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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Ads

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    RollWorks

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ARollWorks is an Account-Based Platform with ABM and advertising solutions enabling growth-oriented B2B marketers to understand their buyers and drive business results. The RollWorks Account-Based Advertising solution leverages a native demand-side platform (DSP) and B2B customer data platform (CDP), enabling digital marketers to drive brand awareness and engage a target audience through account-based display advertising. The solution specializes in delivering targeted advertising that…N/A
    Pricing
    Google AdsRollWorks
    Editions & Modules
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsRollWorks
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google AdsRollWorks
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    NextRoll
    Chose RollWorks
    We've used Google Ads in the past for remarketing and still do, but the ability to target key accounts in RollWorks is unmatched.
    Incentivized
    Chose RollWorks
    RollWorks is the only one to offer this level of specificity regarding B2B Audience targeting.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    74%
    Delivers good value for the price
    34 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    74%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    68%
    Implementation went as expected
    32 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    Google AdsRollWorks
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and RollWorks
    Feature
    Google Ads
    3.8
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    RollWorks
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation2.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment2.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising2.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google Ads and RollWorks
    Feature
    Google Ads
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    RollWorks
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards2.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization2.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google Ads and RollWorks
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    RollWorks
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score6.9 out of 10
    Terminus ABM Platform
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    6sense
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsRollWorks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.6
    (117 ratings)
    7.4
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.4
    (22 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google AdsRollWorks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
    Incentivized
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    NextRoll
    I feel the RollWorks platform is a great way to dip your toes into an account-based marketing approach. The easy-to-use features and limited initial requirements as a great way to understand the pillars of a good B2B or account-based strategy. I also feel the support team is strong, especially during onboarding.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
    Incentivized
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    NextRoll
    • It helps you intimately target users from your targeted accounts list on multiple advertising platforms in a highly effective way.
    • Their customer success and support team are always willing to go the extra mile to ensure your success.
    • The reporting capabilities of the platform. The ability to really dig deep into the micro-interactions from accounts and contacts across your targeted accounts list.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • If you don't know what you're doing, it will be a costly mistake. You need to target ads, and it is difficult the first time to do that.
    • There isn't a feature to run an add for a couple set date spans, just hours you want to run them or a single date span.
    Incentivized
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    NextRoll
    • The price is a little high for the product provided.
    • Some features require a certain number of won opportunities or open opportunities to leverage, which could be difficult for a small/new business.
    • This product has fewer features than some competitors like it does not include attribution modeling for other pieces of the funnel or predictive models I have seen in other products.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I think Google Ads is good for getting your company out there and becoming more visible to potential customers in general. However, for specific product launches, social media advertising might be a better fit. Also, our user base is younger so social media is a better channel for our target audience.
    Incentivized
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    NextRoll
    Due to the fast impact of RollWorks in a short period of time across both marketing and sales. What is unusual about the RollWorks in our annual budgeting process is that there is no need to provide a business case for RollWorks' renewal. We see the value on a daily basis. RollWorks has provided clear insight up to the C level so there is no hard sell at the executive level. All stakeholders across the organization consider RollWorks to be a long-term, integral part of our marketing stack. We always are evaluating substitutes for current tech stack providers but feel that RollWorks is unmatched in its space
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
    Incentivized
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    NextRoll
    RollWorks has the most intuitive interface of any tool in our multi-platform marketing stack. Any user who has worked with a CRM tool will find it much easier than say a HubSpot or Salesforce to set up and launch quickly. The adoption curve for maturing capabilities and usage is very short.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    NextRoll
