Yes, it’s that time of year again: applications are now open for 2025 Marketing Champions. This program is designed to empower active Trailblazers in our community who love sharing product knowledge and resources with others. Marketing Champions collaborate with product and industry leaders, participate in Salesforce events, join our private networking community, and receive exclusive Marketing Champions swag. It’s a year of personal growth and a lot of fun.
Since the program’s launch in 2020, we’ve proudly recognized more than 400 Marketing Champions across 33 countries. These Trailblazers play a vital role in boosting brand awareness, productivity, and ROI at their companies by leading product adoption and sharing best practices for maximizing them. Their leadership, expertise and generosity have made incredible impacts.
Click here to learn about what the 2024 Marketing Champions are up to.
Apply to be a Marketing Champion
Do you go above and beyond to share knowledge and help empower the marketing community? You could be a great fit for our program.
What are the qualities of a Marketing Champion?
- They’re a leader who oversees marketing strategy, operations and/or execution for their organization
- They’re an expert who uses one or more Salesforce’s marketing technologies across Marketing Cloud to drive business results
- They’re active Salesforce customer with at least one year of experience leading digital transformation in a function or organization
- They can make a commitment to writing blogs, recording how-to videos and mentorship (one act of advocacy per quarter)
What benefits do Marketing Champions get?
Champions have exclusive access to:
- A private community of trusted and like-minded peers
- Unique career and leadership development programs, including Salesforce-sponsored workshops, trainings, and mentorship opportunities
- Champion-only networking, social, and educational events
- Salesforce-sponsored photo and video shoots, social media campaigns and other advocacy opportunities
- Chances to connect and collaborate with Salesforce product and business leaders
- First looks at product innovations, launches, roadmaps and more
2025 Marketing Champions selection process
- August 27 — September 27: You may apply or nominate anyone you’d like during this open period. Self-nominations are also accepted. Remember, it only takes one submission for a Trailblazer to become a Marketing Champion, and we value the quality of the submission over quantity.
NOTE: Salesforce employees are not eligible for participation in the Marketing Champions program. - September 29 – October 20: The team conducts initial application reviews.
- October 27: We announce the Marketing Champion Class of 2025! Join us for a celebration as we congratulate our new and renewed Marketing Champions. Follow the hashtag #MarketingChampions on LinkedIn and X.
Good luck! We look forward to hearing from you.
Know a great Marketing Champion candidate?
Our community is filled with exceptional Trailblazers. Let us know who you think would be a perfect fit for this program.
