Best Practices for Testing Marketing Cloud Connect Integration

Thanks for sharing your point of view on this problem. I am confronted with the same discussions and the client's faces always turn white when I explain to them the different options.

To be honest I push them to option 3. I explain that SFMC is not Salesforce and the concept of a sandbox is still blurry. I generally don't get pushback. If I do, I scope for option 1 then when they see the difference in prices, they go for option 3 (with a little prayer and a lot of trusts - never got any issue with option 3 and I did a lot of implementations).

I feel that we have difficult conversations because of a product gap. SFMC should be better at managing sandbox and prod.