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We performed a comparison between HubSpot Marketing Hub, Pardot, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is a straightforward process.""It has eased managing the sales team and the sales journey right from setting up appointments.""Very user-friendly.""Customer support is helpful and responsive.""Ease of editing and creating templates after initial development with the Design Manager.""HubSpot Marketing Hub has kept me updated with alerts.""As a CRM tool, it looks good.""The most valuable feature is probably automating the system. I can send mass emails to pretty much all my contacts or certain ones that meet the demographic requirements. I've used this one and one other CRM with an auto sales company. From my experience, just the ease of use and the user interface on HubSpot is phenomenal. It's really simple and easy to navigate the program. The functionality is phenomenal, and not just the Microsoft Office part but also with LinkedIn Sales Navigator. It's pretty nice."

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"It has made email marketing quicker and easier.""The tracking and automation of outbound messaging is the solution's most valuable aspect.""The product is stable.""It's easy to create email templates and landing pages.""The most valuable feature is the customization of the solution.""Campaign tracking is a valuable feature.""The solution can be easily integrated with Salesforce."

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"Marketing Cloud offers a 360 customers experience as it integrates with Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, the CRM portion of Salesforce. The different platforms integrate easily which makes it easy to manage customer communication using a single point of truth.""You can schedule reports, there's a lot of supporting tools, and you have access to all that information.""It is a great solution. I like its stability, scalability, and performance.""It's a software-as-a-service solution. Everything is managed centrally from the cloud. As far as I can tell, installation is relatively simple.""The most valuable of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is seeing the customer's journey.""The ability to automate processes is one of the most valuable features of Salesforce. This sets it part from other systems. We use the journey builder to design a fully automated journey.""Salesforce allows for the integration of different data sources.""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."

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Cons
"The search and questions aren't as intuitive as I would expect from a platform like this.""Increase the CRM size for sole proprietors before increasing the fee.""The solution is not recommended for launching investment.""They should increase the ease of actually creating the contacts and the workflows and enhance that aspect.""They should integrate a bot, as it would be easier to get the status to the management team without logging into the CRM to get all the required details.""API capabilities (including the performance) are minimal and the email workflow capabilities are too rigid, which results in very complicated workflow management.""The product is not cheap.""HubSpot is mainly for enterprise clients and there is a lot of competition. There are better solutions, such as Eloqua and Marketo. This solution needs to improve the analytics for social media monitoring to a level that it can compete with other solutions available in the market. There are some limitations with the features compared to other solutions."

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"The solution is quite expensive, at least, for smaller teams.""​Technical support has been quick and helpful every time.""When we compare it to other automation tools, in Pardot, I'm not able to see any drag-and-drop options. We have to work on an HTML template itself.""Pardot must be synced with Salesforce.""Lacks sufficient free custom fields.""The solution lacks integration with Instagram, which is our top problem with the product.""Needs to improve list building."

