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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentsquare

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AContentsquare is an enterprise experience intelligence and Digital Analytics platform designed to track, visualize, and optimize user journeys across websites and mobile applications. The platform captures digital interaction telemetry—such as clicks, scrolls, hovers, and page drop-offs—without manual event tagging to power Web Analytics, session replays, funnel visualization, and experience monitoring.N/A

    emfluence Marketing Platform

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    The emfluence Marketing Platform is a marketing automation platform featuring drag-and-drop email editors and automated campaign builders, simple social media scheduling, manageable landing pages, workflow management, analytics, website tracking, surveys, and modals. The platform works for B2B and B2C marketers, marketing agencies, and CRM providers. The product supports CRM integrations and an open API for custom integrations. emfluence offers digital marketing consulting…

    $1,000

    per month

    Pricing
    Contentsquareemfluence Marketing Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Up to 30,000 Active Emails
    $1,000
    per month
    Up to 150,000 Active Emails
    $2,000
    per month
    Up to 500,000 Active Emails
    $4,100
    per month
    More than 1,000,000 Active Emails
    Custom
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Contentsquareemfluence Marketing Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$3,100 one-time fee per installation
    Additional Details—The emfluence Marketing Platform offers month-to-month pricing that’s based on the number of contacts added, with no restrictions on how many emails are sent each month or by which features are used.
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    Community Pulse
    Contentsquareemfluence Marketing Platform
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    Contentsquare
    No answer on this topic
    emfluence Digital Marketing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Contentsquareemfluence Marketing Platform
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Heatmap tool8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    8% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.1
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings3.76 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and emfluence Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    emfluence Marketing Platform
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    7% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Contentsquareemfluence Marketing Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (118 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.1
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Contentsquareemfluence Marketing Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is good for a first pass at understanding user sentiment or locating potential usability issues. There are features such as "rage clicked" which shows recordings or instances when a user rage clicked or had an issue with your site. Hotjar has also been helpful to launch intercept surveys on mobile, desktop, and app, which not all competitor software allow. Hotjar recordings are fun to watch. "Watching Hotjar like Netflix" is a favorite pastime at work.
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
    The reporting feature is not as detailed as we require for our documentation, so we have to organize the results into charts and graphs. For every other component of our social media and digital marketing, emfluence checks all of the boxes.
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    Pros
    Contentsquare
    • Heat mapping is great on Hotjar. It is a good place to start when you are looking at the UX & CRO on your website. You can see the % of people clicking on elements on a page, how far they scroll, and mouse movements.
    • Hotjar is great for session recordings. These record the mouse movements, clicks, pages and scrolls of a user in video format. You can watch these to investigate what works well on a site and identify potential roadblocks and bugs.
    • Hotjar is great as it ensures that users details are anonymous; for instance, if you are watching a session recording, you cannot see what a user types in a form field, as Hotjar blanks this out.
    • Hotjar has a poll function, so you can have polls on your website.
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
    • Custom landing pages to dive deeper into campaigns and track results
    • Responsive customer service with any problems we come by
    • A/B testing
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    Cons
    Contentsquare
    • Hotjar is primarily used for web-based experiences. Not that easy to use on mobile apps.
    • I'd love to see Hotjar integrated with Google Analytics for an even deeper view.
    • Hotjar is primarily used by smaller organizations...pricing can get steep quickly for larger organizations.
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
    • I do have issues sometimes when making a website popup. I specify certain measurements of my popup yet when it shows up on my website, the graphic doesn't adjust and I have a bunch of white space. But that could also be my website.
    • When adding a new contact into the contact section, once you hit save, the contact information stays on the screen instead of an empty contact profile so you can immediately add the next person.
    • Sometimes when I update a template, The unsubscribe link will link to my email address instead of the person the email is being sent to.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Contentsquare
    For small companies with limited user testing budgets, ClickTale serves as a useful user testing tool. When I cannot get the funds for in depth user testing, I always know that I have a baseline of information I can rely on
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
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    Usability
    Contentsquare
    It is fairly easy to use, easy to explain, and easy to learn even for a non-techie like me. I admit I was a little intimidated when it was recommended by my developers, but I learned afterwards that there really was nothing to worry about. My experience has been awesome so far!
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
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    Support Rating
    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is a SaaS-based company, and as such has a good support service. Users can quickly submit support tickets through Hotjar's online portal. Enterprise customers get access to additional support members and have SLAs to support their larger, more complex needs. Overall, Hotjar is extremely reliable and I've never had to reach out to customer support.
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
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    Alternatives Considered
    Contentsquare
    ContentSquare [(Clicktale)] is going deeper on UX understanding than traditional web analytics tools. You can truly understand how a page is used (where users click or even miss click, on which part of the page they are spending most of their time, if some links are clicked but bad positioned on the page...), and that's a thing you can't really measure trough a traditional web analytics tool.
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
    They were the only company that could solve our specific problems. When we looked at larger companies like Constant Contact, they weren't as capable at handling our specific needs for a reasonable price. Some companies need to charge us programming hours. Bigger companies couldn't help our issue. emfluence is more flexible.
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    Return on Investment
    Contentsquare
    • Our UX team can now use hard data to back up and validate design decisions that we make. Our role as usability experts is becoming more respected and integral to business objectives because we now have data that can back up our field of study and prove that our roles are demonstrably useful and necessary.
    • HotJar allows our small team of 3 UX designers to get research data as if we were a much larger team. Instead of painstakingly using our time to do guerrilla research, endless user observations, and other types of manual testing, we can now get a significant portion of our data from HotJar.
    • Using HotJar is actually giving our team a sense of excitement and enjoyment in our day-to-day usability work. Instead of seeing UX as a chore, HotJar is making data gathering and analyzing more fun, because we can see tangible results from a much larger pool of user/user-data than we could in the past.
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    emfluence Digital Marketing
    • It's allowed for us to generate more traffic to our client's websites.
    • It's allowed for us to generate more leads from email marketing through emfluence.
    • Visual click maps, more customized dashboard and email templates, and a deeper dive in data would help further business objectives.
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    ScreenShots

    emfluence Marketing Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of search perimeters and contact characteristics using the Dynamic Marketing Group Query Builder.Screenshot of Google Analytics, used to measure the success of email and social media alongside spikes in website traffic. Granular reports can be scheduled for an overview of surveys, landing pages, forms, social posts, emails, and list growth.Screenshot of the drag-and-drop Workflow Canvas visual interface used to create automated marketing campaigns, plus send contacts from a single group into branches based on email views, clicks, or custom queries.Screenshot of the interface to build branching into automated workflows based on opens, clicks, or custom decisions (based on custom or out-of-the-box contact fields, dates, and more).Screenshot of a schedule with a month's worth of social media and email, built using the drag and drop marketing calendar.Screenshot of custom email templates, which can be reused or rebuilt with a drag and drop editor.