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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Influ2

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Influ2 is a first person-based marketing platform, presenting a new approach to account-based marketing. The solution enables B2B marketers to target chosen decision-makers, capture their intent, and track engagement at the individual level. The company boasts 75+ enterprise and medium-sized clients globally, including Fortune 500 B2B enterprises such as NVIDIA, Capgemini, and Episerver. Influ2 runs offices in NY and CA, with 50+ employees on board. Influ2 platform allows users…N/A

    Ion Interactive

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools.N/A
    Pricing
    Influ2Ion Interactive
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Managed Services + SaaS
    Custom
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Influ2Ion Interactive
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$5,500 per customer
    Additional DetailsPricing is based on the number of people targeted by a client.ion’s Build Anything SaaS platform provides organizations with an entirely new and agile interactive content marketing capability. It enables non-technical marketers and designers to create, test and measure an unlimited number of all types of interactive content marketing experiences. It includes unlimited seats, experiences, tests, customization, phone and email support, analytics and more.
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    Features
    Influ2Ion Interactive
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement data tracking9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    30% above category average
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad reporting and analytics9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    34% above category average
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM sales intelligence10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM Integrations
    Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    29% above category average
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    Automated workflow & orchestration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    -
    Ratings
    Ion Interactive
    7.5
    105 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Ideation00 Ratings10.099 Ratings
    Content collaboration00 Ratings5.094 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    -
    Ratings
    Ion Interactive
    8.7
    120 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Content hub00 Ratings10.0104 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings10.0107 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings10.0108 Ratings
    Content distribution00 Ratings8.093 Ratings
    Content promotion00 Ratings8.086 Ratings
    Content automation00 Ratings6.090 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Influ2 and Ion Interactive
    Feature
    Influ2
    -
    Ratings
    Ion Interactive
    8.5
    118 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Audience profiling and targeting00 Ratings6.091 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting00 Ratings8.095 Ratings
    Content performance analytics00 Ratings10.0116 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard00 Ratings10.0107 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Influ2Ion Interactive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (135 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Influ2Ion Interactive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Influ2
    We’ve seen a huge engagement boost in our person-based campaigns, compared to traditional ABM campaigns.
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    Ion Interactive LLC
    If you want to choose a quick start template and fill in the fields with your content, Ion will be fantastic for you. We've done this with whitepapers and quizzes and it's been great and extremely easy to use. If you have an exact idea of what you want, and a background in web development, you may get frustrated. Ion has some quirks that make it tricky to fully customize - everyone once in a while I really just want to go into the HTML and make some changes, but can't. If you are looking to reuse a piece of content for specific targeting (industry or account-specific), Ion is great. The dynamic substitutions are great and very helpful.
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    Pros
    Influ2
    • We only spend money on targeting relevant people, our decision makers
    • We get to see who is engaging with our content and identify engaged prospects that our sales should go after
    • We had a noticeable drop of CPL under the guidance of Influ2 customer success
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    Ion Interactive LLC
    • Quick Starts make it so easy to get started.
    • Real-time updates are awesome and save a ton of wasteful process.
    • The combination of user friendliness for simple things and the flexibility to do more complex things is great.
    • Chat support is excellent and deeper-dive support has been super helpful.
    • The ability to use these tools in the cloud or embedded has given us tactic flexibility.
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    Cons
    Influ2
    • No integration with Mailchimp.
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    Ion Interactive LLC
    • Ion University, while stacked with a wealth of information, is difficult to navigate from a troubleshooting perspective. The tutorial videos are all very helpful, but they are also very long. Sometimes I would want to search for how to address a particular issue I was struggling with and it would be a two-minute segment buried in a 45-minute video.
    • Again, getting back the self-guidance side of things. I think a lot of the tutorials are set up in a way that makes sense to Ion, but not as much to the end user.
    • I think the controls admins use when creating new users could be a bit more straightforward.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    We use it for every landing page and we plan on only doing more dynamic content creation. We dont see that option coming in-house any time ever in the future. ION has a very robust platform for us to work with that really allows us to do more for our customers in regards to having the one-to-one conversation.
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    Usability
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Usability is straightforward, with extensive documentation and tutorials provided to ensure landing pages are built to specifications and can be optimized for performance. Built-in platform funnels give insight into customer dropoff, success/failures, and conversions (at a glance). Setting up a landing page can be done quickly and easily, with numerous integrations (CRMs like SalesForce, for instance) supported
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    Performance
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Sometimes the editor can be a little slow.
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    Support Rating
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    The ION support team is amazing. There has not been a single issue they they could not solve for me. If there is a feature or request that they do not have, they have even, on occasion, created custom scripts for our team. *Update 6/5/17 - ION has continued to delight on multiple occasions. I appreciate their attention to detail and ability to solve whatever issue I have. After 3+ years of use and support, ION still has my full endorsement.
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    Online Training
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    They offer a great amount of online training, videos, articles, etc. There is usually an answer available if you run into an issue. I would recommend taking advantage of the online training they offer. I wish I would have done it sooner.
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    Implementation Rating
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    There were a lot of things we learned about the tool once we really got in and got our hands dirty. Being hands-on was essential for our team to be able to utilize ION in the most effective manner.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Influ2
    When talking about specifically ABM INFLU2 ranks on first for me as it is easy to use and setup in accordance with other software. Also the leads generated are quality leads. Each campaign can be personalized and reports of each campaign give a detailed idea of how the campaign has performed.
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    Ion Interactive LLC
    I was not the decision maker to choose this over Uberflip, but the UI is much more appealing to me. It's incredibly easy to use, clean, and from a backend standpoint, it requires little to no tech savvy'ness. Our team has really enjoyed using it and has required no training what-so-ever.
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    Scalability
    Influ2
    No answers on this topic
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Separate client portfolios enable scalability, however, some elements are still grouped for all accounts so it's difficult to scale for an ad agency with multiple clients. Would prefer totally separate sections of the platform for all clients with each element housed separately.
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    Return on Investment
    Influ2
    • We are using Influ2 to generate demand, identify the most engaged contacts from the target audience and pass them to sales. Since we offer a variety of products, Influ2 also lets us identify buyer intent in a particular product and reach out to the prospect with the right value.
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    Ion Interactive LLC
    • Though we have not had the service long enough to see any measurable outcomes, we've been able to create interactive web content faster than ever before
    • The speed with which we can build interactive pages and re-use assets has been critical as projects we've done with Ion have made their way around and more and more internal clients have said "me too" for their own projects
    • It is very pricey at $28K for the base annual subscription (dropping to $24k after the first year), so depending on your budgetary situation, that may make no sense for your team--but we had contract money set aside for a company to build us a microsite for around the amount, so we just used it for Ion instead and will now be building the microsite ourselves using it
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    ScreenShots