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"This solution could be more user-friendly.""If you want to use advanced features in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, they are extremely difficult to use.""The technicality of the solution can be streamlined.""Marketing Cloud should change the script language that it uses because it's not good. It's tricky and difficult to develop.""Marketing Cloud's forecasting could be improved.""Salesforce Marketing Cloud should include more point-and-click functionality.""The dashboards should be more intuitive, as there are far too many items on them. You're not always sure what you're looking for.""We have struggled to get resolution of support tickets from the Salesforce team."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Have sufficient content before signing up for the 30-day trial."
  • "We are on an annual license for this solution. There have many different versions to meet the needs of their customers, such as professional enterprise and basic versions. They charge for the particular feature or components which are available in the license you have."
  • "I believe an individual license costs $50 per month."
  • "HubSpot Marketing Hub provided me with the startup package with 90% off, but it's still hundreds of dollars a month instead of thousands of dollars a month. There is an additional cost for training and onboarding which is hundreds of dollars. It is expensive and should be reduced."
  • "The platform itself will typically cost anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000 per year."
  • "HubSpot Marketing Hub is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "HubSpot Marketing Hub's pricing is reasonable. It is about 800-900 dollars a month. It may be pricey for smaller clients, but for the bigger ones, it's only a small part of their monthly revenue."
  • "At present, the pricing seems reasonable, but with our plans to scale, I anticipate that it could become a bit steep."
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  • "​Make sure you do not pay for features that you may not need​."
  • "We pay about $4000 a month."
  • "The price of this solution is expensive. However, you are going to receive good value for money. They could improve by reducing the price."
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  • "Its licensing is on an annual basis. Customers are okay with its licensing cost, and they don't find it expensive."
  • "We did a yearly license. We negotiated and got a great deal. I don't think we would have gotten far with the regular price, but they negotiated, so it was worth that."
  • "The licensing cost for the solution is on a yearly basis."
  • "Salesforce has different versions of the solution and some are more suitable for smaller clients. However, Salesforce is expensive."
  • "The solution is paid for monthly."
  • "It is a license per user."
  • "My company pays to use this solution."
  • "This solution is priced in the medium to high price range."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:With 18 companies to manage, manual handling would be impractical. HubSpot's automation facilitates pre-scheduling… more »
    Top Answer:The user interface could be made less complicated to enhance the end-user experience. It will create a difference… more »
    Top Answer:We use it primarily for social media postings across 18 companies under our umbrella, scheduled email campaigns, drip… more »
    Top Answer:The solution can be easily integrated with Salesforce.
    Top Answer:If it's not used, it becomes expensive software at the end of the day. From a price point, it is in the mid-price range… more »
    Top Answer:I do not like the solution. The product must enable users to make a smart list and embed it into each program instead of… more »
    Top Answer:Salesforce Marketing Cloud's integrations are seamless since it is a native application. It helps us with B2B and B2C… more »
    Top Answer:The price is expensive. When comparing available products, such as those on Amazon, it's evident that AWS components are… more »
    Top Answer:Salesforce Marketing Cloud is expensive. The email functionality should be more modern and user-friendly.
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    Overview
    HubSpot is an inbound marketing platform, integrating blogging, social media monitoring and publishing, contacts, SEO, email marketing, marketing automation, and analytics in one easy to use and powerful platform. HubSpot's customers worldwide leverage the company's software and services to transform their marketing from outbound (cold calls, email spam, trade shows, TV ads, etc) to inbound lead generation, enabling them to leverage remarkable content and an integrated experience to deliver leadS. Aimed at optimizing inbound marketing by helping promote useful and original content, HubSpot also offers free marketing advice on its blog. HubSpot's inbound marketing software gives organizations the tools necessary to run successful inbound marketing campaigns. Through HubSpot, companies can monitor social media, create optimized landing pages, control SEO campaigns, monitor email marketing, and curate their blog. Integrated on a single platform, companies can automate their inbound marketing efforts to close customers. Integrates with existing HubSpot accounts or individual business needs.
    Pardot, a salesforce.com Company, is an easy-to-use B2B Marketing Automation suite that helps sales and marketing teams maximize efficiency and increase revenue. Pardot's lead management software features CRM integration, email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, and ROI reporting to help marketing and sales teams work together to generate and qualify sales leads, shorten sales cycles, and demonstrate marketing accountability.

    Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a comprehensive marketing automation platform that enables businesses to create personalized and targeted marketing campaigns across multiple channels. 

    With its robust set of tools and features, marketers can easily manage and automate their email marketing, social media advertising, mobile messaging, and customer journey mapping. 

    The platform offers advanced segmentation capabilities, allowing marketers to segment their audience based on various criteria and deliver tailored messages to each segment. 

    Additionally, Salesforce Marketing Cloud provides powerful analytics and reporting features, enabling marketers to track the performance of their campaigns and make data-driven decisions. 

    With its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with other Salesforce products, Marketing Cloud offers a seamless and efficient marketing automation solution for businesses of all sizes.

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    Small Business69%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise17%
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