Blueshift vs. Waterfall

I think Blueshift is well suited as a CRM. It does a great job handling the customer information that you need, placing it, and displaying it in one concise place. They could do better in regards to being forthcoming with information. Documentation is weak, and depending on who you speak with on the support team, they may have different answers to the problem you're having. In my experience, there are a lot of inconsistencies in how they think about reporting, that someone who's been in marketing for the past 10-years, has to relearn and rethink how we share data for KPIs.

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For large organizations that are looking to build big, robust SMS programs and want the benefit of a CRM back-end for managing users and messaging.

Incentivized

• Customer Segments + Recommendations Tool - Blueshift and has helped with automating and personalizing our retargeting efforts. The true value of Blueshift was realized when we could launch triggered marketing campaigns targeted to specific segments based on a user's behavior onsite, and deliver relevant personalized content using the AI-based Recommendations tool.
• Integration with Segment and other apps
• Retargeting with dynamic content pulled from data feeds / catalogs

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• Customer service. You have your own point of contact. They are very supportive and helpful. They always respond quickly.
• Their deep non-profit discount.
• Their message schedules. Very flexible and it can be a relative schedule to say a pregnant woman's due date and someone's goal date for quit smoking, etc.

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• Campaign management features like drag and drop, copying elements - general ease of use improvements to the UX
• Ability to move customers easily from one campaign to another with one click

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• Some features require additional cost. The nature of growth means the product becomes more expensive and that is a problem for some buyers.

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We're not in the mood to start this process over at this time. A lot of hard work went into it.

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Customer has a better UX/UI but Blueshift's capabilities are far stronger. The price is also more interesting considering what it does. Blueshift doesn't have certain integrations that are useful for startups (like Slack) but it's something that they should be having soon. Social media interconnection is also a step in the right direction that Customer hasn't moved toward

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We had EZTexting before. They don't have relative scheduling message so we had to switch to another vendor. We checked into SMS Magic, but they were not very responsive to our sales inquiry and then we received some phone call from India from someone who's very hard to communicate with.

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• Blueshift has had a tremendous impact on our email marketing KPIs. The AI-based approach and Recommendations tool has led to increased engagement.

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• We have worked with several clients to help them launch and grow their SMS program and the platform helps us doing cutting edge work in this space.

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