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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Gist

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AGist is a unified marketing, sales, and support platform. It includes live chat, a help desk, knowledge base, email marketing, marketing automation, opt-in forms, and more.

    $29

    per month

    GoSquared

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGoSquared provides real-time website analytics to sites of all sizes. The real-time dashboard displays website analytics on an individual visitor basis. The Now App displays concurrent analysis (the visitors who are on your site right now) of your site performance. The Trends App displays historical, trends and comparison analysis on real-time data. You don't have to wait 4 - 24 hours in order to compare todays current performance against last years. The Ecommerce App displays the same freshness…

    $0

    Per Month [Unlimited Users]

    Pricing
    GistGoSquared
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $29.00
    per month
    Premium
    $99.00
    per month
    GoSquared Free - Access to the Now and Trends realtime web analytics dashboard.
    $0
    Per Month [Unlimited Users]
    GoSquared Analytics - Everything included in free plus premium analytics features.
    $29
    Per Month [Unlimited Users]
    GoSquared Suite - The most popular GoSquared plan, full access to our real time analytics dashboards, intelligent live chat and customer data hub.
    $79
    Month [Unlimited Users]
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GistGoSquared
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—GoSquared Free, track up to 1000 pageviews a month. GoSquared Analytics, track up to 100k pageviews a month with pricing starting at £29/month. GoSquared Suite, track up to 100k pageviews a month with pricing starting at £79/month.
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    Gist
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GistGoSquared
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Gist and GoSquared
    Feature
    Gist
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    GoSquared
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Zoho SalesIQ
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Lead Forensics
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Genesys DX (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GistGoSquared
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (112 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (9 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GistGoSquared
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gist
    If your marketing model is selling products, services, or SAAS where you are doing inbound marketing and your website will do most of the lead generation and conversion, this is a great product. From live chat, support, event tracking, and automation, you could almost put your entire business on autopilot. If your marketing model is mostly outreach to cold leads and conversion, this software currently does not have any type of sales stages or task generation. I would still use Gist for website inbound but use another software for outreach and cold leads then when they become a lead put them into Gist for marketing automation.
    Incentivized
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    GoSquared
    1) Maintaining customer relationships - GS just makes it so easy to respond to our users who use our product more from a tactical point of view 2) Onboarding - I think it's more or less an extension of the first point above but GS does make it easy for us to onboard new clients who are sort of beginners.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Gist
    • Customer service via a unified inbox so you dont have to separately monitor your twitter, Facebook or IG account for consumer communication there. Gist unified all into one inbox, better than anyone else I've seen in the market. They archive all communications and tie them back to a single user so you get unified customer history / data.
    • Marketing segmentation and automation: they track user history and behavior across the site and have super detailed segmenting capability, on par with ActiveCampaign's, but better I'd say. Better UI for the marketing admin person, and more unified data than in AC.
    • Live chat and chatbot. Usually it's either one or the other but with Gist you can do both seamlessly.
    Incentivized
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    GoSquared
    • Provides real-time statistics and trends which is invaluable to representative to establish solid connections with our customers
    • Allows us to see current trends and product engagement. Also allows us to compare unique visitor counts with relevant dates.
    • You can go big as you need, and pay as you need with instantly upgradable and affordable plans.
    • Customizable dashboard is a great add-on for representatives to remove screen clutter and have clean information
    • You can always directly communicate with your customers by integrating another component to your site.
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    Cons
    Gist
    • Plan limits can be confusing. For example, there is a monthly charge for support and a monthly charge for "growth," plus there's a separate charge depending on how many contacts and seats you have. Perhaps this is normal in the industry, but it can make it a little challenging to understand the bill every month.
    • The vast amount of features means development will never be as fast as you'd like it to be (even though they release updates all the time). This may not actually be a valid concern, and it certainly isn't unique to Gist (who doesn't have a wishlist they're waiting on their favorite SaaS to get to?), but I do believe the likelihood of being stuck without your desired feature being developed goes up a lot as the product gets bigger and bigger.
    • Email deliverability has been less than perfect in the past, but it has improved drastically in the last year.
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    GoSquared
    • CloudFlare integration is spotty - stats in Cloudflare (tracks also Javascript off visits) and GoSquared stats are often significantly at odds
    • Notifications don't seem to work very well
    • Dashboard likes to re-set itself even when it was arranged & saved previously
    • Weekly/ Monthly/ Yearly absolute numbers
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gist
    Gist is a quite reliable service with a lot of added values. We don't need to pay for different Saas for these important features. If I had an issue the team was super responsive and helpful, that is essential for every business. The email delivery is great, so virtually no email has landed into spam folder
    Incentivized
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    GoSquared
    Not only does the GoSquared application work well, the GoSquared team is constantly making improvements. When I first started using GoSquared, they only offered daily reporting -- now they offer the weekly and monthly feature per popular request. I like that they are always updating the look and feel of the website and emails they send to maintain a modern look. GoSquared is easy to implement and easy to use!
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    Usability
    Gist
    It’s pretty simple, but it does a lot so there are more complicated features which depend on an individuals ability for software implementation. I am not an IT expert and I’ve managed to implement everything myself, others that are more tech-minded may find everything easier.
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    GoSquared
    GoSquared makes it easy to get started, providing everything you need to integrate the code into your site and start seeing and analyzing data
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    Support Rating
    Gist
    Fantastic support. Ask a question, get an answer within 24 hours every time. And sometimes within a few minutes. They've always come through for me, helpful and, even when it's an issue on my end, they point me in the right direction.
    Incentivized
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    GoSquared
    The GoSquared team has always gone above and beyond to create the best analytics platform and provide top notch
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    Alternatives Considered
    Gist
    Gist combines all our previous products into one application and adds many more features that would require more apps. Gist is excellent and a no-brainer all-in-one application when compared to having to manage multiple applications at higher cost. The support from the whole Gist team has been extremely responsive.
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    GoSquared
    Google Analytics is massively bloated and can be difficult to configure, navigate and understand. While GoSquared doesn't provide the feature set that Google Analytics does it focuses on providing the best experience for the features it does offer. If you just want to know who is visiting your website and when then GoSquared is a simple way of tracing this information.
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    Return on Investment
    Gist
    • They are perfect for me as a someone who needs a lot of bang for the buck. The chat messenger device on my website alone has brought me new prospects that I did not have to spend money recruiting.
    • I am able to save hours of time with the automated emails that are GDPR compliant.
    • I don't have to pay for a designer to have excellent looking emails either.
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    GoSquared
    • GoSquared helps us to react quickly to high volumes of traffic, and allows us to identify very quickly how engaging our content is
    • Using browser specs helps us to ensure our websites are compatible with as many of our customers as possible, rather than relying on generic global stats
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    ScreenShots

    Gist Screenshots

    Screenshot of Live ChatScreenshot of Email MarketingScreenshot of Marketing Automation WorkflowsScreenshot of Knowledge BaseScreenshot of Meetings

    GoSquared Screenshots

    Screenshot of Now Dashboard. What's happening on your website right now – in real timeScreenshot of Trends Dashboard. The simple, curated real time analytics reporting dashboard.Screenshot of GoSquared Profiles. A true view of all of your leads browsing behaviour, from the moment they landed on your website.Screenshot of GoSquared Customer Data Hub. Segment your leads based on their web behaviour and trigger real time marketing automation.Screenshot of GoSquared. Capture more leads and communicate with site visitors with intelligent live chat.