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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Ads

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    Terminus ABM Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Supporting B2B strategies, the Terminus platform offers tactical playbooks that help teams meet accounts throughout their entire lifecycle. It is a platform rooted in first-party data that surrounds buyers with engaging digital experiences from account acquisition to expansion and renewal. The Terminus engine is built to drive ROI, minimize fraud, prioritize brand safety, and turn intent into relevant, actionable insight for GTM teams. Key benefits of Terminus: - Relevant…N/A
    Pricing
    Google AdsTerminus ABM Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsTerminus ABM Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Google AdsTerminus ABM Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Terminus
    Chose Terminus ABM Platform
    Sendoso and Terminus are alike in that they both work to add "personalization" into Marketing. However, they are not competitors per-say. Sendoso personalizes the physical interactions (direct mail) while Terminus works on the digital landscape. I would say Terminus more …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Google AdsTerminus ABM Platform
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and Terminus ABM Platform
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Terminus ABM Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google Ads and Terminus ABM Platform
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Terminus ABM Platform
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    Ratings
    Ad dashboards7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google Ads and Terminus ABM Platform
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Terminus ABM Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Foundry ABM
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    6sense
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsTerminus ABM Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    8.1
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Google AdsTerminus ABM Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
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    Terminus
    Terminus ABM Platform is well suited for organizations beginning their ABM journey. It is easy to implement and there is a great team to help you do so. Ongoing customer success teams ensure you are taking full advantage of the platform and work to help you develop an ABM strategy that fits your business needs.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
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    Terminus
    • Serving account targeted ads across a wide range of display ad providers
    • Matching account based browsing data to target lists
    • Identifying need and interest in particular accounts with intent data
    • Identifying anonymous web traffic on our site from target accounts
    • Reporting on ABM activity and metrics
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    Cons
    Google
    • If you don't know what you're doing, it will be a costly mistake. You need to target ads, and it is difficult the first time to do that.
    • There isn't a feature to run an add for a couple set date spans, just hours you want to run them or a single date span.
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    Terminus
    • Support times are iffy. We've had slower replies and resolutions to issues since they acquired Sigstr and now support both products.
    • Display advertising generally has low ROI, in part due to "banner blindness". If you're not continuously developing engaging creatives, you're going to see very little return with this platform.
    • Their UI needs serious work. Some options are locked after you move to the next screen in their campaign wizard (nothing should ever be locked in draft) and unless they've recently changed it, you can't delete dead draft campaigns - just archive them.
    • There are a few serious discrepancies in the analytics when it comes to identifying which end companies have people who have viewed your ads (i.e. Microsoft has huge numbers because Azure is their product).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I think Google Ads is good for getting your company out there and becoming more visible to potential customers in general. However, for specific product launches, social media advertising might be a better fit. Also, our user base is younger so social media is a better channel for our target audience.
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    Terminus
    Terminus is a turn-key partner in the B2B Account-Based Marketing space. Their model is flexible and efficient which in turn provides effective results. Their sales staff is great and never tries to up-sell, but rather coach and educate our teams to be better at our jobs. It has been great to collaborate
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    Usability
    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
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    Terminus
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    We have not yet had an account rep who hasn't tried to bully me or other employees to raise our budgets. At the same time, several years ago, one attempted to help refine our ads and ended up changing the ads to be something we were not affiliated with
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    Terminus
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Terminus
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Our agency invests heavily in Google Ads (particularly paid search advertising) on behalf of our clients relative to competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo because Google is the top search engine in the world. Google collects the most search data which enables the company to improve its AI to drive better performance for agencies and brands. As such, our paid search and app install campaigns always start with Google. If a client has a large budget, we will allocate media dollars to other search engines, but in some cases, the entire search budget goes to Google because we see the best returns.
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    Terminus
    Drift has banners available in their email tool, furthermore, we are able to mimic a Sigstr banner in HubSpot when we build emails by placing the banner image with a link in the bottom of an email, it's just a more manual process. I can't recommend any other solution over Sigstr, they own what they do and don't try to reach in their product marketing and I respect their product for that.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Google Ads is often one of our highest ROI channels, especially when you factor in branded ads.
    • Depending on the stage your business is in, search ads can be really powerful from an ROI perspective, providing an investment with a very high spend cap.
    • If you do not manage the campaigns well though, you can quickly spend a lot of money on nothing. So make sure someone is keeping an eye on your account.
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    Terminus
    • Combining chat, advertising experiences & a very tight contact list - we saw a 684% increase in on-site engagement.
    • 900% increase in deal size after using chat with our advertising campaigns
    • 50% higher attendance for our events when leveraging our intent data for targeting
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    ScreenShots

    Terminus ABM Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Tactic Details page shows how efforts are engaging targeted accounts. Users can view clicks, views, spend, etc. to more thoroughly understand advertising efforts.Screenshot of The Account Hub leverages Terminus' B2B Account Graph to automatically ingest first and third-party account data to deliver a complete picture of target accounts, and use that data to create and manage target account audiences for all account-based marketing and sales programs.Screenshot of Account-Based Analytics helps measure an account-based marketing program. The ABM Scorecard is used to surface executive-level revenue reporting metrics.Screenshot of Configurable dashboards track engagement milestones and revenue progress by account segment or business type.Screenshot of Precision display and LinkedIn advertising, to get in front of the right people in the right companies earlier, and deliver the right message every step of the way.Screenshot of Account Insights to help sales teams set more qualified meetings with ABM.