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Salesforce Marketing Cloud pros and cons

Vendor: Salesforce
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Salesforce Marketing Cloud offers seamless integration with multiple systems, enhancing lead management and providing a 360 customer experience.
The Automation and Journey Builder features are highly valued for improving marketing campaigns and customer engagement.
Scalability and stability of Salesforce Marketing Cloud are consistently highlighted, making it suitable for large-scale use.
The platform's analytics capabilities provide valuable insights that improve campaign outcomes and optimize customer journeys.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud's advanced integration capabilities with tools like Einstein and Datorama help in tracking, analyzing, and optimizing marketing efforts effectively.

CONS

Salesforce Marketing Cloud lacks a dedicated development environment, requiring both developers and end-users to work in the same space, which poses challenges.
It is perceived as expensive, with concerns over pricing structure and affordability for some users.
The complexity of Salesforce Marketing Cloud requires a deeper understanding to unlock its full capabilities, making it difficult for non-technical users.
Customization, particularly around dashboards and integration with third-party products, has room for improvement.
Customer support for new features is considered insufficient, with delayed ticket resolutions and lack of in-depth knowledge from support teams.
 

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Pros review quotes

KW
Vice President Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Oct 21, 2019
The most valuable feature is the 'Accelerators', which are expert-taught subject matter webinars on items such as personalization of emails and SMS to contacts and prospects.
reviewer1527195 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 9, 2021
The solution is very, very scalable.
reviewer1536546 - PeerSpot reviewer
SFDC Practice Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 26, 2021
The Journey Builder and the Email Studio features are most valuable.
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ED
CEO at growthmolecules
Jun 3, 2021
Email automation is most valuable.
reviewer1105335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 2, 2021
The Journey and CloudPages and automation are all great.
reviewer1118124 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Marketing Officer- CMO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 8, 2021
This is a very powerful and scalable solution.
MA
Technology Strategy Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 16, 2021
The most valuable of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is seeing the customer's journey.
Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Jan 30, 2022
We use Marketing Cloud for marketing campaigns and engaging customers. It is a business-focused application for a specific area of business, which is acquiring customers.
reviewer1136931 - PeerSpot reviewer
Demand Generation Associate at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 8, 2022
The automation is great. It saves us a lot of time and it makes us move faster.
reviewer1249152 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager and co-founder at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees
Feb 16, 2022
Salesforce allows for the integration of different data sources.
 

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Cons review quotes

KW
Vice President Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Oct 21, 2019
We would like an improvement to the 'Einstein Engagement Frequency'; the optimal range of emails that our subscribers will engage with.
reviewer1527195 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 9, 2021
The solution can be difficult to set up for non-technical individuals.
reviewer1536546 - PeerSpot reviewer
SFDC Practice Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 26, 2021
We need a development environment for Marketing Cloud. Currently, there is no development environment for this solution. Other Salesforce products, such as Sales and Service Cloud, have a development environment in which the developers can do some things and then post them in production. Currently, everything happens in the production for Marketing Cloud. There is only one environment, and the developers and the end-users have to work in the same environment, which seems to be challenging. If Salesforce can bring a developer environment for Marketing Cloud, it will be good.
Learn what your peers think about Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
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ED
CEO at growthmolecules
Jun 3, 2021
The general setup and understanding of how to use it can be improved. There should be easier self-service for setting up dashboards. Currently, we have someone setting them up for us. I wish it was easier.
reviewer1105335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Dec 2, 2021
The pricing is a bit high.
reviewer1118124 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Marketing Officer- CMO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 8, 2021
An additional feature needed would be better capacity for personalization.
MA
Technology Strategy Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 16, 2021
The majority of my clients are happy, but when it comes to the CDP of Salesforce, the client gets confused. They have no clue that Salesforce has a CDP platform too. If my clients want to go ahead with the same vendor, Salesforce, they get confused about the different marketing suites which are available. There is no clear marketing done for the suites available for the clients, this is where the client is facing the real challenges.
Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Jan 30, 2022
There could be easier tools to configure the product and to create landing pages to better handle large data sets.
reviewer1136931 - PeerSpot reviewer
Demand Generation Associate at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 8, 2022
I've noticed on one-to-one leads, the customer objection option is not available.
reviewer1249152 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager and co-founder at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees
Feb 16, 2022
Managing large volumes of data takes too long.