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Adobe Marketo Engage

Overview

What is Adobe Marketo Engage?

Adobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex…

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Popular Features

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  • Lead nurturing automation (922)
    8.8
    88%
  • List management (944)
    8.8
    88%
  • Email deliverability reporting (947)
    8.1
    81%
  • Standard reports (929)
    7.8
    78%

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Video Reviews

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Adobe Marketo Engage Review | Tracking and Managing Leads
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Adobe Marketo Engage Review | The Power of Marketo Sales Insights
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Nurture Leads for Demand Generation | Adobe Marketo Engage User Review
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What is Adobe Marketo Engage?

Adobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Email & Online Marketing

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

8.1
Avg 7.8

Lead Management

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

8.7
Avg 7.7

Campaign Management

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

7.9
Avg 7.6

Social Media Marketing

Using social media networks to help amplify marketing endeavors.

7.4
Avg 7.5

Reporting & Analytics

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

7.5
Avg 7.5

Platform & Infrastructure

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

8.5
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is Adobe Marketo Engage?

Adobe Marketo Engage, from Adobe since 2018, aims to help marketing teams drive demand and growth in their companies by delivering exceptional experiences in concert with sales at every stage of the customer journey.

The challenge these teams face is that everyone today expects a personalized experience whenever they interact with a company - they don’t have patience for generic marketing and the last thing they want is a cold call from sales. So to stay competitive, marketing teams are scrambling to understand customers better, so they can give them a better experience, because this is disrupting entire industries. And a big part of what’s needed is figuring out how marketing and sales can do a better job together.

Adobe Marketo Engage aims to redefine Marketing Automation by helping these companies bring together the customer data, content, automation and analytics needed for marketing and sales to coordinate engagement with customers that’s personalized and measurable at every touchpoint - and do it with efficiency and scale.

Adobe Marketo Engage 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: Calendaring
  • Supported: Event/webinar marketing

Social Media Marketing Features

  • Supported: Social sharing and campaigns

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

Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

Screenshot of Marketo Lead Scoring - Marketo dynamically scores leads in real-time and can trigger a timely sales call based on website or other activity. Lead scores are integrated with a connected CRM.Screenshot of Marketo Moments - A mobile app designed to deliver timely, actionable insights.Screenshot of Simple or advanced workflows, built using drag-and-dropScreenshot of Lead nurturing can be performed without having to be a programmerScreenshot of Visualizations - display the revenue influence of each program and channelScreenshot of Marketo Sales Insight, which filters out the noiseScreenshot of All areas of the platform can be accessed in one placeScreenshot of Automated field mapping which begins after entering login credentials

Adobe Marketo Engage Video

Engagement Platform: Marketing Automation

Adobe Marketo Engage Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS

Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.

Oracle Marketing, HubSpot Marketing Hub, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud are common alternatives for Adobe Marketo Engage.

Reviewers rate Integration with Salesforce.com highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Adobe Marketo Engage are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Kristina Schroffel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Good luck and take time to explore ALL parts even the less known areas. There is always something new and parts of it can define your whole career whether you want to specialize in DNS type work, more technical integration (Zapier), or latest campaign features and reporting. Don't be afraid to connect the whole ecosystem.
June 14, 2022

Marketing

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Make sure you have a good relationship with Marketo support. Once for a while thing will not work and they took a really long time to fix it.
October 11, 2021

Marketo is great!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Take the courses Marketo Core Concepts I & II. They will provide you with the basic information needed to start building campaigns in Marketo. They teach you how to keep your Marketo instance neat and tidy, how to create campaigns, build reports, and tag your programs properly to make reporting much easier.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
You are welcome aboard to an experience you will only cherish for the rest of your life. The new builds and updates from Marketo are only for the betterment and have only improved. So be assured of the amazing experience you and your clients are going to get.
Emily Thornton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Be aware that Marketo (any marketing automation platform) will never be a "buy it and turn it on" type of solution. To get the most out of your investment there will need to be a well-designed strategy, and people on your team who have the Marketo knowlege to implement and maintain this strategy.
Lauren Aquilino | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The advice I would share would be this: Get help from an expert! At this point, there is a wealth of knowledge in the Marketo community and you should not go it alone. Hire a Champion with implementation experience, or use a Champion from a 3rd party consultancy, who knows the ropes and all of the "gotchas."
Amanda Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you're just starting out in your Marketo journey, please visit the community. It's the best place to get answers to specific questions, understand core concepts, and keep up with best practices. I also recommend subscribing to the champion blogs and joining your local Marketo User Group. The user group will help you network face to face with other Marketo users and the champion blog will keep you up to date on all the new discoveries of best practices made by the Marketo elite!
Evan Kubitschek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My number one thing on a fresh instance would be establishing naming conventions from the start. Choose your folder structure carefully, and use a logical naming convention for your programs to make searching easier.

