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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.N/A

    Zerys

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AZerys is a content marketing platform for advertisers and agencies which contains workflow controls, calendaring with email alerts, as well as content strategy tools and action plans. Zerys also features a collaboration space and role assignment for teams, as well as a Content Services Marketplace should outside help for content generation be required, with budgeting features.N/A
    Pricing
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteZerys
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteZerys
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteZerys
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Zerys
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zerys
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Ideation5.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Content collaboration7.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Content calendar10.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Approval workflows00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Zerys
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Zerys
    7.5
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Content distribution10.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Content promotion10.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content automation10.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content hub00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Zerys
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    30% above category average
    Zerys
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting10.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Competitive analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteZerys
    Small Businesses
    Contently
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Score6.8 out of 10
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteZerys
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteZerys
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule is great for businesses or agencies who need an overview of all their marketing efforts, and who want to establish collaboration between multiple departments. The calendar view is one of the best we've worked with and makes it easy to see exactly what's happening. There is some slight clunkiness when it comes to admin-related tasks, and a few things aren't easy to find, but there's great support.
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    Zerys
    I sold a few inbound marketing contracts with the expectation that I could find writers for the project on Zerys. We were looking for good writers that can understand the tone and branding of our business and after a few trials with some of the writers at Zerys, I finally found the one that understood us and then created amazing content in no time.
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    Pros
    CoSchedule
    • Best time to post is great at updating to when we get the most engagement by platform
    • Requeue tool to slate out additional posts for a given piece of content is a huge time saver
    • Aggregate analytics tool shows us a peek across our posts on a given platform that's actually easier to read than the platform itself
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    Zerys
    • The customization options for the written pieces you can request are endless and thorough.
    • Some writers are very fast and effective, making our link-building process quicker.
    • It provides notifications along every step of the writing process so that you always know where in the pipeline your content is.
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    Cons
    CoSchedule
    • The platform seems sluggish as of late, likely as a result of the robust amount of data we are entering and the number of filters we're creating.
    • Social media scheduling exists, but we do run into publishing errors more often then we'd like.
    • Task templates when updated are not retroactive, so when you create projects for an entire year and then change a template, you need to go back and change them manually.
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    Zerys
    • There are instances where the writers don't understand the article to be written and don't give you the content you are looking for.
    • The auto reporting feature needs some work. Too many email alerts and no option to change that.
    • Hard to find good writers. Often writers only loosely follow directions so you end up reworking their content anyway.
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    Usability
    CoSchedule
    The interface is very intuitive, from setting up social profiles, to posting, to tags, to optimizing for best day/time to post. It's super easy to scan the aggregate analytics. The calendar is very easy to grok at a glance, and the more advanced functionality is intuitive to set up.
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    Zerys
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    CoSchedule
    I didn't have to use their official support, but I can say that they put out a lot of content online to help users. Their YouTube page has quite an array of tutorial videos explaining how things work and how to get the most out of their tools. If you're struggling, before picking up a phone or blasting off an email, try searching for your problem on YouTube or their forums.
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    Zerys
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule provides collaborative planning of projects. The calendar view is very well designed. Meetings and tasks can be scheduled and tracked easily. Whatever is being done, no matter how big the task/project is, it gives a bird-eye view of everything. Additionally, it also integrated very well with WordPress. Their customer service team is also very helpful.
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    Zerys
    Access to many freelancer writers covering a wide range of topics and the relative ease with which you can manage the writing and editing process with a freelancer writer is good. I believe Zerys has acquired a talented group of writers that are well-versed in a diverse number of topics. Zerys is reliable, and the customer service response is fast, which I greatly appreciate. I do not believe Zerys' interface is as simple as it could be, however.
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    Return on Investment
    CoSchedule
    • It has saved me about 1 hour per day to keep things organized from Asana to WordPress.
    • By not having a functioning Google Doc import feature, it costs me about 30 minutes for each blog post to copy paste all the content, images, etc.
    • By bundling too many features into their plans, many of which we don't use (e.g. social media scheduling), we lose a little ROI because we are not using the full feature set. We use and prefer Buffer for social media, so when CoSchedule raised their price $40+ per month on features we would not be using, that hurt.
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    Zerys
    • Zerys has allowed us to grow our linkbuilding campaigns much more quickly than we would if we tried to create all of the content in-house.
    • We save so much time hiring outside writers to write content rather than writing it ourselves.
    • We are able to take on more projects than ever because we can rely on Zerys' writers to get things done on time.
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    ScreenShots

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of Calendar Organizer: Visualizes everything in real time, and shows every project on a unified calendar of record. Helps to keep stakeholders in the know and pivot quickly when priorities change.Screenshot of Content Organizer: Eliminates content bottlenecks from idea to promotion. Optimizes the editorial process, and centralizes publishing and promotion by connecting marketing tools.Screenshot of Work Organizer: Maximizes resources by implementing consistent, defined workflows to speed up production and identify how urgent changes impact proactively planned work.Screenshot of Asset Organizer: Catalogs and maintains control of brand assets with customized taxonomies to find, update, and share files. Folders and files can be shared with stakeholders to make sure work is up-to-date.Screenshot of Idea Board: Used to write down ideas, take in requests, and prioritize the projects that are up-next, before giving them a publish date and putting them on the calendar organizer.Screenshot of An AI-powered Marketing Intelligence Assistant that can be used to write first-draft copy, complete work faster, and generate new ideas.