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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    EZ Texting

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AEZ Texting provides businesses and organizations with a text marketing solution, including features and integrations to keep conversations going. The solution can be used by businesses to connect with their audiences. It can be used to send promotions, promote a new product, build brand awareness, or drive traffic to websites or storefronts. EZ Texting Key Features EZ Texting's features are designed to enhance the effectiveness of text marketing efforts.…

    $25

    per month

    ON24

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AON24 is an intelligent engagement platform, that enables customers to continuously engage audiences with AI-powered, hyper-personalized webinar, virtual event and content experiences.N/A
    Pricing
    EZ TextingON24
    Editions & Modules
    Launch
    Starting at $25
    per month
    Boost
    Starting at $75
    per month
    Scale
    Starting at $125
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at $3,000
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EZ TextingON24
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsLAUNCH PLAN: Recommended for up to 500 contacts. Local EZ Textable Number. Max Speed: up to 500/day. Cost Per Msg:$0.030. Delivery Rate: 95% Includes 500 free msg/mo or 6k annually. BOOST PLAN: Recommended for 501-2,000 contacts. Local EZ High-Volume Number. Max Speed: up to 2,000/day. Cost Per Msg: $0.025. Delivery Rate: 95% Includes 500 free msg/mo or 6k annually. SCALE PLAN: Recommended for 2,000-50,000 contacts. Local EZ High-Volume, High-Speed Number. Max Speed: up to 50,000/day. Cost Per Msg: $0.020. Delivery Rate: 95%. Includes 500 free msg/mo or 6k annually. ENTERPRISE PLAN: Recommended for 50,000+ contacts. This Plan offers. Dedicated Short Codes. Max Speed: up to 1 MM/day. Cost Per Msg: $0.010. Delivery Rate: 99%. Includes 200k msg/mo. Pricing information for EZ Texting is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase EZ Texting must be conducted with the seller. Included in All Plans: Unlimited Incoming Messages, Contacts, & Keywords. New Features: Realize ROI faster with AI Compose & Team Inbox with AI Reply. Live Support Chat: Monday-Friday 8am-8pm ET and Saturday-Sunday 9am-5pm ET. Growth Tools: QR Codes, Keywords & Signup Forms. MMS Edge: Enhanced Image Library + Editor powered by Shutterstock. CRM-Lite: Upload, Management, Groups & Personalization.—
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    Features
    EZ TextingON24
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of EZ Texting and ON24
    Feature
    EZ Texting
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of EZ Texting and ON24
    Feature
    EZ Texting
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.3
    413 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings8.1356 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Integrates with social media00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings7.1395 Ratings
    Slideshows00 Ratings7.2392 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings7.4389 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of EZ Texting and ON24
    Feature
    EZ Texting
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.3
    416 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Live chat00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Audience polling00 Ratings6.8377 Ratings
    Q&A00 Ratings8.1413 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of EZ Texting and ON24
    Feature
    EZ Texting
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    9.0
    384 Ratings
    5% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.9374 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list00 Ratings8.0357 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of EZ Texting and ON24
    Feature
    EZ Texting
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.0
    390 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Branding options00 Ratings8.5382 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings7.9335 Ratings
    Attendee list export00 Ratings7.638 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of EZ Texting and ON24
    Feature
    EZ Texting
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.8
    42 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
    Livestreaming00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Audience engagement00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Event recording00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Virtual booths00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Networking00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Event analytics00 Ratings7.242 Ratings
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    EZ TextingON24
    Small Businesses
    SimpleTexting
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Attentive
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Airship
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EZ TextingON24
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (284 ratings)
    6.8
    (461 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.9
    (44 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (122 ratings)
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (210 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (112 ratings)
    9.9
    (33 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.7
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.4
    (231 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EZ TextingON24
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CallFire
    EZ Texting would be well suited for a small business that doesn't have the man power to be able to contact all of the leads they have coming in or who struggles to maintain communication with current clients at times. It would not be appropriate for a business who is looking to send phishing texts out to a large group of people.
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    I find that ON24 caters for all types of organisations, having it allows for more choice/options. The experience around virtual events if fantastic and the ON24 team is constantly improving the platform. If you want to run a virtual events programme where you want to generate leads and track engagement, then ON24 is the platform for you
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    Pros
    CallFire
    • I appreciate the detailed delivery reports.
    • The support team’s quick responses are appreciated.
    • The automation feature is incredibly handy for instantly messaging leads right after they sign up.
    • The onboarding process is straightforward.
    • Genuine customer inquiries show up in the inbox, organizing important messages in one place.
    • You can avoid the email spam folder by using ez texting!
    • Opt-outs resolve themselves.
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    Cvent
    • Registration pages are easy to build and look clean
    • Console (audience view) offers many tools to use for presentations and to engage the audience
    • Reporting and analytics are robust and provide detailed reports that help us process attendees in our marketing database
    • Support team and responsive and helpful
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    Cons
    CallFire
    • Drafts don't save well, seemed like I kept having to redo the same text because a draft wouldn't save.
    • I want to be able to click and update users quickly, but there were too many steps to add/remove people from lists.
    • The app didn't work if I used google SSO - i couldn't ever get signed in.
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    Cvent
    • There was a recent update within the past year where the UX designer or developer thought it would be best to wide all titles from the audience view until they placed their mouse on top of the window. That was the worst mistake, as we have a moderator script where we tell the audience what each of the tool bars are and they can’t grasp what the tool is without putting their mouse there. From an accessibility standpoint point, it’s back to 1999 when there was no laws about accessibility.
    • Number one above is a major pain point.
