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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ontraport

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AONTRAPORT offers customer relations management services that help with content management (creating and hosting webpages), lead tracking, traditional marketing approaches (e-mail, SMS, social media, direct mail), managing online payments, and workflow automation.

    $29

    per month

    Agentforce Marketing

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMarketing 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 per installation

    Pricing
    OntraportAgentforce 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
    OntraportAgentforce Marketing
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsOntraport offers a variety of plans to choose from based on the features needed. Pricing adjusts with the number of contacts in the database and users in the account. Monthly or annual plans are available, and all plans start with a 14-day free trial. Ontraport offers a Done-With-You Setup and Training Package for getting set up in the account quickly. Users can also access a free video library with step-by-step instructions on getting started and using every feature of the platform.—
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    Community Pulse
    OntraportAgentforce Marketing
    Considered Both Products
    Ontraport
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Would buy again
    84 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    72 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    89 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    58 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    54 Answers
    Features
    OntraportAgentforce Marketing
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Ontraport and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    Ontraport
    9.0
    17 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.3
    171 Ratings
    6% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.216 Ratings7.4122 Ratings
    Dynamic content10.014 Ratings8.1153 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.37 Ratings6.3112 Ratings
    Landing pages10.016 Ratings7.6121 Ratings
    A/B testing9.912 Ratings7.0151 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.410 Ratings6.7111 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting6.016 Ratings7.3132 Ratings
    List management10.016 Ratings8.1129 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.813 Ratings7.295 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Ontraport and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    Ontraport
    5.5
    17 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    8.1
    124 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation7.115 Ratings8.9109 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading2.413 Ratings8.1110 Ratings
    Data quality management2.614 Ratings7.3116 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks10.016 Ratings8.2101 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Ontraport and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    Ontraport
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.3
    114 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Calendaring6.25 Ratings7.3103 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing9.38 Ratings7.497 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Ontraport and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    Ontraport
    7.1
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.4
    88 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns7.13 Ratings7.283 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.24 Ratings7.539 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Ontraport and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    Ontraport
    9.3
    16 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.6
    124 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Dashboards10.015 Ratings8.1118 Ratings
    Standard reports8.012 Ratings7.3123 Ratings
    Custom reports10.010 Ratings7.2100 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Ontraport and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    Ontraport
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.5
    124 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API3.011 Ratings6.790 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals9.09 Ratings6.689 Ratings
    Customizability10.013 Ratings6.9111 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.31 Ratings7.6113 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.31 Ratings8.914 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.31 Ratings8.611 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings7.624 Ratings
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    OntraportAgentforce Marketing
    Small Businesses
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OntraportAgentforce Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    8.2
    (329 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (114 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (37 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (36 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    3.0
    (17 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (40 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OntraportAgentforce Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ontraport
    Here are some cases where Ontraport is well suited : - When writing emails, you can easily access to preview, manage the changes and go back to what you did before - When using automations, if there's an error, you can go back to a previous version of it. There are also some super tools that allows to see where a clients is on an automation without having to go through the all automation. It is less appropriate when you are several colleague that are addressing an issue on an email/automation as it doesn't allows you to be multiple person on the item.
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    Salesforce
    I think the product, by definition, is meant for marketing — and we use it exactly for that, for running campaigns. That’s the best-suited use case for the product. I don’t think it’s really meant to be used for anything else — that’s just not how it’s designed.
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    Pros
    Ontraport
    • Dashboards for our daily stats.
    • The email follows up and broadcasts are simple and easy.
    • Sales and marketing can now see the impact they have working together. Nobody can point finger anymore.
    • They have the best customer support. I can't tell you how many times they have walked me through the problems that I created.
    • Amazing email inboxing.
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    Salesforce
    • 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
    Ontraport
    • Wish they had more options for their forms. Would really like to use multi-step forms.
    • A lot of times their forms load slowly on the website. Would like to see them speed up their services.
    • Their broadcasting options are legacy. There are better options out there for sending broadcast messages.
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    Salesforce
    • The email builder does not offer any way to catch/check bugs across different email service providers
    • Creating SQL is not as easy as drag-and-drop; a lot of technical knowledge is required
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud is sold as a marketing tool, but to be honest, you need a LOT of technical IT support to run the tool
    • Einstein metrics are across the board; if you have multiple audiences in one instance of Salesforce Marketing Cloud you can't segment the data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ontraport
    My client was already using Ontraport and had a decent investment in the tool. As soon as we turn around the revenue situation with my client's products, we will be ditching OAP immediately, despite the significant re-implementation cost we are going to face moving to a new system. I am part of a high-end, professional marketing group, and the overwhelming sentiment with these other professionals is that one should run away from this as fast as humanly possible. I thought their words were just ungrounded opinion, and I deeply regret that I did not heed them more closely before sinking still more time and effort into OAP.
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    Salesforce
    As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch
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    Usability
    Ontraport
    The software is just easy to use. The UI is fairly intuitive. The help system is pretty good. I find it is pretty quick to get my work completed and if I don't document my things well, I can always figure out how I did something when I need to make changes. When I have a problem the tech support is easy to deal with and when things need to get escalated they are resolved quickly.
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    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    Most of the time OP runs fine. But I've had to submit more support tickets this year do to messages, seq.'s or rules not running correctly. Also experienced slow response times moving in and around OP.
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    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    The techs are reasonably savvy, highly courteous and want to do right by their customers. Unfortunately, the product they are supporting is so deeply flawed that there's only so much they can do when your legitimate business requirements are simply not supported.
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    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    I went to their Ontrapalooza event, and it opened my mind as to how the software can be used.
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    Salesforce
    The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.
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    Online Training
    Ontraport
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    If you know your business, ONTRAPORT is easy
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    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    Task management was the main thing that separated ONTRAPORT for me. Keeping things accountable. As well, I felt the campaign builder was slicker, and that the contact management was more robust. Custom fields are very customizable.
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    Salesforce
    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 currently use Salesforce and HubSpot, and we are very happy to have both, as they have different pros/cons.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Ontraport
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    was not involved with this part but i have not heard about clompaints
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    Scalability
    Ontraport
    With the new lower priced options, it's now easier for newer businesses to start with a more basic version and upgrade as they need more features.
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    Salesforce
    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
    Ontraport
    • We are providing better customer service as a direct result of Ontraport. We can track where all of our customers are, what pages/sites/modules they are visiting with ease and tailor our communication accordingly.
    • Our marketing funnel has become vastly improved, meaning that our ROI for marketing has gone up. Sales this April are double what they were last year.
    • Our team works better together because we all have a better idea of what the other needs and when. The tasks that we can assign in Ontraport mean nothing gets missed, creating a better customer and employee experience.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to more efficiently reach out to a higher number of prospects.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to nimbly communicate important messages in a timely fashion to facilitate conversion.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to track who is opening our messages so that we can stop sending to those not interested and focus on the most engaged audiences.
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    Screenshot of Manage, track, sort and add to a contact listScreenshot of Design professional emails, forms and landing pages with block formatsScreenshot of Utilize the Support Center's in-depth advice on maximizing Ontraport's features

    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.