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Act-On

Overview

What is Act-On?

Act-On is an adaptive marketing platform designed to drive personal and purposeful multi-channel marketing. Its foci are inbound and outbound marketing, for enabling a tighter alignment with sales and turning data into actionable insights.

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Pricing

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Professional

$900

Cloud
per month (starts at 2,500 active contacts)

Enterprise

$2,000

Cloud
per month ( starts at 2,500 active contacts)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.act-on.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Act-On Software Demo

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Act On! Software Demo

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Act-On Software and Touchtown: Personalization and the Buyer’s Journey

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Features

Email & Online Marketing

Using software to manage lists, send emails, automate email campaigns, and track results.

7.8
Avg 7.6

Lead Management

The process of tracking and managing prospective customers from lead generation to conversion.

8.1
Avg 7.8

Campaign Management

Users can schedule campaigns and/or events with reminders, announcements, etc.

7.5
Avg 7.5

Social Media Marketing

Using social media networks to help amplify marketing endeavors.

8.1
Avg 7.6

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

8.1
Avg 7.3

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.9
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

What is Act-On?

Act-On is an adaptive marketing platform that drives personal and purposeful multi-channel marketing, that aims to spark better inbound and outbound marketing, enable a tighter alignment with sales, and turn user data into substance to act-on.

The vendor states their customers range from start-ups and fast-growing young companies to well-established enterprise institutions; from marketing teams in small and medium-sized businesses, to independent teams in large enterprise corporations. They use Act-On in many different ways to realize their marketing objectives.

Act-On Features

Email & Online Marketing Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG email editor
  • Supported: Dynamic content
  • Supported: Ability to test dynamic content
  • Supported: Landing pages
  • Supported: A/B testing
  • Supported: Mobile optimization
  • Supported: Email deliverability reporting
  • Supported: List management
  • Supported: Triggered drip sequences

Lead Management Features

  • Supported: Lead nurturing automation
  • Supported: Lead scoring and grading
  • Supported: Data quality management
  • Supported: Automated sales alerts and tasks

Campaign Management Features

  • Supported: Event/webinar marketing

Social Media Marketing Features

  • Supported: Social sharing and campaigns
  • Supported: Social profile integration

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Role-based workflow & approvals
  • Supported: Customizability
  • Supported: Integration with Salesforce.com
  • Supported: Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
  • Supported: Integration with SugarCRM

Additional Features

  • Supported: Email Marketing
  • Supported: Lead Scoring
  • Supported: Website Visitor Tracking
  • Supported: Automated Programs (Trigger & Drip Campaigns)
  • Supported: Social Publishing
  • Supported: Reporting & Analytics
  • Supported: SEO
  • Supported: Forms
  • Supported: Events & Webinars

Act-On Screenshots

Screenshot of List Segmentation - Segmentation using behavioral, demographic and/or firmographic dataScreenshot of the Quickstart PageScreenshot of Landing Page Composer - landing pages are designed with a drag and drop function

Act-On Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesAvailable Internationally
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew

Frequently Asked Questions

Act-On is an adaptive marketing platform designed to drive personal and purposeful multi-channel marketing. Its foci are inbound and outbound marketing, for enabling a tighter alignment with sales and turning data into actionable insights.

HubSpot Marketing Hub, Net-Results, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud are common alternatives for Act-On.

Reviewers rate WYSIWYG email editor and Dynamic content and Landing pages highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Act-On are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

Act-On Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)29%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)67%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)4%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

(1-5 of 182)

Act-On Improves Engagement

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 19, 2013
TH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act-On Software
2 years of experience
  • Act-On makes it easy to convert HTML coding for email marketing, combined with an automated capability to send the email to correct contacts.
  • It's easy to use and straightforward.
  • It integrates easily with Salesforce, making it valuable in our outreach with clients and contacts.
Cons
  • I've had trouble, as is the case for many email marketing automation platforms, getting past quarantines and filters to hit inboxes.
In looking for an email marketing automation tool, we were particularly looking for one that integrates well with Salesforce, and Act-On seamlessly does so. It's easy to update lists and address particular groups.

