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    Crowdbooster (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACrowdbooster was a tool to measure the success of Twitter and Facebook posts, with visualizations to track retweets, and track potential impressions created, likes, comments, and how many shares a Facebook post has received. Crowdbooster is no longer available.

    $9

    per month

    Exclaimer

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AExclaimer is a provider of email signature solutions, operating with the goal of empowering businesses to u

    $0.90

    per month (billed annually) per user

    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $0.90
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Standard
    $1.45
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Pro
    $1.75
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Licensing is based on the number of active mailboxes Exclaimer adds email signatures to. Subscriptions are on a monthly or annual basis. Volume and charitable discounts are available. Minimum number of users is 10 per month.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Exclaimer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (288 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (67 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (19 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    1.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Exclaimer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Before recommending Crowdbooster, I'd want to know what goals they hope to accomplish with the software. Then I would want them to specifically identify what types of metrics would be most useful to their program. If they specifically need to report out on how many people in a certain location they reached, this isn't the right fit. If they are using other tools, there may be duplication. However, if they are currently using more budget-friendly solutions or just getting started with a new program, Crowdbooster is a perfect fit. It will help you to grow your program and is flexible enough to accommodate your needs.
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    Exclaimer
    Exclaimer is highly beneficial for larger companies that have a range of business units and requirements around the look and feel of signatures. Smaller organisations are unlikely to need the same degree of customisation, so the requirement is diminished. Particularly as there is something of a cost premium and another platform to manage.
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    Pros
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    • Timed social media posts - Crowdbooster provides the opportunity to schedule social media posts allowing you to work on other important social media tasks.
    • Simply beautiful tracking - There are millions of ways to measure social media impact. Crowdbooster offers the most important and relevant measurements in simplified charts..
    • Great UI - Crappy UI = crappy experience. Crowdbooster's UI is easy to navigate. It won't take months to learn where all the buttons are.
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    Exclaimer
    • Allows for easily customizing the templates for the signatures.
    • Allows uploading custom logos or banners to be applied in the different signatures
    • Allows assigning specific signatures to groups of users
    • Connects easily with all Google Suite email accounts within the organization
    Incentivized
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    Cons
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    • The ranked order of twitter followers and the number of "tweet impressions" did not help that much. Those "tweet impressions" were not really an estimate of how many people were actually reading my tweet. It was simply a sum of followers of the person retweeting a tweet and the sum of all followers from a subsequent retweet of the initial retweet. All this told me was the best case scenario I could expect if ALL followers of a person that retweeted saw my tweet. This is not a true measure of "twitter footprint" – since the “signal to noise” ratio in Twitter is very low.
    • There was no system in place to track "clicked links" for links embedded in tweets and/or facebook wall posts. Hootsuite did a good job of this – but only for twitter.
    • The list of recommended times to tweet were always "on the hour" (i.e. 10 a.m, 1 p.m.). Never were the times ever at "half past the hour" etc. An independent study that I did on my own using Google Analytics (and campaign links using google's URL builder) helped me determine that my optimal "Tweet time" during the week is 3:30 p.m. ET. More importantly, the recommended times seemed to be roughly the same on the weekends - which I find strange given that social media behavior does change on the weekends.
    • Occasionally, in my facebook ranked table of "loyal fans", I would see people in there that had not "liked" or "commented" on a post for months at a stretch and the "look back" period of the table was only around 7 days or so. Hence, I occasionally had to question the accuracy of that table.
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    Exclaimer
    • A complete tutorial could be added to avoid common pitfalls (such as when to use 0 and when to use auto).
    • The email add-in seems quite clunky when getting going.
    • There is no way to self-serve user-specific changes (such as toggling on/off certain extras, such as direct dials, extensions, and job titles).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Simple to use and a great value for what it offers. It has a simple but clean interface and it provides fantastic historical data you can use to measure your efforts online. By using a tool like Crowdbooster, you can see what is working with your audience and what isn't. From there, you can start tweaking your strategies
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    Exclaimer
    We are very happy with exclaimer it runs 99.9% of the time without any issues. It also very easy to use and maintain and the design team are happy to use it as its so user friendly. When compared to how much time we used to spend updating banners exclaimer saves us hours. This more than justifies the cost and when it comes to renew we wont be thinking twice about doing so
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    Usability
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    I found it fairly intuitive and easy to use. The information is laid out cleanly, and the most important information appears at a glance on the home page. However, I have worked with other users who had a hard time switching between platforms and identifying where other information was buried. It's not always clear that something is a clickable button! The option to export results is also a bit buried, and not integrated with the date range option.
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    Exclaimer
    In the order that I recall the setup process: Signature templates need to be set up (attribute mapping to AD) Office 365 connector needs to be set up (global admin needed and exclaimer engineer for guidance) Signature policies need to be set up (who gets which signatures) Office membership groups need to be setup (who in the org will use exclaimer) Members need to be added to those groups (user membership) Agents need to be deployed on the end-user hosts (local agent)
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Exclaimer
    Never had any issues with availability during our outages.
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    Performance
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    Exclaimer
    I have to admit that there has been an odd occasion when the pages have taken a while to load. This is the exception rather than the rule.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
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    I do not think it is as supported as it once was when it first arrived on the social media scene. It is an older platform whose main functionality may have already ran its course.
    Incentivized
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    Exclaimer
    I've only had one issue in 7 years where I needed to reach out to Exclaimer for support, but it was handled quickly and resolved my issue. No messing around to provide additional information. Just a quick solution to what I was facing which resolved the issue on the first go around.
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    Implementation Rating
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    If you can demo a free trial, that is definitely the best way to see if this will fit your program's specific needs.
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    Exclaimer
    Our implementation was relatively easy as we weren't cutting over from anything. We just got the software installed, set up the file share and got active directory set up. We got exsync on a scheduled task and it just worked. We built our templates and policies and it has always been relatively smooth.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
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    It is a platform that is singularly focused. It does not have a lot of the additions that come stock with other platforms such as robust reporting or deeper insights past schedule times. It is also a stand-alone platform and a lot of its primary functionality can be found in more encompassing platforms.
    Incentivized
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    Exclaimer
    Exclaimer blows the doors off compared to Letsignit. Exclaimer is a little more expensive, but you get what you pay for. What you get is a much better user interface, real analytics instead of one crappy report you have to manually sort, and a much more robust campaign area. With Letsignit I was constantly getting messages that they were experiencing one problem or another, leading to service outages that impacted our users. Gotta love it when the CEO calls because he can't find his email signature. I've had no service interruptions with Exclaim and no email "excuses." That's the sort of thing that makes you lose confidence in a supplier quickly. Oh, and no communication/bills in French. I lived near the Canadian border, I get it, but you have customer databases, communicate appropriately.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    Exclaimer
    Everything runs smoothly between us
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    Scalability
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    Exclaimer
    you can easily design more than one signature and spit it among the organisation
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
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    Exclaimer
    We used the Design Template service; this was a very pleasant experience and the design team we in constant communication with us to ensure the templates were designed exactly to our remit.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
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    • Increased efficiency. I am able to generate useful snapshot reports in seconds. Particularly useful when you need answers fast (such as on a phone call).
    • Peace of mind. I am able to compare the data in Crowdbooster to what is exported from Facebook and Twitter.
    • Quicker, simpler evaluation of results. I am able to more easily compare impressions with engagement data to see what is working, and what should change. Particularly useful in day-to-day analysis.
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    Exclaimer
    • Uniform feel for all emails sent by the organisation.
    • Meets regulatory Compliance.
    • Ability to send out the right phone numbers for the right departments.
    • It is easy to onboard new staff with the correct details from day 1 (no setup is needed from the new starter).
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    ScreenShots

    Exclaimer Screenshots

    Screenshot of how Exclaimer helps amplify every email with optimized email signatures for the whole organization.Screenshot of the Social Feeds feature. This can display the three latest social posts in an email signature, to strengthen connections and communities.Screenshot of where Exclaimer gives users the ability to automate and schedule signature updates. This helps to guarantee consistent, branded signatures on every email – even from mobile devices and Macs.Screenshot of the Exclaimer Cloud Outlook Add-in, which allows users to choose their email signature as they compose a message.Screenshot of where users can assign signatures to teams, departments, or entire organizations. This interface lets users tailor messages for specific recipients, fostering engagement through personalized approaches.