:

As a trainee in marketing automation you will be supporting our team with the planning, conceptualization and execution of marketing automation campaigns, email marketing and customer loyalty programs. You will be involved in cross-channel creative concepts and innovative communication plans on the Marketing Automation side as well as coming up with solutions for Lead Nurturing concepts, segmentation and the set-up of possible scenarios. Besides this you will be expected to help your team with the organization and implementation of external and internal training sessions and workshops.

Contact:

Jobs.munich@iris-worldwide.com

iris Germany GmbH

Marion Kaun

+49 (0) 89 55 2790 113

www.pepperglobal.com

(Feel free to email me at jon.ernst@iris-worldwide.com if you have any questions!)

Hi all,

our objective is to have a button on SFDC on the contact detail page, which is sync with the contact in Eloqua, that after been pushed can pop-up the detail page of the contact in Eloqua (in the Activity Log Page as preferable).

The idea is to interrogate Eloqua via API passing the parameter for login and the ID of Salesforce Contact (which is registered in the Eloqua SFDC ContactID field).

Has anyone done something similar before?

Thanks,

Massimiliano

Hey,

In terms of bad reputation and best deliverability, What's better when sending out a campaign: "Send from" a sub-domain or from our real domain?

I'd like to hear what do you use when you send out marketing letters. What would you recommend? is it acceptable and recommended to revise the address of sender to our real domain?

Thanks!

Hello all,

I need to set up a form that can only be submitted once per email address. I can't find any documentation on this. It would be great if someone could provide some detail on how best to achieve this.

Thanks,

James

Hello,
Is it possible to capture an activity that a visitor inputs to a form but does not submit it?
This is a similer situation to that a visitor visits a landing page but does not submit a form on the landing page.

I am wondering if we can send an email and create dynamic contents based on the form abandon activity.

Has anyone tried to do this?

Thanks, Ai

Our client is one of the largest providers of commercial business information purpose is to mitigate credit and supplier risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability. They also provide marketing solutions to increase revenue from new and existing customers and convert prospects into clients faster by enabling business professionals to research companies, executives and industries.

Job Summary 

• The Email Marketing Specialist reports to the Leader, Marketing Operations and is responsible for operational aspects of marketing campaigns.

Responsibilities 

• Creating, editing, and sending email marketing materials and coordinating with the design team to get necessary creative.
• Create and develop segmentation groups, forms, and simple landing pages.
• Monitor and advise Marketing Managers on email marketing quality, adherence to best practices, and se email, and list performance.
• Building test frameworks (split testing, deliverability and tracking) for optimization of email effectiveness.
• Advises Marketing team on integrating email and marketing automation into new and existing marketing campaigns.
• Creation of KPI metrics and reporting dashboards for marketing campaigns
• Perform analysis that will deliver incremental value through support of marketing initiatives for all channels.

Qualifications 

• 2+ years of experience in marketing automation (ELOQUA) and database management (campaign design, integrated marketing and demand generation). Salesforce.com experience a plus.
• Four-year college degree or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications or related field.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, Access, SQL or related database systems
• Knowledge of the web Do, HTML & CSS skills a plus.
• Understands marketing automated software (Eloqua or related Automation system).
• Understands relational database structures
• Ability to think logically and critically when solving problems and considering process improvement
• Well organized, Self-motivated, Incredibly detail-oriented
• Results & Detail oriented with strong follow-through skills
• Strong verbal, written and presentation communications skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and energetic environment
• Ability to spot data driven opportunities
• Track record of performance excellence meeting targets and objectives
• Ability to analyze business needs and formulate them into effective marketing campaigns

About Hired By Matrix

Hired by Matrix, Inc. is a full service staffing and recruiting company that enables Fortune 500 and mid-market companies nationwide to achieve their strategic goals.  We prepare our clients to succeed in a changing marketplace by creating a custom pipeline of professionals and teams that are superbly matched to our clients’ business functions and cultures.

We recruit for a variety of job types including IT, Finance and Accounting, R & D, Engineering, Administrative and Light Industrial.

Founded 27 years ago by CEO Sharon Olzerowicz, Hired by Matrix distinguishes itself as an exceptionally reliable partner whose industry knowledge and continuous pursuit of excellence allows the company to deliver the caliber of professionals who become our clients’ most important assets.

Our team of expert account managers and recruiters collaborate closely with our clients to understand their needs, corporate requirements and company cultures.  We also keep our clients informed of important industry trends.  We use this information to build robust, fully customized pipelines of highly-qualified contract professionals.

Our responsiveness, tenacity and know-how apply to all service delivery channels, from corporate procurement executives and hiring managers to Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Hired by Matrix has a track record of delivering consultants that map precisely to the skills, expertise and company culture required.  Our investment in recruiters, who specialize in a range of capabilities and niche disciplines, has resulted in successful matches, long contracts and repeat business. This frees our clients to focus their time and efforts on higher value goals, such as creating more efficient processes, optimizing their human resources, or enhancing productivity.

We also bring a human touch to managing and motivating our consultants, from the initial recruitment process and candidate presentation, to monitoring their progress throughout the life of the assignment.

Hired by Matrix, Inc. is a WBENC-certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE); and CEO Sharon Olzerowicz serves on the WBENC Board and is a long-standing member of the Forum Governing Group.  HbM is also WOSB (Woman Owned Small Business) Certified.

Hired by Matrix, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If interested and local, please apply directly by sending your updated contact information and resume to tdelorenzo@hiredbymatrix.com