Hearsay Social vs. SOCi

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hearsay Social
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Hearsay social is designed to help companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives in highly-regulated industries like banking and insurance. It allows companies to push out social media content for their local representatives to personalize, and then analyze the effectiveness of their campaigns. Clients are large companies in highly-regulated industries, or companies with a large store networks or retail franchise networks.N/A
SOCi
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
SOCi, including the former Brandify (acquired July 2021) presents a range of local marketing solutions, such as store locators, local SEO driven landing pages, local advertising, and brand reputation management.N/A
Pricing
Hearsay SocialSOCi
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hearsay SocialSOCi
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Hearsay SocialSOCi
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
SOCi
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Ratings
Boolean keyword searches9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.3
1 Ratings
16% above category average
SOCi
-
Ratings
Content planning and scheduling10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
11% above category average
SOCi
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.3
1 Ratings
19% above category average
SOCi
-
Ratings
Lead generation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.3
1 Ratings
9% above category average
SOCi
-
Ratings
Twitter10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
SOCi
-
Ratings
Campaign success analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
SOCi
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Hearsay SocialSOCi
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User Ratings
Hearsay SocialSOCi
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(8 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hearsay SocialSOCi
Likelihood to Recommend
Hearsay Systems
Apart from a few limitations, Hearsay Social is an excellent tool for managing your social media posts in one place. Its user-friendly interface allows you to analyze, track, schedule, and automate social media posts. This is a must in today's age. It saves a lot of stress and handwork and makes you efficient as it gives you tools to analyze the results of your posts in terms of reach, viewership, etc. Thereby helping you to formulate your social media strategy.
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SOCi, Inc
SOCi is a fantastic tool for a franchise business because it provides the ability to post in bulk while also posting localized content. So, you can share the same basic content across all of your locations, but SOCi's tagging system inserts a location's phone number or website for each individual location. This helps create a localized feel and personalized touch -- but you only schedule one post, making it easy and efficient to localize content in mass posting. This principle applies to paid ads as well. Because of these features, SOCi may not be the best platform for companies with just one location
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Pros
Hearsay Systems
  • Single dashboard of all your social media channels
  • Automation of posts
  • Scheduled posting as per design
  • Great for analytics & customer Interactions
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SOCi, Inc
  • Firstly, as a user of Brandify, I am really fond of their after-sales support services because as a user these services matter a lot.
  • Brandify has made the work so much easier as it avoids spending time looking for better options.
  • It is very helpful platform for the growth of a company.
  • Its analysis helps us in foreseeing situations that can be either good or bad and ensure that we think of a possible solution.
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Cons
Hearsay Systems
  • Lacks ability for significant flexibility and customization
  • Mobile app sometimes does not save the posts that are edited
  • It does allow you to tag or hashtag any post.
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SOCi, Inc
  • Their analytics are sub-par to other tools that I use.
  • Their website can be a little clunky until you learn to navigate it.
  • It takes a long time to be fully on-boarded and running on the platform with all information syncing together.
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Usability
Hearsay Systems
If you wish to reduce stress of managing multiple social media handles from a single place, you can use Hearsay Social. Hearsay Social helps you analyze, automate, schedule posts and even give ideas for posts. Rather than multitasking, one would obliviously choose a single place to track your posts. It also fares greatly as compared to its competitors. It has a great interface. Very easy and simple to use.
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SOCi, Inc
There are some aspects of the scheduling of posts that could be more user friendly for the less tech-savvy users.
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Support Rating
Hearsay Systems
1. Simple to Use. 2. User Friendly Interface 3. Great Features 4. Very Few Limitations. 5. Automates my Tasks
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SOCi, Inc
We have not had to contact support so there is nothing to say in response to this question. We are sure that if we needed to contact them we would be able to get any issues resolved quickly
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Alternatives Considered
Hearsay Systems
Facebook Business Manager is also good however it has some limitations like it's very difficult to remove an ad account, we cannot schedule shared posts and the user interface is a bit complicated and not user-friendly. I like the user interface of Hearsay Social. I find it very simple and easy to use. Also, it has all the features that you might require in Social Media Management tool.
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SOCi, Inc
Soci is a lot better. It’s more user friendly and it makes better for one platform to have all my accounts on
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Return on Investment
Hearsay Systems
  • It has helped us save time in maintaining our social media handles
  • It gave us a lot of intelligent insights on our posts, thereby helping improve our marketing strategy to perform better every time
  • It helped us design our posts better based on inputs & design ideas based on our past posts
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SOCi, Inc
  • Brandify allows us to analyze the reputation of the business and how happy our customers are with us.
  • It is a affordable local marketing software.
  • It has reliable and efficient support.
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