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Prepare for Your Marketing Cloud Next Consultant Certification
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Prepare for Your Marketing Cloud Next Consultant Certification

Preparing to take the Marketing Cloud Next Consultant exam? Check out this trail.

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+5,500 points
Intermediate
Marketer
~17 hrs 32 mins

Explore the Exam Overview

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Review the exam guide for key exam details and study resources.

~5 mins •
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Community

Collaborate and study with fellow Trailblazers in the Trailblazer Community.

~5 mins •
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Grow customer relationships with actionable data, connected workflows, and AI agents.

+300 Points
~20 mins

Understand Platform Setup and Governance

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Complete basic settings, then continue through the required and recommended steps.

~30 mins •
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Explore how Salesforce products come together as Marketing Cloud Next.

+100 Points
~5 mins
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Align your marketing efforts with specific organizational divisions.

~20 mins •
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Configure authenticated email campaigns with trustworthy engagement data.

+1,600 Points
~1 hr 35 mins
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Set up and verify your sending domains in Unified Messaging to send authenticated emails.

~30 mins •
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Learn About Consent Management

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Use Marketing Cloud Next tools to manage subscriber consent and ensure compliance.

+400 Points
~30 mins
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Segmentation and Consent

Create audience segments, including consent management and publishing schedules.

Vidyard
~42 mins •
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Review the tools and concepts that can help you collect and store consent data.

~30 mins •
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Keep these considerations in mind when working with consent management tools.

~20 mins •
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Track visitor activities on your marketing landing pages.

~20 mins •
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Dive into Data Modeling, Identity Resolution, and Segmentation

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Use Data 360 concepts segment and personalize in Marketing Cloud Next.

+300 Points
~30 mins
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Match rules to tell Data 360 which profiles to unify during identity resolution.

~50 mins •
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Use reconciled values to summarize and label a customer 360 profile.

~30 mins •
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Review your org’s licenses and Digital Wallet to determine how your org is billed.

~50 mins •
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Configure Campaign Design, Flow Orchestration, and Content

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Build personalized emails using intuitive editing tools, rules, and merge fields.

+1,200 Points
~1 hr 40 mins
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Organize and automate your marketing efforts with campaigns and flows.

~50 mins •
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Increase customer engagement and improve conversations with content personalization.

~1 hr •
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Design journeys in Marketing Cloud Next using Data 360 and flow logic.

+1,200 Points
~50 mins
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Utilize Flow Builder elements for Marketing Flows.

~40 mins •
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Determine which objects and fields are included in an activation.

~40 mins •
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Implement Agentforce and AI Innovation

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Draft, refine, and generate multichannel and conversational marketing campaigns.

~30 mins •
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Use conversational AI agents to engage customers across SMS, email, and WhatsApp.

+400 Points
~25 mins
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Improve work outcomes and increase day-to-day productivity.

~35 mins •
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Discover Analytics and Performance Insights

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Unified Marketing: Performance & Analytics Strategy Unified Reporting

Use a unified data model to provide a single source of truth for all analytics.

Vidyard
~40 mins •
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Apply a number of different reporting options in Marketing Cloud Next.

~30 mins •
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Monitor performance and report on your successes in Marketing Cloud Next.

~40 mins •
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