The reporting structure seems to be complete and satisfying. We enjoy being able to review which email contacts opened which links and how they interacted with each particular email. It is very helpful.

Automation Tool with Loads of Services & Support

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 19, 2015
LL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act-On Software
2 years of experience
Act-On is being used organization-wide to track and manage leads. This platform gives us information above and beyond Google Analytics. We primarily use Act-On to produce email campaigns and test our messaging with different list segments. Our sales team is able to access our database from anywhere thanks to Act-On.
  • Tracking and Performance Measurements
  • CRM Integration
  • List Management
  • Constant improvements to the software - additions and revisions
  • Responsive support staff
  • Strong community with knowledgeable advocates
Cons
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Shared IP Servers / Deliverability
  • Form creation
Affordable marketing automation platform with superb list management, email campaign capabilities and intelligent lead tracking. Salesforce and webinar integration. Create landing pages without a tech team. Also features simplified lead scoring. Act-On saves budget by automating tasks you would otherwise do manually, such as sending follow up emails to leads after form submissions, manage marketing lists with completely customized fields,and generate email campaign and web traffic reports.

Act-On is a powerful information delivery platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 16, 2019
DH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act-On Software
4 years of experience
I use Act-On as both my email engagement platform and for website analytics. It allows me to both connect with potential clients through email campaigns, social shares, and landing pages and asses visitors interaction with my website at a granular level. I can get activity reports and alerts based on user behaviors and also confirm that clients received electronic deliverables.
  • Page View tracking - to see where website visitors are going.
  • Email campaign stats - to track who is receiving, opening, and clicking through.
  • Automated programs - to manage lists, send reports and analyze behavior.
Cons
  • I wish there was integration with more 3rd party CRMs.
  • Pricing is significant.
For anyone who has a generous audience, this platform really is great for obtaining valuable information about how and when your audience interacts with virtually all aspects of your website. If your audience is small then I am unsure as to whether the cost is worth it. I will say that the information is addictive.

