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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

bySalesforce
in
4.4
Market Presence: Email Marketing, CSP Customer Management and Experience Solutions

Overview

Product Information on Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a software designed to support businesses in managing and automating marketing activities across multiple digital channels. The software enables users to create, track, and analyze campaigns in email, social media, mobile, and web platforms. It offers features for audience segmentation, personalization, messaging automation, journey mapping, and performance analytics. By integrating customer data from different sources, Salesforce Marketing Cloud helps organizations deliver relevant content and interactions that align with customer preferences and behaviors. The software addresses business needs related to campaign effectiveness, customer engagement, and cross-channel marketing coordination.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Pricing

Salesforce Marketing Cloud software uses a subscription-based pricing model, offering several plan tiers that vary by feature set, user limits, and add-on options. Pricing is structured based on the scale of use and selected modules, and it typically includes access to core platform capabilities, with additional features such as advanced analytics, automation, and integrations available for an added cost.

Overall experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MARKETING MANAGER
<50M USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“Comprehensive Platform Offers Advanced Personalization, But Support Response Can Challenging”

4.0
Dec 2, 2025
Great system, has everything a good ESP should have. Definitely an industry leading platform. Challenges lie in account support.
BUSINESS ADVISOR
<50M USD, Manufacturing
CRITICAL

“SalesForce is a bit of a virus ”

3.0
Mar 26, 2024
Salesforce is the industry standard for a reason that works well and is easy to use

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Salesforce is a company that integrates artificial intelligence with customer relationship management and data to create solutions for customer-related concerns. Salesforce's primary business problem is to enhance the interaction between businesses and their customers by leveraging technology.

Company Details

Updated 2nd November 2023
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.salesforce.com

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

The user experience is second to none. In a term where many end users are entry level with basic skill sets, the tool allows you to send personalised comms at scale.

Like

It's easy to use You can train yourself in just a few hours The dashboard display all the relevant information.

Like

Helps you elevate your marketing automation capabilities with so many possibilities, tweaks, personalization options, automations, etc

Dislike

If you are a fast paced business and require quick support you can often feel like you are not a priority. This can create tension between account management and the client. The support team are global and work on all Salesforce products so you often have to be very specific around your business, use case, unique system set up and the software you are using to get the right answer to your query.

Dislike

Goes down alot lots of bugs Your entire company eco system becomes dependent on it.

Dislike

It's not super user friendly, there's quite a ramp up needed for users to understand how to use it. It's difficult to exploit its full potential

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(169 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
46%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
8%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

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4.4

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

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  • MARKETING MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Platform Offers Advanced Personalization, But Support Response Can Challenging

    4.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    Great system, has everything a good ESP should have. Definitely an industry leading platform. Challenges lie in account support.
  • CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Extensive Customization Options Offset By Challenging Initial Usability

    4.0
    Nov 20, 2025
    Super powerful marketing automation software, not as user friendly as you would expect for a premium product
  • EMEA Marketing
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Integration Success With APIs, Yet Salesforce CRM Remains Complex and Pricey

    4.0
    Sep 1, 2025
    It's good for creating personalised marketing campaigns for the organisation. Creation of Global business units and regional business units has helped in better segregation of data. Salesforce CRM has integrated seamlessly with other platforms like ON24. It takes time to fine-tune it to the organisation's needs. Also, the API integrations has worked well so far. SMC is a mammoth tool. Lot of further improvements can be done.
  • GROUP CIO
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Clear Cost Assessment Needed Despite High Adaptability And Easy Integration Features

    4.0
    Aug 28, 2025
    we have implemented the solution in a quit complex environment with different type of customers and sectors. it was easy the integration with other tools (with salesforce crm it was immediate)
  • Senior Product Manager
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Frequent Feature Updates Hinder Control Despite Helpful Community and Adaptability

    4.0
    Jul 18, 2025
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud is great to work with, I feel they don't just try and sell all the time
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