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    DemandScience

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADemandScience is a data-driven marketing platform that offers lead generation and data services that accelerate the technology sales process by identifying intent among technology buyers. Founded in 2009, DemandScience helps marketers meet the ever-changing demands of B2B sales.N/A

    Social Mention

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ASocial Mention is a free tool which is a kind of Google search for the social web. It provides basic search and alerts across a very broad variety of social channels.N/A
    Pricing
    DemandScienceSocial Mention
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DemandScienceSocial Mention
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DemandScienceSocial Mention
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    DemandScience
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    66 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    64 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    67 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    60 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DemandScienceSocial Mention
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of DemandScience and Social Mention
    Feature
    DemandScience
    7.8
    17 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting8.617 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics7.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DemandScienceSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (75 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (69 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.5
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DemandScienceSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DemandScience
    Demand Science did deliver the quantity of leads without issue. The data for a few was not accurate (bounced when following up). But they agreed to make good by providing substitute leads to meet the quota. Towards the end of my project, they lost a few folks, and so the end of my campaign got a little rough as they were taking over some assignments midway. But we ultimately completed the SOW. I will say that the leads did not perform well in our email cadence - none converted. However, this was a test of the concept for us. Content syndication had a lower cost per qualified lead than some other tactics, so we tested it. Your results may vary, based on your follow-up and your market.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.
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    Pros
    DemandScience
    • The initial pitch and contact from Mason used "show me you know me" well, which we felt was a good sign of company culture and approach to database marketing.
    • Delivery of leads was ahead of schedule.
    • They set expectations, and then delivered what they said they would.
    • The leads matched our criteria as agreed.
    • Regular check ins and catch ups, and patience when thing were taking a bit of time to get sorted here.
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    Social Mention
    • Can predict future response from today's number.
    • Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
    • Has a very well managed dashboard of results.
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    Cons
    DemandScience
    • We would like to see more proactive communication on what's working and what's not without requiring a meeting - regular reporting cadence to assess asset quality
    • A dashboard view might be nice as well, again, so we can look at an asset and see how it's performing (or if it isn't) without having to wait on a rep to pull a report or schedule a walkthrough
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    Social Mention
    • Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
    • Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
    • Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DemandScience
    Our executives decided to not renew because we were not seeing the ROI they were looking for. However, our executives did not make the best decisions on the data Demand Science provided.
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    Social Mention
    I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away
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    Usability
    DemandScience
    The leads were pretty straight forward. However, their appointment setting did not integrate well into our system and many of the meetings didn't occur. I had to chase a lot of prospects and many times Demand Science didn't provide direct dials.
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    Social Mention
    While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.
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    Support Rating
    DemandScience
    Our rep is always available and quickly responds to any question we have. I haven't worked with other partners who are as proactive and excited to help us as our DemandScience rep is. He reaches out with new ideas and suggestions frequently. They are happy to make any changes needed to the campaigns and make those changes quickly and efficiently. They work well with our execution agency, but are also happy to meet with us directly to provide insights and support.
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    Social Mention
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    Implementation Rating
    DemandScience
    They did extremely well. However, our executives did a poor job in defining our ICP so we didn't get the maximum benefit out of it.
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    Social Mention
    It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DemandScience
    I've not used another content syndication company, and I probably won't after the lack of results we've had. I have used direct email organizations, and they are stronger but also more expensive, so you have to weigh your priorities. I could see if you were selling a specific product or software and how this could be beneficial, but I'd steer away from it for services.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.
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    Return on Investment
    DemandScience
    • We have been able to grow our lead numbers with high quality leads at a reasonable cost
    • We have been able to generate just the leads we want to support our Business Development team
    • We have been able to get our content in front of our specific TAL
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    Social Mention
    • The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).
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