Overall Satisfaction with Marketo
Marketo is the primary email management platform here and is used for both marketing content and current state-of-business content with our clients. In addition to providing the platform for email customization/personalization, we are currently using it for the nurture/engagement program functionality, and Marketo forms are integrated with our website as part of the lead funnel.
- Email management: This is the primary use case, and while I'm not directly involved in designing and sending emails, Marketo handles all of those needs for the organization.
- Lead forms: Marketo is also primarily responsible for form fills and generally handles this function well.
- CRM synchronization: While Marketo does sync to our Salesforce.com instance for sales and marketing purposes, it can only interact with standard Salesforce objects. We have significant customization in Salesforce, which means less-than-perfect workarounds to get Marketo to interact with all of the custom objects.
- Filtering and report: While Marketo does have fairly robust UI reporting tools, I find they are missing some key features for me as a database and API user. For example, you can't search or built a report based on a person ID, which makes validation information between systems difficult.
- The API is pretty severely lacking in some very important areas. Some information is not exposed to the API at all, and some of the information that is uses only IDs rather than names, which is a headache for building reports.
- Product Launches
- Upsell
- Cross-Sell
- Customer Service
- Lead Management
- Prospecting / New Business
Marketo is used for most of our prospect and client-facing communications, with primary goals of lead generation, upselling, and client satisfaction/retention. I'm only involved in reporting though, and not the best person to review its efficacy for these functions.
Marketo was already a fully established tool when I joined.
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