Salesforce Marketing Cloud Features

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

System provides sufficient customization to meet business requirements

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Optimizes marketing campaigns for mobile devices.

Integrates advertising/campaigns into mobile applications, games, and mobile browsers.

Facilitates global text message and mobile marketing campaigns.

Create and design emails with an editor; manage templates; personalize dynamically

Create targeted lists, schedule and manage bulk email sending.

Ensure inbox delivery. Includes opt-in management, bounce handling, unsubscribe processing, suppression lists, email preview, spam checking, link validation, and delivery monitoring.

Set up automated nurturing emails based on events, online activities, and lead scores

Build customized landing pages and lead capture forms for specific marketing campaigns to maximize conversion and to capture the right qualifying information.

Dynamically customize emails, forms, and landing pages for specific segments of customers and prospects.

Test alternate versions of emails, landing pages, and forms. Learn what works, maximize response rates, and increase conversion.

Support mobile-optimized emails, online forms, and landing pages.

Track performance of keywords and links in major search engines. Measure search rankings and performance. Improve page-level SEO with tools to diagnose and improve page performance. Integrate with Google AdWords.

A marketing lead database is the system of record for your most important marketing asset: your leads and contacts. Includes a view of all marketing interactions between each prospect and your company, including website visits, email clicks, scoring changes, and data updates/history.

Data quality consists of deduplication, cleansing, and appending your marketing database.

Segment your database and build list of target leads and contacts. Filter on demographic and company attributes (title, company size, location) as well as behavioral filters and CRM information.

Automatically qualify and score leads based on demographics as well as prospect online behaviors, including recency and frequency. Assign your own weights to determine lead scores for prioritization.

Automate drip marketing campaigns that send relevant messages over time, based on prospect behaviors and pre-defined campaign steps.

Track which emails a prospect opens and clicks, what web-pages they visit, what keywords they use, even what they say on social networks.

Create tasks automatically and provide real-time sales alerts over email, RSS or mobile device.

Sync lead, contact, account, and opportunity information with your CRM system.

Manage marketing campaigns and programs across multiple channels, including online ads, video campaigns, mobile, virtual events, and social media. Create and optimize program assets such as landing pages, emails, campaigns, and lists. Track program objectives, results, and costs to assess the program ROI.

Streamline the entire event process, including personalized invitations, registration, reminders, and post-event follow-up. Integrate with online meeting tools like WebEx, Adobe Connect, GoToWebinar.

Maintain a marketing calendar across multiple groups. Manage the calendar for the entire marketing department, from promotions to content to PR.

Manage all aspects of marketing investments, including assigning top-down budgets to various groups and divisions, planning marketing spending across programs, tracking open-to-spend, ensuring budget compliance, coordinating work-flows and permissions, and reconciling plans with actual invoices.

Monitor what leads and contacts say on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs, and online communities. Incorporate into your lead and customer DB and use social insights to segment prospects. Trigger campaigns, and update lead scores.

Add intelligent social share buttons to your campaigns and content. Track who is sharing your content and driving conversions.

Schedule automated posts to one or more social accounts; use or integrate with URL shortening services; and measure likes, comments, replies, and retweets.

Social apps including polls, sweepstakes, and referral programs can enhance audience engagement. Include these on your website, landing pages, Facebook pages, and emails.

Amplify brand and community stories; Reach customers by social profile and activity; Optimize social ad campaigns in real-time

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards to measure leads by source/campaign/month, email performance, landing page performance, and web and social activity. Create report subscriptions that can automatically send updates to your team and executives.

Track which pages prospects and customers visit and how often they come back. Capture the history in database for lead scoring and sales intelligence. Use anonymous company look-up to identify anonymous visitors. Send alerts to sales reps of which of their prospects and customers web activity.

Measure leads, prospects generated, pipeline, revenue, investment, and ROI by marketing channel or program. The result is that you can see which marketing investments are generating the greatest return and get visibility into how marketing budget should be allocated going forward.

Analyze how leads flow through the funnel by measuring stage to stage conversion rates and velocity. Allocate pipeline and revenue credit among all the marketing activities that have successfully touched an opportunity as it moves through the pipeline.

