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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cordial

    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Cordial Intelligent Messaging is an email marketing solution built around features such as triggered messaging, real-time data segmentation, and robust integrations.N/A

    kvCORE

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AThe kvCORE platform is described by the vendor, Inside Real Estate in Draper, as a next-gen solution for modern brokerages and enterprises to run their entire business on one platform.N/A
    Pricing
    CordialkvCORE
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CordialkvCORE
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CordialkvCORE
    Considered Both Products
    Cordial
    No answer on this topic
    Inside Real Estate
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    56%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    68%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    50%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    54%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    CordialkvCORE
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Cordial and kvCORE
    Feature
    Cordial
    7.4
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    kvCORE
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Cordial and kvCORE
    Feature
    Cordial
    7.0
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    kvCORE
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    CordialkvCORE
    Small Businesses
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    CordialkvCORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    1.9
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CordialkvCORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cordial
    Cordial has multiple options to create a message: single campaign, automation, orchestration and sculpt templates, which are drag-and-drop type functionalities but each of these blocks are based on HTML content so a user needs to be technically savvy. I would avoid using HTML includes as it is not possible to see which include a customer received. The team is fabulous, they know the tool and are dedicated to the success of the business. They are quick to respond and provide feedback. Reporting and analytics are very manual if you are combining multiple days in a test.
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    Inside Real Estate
    I think if you have a very large brokerage and can afford to pay for a fully customized set up then it may be worthwhile. I would make sure you have a dedicated support team, not an account manager. In my opinion, the account managers are worthless and will not respond most of the time. We are on our second account manager in 9 months of using the system and cannot get in touch with him. In my experience, the account managers have no knowledge of how the system works or how anyone in real estate would want it to work. Obviously, I can only say this for the two managers we have had so far. I would steer clear of this system unless you want to spend a few thousand a month for a system that, I feel, will impede your business rather than improve it.
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    Pros
    Cordial
    • Provides helpful desktop and mobile previews.
    • Sends emails reliably.
    • Allows for pretty robust audience rules.
    Incentivized
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    Inside Real Estate
    • Not one thing!
    • It sends unwanted canned responses to potential clients that you haven't approved. You must figure out how to use it to make them stop. This was day 1.
    • If you like to learn using many many different videos to learn a product, then this maybe for you.
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    Cons
    Cordial
    • Some of the tasks on the platform are still technical in nature and often requires the help of a developer or technical marketer. But I've witnessed great strides towards accessibility and ease of use for non-technical marketers over the past three years.
    • A lot of the templating must be built from scratch.
    • Deliverability insights (out of the box) could be expanded further.
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    Inside Real Estate
    • Their support is good, but wait times can be long. They want you to use their chat, but then when you ask your question, it can be a several hour wait time between responses. The people are nice and resolve your issue. But I think chat is for quick back and forth communication, not something with a long delay. Also, you can only really do it effectively on your computer, not on your phone.
    • It's proving very tough to track leads from campaigns we are running ourselves. If your website converts a lead, it really just gives you the website source, and even that only some of the time. It would be great to create custom sources and have kvCORE track that traffic and lead via some sort of UTM tag or URL parameter.
    • Some of the load times aren't great. When I load up my database, it takes a while to actually display. Also, when a lead is claimed in a pond, you have to refresh to be able to contact them. Then once you add a campaign, you have to refresh again to see the tasks that fire. This is a bit clunky.
    • The app is great, but there is still some limited functionality. It would be great to access and claim leads from a pond on the mobile app. Also if you could get push notifications when new leads are added. Our time to lead sucks, and that's because kvCORE doesn't alert you super quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cordial
    No answers on this topic
    Inside Real Estate
    It doesn't deserve a zero because you can access contacts and get reminders to contact them. In my experience, you can not use the system for proper communication with both prospects and their spouses.
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    Support Rating
    Cordial
    No answers on this topic
    Inside Real Estate
    I love kvCORE's support. Having the little chat feature in the bottom right of my screen the whole time I'm working takes away any stress or worry about using it. When I first started using it, I learned its features by clicking and trying things, and more than once I had to go into the chat support and ask how to undo or fix what I had done. I don't think I've ever waited more than 5 minutes to get a reply back and it being almost instant and right there on my screen allowed me to continue working and know immediately when my question had been answered.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cordial
    Cordial by far has the best UI for simple navigation
    Incentivized
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    Inside Real Estate
    Konversion and BoomTown are the only two I have used. Both have their things to recommend. Since I used Konversion, using kvCORE was simpler and I was able to upload my contacts seamlessly. This made adopting a new system easier and less likely to have a gap in contacting customers.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cordial
    • Best to manage your clients' business.
    • Not ideal for freelancers.
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    Inside Real Estate
    • Because I am an EXP agent, I receive kvCore for $50/month so I have a $1550/month positive over any non-EXP agent.
    • Great new lead follow up with automatic and realistic contact for a higher conversion rate that I couldn't do by myself.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Cordial Screenshots

    Screenshot of Testing Powered by Machine-Learning: Never wait for an answer again. Test multiple message variations in real-time.Screenshot of Testing Powered by Machine Learning: Never wait for an answer again. Test multiple message variations in real-time.Screenshot of Native Drag-and-drop Email Builder: Build completely custom 1:1 personalized messages in seconds.Screenshot of Effortless Campaign Orchestration: Create sophisticated cross-channel message streams based on simple if/then statements.Screenshot of Up-to-the-Second Analytics and Reporting: Track customer behavior across all of your digital properties.Screenshot of Native Drag-and-Drop Editor: Build completely custom 1:1 personalized messages in seconds.

    kvCORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of IDX websites for all agents - with behavioral intelligence & chat.Screenshot of Smart CRM bubbles up top priorities each day in 1 dashboard.Screenshot of Agents wake up to warm leads right on their phone.Screenshot of Mass Email + Text, Video Messaging, Power Dialer, Pond Accounts + MoreScreenshot of Drive listing exposure with seamless social media sharing.Screenshot of Tight transaction and business analytics integration.