We use YYYYMMDD - BUSINESS UNIT - PRACTICE AREA - PROGRAM TYPE - SHORT DESCRIPTION.

We use abbreviations for the business unit, practice area and program type.

With a good naming convention like the above, I can search for every program by business unit, practice area or program type abbreviation, which greatly speeds up my work.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are migrating from another MAP... document all your processes... this will guide a consulting team or you training you will need to execute your migration. This give you a clear migration road map and when you start to run out of time gives you a check list of items that can be moved to another phase. Some processes will need to be completely changed or moved to other systems. This is also a chance to remove some "bad practices" and re-evaluate processes. 3rd part Agency / integrators have wonderful expertise for you to tap into (especially around limitations and processes that need to be moved. I like the 3rd party folks because they will have a broader view that Marketo or the Adobe ecosystem. Make sure the can talk at the detail implementation level not just high level...
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Plan, plan, plan. Talk to other departments to see how they could benefit from having automatic communications and get a list of requirements from each one. Then, take that information and prioritize multiple phases to your rollout and growth for the product. This will help make sure that your team doesn't need to field last minute requests and things that can put wrenches in your roll out plan.
September 19, 2019

Marketing Marketo

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Get your design team involved as early as possible. Crafting high impact email/landing page templates will give you some quick wins. If your design team doesn't have experience coding with Marketo syntax, hire a third party for this.
Eugene Bogdanov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Remember - Marketo is a great tool, but it's just the tool. It won't get you leads itself, you need to feed it with appropriate content. It won't automate your lead qualification and scoring without you defining qualification/scoring rules. It won't get your emails sent until you create them and fill them with meaningful messages.

It's like your supercharged Rolls-Royce that you need to feed with fuel. No fuel - no go. No nothing.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are about to embark on your Marketo journey, my first piece of advice would be to engage in the many documents Marketo makes available and get yourself educated on what you need to do to make your email programs work. Learn about smart lists, smart campaigns, reporting capabilities, streams, filters, and so on. It can seem like a very intimidating product when you first open it, but once you have a grasp of the basics, it's pretty easy to conduct your everyday business while constantly striving to learn more and do better. The Marketo community is also a valuable resource where you can connect with others who are using Marketo for work just like you are. They are sometimes even more knowledgeable than Marketo's support staff.
September 10, 2019

Marketo needs to improve on

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Start of by building Base - Smart List and remove non target audience, unsubscribes etc and use that as your main database point to avoid errors. Make sure your integration with set properly with your CRM so you never have to worry about it again.
September 09, 2019

My Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Take the time to learn the tool. Marketo is quite expansive and they are always improving it. Utilize the community as there are some very smart Marketo pros out there. If you are trying to accomplish something in Marketo and can’t figure out how, 100% chance that someone else has already figured it out. Utilize those resources!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Marketo might seem complicated at first, but it's the best automated email marketing tool out there and is important to learn. Definitely look at the existing resources out there and play around with it at first. Oftentimes when you run into a problem, it's going to be a small one, where you forgot to set up a filter or trigger a campaign or something like that, so it's important to be attentive to detail and be willing to problem solve.
Christopher Wilcox, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Marketo is a blank canvas, which can be both good and bad. Without discipline, instances can become disorganized, cluttered, and finding things can be difficult. My advice is to be strict with making conventions and folder structures from the start to keep everything well organized!
September 07, 2019

Marketo Review

Lisa Heay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Other than the field sync selection I've already mentioned, I'd say walk through the SFDC or CRM set up steps carefully. I've seen it multiple times before....a Salesforce admin goes in to do the setup steps in SFDC, and gets going quickly or skips steps they think isn't necessary. Trust me - they are necessary. Slow down, walk through each line item one by one. You'll be thankful you took the extra time at this step when you're not sorting through sync issues later.
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