Monitor and track how you rank for relevant keywords on major search engines and compare your overall performance to competitors.

Attributes app installs to the marketing campaigns and media sources that drove it.

Measures impact and effectiveness of mobile marketing campaigns.

Measures user-level uninstall insights.

Creates custom data views to suit every team member's needs.

Collects geo-location data on mobile users to customize relevant campaigns.

Pushes notifications or text messages to mobile devices

Provides templates for mass mobile messaging campaigns

Facilitates two-way text messaging to encourage consumer engagement and loyalty

Personalizes and optimizes email mobile marketing campaigns.

Identifies the most granular audience segments based on actions, inactions, and user properties.

Allow users to customize their messages.

Schedule push notifications to be delivered at a specific date and time, or set an expiration for time-bound messages

Retarget your messages based on previous user engagement.

Segment audience based on device type, location, demographics, customer behavior, etc.

Automate notifications based on user behavior

Sends out coupons and promotions to reward and entice mobile device users.

Helps marketers measure return on investment (ROI) by analyzing campaign effectiveness against costs

Gathers data about the effectiveness, impact, and reach of marketing campaigns

Collects and reports on data relating to customer journeys, preferences, and history

Allows multiple users access to a unified, transparent overview of analytics, dashboards, and campaign results

Includes features for budgeting, forecasting, and managing marketing investments

Offers a white labeling service for agencies or resellers to customize platform branding

Analyzes historical and current marketing campaigns to inform future strategy

Creates reports and dashboards to analyze results of campaigns

Identifies which marketing campaigns resolved in open or closed opportunities

Collects marketing campaign performance data across multiple channels

Provides opportunities for brands and businesses to fix or modify existing or future campaigns via feedback

Uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict campaign outcomes and suggest actions for optimization

Mapped-out responses for conversations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot involvement.

Live human component of conversations.

Quality of interface for designing and customizing conversation maps.

Conversations enacted over social media.

Conversations enacted through embedding or pop-ups on websites.

Conversations enacted through text message (SMS).

Conversations enacted through voice assistants.

Conversations enacted through other channels.

Overall quality of customer targeting based on needs or situations.

Creation and modification of customer profiles based on conversations.

Reporting based around specific and overall conversation results.

Capture and organization of leads from conversations.

Success rate of conversations leading to customer purchases.

Track and report on performance metrics and conversions

Report on audience demographics and engagement

Exports and imports lead data to and from various formats like plain text, spreadsheets, etc.

Supports basic data reporting which includes user engagement analysis, entry and exit statistics, referrer information, etc.

Provides reporting and analytics tools to quantify the results of the experiment.

Provides heatmap functionality to assess what parts of the website visitors are engaging with most.

Provides native A/B testing for content and campaigns.

Allows users to build and analyze customer profiles.

Presents messaging depending on customer behavior.

Presents messaging depending on customer context.

Content triggered by customer's given geolocation.

Emails triggered by customer activity or behavior.

Messages triggered by customer activity or behavior.

Provides recommendations based on customer metrics.

Calculates and presents customized discounts.

Personalizes web experiences and presented content based on customer metrics.

Enables users to send mass text message campaigns

Facilitates two-way text messaging to encourage consumer engagement and loyalty

Provides the ability to schedule single or bulk text messages to recipients on a specific date and time

Provides automatic text message replies to recipients

Provides automatic URL shortening to use less characters via text

Sends out multimedia via text messages, such as coupons, pictures, and audio

Offers features for personalizing text messages based on customer information or past behavior

Allows users to establish automated workflows and triggers to deliver transactional text messages

Test variations of a push notification on a portion of users and track conversions

Personalize messages with contextual data such as customer names or product recommendations

Enhance messages with images, emojis, animated gifs, or videos

Integrate with third-party marketing or e-commerce software

Provide templates for customer journey mapping to jumpstart the process.

Ability to export customer journey maps in a variety of formats to present and analyze.

Allow team members to invite others to collaborate on journey maps and make direct changes.

Provide the ability to compare the experiences of multiple personas in one journey map.

Ability to integrate with cross-channel, real-time data analytics to power customer journey map creation.

