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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    InboundWriter

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AInboundWriter is a relatively focused content marketing tool containing predictive analytics, suggestions, and authoring guidelines for content optimization. InboundWriter has been backed by about $2.5 million in venture capital since its inception in 2011.N/A

    Kapost

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AUpland Kapost helps you create and distribute meaningful content to support the buyer journey for B2B companies.

    $1

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    Pricing
    InboundWriterKapost
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    InboundWriterKapost
    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
    InboundWriterKapost
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of InboundWriter and Kapost
    Feature
    InboundWriter
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Kapost
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Ideation8.01 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Approval workflows8.01 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Content collaboration9.01 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Content calendar9.01 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of InboundWriter and Kapost
    Feature
    InboundWriter
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Kapost
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Content hub9.01 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content9.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs9.01 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Content distribution9.01 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Content promotion9.01 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Content automation8.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of InboundWriter and Kapost
    Feature
    InboundWriter
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Kapost
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Audience profiling and targeting8.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.01 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Content performance analytics8.01 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard9.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Competitive analytics8.01 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    InboundWriterKapost
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    Contently
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    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    InboundWriterKapost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    InboundWriterKapost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    InboundWriter
    I think most users have found that InboundWriter is every bit worth what you pay for it. At a freemium model, it's affordable and helpful in analyzing your posts for SEO direction. It is particularly well suited for getting focused terms on specific topics, and less on more general terms.
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    Upland Software
    Kapost has potential to be a great asset in small and large orgs. If you're not producing a great deal of content, or coordinating across a large team, there's still tremendous value, but it scales as your org scales because it makes it easier to coordinate and manage large teams and large content archives.
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    Pros
    InboundWriter
    • Very easy to use and follow direction.
    • The price is right for this freemium Wordpress plugin.
    • Helps discover what content and keywords are popular around your subject matter.
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    Upland Software
    • Filtering: If you make the most out of your custom details and custom fields, you can gain newfound access to materials that may have long been lost in the ether. It's really easy for us, for instance, to see all of our videos at once. Or everything targeting a certain buying stage. Or you can keyword search to see everything on one topic.
    • Workflows: It's really nice to lay out "who sees what when" in a digital way, because everyone involved on an asset can easily see what stage things are at. You can also set deadlines to tasks, which seems a bit more firm than a casual email, because you can visually see how meeting your deadline fits within the whole timeline.
    • Calendars: The calendar feature is nice for us because we have a blog, so we can see when everything is (supposed) to go live. It's easy to see when I, as a copy editor, should be expecting work, so I can align my day accordingly. Way better than the old-fashioned "mental note" system.
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    Cons
    InboundWriter
    • Sometimes tough to decide what direction to follow without keyword stuffing your content.
    • Colleagues have complained about the Document Score being unreliable at times.
    • It's only as good as the information you put into it and lacks the ability to give you more high level though leadership terms/topics.
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    Upland Software
    • Social media distribution needs improvement. Specifically a calendar for planned Tweets and a better way to schedule multiple shares of the same content.
    • System performance is somewhat slow.
    • Should be an easier way to make changes, like adding custom fields or publication destinations, to all content types, rather than one at a time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    InboundWriter
    No answers on this topic
    Upland Software
    We are using some other systems that might have replaced Kapost, but none of them had the workflow functionality we were looking for. So, we're sticking with Kapost for now.
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    Usability
    InboundWriter
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    Upland Software
    The calendar view is a great feature and so are the custom views. It is relatively easy to see a clear view of what content the user is responsible for and then the due dates associated to it. The ability to create and update workflows for the team is easy to navigate and keeps us on track.
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    Support Rating
    InboundWriter
    The InboundWriter support is certainly sufficient for the type of troubleshooting you may encounter when using the tool. There are chats and forums available with best practices or knowledge share. For bigger issues, even WordPress can serve as a support system for getting to the answer quickly. Luckily, you're more likely to find that it is a very intuitive tool that is easy to use.
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    Upland Software
    The reputation of the product matches up to its reputation as one of the leaders in the space. I love that you can share and access content at your fingertips from anywhere. The downside is that it does not have the prettiest interface but you can get over this with its functionality.
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    Alternatives Considered
    InboundWriter
    While Yoast is also very useful as a free WordPress plugin that helps up your SEO game, where it stops at just providing direction for your meta data, like titles and descriptions, InboundWriter takes your search engine reach a bit further and helps you create relevant content for your industry that targets the right keywords and topics.
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    Upland Software
    Workfront has a lot of great features, but Kapost was the right tool for what we needed at the time. With a team of our size, we had to make sure we weren't biting off more than we could chew and the project never got off the ground. We had to be thoughtful with how we rolled it out.
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    Scalability
    InboundWriter
    No answers on this topic
    Upland Software
    It's easy to expand across an organization and the software is continuously being improved with new features rolled out to all users
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    Return on Investment
    InboundWriter
    • InboundWriter has helped us craft more SEO-driven content and balance our keyword usage.
    • InboundWriter has also helped us hone in on the specific topics we should be covering for our industry.
    • Overall, it has helped us achieve our goals of creating pillar content and driving more organic traffic.
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    Upland Software
    • It allows us all to compare other email campaigns to each other. We are also able to get almost instant results.
    • By having a working one system - we all can expect the same quality newsletters versus using an outside designer.
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