Strong tool that's easy to learn and build advanced campaigns, but has limitations in their email and landing page functionality.
April 12, 2023

Strong tool that's easy to learn and build advanced campaigns, but has limitations in their email and landing page functionality.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Marketo Lead Management
  • Marketo Analytics
  • Marketo Web Personalization

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Marketo Engage

We use Marketo Engage to communicate to our members and prospects regarding their membership, or upcoming events and promotions. In this mode we use personalization and automation regarding onboarding and renewing. We additionally do a lot of emailing around our live events and publications.
  • Building targeting lists "smart lists" with information within the platform
  • Creating automated Drip campaigns based on timing or events
  • Lead Scoring setup is easy to build out and incorporate into lifecycle campaigns
  • Their Analytics features are either so slow they are unusable, or they provide the bare minimum functions. (Ex cannot do any type of Frequency analysis or anything it is very cumbersome)
  • Landing page and Email editor is outdate and extremely old. Missing many new features and functions available at other ESPs and you cannot auto append Tracking parameters (EX Google or Adobe Campaign Codes)
  • Can only integrate 1 data source so multiple siloed organizations have challenges
  • Product Launches
  • Lead Management
Marketo is on the tier of the Salesforce marketing cloud, but SFMC allows for more data and queries to be built out. Additionally, the Personalization ability of SFMC is superior to Marketo due to the ability to create a nearly unlimited number of databases. Marketo is far easier to learn and use than SFMC and its ability to be nearly as powerful a tool that's much easier to use makes it a very strong tool. Its as simple to learn as a Mailchimp tool but nearly as powerful as a SFMC. I would say it's a superior product for most businesses.

Marketo must improve its WYSIWYG tools, email, landing page, and forms. It could also need to fix the persistent request from users that doesn't allow accounts to auto-append UTM or CID parameters to every link in the email to make tracking consistent and cleaner.

Do you think Adobe Marketo Engage delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe Marketo Engage's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Marketo Engage live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Adobe Marketo Engage go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Adobe Marketo Engage again?

Yes

As a marketing tool for automation and targeting the ease of Marketo makes it a tool I really enjoy. It has some limitations around simple things that could be addressed to make it on par with other ESPs on the market (Auto appending tracking better more flexible Landing page and Email templates).

Adobe Marketo Engage Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
1
Dynamic content
3
Ability to test dynamic content
9
Landing pages
1
A/B testing
9
Mobile optimization
1
Email deliverability reporting
5
List management
9
Triggered drip sequences
10
Lead nurturing automation
9
Lead scoring and grading
9
Data quality management
8
Automated sales alerts and tasks
8
Calendaring
8
Event/webinar marketing
8
Dashboards
3
Standard reports
9
Custom reports
3
API
Not Rated
Role-based workflow & approvals
5
Customizability
4
Integration with Salesforce.com
Not Rated
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Not Rated
Integration with SugarCRM
Not Rated