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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LeanData

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ALeanData is a solution built around account-based nurturing and account-based reporting. The nurturing aspect allows users to segment inbound leads by account details such as owner, active opportunity, customer, and sales stage.N/A

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A
    Pricing
    LeanDataMicrosoft Advertising
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    Contact Sales
    Advanced
    Contact Sales
    Premium
    Contact Sales
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LeanDataMicrosoft Advertising
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    LeanDataMicrosoft Advertising
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    LeanData
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    57 Answers
    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    54 Answers
    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    46 Answers
    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    LeanDataMicrosoft Advertising
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of LeanData and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    LeanData
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings4.95 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of LeanData and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    LeanData
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings6.28 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of LeanData and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    LeanData
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
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    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LeanDataMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (61 ratings)
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (50 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LeanDataMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LeanData
    It is best because it works like a native Salesforce application. It is not a campaign tool or a reporting tool. Routing match and reporting match are not the same thing. If you put every campaign exception on the graph instead of in a table, the graph diagram gets too big to maintain.
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    Microsoft
    Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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    Pros
    LeanData
    • LeanData's UX is top notch. I love how intuitive the FlowBuilder is, and how it helps visualize a process. I don't need to use another tool to map out the flow, and then build it again in LeanData. I also love the testing feature.
    • LeanData support is amazing. So communicative, and helpful. They were so helpful during onboarding, and continue to be a great resource as we optimize.
    • Territory management/Routing/user scheduling is super easy in LeanData. Far more robust than other solutions out there.
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    Microsoft
    • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
    • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
    • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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    Cons
    LeanData
    • When uploading leads from a tradeshow, if you have multiple leads from the same company, LeanData will create multiple opportunities. We created a work-around to add a delay to the second individual from each company so that LeanData would not create the duplicate opportuntity, but the ability to do that out of the box would be nice.
    • We have a complex salesforce instance with complicated hierarchies. Sometimes LeanData will match to the incorrect account. We would like it to match to the headquarters.
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    Microsoft
    • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
    • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
    • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LeanData
    Have renewed 3x already. It's the best system we've seen for managing actions and outputs across multiple platforms
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    Microsoft
    We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
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    Usability
    LeanData
    It has. a really specific use case, but it has delivered all that it has promised. There has been no missing piece of the puzzle in the way we are actually using our tool; everything that was promised is in there, and we have been able to use it swimmingly.
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    Microsoft
    It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    LeanData
    Fantastic customer success team that ensures deployment starts off on the right foot. There is room for improvement on the side of straategic planning and business consulting services offered by LeanData. I recommend working with an experienced consultant or third party who has implemented the product before.
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    Microsoft
    Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LeanData
    I selected LeanData as it's more scalable, very user-friendly, easy to work on and be integrated with existing SFDC workflows. I really find it more visually appealing compared to Traction Complete as it's, for me, complicated, cumbersome, has a learning curve with it
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    Microsoft
    Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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    Return on Investment
    LeanData
    • It's allowed me more time to dig into other larger projects.
    • It helps me avoid spending too much time on manual tasks like list analysis and lead routing.
    • It provides audit logs so I don't waste time digging to find the source of an error.
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    Microsoft
    • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
    • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
    • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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