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eTrigue

Score6 out of 10

25 Reviews and Ratings

What is eTrigue?

eTrigue DemandCenter is a marketing automation and channel marketing-as-a-service platform. Its key features include CRM integration, email marketing, real-time lead alerts, A/B email testing, and litmus email visualization testing.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Drag and drop campaign builder includes the statistics from each step
Prospect profiles show individual prospect detail, including activity, demographics and engagement
Dashboards quickly show the results of marketing efforts
Dashboards and reports quickly show the results of marketing efforts
Highly configurable real-time lead alerts notify sales (or others) when prospects are taking specific actions
The home page quickly shows results that are configurable to each user.

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Top Performing Features

  • Integration with Salesforce.com

    The software can integrate with Salesforce.com bi-directionally, allowing for data syncs, activity alerts, campaign triggers, enhanced reporting, and lead assigning.

    Category average: 9

  • Ability to test dynamic content

    Users can test dynamic content prior to launching a campaign.

    Category average: 6.7

  • Calendaring

    The software helps users maintain a calendar of all marketing activities.

    Category average: 7.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Email deliverability reporting

    The software helps ensure inbox delivery of email campaigns, through features such as deliverability tests, opt-in management, bounce handling, suppression lists, dedicated IP addresses, and delivery monitoring.

    Category average: 8

  • Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

    The software can integrate with Microsoft Dynamics CRM bi-directionally, allowing for data syncs, activity alerts, campaign triggers, enhanced reporting, and lead assigning.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Integration with SugarCRM

    The software can integrate with SugarCRM bi-directionally, allowing for data syncs, activity alerts, campaign triggers, enhanced reporting, and lead assigning.

    Category average: 7.7

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Pros

  • The ability to change assets, campaigns and campaign design at any point in the campaign.
  • Setting up complex dynamic progressive forms and forms in general.
  • Its editors for LP's and email. They are full featured and actually work well without HTML programming. Although you can go into HTML as well and make changes if you like. Flexible for the novice and the expert user.
  • Ability to move between campaigns and programs is simple.

Cons

  • We have specific requirements that most users will never have. When I say that I mean less than 1% of the market has the needs that our company needs. These would be related to reporting ad hoc and being able to set up reporting comparisons between campaigns and even different campaigns in different instances of DemandCenter.
  • I'd like a multi-screen editor so that I can be doing 2, 3, 4 things in 2, 3, 4 different instances at once. Yet again our needs are unique.
  • The reporting is OK, but could be improved. Specific improvements would be in the area of being able to easily create my own ad hoc reports. While DC allows for ad hoc reporting, a really cool report writer would be helpful.

Return on Investment

  • Our customers are generally in shock that we really add significant and impactful value via Marketing Automation.
  • Our success has led to explosive growth for Toltec Global Services.

eTrigue Demand Center is a Excellent Marketing Automation Solution

Pros

  • Fast and well supported implementation and training. Time to effective operation, 2 weeks maximum.
  • Excellent customer service and responsiveness to client requests. The eTrigue support staff are knowledgeable and available to assure client success.
  • Intuitive operation. eTrigue Demand Center is a robust product spawned from detailed marketing requirements and field tested for many years across companies of all sizes.
  • Robust feature set. Demand Center was not conceived in a developers head but rather it has evolved by market use and demand; thus it fits the real-life needs of the marketing department objectives.
  • Annual return-on-investment within the initial 90 days of operation. Investment small or large in marketing systems must clearly demonstrate a near term ROI. My measure is annual cost must be realized with the first 90 days of operation. Demand Center delivers this ROI.

Cons

  • At this point in the Demand Center life cycle, the product delivers the features and functionality to effectively and painlessly do outbound marketing.

Usability

eTrigue DemandCenter Delivers for Sales & Marketing

Pros

  • eTrigue DemandCenter is easy to implement and the CRM integration is also quite straightforward. This is key for our clients that don't want to rely on their IT team for support.
  • eTrigue DemandCenter email/campaign set up rocks. It's drag and drop, you can pause a campaign in process, make changes, and then restart without interrupting the campaign flow, without having to start over. LOVE this!
  • Anonymous tracking is pretty cool as once a unknown visitor registers (becomes cookied) eTrigue DemandCenter maps back the anonymous tracking to the now known visitor in one record so you can see what the prospect viewed prior to be being "known".

Cons

  • For 3marketeers and our clients' alike we have had some functionality wants/needs over the last few years-- we have found the eTrigue DemandCenter team to be most responsive with the review and response to these various requests.

Return on Investment

  • From an agency perspective, our team is able to be as flexible as our clients require us to be as the platform is nimble, easy to make changes to campaigns. This is key!
  • Our clients are focused on tracking and reporting- each measures success a bit differently but most would agree that their respective teams can be more productive and can demonstrate direct ROI with the eTrigue DemandCenter tools and reporting. The platform makes us and our clients look good when quarterly reporting rolls around.

eTrigue - Perfect choice for BOTH new users and experienced marketers who want immediate RESULTS!

Pros

  • Really easy to use. We can build a campaign in about 30 minutes and our new hires can learn to use it very quickly.
  • Free phone support.
  • I can always get someone to help me and they actually return calls quicker than most all companies.
  • We are able to create campaigns before we finish all the assets. We can launch, then change the flow and add assets when they are ready.
  • Integration with Google AdWords is very easy to setup, and has lots of ROI and campaign peformance reporting.

Cons

  • We wanted advanced reports, which have now been added in the last release.
  • Very complete, no complaints

Return on Investment

  • Closing more deals
  • Very positive response from sales team
  • Our sales team is better prepared to talk with customers.

Usability

eTrigue DemandCenter- It's eASY!

Pros

  • The set up was easy, what support I've needed was most responsive.
  • The template library made it easy for me to ramp up quickly.
  • Email/campaign set up is easy- drag and drop.

Cons

  • eTrigue Demand Center offers a lot of online resources on how to work in the platform, some on marketing best practices. As a sales person I'd like to see more marketing best practices.

Return on Investment

  • I'm able to easily keep in front of my leads on a consistent basis and follow-up faster with prospects showing interest.