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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

    X Premium Business

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AX Premium Business (formerly Verified Organizations) is the enterprise-tier infrastructure for the X platform, designed to centralize brand authority, account security, and high-velocity content distribution for commercial and governmental entities.

    $200

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    Pricing based on database size.
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    Prime
    Pricing based on database size.
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    Ultimate
    Pricing based on database size.
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    Basic
    $200
    per month
    Full Access
    $1000
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    SpaceX
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    283 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    291 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    189 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and X Premium Business
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1074 Ratings
    2% below category average
    X Premium Business
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    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 reporting7.51037 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 X Premium Business
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    8.2
    1036 Ratings
    3% above category average
    X Premium Business
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    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation8.61009 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 X Premium Business
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    962 Ratings
    11% below category average
    X Premium Business
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    Calendaring6.0785 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.6918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Adobe Marketo Engage and X Premium Business
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.8
    614 Ratings
    11% below category average
    X Premium Business
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    Social sharing and campaigns6.3606 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.2375 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Marketo Engage and X Premium Business
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    6.5
    1036 Ratings
    14% below category average
    X Premium Business
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    Dashboards6.2978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.71018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.4962 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Marketo Engage and X Premium Business
    Feature
    Adobe Marketo Engage
    7.6
    1026 Ratings
    0% below category average
    X Premium Business
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    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
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (1244 ratings)
    8.0
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.5
    (147 ratings)
    7.1
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (99 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (25 ratings)
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (30 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (92 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.7
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 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)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe Marketo EngageX Premium Business
    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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    SpaceX
    TweetDeck is ideal for complex media organisations / newsrooms where you want to keep track of several users accounts, or switch between multiple user and/or title accounts. It is perfect for those who want to follow conversations in real-time via many channels, at a glance. It is also useful for those who want to schedule tweets to provide around the clock coverage even when unmanned. Now that it paid-for is less suited to smaller organisations with tight budgets.
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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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    SpaceX
    • TweetDeck is the best platform to schedule tweets - it is far better than the website itself. The process is remarkably easy and scheduling a day's worth of tweets takes no more than 10 minutes.
    • Tracking news is very easy on TweetDeck due to being able to create multiple columns each focusing on a different subject. Columns can be created using handles, searches, hashtags, and trends, and this makes TweetDeck a great platform as a news editor.
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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.
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    SpaceX
    • TweetDeck has an editing feature for scheduled posts only if there is no image attached. When a post with an image needs editing, users must instead delete the entire post and reschedule it with the edits needed.
    • TweetDeck has a real-time display, however users often need to refresh the window manually to get scheduled posts to appear in the appropriate column.
    • TweetDeck users can scroll side to side to view all off the types of columns selected. This functionality often leads to traveling back to a previous page unintentionally.
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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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    SpaceX
    As I previously mentioned, if TweetDeck were to increase some features and integrations, cleaned up its interface, and developed a tool to measure ROI, it would remain competitive with HootSuite and Hubspot. Altogether, it is an effective tool for the job of scheduling and monitoring your impact on Twitter, it falls behind other competitors that offer a more robust solution.
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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.
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    SpaceX
    It's a pretty easy tool to use I find a few of the columns to be a bit repetitive. If you are managing more than one account you'll start to find yourself having easily 10 plus columns all tracking all different information which creates nice track lanes to keep all that relative information in one column or "view". With the amount of data that is pushed out, if you are following a large number of accounts, it's extremely easy to lose valuable posts in your feeds. As you begin building out your columns they get the point where you only look at one or two and the rest seem to be lost. Overall, this a free tool and there are other social monitoring tools that are out there but are in the multiple thousands of dollar range
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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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    SpaceX
    TweetDeck tends to be available for use majority of the time...however, I've had times where it would get stuck in a loop and then post my Tweet multiple times.
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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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    SpaceX
    Besides posting multiple times when stuck in a loop not other real issues.
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    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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    SpaceX
    I've never had to contact customer support. Tweetdeck has always worked like a charm for me. And, if I have had a problem, I've simply deleted the column, then recreated it and it worked again. While it's not without its glitches every once in a great while, it's worked like a charm.
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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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    SpaceX
    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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    SpaceX
    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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    SpaceX
    Easy download and launch of application.
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    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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    SpaceX
    Several years ago I used the Hootsuite Free service. I found Tweetdeck to be preferable because of its user interface, and greater functionality. Moreover, I recall Hootsuite bombarding me with emails that were just irrelevant. TweetDeck just does what it does, without hassle. Its UI and functionality for multiple accounts seems to be the best I've tried.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    The total cost is a little bit higher than we expected.
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    SpaceX
    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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    SpaceX
    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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    SpaceX
    • Positive: User-friendly and therefore easy to teach new members.
    • Positive: Easy team management (when there are multiple users/managers for one channel).
    • Positive impact on well being - You can take a break from social media and go on holiday even when you are working as a social media manager.
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