Is there anyway to send an alert based on the amount of SUCCESSES

David, I don't think you can send alerts based on program meta data -- you can only trigger based on lead attributes. 

However, if you are synching this program to an SFDC campaign you could set up a workflow rule/process to send an email alert I think based on the SFDC campaign stats. I would try exploring that. 

Hi David,

Is it a form completion? If so, the first Trigger below might work. If not, the second Trigger shown below might work...



 

Almost, Adam! That "min. number of times" is on the lead level. So that would be triggered when the lead fills out the form on the 20th time and every time that same leads fills out the form after the 20th time. Same with the Program Status is Changed trigger.

This is unfortunately not possible out of the box, but it's coming up so frequently that someone should invent a popular workaround for this use case!

Edward Unthank | Founder, Etumos

David, I have a workaround that might work for you.  Disclaimer that I have not tested this yet, but I believe it will work.

This requires 2 separate trigger campaigns.  The first smart campaign will use the trigger "Program Status is Changed".  Add the constraint "Success=True".  In the flow step of this campaign, use "Request Campaign", in which you will be requesting your second trigger campaign.

In the smart list of your second campaign, use the trigger "Campaign is Requested" and add constraint "Min. Number of Times" and input value of 20.  The flow of this campaign will be to send you the alert email and upon scheduling allow it to fire just once.

Again, I have not tested this myself, but I believe it could work for your use case.  If you do try this out I will be interested to see if it works for you.  Hope this helps!

By the way, Adam, Edward, I think my workaround accounts for the scenarios you've outlined so that it does not look for 1 lead to complete the action 20 times.  What do you think?

It appears it is indeed possible in SFDC using the new Process Builder, although not with a Workflow Rule. 

Using process builder you could trigger an email alert at either the number of responses or number of opportunities on a campaign reaching a certain threshold. 

Haven't road tested this but the basics are there. 

Nate unfortunately in your example the second campaign would also be activated at the individual lead level. The campaign would request for each lead that runs through but the "min # of times" count is tallied for the individual, not for the campaign as a whole. 

Marketo itself cannot do this, but the SFDC workaround or another method should be possible.

This can be achieved a couple of ways,

1> Relatively simple custom Marketo API programming.
2> Again, simple custom programming in php etc and 'webhook' magic.

Is custom programming is fine or are you only looking for native Marketo solutions?
Please feel free to reach out as its bit to detail to explain right in this thread.