    • ON24 needs to do a better job of introducing features and soliciting feedback from their customers vs making a high impactful change like #1 described above.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CallFire
    We're excited about EZ Texting and what it does for us. We want to get more into automation with campaigns dealing directly with web sales so a more robust solution will likely leave EZ Texting as our event activation partner and only be used during select times of the year.
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    Cvent
    ON24 is everything we expected and everything we needed. It's simple to use, extremely customizable, and scales very easily. The integration to our CRM makes ON24 major lead generator for our sales team from our established webinars series. We can automate lead delivery to our sales team as well. If anything, we will look to expand our partnership in the future.
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    Usability
    CallFire
    EZ Text was very easy to set up and very intuitive. It does not take long at all to add your contact lists or to set up templates. It takes a second to get used to when it comes to sending mass group texts, but all in all, it does what we need to do and was easy to implement. We were able to do it ourselves.
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    Cvent
    97% of our attendees say it is the best trainings they have every attended. But they other 3% have a horrible experience (while watching the event live) interesting fact. On24 uses two different encoders for live vs OnDemand. I have never had issues with the On-Demand experience. My only complaints come during live events
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    Reliability and Availability
    CallFire
    We have never needed to use the system and it be unavailable. They seem to schedule their server maintenance perfectly (at least for us!).
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    Cvent
    ON24 is always available when I have a question about a new feature, if I'm having issues during a live webinar, or if I'm having issues with a webinar on the backend. Our client support specialist, Heather Haines, has always been incredibly consistent with getting me the answers I need when I need them.
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    Performance
    CallFire
    It works pretty well but sometimes things don't work the way you would assume, IE marking messages as read is not as intuitive
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    Cvent
    Sometimes (it may be my computer) i cant login to ON24. I create a new PW and then i still cant get in. I clear cache/try new browser etc. and nothing works. I come back in a few hours and its like the problem never existed, its the strangest thing. Outside of that everything works pretty seamless. We've ran into a few bumps with Marketo talking to ON24 and passing reg through but have that figured out now. Not being able to be on a VPN when connecting to webcam on the presenter side does cause issues for our government speakers.
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    Support Rating
    CallFire
    EZ Texting "gets it"! When I have had something I needed customer service to help me with, they returned my emails and calls promptly. I have a smaller business and they came through as if I was a huge corporate entity. They really care about all sizes of customers!
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    Cvent
    ON24 support is really good with the 24/5 support chat line, where someone actually responds within 30 seconds. The customers success team is also really good and our rep is very helpful with all our questions. Whenever we have more technical questions, she will bring on a IT designer or a tech specialist on our calls for additional comments and help.
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    In-Person Training
    CallFire
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    Cvent
    Great communication and clarity
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    Online Training
    CallFire
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    Cvent
    On24 has amazing ON-Demand trainings that you can use at anytime and they walk you through step by step on different topics/ they are always updating and innovating and putting out new trainings. I would highly reccomend the trainings and reading the documents they have created. They also do live webinars on a rolling basis that are filled with so much knowledge and Information
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    Implementation Rating
    CallFire
    The most important aspect of implementation was selecting a valuable keyword. When we first started using EZ Texting, we were able to grab a simple, easy word to use to connect people to our texts. That proved invaluable in our marketing and selling people on using the service. If we didn't have a good word, I would imagine it wouldn't have been as successful.
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    Cvent
    We had a few training's, which were broken up, and focused on specific areas of how to use the platform. Mostly though, a lot of it is just dedicating your time to learning and exploring what the possibilities are for enhancing your webinars
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    Alternatives Considered
    CallFire
    We chose EZ Texting over enterprise solutions because of it's ease of set up, ease of use, and low barrier to entry. We had discussions with other companies, and it seemed very complicated and would require a lot of set up on our end. We don't have a dedicated IT or marketing team. We are a small business. So those barriers were just too complicated and we decided to go with an easier solution.
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    Cvent
    From what I've seen, ON24 is built specifically to meet the needs of event marketing (or marketing generally), versus the other platforms which are more about simply providing a mechanism to hold virtual meetings. The integration with sales and marketing systems is really valuable. I don't know about pricing differences, but if the competitors were comparable, I would still select ON24.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    CallFire
    We have been grandfathered into our old package, but I wish there were better package options offered now.
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    Scalability
    CallFire
    We haven't really utilized it for this purpose but it does seem like there are a lot of great options you can utilize.
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    Cvent
    The ON24 platform is straightforward to use and train clients on, which is a huge plus. Clients appreciate its features and simplicity. Internally, we receive valuable analytical data from webinar events, enabling the organization to make data-driven decisions. This helps us optimize strategies and drive success for B2B businesses effectively.
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    Professional Services
    CallFire
    easy access
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    Cvent
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    Return on Investment
    CallFire
    • Customers, as well as potential customers, do not seem to have any issue, providing their phone numbers for text messages as opposed to receiving countless emails.
    • Upselling items has improved considerably due to our ability to notify customers of new products and specials that we are offering in the store.
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    Cvent
    • We get a lot of MQLs from our webinars. The integration with SFDC is a game changer over platforms that don't offer that integration.
    • The addition of emojis and chat to our event consoles has greatly increased our engagement.
    • We love marketing the fact that on-demand viewers can still submit questions and we'll answer them by email. Who else can say that?
    • We would like to be able to make changes to all console elements after events have taken place. Sometimes stuff just needs to be updated.
    • As we improve our audience segmentation, we are looking forward to the segment customization options that are now available on the console.
    • The webinars ON24 sponsors provide us with some great ideas for improving our overall strategic marketing.
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    ScreenShots

