Salesforce Marketing Cloud Reviews

I use this tool to reach out to the customers by sending emails. We used to reach out to the customers. Marketing campaigns are made through this tool, and even the transactional emails are sent through Salesforce.

In Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the ability to send emails effectively is very valuable.

In the SMS area, it is not up to the mark, compared to what has been developed for email. 

I have used the solution since 2020, which is around four years.

I would rate stability as a good nine out of ten. 

I find it scalable and rate it eight out of ten.

In terms of support, I would give it around nine out of ten.

Positive

I used IMI only for SMS, and the email function was not available. We had to use another tool called Strayata for sending emails, and nothing was in our control. We needed to send all the documents to them for deployment. Nothing was announced, and it was costlier compared to what Salesforce is offering.

The initial setup is straightforward and not complex.

The implementation was done by my team and myself.

I do not have much visibility regarding ROI. I am just working as a developer, so those who are at a top-level in my team may know.

The cost is cheaper compared to other tools.

I recommend Salesforce Marketing Cloud. It is easier to implement and cost-effective. You pay as you use, so if you are using more, then pay more. If you are using less, pay less. That is the concept there. It is Cloud-based. We do not need to deploy anything at our end. With just a URL, you can automatically start using it. No deployment or software requirement is needed. 

Overall, I would give the product eight marks out of ten. 

We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud to capture client data. We use it for career volunteering and similar tasks. 

Additionally, we utilize it for sales and capturing client engagement. It is also integrated with Shopify for improved efficiency.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud has enabled us to capture data across the board, allowing us to showcase our work to funders and donors effectively. All data is consolidated in one place, improving organization and reporting.

The user interface is easy to use, especially for my staff who use assistive technology. The ability to make links for campaigns, allowing clients to self-register online, saves a lot of time. It also integrates well with Shopify, making our processes seamless. 

We appreciate its features that support virtual and in-person programs. Additionally, the segmentation and automation features are valuable as our marketing team uses them for uploading campaigns through Salesforce reports.

I would like to see more ways to accomplish specific tasks. Instead of having one set method, there should be multiple options available. 

Additionally, sometimes the integration between Salesforce and Shopify does not work as seamlessly as it should, requiring improvement.

Salesforce has been used for six years now.

Salesforce does a good job in terms of performance and ensuring that users are informed about updates through email and the website.

Salesforce is scalable, and it works well in our environment.

We have an internal IT team for Salesforce, which is our first point of contact. If necessary, they open a support ticket with Salesforce. There is a clear process in place, and we are updated accordingly.

The initial setup was straightforward, and with our company's two-factor authentication, it was efficient.

We have seen ROI improvements because we're able to capture data systematically and present it to stakeholders. Our data is centralized, eliminating the need for multiple Excel sheets across different teams.

I would recommend Salesforce to any organization that needs to capture data efficiently. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a nine for improvement.

We primarily use the solution for our marketing. It's for managing our opportunities for the sales and marketing teams for outreach to target customers. 

We're able to track opportunities for sales. We can have a customer pipeline and convert them into sales. 

We like that we can manage sales pipelines and see the process of sales, including pending activity. It really helps us manage our sales process. We're able to understand our capabilities and the conversion rates from our facilities and see everything from a national perspective. 

We haven't had any issues with integration. 

The initial setup is easy.

The solution is stable. 

I haven't noted any necessary changes. I haven't heard of issues from the sales and marketing team. 

The cost is always a concern for anyone using a SaaS product. We're always concerned about a price rise. However, it is not something that would turn us away from the product.

I've been using the solution for four years. 

We haven't had any issues with stability. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

We never really looked at the scalability in order to grow it out. We only use certain modules. 

We have about 35 users at this point. 

While there is a special team that handles the solution, I haven't had any issues with the standard support. We haven't had an issue that required real escalation. 

We did not previously use a different solution previously. 

The implementation was not too complex and it did not take long. the setup is straightforward. 

We had four people working on the initial setup to ensure that all requirements were captured.

There is standard maintenance needed. However, it is minimal. Any issues with eh software itself would be handled by the vendor directly.

We worked with a local vendor, and they were very helpful. 

We have witnessed an ROI and have been satisfied with what were are getting out of the product. 

