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About Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Meet Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the leading marketing solution to increase engagement with every consumer. Use powerful data management to collect, organize, and securely store first-, second-, and third-party data — alongside offline data — to create complete consumer data profiles. Tailor every interaction along the journey with your brand using built-in AI. Then, engage each individual consumer at scale using industry-leading email, mobile, advertising, and social solutions.


Key benefits of Salesforce Marketing Cloud

The Salesforce Marketing Cloud email marketing solution, formerly ExactTarget, is designed to help you execute promotional campaigns, automated campaigns, highly personalized emails, transactional messages, behavior-triggered messages, and much more. Our robust email platform is perfect for sending everything from batch email communications to highly personalized and event-triggered emails with predictive content.

Here are 4 key benefits of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud (formerly ExactTarget):
1. Unparalleled Infrastructure - Powerful, scalable platform trusted by the world’s leading brands
2. Flexible Data Model - Leverages data from any source, automatically imports and exports
3. Native CRM Integration - Seamlessly connects to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and more
4. Designed for the Marketer - Easy to use interface with intuitive drag and drop tools


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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Build audiences on Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and — with Salesforce DMP — the entire display advertising ecosystem.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Manage customer journeys at scale using data from any source with Email Studio.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Visualize consumer activity at every touchpoint, on any channel with Interaction Studio.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Create and save custom views of your data, understand how prospects are engaging, and enjoy a holistic view of every customer.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Use machine learning and artificial intelligence to define and reach your target audience more efficiently and effectively.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Monitor audience discussions on topics that matter to your brand using machine-learning sentiment analysis and image recognition.
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Build audiences on Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and — with Salesforce DMP — the entire display advertising ecosystem.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Manage customer journeys at scale using data from any source with Email Studio.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Visualize consumer activity at every touchpoint, on any channel with Interaction Studio.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Create and save custom views of your data, understand how prospects are engaging, and enjoy a holistic view of every customer.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Use machine learning and artificial intelligence to define and reach your target audience more efficiently and effectively.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Software - Monitor audience discussions on topics that matter to your brand using machine-learning sentiment analysis and image recognition.

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.1 /5
(368)
Value for Money
3.8/5
Features
4.2/5
Ease of Use
3.7/5
Customer Support
3.8/5

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Aaron
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerful, but complex

Reviewed on 28/1/2019

Pros

This software is an online SAAS, and is some of the most powerful Marketing Software on the planet. The software is best used in an environment where personalized, but mass email communication is needed--typically for B2C situations. Pardot is an ideal product for B2B solutions. Although the product can be configured and used by end-users, it is best to work with a partner.

Cons

There are many updates needed in order to make the software work in a more user-friendly fashion, particularly when compared with less powerful solutions, like Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc. A Salesforce partner will cost additional money to implement the solution, but it is a good investment.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Outstanding software in digital marketing

Reviewed on 14/9/2022

My overall experience on this software is brilliant and i personally refer to my colleague to use...

My overall experience on this software is brilliant and i personally refer to my colleague to use it for email marketing.

Pros

It is a brilliant software for email marketing, email automation, social media marketing, leads generation, email management and for effective generation of email.

Cons

I didn't find it any features useless. However, it should be updated with new version.

Alternatives Considered

SendGrid

Reasons for Choosing Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Because I'm looking for new software with new and extra ordinary features.

Switched From

SendGrid

Reasons for Switching to Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Because I find some new and interesting features in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

A huge waste of time

Reviewed on 24/4/2020

Working with the support team is extremely painful. We spent hours over multiple weeks showing them...

Working with the support team is extremely painful. We spent hours over multiple weeks showing them our issues over video. Their premium support resources often couldn't figure out how to resolve our issues. It felt like they were just as fed up with this crap tool as we are. Although they didn't say it, I think one of our key employees quit over the frustration of dealing with marketing cloud.

Pros

I don't like anything about this software.

Cons

The integration with Salesforce is WAY oversold in the marketing materials. Moving data back and forth between the two products is extremely finicky and prone to breaking. Expect lots of duplication of data and lists that will invariably be out of sync. Managing email opt out lists with two systems of record from the same company is a CAN-SPAM nightmare. The integration's administrative tools can't be accessed in lightning. The customer facing unsubscribe and profile management pages look like shit and can't be branded or customized. They are so old, they still provide customers a warning about using HTML emails with AOL. Your Salesforce users will see email sends and interactions in contact records for some but not all emails sent via marketing cloud. If you try to send to a campaign or report from Salesforce, email personalization won't work. Same thing for transactional emails. You will have to send every single piece of personalization data in the API call to marketing cloud, because MC won't be able to find it on its own, even though it has a list of all these attributes and is supposedly syncing with Salesforce. There is single sign on, but only by request, and provisioning of accounts is not supported. Journeys will break the minute you make the slightest change to them. Trying to split journeys based on Salesforce attributes often just doesn't work. Because it's Salesforce, anything you would actually want to do with this software comes at an additional cost.

Alternatives Considered

HubSpot Marketing Hub, ActiveCampaign, SendGrid and Mailchimp

Reasons for Switching to Salesforce Marketing Cloud

We chose MC over other tools because we were sold a native, deep integration with Salesforce. What we received was hacked together and barely functional. We can't wait to switch to another platform, even though it will result in a lot of rework on our end.
Madhusudan
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best marketing tool for integrating Salesforce CRM

Reviewed on 24/2/2023

With the help of the powerful CRM SalesForce, corporate firms can use account and customer...

With the help of the powerful CRM SalesForce, corporate firms can use account and customer information to enhance customer relationships, boost marketing and sales, and extract business data. The integration with SF is seamless and fluid. Automations that are both clever and unique are possible.

Pros

Awestruck by the platform. My marketing campaigns were set up and customised without much difficulty because to the user interface's excellent usability and intuitiveness. Particularly helpful has been my ability to divide up my audience into several groups and tailor the content for each one. The Salesforce CRM connectivity is one of my favourite features. It enables smooth data analysis and transmission, which has improved my ability to target customers and develop a deeper understanding of them.

Cons

As it is among the most effective in this sort of industry for the functions it provides and is also fairly simple to comprehend and include into business equipment, I have nothing unfavourable to say about it.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Marketing in one platform

Reviewed on 7/12/2022

Pros

I liked that this is integrated within the SFDC CRM and i do not have to use a separate platform for managing leads and opportunities with sending email marketing and outreach.

Cons

i do not have anything i dislike so far, we constantly use this feature

Alternatives Considered

Outreach

Reasons for Choosing Salesforce Marketing Cloud

functionality, price and staying within 1 platform

Switched From

Groove
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$4,800.00
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Salesforce CDP Corporate: $12500/month (billed annually) Enterprise: $50000/month (billed annually) Enterprise Plus: $65000/month (billed annually) Loyalty Management B2B — Loyalty: $30000/month (billed annually) B2C — Loyalty: $35000/month (billed annually) B2C — Loyalty Plus: $45000/month (billed annually) Contact Salesforce for further pricing details.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Salesforce Marketing Cloud supports the following languages:

Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese

Salesforce Marketing Cloud supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Salesforce Marketing Cloud integrates with the following applications:

Adobe Workfront, LinkedIn for Business, Meta for Business, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Shopify, Simply Measured, Twitter, Vidyard

Salesforce Marketing Cloud offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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