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Small Business Marketing

Connect teams, create AI-powered campaigns, and personalize customer relationships with Marketing Cloud

Reach customers faster with Agentforce

Reach customers faster with Einstein Copilot. With one generative AI prompt, you can draft a campaign brief, build the campaign, and write an email — all in only a few minutes. With humans in the loop the entire time, you can make edits and train the AI so its outputs are perfect.

A prompt for Einstein to create a campaign brief and campaign email targeting customers who attended an event with an offer to download an ebook.

Use generative AI to create segments for your email campaigns using natural language. With built-in Data Cloud, you can create segments based on marketing, sales, service, and commerce data — helping you reach the right customers and increase personalization. Leverage the built-in Einstein Trust Layer to securely import your customer data, enriching the context for business-specific generative AI outputs.

A prompt for Einstein to create a new segment based on attendees living in NY, NJ, RI, CT, and MA.

Use Generative AI to draft email body copy, subject lines, and preheaders in minutes, allowing you to reach customers fast. Tell Einstein AI to shorten body copy and redraft -- or make edits yourself. Personalize emails by pulling in all your customer information -- both inside and outside your CRM. With marketers in the loop the entire time, you can train the AI so messages are always on point and meet brand standards.

A prompt for Einstein to create a campaign brief and campaign email targeting customers who attended an event with an offer to download an ebook.
A prompt for Einstein to create a new segment based on attendees living in NY, NJ, RI, CT, and MA.

Grow customer relationships with connected experiences

Engage your customers where they're most active by delivering automated journeys with email and SMS. With built-in Data Cloud, you can harness data from across your organization—including sales, service engagements, and commerce events—to trigger the next best actions. Personalize journeys based on replies to SMS messages using simple keywords like "yes" or "no." Automate notifications to your sales and service teams, enabling timely outreach.

A Journey Builder dashboard showing multi-channel journeys

Personalize emails based on data from marketing, sales, service, and commerce interactions. Create merge fields in emails that pull from data related to service cases, product purchased, or marketing engagement. Use dynamic content to personalize emails with personalized images and text based on a customer's interactions with your company and known attributes. Create journey decision splits based on interactions with sales, service, product purchased, and more

A Journey Builder dashboard showing multi-channel journeys with Sales and Service touch points.

Turn one-way promotions into dynamic two-way conversations using a single SMS number. Connect customer interactions across commerce, sales, and service teams, or enable self-service transactions like appointment booking and offer redemptions with AI-powered Agentforce agents.

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A Journey Builder dashboard showing multi-channel journeys
A Journey Builder dashboard showing multi-channel journeys with Sales and Service touch points.
A marketer is creating a new landing page using drag and drop functionality and components to include a Register Now form

Optimize your marketing performance.

Optimize your strategy with campaign analytics. Understand how campaigns impact closed-won opportunities and tie marketing efforts back to ROI. Understand how customers are interacting with forms, landing pages, emails, and SMS sends — so you can expand on efforts that work, and quickly identify what you need to improve. Get in-depth reporting on unsubscribes, bounces, and other key email metrics.

A Journey Builder dashboard showing multi-channel journeys and highlighting Einstein Send Optimization for emails

Capture new leads and build out your contact base using forms and landing pages. Understand which leads are most engaged for easy sales handoff, and which leads need additional nurturing. Get started with out-of-the-box scoring models, and easily customize to account for fit and intent. Or, use predictive AI engagement scoring to take the guess workout of who is most engaged.

A collection of analytics dashboards that show how customers are interacting with forms, landing pages, emails, and SMS sends.

Optimize journeys and campaigns through targeted experimentation. Test channels, messaging, and personalization variants so you can understand what outreach is most effective and improve upon your efforts.

A collection of analytics dashboards that show how customers are interacting with forms, landing pages, emails, and SMS sends.
A Journey Builder dashboard showing multi-channel journeys and highlighting Einstein Send Optimization for emails
A collection of analytics dashboards that show how customers are interacting with forms, landing pages, emails, and SMS sends.
A collection of analytics dashboards that show how customers are interacting with forms, landing pages, emails, and SMS sends.

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Marketing Automation for Small Business FAQ

When it comes to chosing the best marketing software for your small business, you should consider a variety of different factors including expected business growth and business use cases and objectives.

Marketing Cloud Growth Edition is marketing automation for small businesses built on the world's #1 AI CRM. It is built on Data Cloud, creating visibility across marketing, sales, service, and commerce teams, allowing everyone to work together in one place to close deals faster. Whether you are looking to save time by leveraging generative AI, or create personalized, multi-channel journeys with email and SMS, we've got you covered.

Marketing automation software helps automate and streamline marketing processes and multifunctional campaigns across channels. It includes functionalities for connecting siloed data into unified customer profiles, email and mobile marketing, functionalities to generate and nurture leads, run targeted campaigns, align with sales to close deals, and track the effectiveness of marketing effort

The benefits of marketing automation platforms are:
1) Scaling buyer engagement across accounts
2) Aligning marketing, sales, service, and commerce teams to close deals faster
3) Automating manual processes and saving teams time

The right marketing automation platform will:
1) Integrate directly into your CRM
2) Align marketing, sales, service, and commerce around a single view of the customer
3) Automate manual processes and save teams time