Better Quality Results, Leads and Marketing Creation Tools
October 21, 2015

Better Quality Results, Leads and Marketing Creation Tools

Hayley Vanderwall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Professional,Enterprise,Ultimate

Modules Used

  • Professional

Overall Satisfaction with Pardot

My name is Hayley Vanderwall and I am currenty the Program/Marketing Coordinator at PowerSpeaking, Inc. Currently PowerSpaking is using Pardot to create all of our landing pages, automated email marketing campaigns, manage our leads and post across multiple social media platforms. I attended DreamForce in 2014 and was inspired by the sessions to pursue switching from HubSpot to Pardot. Since switching as a company we are better able to understand where our new leads are coming from, manage the pipeline more effectively, our email deliverability has increased which has in turn lead to an increased click to open ratio and downloads of marketing collateral. Heading the switch from Pardot to HubSpot, I appreciated the 6 week on-boarding process, community atmosphere and ongoing support received from Pardot. They are extremely concerned with customer service and improving their product to be the best marketing automation tool.
  • Email deliverability
  • Ease of use
  • Increased understanding of incoming new leads and management of those leads
  • Creation of landing pages, email drip campaigns, forms and marketing collateral that is dynamic and effective
  • Customer Service, on-boarding process, continuing advice and support, overall community atmosphere
  • Information seamlessly syncs with Salesforce so that your business can run more effectively
  • Blogging tool
  • Set up an email with reports every week of how landing pages, forms, emails, etc have done
  • Mobile friendly webpages
  • Testing the look/feel of landing pages across different tools (desktop, mobile, laptop)
  • Increased understanding of where leads are coming from which has lead to a more effective lead generation pipeline and funnel
  • Increased email deliverability which has lead to increased email opens, clicks and downloads
  • Seamlessly sync our business and marketing efforts into one easy tool
  • Increase in number of leads
Pardot syncs more seamlessly with Salesforce so when new leads come in, my team better understands where they came from, which in turn allows us to better qualify them, manage them and nurture them. Pardot has a higher email deliverability rate than HubSpot which has lead to an increase in emails opened and marketing collateral downloaded. Pardot's automated email drip campaign is easier to set up, which decreases the amount of time I need to set up running marketing campaigns. Pardot has greater customer service, on-boarding/training and on-going support.
Pardot is a very effective marketing automation system for businesses who run on Salesforce. It has greatly impacted how our business views, manages, qualifies and moves leads through the lead funnel. The system syncs seamlessly with Salesforce and it creates a better understanding of how effective marketing campaigns are. Creating the marketing collateral in Pardot is simple, easy and effective. It has decreased the amount of time I used to spend creating and managing automated marketing campaigns, to shifting my efforts into understanding how the campaigns worked and testing multiple campaigns at one time. My favorite aspect about Pardot was the 6 week on-boarding process and the ongoing support. They truly make you feel that they care about your needs, your success and what can be improved in their product.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
6
Dynamic content
6
Ability to test dynamic content
6
Landing pages
9
A/B testing
6
Mobile optimization
2
Email deliverability reporting
10
List management
8
Triggered drip sequences
10
Lead nurturing automation
10
Lead scoring and grading
8
Data quality management
10
Automated sales alerts and tasks
10
Calendaring
2
Event/webinar marketing
5
Social sharing and campaigns
10
Dashboards
6
Standard reports
6
Custom reports
6
API
10
Role-based workflow & approvals
8
Customizability
8
Integration with Salesforce.com
10