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Lucho_Soto
New Participant
June 15, 2017
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Email Attachments - How Are You Doing These?

  • June 15, 2017
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Before I get called out, I know that attachments can't be placed in Marketo emails and that this question has been answered before .

My question is how are users in the community using automation to send out emails that include personalized PDFs? Invoices and certificates come to mind.

Any info on third-party vendors would be very helpful. Our ideal scenario is to use a vendor that can 1) Send automated emails and add them to the lead's Activity Log or 2) Generate personalized PDF URLs that can be inserted into Marketo emails via tokens.     

2 replies

SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
June 15, 2017

You can link to personalized, dynamically created PDFs (PDFs that actually include {{lead.tokens}} ​in the content) by using PDFmyURL, as I wrote about on my blog last year: http://blog.teknkl.com/use-marketo-lps-as-pdf-templates-with/

Lucho_Soto
New Participant
June 16, 2017

Very helpful @Sanford Whiteman, thank you.

Harish_Gupta6
New Participant
June 15, 2017

Hi Lucho,

We have implemented this many times in our program where we were sending unique pdf to different leads and unique login link for website.

We created one field in Marketo and used the token in the email. In the Send email smart campaign we implemented all our logic which will put the correct link in the email on place of token.

Please let me know if you need more detailed explanation.

Thanks

Harish Gupta
Lucho_Soto
New Participant
June 15, 2017

@Harish Gupta​ thanks for your input! Makes sense to me on the Marketo side. The token approach definitely seems to work best.

How are you creating, naming and uploading each unique PDF file? Is this done manually?