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# Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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> Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing platform designed to help businesses personalize customer engagement across the entire lifecycle. The platform connects departments through data and insights, empowering marketing teams to build lasting customer relationships. Regardless of a company's size, industry, or existing technology, Salesforce Marketing Cloud can drive growth by unlocking data, enabling faster campaign creation and optimization, and facilitating omnichannel engagement.&#10;&#10;The platform's key features include unified customer profiles and analytics, AI-powered campaign creation and optimization, and a customer data platform that provides faster access to centralized customer data. Agentforce, the platform's AI assistant, helps marketers create impactful campaigns by surfacing insights, defining strategy, and generating content. Additionally, its marketing intelligence module offers a single view of marketing performance to optimize cross-channel campaigns.&#10;&#10;Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing platform that enables businesses of every size and industry to personalize customer touchpoints, deploy smarter campaigns, and activate data across the customer lifecycle. The platform's connected suite of tools empowers marketing teams to work together efficiently and drive meaningful customer relationships.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 526 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 526 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Salesforce
- **Location**: San Francisco, US
- **Founded**: 2003

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$25.00
- **Pricing model**: Per User
- **Pricing Details**: Starter Suite Marketing&#10;$25 user/month&#10;&#10;Marketing Cloud Personalization&#10;$100,000 org/year billed annually&#10;&#10;Marketing Cloud Engagement&#10;$1,250 org/month&#10;&#10;Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly Pardot)&#10;$1,250 per month&#10;&#10;Data Cloud for Marketing&#10;$108,000 org/year&#10;&#10;Marketing Cloud Intelligence&#10;$3,000 org/month&#10;&#10;Loyalty Management&#10;$20,000 org/month
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
- **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway and 14 more

## Features

- A/B Testing
- AI Copilot
- AI/Machine Learning
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Ad Network Integration
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Alerts/Notifications
- Analytics
- Archiving & Retention
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Audience Targeting
- Audio File Management
- Automated Publishing
- Autoresponders
- Behaviour Tracking
- Behavioural Analytics
- Brand Management

## Integrations (7 total)

- Adobe Workfront
- LinkedIn for Business
- Meta for Business
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Shopify
- Twitter/X
- Vidyard

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Personalization Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4276/personalization/software)

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## Alternatives

1. [HubSpot CRM](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/1854/hubspot) — 4.5/5 (4451 reviews)
2. [Salesforce Sales Cloud](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/2764/salesforce-sales-cloud) — 4.4/5 (18768 reviews)
3. [HubSpot Marketing Hub](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/119437/hubspot-marketing-hub) — 4.5/5 (6220 reviews)
4. [Zoho CRM](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/392464/zoho-crm) — 4.3/5 (6964 reviews)
5. [Kylas Sales CRM](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/216694/kylas) — 4.8/5 (573 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Salesforce Marketing Cloud - The best in the game\!" — 5.0/5

> **Iyer** | *19 September 2024* | Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The high level of personalizable customer engagement, along with access to AI tools, and campaign management, and robust analytics as well. The customer service is great also.
> 
> **Cons**: Salesforce marketing cloud randomly has extremely long slow periods, and any updates do take a bit of a while. Not much outside of that
> 
> Salesforce Marketing Cloud gave us insights to customer trends, and the best market segmentation help we could ask for.

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### "Powerful Software For Marketing" — 4.0/5

> **Sumit** | *23 January 2025* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Salesforce Marketing Cloud invites users to share their positive experiences, focusing on its features and benefits in managing marketing efforts, such as email campaigns and customer data analysis.
> 
> **Cons**: 1- The focus is on negative feedback.&#10;2- Users are asked to share specific disadvantages.&#10;3- Feedback aims to improve user experience.&#10;4- Solicitations for critique suggest ongoing product development.
> 
> \- Ease of Use: Was the software easy to navigate?&#10;- Features: Did it offer useful tools for marketing, like email campaigns or analytics?&#10;- Support: How helpful was customer service?&#10;- Results: Did it improve your marketing efforts?

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### "Pay for what you get well worth the price" — 4.0/5

> **Erik** | *19 September 2018* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: fully customized with our features and tweeks... The ability to connect with our five9 makes life easier as well
> 
> **Cons**: can be a lag between menus/options however nothing big... No real big complaints on our end any issues are rep is there to meet our needs
> 
> All in all the should be the industry standard

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### "A powerhouse for handling fashion campaigns at scale" — 4.0/5

> **Ilayda** | *28 April 2025* | Apparel & Fashion | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: With Salesforce Marketing Cloud, we have a great amount of control over how we engage with our customers everything from personalized email journeys, to even SMS campaigns and social media ads. I especially love the robust segmentation tools we are able to customize promotions for our customers based on how they shop.
> 
> **Cons**: It’s a solid platform, but it’s not easy to navigate. Automating and integrating it with our e-commerce system needed more help from IT and consultants, generating additional setup costs.
> 
> It has enabled us to go beyond casual campaigns to truly personalized marketing, driving customer engagement and more than doubling our return rates on offers at our primary sales seasons.

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### "Salesforce equals success" — 5.0/5

> **John** | *27 December 2024* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: What I liked most about Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the ability to manage email, social media, and text messaging from one platform.
> 
> **Cons**: What I liked least about Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the complexity of implementation and the steep learning curve
> 
> Our overall experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud has been mixed. While implementation, cost, and learning curve were issues, once we knew what we were doing, we’ve been able to successfully market through multiple channels with one platform, which has been fantastic.

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