We have standard licensing. I'd rate the affordability six out of ten. It can be a bit expensive. However, it's not too bad as it brings good value. 

I'm not sure if a solution was looked at before I arrived at the company. My understanding is that this is the first solution the company wanted to work with. Some staff members were already familiar with it. 

It's a SaaS solution, so we don't have it on-prem. We've subscribed to Salesforce for our sales team.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's a great product. If you know your requirements and what you need, it's a good product to work with. The functionality is great. However, the pricing could always be lower. 

Salesforce is constantly evolving and have a good release cycle.

Clarity around new features could be improved when they are released. They send out emails but a lot of important information and explanations are missed by email. Training or videos to guide us using new features would be great.

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution.

The support we have received is good. This does depend on the level of support you sign up for. 

Positive

I have previously used Sabiel but I would recommend Salesforce due to its performance. There are guard rails for implementation to guide you. The performance is guaranteed because your development has to be within those specific parameters. The Salesforce ecosystem is more powerful than Siebel.

Salesforce is fully integrated. When using Oracle products, I had to use multiple tools to make things work which takes up a lot of time. The APIs are also more difficult to use with Siebel compared to Salesforce.

Salesforce comes with an out of the box org so there is very little setup needed. You can just log in and start working.

If you have a complex product structure and require a lot of customization for a stable backend system, I would suggest using Siebel. Siebel performs very well for that use case. For every other requirement, I would suggest for Salesforce.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

The need to build a single, comprehensive view of each consumer to power 1-to-1 journeys. Integrate every touchpoint and experience with your brand across advertising, marketing, commerce, sales, service, and apps.

• Allows organisations to engage customers with one integrated platform to unify sales, service, and marketing.
• Allows organisations to connect with leads and customers across every channel, on any device.
• Allows organisations to implement automated solutions, saving time and money.

Content Builder: Content Builder is a cross-channel content management tool that allows you to consolidate images, documents, and content in a single location for use in the Marketing Cloud. With an easy-to-use, drag and drop interface, Content Builder allows you to create re-usable templates for emails and landing pages.

Advertising Studio: Advertising Studio uses existing customer data from email, mobile push interactions and conversions on your site to securely sync with the contact's Facebook, Twitter, Google AdWords and Social Studio accounts. Engage customers with relevant, timely messages and find new customers with similar attributes by combining the functionality of Advertising Audiences and Advertising Campaigns.

Social Studio: Social Studio is a one stop solution allowing you to manage, schedule, create and monitor posts organized by brand, region or multiple teams and individuals in a unified interface. Social Studio offers powerful real-time publishing and engagement platform for content marketers, plus the comprehensive content performance by social network and time frame.

Journey Builder: Journey Builder is used for creating responsive, automated, multi-channel campaigns. Use Journey Builder to design a communication plan that reaches customers at every stage of their journey with your brand.

Marketing Cloud releases product updates every three months. With each update, users have to adapt to the product changes and new interfaces.

To improve user experience, there should be clear workflows to assist the user through the setup processes. The help documentation also needs to reflect product updates more accurately. Being at the front of innovation is difficult if you are playing a guessing game.

Marketing Cloud provide a live feed of any product issues, and users are notified in advance of any stability issues. As a side note, this product is cloud based and I would recommend using a Chrome browser to limit issues.

There are no issues with scalability as long as you have a well-defined solution prior to account configuration.

Customer Service:

This is dependent on the license you purchase.

• I would rate Standard Support 8/10.
• I would rate Premium Support 10/10.

Technical Support:

This is dependent on the license you purchase. If you have a standard support agreement and need a quick fix, I would recommend escalating your cases as soon as the option appears in your case log.

• I would rate Standard Support 5/10.
• I would rate Premium Support 9/10.

No.

This is dependent on what your business is trying to achieve.

An integrated approach is always recommended. If you are using Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud, the initial set up is medium complexity. If you are integrating with other CRM systems, websites and apps, you will need an experienced developer to implement your solution.

A non-integrated approach, such as manual imports and file drops is a straightforward setup. However, you will not reap all the benefits of Marketing Cloud.

As consultants, we will always implement Marketing Cloud for our clients. This requires working collaboratively with key stakeholders to discover, plan, build, test and deploy the correct solution.

