About Pardot
Meet Pardot: B2B marketing automation on the world's #1 CRM. Pardot empowers marketing and sales teams to work together to find and nurture leads, close more deals, and maximize return on investment.
Pardot's lead management 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 track marketing ROI.
Track all prospect interactions on your site — from downloads to page views — then score prospects based on parameters you set. Put time back into your sales reps’ day with automated lead nurturing and real-time sales alerts, which allow reps to prioritize their time. Then, measure the true ROI of your marketing efforts with closed-loop reporting.
Accelerate pipeline, drive revenue, and align marketing and sales with Pardot Marketing Automation.
Pricing starting from:
$1,250.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Pardot
- Track all prospect interactions on your site — from downloads to page views — then score prospects based on parameters you set.
- Put time back into your sales reps’ day with automated lead nurturing and real-time sales alerts, which allow reps to prioritize their time. Then, measure the true ROI of your marketing efforts with closed-loop reporting.
- For sales teams, Pardot offers prospect tracking and analytics to qualify sales leads and determine the best way to approach them.
- Lead scoring and grading features ensure that team members follow up on the most relevant prospects for them.
- Pardot's Data.com connector provides sales reps with key prospect information such as company name, size, industry, location and more.
- Use Pardot´s lead management features to nurture cold or inactive leads. Gather more leads with smart capture lead forms and run more targeted campaigns using the segmentation wizard.
- Use the Social Selling features to disseminate content on social media channels usig tools such as scheduled social postings, social profile lookups, social "share" buttons, viewer interaction insights and simultaneous multi-channel posting.
- With the WYSIWYG interface used by Pardot you can design landing pages and forms without the need for a thorough knowledge of HTML. Optimize these landing pages with multivariate testing.
- Pardot's email marketing features allow you to create email campaigns based on 36 customizable templates, or using your own BYO branded templates. Tools such as email authentication, PAM analysis, email testing, and automated CAN-SPAM compliance ensure optimum delivery.
- The reporting tools offered by Pardot provide insight into the success of you marketing efforts. With tools such as closed-loop reporting to connect each close deal with its original source, the Google Analytics Connector to see the relationship between visitor and prospect data from your CRM.
- Pardot also offers sales lifecycle reporting, paid search reporting anf advanced email reporting including open rates, deliverability rates, and read rates.
- Pardot offers integrations with the following CRM solutions: Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, Netsuite, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
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Pricing starting from:
$1,250.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Pardot: 107
- AB Testing
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Analytics/ROI Tracking
- Anti Spam
- Appointment Scheduling Software
- Archiving & Retention
- Auto-Responders
- Automated Scheduling
- Business Card/Badge Scanning
- CAN SPAM Compliance
- CRM Software
- Calendar Management
- Campaign Analytics
- Campaign Management Software
- Campaign Planning
- Campaign Scheduling
- Campaign Segmentation
- Channel Management Software
- Collaboration Tools
- Contact Database
- Contact Management Software
- Customer Database
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Surveys
- Customizable CTAs
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Templates
- Customization
- Dashboard Creation
- Dashboard Software
- Data Extraction Software
- Data Import/Export
- Data Visualization Software
- Delivery Tracking
- Drag & Drop
- Drip Campaigns
- Dynamic Content
- Email Campaign Management
- Email Distribution
- Email Management Software
- Email Marketing Software
- Email Templates
- Engagement Tracking
- Event Triggered Actions
- Forms Creation & Design
- Full Text Search
- Image Library
- Interaction Tracking
- Keyword Tracking
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- Lead Capture Software
- Lead Database Integration
- Lead Distribution
- Lead Generation Software
- Lead Management Software
- Lead Notifications
- Lead Nurturing Software
- Lead Qualification
- Lead Segmentation
- Lead Verification/Validation
- List Management
- Marketing Automation Software
- Marketing Calendar
- Microsoft Outlook Integration
- Mobile Access
- Mobile Alerts
- Mobile Optimized Emails
- Multi-Campaign
- Multi-Channel Marketing
- Multivariate Testing
- Online Forms
- Personalization and Behavioral Targeting Software
- Pipeline Management
- Preview Functionality
- Prioritization
- Process/Workflow Automation
- Progress Tracking
- Prospecting Tools
- Real Time Notifications
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- SEO Management
- SMS Messaging
- Sales Analytics
- Sales Management
- Sales Reports
- Sales Trend Analysis
- Search Marketing
- Search/Filter
- Segmentation
- Social Marketing
- Source Tracking
- Spam Blocker
- Subscriber Management
- Template Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Trend Analysis
- User Management
- Version Control
- Visitor Tracking
- Visual Analytics
- WYSIWYG Editor
- Web Forms
- Website Visitor Tracking
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Write a Review!- Industry: Plastics
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Pardot for beginners
Reviewed on 14/05/2021
Allowed us to efficiently market to individuals and companies that we already had in our system...
