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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A

    Net-Results

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Net-Results is a marketing automation solution that features segment-driven approaches to lead management and marketing automation. Some key features include support for A/B email testing, drag & drop landing pages, CRM integrations, and automated marketing workflows.

    $800

    Annual agreement, up to 25,000 Contacts or 60,000 Sends

    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageNet-Results
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Select
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Prime
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    Ultimate
    Pricing based on database size.
    per month
    One Price Full Platform
    $800
    Annual agreement, up to 25,000 Contacts or 60,000 Sends
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageNet-Results
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsTiered pricing by total email sends or total contacts, you decide. All features included. No upsells or limitations based on your price.
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageNet-Results
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    I'm purple through and through. After 5 years of testing the industry, Marketo is geared like an engineer but speaks like a marketer. It's easy to see why it's so well received; many other platforms are glorified ISPs and don't really use the power of data and digital in the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    First, I didn't select Marketo but it would be one of my top two choices. I think Marketo is the most user friendly for marketers that are not technically savvy. I consider Eloqua better as long as you don't have anyone in it that doesn't understand how to use it properly.

    Marke…
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Marketo Engage
    It is much easier to set up trigger campaigns in Marketo than in other platforms.
    Incentivized
    Net Results
    Chose Net-Results
    Net-Results is much better than a lot of marketing platforms on the market.
    Chose Net-Results
    Act-On and Marketo because of Sugar integration. We found Net-Results offering best value.
    Chose Net-Results
    Net-Results is much easier to use, I'd say some other softwares can be guesswork. All the features of the big marketing automation softwares are included in Net-Results. And don't even try to compare prices!
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    232 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    191 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    237 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    150 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    137 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageNet-Results
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Net-Results
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    993 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Net-Results
    7.1
    23 Ratings
    7% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.2902 Ratings7.021 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.8878 Ratings7.214 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.8857 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Landing pages7.8920 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    A/B testing8.3905 Ratings6.311 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.9877 Ratings5.022 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting6.3961 Ratings8.023 Ratings
    List management8.8958 Ratings7.022 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.1868 Ratings8.618 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Net-Results
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.8
    961 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Net-Results
    7.6
    20 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation8.4936 Ratings8.518 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.7911 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Data quality management6.6909 Ratings5.018 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.4863 Ratings8.616 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Net-Results
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.7
    889 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Net-Results
    7.5
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Calendaring7.1719 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing8.4850 Ratings7.015 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Net-Results
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.5
    556 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Net-Results
    6.9
    7 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns7.8547 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings6.77 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Net-Results
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.0
    962 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Net-Results
    6.3
    22 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Dashboards8.3904 Ratings7.021 Ratings
    Standard reports7.9942 Ratings6.022 Ratings
    Custom reports7.8897 Ratings6.019 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Net-Results
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.9
    953 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Net-Results
    7.5
    20 Ratings
    1% above category average
    API8.0821 Ratings7.015 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.8698 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Customizability7.9844 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com9.3822 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.3283 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.2185 Ratings8.17 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageNet-Results
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (1145 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (98 ratings)
    7.5
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Marketo EngageNet-Results
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is an excellent tool for hosting registration forms and sending out tokenized emails based on a particular person's information within your database. For example, if someone attends an event or webinar and indicates that they'd like to learn more about your product, then Adobe Marketo Engage can easily trigger a specific email template to that person that will be personalized with tokens about them. The pixel tracking that can be applied to any web page is also very helpful. If you want to focus on a more 1:1 type of follow up with a Lead, then the automated emails are not going to be as useful.
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    Net Results
    Net-Results is very well-suited for small, medium and large businesses. They seem to be more advanced than what a typical enterprise level implementation would require. When selecting a marketing automation provider make it a point to find out the level of integration with Salesforce and other marketing technologies. Do they have pre-built automation modules or does it require building from the ground up? Also ask questions regarding its specific capabilities ... for example: is it a marketing automation provider? is it a CRM provider? etc
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • It keeps all of our very important lead data in one place. It's very flexible, allows us to do a lot of different things around list building and segmentation. It deploys our email campaigns for us and it's also where our landing pages are built. So it does a lot of the things that we need to do from a data and deployment perspective.
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    Net Results
    • Automated emails in a drip campaign that Sales can remove people from.
    • Lead scoring and alerts that go right to the lead owner.
    • Weekly reports to each Sales person with their hottest lead.
    • Very finely tuned segments that can be used for alerts, emails, and scheduled reports.
    • Integration with Salesforce. The Sales team can basically trigger their own emails.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage crashes a lot or freezes. We don't have many users and less than 300k contacts so there's no reason it should ever crash.
    • It's really expensive! It would be nice to pick which features we want a la cart versus being stuck paying more for a feature and not using the others in the package.
    • Because of our integration with Dynamics, we had to use a 3rd party tool called Scribe for field matching. No one at Adobe will help us now that we have a 3rd party tool
