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    Glassbox

    Score6.3 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Glassbox helps organizations make their customer’s digital experience intuitive and safe. It does this by capturing activity on mobile apps and websites and visualizing a holistic journey map. Using embedded AI Glassbox points to where CX is being compromised, the reasons behind it, and their potential value and empowers users to take action in real-time.N/A

    OptinMonster

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AOptinMonster is an ecommerce popup builder and conversion tool from Wordpress plugin specialist Awesome Motive headquartered in Florida.

    $7

    per month (billed annually)

    Thrive Leads

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AWordpress specialist Thrive Themes offers Thrive Leads, providing opt-in forms and conversion optimization functionality.N/A
    Pricing
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    Basic
    $7
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    Plus
    $19
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    Pro
    $29
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    Growth
    $49
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    Free Trial
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Glassbox
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    Thrive Themes
    Chose Thrive Leads
    I've used Optin Monster and Poptin on other projects. Both are good software for different use cases. Poptin is great if you are scrappy, just getting started, and you need a proof of concept and want to keep costs low until you've tested the market. Poptin isn't anywhere near …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
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    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Glassbox and OptinMonster and Thrive Leads
    Feature
    Glassbox
    9.6
    45 Ratings
    23% above category average
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    Responsive Design for Web Access9.844 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.943 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.444 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile App Analytics9.444 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Glassbox and OptinMonster and Thrive Leads
    Feature
    Glassbox
    9.5
    45 Ratings
    1% above category average
    OptinMonster
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    Click analytics9.945 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps9.344 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking9.444 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking9.444 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis9.945 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay9.445 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation9.445 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion Rate Optimization
    Comparison of Conversion Rate Optimization features of Glassbox and OptinMonster and Thrive Leads
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    -
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    OptinMonster
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Thrive Leads
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    A/B tests00 Ratings5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Fullstory
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Thrive Leads
    Score9.4 out of 10
    OptinMonster
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Contentsquare
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    Contentsquare
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GlassboxOptinMonsterThrive Leads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (46 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    7.0
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    9.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    GlassboxOptinMonsterThrive Leads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Glassbox
    I’ve found that Glassbox is particularly well-suited during marketing campaigns, because you can export and analyze data in real-time, track the campaign’s effectiveness, and gain immediate insight into how customers are interacting with your website. With these insights, we’re able to tweak campaigns on the fly to increase engagement and conversion rates. Similarly, since Glassbox allows us to monitor customer interactions in real-time, we gain immediate feedback on how our users are engaging with a new digital feature on our platform, for example. We can then quickly identify any usability issues or friction points, make adjustments in real-time to improve the user experience, and maximize the success of the new feature.
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    OptinMonster
    OptinMonster is a perfect tool for companies that want to convert website visitors that leave without providing any information. Having more email addresses gives you more prospects to sell your products and services. You can use OptinMonster campaigns to generate leads on blog pages that normally lack a call to action, or use them to capture abandoning visitors on important product or service pages. It is generally a pop-up software, so it can't necessarily replace any plugin or software that handles web forms.
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    Thrive Themes
    I have yet to find a similar system that is as easy to use and comes with the type of support that Thrive Leads does. Sometimes support is a bit slow, but they always get back to you and nine times out of ten they can fix any problems on the first go. The flexibility of the form plugin itself is also excellent.
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    Pros
    Glassbox
    • Enables businesses to immediately detect and resolve issues, through real-time monitoring and alerts.
    • Reduces abandonment rates by identifying the point of friction and making suggestions for how to resolve it.
    • Provides visual tools that show a user's clicks, scrolls, and hovers, offering loads of insight into customer behavior.
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    OptinMonster
    • Lots of pre-designed campaigns to choose from that are fully customizable.
    • Customizable CSS for each campaign is built in.
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    Thrive Themes
    • Easy to use
    • Beautifully designed for excellent customer experience
    • A/B testing capabilities
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    Cons
    Glassbox