Marketing Automation for the Simple Marketing Team

Rating: 5 out of 10
March 18, 2014
EL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act-On Software
1 year of experience
  • Integration with Salesforce. Each time an email goes out, it is recorded in the Contact Activity History. Additionally, our Sales reps use it for individual emails so they can prioritize people who seem interested based on the customizable lead score that Act-On tracks. However, some of the integration is limited and with specific features such as webinars management.
  • Email marketing. This is their flagship tool and it works quite well. I can track who bounced, opened, clicked emails. These are then calculated in the lead score. It does a good job of scrubbing bounced emails and it flags bounced emails in Salesforce. The steps to create a mass email is methodical so you do not miss anything. You can include different types of content inside emails such as custom HTML, attachments, and buttons. Everything is WYSIWYG and easy to use. There are some obstacles with setting up custom templates but once you have them set up, they are really powerful for branding purposes.
  • Automated programs. They are very simple to set up and show exactly what happens based on certain triggers: behavior (clicked on an email, attended a webinar, received specific email, etc.) and profiles (specific titles, lead score, geography, etc.). You can organize a very complex drip campaign or create niche marketing strategies for people who meet certain criteria. Automated programs are best utilized if you are marketing to a significant amount of people.
Cons
  • Webinar management. Our company uses WebEx and Act-On says that they integrate best with them. However, features are so limited for our company's needs, we found it is easy to keep them separate. For instance, we need to identify who attended a webinar in Salesforce. It is not an automated process to push attendance to the Salesforce record. Instead, the integration with Salesforce and Act-On for webinars is simply an interface. It does not push data to Salesforce. This is annoying because it creates more steps for our sales people who need to identify important information and forces them to use Act-On separately from Salesforce.
  • If your company produces a good amount of webinars a year, creating them is very time consuming. There are so many steps required before you can market the webinar. For instance, in our situation, we created custom emails for the following situations: When someone registers for a webinar, When their webinar registration is rejected, When their webinar registration is accepted, Follow up email for those who attend a webinar, Follow up email for those who do not attend, 1 hour reminder email, 1 day reminder email. Each email needs to be added in manually and this process if time consuming if you have to create 100+ webinars a year.
  • Email deliverability. We had problems with email deliverability to certain companies. After talking with our IT department to figure out why Act-On was having a lot of these problems, they said it is because they do not have reliable email marketing practices on the technical side. For example, every so often, I have to send a new IP address range to our IT department to whitelist Act-On emails so any test emails we send to ourselves do not bounce. It says something when you try sending a test email to yourself and it doesn't work.
  • I am not a technical person, but our IT department talked with their support team and concluded that they had technical issues on their side that was causing a lot of our emails to bounce. Act-On tried to address some of the email deliverability problems we had but did not help.
  • Competitor tracking. Act-On has ways of tracking competitor's social media and web traffic. However, it only provides a week time period for Twitter. In general, it doesn't aggregate data so it can be analyzed over different time periods. It does give a fair snap shot of what is going at present time, though.
  • Web traffic monitoring. Stick to Google Analytics for analyzing web traffic. The only good thing about it is you can identify which anonymous/known companies that have visited your website. But sometimes, some businesses do not have a dedicated IP so when Act-On does the automatic reverse IP look up, it does not provide the business, rather the ISP instead. You can only view data a month at a time and cannot select ranges of time Such as 60/90/120 month ranges. It goes strictly by month.
  • Reporting and Analytics. I was very disappointed when trying to run reports on our different marketing campaigns. While they have a dashboard, it is not the same as Salesforce. And because data between Salesforce and Act-On is limited, reports are done separately. When we need to check our email campaigns, the only option to look at them all at once is to download an excel document and manipulate the data from there.
  • Forms. Forms are a little on the basic side. We tried using them for people signing up for events, but the absence of conditional logic forms, where if a contact selects option "A" it will display a separate field/question than someone who selected option "B."
If you are marketing on volume, it would be a fair fit, depending on other marketing needs too. In comparison to other marketing automation companies, they do roughly the same thing, but the depth is the biggest difference. Be aware of some of the limitations of the product - You get what you pay for. The big one is email deliverability. If you can suffice with some of their outbound emails bouncing, it would be a good product. But if you are trying to integrate with a webinar platform to gather more information, be careful because we ran into a lot of customers and prospects complaining that they did not get their registration email to enter a webinar.

Great Customer Service and Support

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 03, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use Act-On as our email provider in the marketing department. It simplifies our email process and allows us to set up automated programs, manage our email lists, and schedule sends so that we can work ahead of the curve.
  • Customer support: Act-On has incredible support. My customer success manager, Jacob Moserrat is always available to answer questions or walk me through a process if I'm unsure.
  • Scheduling sends: Creating and scheduling emails is very straight-forward and easy. The user interface is simple and user-friendly.
  • Deliverability reports: As with my customer success manager, Patrick Cappy, my senior delivery analyst is always available if I have any questions or concerns. He responds in a timely manner and the reports are great.
Cons
  • I would love to see an easier way to send remails. Currently, there is an option to resend emails to those who haven't opened an email but I feel it could be easier. I would love to see it set up as an option when I'm scheduling the initial send.
  • We are currently testing out another email provider (signed up at the same time as Act-On) and they have a free text-to-join option. I would love it if Act-On had something similar so that we could quickly and easily sign up new customers to our email list.
I'm currently with a fairly small company with a relatively small email list for now. I'm unsure how well and easily it would perform with a really large company. I am relatively new to the company as well as Act-On so I don't think I can answer this question fairly. So far, I have really enjoyed working with Act-On, over the other email provider we're working with so I'd recommend them to a colleague.
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