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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce Marketing Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMarketing Cloud is an AI-powered, cloud-based digital marketing platform within the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem. Marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.

    $1,250

    per month per installation

    ZoomInfo Marketing

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AZoomInfo MarketingOS helps Demand Generation and Account-Based Marketers target, engage, and convert leads to buyers by giving them data, insight-driven orchestration, and personalized engagement across multiple channels such as display and social advertising, email, website chat and onsite conversion.N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Editions & Modules
    Account Engagement
    $1,250
    per month
    Engagement
    $1,250
    per month
    Intelligence
    $3,000
    per month
    Loyalty Management
    $20,000
    per month
    Personalization
    $100,000
    per year
    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108,000
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    ZoomInfo
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    76 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    81 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    7.9
    167 Ratings
    4% above category average
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.1118 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.6149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.7108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages7.8117 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.9147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.3107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting8.2128 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.6125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.191 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    8.3
    121 Ratings
    6% above category average
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.3107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.2108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management8.1113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks8.699 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    7.8
    111 Ratings
    5% above category average
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring8.3100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.394 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    8.2
    85 Ratings
    9% above category average
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns8.480 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration8.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    8.2
    121 Ratings
    11% above category average
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.4115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.4120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.997 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    7.6
    121 Ratings
    2% above category average
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    API7.087 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.586 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.4108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.3110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM8.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations6.921 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    7.3
    17 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings6.816 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Engagement data tracking00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    7.7
    16 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.214 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings7.416 Ratings
    Ad reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    7.9
    19 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings7.318 Ratings
    ABM sales intelligence00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    6.9
    18 Ratings
    12% below category average
    3rd party intent signals00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals00 Ratings6.917 Ratings
    Account identification00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
    ABM Integrations
    Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ZoomInfo Marketing
    Feature
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ZoomInfo Marketing
    7.0
    18 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Automated workflow & orchestration00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
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    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Terminus ABM Platform
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
    Score8.4 out of 10
    6sense
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.7 out of 10
    6sense
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (325 ratings)
    7.1
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (114 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    4.1
    (35 ratings)
    8.6
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (36 ratings)
    6.3
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.0
    (17 ratings)
    6.3
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.6
    (34 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Marketing CloudZoomInfo Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    I rated this a seven because I love Salesforce, and it is excellent on the sales side. However, the marketing side has some pros and cons. It is terrific for keeping track of lead, customer, and dealer information, but it is not easy to automate workflows, integrate other software, or create well-designed emails. It is also straightforward to generate reports, which is very helpful in keeping track of lead progression to better market those leads and turn them into customers.
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    ZoomInfo
    ZoomInfo Marketing can be used to re-target companies already in your sales process or familiar with you (i.e., have been to your website or engaged with you in some way). You may not get a large number of conversions through a cold display campaign, but ZI Marketing is a great way to stay at the top of your buyers' minds and provide them with bottom-of-the-funnel content through advertising.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Filter relevant content so you can priorize those that are more relevant and resolve it first
    • Measure the traffic in the different social networks, as well as the response rate, average response time and other relevant metrics
    • Configure automation rules to order the work of those who must interact with the customer
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    ZoomInfo
    • The ease of campaign creation is amazing! I can get a campaign set up in just a few minutes.
    • The reporting allows us to easily see the performance of our ads. There is no guesswork.
    • I love being able to create audiences from ZoomInfo tools such as Websights, intent, workflows and lists. This allows us to target a very specific audience that we otherwise would not have access to.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • The email builder does not offer any way to catch/check bugs across different email service providers
    • Creating SQL is not as easy as drag-and-drop; a lot of technical knowledge is required
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud is sold as a marketing tool, but to be honest, you need a LOT of technical IT support to run the tool
