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.
Pricing starting from:
US$4,800.00
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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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
Devices
Business size
Markets
Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom, India, Japan, Mexico, United States and 6 others
Supported Languages
Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, zh-hant and 16 others
Pricing starting from:
US$4,800.00
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud: 148
- AB Testing
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Ad Network Integration
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Alerts/Notifications
- Analytics/ROI Tracking
- Archiving & Retention
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Audience Targeting
- Audio File Management
- Auto-Responders
- Automated Publishing
- Behaviour Tracking
- Behavioural Analytics
- Brand Management
- Brand Tracking
- CAN SPAM Compliance
- CRM
- Calendar Management
- Calendar/Reminder System
- Campaign Analytics
- Campaign Management
- Campaign Planning
- Campaign Scheduling
- Campaign Segmentation
- Campaign Tracking
- Canned Responses
- Categorisation/Grouping
- Channel Attribution
- Channel Management
- Click Tracking
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting/Notes
- Competitive Analysis
- Configurable Workflow
- Content Library
- Content Management
- Content Publishing Options
- Conversion Rate Optimisation
- Conversion Tracking
- Customer Engagement
- Customer Experience Management
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Surveys
- Customisable Branding
- Customisable CTAs
- Customisable Forms
- Customisable Reports
- Customisable Templates
- Customizable Fields
- Customization
- Dashboard
- Data Capture and Transfer
- Data Import/Export
- Data Recovery
- Data Visualisation
- Distribution Management
- Document Classification
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop
- Drip Campaigns
- Dynamic Content
- Electronic Forms
- Email Distribution
- Email Management
- Email Marketing
- Email Monitoring
- Email Templates
- Email Tracking
- Engagement Tracking
- Event Triggered Actions
- File Management
- Filtering
- For iPad Devices
- Forms Management
- Full Text Search
- Image Editing
- Image Library
- Interactive Content
- Keyword Filtering
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- Lead Nurturing
- Lead Qualification
- List Management
- Marketing Automation
- Marketing Calendar
- Metadata Management
- Mobile Optimised Emails
- Monitoring
- Multi-Account Management
- Multi-Campaign
- Multi-Channel Campaigns
- Multi-Channel Communication
- Multi-Channel Marketing
- Multi-Language
- Multivariate Testing
- Performance Metrics
- Post Scheduling
- Predictive Analytics
- Prospecting Tools
- Publish Scheduling
- Queue Management
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Response Management
- Role-Based Permissions
- Routing
- SEO Management
- SMS Marketing
- Sales Analytics
- Sales Pipeline Management
- Search Marketing
- Search/Filter
- Segmentation
- Shared Inboxes
- Signature Management
- Social Advertising
- Social Marketing
- Social Media Integration
- Social Media Management
- Social Media Monitoring
- Social Promotion
- Spam Blocker
- Subscriber Management
- Subscription Management
- Tagging
- Template Management
- Text Editing
- Third Party Integrations
- User Management
- Version Control
- Video Management
- Video Support
- Visual Analytics
- WYSIWYG Editor
- Website Analytics
- Website Management
- Website Visitor Tracking
- Whitelisting/Blacklisting
- Workflow Management
Alternatives
Mailchimp
SendGrid
Pardot
ActiveCampaign
Reviews
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Powerful, but complex
Reviewed on 28/01/2019
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.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
SFMC
Reviewed on 21/01/2020
This is a very serviceable software and will serve it's purpose. It can do a lot, so depending of...
This is a very serviceable software and will serve it's purpose. It can do a lot, so depending of the size of your organization it might be too much for the cost.
Pros
In addition to being able to import a distribution list, this product integrated with our CRM (Recruit) so we were able to send to segregated lists and it showed what emails were sent in Recruit. This made it easier for our reps to see when correspondence went out to their pipelines. It is rather simple to create and distribute emails.
Cons
Some of the functionality was a bit wonky, and emails viewed differently between various email clients. Line spacing was the biggest thing that varied quite a bit. Everything would look great in SFMC, but when an email was received in Outlook, Mac Mail, or Gmail, all three would display it just a bit differently. Not sure who's problem this is. It also doesn't embed video either. The workaround is to create a screenshot as a graphic, then add a link to it.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10
Custom email marketing
Reviewed on 02/12/2021
Pros
I like that I can upload my own HTML and create very customized emails for my customers.
Cons
I don't like that the UI of the entire website is very hard to use. If you click on something, you lose your work. And there's no way to preview my emails for multiple devices to troubleshoot.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Campaign Management and Email Marketing Management with SFMC
Reviewed on 14/09/2021
Saleforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing automation leader in the market. One best thing about...
Saleforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing automation leader in the market. One best thing about salesforce marketing cloud is that it has all features of automating all your marketing campaigns for Email, SMS, Direct mail and push notification.
Pros
My overall experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud is really great, because it is user friendly and easy to use marketing automation platform available in the market and with the help of it I am able to create Email campaigns, SMS campaigns, Direct mail campaigns and push notification campaigns. We also have purchased its Email studio, SMS studio and Push studio license.
Cons
I do not have any dislike for this platform.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Definitely a step up from MailChimp
Reviewed on 05/09/2019
Pros
This software makes it easy to build professional looking emails that add all the information you need with drag and drop
Cons
IT is sometimes hard to organize and sort files
Salesforce Marketing Cloud FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.Q. What type of pricing plans does Salesforce Marketing Cloud offer?
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.
Q. Who are the typical users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud?
Salesforce Marketing Cloud has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001+
Q. What languages does Salesforce Marketing Cloud support?
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, zh-hant
Q. Does Salesforce Marketing Cloud support mobile devices?
Salesforce Marketing Cloud supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Salesforce Marketing Cloud integrate with?
Salesforce Marketing Cloud integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Workfront, Facebook for Business, LinkedIn for Business, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Shopify, Simply Measured, Twitter, Vidyard
Q. What level of support does Salesforce Marketing Cloud offer?
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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