Founder and Principal Consultant
With 30 years of marketing experience I’ve been laser targeted on Marketing Automation for 10 years, seven of those as a Salesforce Certified Pardot Consultant, and more recently a HubSpot Expert.
Since I’ve worked with a lot of clients in various industries I’ve seen several of the same struggles that are common to almost all organizations (as outlined in this article). With each organization and project that I’m involved with I work hard to solve many of those typical problems, plus identifying and solving sometimes unique and complex issues which often involve cleaning up technical debt from legacy systems and helping organizations set up effective lead management systems using best practices and proven methodologies.
I also love dogs :0)
Optimal Business Consulting (OBC) helps organizations to implement, optimize, and maintain their existing or new Pardot (Account Engagement), Salesforce, HubSpot, or WordPress platform. OBC is proud to be a Salesforce Partner and HubSpot Partner. –>More about Jeff & OBC
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The OBC Form Journey is a scalable & powerful marketing automation solution that centralizes common form processing functionality & adds substantial value quickly.
Free download: ‘Marketing Automation & CRM Platform Migration Checklist’
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Byte Software, a mortgage technology company, wasn’t extracting the most from their marketing automation system and needed onboarding help with their Pardot instance. OBC had the knowledge and experience to get Byte Software where they needed to be with Pardot.
If you are connecting HubSpot with Salesforce and setting up HubSpot to sync with Salesforce, you don’t want to map the ‘Marketing contact status’ field directly to Salesforce’s ‘Do Not Email’ (DNE) field; those fields will not sync the proper values based on how they are intended to work.
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Pardot App or Pardot Lightning? That is the question. For all Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) users out there who’ve maybe recently started working with Pardot or who's organization recently enabled Pardot Lightning, and who aren’t familiar with the...
The OBC Form Journey is a scalable & powerful marketing automation solution that centralizes common form processing functionality & adds substantial value quickly.
Are you thinking about migrating Marketing Automation or CRM platforms and wondering if it’s worth it? Will your company/organization be better off in the long run if you migrate MAP and/or CRM platforms? Download our ‘Marketing Automation & CRM Platform Migration Checklist‘ Google Sheet as a valuable resource to give you some things to consider before making the jump.
Best methods to defeat form spam from bots and human spammers. Whether it’s spam bots or human spammers, we’ll discuss how to identify spammers and provide a best methods on how to defeat form spam.
Since most of the email marketing tools on the market today are lacking in features, usability, and team collaboration workflows (i.e. Pardot!), we decided to put together this brief pros and cons list of a few noteworthy options that might be better for your email production and email marketing efforts. These aren’t just email design tools, but online tools/services/products suitable for rapid and collaborative email production by your marketing department.
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Which test environment should you use: Pardot Sandbox, Pardot Demo Org, Pardot Dev Org? We outline some things to take into account and highlight some of the main differences between testing environments so that you can make the best decision on which type of testing environment or ‘playground’ will work best for your needs.
The OBC Form Journey is a scalable & powerful marketing automation solution that centralizes common form processing functionality & adds substantial value quickly.
Free download: ‘Marketing Automation & CRM Platform Migration Checklist’
Are you thinking about migrating Marketing Automation or CRM platforms and wondering if it’s worth it? Will your company/organization be better off in the long run if you migrate MAP and/or CRM platforms? Download our ‘Marketing Automation & CRM Platform Migration Checklist‘ Google Sheet as a valuable resource to give you some things to consider before making the jump.
How many emails can you send per month with HubSpot? What is the limit on the number of HubSpot campaigns and workflows?
Best methods to defeat form spam from bots and human spammers. Whether it’s spam bots or human spammers, we’ll discuss how to identify spammers and provide a best methods on how to defeat form spam.
Byte Software, a mortgage technology company, wasn’t extracting the most from their marketing automation system and needed onboarding help with their Pardot instance. OBC had the knowledge and experience to get Byte Software where they needed to be with Pardot.
If you are connecting HubSpot with Salesforce and setting up HubSpot to sync with Salesforce, you don’t want to map the ‘Marketing contact status’ field directly to Salesforce’s ‘Do Not Email’ (DNE) field; those fields will not sync the proper values based on how they are intended to work.
Is HubSpot better than Pardot? We rate each feature with a one to five star importance rating to give a quick visual indication of which platform ‘wins’ on any particular feature/issue.
Pardot App or Pardot Lightning? That is the question. For all Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) users out there who’ve maybe recently started working with Pardot or who's organization recently enabled Pardot Lightning, and who aren’t familiar with the...
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I enjoy the intersection of working with people, processes, and technology for improved outcomes.
With over 30 years of marketing and sales experience I've been laser targeted on Marketing Automation & CRM optimization for over 10 years, nine of those as a Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) Consultant, and also as a Certified Salesforce Administrator and HubSpot Expert. Prior to that I have over 17 years of WordPress development experience and additional high profile roles in sales and marketing management.
I've led over 50 client consulting engagements in various industries (sometimes working through other Salesforce Partners), and with each organization and project that I'm involved with I work hard to identify and solve sometimes unique and complex issues which often involve cleaning up technical debt from legacy systems, and architecting processes and solutions to help organizations set up effective lead management systems and operational efficiencies using best practices and proven methodologies.
I also love dogs :0)
Optimal Business Consulting is proud to be a Salesforce Partner since 2018 and also became a HubSpot Solution Partner in 2023. -->More about Jeff & OBC
My superpowers:
⚡Operational Efficiency ⚡Knowledge ⚡Experience ⚡Business Acumen ⚡Versatility ⚡ Perseverance
