Lead Forensics vs. Optimal Workshop

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lead Forensics
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
UK company Lead Forensics offers their eponymous platform for lead generation and web analytics.N/A
Optimal Workshop
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Optimal Workshop, a company in New Zealand, offers their suite of user research tools on a subscription basis, including the Treejack information architecture tool, OptimalSort card sorting test, Chalkmark first-click testing, and other tools.
$191
per month per user
Pricing
Lead ForensicsOptimal Workshop
Editions & Modules
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Team
$191
per month per user
Individual
$208
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Lead ForensicsOptimal Workshop
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThese prices are based per user, per month billed annually. For 10 users or more, please contact us directly for a quote.
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User Ratings
Lead ForensicsOptimal Workshop
Likelihood to Recommend
1.2
(19 ratings)
7.7
(10 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(3 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Lead ForensicsOptimal Workshop
Likelihood to Recommend
Lead Forensics
It is a costly solution but well worth the money because of the details and information. We used others in the past but switched because it links with WIX. Sometimes I feel as if it is not capturing all our web traffic simply because it doesn't even track when our business is using it. It is good for some leads but I think there can be more it is missing.
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Optimal Workshop
Optimal Workshop is great for UX testing for those with a budget to do so. This may be a little on the expensive side for smaller businesses, but definitely not anything crazy expensive. The insights that you get out of these tests are invaluable and can be the difference between launching a site and succeeding/failing.
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Pros
Lead Forensics
  • It gives you valid leads that have been on your website looking for your products
  • The information is always accurate and detailed about their visit
  • It notifies you when the customer is looking for help or products, so you know when to reach out to them
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Optimal Workshop
  • The user interface is quite user friendly
  • Variety of tests
  • Access and variety of help on how to run tests, as well as educational information on which tests to run for your use case
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Cons
Lead Forensics
  • I wish the process could be a little more automated somehow. Right now it is more manual, at least in our process, to aggregate the accounts and segment accordingly.
  • It seems more geared towards sales, rather than marketing. We are struggling a little to use this at scale, but it could be where we are in maturity of using the product.
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Optimal Workshop
  • The recruitment panelists are not professional, nor do they take the tasks seriously. You are going to get a lot of bad data.
  • They are HQ'd outside the US and must have a small team because the customer service is the absolute WORST I've experienced in their industry.
  • They pride themselves on documentation, but when they fail to document something they blame the customer for the mistake.
  • There are way too many limitations with the tool after you launch, limited integrations, and poor survey questionnaire options. The tool itself is far too basic for most sites, especially B2B.
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Usability
Lead Forensics
The tool takes a bit to learn and you go through an onboarding to get a better understanding. Once you go through that, the tool is very user friendly and a piece of cake to use - anyone can go through it, no IT skills need to run and manage their platform.
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Optimal Workshop
Excellent and easy platform to use. Easy to onboard new members of the team. Easy to set up tests and follow number of participants performing the test. Easy to plug into other platforms to record participants. Excellent reporting. Easy to share reports with stakeholders. Easy to recruit through platform, however the quality of participants can be better.
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Support Rating
Lead Forensics
While we have not had a lot of issues, the Lead Forensics team has been helpful in addressing them. The software is fairly intuitive, and issues rarely arise. This could also be from a lack of use on our part, but we have not had a great deal of interaction with the customer support team.
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Optimal Workshop
The support has been good. No complaints. I have not needed to contact support more than 1-2 times when I was first getting set up, because the tools work well and are pretty straight forward. They do have good documentation
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Alternatives Considered
Lead Forensics
Lead Forensics is the best as far as I can tell, but choices that are a fraction of the cost come pretty close. Some places like ThomasNet even throw this functionality in for free now. I guess it's a question of if you view this type of intelligence as a luxury or essential.
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Optimal Workshop
For the price as it is very convenient for first-time beginners, its intuitiveness both for the one who is designing the activities and for those who have to interact with them. The fact that it collects and gathers the data into insights of the overall responses collected by all users.
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Return on Investment
Lead Forensics
  • In the end, we canceled our subscription, however, we had a couple solid leads from our use. We reached out to those clients. We didn't generate actual business, but at least we're on their radar.
  • In general, we have a better understanding of the marketing capabilities Lead Forensics can offer us. They provided us all of the tools we'd need to be able to recommend it to our clients.
  • We were able to see the effects of our marketing and learn from their successes of different tactics.
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Optimal Workshop
  • Optimal Workshop has had a positive impact on investigating information architecture on several websites.
  • Optimal Workshop has helped investigated the labeling on several websites.
  • Optimal Workshop has also support in the investigation of UX in navigations.
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ScreenShots

Lead Forensics Screenshots

Screenshot of Lead Forensics provides detailed insight with regard to who is visiting your website, where they have come from, how your visits trend over time, what they have looked at on your site, as well as providing detailed firmographics about each and every business visitor identified - all in real-time. At a glance insight for marketers to understand website performance, weak spots, campaign effectiveness and market engagement.Screenshot of Get a detailed view of precisely which businesses are visiting your website in real-time. Categorize visitors according to their stage in your sales pipeline and create actions based upon each visitor profile to commence further engagement. Understand what each visit is interested in by reviewing the time they have spent on each page, and use this information to start valuable conversations. Lastly, review the contact information, and commence pro-active engagement to give each customer and prospect an exceptional first impression.Screenshot of Understand which of your marketing campaigns and tactics are driving high value opportunities to your website. Track changes over time to understand the success of specific campaigns and monitor the performance of social media, PPC, SEO and any other referring source, enabling you to optimize campaigns and invest marketing budget where you are driving maximum engagement and return.Screenshot of Detailed firmographics relating to each visiting business, enable you to qualify and score a visitor, according to their 'fit' for your business. Understand the size and scope of each visitor, identify where they are located and get their contact information. Leverage automated lead scoring against your specific criteria in order to focus on the highest priority opportunities, in order to acquire new business, expand existing customer revenues and deliver excellent levels of customer service.