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SMS & RCS from Marketo: What MOPS Teams Should Know Before They Build It

Marketing Ops teams love controlled experimentation.But when it comes to SMS or RCS from Marketo, “technically possible” and “operationally smart” are very different things. A recent MOPS community discussion surfaced a familiar question: Has anyone used SMS/RCS messaging out of Marketo using a third-party tool? The answers reveal an important truth:SMS in Marketo is easy…

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HubSpot for Sheets: A Powerful Step Forward…But Only If Governance Comes First

HubSpot’s launch of HubSpot for Sheets inside Google Workspace is a smart, pragmatic move. It acknowledges a reality most marketing and RevOps teams live with every day: Spreadsheets aren’t going away. Despite years of CRM adoption, Google Sheets remains the default workspace for segmentation, analysis, imports, list building, and quick operational fixes. Instead of fighting…

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Blocking HubSpot Form Submissions by Country or IP: What Actually Works (and What Doesn’t)

This question comes up more often than you’d think—especially for B2B companies running global campaigns: “Can I block HubSpot form submissions by country or IP?” Short answer: not natively.Long answer: yes, but you need to be thoughtful about how you do it. A recent community discussion surfaced some practical (and realistic) approaches. Here’s how we…

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When “Call Webhook” Isn’t the Same as “Data Is Ready”

Designing Reliable Campaign Chains in Marketo If you’ve ever built a multi-step lead management or enrichment flow in Marketo, you’ve likely faced this moment: “I need enrichment to finish before normalization, routing, scoring, or waterfall logic runs… but Marketo won’t let me call a webhook the way I want.” This is where many campaign architectures…

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Why Unsubscribe Governance Breaks Down And How MOPS Teams Can Fix It

In almost every B2B organization, Marketing Operations eventually runs into the same deceptively simple question: “Can we map Marketo’s native Unsubscribed field to a custom field in Salesforce?” At first glance, it sounds like a field-mapping request. But beneath it lies a bigger operational challenge — one that affects compliance, reporting, sales alignment, and customer…

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