    • It's a pretty powerful platform, and my sense is that most users don't utilize it to its fullest potential. Glassbox could help by offering a more comprehensive onboarding program (maybe even customized training sessions or live workshops tailored to the needs and use cases of FSIs)
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    OptinMonster
    • Analytics is probably the area for the biggest improvement. Other than showing how the number of visitors, number of conversions, and conversion rate, there isn't much else to the native analytics. It would be nice to see campaign metrics side by side. Otherwise, you have to view one campaign at a time. In the history of conversions graph, it doesn't overlay website traffic or show how the conversion rate has changed over time.
    • The only other area that may use improvement is their capable integrations. There are a few that are not provided, such as Kartra and Salesforce.
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    Thrive Themes
    • Experienced a few bugs and slowdowns on high traffic sites
    • Could use more flexibility for tagging leads in our email provider
    • Occasionally stopped working in the back end — needed customer support to help
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Glassbox
    The level of support from the Glassbox team and how much we have improved our conversion just after a few months
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    OptinMonster
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    Thrive Themes
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    Usability
    Glassbox
    Glassbox is very easy to use, and with the AI features which it has inside, it has been very easy for us to not only find the relevant sessions but also summarize them and interact with the summary - so we now have all types of people in our org who use Glassbox - including those who are purely non-tech. Also, I must give a huge shoutout to our customer support team who have been instrumental in helping us get value from Glassbox
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    OptinMonster
    I don't change the pop up texts and leave the service to work without tinkering. I don't particularly like the dashboard elements and design functionality. But the product does exactly what it is designed for.
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    Thrive Themes
    Thrive Leads can be easily used by anyone who has the basic skills to work within the WordPress environment and who has the knowledge about lead capture and segmentation. As a lead capture tool, I think it's use is restricted to obtaining contact information in different settings, which it does flawlessly.
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    Support Rating
    Glassbox
    No answers on this topic
    OptinMonster
    I don't often need to contact their support team since their tools are quite easy to use and their documentation is well written. On the few occasions I haven't been able to find an answer on my own, their team was happy to help out in a timely manner.
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    Thrive Themes
    In general, the support is great. When living in a different time zone, the support can seem slow but it's not. Most of the time, any issues I have get sorted out quickly and if it's not the first time, it generally gets fixed on the second go. Their knowledge base is good too although sometimes it's hard to search. Not usually their fault, more that users don't title their problems better.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Glassbox
    Glassbox is a customer experience management platform that provides various tools to help organizations understand and improve the customer journey. There may be other products that offer similar capabilities, such as FullStory, UserTesting, and Clicktale. These products may provide similar features, such as session replay, advanced analytics, and integration with other tools. It is important for organizations to carefully evaluate the specific needs and goals of their business and choose a product that aligns with those objectives.
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    OptinMonster
    Bitly link tracking can show us how content is resonating with our different audiences. Links do direct traffic to websites where a new visitor can be invited to subscribe to a newsletter. We can see a spike in traffic on a certain link and this can be connected to new subscriber growth as visitors react to the OptinMonster plugin. The two products co-exist effectively.
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    Thrive Themes
    I've used Optin Monster and Poptin on other projects. Both are good software for different use cases. Poptin is great if you are scrappy, just getting started, and you need a proof of concept and want to keep costs low until you've tested the market. Poptin isn't anywhere near as easy to use as Thrive Leads, but that $0 price tag is meaningful while you are just getting started. OptinMonster isn't as easy or intuitive to use as a builder, but the advantage is that more VAs have used Optin Monster as have used Thrive Leads, so you often don't have to do as much training. I would consider OptinMonster in cases where a website isn't build using Thrive Themes and where an incumbent VA is already well versed in the software.
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    Return on Investment
    Glassbox
    • Glassbox has really taken us to the next level in terms of customer sentiment analysis and informed decision-making. We're capturing 100% of customer sessions, and with Glassbox we're able to address hidden issues and make decisions that enhance the experience of our entire customer base, as opposed to just a select few. Our strategic decisions are now based on accurate, comprehensive data, and we're seeing the fruits of this. Our customers are more engaged (and more loyal), our conversion rates are climbing, and our business is growing.
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    OptinMonster
    • For several clients that we have implemented OptinMonster for, we have had a significant increase in leads, which keeps our clients happy and we retain the business.
    • Campaigns are quick to set up, so it saves us significant time versus having to go to a web developer to build pop-ups or web forms. We can add something that goes "on top" of the website and turn it on and off with ease or change display rules to adjust how we want to use it.
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    Thrive Themes
    • Grew our email list quickly through opt in offers
    • Decreased time to build campaigns manually
    • Increased donations from email subscribers
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