Bizible vs. Full Circle Insights

Bizible was great for creating our multi-touch attribution model and allowed our marketing team to gain real insight into our online and offline marketing efforts. It integrated directly with Salesforce, as well, so the sales and Biz Ops teams were able to have access to the same information we were seeing which helped with transparency. For us, it wasn't the perfect tool only because we tended to look at activity at the account level in Salesforce, but we could only view activity at the contact level within Bizible so there was a bit of a mis-match there.

In full disclosure as a professional services marketing agency and consultancy, based on our very positive experience with Full Circle CRM, the robustness of their offering, and our ability to work together, we have entered into a partnership to provide implementation and consulting services in cooperation with Full Circle CRM. Rather than paint this review as biased, I hope that it provides insights into our decision to partner with an impressive and growing company.

• Bizible has a robust SDFC integration.
• Bizible has several attribution models which can be deployed to suit your enterprise's own particularities.
• Bizible allows you to look at the micro view (IE, understand attribution for a given opportunity) but also macro views (which types of campaigns are most effective).

• Easy to understand data model and attribution model
• Expert implementation support
• Connecting tools to Salesforce as single source of truth

• Some of the input of cost is tedious, though it's getting better. Formerly there was only the AdWords integration and no social, though social is being adding over time.
• Some elements of the system are less user friendly, such as adding channels.

• We worked closely with the vendor to add functionality to their current release to allow us to track multiple separate waterfalls simultaneously in order to operationalize the new Sirius Decisions Waterfall model. With the needed changes, the product works as advertised, and is providing the specific results we anticipated. In 6 months, we have not found anything else that we would want to change.

Full Circle CRM has solved a major visibility problem for us that was the result of architectural differences between Eloqua and salesforce.com that cannot be solved by reporting alone. We rely on this visibility as much as the core systems themselves.

Bizible's support team was always available and helpful when it came to any questions we had about improving the setup of our account and as we were trying to determine which attribution model would offer the most insight for our organization.

The vendor worked with us tirelessly, never complaining about our broken processes and bad data. In fact, they went above and beyond their responsibilities to assist us in the process re-engineering and the data clean-up

The instructor was the same person who guided our implementation so they not only knew their application but they were also familiar with our data and our specific configuration and processes within salesforce.com. They were able to provide customized instruction to match our needs and personnel.

When I look back at where we were on November 25th compared to where we were on January 25th, having been live for just one month, the difference is amazing. Our management discussions had already moved from discussing the validity of the data to the implications of the insights. As we approach the mid-point in our year, it is difficult to remember the old days when we could not see the road in front of us.

BrightFunnel and Bizible are pretty comparable. If I remember correctly, one interesting thing was the ability of Bizible to track to keyword level of the first touch, whereas I'm not sure BrightFunnel could do that. BrightFunnel operates outside of Salesforce, which could be good or bad depending on how you view things. They are fairly similar, but we happened to get special pricing being part of a certain group, so this helped sway the decision.

Full Circle's main competitors are standalone reporting tools which perform well and are a good first step into attribution. All tools require significant investment to improve your marketing data model and how you plan and execute campaigns. Full Circle is heavily married to Salesforce and takes advantage of Salesforce's reporting suite vs. visualizing in a standalone tool. This approach also works well if you prefer to visualize data in an alternative tool such as Tableau or Looker. The proprietary approach to visualization used by Bizible and BrightFunnel are less appealing to enterprise companies who are building a modern stack.

• Being able to determine the buyer's journey across channel
• True ROI not just what was the last or the first touch - example - statistics say it takes 7-10 touches before someone engages (fills out of form) with you-you are paying for those 7-10 touches but aren't able to actually attach a revenue to those touches with traditional MAP systems - you can really only capture the last thing they did - but all the other affected. With Bizable you can see and now you can justify your budget much more accurately. Data vs. gut.

• Eliminated underperforming channels such as content syndication which accounted for up to 20% of spend
• Improved funnel velocity and inspection of Marketing to SDR handoffs
• Created an attribution model which provided better transparency to company leadership on marketing performance - unlocked more budget
• Good value product and ROI was positive within a year.