About Pardot
Pardot from Salesforce is a marketing automation solution designed to bridge the gap between sales and marketing teams,
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.
Users can track all prospect interactions on a site — from downloads to page views — then score prospects based on parameters set. Other features include automated lead nurturing and real-time sales alerts, which allow reps to prioritize their time.
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.
Devices
Business size
Markets
Australia, Canada, China, United Kingdom, India, United States and 1 others
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
$1,250.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Pardot
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Features
Total features of Pardot: 105
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HubSpot Marketing Hub
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The best marketing automation tool if you use Salesforce CRM
Reviewed on 09/06/2022
On the whole, my experience with Pardot has been a pleasant one, and I'd suggest it to others. A...
On the whole, my experience with Pardot has been a pleasant one, and I'd suggest it to others. A fantastic tool for us, it has helped us create new leads, move prospects through the sales funnel in an automated method, and so on and so forth It's been fantastic for us, and I enjoy the creative aspect of automating processes. Make sure you know that it's not all rainbows and butterflies. We overestimated how long each project would take to complete.
Pros
The lead deck feature provides us with real-time information on the activities of our prospects. Customer service is excellent. It's simple to use, and it's quite customizable. As a Salesforce product, it's really easy to integrate with the CRM.
Cons
Pardot does not have a very educational welcome to learn how to use the program and you have to see tutorials and training on other platforms to learn how to use it. Once you learn it is excellent Pardot
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Fantastic all in one marketing platform helping converting leads
Reviewed on 27/05/2022
The product has no doubt helped us in generating new leads and keeping us maintain our relationship...
The product has no doubt helped us in generating new leads and keeping us maintain our relationship with our existing customers and partners. I love the email marketing and marketing side of Pardot as it has been simplified in a way that non-technical users can also use the platform.
Pros
The product is great at automation, every single thing within the automation of email marketing and forms is customisable. The product helps us in tracking all the activities of our leads and allows us to target them with personalized messaging and products of their interest from our offerings. The platform is good at lead generation, nurturing and drip campaigns. The user interface is very friendly too
Cons
The implementation of the product at the beginning is a painful process and cannot be simplified at all. There are many limitations on the reporting side and Salesforce lacks reporting capabilities in the way we want. The existing templates available to use are also limited.
Reasons for Choosing Pardot
We had more experience within Pardot than MailChimpSwitched From
Mailchimp- 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: Education Management
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Integrates well with Salesforce but lacks features of competitors
Reviewed on 26/04/2022
Pros
The fact that it integrates natively with Salesforce is Pardot's best feature. The engagement studio automation product is great as well, making it really easy to create drip campaigns and other conditional flows.
Cons
The email builder is 10 years behind competitor's builders. To get things to behave, you have to code emails in html. The WYSIWG builder is poor, but asset management of images and files is even worse. Competitors like MailChimp and ActiveCampaign have much better platforms for designing beautiful, responsive emails.
- 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.
Reasons for Choosing Pardot
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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
GROWTH Standard marketing automation $1,250/month/up to 10,000 contacts PLUS Advanced marketing automation $2,500/month/up to 10,000 contacts ADVANCED Customizable marketing automation $4,000/month/up to 10,000 records ENTERPRISE $15,000/month/upto 75,000 contacts All plans are billed annually.
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, 1,001-5,000
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, FullContact, Gmail, GoTo Webinar, GoodData, Google Ads, Google Analytics 360, LinkedIn for Business, Meta 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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