Question 193 - Certified Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Specialist discussion

The two actions that can cause an anonymous visitor to convert into an identified prospect are submitting a form on a landing page and clicking on a tracked link in an email. An anonymous visitor is a person who visits your website or interacts with your marketing assets, but whose information you have not captured in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement. An identified prospect is a person whose information you have captured in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, and whose activities you can track and measure. You can convert an anonymous visitor into an identified prospect by capturing their email address, which is used as the unique identifier for the prospect record. You can capture the email address of an anonymous visitor by:

Submitting a form on a landing page. A form is a web element that allows you to collect information from your visitors, such as their name, email, or company. A landing page is a web page that you create and host in Marketing Cloud Account Engagement to showcase your products or services, offer content, or register for events. You can add a form to a landing page to capture leads or convert visitors into prospects.When an anonymous visitor submits a form on a landing page, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement will create a new prospect record with the information provided by the visitor, and associate the previous activities of the visitor with the prospect record4.

Clicking on a tracked link in an email. A tracked link is a link that is modified by Marketing Cloud Account Engagement to track the click activity and redirect the visitor to the original URL. You can use tracked links in your emails, social media posts, or banner ads to measure the engagement of your visitors with your online marketing content. When an anonymous visitor clicks on a tracked link in an email, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement will append the email address of the visitor to the URL, and use it to create a new prospect record or update an existing one. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement will also associate the previous activities of the visitor with the prospect record.