Pardot vs eTrigue

I give Pardot a review of four out of five stars, and for more reviews, see below. Before my organization started using Pardot, we were on eTapestry's built-in mass email communication software system. It wasn't working for us because it was a technology of the past. It was very clunky. We had a very limited amount of mailable prospects we had, and it was very manual, and the resolution for videos, images wasn't the best. The first biggest selling point for Pardot was its native integration with Salesforce. So now whenever we have a contact in Salesforce, it's automatically synced to Pardot, which makes it a lot easier for my team to use and navigate. And the second reason why we chose Pardot is because of its really intelligent tools, such as Engagement Studio where we can automate a lot of our tasks and be a much more efficient organization. Pardot definitely is not the easiest tool to use. We have to hire consultants to help us build it and integrate it with Salesforce. It took us about a full year before we became confident with using Pardot, and every day my organization is still learning more things that the tool can do for us. If you're a small team and want to be super efficient, Pardot is a great tool for you because it takes a lot of the manual work out, especially with drip campaigns and a lot of its automation tools.

- Sabal A.

I would give Pardot a three out of five stars. And for more reviews, you can click below. Prior to using Pardot, we were using HubSpot Marketing Hub. It was a great marketing tool. I have really no quarrels with that. But the integration with Salesforce Sales Cloud was a little lackluster and hard to control, especially when it came to custom field syncing. We chose Pardot primarily based on the integration with Salesforce. It had a lot of overlapping capabilities with other marketing automation platforms, but we were most excited to leverage the connection between our Sales Cloud contacts and our Pardot prospects. Pardot was a little difficult up front, but it didn't last very long. So the implementation for properly set up work would probably be about two months. We used kind of an implementation partner, which I would recommend, through Salesforce actually, their jumpstart program. And that helped because we had a dedicated and knowledgeable person that would give us feedback and check-ins once a week. So that made it a little bit easier. But I would say the first two months are a little bit of a challenge and then the org works well. I think if you're considering using Pardot and going to use Pardot, of course there needs to be some integration with another Salesforce channel. That's really where you get the best leverage and Pardot separates itself from other marketing automation softwares like HubSpot or Mailchimp or something like that. I think it's also important to have a dedicated personnel to manage Pardot. It's commonly the same person that manages a Salesforce instance. So you can double up like that, but it's not something that's going to self-manage you really need a dedicated administrator for when configuration requests come up.

- Kelly Michael S.

Pardot has made it easy to understand how our marketing is working, know who is a hot lead versus a disengaged one, and to create content that is easy to share and delivers good ROI. It’s built in many safeguards to keep you from getting in trouble with spam rules and avoid sending emails multiple times.

- Kate B.

"Marketing Automation that Makes Sense" What do you like best about eTrigue? DemandCenter by eTrigue offers flexibility that is non-existent in other MAP systems. From the incredibly easy to use email and Landing Page templates to the form builder, eTrigue has constructed a "wunderkind" of an MA system to be used by everyone who seeks to learn marketing automation in both theory and in execution. One of the things that makes eTrigue so successful is their customer support. It's simply what tech support was 40 years ago......responsive and of high quality/value. The eTrigue support team gets all over issues without delay and they give you a resolution same day or an ETA for a fix, or an immediate work around. They do not pretend that it's a perfect world/product and that approach is refreshing. Without that level of support we couldn't be successful. It's quite an achievement.

- Jeffrey E.

"Great Product With Full Feature Set" What do you like best about eTrigue? Simple product to use with lots of features. Integrates with most CRM tools as well as Webinar solutions. Easy to read reports which give a great insight into website visitors and their actions (pages visited, length of stay on each page, etc). Nice email creation tools and simple to build nurture campaigns.

- David G.

"We use eTrigue's DemandCenter for B2B almost daily, for 5 years - and it's great!" What do you like best about eTrigue? This is the perfect tool for those that like ultimate freedom/flexibility when designing their marketing automation (MA). eTrigue's "DemandCenter" application keeps up with all of the best MA tools out there, but has a few key features and speedy interface that make me recommend it above others, if you value your time. Specifically, the UI is not a 'wizard/guided/steps' kind of approach. Instead, you have all of the options/criteria/actions available to you, and you can speedily compile lists and campaigns. So once you know where everything is, you can really hum along without constant interruptions or multiple screens of setup. The same UI components (for the list building criteria, for example) is the same/consistent in other parts of the application. Like the reports builder or criteria for actions/triggers within campaigns. So once you've learned it in one location, it is intuitive to use in other areas. Data/contacts visibility and hygiene also seems easy, due to this setup. You can quickly review your database, applying filters for drilled-down views. Wildcards and boolean functionality available throughout to be able to see what you really want to see. But, above all else, eTrigue has the best support I've ever experienced for a SaaS / online app. They're very responsive to tickets, open to new features, and it's always the same group of people that I'm dealing with.

- Jareb C.