Allowed us to efficiently market to individuals and companies that we already had in our system without using direct mail.
Pros
Pardot is a natural fit for Salesforce users. The functionality of Pardot and the analytics are awesome. This software is a great way to successfully streamline marketing efforts to your customers.
Cons
Pardot is definitely not intuitive. There is a learning curve for sure. It is not something that someone can jump into and just figure it out. Assistance from tutorials and our Pardot technical help is needed.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Bite the bullet and invest in a better tool
Reviewed on 12/12/2019
Horrific. Would never migrate to this tool again and wouldn't recommend to anyone.
Horrific. Would never migrate to this tool again and wouldn't recommend to anyone.
Pros
Perhaps "simplicity" is one way to put a positive spin on this review. For any Marketing Ops professional who wants to build anything above and beyond Pardot's pre-built functionality -- Good luck. Maybe the simplicity is good for a very small organization, but in that same vein the price point would be nowhere near worth it.
Cons
Filter logic is absolutely miserable. There is no Boolean logic in the tool (going back to my point on "simplicity"), which is horrific for building out any type of complex filters for segments. There are even character limits on how much you can enter in one argument field. So, think about if you have to build out a segment to compile all leads from Europe and write out each country.... you would need to split the arguments into 15 or more "or" statements to account for each value. Also, everything is a drop down -- no free text entries for search -- so good luck sifting through 400 different values for a single Salesforce field. This is one seemingly minor example but is a great representation of how overly limited the tool is as a whole. Also their proclaimed "one-to-one" sync with Salesforce is a joke. There is always mismatched or missing data that doesn't align when boiled down into a report.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Pardot is a Powerful Tool, but It's Hard to Manage on Small Teams
Reviewed on 30/06/2021
Overall, Pardot delivers on all the capabilities that we need and has more power than we are able...
Overall, Pardot delivers on all the capabilities that we need and has more power than we are able to leverage. We appreciate it's deep integration with Salesforce and know that it has feature parity with most of the other major players out there.
Pros
Pardot allows us to get insight at a per-contact level into their activity, interests, and profile. We've made it even more useful by adding on additional integrations like Clearbit and Zoom. We track more than 12k new incoming leads annually and we automate outreach to those leads every single day.
Cons
Many decisions that you make at the beginning of the implementation will dog you after you've made them (how do we organize our campaigns? what tags should we use? when automations do we want to build off of those tags? how do we segment our lists). Pardot/Salesforce has offered strategic support and even configuration services, however, we find that these often lack the depth of knowledge to tell us if we're making the right call/they are too expensive for a small firm like ours.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Power-packed Marketing Automation Tool
Reviewed on 04/04/2020
A powerful marketing automation tool but expensive. Good for people who are looking for imapctful...
A powerful marketing automation tool but expensive. Good for people who are looking for imapctful insights, lead nurturing and tracking down customer activities with ease. Pardot could be a good fit if you need good Salesforce CRM integration and have the budget for $1,000/month or more.
Pros
We get real time activity updates of our prospects from the lead deck functionality
Awesome customer support
Ease of usage, is highly customisable
As it's a Salesforce product now the ease of integration with the CRM is mind blowing
Cons
I would say the makers of this product are a little money minded.
A lot of functionalities are only available for the PRO users like API access and A/B testing
Also, not many integrations are possible using this product
- Industry: Financial Services Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Pardot delivers on promises
Reviewed on 29/09/2020
Pardot has made it easy to understand how our marketing is working, know who is a hot lead versus a...
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.
Pros
The software is great for staying in touch with prospects and clients. It makes it easy to set up emails, create content, measure and report on results, and build stronger relationships. It’s fun to use, once you understand how it works.
Cons
There’s a long learning curve for adopting Pardot, and if I hadn’t had a consultant to hold my hand through the integration and kick off, I’d be struggling. I find Pardot and Salesforce training to be overly confusing and it’s really hard to find what you’re looking for. It’s a knowledge based system and continually adds more and more information, and it’s not always clear if the instructions apply to you or apply to a different level of service. Other than that I highly recommend it because of all the functionality and way it can dramatically improve your digital marketing.
Pardot FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Pardot.Q. What type of pricing plans does Pardot offer?
Pardot offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: $1,250.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Pardot?
Pardot has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001+
Q. What languages does Pardot support?
Pardot supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Pardot support mobile devices?
Pardot supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Pardot integrate with?
Pardot integrates with the following applications:
BriteVerify, Data.com Contacts, Eventbrite, Facebook, FullContact, Gmail, GoToWebinar, GoodData, Google Ads, Google Analytics, LinkedIn for Business, Microsoft Outlook, NetSuite CRM, Olark, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Platform, Salesforce Sales Cloud, SugarCRM, Twilio, Twitter, UserVoice, Webex, Wistia
Q. What level of support does Pardot offer?
Pardot offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat
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