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    Bazaarvoice

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AThe Bazaarvoice platform provides businesses with the ability to collect and publish authentic feedback from their customers, who can review products and services, ask questions, and post photos and videos of their experiences with products. The vendor says that leveraging user-generated content can increase sales and build brand loyalty. Within the platform, the vendor provides seven core modules: Ratings & Reviews Questions & Answers Sampling…N/A

    Sampler

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASampler is a direct-to-consumer product sampling platform helping brands deliver samples online and gather the insights with consumers.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Bazaarvoice
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    Sampler
    Chose Sampler
    Compare to any other tool We cannot ignore the impact of a simple interface, and the way Sampler lists out and advertises its product collection is really good. Sampler's support and helpdesk are amazing, they make the purchasing process very relaxing. There are a lot of …
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    Here are some points which make Sampler better than other competitors,

    1. Superior experience - The impact of beautiful UX is something that no one can ignore, the way sampler lists out and advertises their collection of products is really great and every detail is easily pointed …
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    BazaarvoiceSampler
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (30 ratings)
    8.4
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
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    Availability
    9.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bazaarvoice
    Bazaarvoice is overall a quite strong ratings and reviews platform. If you have a national brand and want to integrate ratings and reviews into your website, Bazaarvoice should be in your consideration set. If you have a small business or a tighter budget, you may find Bazaarvoice too robust or expensive of a platform. If your brand gets a lot of organic product reviews, Bazaarvoice will be a helpful tool to increase brand credibility and search engine rankings. If you need help getting consumers to review your products, Bazaarvoice offers sampling programs. These programs can get very pricy depending on how many SKUs you are looking for reviews on. Bazaarvoice also has a proprietary platform where they collect consumer reviews for many brands, and once you have the Bazaarvoice ratings and reviews platform, you may be able to purchase reviews of your products and have them sync to your website without having to run a sampling program.
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    Sampler
    I have a skincare mini set and would like to partner with Sampler. However, they cannot come up with an immediate solution to suit my sampling needs. This means that their operations are sometimes limited by their current capacity. If the product is of small size, it seems that they are always ready for service.
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    Pros
    Bazaarvoice
    • Bazaarvoice Curations makes it incredibly easy to pull in content from multiple social media platforms for us to review.
    • Once the content is pulled into the Curations dashboard, our marketing team can very easily scroll through all the images and decide which ones we would like to feature on our site.
    • Curations also makes it very easy to tag any of our products in the images. We are able to do this manually, but Bazaarvoice also offers the option of letting their team tag the products they see in our images.
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    Sampler
    • The sampler provides great quality sample products with blazingly fast delivery, ensuring we can try various products whenever we want.
    • I get to try new brands without wasting the whole product if I don't like using the product. So it is eco-friendly in that way by reducing chemical waste.
    • It helps the professionals who are in business administration responsibility, to make a perfect and apt purchase, without any miss.
    • One get to learn about a lot of new products, trying them and end up being loyal to the brand/product. So Sampler helps in establishing the necessary customer acquisition part for a new brand.
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    Cons
    Bazaarvoice
    • Their login to their portal is awful. They are working on creating a single sign on experience but right now there are different usernames and passwords depending on what dashboard you are attempting to access.
    • They could probably spend more time optimizing the cost of their initialization script. The size of the JavaScript concerns me.
    • They could work on their deployment and preview tools. The time for our staged changes to show on the live site doesn't seem to be as quick as it should be and the preview tools don't take into account the site's CSS files for display.
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    Sampler
    • The number of membership tiers should be increased so that users can select from a wider variety of monthly samples.
    • Items that are popular quickly disappear.
    • Item tracking could be improved. Emails are sometimes delayed/slow.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bazaarvoice
    We are happy with the product and really just need to optimise our deployment of it on an ongoing basis. There is a lot of functionality prebuilt within Bazaarvoice which we want to have on our site, and to recreate this in our platform would take significant effort which is not practical for us.
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    Sampler
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    Usability
    Bazaarvoice
    I'm sure all processes and program can improve, however Bazaarvoice has reached a very easy usability level and hope this continues as the product improves over time.
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    Sampler
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    Support Rating
    Bazaarvoice
    The Bazaarvoice team is always available via call, email, or any other platform to provide help, guidance, or to push or ask for the task we set earlier. They are talkative and easy to share information and discuss issues if there are any. Thay may have more out of box solutions for easy implementation, but as a whole, and regarding support I am satisfied.
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    Sampler
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    Implementation Rating
    Bazaarvoice
    Save time and energy by utilizing their implementation team!
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    Sampler
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bazaarvoice
    Even though both PowerReviews and Bazaar Voice are capable of fulfilling the aforementioned needs, PowerReviews also provides free trials. PowerReview's style options aren't always user-friendly, but the app is worth checking out if aesthetic concerns aren't top of mind. Bazaar Voice, on the other hand, sounds really professional and is remarkably simple to use.
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    Sampler
    The market for sample-type websites is very fluid. There are many companies that pop up one day, then all of a sudden disappear. Sampler has been around for multiple years and has kept the same business model. They're not perfect, but their longevity and their relaxed nature with reviews are why many like them. Whereas other sample and review outlets require customers to write reviews or have items that many customers simply do not want.
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    Return on Investment
    Bazaarvoice
    • This has had a positive impact on the way the company identifies user issues and complaints more easily/readily.
    • The negative impact is that departments seem to put a lot more expectations on our customers than this tool can provide (e.g., replies and follow-up), meaning that we aren't as able to provide additional information when requested.
    • It's uncertain whether responding to reviews adds a lot of value when all is said and done. Reviewers rarely adjust their ratings, even if/when we sufficiently address their concerns or resolve issues.
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    Sampler
    • It allows me to learn about new products before I buy them
    • It gives me confidence in purchasing products that I have already tried.
    • I help companies to improve the experience and appearance of their products.
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