Marketo is a fantastic product.
September 12, 2018

Marketo is a fantastic product.

Mark Farnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Standard

Modules Used

  • Marketo Lead Management
  • Marketo Sales Insight
  • Marketo Revenue Cycle Analytics

Overall Satisfaction with Marketo

Marketo is primarily used by the Marketing team, but also with Customer Success and Support. Primarily it enables us to scale and measure activity across our prospect and customer teams.
  • Productivity - tokens and templates enable teams to set up new programs very quickly.
  • Integrations - primarily Salesforce for us, but with other vendors to extend the platform.
  • Ease of use - the basic concepts are quick to pick up.
  • Some customisation of the reporting side to enable attribution to more accurately follow your business process.
  • Editing program meta data - it's not sexy, but updating metadata such as names, descriptions, tags and costs one-by-one can be painful.
  • Speed up the CRM sync - some good work has been done already
  • Product Launches
  • Upsell
  • Cross-Sell
  • Lead Management
  • Prospecting / New Business
Within our customer marketing (product launches, upsell, cross sell) we're using Marketo to integrate with CRM data in order to help us segment which customers are most likely to have a need for different products. With various engagement programs, we're creating marketing activities to educate, promote and create a space for discussion between our account managers and customers.

In lead management and new business, we're using behavioral actions and intent data to identify the best MQLs, with lead scoring as a secondary measure. Our goal is to increase our conversion from MQL to SQL (meeting) by 20%, we're half way there.
Marketo is building a platform to manage the entire engagement cycle from unknown, anonymous web visitor all the way through to customer. We're a mid-market tech firm and as such delivers all our requirements; email, web personalisation, predictive content, scoring, segmentation, off-line events. Our version isn't suitable for SMB's; too much I think but I believe they have a lighter offering for that market.

Adobe Marketo Engage Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
9
Dynamic content
9
Ability to test dynamic content
8
Landing pages
9
A/B testing
9
Mobile optimization
9
Email deliverability reporting
9
List management
9
Triggered drip sequences
9
Lead nurturing automation
8
Lead scoring and grading
9
Data quality management
5
Automated sales alerts and tasks
8
Calendaring
2
Event/webinar marketing
8
Social sharing and campaigns
Not Rated
Social profile integration
Not Rated
Dashboards
4
Standard reports
4
Custom reports
4
API
9
Role-based workflow & approvals
9
Customizability
9
Integration with Salesforce.com
9
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Not Rated
Integration with SugarCRM
Not Rated