Pardot & It's Competitors
- Lynne Becera | January 2021 | Fact Checked
It seems like a crowded space, but we like 3 of the main marketing automation platforms in market. Their strengths and weaknesses are called out below.
Top 3 options are: Pardot (plan starts at $1,250 monthly for up to 10,000 contacts and billed annually), MailChimp (Free Trial and free plan includes up to 2,000 contacts, with 10,000 sends per month and a daily limit of 2,000), Marketo (Marketo Engage pricing starts at $895.00 per month).
Let’s take each in turn:
#1 Marketing Automation Platform
Pardot (monthly plan starts at $1,250 per month for a fuel growth with smarter marketing automation )
Pardot is smarter marketing automation built on the world’s #1 CRM platform. Pardot customers have seen sales revenue increase by 34% and marketing effectiveness increase by 37%, on average.
Pardot is built with ease of use in mind, but it doesn’t come at the cost of scale. Our intuitive interface guides you as you build your best campaigns ever.
Track and measure the effect of your campaigns right from your dashboard. Understand Marketing’s impact on your business – and take a deep dive into the metrics that matter by combining Pardot and B2B Marketing Analytics.
2. MailChimp
MailChimp (Free plan up to 2,000 contacts 1 audience included and Essential plan starts at $9.99 ip to 50,000 contacts 3 audiences included)
Mailchimp’s all-in-one Marketing Platform helps you market smarter.
Whether you’re starting from scratch with CRM or bringing an existing audience into Mailchimp, connecting your favorite tools and keeping all your contact data in Mailchimp helps you stay organized and improve your marketing. Best of all, their audience dashboard will help you get to know your audience at a glance, visually showing you segments within your audience data that you can send targeted campaigns to with just a few clicks.
Create beautiful, branded emails that make you look like a pro. Engage your audience with email marketing. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re already a pro, Mailchimp’s easy‑to‑use email builder has the tools you need to grow your business.
3. Marketo
Marketo (Marketo offers three standard pricing tiers, at $895, $1,795, and $3,175 per month)
Marketo has grown into a leader in marketing automation, but at their core they are a company for marketers, by marketers. They wake up every morning thinking about how they can make life better for their fellow marketers. This passion has evolved into a vibrant community they call the Marketing Nation®–the marketers who are invested in their solution, and are the customers and partners who inspire them every single day.
Marketo Engage’s end-to-end engagement for modern demand marketing delivers exceptional experiences across every stage of the customer journey to drive efficient growth in concert with Sales.
Our Conclusion
They all have pros and cons. Pardot is our top choice being a smarter marketing automation built on the world’s #1 CRM platform Salesforce. MailChimp is a good second choice being an all-in-one Marketing Platform for small business with a smaller feature set, and Marketo is on our last spot due to their higher plan pricing although they have grown into a leader in marketing automation.
All of them monetise users and marketing automation, and in that regard you could start at the beginning of the list and work down to see which one suits you best.