Pardot Salesforce Marketing

Pardot is Salesforce's B2B marketing automation platform. You design email campaigns, automated workflows, landing pages, and lead scoring rules. Prospects sign up, enter Pardot workflows, receive nurture emails based on behavior, get scored based on engagement, and hand off to sales when score is high enough. Typical workflow: Prospect visits website → clicks "Download whitepaper" → lands on Pardot form → enters email → Pardot sends download email + enrolls in 6-email nurture sequence → opens email 1? Score +5 points. Clicks link? Score +10 points. → After 3 opens, lead score is 40 → sales-ready threshold met → Salesforce CRM notified → sales rep gets alert.