    We have no issues with uptime or downtime with RollWorks. The application runs consistently. I don't recall a bug or outage issue in the year that we have been users of RollWorks. The true test is complaints from our user base - there have been none at all which is unusual for our marketing stack applications.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    NextRoll
    The RollWorks interface performs well. The load time has no noticeable friction. Reports are delivered quickly and easily. We integrate RollWorks with our Hubspot and Google Analytics platforms. There were a few tweaks to get those integrations working in sync but the RollWorks account team was there to help with anything our internal technical team couldn't solve.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    We have not yet had an account rep who hasn't tried to bully me or other employees to raise our budgets. At the same time, several years ago, one attempted to help refine our ads and ended up changing the ads to be something we were not affiliated with
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    NextRoll
    The RollWorks support team has been fantastic any time I've needed to contact them. About a year ago, I made a gross user error on my end and they were quick and kind, helping me rectify it. As far as implementation, the set-up of RollWorks is mostly self-guided, but it's incredibly intuitive.
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    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    NextRoll
    We implemented RollWorks during the pandemic and across geographies. Therefore in-person training was not an option. We felt that we got the full impact of an in-person training experience from the RollWorks team, and that in-person training would actually have been less effective for us due to the expense and logistics. It is rare that we consider online training to be as effective as in-person so this is a credit to the RollWorks account team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    NextRoll
    RollWorks implementation couldn't have gone more smoothly. A key success factor is inclusion and early involvement of all those who will be working with RollWorks in any way to go through the set up and launch process. We thought through and brought the right players to the table to take full advantage of the RollWorks training direct from the team - rather than having to train others one off later
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Our agency invests heavily in Google Ads (particularly paid search advertising) on behalf of our clients relative to competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo because Google is the top search engine in the world. Google collects the most search data which enables the company to improve its AI to drive better performance for agencies and brands. As such, our paid search and app install campaigns always start with Google. If a client has a large budget, we will allocate media dollars to other search engines, but in some cases, the entire search budget goes to Google because we see the best returns.
    Incentivized
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    NextRoll
    The major difference I have seen between Rollworks and competitors is that Rollworks seems to be a much less complex platform. While other tools focus on things like personalization, sales activation, and automation, Rollworks focuses on target accounts and advertising which eliminates distractions and allows us to really focus on what the tool was made for rather than investing in a larger scale tool that we won't get our money worth from.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    NextRoll
    No, everything was very flexible.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    NextRoll
    RollWorks had various options that allowed us to choose the right one for our current situation. We felt that RollWorks gave us the flexibility to start at a certain level within our core marketing and sales teams and then easily add users as our functions are expanding. RollWorks offers upgraded levels of plans and add on features that we can foresee using in the future.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Google Ads is often one of our highest ROI channels, especially when you factor in branded ads.
    • Depending on the stage your business is in, search ads can be really powerful from an ROI perspective, providing an investment with a very high spend cap.
    • If you do not manage the campaigns well though, you can quickly spend a lot of money on nothing. So make sure someone is keeping an eye on your account.
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    NextRoll
    • Tough to say the exact impact, although RollWorks tries to help you show that. They include an ROI measure tied to your pipeline. But it's not really possible to say that because 1 person at an account MAY have seen our ad that it influenced a buy. It's a little hocus pocus here.
    • Our target audience is not very active in LinkedIn so we need to find ways to get in front of them outside of this business channel. Our thought/hope is that RollWorks is helping us do that.
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    ScreenShots

    RollWorks Screenshots

    Screenshot of the interface to upload a Target Account List from a connected CRM or Marketing Automation system. Prioritizing the list uses a fit-based predictive scoring model or layer intent data signals as well as engagement signals to identify in-market accounts.Screenshot of sales teams notifications on accounts engaging with their company, via email alerts and Salesforce dashboards with the Sales Insights-product.Screenshot of some of the websites the RollWorks Engagement Solution enables advertising to a target account list with digital ads.Screenshot of RollWorks’ Partner ecosystem, that can be used to personalize websites, use direct mail, or leverage email signature ads for multi-channel ABM programs.Screenshot of the RollWorks' sales automation product, used to keep prospects engaged through scheduled email outreach from sales.Screenshot of the metrics used to measure account-based programs, appearing in a dashboard or sync with a connected CRM and/or Marketing Automation Platform. This displays spend, impressions, clicks, or conversions at a campaign level. Or users can visualize impact across Target accounts with reach, engagement, influenced opportunity and review metrics.