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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Marketo Engage

    Score8 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

    Impact

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AImpact Radius is a partner management platform from the company of the same name in Santa Barbara, California. The platform touts tag management without technical assistance for marketers, tracking of all media channels for multi-channel and mobile marketing, call tracking for inbound calls, and affiliate / partner program management capabilities. Central to the platform is the Partner Manager, with its pay-for-performance affiliate management capabilities.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageImpact
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageImpact
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageImpact
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Impact
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    283 Answers
    85%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    239 Answers
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    291 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    189 Answers
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageImpact
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1074 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Impact
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor7.8976 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.3955 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.0927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages7.2995 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.8979 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization6.9939 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting7.61037 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.51032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.5931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.2
    1036 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Impact
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.51009 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.4985 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.5983 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.8930 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution8.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.9
    962 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Impact
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring6.1785 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.6918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    614 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Impact
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns6.4606 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.5
    1036 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Impact
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Dashboards6.2978 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Standard reports6.71018 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Custom reports6.4962 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Partner performance analytics00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1026 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Impact
    -
    Ratings
    API7.9890 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals7.4759 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.5908 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.4883 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.4316 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM6.5210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.348 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    Impact
    6.6
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Content sharing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Partner collaboration tools00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Partner Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Partner Lifecycle Management features of Adobe Marketo Engage and Impact
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    -
    Ratings
    Impact
    6.4
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Lead distribution00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Co-op advertising00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Partner discovery and onboarding00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Referral tracking00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Journey builder00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe Marketo EngageImpact
    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageImpact
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (1244 ratings)
    6.9
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.5
    (147 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (99 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (92 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 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 EngageImpact
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Impact
    Any publisher looking to monetize their blogs would be a great fit. The size of the publisher probably doesn't matter. They have a wide selection of advertisers and publishers can sign up for free. Advertisers that are looking for great partners for their affiliate programs would be good fits. One of the benefits is that Impact really focuses on recruiting high-quality publishers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage excels at automating complex marketing workflows and delivering personalized customer experiences at scale.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage enables marketers to create targeted campaigns, schedule automated email sequences, and personalize content based on user demographics and interactions, resulting in more relevant customer engagement.
    • Adobe Marketo Engage provides robust analytics and reporting, allowing teams to track campaign performance, monitor conversion rates, and measure return on investment(ROI).
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    Impact
    • There are no hidden charges and tracking is instant and automated.
    • As an affiliate, Finding relevant offers and managing the programs is quite easy.
    • It has a great user interface which is quite easy to use and manage.
    • There is nearly zero downtime, which makes it much more efficient and reliable.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • The most important thing is the UI; it still looks very old and should be updated to meet current market design standards.
    • Admin Complexity: It should be easy to setup at the first go.
    • Tool Navigation: Navigation should be more easier.
    Incentivized
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    Impact
    • User interface could be improved a little, as it is a quite difficult task to find the content or links
    • Approval from the advertisers sometimes takes a huge amount of time. If they can somehow reduce the response time, it will be great
    • New affiliates might find the onboarding process a little difficult
    Incentivized
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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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    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Impact
    Impact has had a major impact on our business. It is pretty easy to use if you don't have multiple accounts with them, so be sure you keep things streamlined. Otherwise, it can be confusing if you have to bounce between different accounts you've applied to. While they are managed under a single login, they can be difficult to distinguish between when trying to see how successful your campaigns are.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Impact
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Impact
    We've been reaching out requesting support for two months and no one has responded. They completely ghosted us. We've emailed the original sales rep, our account manager, our sales rep and account manager's bosses, and others. Still no response, though I can see the emails have been opened multiple times. I've never experienced worse support.
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    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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    Impact
    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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    Impact
    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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    Impact
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Impact
    First promoter has been a phenomenal affiliate platform to use. It has everything I need from a reporting perspective. It has everything I need from a payout perspective. It has all the links, tips, and tools I need for promoting products. Overall it is a far better tool to use
    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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    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Adobe Marketo Engage automation capabilities have reduced the amount of manual work required to execute campaigns, allowing our marketing team to focus more on strategy and customer engagement rather than repetitive administrative tasks.
    • The platform has helped us generate more qualified leads through personalized campaigns and lead scoring, enabling our sales team to focus on prospects with the highest likelihood of converting.
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    Impact
    • By using Impact we were able to increase the number of advertisers on our platform.
    • Delayed payments on the part of advertisers or Impact creates so many execution issues.
    • Multi regional campaigns helped us to increase our presens in the market.
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