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Review the Pardot Specialist Exam Guide

Take special note of the Audience Description and Exam Outline, we will use the exam outline & weighting as a structure for this trailmix.

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Evaluate your Salesforce skills, Salesforce Admin/Consultants may skip.

Pardot is a Salesforce Platform solution, familiarize yourself with Salesforce objects & UI. Consider obtaining Salesforce Admin/consultant.

~5 mins
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Review - Salesforce for Pardot Admins

It’s important for Pardot administrators to have a working knowledge of Salesforce in order to make the most of the solution.

~10 mins
+300 points
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Salesforce User Basics

Get started with Salesforce and learn how to make it work for your bottom line.

~1 hr 5 mins
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Evaluate your Marketing skills, Experienced B2B Marketers may skip.

For those not familiar with the B2B Marketer's toolbox for optimizing campaigns and driving revenue with Marketing Automation.

~5 mins
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The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing

Familiarize yourself with the tools used to execute and optimize marketing campaigns, includes checklists & worksheets.

~30 mins
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Review - Pardot for Salesforce Admins

Pardot for Salesforce Administrators, is designed to help Salesforce administrators understand how Pardot interacts with Salesforce.

~10 mins
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Visitors and Prospects: 8% exam weighting

Describe the relationship between visitors and prospects. Given a scenario, apply the appropriate plan of action using Prospect Audits.

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Webinar: New Admin Pardot Onboarding

Learn the fundamentals of how data flows between Pardot & Salesforce and how to be a Pardot Administrator.

~1 hr 15 mins
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Slides: New Admin Onboarding

Slides to supplement the recorded training webinar, so you can access any links, follow-along or reference them after the webinar.

~5 mins
+300 points
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Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Basics

Learn what Account Engagement is and how it can help you market to other businesses.

~45 mins
+400 points
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Explore Marketing Strategies That Engage Customers

Discover best practices for combining lead generation and lead nurturing.

~50 mins
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Administration: 11% exam weighting

Illustrate how to create, edit, & map fields. Explain the relationship between Pardot & Salesforce. Describe the Pardot Recycle Bin.

+300 points
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Account Engagement Salesforce Integration for Lightning App

Connect Account Engagement to Salesforce to align your marketing and sales teams.

~45 mins
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Pardot Forms, Form Handlers and Landing Pages: 20% exam weighting

Given a scenario, identify the capabilities, use cases and interpret metrics of Pardot forms and landing pages.

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Webinar: Use Forms and Landing Pages

Learn how to build and use forms and landing pages in Pardot.

~1 hr
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Slides: Using Forms and Landing Pages

Slides to supplement the recorded training webinar, so you can access any links, follow-along or reference them after the webinar.

~5 mins
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Video: Forms and Form Handlers

Deep-dive on form functionality and how to use form handlers.

~45 mins
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Forms vs Form Handlers

Helpful matrix to compare functional differences between forms and form handlers. Bookmark for future use.

~5 mins
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Lead Management: 24% exam weighting

Explain the use cases and capabilities of Pardot automations and different list types. Explain how scoring & grading is measured & managed.

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Webinar: How to use Automation Tools

Learn how to use automation tools to address business challenges.

~1 hr
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Slides: How to Use Automation Tools

Slides to supplement the recorded training webinar, so you can access any links, follow-along or reference them after the webinar.

~5 mins
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Video: SCORING LEAD QUALIFICATION STRATEGY PART 1

Gauge a prospects interest by their engagement with your website, email, and social content.

~40 mins
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Video: GRADING - LEAD QUALIFICATION STRATEGY

Understand how good of a fit a prospect is for your products and services based off of what you know about them.

~1 hr
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Whitepaper: Scoring & Grading Handbook

Your guide to automated lead generation including worksheets to gather information that aids in customizing Pardot for your business.

~30 mins
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Blog: How to Drive Prospect Engagement with Einstein’s AI-Powered Behavior Score

Understand Pardot's Einstien AI Behavior Score and how it differs from a Pardot Score.

~10 mins
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Email Marketing: 20% exam weight

Given a scenario, identify the capabilities and use cases for email. Distinguish between (email vs email teplate) & email reporting metrics.

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Webinar: Send List Emails

How to prepare for, build, send, and report on list emails including list building logic and permission based email marketing guidance.

~1 hr
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Slides: Send List Emails

Slides to supplement the recorded training webinar, so you can access any links, follow-along or reference them after the webinar.

~5 mins
+500 points
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Email Marketing for Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Create and send emails to support your marketing automation strategy.

~2 hrs 10 mins
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Engagement Studio: 17% exam weight

Distinguish between the components of an engagement program. Explain the process of updating an engagement program including its assets.

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Video: GETTING STARTED WITH LEAD NURTURING IN ENGAGEMENT STUDIO

Best practices for lead nurturing and review of the kinds of programs you can build in Engagement Studio.

~1 hr
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Whitepaper: Common Used Engagement Studio Use Cases

Our common Engagement Studio program examples as well as best practices on managing timing, content, program scope and complexity.

~30 mins
+400 points
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Engagement Studio for Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Build responsive, highly personalized customer journeys using Engagement Studio.

~1 hr 10 mins
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Maintaining skills

Complete the following Certification Maintenance Trails to ensure your Pardot knowledge is current.