An “Open Marketo Lead in SFDC” button for the Marketo UI

Who among us hasn’t looked up a Lead or Contact in SFDC while checking the corresponding person in Marketo? Ridiculously common for me, and even if it’s not exactly hard, there’s no one-click way to do it. Until now.

Just go to the SFDC Bookmarklet Maker and enter your SFDC “My Domain” in the top field:

The checkbox means each SFDC Lead/Contact opens in a new tab, instead of having a single SFDC tab that gets continually replaced (the default).

You can optionally change the title of the bookmarklet before dragging it. Click the pencil (🖉) to edit and the check (✓) to save:

Then drag the link to your Bookmarks bar:

Presto! Now, whenever you’re viewing a record in the Marketo Lead UI, clicking the bookmarklet takes you to the corresponding SFDC record.

Required: SFDC ID on your custom tab

There is one prerequisite: the SFDC ID field needs to be somewhere on your Custom tab (the exact position doesn’t matter). Check that in Admin » Field Management » Custom Layout Designer: