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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Impact

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AImpact Radius is a partner management platform from the company of the same name in Santa Barbara, California. The platform touts tag management without technical assistance for marketers, tracking of all media channels for multi-channel and mobile marketing, call tracking for inbound calls, and affiliate / partner program management capabilities. Central to the platform is the Partner Manager, with its pay-for-performance affiliate management capabilities.N/A

    Kissmetrics

    Score9.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Kissmetrics is a customer engagement automation platform. This solution includes behavioral analytics, segmentation, and email campaign automation.

    $150

    per month

    Pricing
    ImpactKissmetrics
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Growth
    $500
    Monthly Tracked People
    Power
    $850
    Monthly Tracked People
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Monthly Tracked People
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ImpactKissmetrics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$1,500 per installation
    Additional Details—What are Monthly Tracked People? Monthly Tracked People are unique visitors that engage in an Event on your website or with your product, that gets tracked by you in Kissmetrics. Monthly Tracked People can be anonymous or identified.
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    Community Pulse
    ImpactKissmetrics
    Considered Both Products
    Impact
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    Kissmetrics
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    ImpactKissmetrics
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Impact and Kissmetrics
    Feature
    Impact
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Kissmetrics
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner performance analytics7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Impact and Kissmetrics
    Feature
    Impact
    6.6
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Kissmetrics
    -
    Ratings
    Content management6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content sharing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner collaboration tools7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Partner Lifecycle Management features of Impact and Kissmetrics
    Feature
    Impact
    6.4
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Kissmetrics
    -
    Ratings
    Lead distribution6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Co-op advertising6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner discovery and onboarding7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral tracking6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journey builder7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
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    Lead Forensics
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ImpactKissmetrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (21 ratings)
    8.9
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ImpactKissmetrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Impact
    Any publisher looking to monetize their blogs would be a great fit. The size of the publisher probably doesn't matter. They have a wide selection of advertisers and publishers can sign up for free. Advertisers that are looking for great partners for their affiliate programs would be good fits. One of the benefits is that Impact really focuses on recruiting high-quality publishers.
    Incentivized
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    Kissmetrics
    [Kissmetrics is well suited for the] abandon cart scenario to re-engage users on the purchase journey. Engaging users to personalized content using the visit metrics derived from the data captured at each digital touch points. [Implementing] website campaign and journey orchestration is easy. You get visitor profile to segment upon using different visit metrics and action.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Impact
    • There are no hidden charges and tracking is instant and automated.
    • As an affiliate, Finding relevant offers and managing the programs is quite easy.
    • It has a great user interface which is quite easy to use and manage.
    • There is nearly zero downtime, which makes it much more efficient and reliable.
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    Kissmetrics
    • The more events you track and properties you send along, the more you can see how specific users use your product/service. The user based timeline gives you a perfect start point to get in touch with users, because you can see where they get stuck.
    • Tracking your traffic sources and how they influence conversions is awesome. You can get a perfect view of how much a traffic source contributes to revenue.
    • Funnel reports give you more insights into micro and macro conversion steps and give you actionable data to work with.
    • Customer support!
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    Cons
    Impact
    • User interface could be improved a little, as it is a quite difficult task to find the content or links
    • Approval from the advertisers sometimes takes a huge amount of time. If they can somehow reduce the response time, it will be great
    • New affiliates might find the onboarding process a little difficult
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    Kissmetrics
    • Installing.... yes this is also a negative. While you can install and have the program running in minutes, if you use Unbounce, the form tracking process is quite complicated!
    • Updates... I feel like the product updates have slowed a lot lately. Thankfully, the product functionality is so amazing that it hasn't impeded the use of it. However, it is still disappointing to see less frequent software updates.
    • Occasionally clunky UI... there are a few reports that are really easy to mess up and leave you scratching your head on why it isn't showing you any data.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Price sensitivity and the different choices that now exist in the Analytics industry. I think it makes sense for us sometime this year to rethink our analytics strategy to see how we may leverage the best of GA (which has included lots of new features and updates the past years_, Kiss and other tools as need be
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    Usability
    Impact
    Impact has had a major impact on our business. It is pretty easy to use if you don't have multiple accounts with them, so be sure you keep things streamlined. Otherwise, it can be confusing if you have to bounce between different accounts you've applied to. While they are managed under a single login, they can be difficult to distinguish between when trying to see how successful your campaigns are.
    Incentivized
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    Kissmetrics
    Right after login, you'll get to a dashboard which shows you a quick view on how your business is doing across the events you are tracking. There is no need to dig deeper than that unless you want to, in which case it's very easy to do so just by clicking on the metric on which you want more information. The interface is very intuitive.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    The application was very rarely down; during the period we used the application, I can think of only two or three occasions in which the site was down. Notably, at no time was the the performance of our own site compromised as a result.
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    Performance
    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Speed improved dramatically as the service matured. Early iterations of the publicly-released application would occasionally provide slow processing of results, but those delays became much rarer occurrences during the last year that we used KISSmetrics. One of the more impressive views (which started out feeling more like a toy) is the live view of visits. Knowing that you could see, in real time, what events a user triggered, was gratifying and instructive.
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    Support Rating
    Impact
    We've been reaching out requesting support for two months and no one has responded. They completely ghosted us. We've emailed the original sales rep, our account manager, our sales rep and account manager's bosses, and others. Still no response, though I can see the emails have been opened multiple times. I've never experienced worse support.
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    Kissmetrics
    Our front-line product support person (Mika) is great. She is responsive and great to work with.