    Incentivized
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    Net Results
    • Forms: Would love to have dependent fields, also ability to see all data a user entered without having to create a custom field for every form.
    • Campaign branching: Criteria need to be selected one at a time, which can be very time-consuming.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    We're likely to renew for several reasons:
    • Now that it's been implemented, I can't imagine not having marketing automation and the easy interface that Marketo provides to run our campaigns
    • Marketo's community and customer service is fantastic; I know that when I need help, I'll get it
    • Marketo continues to improve the product, so I know that I can expect it to be even more useful in the future
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    Net Results
    Net-Results does what we need and is straightforward to use. Their team has been very responsive to our requests and great to work with.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    In some aspects, the tool can feel quite clunky in parts. But with the rich feature set it has, it's understandable. There is a lot of room for improvement for the user interface. The system itself doesn't have a slick or modern feel, so the usability could feel nicer to use with these areas considered.
    Incentivized
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    Net Results
    Net Results is pretty easy to use and understand. I wouldn't say that it is the best in comparison to MailChimp's drag and drop email builder, but Net Results do so much more than MailChimp that it is hard to even compare the two. Overall Net Results has good usability
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Marketo provides different way and abilities to connect. If you are having product support or unexplained errors you can get someone on Marketo support 24 hours a day. One of Marketo's greatest assets in my opinion however would be the community. Often times our company is just looking for case success stories from someone else. In the community you can search for problems you are currently facing and see others having the same issue and solutions for those issues. If not, you can pose a question to the whole community and champions of the product and others can chime in to provide suggestions to fix your needs. The community is truly a 24/7 place to get your answers quickly.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    There are times when it is slightly slow for us, where we sit on a screen waiting for it to load. This could be our internet since we have had the same issue occasionally with other systems, but it is enough to make you crazy.
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    Net Results
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    On multiple occasions we've had Marketo support (technical and license based) issues. Technical issues were minor and resolved within a day. License based issues (even things encouraged by Marketo for partners, like provisioning another license) took WEEKS. They actually took so long to respond that the client we were working with withdrew from the contract because they were no longer convinced Marketo was capable of supporting their business. As an agency trying to sell the software, you can only explain away so much before they just made us look silly.
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    Net Results
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    Our account rep stopped out in Lincoln, NE to ensure we were properly set up and running. This was very much appreciated. I was very, very new at this point, so I can't comment very much on the extent of what was taught because I was still brand new to the company and the system
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    Net Results
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Adobe
    I had never used Marketo prior to taking this job so online training was my starting point. I was able to follow along, it was interesting and quickly and efficiently taught me what I needed to know without a lot of fluff. It was far from boring and really helped me get my hands dirty with Marketo.
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    Net Results
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    1. Have a content marketing plan to run in parallel with the marketing automation installation--you'll need a lot of content to make full use of Marketo's capabilities. 2. Work with sales (and ISRs) to define and document a workflow--build your Marketo installation around how you do business--not figure out how to apply your business to the tools 3. Spend time of data cleaning--both an initial project as well as a strategy for ongoing data management. We found some change manaement issues (no more appending ZZZ to the first name to identify contacts who have left the company, for example, or prohibiting the entry of "info@company.com" email addresses). 4. Find some champions in the sales and ISR teams. You'll have both fans and detractors--work with the fans to build some success stories
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    Net Results
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Adobe Marketo Engage is one of the best email sending platforms I have worked with, because there is so much you can do on a lead scoring area and also then connect this to other platforms such as Salesforce. It allows for seamless reporting and working alongside sales colleagues. We chose Adobe Marketo Engage because it allows for more sophisticated audience segmentation and management of ongoing large scale nurture flows across a number of complex criteria.
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    Net Results
    We've used ClickDimensions and Marketo. We felt that ClickDimensions was more limited as far as creating effective email campaigns and not as easy to use. It also is completely native to Dynamics CRM, which can be a positive and a negative. Marketo was the previous solution we owned, we are much happier with Net-Results. It's easier to use, not as complex and there is much better communication from their support team. When looking at a new solution we also looked at Act-On and Hubspot. Act-On probably would've been our second choice, but it didn't have as modern of a feel and wasn't quite as easy to use. Hubspot didn't really fit our business. It was very focused on SEO and blog posts. It didn't have the features we needed from a marketing standpoint
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    We look at scaleability in a few different ways. First, the speed while using Marketo has remained relatively the same as our database has grown. Though I would say Marketo is slow at times, it has not gotten slower over the last few years. If anything, it has improved, and they are working to improve it. Second, the amount of programs we have developed in Marketo has exponentially grown as well. Marketo has allowed us to drastically increase our output without having to drastically increase our headcount.
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    Net Results
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Generated a 35% higher return on investment (ROI) in demand generation in the company.
    • The focus on the accounts that presented a greater sales potential, allowed us to prioritize and reduce costs by 20 Million USD.
    • Being personal and optimized. reduced efforts towards a more personalized customer experience, in working hours by almost 100 h.
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    Net Results
    • Stronger re-engagement rates - The buy cycle for our product can be very long. Net-Results helps us keep in touch with prospects that may have gone cold.
    • Better asset utilization - Net-Results helps us drive continuous utilization of our assets.
    • Efficiency - The automation Net-Results has provided means we can focus on other tasks, like creating new assets or building new partnerships.
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Contact Timeline in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Audience Feature in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Progressive Profiling in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of the Insights Dashboard in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Sources in Adobe Marketo EngageScreenshot of Metrics in Adobe Marketo Engage

    Net-Results Screenshots

    Screenshot of Advanced nurturing campaignsScreenshot of Form actionsScreenshot of Salesforce integration/FunnelvisionScreenshot of Deep database segmentationScreenshot of Dashboards and reportsScreenshot of Drag and drop email builder