Clunky UI. Strong analytics.
February 27, 2013
Clunky UI. Strong analytics.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Automation
Overall Satisfaction with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Pros
- Analytics on click-throughs and opens are very strong.
- It's really easy for a non-technical user to seamlessly set up complex automations without having to do any technical programming. This is not always the case. Other tools often require assistance from technical staff to build complex automations.
Cons
- Ability to do re-mailing just from the initial send. If we sent an email to a consumer who had abandoned their shopping cart and that consumer had not opened the email 24 hours later, we send another email with a different call to action, or a different subject line. In order to do this, we have to re-create the campaign - we have to pull a list and essentially recreate the campaign manually.
- Drip campaigns are also manual and require another datafeed and data extension; they can't be based on opens/clicks or specific subscriber behavior.For example, if someone signs up on our website and receives a welcome email It might include an incentive to purchase like free shipping. If they dont use the offer or don't click through the email, they get another email within a week, perhaps showcasing other products. In other words, emails are sent in a drip sequence based on consumer behavior to prompt primary or secondary purchase. This all has to be managed manually. We pull a report, take all the contacts who have not taken any action, upload a new email file and re-create a new email. This is very time-consuming.
- Increased conversion on potential lost sales.
Bronto, Delivra
Using Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
2 - One developer and myself.
- The primary use case was to develop an abandoned cart program. In other words, prompt customers who had placed items in the shopping cart, but not actually purchased them to make a purchase. Every morning we would send a data file of cart abandonments to ExactTarget. Automated emails would then be sent out to consumers who had abandoned purchase with incentives to encourage them to buy (e.g. free shipping).
Evaluating Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio and Competitors
We switched from Constant Contact to Exact Target.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio Implementation
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio Training
- Self-taught
It can be difficult to read and understand their documentation without having some sort of walk through training first.
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