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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bound

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABound (formerly Get Smart Content) is a website segmentation and targeting platform that enables marketers to read a website visitor's digital body language and serve relevant content based on the person's stage in the buying journey. Using behavioral, demographic, and firmographic data, Bound creates personalized web experiences for both anonymous and known website visitors to increase the effectiveness of marketing efforts and dramatically reduce the buyer's path to conversion. Bound partners…N/A

    Vero Cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVero Workflows is an email marketing solution built to make customer engagement simpler with features such as in-app behavior tracking, audience segmentation, and workflow automation.

    $54

    per month

    Pricing
    BoundVero Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $54
    per month
    Pro
    $219
    per month
    Growth
    $549
    per month
    Enterprise
    $1,429
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BoundVero Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details15% discount applied with an annual subscription, paid upfront.
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    Features
    BoundVero Cloud
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Bound and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Bound
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Vero Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    a/b experiment testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Split URL testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multivariate testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test significance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced code editor10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page surveys10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visitor recordings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Preview mode10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test duration calculator10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Client-side tests10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server-side tests10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Bound and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Bound
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Vero Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Bound and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Bound
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Vero Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Heatmap tool10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CSV export10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bound and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Bound
    -
    Ratings
    Vero Cloud
    8.1
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bound and Vero Cloud
    Feature
    Bound
    -
    Ratings
    Vero Cloud
    6.0
    2 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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    BoundVero Cloud
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    Google Optimize
    Score6.7 out of 10
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AB Tasty
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BoundVero Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BoundVero Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bound Systems, Inc.
    I think the customer service and relationship we have with Get Smart Content is great
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    Vero
    Vero tends to play nice with companies that have their websites as the primary source of truth. This allows them to send as many events as they need and develop more complex workflows that introduce conditionality into Vero emails. However, for those that rely more on Salesforce, it might have more limited applications. The product is fairly easy to use, so it's easy for multiple people on the team to pick it up and do what they need for their respective groups. On the other hand, creating email templates will require some knowledge of HTML/CSS, unless those are copied from another source. That would require another product of course that provides more robust layout editing features and templates.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Bound Systems, Inc.
    • Connects easily with other APIs such as Demandbase and Google Analytics.
    • Easily create segments.
    • Easily create segmented content.
    Incentivized
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    Vero
    • Email template editor allowed our developers to design emails to looks like beautiful marketing emails or basic personal emails.
    • The Vero API allowed our developers to connect triggers and events from our visitors to kick start campaigns.
    • Campaign flows were fairly easy to create and define.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Bound Systems, Inc.
    • When you set up a campaign you should be able to set up content while in the campaign.
    • You should be able to set up new segments while in the campaign.
    Incentivized
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    Vero
    • While Vero offers some WYSIWYG editing, it's on the limited side, as it mostly allows you to edit copy, but not necessarily the layout.
    • The UI/UX has improved dramatically over the course of the last few years, but it can still lag from time to time and experience sluggishness.
    • While reliability is really good, it does have lapses from time to time that will introduce delays into emails being sent out. Once or twice, the system went completely down for a period of time.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bound Systems, Inc.
    It has the inability to export subject line or ISP complaints that require manual pulling by each campaign when needed. Results from variable tests are also reported only as a percentage of chosen KPI (opens, clicks, etc.). There's no ability to see hard numbers from the tests or other metrics to determine the statistical significance or unintended results (maybe opens increased per the test, but we saw clicks or conversions were lower). On the other hand, Bound performs absolutely great.
    Incentivized
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    Vero
    Vero's price tag is far more attractive but for what you will find to be clear and obvious reasons. Vero has no CRM unlike HubSpot and Infusionsoft. Vero also has limited tracking unlike the seemingly endless possibilities offered from HubSpot which as we all know comes with at a significant cost, often not feasible by a small startup company.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Bound Systems, Inc.
    • We have seen more traffic going to revenue generating sites after using Get Smart Content. I'm not sure of the dollar amount since that's a separate department, but traffic increasing is great.
    • Engagement on our internal site has increased after implementing Get Smart Content. We are getting more views, comments and likes on our content than before.
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    Vero
    • The overall costs of using Vero have been much lower than using two comparable products that handle transactional emails and newsletters, respectively. MailChimp has relatively recently integrated their Mandrill product for transactional emails, so that's worth looking at as well.
    • Using a single product for many things lowers the learning curve, as team members only have to learn one product well, rather than several.
    • While infrequent, Vero's outages have impacted our operations at times. If absolute reliability is crucial to your business, then you may have to find a larger provider with a more robust infrastructure. As mentioned, though, it hasn't been a big problem for us.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Bound Screenshots

    Screenshot of Campaign viewScreenshot of Segment viewScreenshot of Segment list

    Vero Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of WorkflowsScreenshot of ReportingScreenshot of Customer profilesScreenshot of Workflow toolkit