Salesforce introduces Marketing Cloud Innovations, featuring Agentforce AI and automation, to help businesses unlock and use data more effectively across all teams for better customer engagement.
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Innovations
The Power of Unified Data and AI Agents
At the core of these innovations is Agentforce for Marketing, a next-generation AI-driven platform that automates the creation and optimization of marketing campaigns. Agentforce combines generative and predictive AI to analyze business goals and deliver highly targeted campaigns across multiple channels. This AI-driven approach allows marketers to save time while optimizing customer experiences.
Key Features of Agentforce:
- Campaign Automation: From generating campaign briefs to building customer journeys, humans with agents feature handles it all. It continuously analyzes performance and offers real-time optimizations based on business KPIs.
- 1:1 Personalization at Scale: By using real-time interactions and customer data, it Personalization recommends tailored actions and messages throughout the customer journey, ensuring personalized engagement.
- Language Support: This platform can create and scale campaigns across different languages, allowing businesses to cater to diverse audiences with minimal effort.
Marketing Cloud Advanced: Enhanced Capabilities for Businesses of All Sizes
The upcoming Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition takes personalization to the next level. Building on the popular Growth Edition, this version empowers small and midsize businesses with advanced AI and automation tools to scale their marketing efforts seamlessly.
- Cross-Department Collaboration: Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition enables seamless integration between marketing, sales, service, and commerce workflows, providing customers with a unified experience.
- Automated Task Management: Salesforce Flow enables marketers to automate tasks, such as sales lead routing and service requests, ensuring real-time, targeted messaging.
- Unified SMS Conversations: Businesses can now manage SMS interactions across marketing, service, and commerce in one place, ensuring a cohesive brand experience.
Einstein Marketing Intelligence: Optimizing Campaigns with AI
Einstein Marketing Intelligence (EMI) taps into Data Cloud, helping businesses automate data preparation and analyze marketing spend. With prebuilt data connectors and real-time insights, EMI helps marketers track campaign performance and ROI with ease.
- Real-Time Optimization: Marketers can use AI-driven insights to optimize spend and adjust campaign performance in real time, ensuring a higher return on investment.
- Automated Data Harmonization: EMI simplifies the complexities of data management, transforming and mapping first- and third-party data to provide a holistic view of campaign performance.
Why It Matters: Enhancing Customer Relationships
These innovations come at a time when customers expect personalized, connected experiences. However, many businesses struggle to unify their technology and processes, leading to fragmented customer interactions. With AI-powered Salesforce solutions, marketers can now provide personalized, frictionless experiences across the entire customer lifecycle, enhancing brand loyalty and improving business outcomes.
For instance, a telecom company can use Agentforce to target potential churn customers with personalized multi-channel campaigns, increasing retention. A healthcare company can leverage EMI to track and adjust the performance of a flu shot campaign in real time, reducing waste and boosting engagement.
The Future of AI in Marketing
This new innovations in Marketing Cloud set the stage for a future where AI agents play a pivotal role in delivering personalized, data-driven experiences. Whether automating campaign creation, optimizing marketing spend, or delivering tailored experiences at scale, these tools empower businesses to build lasting customer relationships.
With Agentforce, Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition, and Einstein Marketing Intelligence, marketers are better equipped to engage customers on their terms, while driving growth and optimizing every step of the customer journey.
Availability
- Agentforce Campaigns is available now.
- Agentforce Personalization will be available next summer.
- Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition is coming this fall for customers in North America, Europe, and Latin America.
- Einstein Multi-Language Support will launch this fall in Marketing Cloud Engagement, with beta versions in Account Engagement (Advanced and Premium), Marketing Cloud Growth, and Marketing Cloud Advanced. Supported languages include French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese.
- Unified Conversations with SMS will be available with Marketing Cloud Advanced Edition starting this fall.
- Einstein Marketing Intelligence will launch this winter.
- Einstein Personalization will roll out this fall.
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Source: Salesforce News & Insights
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