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Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Grow revenue and scale customer engagement with B2B marketing automation software built directly into your CRM. Unite your customer data on one platform and scale efforts with AI.

What can you do with B2B marketing automation software?

Drive efficient growth and align your teams with a B2B marketing automation platform.

Deliver connected customer journeys and engage buyers across accounts.

Create landing pages and forms fast using drag-and-drop builders. Segment leads at the point of capture, and send them on personalised, automated, cross-channel journeys. Using AI-powered lead scoring and grading, you can quickly nurture those leads for marketing qualification.

Account Engagement landing page with an inbox form being dragged and dropped onto it.

Engage prospects across every channel. Connect third-party webinar, survey, and SMS apps directly to your marketing programs. Trigger webinar and event registrations, survey sends, and SMS sends in your automated journeys. Connect engagement data, like third-party webinar, survey, and SMS data, for easy segmentation and campaign maintenance.

External activity interface displaying a flowchart of possible engagement channels.

Discover and engage your best accounts. Target and nurture key prospects with the help of sales and service, by aligning on one platform. Let Einstein identify the accounts with the highest likelihood to purchase using key account insights. Track pipeline progress on target accounts using the Account-Based Marketing Dashboard, and use insights to refine your marketing and sales efforts.

ABM Einstein Key Accounts interface displaying data for top contribution factors and most active within account.
Account Engagement landing page with an inbox form being dragged and dropped onto it.
External activity interface displaying a flowchart of possible engagement channels.
ABM Einstein Key Accounts interface displaying data for top contribution factors and most active within account.

Align revenue teams on a single source of truth and close deals faster with AI.

Take the guesswork out of lead and account scoring. With Einstein, you can leverage behavior to score and identify the leads most likely to convert, based on their interactions with your marketing efforts. Determine if leads match your ideal profile based on those who converted in the past. Let Einstein analyze key account data to help you find the accounts most likely to buy.

Einstein Scoring interface displaying a prospect's lead and behavioral scoring profile.

Gain comprehensive insight into your prospects. Connect and share prospect and customer engagement data with sales and service teams. Analyze prospects' interactions with your marketing, and use that information to identify champions on the buying committee. Understand how leads are engaging with your marketing on the campaign, individual, and account level using dynamic dashboards

Engagement history interface displaying charts and graphs of customer engagement data.

Share insights around a prospect's key marketing interactions with sales and service teams. Alert sales teams the moment a hot lead fills out a form, or when the lead is ready to convert. Also, when a prospect is highly engaged, let sales and service know with automated, triggered alerts in Sales and Service Cloud, or directly in Slack.

Slack alert of prospect's buying behavior.
Einstein Scoring interface displaying a prospect's lead and behavioral scoring profile.
Engagement history interface displaying charts and graphs of customer engagement data.
Slack alert of prospect's buying behavior.

Optimise marketing performance and grow customer relationships.

Gain full-funnel marketing and sales insights with AI-powered Multi-Touch Attribution. Choose from multiple native attribution models like Einstein Attribution to gauge the impact of channels, events, and sales team activities on your pipeline. Boost campaign efficacy and ROI with AI-driven insights.

Insight dashboard displaying data for multi-touch attribution, top campaigns, and revenue share by campaign type.

Gain insights into revenue and pipeline for key accounts. Then, use those findings to see how account-based efforts are influencing targeted accounts, and optimise on what's working and what's not. Share what you discover with sales to further plan account-based outreach.

ABM dashboard displaying pipeline value by account.

Understand how marketing impacts pipeline and revenue with a direct connection to Sales Cloud. See how marketing messages influence the prospect journey with A/B testing and out-of-the-box email reporting. Then, apply predictive analytics to those insights to make more strategic decisions and identify the campaign factors that will drive conversion.

Analytics interface of three charts representing pipeline value, total accounts engaged, and closed oppertunities.
Insight dashboard displaying data for multi-touch attribution, top campaigns, and revenue share by campaign type.
ABM dashboard displaying pipeline value by account.
Analytics interface of three charts representing pipeline value, total accounts engaged, and closed oppertunities.
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Marketing Cloud Account Engagement FAQ.

Marketing Cloud Account Engagement is the only marketing automation platform built on the world’s #1 CRM. It helps companies grow revenue and scale buyer engagement by uniting customer data on one platform and scaling account relationships with AI. Whether you’re looking to execute on-demand generation or account-based marketing strategies, we've got you covered.

B2B marketing automation software helps automate and streamline marketing processes and multifunctional campaigns across channels. It includes functionalities to manage and nurture leads, run targeted campaigns, align with sales to close deals, and track the effectiveness of marketing efforts.

The benefits of B2B marketing automation platforms are:

  1. Scaling buyer engagement across accounts
  2. Aligning revenue teams (marketing, sales, and service) to close deals faster
  3. Growing pipeline and proving marketing impact

B2B marketing automation software can help your business in the following ways:

  1. Generating and nurturing leads
  2. Driving marketing and sales alignment
  3. Prioritizing and converting qualified leads
  4. Managing marketing campaigns
  5. Executing on account-based marketing strategies
  6. Maximizing marketing ROI

The right B2B marketing automation platform will:

  1. Integrate directly into your CRM
  2. Align revenue teams (marketing, sales, and service)
  3. Execute on multiple marketing strategies (e.g., broad-base demand generation and account-based marketing)

Pardot was part of Exact Target, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2013, and is the legacy product name for Marketing Cloud Account Engagement. They are the same product.

Pardot is the legacy name for Salesforce Account Engagement and is the same product as Pardot.