    However, the data accuracy issue described earlier is the reason for the low score here. This issue was escalated from front-line to support to level 2 technical support and then it disappeared into a black hole. Escalations, in general, do not go well. We get no response for days, or I have to chase things down. This is not acceptable. Marketing metrics are critically important to me and I need answers quickly. I cannot afford to wait around for days / weeks for a response.

    Just to be clear, these comments only apply to escalated support issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    Again, we were fortunate to work with KISSmetrics as they built their application, but Hiten, their CEO and founder, was incredibly helpful to me personally, and to our metrics-driven business as a whole, as we adopted their tool.
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    Online Training
    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    I loved this aspect of the product. It wasn't just that the documentation and online tutorials are great - which they are - the on-boarding process though was really stellar. Once you have set everything up, you get a welcome message followed by a step-by-step guide to get you started that is built right into the product interface. For example, the UI asks you to first do X, and then copy this code snippet and send it to your developer who will know what to do with it. When you come back after the first interaction with the product, it continues the process by explaining right in the UI how to track events etc. This kind of step-by-step approach is incredibly efficient. Although there are various forms of supporting documentation (PDFs videos etc) to support every step, you don't really need them. This approach means that you are up and running very quickly with virtually no training time or documentation consultation. Highly efficient process.
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    Implementation Rating
    Impact
    No answers on this topic
    Kissmetrics
    In order to build trackability down to revenue, there was quite a lot of work to integrate Kissmetrics with our software and internal process. We had to build the hooks so that Kissmetrics could call back into our software and billing system, etc.. However, we didn't need additional expertise to do this. Once you understand the API, and you own systems, making it work is not too difficult. We did not require an outside consultant or anything like that
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    Alternatives Considered
    Impact
    First promoter has been a phenomenal affiliate platform to use. It has everything I need from a reporting perspective. It has everything I need from a payout perspective. It has all the links, tips, and tools I need for promoting products. Overall it is a far better tool to use
    Incentivized
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    Kissmetrics
    Kissmetrics is a next-level step up for people who are used to getting their tracking and reporting from Google Analytics or Shopify's CMS. While HubSpot arguably has a better user interface, Kissmetrics certainly has the power and usability necessary to track important conversion data and help you make better marketing decisions.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Impact
    • By using Impact we were able to increase the number of advertisers on our platform.
    • Delayed payments on the part of advertisers or Impact creates so many execution issues.
    • Multi regional campaigns helped us to increase our presens in the market.
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    Kissmetrics
    • Unfortunately for this client (small business) the cost of Kissmetrics was just too prohibitive. But it's obvious that for a larger company that can afford it, the data would be invaluable to gain more insight in how to gain more active users and orders for a funnel.
    • The data provided really increases an understanding of how best to provide the right experience for the users...happy users equals increase in ROI.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Kissmetrics Activity Report is a part of our report suite called AnalyzeScreenshot of Kissmetrics Populations allow your to track your most important segment over timeScreenshot of Kissmetrics Campaigns allow you to engage your user with automated behavior-based emails when it is most effective