We have have a dedicated Customer Intelligence Manager who works closely to define our clients' measures of success. We find it challenging to measure ROI directly through Marketing Cloud, often this is a wider conversation.

We make educated recommendations about which features would be used to implement our clients' solutions. Our clients engage directly with Marketing Cloud to negotiate licensing costs. In general, the costs are high.

Initially my previous company Davanti Consulting chose Marketo as an alternative Marketing Automation tool, however we did not see this as a good fit for the business.

My current company CloudShift Group stay ahead of the game by solely offering Marketing Cloud (B2C) and Pardot (B2B) as our preferred marketing automation tools.

Consider your options and stay true to what is best for your business.

I'm the director of customer experience and we are partners with Salesforce. 

The Journey Builder, which has been around for a while and follows the steps that customers use, is the greatest tool that Salesforce has. In terms of newer features, Einstein Analytics for marketing is in a very hot happening area. I also like the Interaction Studio and the Datorama marketing analytics.

The data extension tools are not very user-friendly. They've been working on the CDP capability for the last couple of years but it needs improvement in terms of it being within the tool and real-time activation of data. 

I've been using this solution for seven years. 

The solution is very stable. 

The solution is scalable because it's got a multi-business unit architecture. It can be designed as required. We have multiple customers so it's hard to measure the number of users. If it's a deployment tool, for example, then there might be an average of 600-700 users that would require a team of five or six for support. 

Customer service is quite responsive.

Positive

The initial setup is very intuitive and straightforward. 

This solution is absolutely on the top and I rate it 10 out of 10. 

I'm part of the data analytics team in a major Brazilian telecom company and work on the implementation side. Salesforce Marketing Cloud is our main platform to connect with our customers. We are a telecom company that sells fiber and FTTH in the Brazilian market. We use the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform to send emails, WhatsApp messages, or push notifications to welcome our new customers. We also use the platform to remind customers to pay their bills.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud helps us have all the communication and logs we communicate with our customers in one place. This helps us work on our data to understand our customers better.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud's journey builder is very easy to handle and quickly sets up a journey for clients who use a lot of communication. Salesforce Marketing Cloud helps us communicate ad hoc when we need to communicate quickly with our customers. We also use the CDP.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Salesforce Marketing Cloud's dashboards and the visualization of information in each journey.

I have been using Salesforce Marketing Cloud for around seven to eight months.

I rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a nine out of ten for stability.

I rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a nine out of ten for scalability. We have plans to increase the usage of Salesforce Marketing Cloud in the future.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud's initial setup was quick. However, it is complex to use the platform with CDP.

My advice for someone planning to use Salesforce Marketing Cloud would be to learn a little about the product before implementation and plan your implementation well.

Overall, I rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a nine out of ten.

The majority of clients use it for certain interactions, and our company has been involved in handling multiple projects. Some of them use Salesforce Marketing Cloud for lead generation, while others are existing customers who use it for general communication.

I think the product's best feature is its analytics, as that's where customers derive value. The second thing is its ease of implementation. It's a fairly straightforward product that doesn't require a whole lot of technical know-how to operate, even though it has a lot of out-of-the-box features that are actually useful.

Pricing is a concern and needs improvement, as some customers find the product a bit too expensive. While they love the features, it can be challenging for small businesses with minimal funding to justify the cost. Having a lighter version of Salesforce Marketing Cloud would make it easier for us to sell and promote the solution. In terms of marketing, I don't think Salesforce invests the same level of intensity in promoting Marketing Cloud as it does with its other products, like Salesforce Service Cloud or Salesforce CRM. They consider themselves to be a CRM company. I believe that they should also focus on promoting Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

I have been using Salesforce Marketing Cloud for seven to eight years. My company has a partnership with Salesforce.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. We deal with medium to large enterprises.

I rate the technical support a four out of ten since the support is very basic. They only provide very basic administration-oriented support. However, if you need to go to the core and need something really different, then it takes quite some time to get an answer.

Neutral

On a scale where one is difficult, and ten is easy, I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten. It takes three months on average for us to deploy the solution for our clients. We have a team of three to four members involved in the deployment process.

On a scale where one is the lowest and ten is the most expensive, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I recommend the tool to others because I am in their ecosystem, so I generally recommend Salesforce Marketing Cloud, even though I'm biased out there. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.