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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Newswire

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AACCESS Newswire is a press release distribution platform that helps clients increase their online visibility and web presence. It provides premier syndication to leading news outlets. The solution aims to empower clients with a variety of solutions to suit any budget.

    $299

    per month

    ReputationStacker

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AReputationStacker is a Reputation Management platform designed to automate the acquisition of customer reviews and monitor brand sentiment across multiple locations. The solution provides tools for Review Generation, Customer Feedback Collection, and Multi-Location Management. Key Capabilities Automated Review Campaigns: The system triggers automated SMS (Short Message Service) and Email review invitations based on customer transactions. The vendor…

    $79

    per month

    Pricing
    NewswireReputationStacker
    Editions & Modules
    Newswire Digital
    $299
    single PR
    Newswire Digital Plus
    $549
    single PR
    Newswire State
    $599
    single PR
    Newswire National
    $799
    single PR
    Newswire Canada
    $899
    single PR
    Newswire UK
    $899
    single PR
    Newswire Financial
    $899
    single PR
    Newswire Asia
    $1,299
    single PR
    Newswire Latin America
    $1,299
    single PR
    Newswire Global
    $1,999
    single PR
    Lite
    $79
    per month
    Standard
    $99
    per month per location
    Professional
    $124
    per month per location
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NewswireReputationStacker
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsBulk discounts availableDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    NewswireReputationStacker
    Considered Both Products
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    No answer on this topic
    ReputationStacker
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    95 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    85 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    101 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    95 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
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    Help a Reporter Out (HARO)
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    Brand24
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
    Birdeye
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Meltwater
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NewswireReputationStacker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (107 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (107 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NewswireReputationStacker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    As a general rule, press releases announcing an event are more effective than product or corporate business deals press releases. This may be because events are people-centered and tend to be one of a kind. The interest in a new product, unless it is an upgrade to an existing product line or service, attracts little attention. There are exceptions; if, for example, there is an outbreak of some pathogen and the company is working on a solution, then interest is higher. News has to be related to current concerns.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    ReputationStacker is extremely well designed for multi-location practices that care about improving and protecting their online reputation and visibility in local search engine results (which is extremely important for our business). It makes it easy to consistently generate reviews for each location and address issues that patients have before they become bigger problems. If you’re looking for an all-in-one marketing platform, this isn’t that. It's just focused on online reputation and reviews and it does that really well (instead of trying to do everything).
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    Pros
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    • Communication via video calls and emails. They were responsive to any questions we had.
    • Provided all the information we needed to make the decision to move forward. They had the materials around what publications and news outlets they could get into for us.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    • Online reputation management for multiple locations of our business
    • Review generation for all of our clinics (with a focus on Google reviews)
    • Responding to reviews at scale
    • Review and reputation reporting
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    Cons
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    • The editorial process was always very hard on our sale releases. Even if we followed the same structure we used to with PR Wire they would flag it as advertorial.
    • The option for video is nice but would be better to actually embed it into a part of the release versus just floating at the bottom.
    • Would be interesting for them to share more industry-specific releases or give the option to only get emails on specific industries. The E-blasts are always too general.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    • Adding additional locations of our business wasn't obvious at first, but when I figured out how to do it it was easy after that.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    Newswire is simple to use and the pricing is fair. The company's network for press releases is not as large as some competitors but seems to have the best reach at a comparable price point. Newswire also offers quality support for customers, which can be hard to find in this space.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    Simple step-by-step process to get your news out to the world. Easy to understand process and explanation as you go through the steps. Each upgrade does have a charge, but it's pretty visible. Once you get familiar with their platform and systems, it becomes fairly easy to use to get your news published. It's also nice how quickly you are able to get the news out and published in the places you choose.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    We had our marketing person set it up, and now it automatically gets us Google reviews. It couldn't be easier.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    It was available for immediate use
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    It seemed to be okay overall an we plan on continuing to use it as we expand
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    Any time I’ve had a question or needed assistance, I’ve been able to get in contact with a Newswire representative within a short amount of time. Their attention to customer satisfaction is impeccable, and they definitely go out of their way to ensure they can be of assistance to the best of their ability!
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    I had a question about how to add new locations and the support team got back to me immediately and showed me how to do it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    It is a very simple product to get started using, particularly for press releases. I have no used the other functionality so I can't say for sure how easy or difficult that might be, but my guess is that the way the platform is built makes it easy for anybody to get started.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    Newswire hands-down beats these other platforms based on their unique price-to-feature-set ratio. We couldn't find a better value and user experience on any of these other platforms when we went through our discovery and evaluation process. All in all, we are very happy with the team and platform at Newswire.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    Swell was too expensive. ReputationStacker does the same things (and more), costs less, and as far as I can tell from the Swell demo we did, a lot easier to use.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    I did not purchase, I only purchased the per use newswire options
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    I have not really used this software feature to the level to scale at this point
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    I did not really use professional services other than the customer support did answer some questions from time to time
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Issuer Direct Corporation
    • In a new technology area, Newswire has helped us build brand recognition.
    • During the pressures put on Healthcare over the past COVID periods our presence in the Marketplace have been difficult to maintain. Newswire has been key in our efforts.
    • When medical imaging AI tools exploded on the scene three years ago, there were over 150 vendors at conferences. Those that didn't promote with tools like Newswire and now gone.
    Incentivized
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    ReputationStacker
    • We have an average of over 30% more clicks on our Google Business Profiles since we started using ReputationStacker (because we now show a lot higher in Google's local search pack).
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    ScreenShots

    Newswire Screenshots

    Screenshot of Newswire DashboardScreenshot of Press Writing

    ReputationStacker Screenshots

    Screenshot of ReputationStacker's review management interface, which helps businesses of all sizes get more reviews, respond to them, share them on social media & their own websites, and manage their entire online reputation from a single dashboard.Screenshot of ReputationStacker's review monitoring dashboard. It monitors reviews from over 100 review sites, from Google to industry-specific review sites (like Avvo for lawyers and Healthgrades for doctors).

The user can respond to reviews directly from the ReputationStacker dashboard, and assign reviews to teammates for follow-up, share reviews as posts on social media pages, and share reviews on a company's website via the Review Feed widget.Screenshot of ReputationStacker's reports. These help to turn the qualitative feedback from online reviews and customer feedback into quantified data.

ReputationStacker works for single-location SMBs, but for multi-location online reputation management, the system is not only designed for automatic review generation, but also to run apples-to-apples comparisons of a business's locations to discover what customers really care about, including what's being done right, to where improvements can be made.Screenshot of ReputationStacker’s automated review generation, which requires no manual follow-up. Users can choose their ideal moment to request a review. Review request templates in ReputationStacker are also customizable to (for example) sound more casual or more formal. ReputationStacker's review request forms are on-brand and customizable so you can collect more customer feedback on the frontend, or streamline things and send customers directly to the review sites that are most important (Google, of course, but also niche and industry specific review sites).Screenshot of an example of ReputationStacker's AI review responses. Their prompting allows users to dial-in the brand voice so responses sound like they're coming from a person, and not an automated responder. The system can also be trained for improvement, and thresholds can be set so responses are only sent under certain conditions (e.g. five-star reviews only).Screenshot of ReputationStacker's review widgets can showcase reviews on a company website. The widget can be customized with a few clicks. Copy the embed code and paste it on a website wherever the review should appear. Multiple review widgets can be added.