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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    emfluence Marketing Platform

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    The emfluence Marketing Platform is a marketing automation platform featuring drag-and-drop email editors and automated campaign builders, simple social media scheduling, manageable landing pages, workflow management, analytics, website tracking, surveys, and modals. The platform works for B2B and B2C marketers, marketing agencies, and CRM providers. The product supports CRM integrations and an open API for custom integrations. emfluence offers digital marketing consulting…

    $1,000

    per month

    Metadata.io

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ABased in San Francisco, Metadata.io is a Demand Generation and ABM platform designed to execute thousands of B2B campaigns in a matter of hours, automatically optimizing campaigns for pipeline impact at a high velocity.

    $24,000

    per year

    Pricing
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    Editions & Modules
    Up to 30,000 Active Emails
    $1,000
    per month
    Up to 150,000 Active Emails
    $2,000
    per month
    Up to 500,000 Active Emails
    $4,100
    per month
    More than 1,000,000 Active Emails
    Custom
    per month
    MetaMatch
    $295
    per month per installation
    Web Personalization
    $24,000
    per year
    Audience Targeting
    $24,000
    per year
    Metadata Base Platform
    $60,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$3,100 one-time fee per installation$2,500 one-time fee per installation
    Additional DetailsThe emfluence Marketing Platform offers month-to-month pricing that’s based on the number of contacts added, with no restrictions on how many emails are sent each month or by which features are used.
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    Community Pulse
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    Considered Both Products
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    No answer on this topic
    Metadata, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of emfluence Marketing Platform and Metadata.io
    Feature
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    WYSIWYG email editor9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of emfluence Marketing Platform and Metadata.io
    Feature
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.1
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    Lead nurturing automation9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of emfluence Marketing Platform and Metadata.io
    Feature
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    Calendaring8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of emfluence Marketing Platform and Metadata.io
    Feature
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    Social sharing and campaigns8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of emfluence Marketing Platform and Metadata.io
    Feature
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Metadata.io
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    Ratings
    Dashboards9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports3.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of emfluence Marketing Platform and Metadata.io
    Feature
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    API8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    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
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.8
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    emfluence Marketing PlatformMetadata.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    The reporting feature is not as detailed as we require for our documentation, so we have to organize the results into charts and graphs. For every other component of our social media and digital marketing, emfluence checks all of the boxes.
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    Metadata, Inc
    Metadata is well suited when you have a really large ad budget (>50k per month at least). This is because the power of metadata lies in the ability to quickly set up and run a large number of experiments (combinations of channel, audience, creative, and conversion assets). To evaluate these variations, all of them need a large number of impressions, clicks, and conversions to be statistically relevant. If your budget is smaller, you will either have a very small number of experiments (not fully utilizing the power of metadata), or your experiments will not have enough clicks to make informed decisions. We had expected a better explanation of this from metadata before signing up.
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    Pros
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    • Custom landing pages to dive deeper into campaigns and track results
    • Responsive customer service with any problems we come by
    • A/B testing
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    Metadata, Inc
    • Best paid ops tool I've ever used (and I've used a lot): we can launch a new LinkedIn & Facebook campaign in minutes.
    • Lead gen ops: no more dealing with broken zapier zaps, we are able to automate pushing native lead gen leads directly to our CRM.
    • Attribution: see influenced & triggered opportunities/CW deals
    • Multivariate testing: Metadata scales audience, ad, creative testing so you learn what performs much faster than manual process
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    Cons
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    • I do have issues sometimes when making a website popup. I specify certain measurements of my popup yet when it shows up on my website, the graphic doesn't adjust and I have a bunch of white space. But that could also be my website.
    • When adding a new contact into the contact section, once you hit save, the contact information stays on the screen instead of an empty contact profile so you can immediately add the next person.
    • Sometimes when I update a template, The unsubscribe link will link to my email address instead of the person the email is being sent to.
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    Metadata, Inc
    • If you don't have a large budget and audience it's hard to meaningfully optimize. If I have 4 ad creatives, to 2 audience groups on FB and LinkedIn, that creates 16 experiments, each of which needs an ample enough budget, say $40/day, that's now $640 per day or $19K per month.
    • Limited ability to edit ads after they've been launched. You usually have to stop the ad, clone it, and launch a new campaign.
    • Can't add new ads to existing campaigns which limits the ability to optimize. If I start an MD campaign with 4 ads, and in a few weeks we see that one is working well and the other 2 are not performing, I can pause those (or it can autopause by rules), but I can't add 2 more new creatives to the mix against the high performer. I'd have to either stop the high performer, and recreate it in a new campaign (losing likes and comments), OR - leave the high performer in the first campaign, and create. a second campaign with the new ones, which will only optimize against each other.
    • Limited to a single conversion event on a landing page. I'm not able to choose either a Demo Request OR a Sign-Up conversion, I can only choose one.
    • Google search ads are doable but aren't necessarily more feature-rich or easy-to use than native, so there's no value added to doing it through Metadata in my opinion aside from unifying ad reporting.
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    Support Rating
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    No answers on this topic
    Metadata, Inc
    Metadata's customer support is a difference-maker! They really do care how well your campaigns perform and will help you improve them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    They were the only company that could solve our specific problems. When we looked at larger companies like Constant Contact, they weren't as capable at handling our specific needs for a reasonable price. Some companies need to charge us programming hours. Bigger companies couldn't help our issue. emfluence is more flexible.
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    Metadata, Inc
    We chose [Metadata.io] because it was a smaller company and could get more personalized attention. The price was better and they seemed more eager to support us. The feature set was what we were looking for and not more - it was exactly as robust as we needed it to be. Didn't want to pay for features we weren't going to use.
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    Return on Investment
    emfluence Digital Marketing
    • It's allowed for us to generate more traffic to our client's websites.
    • It's allowed for us to generate more leads from email marketing through emfluence.
    • Visual click maps, more customized dashboard and email templates, and a deeper dive in data would help further business objectives.
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    Metadata, Inc
    • Huge decrease in CPLs, CPMQL and Cost Per Opportunity
    • Big improvement in MQL to SQL rates
    • 90%+ of our leads from paid social now have valid business emails, before it was like 30%
    • Saving us hundreds of hours over the course of the next year doing daily manual optimization and budget management tasks for us so we can focus on strategy and testing new things
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    ScreenShots

    emfluence Marketing Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of search perimeters and contact characteristics using the Dynamic Marketing Group Query Builder.Screenshot of Google Analytics, used to measure the success of email and social media alongside spikes in website traffic. Granular reports can be scheduled for an overview of surveys, landing pages, forms, social posts, emails, and list growth.Screenshot of the drag-and-drop Workflow Canvas visual interface used to create automated marketing campaigns, plus send contacts from a single group into branches based on email views, clicks, or custom queries.Screenshot of the interface to build branching into automated workflows based on opens, clicks, or custom decisions (based on custom or out-of-the-box contact fields, dates, and more).Screenshot of a schedule with a month's worth of social media and email, built using the drag and drop marketing calendar.Screenshot of custom email templates, which can be reused or rebuilt with a drag and drop editor.

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