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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    ScheduGram

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AScheduGram is a social media management solution built as a tool to manage Instagram. It includes features such as web uploading, post scheduling, and multiple account support.

    $21

    per month

    Pricing
    Ion InteractiveScheduGram
    Editions & Modules
    Managed Services + SaaS
    Custom
    per year
    Fundamentals
    $21
    per month billed yearly as $250
    Essentials
    $63
    per month billed yearly as $750
    Professional
    $113
    per month billed yearly as $1350
    Custom
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ion InteractiveScheduGram
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$5,500 per customerNo setup fee
    Additional Detailsion’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
    Ion InteractiveScheduGram
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    7.5
    105 Ratings
    4% below category average
    ScheduGram
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation10.099 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration5.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    8.7
    120 Ratings
    11% above category average
    ScheduGram
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub10.0104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content10.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs10.0108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution8.093 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion8.086 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation6.090 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    8.5
    118 Ratings
    14% above category average
    ScheduGram
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting6.091 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.095 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.0116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard10.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Twitter00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Ion Interactive and ScheduGram
    Feature
    Ion Interactive
    -
    Ratings
    ScheduGram
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Ion InteractiveScheduGram
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (135 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ion InteractiveScheduGram
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
    When we have to maintain a consistent social media presence where posts are up on time, even if the day's community manager is unavailable, ScheduGram has made it efficient with the plans that we can create and schedule ahead. Our posts are also made available on Twitter, and we have to use other apps, or if you are not into posting across multiple platforms this is not for you.
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    Pros
    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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    • Saves us time with bulk posting.
    • Allows us to schedule Instagram stories.
    • User interface is user friendly.
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    Cons
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
    • I'd love to see more metrics available.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
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    Usability
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
    Social Media Tracking: Data scraping via social listening tools, codes, trackers, and manual methods.
    Data Pre-processing: Data screening, filtering, classification, and categorization as per analysis objectives.
    Analysis: Enrichment, calculation, and derivation of metrics' to benchmark and rank influencers.
    Data Visualization: Monthly, quarterly and annual reports with key observations, trends, and insights presented via Power BI dashboards.
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    Performance
    Ion Interactive LLC
    Sometimes the editor can be a little slow.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
    We are always on the lookout for applications that make it easier to use social media and ensure a consistent presence. ScheduGram definitely fulfills that need for us, as it allows for content planning, overview, and most importantly scheduling it. Changing content plans is also very convenient across Instagram and Facebook. It serves our purpose for these two apps very well.
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    Online Training
    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
    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
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
    We chose ScheduGram over PreviewApp because it has a much better user interface and much more robust features for similar pricing.
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    Scalability
    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
    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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    Dialogue Consulting
    • Without ScheduGram, we would not have been able to continue using Instagram, a key platform for our demographic.
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    ScreenShots

    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.