What I hear when you write “e-meet”

I’ve been getting emails with the old-sounding-newish “Nice to e-meet you” a lot lately, and I always think of this scene.

Calling the Twilio Lookup API as a Marketo webhook

Twilio offers a pretty awesome Lookup API to enrich phone numbers with metadata: it can distinguish mobile and landline numbers (Sales will thank you!), determine carrier, and even do reverse Caller ID lookup.

Velocitip: Find the interesting object in Trigger and Batch modes

It's fairly common (in my world) for the same Velocity script to need to refer to a triggering object or, in a batch context, the most recently updated object.

Fixing Marketo pURLs

It's well-known that Marketo's pURL feature, out-of-the-box, has a fatal (and kinda fascinating) shortcoming. If someone has visited your site before — meaning either an anonymous or associated Munchkin session — then pURL-enabled pages aren't functional.

Changing the dimensions of mktoVideo (YouTube) elements on Guided LPs

User BJ asked in a Nation thread about changing mktoVideo dimensions from the default 420 x 315. Even though I don't typically use mktoVideo, I started probing the CrowdFactory API (that being the real name of the “Marketo Social” widget that powers video elements).

An absolutely dirt-simple, 15-line UTM tag forwarder

> Updated 2021-05-06: A reader reminds me that per my own notes on the Nation (!) the latest Forms 2.0 library now caches the current URL as soon as forms2.

Adding a network/server error handler to Marketo Forms

While Forms 2.0 fires JS events at validation time, (pre-)submission time, and post-submission success, it lacks an event for a failed POST. So in the rare-but-not-impossible case that

Conditional input masks on Marketo Forms

As some have rightly complained [https://nation.marketo.com/ideas/3159], once you set a Mask Input pattern on a Forms 2.0 field, the Form Editor doesn't