    EZ Texting Screenshots

    Screenshot of EZ Texting Dashboard: View recent activity, upcoming campaigns, and access AI Assistant.Screenshot of Enhanced Image Library + Editor: Our enhanced Shutterstock integration helps you unlock and edit 450+ million free images and 20k design templates, giving you the license to create more scroll-stopping texts.Screenshot of AI Compose: Create engaging messages instantly with emojis, helpful templates, easy editing, multilingual translations, and more.Screenshot of Workflows: Effortlessly send texts triggered by actions and events to boost engagement and drive conversions. With a drag & drop editor, technical expertise or code is never required.Screenshot of Quickly create engaging texts with built-in tools, including AI Compose, to add personalization, trackable URLs, media, and more! Stay compliant with EZ Texting's SafeSTOP® feature.Screenshot of Reporting Made Easy: Get delivery confirmations, check on bounce rates and view opted-outs.

    ON24 Screenshots

    Screenshot of Red Whale creates webinar series, Deep Dives, to engage General Practitioners.Screenshot of SAP Concur takes its customer activation workshops virtual with ON24.Screenshot of Atheanhealth broadcasts an authentic conversation with industry thought leaders to its audience.Screenshot of SAS creates webinar series, Analytics in 20, to education product best practices in short amount of time.Screenshot of NVIDIA creates always-on content library filled with webinars with ON24 Engagement Hub, segmented by different languages and geo-locations.Screenshot of ADP, using ON24 Target, creates personalized landing pages to encourage and accelerate ADP benefit enrollment.  This resource page has on-demand webinars, help articles and ways to immediately enroll.