Marketo UX Has Room to Grow
March 28, 2019

Marketo UX Has Room to Grow

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Marketo Lead Management
  • Marketo Analytics
  • Marketo Sales Insight

Overall Satisfaction with Marketo

We are mostly using Marketo for drip campaigns and forms right now. We're moving into an ABM strategy and will start using for it for web personalization.
  • Building and cloning programs is easy.
  • Building forms is also easy.
  • Editing emails. I like that you can go into the code and not do just a WYSIWYG.
  • Reporting on forms -- would like one holistic view of how many form fills we have for each.
  • The amount of folders gets complicated sometimes. Not a very clean view.
  • No drag and drop functionality, especially when uploading lists. Have to create the name instead of having it pulled from the CVS. It can get tedious.
  • Make seeing the life cycle stages easier, like on my dashboard, instead of having to dig in.
  • The backgrounds have nothing to do with Marketo (e.g. the Italian villa scenes). No one I've talked to that works at Marketo can tell me why they exist. For such a big amount of real estate and for anyone who's a visual person, it's kind of bizarre. Makes me wonder what other things in Marketo people just can't explain.
  • When we signed up for the revenue cycle modeler, our customer success manager called it so many different things and then eventually said it's all part of the Life Cycle Modeler. Then it sounded like there was a name change... it was all confusing and should have been much more streamlined. If you're going to change names of add-ons or products it needs to be very clear to everyone-- your customers and your employees.
  • Customer success managers should be called account execs. They're just there to sell. I feel like if I need support, I have to go with our agency versus talking to Marketo. There isn't a ton of support once your initial onboard, minus creating tickets. Creating my first ticket was tricky too, because Support wasn't added to our instance yet. Onboarding everything was pretty cumbersome. Felt like lots of add-ons and "oh, we didn't know you didn't have that yet" -- opportunities for them to just make more money.
  • Product Launches
  • Upsell
  • Lead Management
  • Prospecting / New Business
  • Other
We look to increase demo requests for sales and warm leads with content.
Both Pardot and HubSpot had easier UX but Marketo seems to have more capabilities.
I like the scoring and that it works well with SFDC. But I also didn't know that MSI was an add-on until we had already onboarded. It was sold to us that it was a plug and play, that Sales would be able to see activities in Marketo immediately, but that wasn't the case.

Adobe Marketo Engage Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
6
Dynamic content
7
Ability to test dynamic content
7
Landing pages
7
A/B testing
6
Mobile optimization
7
Email deliverability reporting
8
List management
7
Triggered drip sequences
8
Lead nurturing automation
8
Lead scoring and grading
9
Data quality management
7
Automated sales alerts and tasks
6
Calendaring
5
Event/webinar marketing
7
Social sharing and campaigns
5
Social profile integration
4
Dashboards
6
Standard reports
5
Custom reports
7
API
5
Role-based workflow & approvals
5
Customizability
6
Integration with Salesforce.com
7
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Not Rated
Integration with SugarCRM
1