12mass vs. Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)

It's best used in customer service, esp for those encountering similar interactions from time to time. Also, you can totally use it to seek opinions from relevant users on a matter regarding your business, the tool is perfect for engaging and crowd-sourcing.

The transition to Google has been painful - key contacts are no longer available.

• Targets only those users who have a demonstrated/mentioned interest in the solution you are offering
• Easily allows you to personalise your responses, and provides stats to allow you to track which ones are more popular (higher conversion rates). That way, you quickly know which responses are hitting home; which ones the people care about.
• The UI is intuitive. In the past 6 months, I've seen the changes made to the layout, and the learning curve is less daunting now.
• Free 30 day trial. They don't mess around. Try it; if it works, great. If not, ah well.
• It allows an SME like ours to take on bigger companies with bigger budgets.

• Content scheduling on FB, TW, and PIN
• Social media management
• Basic analytics of post engagmemt

Incentivized

• The system is rather bulky and can be complicated for new users to get familiarized with at first. There are a lot of tools to refine your search, which takes a while to understand the logic.
• It can be a bit slow at times and you'll need to refresh the system and type the search again.
• Would love to see the statistics being present in a more comprehensive way with a dialog decision tree drawn out.

• The entire product is quite dated - in our two years with the product, only the visuals have been updated. While other products have added things like multi-platform entries, Wildfire is essentially the same as it has been since our first experience with it.
• In its self-service mode, the product lacks some essential features like mandatory likes and white label.
• Embedding a whitelabel contest is a major undertaking, and requires quite a bit of work within the Facebook developer panel.

In addition to what I've said, maybe its personal, but I don't waste time on a new product if I find something that works. If I hear of anything better (maybe on TrustRadius!) then we'll see. But for now, if it ain't broke don't fix it. My efforts could be much better used elsewhere.

Our initial contract with Wildfire Whitelabel was for $30,000/year, as we progressed we found several alternatives for significantly less. We used this to our advantage to lower the second year to $17,000 with the limitation in the level of support (they call this their "core" subscription). Support has been quite bad.

During our contract, we also asked for quotes on some custom work, but never managed to get an answer (or actual quote). Now two years into our contract, the limitations and lack of development are enough for us to find a different solution. Newcomers to the market like Rafflecopter, WooBox and PunchTab are delivering much better results for a fraction of the price

It's easy to use, after a while you'll get used to it and find it easy to navigate

Very easy to use, almost anyone can learn how to build a comprehensive promotion.

I have never been kicked out of Wildfire service. Always up and running.

Easy to perform tasks and quick to upload changes to your promotions.

Maybe its a small company and they don't have too many customers, but they always reply quickly and to the point. This saves me time and allows me to make money for my company :)

Phone and email support were always available to us when we needed it.

Gave me a thorough rundown on everything the software does. Sometimes it is difficult to run through it all over the phone/internet, but I was able to figure it out myself.

see the tutorials on you tube. that helps

Simple to use and very effective in increasing user engagement on both social channels and website. Noticeably helped raise TOS.

We selected 12mass because they responsed to our queries readily, and understood our concerns. The CEO (Agmon) doesn't waste time or effort, and got down to the brass tacks during our discussions. Even today, if there is an issue, the team is quick and reliable in responding

Wildfire was a merely an adequate social media tool when it existed as a standalone, but it just couldn't compete against other players like Sprout, Falcon, and Sprinklr.

Incentivized

• Better customer service and more interactions on twitter for sure! I've seen a huge jump in the interactions since I started using the product. Also, I've established a lot of connections with influencers by asking meaningful questions.
• It definitely saves time, I don't think you can ever engage with that many people manually.
• More people are trying our products as we find a fit between their needs and our offerings through engaging with them on Twitter.

• Our TOS and engagement with our fans increased when implementing this.
• Social metrics Wildfire provided for the different brands allowed sales opportunity to increase social worth and ultimately increase cost on advertising initiatives.