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Michelle_Tizian
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April 30, 2013
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Does anyone have a work around for a wait until the x of the month in a wait step?

  • April 30, 2013
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I am setting up a drip campaign and the wait step is specificially for the 20th day of a month.  But I'm not seeing that as an option and I saw that someone submitted this as an idea: Wait until the x of the month

Does anyone have a work around for this? 

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Michelle, as your leads are added to the new campaign, you can add them to a Static List and then have a recurring smart campaign that runs as a batch on the 20th of each month on the leads in the Static List.  After it runs, it would remove the Leads from the Static List and the process would start all over again.

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Anonymous
June 6, 2013
Michelle, before the July email is sent, you could temporarily change the wait time to 2 months in the wait flow action that occurs after the July email send flow action.  Immediately after the July email is sent, you should change the wait time back to 1 month and those that are already in the 2 month wait will not be affected. 

To make this more automatic, you would likely need to set up a much more sophisticated set of smart campaigns with a traffic cop smart campaign that would check for the date an email was sent and apply different wait times.  The new customer engagement module may allow this to be handled more elegantly.
    Michelle_Tizian
    Michelle_TizianAuthor
    Level 10
    June 7, 2013
    Thank you Elliott. I thought about adding an extra wait step of 1 month and then deleting that one after July, but I wasn't sure if that's going to work as opposed to the one you suggested above.  What do you think?
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    Anonymous
    July 2, 2013
    As a heads up, we now have the ability to set engagement streams based on the day of the month with the new Customer Engagement Engine - http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000LAW9CAO
      Michelle_Tizian
      Michelle_TizianAuthor
      Level 10
      July 2, 2013
      Rick, thanks for direting me to the link above for setting up the stream. 
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      Anonymous
      July 2, 2013
      no problemo!
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