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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DirectLync

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    DirectLync is an all-in-one marketing platform that is designed to help small businesses achieve their sales and marketing goals. The platform brings together contact management, email marketing, social media management, and website CMS into one platform. It provides integrated reporting for all channels saving marketers hours a week in time spent collecting and analyzing data from different sources. Integrated reporting easily enables marketers to get a comprehensive view of their campaigns.…

    $20

    Month

    Growave

    Score9.7 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave), a small company in Kyrgyzstan, offers a Social Login app for Shopify stores, and social product reviews and comments.

    $9

    per month

    Pricing
    DirectLyncGrowave
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $20.00
    Month
    Essential
    $99.00
    Month
    Pro
    $249.00
    Month
    Premium
    $599.00
    Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DirectLyncGrowave
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DirectLyncGrowave
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of DirectLync and Growave
    Feature
    DirectLync
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Growave
    -
    Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    HighLevel
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    LocaliQ
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DirectLyncGrowave
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DirectLyncGrowave
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DirectLync
    Girls PACT receives regular compliments on its website! The audience for our website is potential donors. DirectLync nailed it! The design is clean, modern, professional, user friendly, intuitive and really represents our brand. They gave us some great coaching and guidance as we were creating and preparing content. It was a really fun project!
    Incentivized
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    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    After an exhaustive search, I was excited to choose Growave for my biz rewards & loyalty program, the Smile High Club™. The app is very customizeable so has checked off every requirement as far as our branding style guide goes. The greatest thing about Growave is its people. They are so kind, patient & know their stuff!! They always have an answer for me
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    Pros
    DirectLync
    • DirectLync is knowledgeable in their field, which saves us time (and money).
    • They have a creative team onsite to answer questions promptly.
    • Regularly updating products and services to better serve its customers.
    Incentivized
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    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    • Support - They respond to emails quickly and professionally.
    • Coding - They are Shopify experts and will also try to find a solution to a request.
    • They are also cost effective meaning we are able to progress with development of our site without the high cost some other agencies charge.
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    Cons
    DirectLync
    • Girls PACT is located in Los Angeles. Newsletters are scheduled for PST, yet distributed on EST. It’s an odd glitch and may be a user error.
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    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    • Not really anything there that would necessarily be needed, or that troubled the usage of the app. Of course, there were some "problems" or how I would better describe it "things that needed to be changed" when we first started with the app, but the back office is very easy to use and understand and if there was something, that couldn't be solved there, the customer service was very easy to respond, handle and solve the situation. So that's not really a drawback, because I guess it's a normal thing.
    • The only thing that could be adapted, is that the emails are not multilingual. So it is not possible to translate them even with another translation app. So that's sort of bad for a multilingual shop, but is only a minor drawback.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DirectLync
    No answers on this topic
    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    Because it has been a very useful app, easy to use, filled with great options and a terrific customer service.
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    Usability
    DirectLync
    No answers on this topic
    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    We're currently a small newly launched eCommerce business so our needs are pretty basic. This app is free and does what we need it to and Growave's customer support and their dev team are super patient, helpful and attentive.
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    Support Rating
    DirectLync
    No answers on this topic
    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    They are super attentive and will work with you to make sure that Growave is properly integrated on your site. I had a few conversations with them. They always had prompt replies and they helped to create some custom solutions so that their modules matched the style of our website. It was overall a really great experience working with them.
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    Implementation Rating
    DirectLync
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    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    It was easy to do and their support team helped when needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DirectLync
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    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    Yotpo seems to have more ways to integrate your reviews with other features on your site, but Growave is a simple solution for people who aren't actively focusing their attention on reviews. Yotpo also seems to have better filters for negative keywords and swear words (important for children's toy company). However, Yotpo carries a much higher price tag.
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    Return on Investment
    DirectLync
    • DirectLync has saved our marketing budget thousands of dollars! They have been so generous supporting the marketing needs of Girls PACT, a nonprofit organization.
    Incentivized
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    Growave (formerly SocialShopWave)
    • Consumers truly enjoy the loyalty point program.
    • The App makes it very fluid for easy log in's by the consumer.
    • E-mail Notifications and retention programs are effective.
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