Growave vs. Salesforce Agentforce Marketing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Growave
Score 9.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Growave (formerly SocialShopWave), a small company in Kyrgyzstan, offers a Social Login app for Shopify stores, and social product reviews and comments.N/A
Agentforce Marketing
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Marketing Cloud is a cloud-based digital marketing platform, used by marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.
$1,250
per month
Pricing
GrowaveSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Account Engagement
$1,250
per month
Engagement
$1,250
per month
Intelligence
$3,000
per month
Loyalty Management
$20,000
per month
Personalization
$100,000
per year
Data Cloud for Marketing
$108,000
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GrowaveAgentforce Marketing
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Growave
Chose Growave
I have not used any other before because this one was great from the get go.
Chose Growave
I selected Growave based on reviews and research from the web. I have not been disappointed with my choice.
Chose Growave
Yotpo seems to have more ways to integrate your reviews with other features on your site, but Growave is a simple solution for people who aren't actively focusing their attention on reviews. Yotpo also seems to have better filters for negative keywords and swear words …
Agentforce Marketing
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Zoho CRM Plus, Twilio SendGrid and Email Marketing by Hemsmail
Chose Agentforce Marketing
The only other product we’re currently evaluating is on the Veeva side — Veeva Campaign. It’s a relatively new product that Veeva has released; it’s only been about six or seven months since it went into general availability. So time will tell whether it can compete with …
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Apart from Marketing Cloud we have one reach that we have used and to tell you the good stuff is like now we are getting rid of One Reach and we are moving all our text stuff as well to the marketing cloud. So that much we have confidence in Marketing Cloud and that much we are …
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Optimizely Personalization and HubSpot Marketing Hub
Chose Agentforce Marketing
Salesforce Marketing Cloud send emails and can work independently vs AJO is part of AEP suite
Chose Agentforce Marketing
I have worked with all three providers across different businesses and seen the benefit of each one in different ways. It is good that Salesforce Marketing Cloud connects well with salesforce as a sales management CRM. Hubspot is a lot. more user friendly of an interface and …
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I find the data stored in the database is very much cleansed and hence the overall decision making process improves. Also the customised emails, digital marketing features stacks the Salesforce Marketing Cloud way above others
Chose Agentforce Marketing
We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud for lead management, generating reports, tracking customer and dealer information, inputting orders, and more. I prefer HubSpot for email marketing and automation because it is easier to use and the emails are designed much better. We …
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I used Marketo for years and found it to be robust yet also fairly intuitive to navigate. When I joined my current role, they had just implemented Salesforce Marketing Cloud. I was initially not a fan, but since using the tool and navigating some complexities, I see the true …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
We are now more aware of how to use Salesforce rather than SAP. So ease of working is one of the reason.
Chose Agentforce Marketing
I think that all of the marketing platforms I have evaluated and used in the past serve different markets and purposes. Salesforce Marketing Cloud was more palatable to our team because of our existing tech stack where we had Salesforce CRM already deployed and in use. Compared …
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Hubspot is more user friendly, more intuitive, and has functionality built in from the start that allows you to get things off the ground faster than SFMC. I use SFMC because that is the current platform at my employer.
Chose Agentforce Marketing
Mailchimp is great for simple email use. It's straightforward and great for beginners in the email space. It does not offer nearly as much in the way of complexity as Salesforce Marketing Cloud does, so is limited with what it can do. Salesforce Marketing Cloud is much more …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
It has more features and a fuller capacity for all things marketing. Pardot was clunky and lacked a good email builder. It wasn't my choice to select this software, but I see its value, and the team has benefitted from it. We hope they continue to improve functionality and …
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a more comprehensive product than HubSpot Marketing Cloud. It integrates better with multiple channels, is a powerful audience builder, and is an efficient AI. However, Salesforce Marketing Cloud is also more expensive and requires Salesforce.com …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
I prefer Salesforce Marketing Cloud over Mailchimp.
Chose Agentforce Marketing
Salesforce Marketing Cloud stands out for its comprehensive features, scalability, and seamless integration capabilities. Compared to other platforms, its unified suite of tools for email, social media, mobile, and advertising enables streamlined cross-channel campaign …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
Not to sound like I am completely against Salesforce Marketing Cloud, I believe HubSpot has worked alot on their marketing platform to simplify the interface along with keeping the rich functions a marketing platform would want. Campaign monitor is a bit more basic, but perfect …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
My previous organization used Pardot and also Mailchimp. Salesforce Marketing Cloud is more powerful than both of those tools and integrates more deeply with Salesforce CRM.
Chose Agentforce Marketing
Overall, 80 percent of the features and boiler plate and standard across all these tools. Salesforce leads in integrations and global scalability. But lacks in User interface and ease of use.

Chose Agentforce Marketing
Salesforce Marketing Cloud offers many opportunities for personalization and supports big data integration. It features powerful tools like SQL for data and AMPscript for email creation. If someone wants to master the platform, it might require some initial learning, which I …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
We use these both in conjunction together now rather than rivals as the data that can be held in both does differ slightly and one platform email maker is slightly better so we do a lot of the creative in one platform and then have it link in and have all the data flow into the …
Chose Agentforce Marketing
I used other tools and Salesforce MArketing Cloud is the tool I find the easiest to use, and its interface helps me the most to achieve what I need.
