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  • Building Click-to-Call Phone Numbers in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with AMPscript

    One of the things I’ve learned working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud is that you should never assume your data is clean. A phone number might land in your Data Extension in any number of formats: They all represent the same number, but if you’re building email signatures or Sales Rep contact blocks, those different formats…

  • Training – July 15, 2026

    Whether my day goes good or bad is directly related to whether or not I make it to the gym! Strength Box Squats 3 x 10 Build to heavy Today’s Result – 225 lbs., 230 lbs., 235 lbs. Work 5K Bike Erg Every 500 meters stop and do a 50 foot farmer’s carry with two…

  • Building a Digital Home

    About 25 years ago I built my first website. Back then I had just gotten “high speed” internet and I was building web servers at home and I was learning Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I hosted websites from a spare computer in my house, broke things constantly, reinstalled operating systems more times than I…

  • My Current Experiments With AI

    This is one of them.

  • What I’ve Learned Building Marketing Technology Systems

    It’s a lot. Try to keep up!

  • Welcome to Von Ralls

    Welcome. This is my website.