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    Hull CDP (discontinued)

    Score4.7 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Hull CDP was a real-time rule and action engine that provided SaaS and Ecommerce businesses with more control over their customer data. Hull was acquired by MessageBird in April, 2021, and is no longer available.N/A

    SessionM

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASessionM is a customer engagement platform that combines customer data management, loyalty program and offer management, and cross-channel campaign management (SMS, email, push, and in-app messages).N/A
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    Hull CDP (discontinued)SessionM
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Hull CDP (discontinued)SessionM
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    4.5
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    User Testimonials
    Hull CDP (discontinued)SessionM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Hull is definitely the leading CDP for the small to mid-sized business in which the marketing team wants or needs to have a fair amount of autonomy from engineering, or when it's unrealistic or cost-prohibitive to use internal engineering resources to maintain the marketing database. It's also a great choice for companies who are trying to bring newer and smaller best-of-breed elements into place in their marketing--enabling you to sync customer data records to CTAs/ Chat scenarios/ Email Service Providers, or any type of 3rd party campaign tools. It's probably not the best fit for companies trying to stay in a larger Marketing Cloud Ecosystem, e.g. Adobe/ Oracle.
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    SessionM
    SessionM is ideal for enterprise restaurants, brands, and organizations to build and drive loyal behaviors via technology platforms. They've built their system via robust APIs integrations, but are now diving into a white label app system that allows smaller brands (100 units+) to utilize their incredible technology in their own brand, as opposed to just bigger players. They're the best at what they do.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Slack integration - we revolve around slack as our central comm hub and having our customer information surfaceable is just gold.
    • Making back-end data easy to read and digest - there is a lot of data that gets generated by our customers and it's impossible to sift through without Hull consolidating that information for us.
    • Customer support - we have only had a couple issues in the many months using Hull and it's always been a quick resolution. They use Slack to support BTW which I love.
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    SessionM
    • Using data science to determine guest tendencies and actions: their system is incredibly smart and tracks historical actions to guess/estimate future actions, and creating programs to influence those actions.
    • Integrated communication platforms to speak to all of our guests within various tactics—email, push notifications, text messages, in-app messages, etc.
    • Loyalty management & CRM: creating and managing a program that runs consistently across the system.
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    Cons
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    • Needs a deduplication engine
    • Needs to be able to perform bulk and automated data cleansing (unified data is messy)
    • Needs to integrate with more tools
    • Needs to be able to be tailored to different use cases, such as a retail/ecommerce use case, with RFM metrics
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    SessionM
    • Some improvement could be made on their integrations process with all platforms (olo, monkey media, etc.).
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    We had initially identified Segment as a solution due to the number of integrations they supported. The problem is that with Segment we would have still had to build and maintain a database along with query tools. Overall Hull emerged as a better starting point for us
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    SessionM
    SessionM was light years ahead of Fishbowl, in the data science tendency assumptions that are built into the system, plus they don't offer an app for your brand to use. You'd have to employ a 3rd vendor to manage that. It's also important to note that SessionM sees ALL guests and POS content in the system, not just loyalty identified transactions.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Positive: No longer asking engineering for customer activity data
    • Positive: Allowing additional data integrations for where our customer activity data can be seen
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    SessionM
    • Our work with SessionM has been so incredibly impactful to our brand loyal guests, and the value they bring to our brand. For example, our loyal guests are worth $100+ more than our non-loyalty guests.
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