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    Cronycle (discontinued)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACronycle was market intelligence platform for market research, product innovation, and sales enablement teams. It enabled discovery of a variety of data (including articles, documents, conversations, and more) from top experts across 80,000 topics, delivering relevant content that users need to know about. The service has been discontinued.N/A

    InboundWriter

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AInboundWriter is a relatively focused content marketing tool containing predictive analytics, suggestions, and authoring guidelines for content optimization. InboundWriter has been backed by about $2.5 million in venture capital since its inception in 2011.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
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    Features
    Cronycle (discontinued)InboundWriter
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Cronycle (discontinued) and InboundWriter
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    Ratings
    InboundWriter
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Ideation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Approval workflows00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content collaboration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content calendar00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Cronycle (discontinued) and InboundWriter
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    InboundWriter
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Content hub00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content distribution00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content promotion00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Cronycle (discontinued) and InboundWriter
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    InboundWriter
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Audience profiling and targeting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content performance analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Competitive analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Contently
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    Medium-sized Companies
    HG Insights Platform
    Score9.2 out of 10
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    HG Insights Platform
    Score9.2 out of 10
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cronycle (discontinued)InboundWriter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cronycle (discontinued)InboundWriter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Prior to adopting Cronycle, our research team had a variety of different ways in which they would discover, store
    and share information. These methods were often inconsistent, with many smaller
    teams or sub-groups of researchers operating independently of others. In many cases, content that was potentially useful to more than one
    colleague was not being shared at all. We had thousands of different sources,
    accessed through varying methods and stored in different locations/systems, and
    very few colleagues would have had an idea of which sources other team members
    were using. Furthermore, we became aware as a team that while between us we
    were pulling in a lot of information, much of what was being discovered was not
    necessarily being acted upon, or indeed being read by the colleague to whom it
    was most relevant. We also needed to become more targeted, and indeed more
    selective, in the information we were seeing, and Cronycle -specifically through the Sources Library, the Feeds, and the tagging and notification functionality - has enabled us to do
    just this. There has been a genuinely transformative outcome to our information gathering ability, borne out by specific metrics, which Cronycle has also provided us with via the Enterprise account.
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    InboundWriter
    I think most users have found that InboundWriter is every bit worth what you pay for it. At a freemium model, it's affordable and helpful in analyzing your posts for SEO direction. It is particularly well suited for getting focused terms on specific topics, and less on more general terms.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
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    • relevant, spot-on content to any of the 80.000 topics they curate.
    • Content curation, quickly assemble insights from a multitude of sources
    • collaborating, commenting, and creating insights around any of the topics you focus on with a team is a breeze, and in one central place.
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    InboundWriter
    • Very easy to use and follow direction.
    • The price is right for this freemium Wordpress plugin.
    • Helps discover what content and keywords are popular around your subject matter.
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    Cons
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    • For some reason logging on for a few months does not go as easy as usual, because nowadays I need a least two attempts to log in.
    • I think I do only use the core functionality of Cronycle: getting indication info by keywords via multiple sites.
    • Vice versa: if people come to me with a suspected issue, I double-check via Cronycle by entering that issue as search in found results. A low occurrence often indicates the suspected issue likely is not so severe.
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    InboundWriter
    • Sometimes tough to decide what direction to follow without keyword stuffing your content.
    • Colleagues have complained about the Document Score being unreliable at times.
    • It's only as good as the information you put into it and lacks the ability to give you more high level though leadership terms/topics.
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    Support Rating
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    Any issues with the platform have always been resolved quickly. I have never previously worked with a third party software provider whose support team is as responsive.
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    InboundWriter
    The InboundWriter support is certainly sufficient for the type of troubleshooting you may encounter when using the tool. There are chats and forums available with best practices or knowledge share. For bigger issues, even WordPress can serve as a support system for getting to the answer quickly. Luckily, you're more likely to find that it is a very intuitive tool that is easy to use.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Hootsuite publication prep and scheduling is great, better than Cronycl (a manual process) Cronycl management of feeds, filtering creation of topical boards are excellent, Hootsuite doesn't offer this. Cronycle I find it easier, more attractive, and better filtering than Buffer, though Buffer was slightly better at the publication prep.
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    InboundWriter
    While Yoast is also very useful as a free WordPress plugin that helps up your SEO game, where it stops at just providing direction for your meta data, like titles and descriptions, InboundWriter takes your search engine reach a bit further and helps you create relevant content for your industry that targets the right keywords and topics.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Cronycle is my secret superpower (well, it was until now!)
    • I have landed and retained clients by wowing them with insights their own teams have not previously provided
    • I have aced speaking gigs and secured many more by engaging audiences with insights gained through this tool
    Incentivized
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    InboundWriter
    • InboundWriter has helped us craft more SEO-driven content and balance our keyword usage.
    • InboundWriter has also helped us hone in on the specific topics we should be covering for our industry.
    • Overall, it has helped us achieve our goals of creating pillar content and driving more organic traffic.
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