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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kapost

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

    $1

    per month

    Substack

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ASubstack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform.N/A
    Pricing
    KapostSubstack
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KapostSubstack
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    KapostSubstack
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    Upland Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    83%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    KapostSubstack
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Kapost and Substack
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Substack
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Kapost and Substack
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Substack
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Kapost and Substack
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Substack
    -
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    Audience profiling and targeting8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analytics7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KapostSubstack
    Small Businesses
    Contently
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Quora Blogs / Spaces (discontinued)
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Blogger
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Quora Blogs / Spaces (discontinued)
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KapostSubstack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    KapostSubstack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Substack Inc.
    I think Substack is better for people who want to set up a personal-facing branded website vs people who just want to post random musings every so often. Monetization is better there than any other collective publishing platform as well as organic reach via email. Substack also allows you to build direct relationships with your readers via emails and own them 100% which is great long-term if you use it to pivot to another site or another form of writing/content creation. Substack would be less helpful for someone wanting to write as a part of a group, not individually, or someone who's unwilling to put their personal brand behind their content. It's less optimized for SEO (which other platforms allow you to do) and can be harder to curate content based on your interests (you really have to go in knowing what you want vs finding it on the fly).
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    Pros
    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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    Substack Inc.
    • Because it has a very high Domain Authority ranking relevant backlinks in a published article will help make my store more searchable.
    • Substack is very easy to work in. The toolset they provide may not be as extensive as other platforms but it is certainly enough to create a meaningful, interesting post.
    • Substack is very focused on creating a community of writers that support each other. They run an ongoing email campaign that reinforces their focus on building a community of writers.
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    Cons
    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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    Substack Inc.
    • editor is on the primitive side - it's wysiwyg, but missing some embed options
    • integrate with google analytics
    • percentage cut that Substack takes can become a burden as your revenue grows. Problems scaling.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Substack Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Substack Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Substack Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Substack Inc.
    Medium is not so good for running newsletter. I find the mail that a user gets is very easily readable. Also as a creator it's very easy for me to track the analytics and monetise my blogs unlike Medium. Blogger is a very old technology. The kind of integrations and the support for Markdown / different media is very great in Substack.
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    Scalability
    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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    Substack Inc.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Substack Inc.
    • I haven’t made any money from it
    • Can be disheartening when you realise you’re putting in maximum effort for minimum audience
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