Features
GrowaveSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Growave
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.4
Ratings
4% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
List management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Growave
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
8.1
Ratings
4% above category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Growave
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.4
Ratings
0% above category average
Calendaring00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Growave
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Growave
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Growave
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
7.5
Ratings
1% above category average
API00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Third-party software integrations00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
GrowaveSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.2
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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8.1
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Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.4
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Availability
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
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7.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
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5.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
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3.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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7.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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7.5
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
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8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
-
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7.0
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User Testimonials
GrowaveSalesforce Agentforce Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
After an exhaustive search, I was excited to choose Growave for my biz rewards & loyalty program, the Smile High Club™. The app is very customizeable so has checked off every requirement as far as our branding style guide goes. The greatest thing about Growave is its people. They are so kind, patient & know their stuff!! They always have an answer for me
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I rated this a seven because I love Salesforce, and it is excellent on the sales side. However, the marketing side has some pros and cons. It is terrific for keeping track of lead, customer, and dealer information, but it is not easy to automate workflows, integrate other software, or create well-designed emails. It is also straightforward to generate reports, which is very helpful in keeping track of lead progression to better market those leads and turn them into customers.
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Pros
  • Support - They respond to emails quickly and professionally.
  • Coding - They are Shopify experts and will also try to find a solution to a request.
  • They are also cost effective meaning we are able to progress with development of our site without the high cost some other agencies charge.
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  • Filter relevant content so you can priorize those that are more relevant and resolve it first
  • Measure the traffic in the different social networks, as well as the response rate, average response time and other relevant metrics
  • Configure automation rules to order the work of those who must interact with the customer
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Cons
  • Consider making some of the Enterprise only features available to Growth. Specifically, ability to offer products in exchange for points! I would like to give my best customer the opportunity to earn really cool corporate swag. For example, Collect 100 S'Miles (points) in exchange to WhiteBrights leather book bag. Also, Klaviyo integration. That should not be an Enterprise level feature?
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  • Automation studio is very hard to use. We need to create a Data extension with all required fields before we can run SQL. So it takes a lot of time.
  • Query Studio is much easier to use but it often gives an error while running the same SQL in Automation Studio works fine.
  • We were not able to set up SMS messages as SFMC is not supporting MMS which is a big problem.
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Likelihood to Renew
Because it has been a very useful app, easy to use, filled with great options and a terrific customer service.
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We are happy with Pardot. It has made our jobs easier and installed some reporting functions that have increased our ROI with the company. We have worked hard to set-up the functions in Pardot and it has taken time, but paid off.
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Usability
We're currently a small newly launched eCommerce business so our needs are pretty basic. This app is free and does what we need it to and Growave's customer support and their dev team are super patient, helpful and attentive.
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You won't find another solution that has as many features as Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio. We all know Salesforce, we all know how big they are and it's not for nothing... Their tools do most of the things you want, need and even imagine. Using it is complicated, but the usability is infinite.
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Reliability and Availability
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Upgrades and timing of the upgrades were communicated well and planned during off hours for our work. If we did have a campaign scheduled during that time, it would kick-off after the system was back active. There were a few unplanned system down times, but it was a rare occurrence and those times were also short in duration.
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Performance
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Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.
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Support Rating
Customer support is excellent and sets Growave apart from other app developers and developers in general - You will always receive an email response within 24 hours and for larger projects we have had conversations with them on the phone.
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They are really responsive and more than not solve the problem or give you insight to how you can manage the solution yourself. I do find however sometimes a long delay on the more complex issues when they need to loop in other departments. but overall a good experience with support
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In-Person Training
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Training program is not very well established. There is very little documentations. More often than not it's in-person training. I wish there were more video tutorials so that somebody can learn the system quickly. Their documentation is very much like an RFP. Long and very technichal. They should definitly improve on this area.
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Online Training
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Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc... The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.
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Implementation Rating
It was easy to do and their support team helped when needed.
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From an IT perspective, once you set up the Javascript beacon and start collecting data there is a waiting game. During this time you can start labeling your site actions which can be labor intensive for a single person, but you don't really have the final end-users on the platform yet. We did a lot of training so users were experienced, but it wasn't until they had their first tasks to accomplish that they started using the system and had questions. I'd recommend setting up some immediate goals for an end-user to start segmenting for the purpose of displaying message campaigns so you can jump start end-user action.
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Alternatives Considered
Yotpo seems to have more ways to integrate your reviews with other features on your site, but Growave is a simple solution for people who aren't actively focusing their attention on reviews. Yotpo also seems to have better filters for negative keywords and swear words (important for children's toy company). However, Yotpo carries a much higher price tag.
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The only other product we’re currently evaluating is on the Veeva side — Veeva Campaign. It’s a relatively new product that Veeva has released; it’s only been about six or seven months since it went into general availability. So time will tell whether it can compete with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or not.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
Prior to this, we had no solution and literally were doing things on paper in a world where technology is outpacing paper. Having this process optimized has made it easier for the sales and marketing people to change information. From the training perspective, it has allowed us to see holes in where we could create additional support training, so the ROI here has been a lot more than just the optimization of a process.
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Return on Investment
  • Consumers truly enjoy the loyalty point program.
  • The App makes it very fluid for easy log in's by the consumer.
  • E-mail Notifications and retention programs are effective.
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  • We have been able to create mature lead generation opportunities using Salesforce Marketing Cloud in conjunction with CRM.
  • We have had to spend much more in technical support
  • We have been able to save on costs of daily maintenance emails through automation.
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Agentforce Marketing Screenshots

Screenshot of Pardot Analytics - Pardot's reporting and analytics can be used to perform true revenue impact analysis and closed-loop reporting.Screenshot of Pardot Email Analytics - The reach and impact of  email marketing efforts are displayed in real-time with advanced reporting and analytics by device, and email client.Screenshot of Pardot Forms and Landing Pages - Pardot's form and landing page builders are used to turn online traffic to leads with targeted offers and content marketing.Screenshot of Pardot Email Marketing - Lead nurturing flows are defined via an interface that enables definition of the simplest or most complex segmented and targeted campaigns.