    Influ2 Screenshots

    Screenshot of Building a custom audience.
Audiences are created by criteria or by uploading a list as a file, or by simply connecting a CRM systemScreenshot of Reviewing the audience.
The list can be viewed and any edits can be applied as needed.Screenshot of Uploading banners.
Banners in required dimensions can be added, and will be placed across Google Ads, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and other platforms.Screenshot of Uploading videos.
Videos in required dimensions can be added and will be shared across media platforms.Screenshot of Tracking engagement across all the campaigns.
Impressions, clicks, and visits of every person that has been reached across all the campaigns are tracked.Screenshot of Campaign performance.
Campaign engagements are monitored from a dashboard.

    Ion Interactive Screenshots

    Screenshot of ion empowers your other marketing technologies to deliver higher fidelity, data-driven scoring, targeting, segmentation and personalization.Screenshot of The types of interactive experiences the ion platform can create is near-endless. These are the most common types used by our customers: Assessments, Calculators, eBooks, Interactive Infographics, Interactive White Papers, Landing Pages, Lookbooks, Quizzes, Resource Library, Solution Finder.Screenshot of See what our customers are saying about our platform and services!Screenshot of Starting at $2,000 per month, you get an unlimited, scalable interactive content platform with our full feature set. Including: Unlimited experiences, unlimited use of Quick Starts, Unlimited Seats/Users, Unlimited A/B/n Testing, Unlimited Sell-Side Experiences, Unlimited Phone, email & chat support, unlimited analytics... PLUS a FREE custom-branded theme that can be applied to all of your experiences.Screenshot of You have the option to start from a template or entirely from scratch. Our Quick Start template library includes more than 100 fully tested, responsive and flexible interactive experiences you can brand, customize and launch.Screenshot of ion is the only interactive content platform that provides the scalable foundation to grow from one interactive experience to one thousand interactive experiences. With ion, interactive content development complexity, long timelines, high costs and maintenance problems are replaced with freedom and agility.