Welcome to the Hands-On Training sessions for the Boston Marketers Group. Each Monday at 8am EST we meet where you can volunteer and build marketing automations right in Marketing Cloud and other platforms.
How to sign up:
(1) Sign up at handsonsfmc.com: https://handsonsfmc.com/contact/
(2) Ping Tim Ziter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-ziter-92589bb/
Here’s a list of our upcoming sessions:
| Session Date & Builder | What we’ll build | Link |
| When: 12-2-24, 8am EST Who: Pearl Lee | Need: The Boston Marketer Community Group would like to capture data on their members like contact information to send regular communications. Problem: When you sign up for the Community, the community doesn’t have access to the members emails. Solution: Build a basic SFMC landing page (Cloud page) to allow our members to opt in to communications and for the community to gather contact and other data on each member. | https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/events/details/salesforce-salesforce-marketer-group-boston-united-states-presents-marketing-cloud-mondays-hands-on-building-session-2024-12-02/ |
| When: 12-9-24, 8am EST Who: TBD | TBD, it all depends on how far we get on previous session. | https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/events/details/salesforce-salesforce-marketer-group-boston-united-states-presents-marketing-cloud-mondays-hands-on-building-session-2024-12-09/ |
| When: 12-16-24, 8am EST Who: TBD | TBD, it all depends on how far we get on previous session. | https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/events/details/salesforce-salesforce-marketer-group-boston-united-states-presents-marketing-cloud-mondays-hands-on-building-session-2024-12-16/ |
Past Hands-on Sessions
Hands On Session: Ampscript Bootcamp Day 8
Topic: Ampscript
Builder: Shonica
Date: 6-27-23
Summary: In our first Hands-On session of the Ampscript Bootcamp we walk though basic personalization with Shonica by variable-izing her data points and leveraging key Ampscript functions.
Resources: Please reference the following pages which explain the content covered in more detail: https://handsonsfmc.com/part-i-attribute-value-v-and-empty-functions/
Hands On Session: Ampscript Bootcamp Day 9
Topic: Ampscript
Builder: Barkha
Date: 7-11-23
Summary: In this Ampscript Hands-on session we tackle more advanced functions like Lookup and Substring, IndexOf to add a level of personalization to an email send.
Resources: Please reference the following pages which explain the content covered in more detail: https://handsonsfmc.com/part-3-lookup-function/
Hands On Session: Ampscript Bootcamp Day 10
Topic: Ampscript
Builder: Malik
Date: 7-18-23
Summary: In this Ampscript Hands-on session clean up the personalization use case by formatting the greeting using ProperCase. In the second half Malik builds out functionality to display Loyalty steps via the LookupRows function featuring For Loops and IF/THEN statements.
Resources: Please reference the following pages which explain the content covered in more detail: https://handsonsfmc.com/part-3-lookuprows-function/
Hands On Session: SSJS Bootcamp Day 1
Topic: SSJS
Builder: Bruno
Date: 9-28-23
Summary: In our first SSJS Bootcamp Hands-On session our focus will be to make an Auth API call to leverage the Wait Until Event functionality. First we walk through creating a user for Bruno in our Marketing Cloud environment. Bruno then creates a Installed Package to create credentials for making an Auth call.
Bruno creates a test journey configuring the Wait Until Event activity with a data extension. And last we utilize Postman to make a basic Auth and Post call to trigger the Wait Until Event functionality
Resources: Please reference the following pages which explain the content covered in more detail: https://handsonsfmc.com/ssjs-bootcamp-week-2-http-auth-call/
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