Bambu by Sprout Social vs. Optymyze

Routinely sharing job postings from Bambu by Sprout Social to LinkedIn, using the canned content our Marketing team provides and revising so that it "sounds like me" prior to sharing on LI. Cadencing my content shares for the week in the "Scheduling" option Creating a new link to share content via Bambu by Sprout Social to LI, to position myself as a thought leader in my space

Incentivized

It depends on the complexity of your selling process, the sales crediting and the number of associates. Small or large organizations who have a simple selling to incentive process; sell something and get paid will find Optymyze to be too much for them. Organizations who have multiple selling organizations who overlay each other and have complex selling will see benefits from a platform such as Optymyze

Incentivized

• Ease of use. It creates a user-friendly experience that allows employees to understand and share.
• Customer support & feedback.
• Understanding the power of social media and building their tool around its use.

Incentivized

• Incentive Compensation - It is able to calculate complex plans with complex sales crediting rules
• Quota Setting / Management - It provides the ability to properly tie quotas to performance and provide the visibility at the lowest level all the way through to executive leadership.

Incentivized

• Sprout to Bambu integration is not what was depicted in trial and is not used because of this
• Missing functionality: LinkedIn tagging
• Missing functionality: posting videos
• Missing functionality: posting something without a link. Example: picture from an event or community outreach

Incentivized

• The front-end reporting functions were supported by a third-party platform at the time. It made it challenging to create reports on your own and relied on Optymyze to provide that type of work.
• The ability to map territories with similar function to a ZS Associates Territory Designer. Allowing to lasso areas and create "what-ifs"

Incentivized

It was similar in that it helped us push prewritten messages out to our team, but the UX/UI was far more dated and not as intuitive. It's mobile app also wasn't very useful; made it difficult to edit messages and would constantly need you to log back in. The two things GaggleAMP had over Bambu however was more comprehensive analytics and the ability to automatically push out social posts

Incentivized

Optymyze is not the cheapest nor most expensive product out there. What I found with the firm was the ability to deliver on its promises and be able to adapt to the business without getting outside of their comfort zone. Other products have a box that is too rigid while others are so complex, and so open, you might as well develop a home grown system

Incentivized

• The social amplification effects of our employees sharing brand content helped us achieve a 400% increase in website visits following our re-brand.
• With some "Executive nudging" when we announced that Bambu would be used as our internal comms tool, and that we would only be sharing real-time updates via the mobile apps push notifications, we were able to double the # of employees who use the App in addition to the desktop application. Mobile users aside, another positive side effect of using Bambu as an internal comms tool is that it exposes users (the non-social butterflies who don't like to share) to all other content that has been curated into the system and has helped garner more social impressions.
• The majority of our employees come from the BabyBoom/Gen X generation and didn't come of age in the world of social media, which has presented some challenges in user adoption rates.

Incentivized

• Reduced the number of resources supporting the sales compensation, territory and quota setting processes.
• Reduced the time spent to finalize incentive payouts to associates at the close of each quarter by 25%.
• Reduced overall expense related to the sales operations function,

Incentivized