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    GaggleAMP

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGaggleAMP's employee advocacy and communications platform enables companies to boost the distribution of workforce communications and social media messaging. The solutions aims to foster a network of people, or a Gaggle, who share company-created messages to their social media networks and contribute content to their internal workforce community. This aids in employee development, leveraging them as a thought leader in their space while increasing social selling and recruitment…

    $25

    per month

    Pulsar CORE

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APulsar is a social media monitoring platform offering social listening, owned channels analytics, and social CRM. Customers use Pulsar for brand tracking and campaign measurement. The platform includes 4 tools: TRAC: Social media listening across topics, audiences and content diffusion. CORE: Owned channels analytics to measure your content performance and audience growth. FLOW: Social customer relationship management and social media publishing. TEAM: Analyse your internal social networks…

    $1,200

    150,000 mentions

    Pricing
    GaggleAMPPulsar CORE
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    $1
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    Agency
    $1
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    Small and Medium Businesses
    $300
    25 seats per month
    TRAC (starter package)
    $1,200
    150,000 mentions
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GaggleAMPPulsar CORE
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsGaggleAMP serves small businesses, medium-size businesses, enterprise-class organizations, and agencies that represent these businesses. Their small business offering starts at 25 seats for $300 per month, with additional packages available based on the number of seats needed. For Enterprise-class pricing and agency offerings, it is best to speak with a GaggleAMP representative to secure a rate.Prices listed are on a 'starting from' basis. All TRAC packages have unlimited user log-ins, unlimited search queries and are charged on the amount of mentions pulled in. Bespoke packages are available.
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GaggleAMPPulsar CORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
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    7.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    GaggleAMPPulsar CORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GaggleAMP
    GaggleAMP is well suited when you want to get timely local language content out to folks in other countries/regions, or content for a specific group/department. It is also well suited when you have multiple Gaggle content managers with multiple content calendars. It might be less appropriate if you want to hold multiple Social contests (gamification) with different rules, scopes, leaderboards, etc. for different groups/tags as there is only one leaderboard.
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    Pulsar
    I think that Pulsar is a good tool for brands or agencies who have a set list of competitors or subbrands that they are looking to do a monthly/weekly comparison of engagement metrics. When you have the brand account inputted, the data is shown in a visually tangible way and easy to comprehend.
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    Pros
    GaggleAMP
    • Easy to tell associates what posts to like and share. Especially like that we can point them to like or share industry posts.
    • Easy to get others in organization to sign up. Also offers app and browser app.
    • Gamefication aspect allows associates to have friendly competition and allows awarding of prizes for reaching set point values
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    Pulsar
    • Track engagements over time
    • Easy to use interface
    • Modern and updated display
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    Cons
    GaggleAMP
    • There are no out of the box implementations to get started quick.
    • The campaign manager could be more involved and vocal about recommendations and how to implement them.
    • I'd like deeper insight into what my employees do and do not like to share.
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    Pulsar
    • Unfortunately, when exporting data it is often hard to read in an easy format.
    • I've used other tools where you can get historical data once you put into the tool but Pulsar cannot do that.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GaggleAMP
    Customer service has been good. It's easy to use. It's cost effective. It's a good way to expand your social presence and get your employees more vested in branding the company without spending a ton of money. There are bells and whistles that may be good for other users. I just haven't had the time to use them
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    Pulsar
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    Usability
    GaggleAMP
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    Pulsar
    Pulsar is not a complex tool by any means. The interface is updated and comprehensive, and I've used multiple tools in the past where the interface was very outdated and exporting data was often a difficult process since it was not well organized. The tool works well in visualizing complex data.
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    Support Rating
    GaggleAMP
    Support for GaggleAMP is easily the best customer support I've experienced with any software tool. Our rep, Sam, is dedicated to our account (no bouncing around a call-center bullpen), and is highly proactive and eager to help us succeed. Most of our interactions have nothing to do with problems, but rather opportunities to optimize our use of the tool and set us up for greatest success. GaggleAMP sets a gold standard for customer support!
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    Pulsar
    I have not had to reach out to Pulsar support before but my coworkers have and said the support was good.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GaggleAMP
    A former colleague suggested EveryoneSocial, but I think that GaggleAMP has more industry experience in terms of employee advocacy and social engagement. While it did appear somewhat easier to use, it didn't have all the features and attention to detail that GaggleAMP provided such as the detailed reporting and the specific activity suggestions I was looking for.
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    Pulsar
    I think that Pulsar is one of the more updated platforms that I have used and the metrics exported/shown in the dashboard are accurate. I think that some tools report inaccurate metrics gathered from social media platforms due to the new APIs, something that often causes confusion and lack of clarity.
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    Return on Investment
    GaggleAMP
    • Take this with a grain of salt, but our company's all-time CPC (cost per click) savings is $1.85 M ($184,116.95 last quarter).
    • GaggleAMP has become an important part in getting our employees and partners to engage with us on Social Media more regularly - a great tool for getting information out there.
    • Brand awareness.
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    Pulsar
    • Input into our algorithm for brand strength and stature
    • Quick engagement tracking
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    ScreenShots

    GaggleAMP Screenshots

    Screenshot of The member view provides a simple view of actions and messages available. Acting take a simple click of a button. "Share" to share the message or "No Thanks". If a user declines a message/action there is an opportunity for them to provide feedback on why they chose not to share the message or perform the action. This helps the Gaggle manager learn the preferences of their member base and helps future content curation.Screenshot of Channels provide an outlet for employees to create user-generated content, communicate with their fellow employees, discover new content, and more. Channels also allow for automated RSS feeds, pulling in Twitter Lists, and monitoring hashtags, making the content curation process easier for marketing team.Screenshot of My feed shows employees and stakeholders what activities they have available to them. This area enables employees to engage and interact with content. Here they can share content to their social channels, see when content is expiring, and also engage with external and internal Channels.Screenshot of The GaggleAMP scheduling feature helps employees and stakeholders schedule their social media advocacy efforts on their time. Here they can pick and choose which messages they want to schedule, when they want to schedule them to go out, and their default preferences.Screenshot of Gaggle Managers, the term for the administrator of an employee advocacy program, can choose what types of activities to send to their employees and stakeholders. GaggleAMP offers over 50 different activities on any favorite social media networks. Some favorites are displayed here.Screenshot of Leaderboards allow sorting by reach and by points assigned to activities during certain timeframes. With leaderboards, employees and stakeholders can see how they are performing compared to their peers and also have the option to opt-out of the leaderboard.

    Pulsar CORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of The activity dashboard gives you a thorough snapshot of all the key numbers in your datasetScreenshot of Pulsar TRAC advanced location detection gives you up to 100% geo-localised data by city, country and GPS coordinatesScreenshot of The Network map visualizes the engagement patterns within your audience and identifies the most influential usersScreenshot of Slice and dice the data with contextual, behavioural and content filtersScreenshot of See the bigger picture. Pulsar CORE gives you integrated brand-level metrics across all owned channels, so you can measure the total reach and engagement you're getting.