    • Einstein metrics are across the board; if you have multiple audiences in one instance of Salesforce Marketing Cloud you can't segment the data.
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    ZoomInfo
    • Does not fully integrate sales and marketing, so some work and translation is still required.
    • this is a complicated tool, and requires a rather long time to train employees to use properly.
    • no training included, and the price is a bit high
    • Does not integrate the same across all internet browser programs
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch
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    ZoomInfo
    It just complements every effort that our sales and marketing team go through. We also use other zoom products, and this meshes so well with them. It has cut down the time we need for results in marketing and sales, as well as increasing the success rate of the actions we choose. We're seeing greater ROI on efforts since we started.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    You won't find another solution that has as many features as Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio. We all know Salesforce, we all know how big they are and it's not for nothing... Their tools do most of the things you want, need and even imagine. Using it is complicated, but the usability is infinite.
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    ZoomInfo
    I think it's great for marketing and sales alignment and it gives great insights and data that we can translate over to our LinkedIn advertising, but I think the reporting limitations aren't great. The discrepancies don't provide full confidence in the numbers. But, as a tool to become more targeted based on websights and sales goals it's great!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    Upgrades and timing of the upgrades were communicated well and planned during off hours for our work. If we did have a campaign scheduled during that time, it would kick-off after the system was back active. There were a few unplanned system down times, but it was a rare occurrence and those times were also short in duration.
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    ZoomInfo
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Salesforce
    Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.
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    ZoomInfo
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    They are really responsive and more than not solve the problem or give you insight to how you can manage the solution yourself. I do find however sometimes a long delay on the more complex issues when they need to loop in other departments. but overall a good experience with support
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    ZoomInfo
    They spend most of their time pontificating on rudimentary matters. They tried to blame their own mistakes and shortcomings on the client rather than themselves.
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.
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    ZoomInfo
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Salesforce
    Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc... The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.
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    ZoomInfo
    Calls using Zoom remote sessions, emails chat.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    From an IT perspective, once you set up the Javascript beacon and start collecting data there is a waiting game. During this time you can start labeling your site actions which can be labor intensive for a single person, but you don't really have the final end-users on the platform yet. We did a lot of training so users were experienced, but it wasn't until they had their first tasks to accomplish that they started using the system and had questions. I'd recommend setting up some immediate goals for an end-user to start segmenting for the purpose of displaying message campaigns so you can jump start end-user action.
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    ZoomInfo
    They never ended up uploading the custom intent topics until months after we submitted them. It was difficult to select the custom intent topics in the first place as well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    I think that all of the marketing platforms I have evaluated and used in the past serve different markets and purposes. Salesforce Marketing Cloud was more palatable to our team because of our existing tech stack where we had Salesforce CRM already deployed and in use. Compared to Marketo and Hubspot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a bit dated in terms of the UI/UX and the overall experience but still meets the needs of our organization. Mailchimp, however, isn't even playing in the same arena and is meant for small organizations and companies that don't have a need for a full fledged offering that SFMC brings to the table.
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    ZoomInfo
    We have ZoomInfo Sales as well. We decided we needed to have both Sales and Marketing to marry them together. We are so happy we did! We really needed to have the entire package together. We are able to research our customers within sales and then we are able to serve them ads.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Salesforce
    was not involved with this part but i have not heard about clompaints
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    ZoomInfo
    No, it was clear.
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    Prior to this, we had no solution and literally were doing things on paper in a world where technology is outpacing paper. Having this process optimized has made it easier for the sales and marketing people to change information. From the training perspective, it has allowed us to see holes in where we could create additional support training, so the ROI here has been a lot more than just the optimization of a process.
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    ZoomInfo
    Enable scalable process and implementation to use for marketing and sales.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to more efficiently reach out to a higher number of prospects.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to nimbly communicate important messages in a timely fashion to facilitate conversion.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to track who is opening our messages so that we can stop sending to those not interested and focus on the most engaged audiences.
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    ZoomInfo
    • We have found a lower CPC across our pages
    • Tracking characteristics on types of businesses on our pages - also very close to our dream persona
    • Build a weekly workflow internally between sales and marketing to use the incoming contacts and increasing number of qualified leads to hand off to sales
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    ScreenShots

    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Pardot Analytics - Pardot's reporting and analytics can be used to perform true revenue impact analysis and closed-loop reporting.Screenshot of Pardot Email Analytics - The reach and impact of  email marketing efforts are displayed in real-time with advanced reporting and analytics by device, and email client.Screenshot of Pardot Forms and Landing Pages - Pardot's form and landing page builders are used to turn online traffic to leads with targeted offers and content marketing.Screenshot of Pardot Email Marketing - Lead nurturing flows are defined via an interface that enables definition of the simplest or most complex segmented and targeted campaigns.