Provides users the ability to dynamically segment their users based on varying criteria (i.e. email opens, product features, etc.).

Automates the testing and optimization of customer-facing messaging and campaigns.

Uses an attribution model that assigns credit to one touchpoint in the customer’s journey.

Uses an attribution model that assigns credit to all touchpoints in the customer’s journey.

Uses machine learning to create an attribution model.

Tracks customer interactions across mobile and desktop.

Allows users to track touchpoints through offline channels, such as events.

Allows the user to create a custom attribution model.

Provides features for B2B marketers.

Provides features for B2C marketers.

Enables marketers to track multiple marketing channels.

Integrates with other sales, marketing, and advertising software.

Provides customizable dashboards that allow users to view and manage data.

Displays attribution data through easy-to-interpret charts and graphs.

Allows users to build custom reports.

Ability to uncover and visualize how users move through your website, marketing campaigns, and product(s).

Ability to measure product usage by feature, campaign performance by source, and other trending metrics.

Provides dashboards to combine and visualize quantitative and qualitive customer journey data.

Provides advanced data filtering capabilities to help users drill down, sort, filter, aggregate, and group customer journey data.

Ability to create visualizations or maps of past, current, or future customer journeys based on behavioral data.

Integrates with additional marketing analytics and other marketing, sales, and e-commerce-related software to provide one source of truth for customer journey analytics.

Provides the ability to setup automated alerts to drive targeted actions and customer experience improvements.

Provides pre-built or customizable performance reports

Automates tasks and features for added convenience

Offers a white labeling service for agencies or resellers to customize platform branding

Text enables landline phones so users can receive text messages sent to an existing business number

Provides businesses with 5- to 6-digit short codes for running text marketing campaigns

Facilitates the integration of text messaging into existing business applications through an SMS gateway API

Allows users to drag and drop items and content to customize their site's look.

Provides ready-made templates for simplified landing page creation.

Allows users to edit a page's HTML or CSS code, or add custom code.

Allows users to upload and manage content such as photos, videos, and audio.

Enables users to test changes to a page by administering the change to a portion of visitors and measuring conversion.

Creates mobile responsive pages for optimized viewing on mobile devices.

Gives users insight into unique pageviews, conversions, visitor location and device type, etc.

Optimizes content to increase search engine result rankings.

Integrates with e-commerce platforms.

Integrates with email marketing providers to share captured lead data.

Allows companies to connect landing pages to their existing domain.

Provides features to create and manage lists of potential customers

Monitors form’s performance and contribution to the sales pipeline

Identifies the visitor, tracks the pages that they are visiting, and the time they are spending on each page

Records leads using different types of devices

Captures form submissions from existing forms on websites or landing pages

Captures leads across social media channels

Captures measurable, real customer data gathered directly from a website

Creates custom lead capture forms for specific uses, such as an e-book download or email newsletter

Changes colors, calls to action, or form length to personalize lead capture

Provides pre-configured templates that can be customized by users

Integrates with sales and marketing software solutions to transfer lead data between them

Provides a loyalty engine that can configure different types of loyalty programs to reward customers for specific purchases, actions, or behaviors.

Offers a flexible and customizable reward system.

Segments customers into tiers or membership groups.

Personalizes messaging and rewards based on a customer's profile, purchase history, membership status, etc.

Provides gamified features such as badges, achievements, and leaderboards.

Includes tools for managing and designing branded physical or digital loyalty cards.

Provides built-in messaging tools to communicate with loyalty program members via email, SMS, and/or push notifications.

Allows users to view and manage customer profiles within the platform.

Offers comprehensive analytics to track ROI and engagement with the loyalty program.

Supports multiple languages and currencies.

Integrates with other marketing and commerce software such as CRM, ERP, point-of-sale (POS) systems, or e-commerce platforms.

Allows for the testing of multiple variables at a time during a single test.

Allows multiple experiments to be deployed simultaneously.

Allows mobile web pages to be tested during A/B experiments.

What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) features allow the editing of web pages without HTML. This means you can directly edit pages with images and text without any coding.

Uses algorithms and continuous data entry to enable the technology to develop insights and optimize testing.

Requires little to no knowledge of coding. Usually this means it comes with prewritten code.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives