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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LocaliQ

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ALocaliQ is a marketing platform that helps businesses attract and retain ideal customers with a suite of AI lead management and digital agents, marketing automation, omnichannel campaign management, advanced reporting, and expert-led services.N/A

    Olark

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOlark is a website live chat tool for engaging website visitors while they browse. It can be used to to track leads, drive sales, provide support.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    LocaliQOlark
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Self Service
    $19.00
    Per Agent Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LocaliQOlark
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsLocaliQ offers both self-serve and premium solutions. LocaliQ’s free, self-serve experience provides access to Free Website Grader, Free Inbound Call Recorder, Chatbot (free and $9.99/month options available), Scheduling Technology (free and $9.99/month options available), and Listings solutions ($9.99/month and $14.99/month options available). For LocaliQ's premium solutions, users are partnered with a LocaliQ expert to create the best marketing plan for their businesses that utilizes a full suite of marketing products.—
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    Community Pulse
    LocaliQOlark
    Considered Both Products
    Gannett
    No answer on this topic
    Olark
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    LocaliQOlark
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management7.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    7.2
    42 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation7.434 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading6.79 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management7.438 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks7.224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns8.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    7.2
    46 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards7.244 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.345 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    9.0
    6 Ratings
    51% above category average
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    Customizability9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of LocaliQ and Olark
    Feature
    LocaliQ
    -
    Ratings
    Olark
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Chat history and transcripts00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Chat reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    LocaliQOlark
    Small Businesses
    HighLevel
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Gist
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    OutboundEngine
    Score10 out of 10
    Zoho SalesIQ
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Genesys DX (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    LocaliQOlark
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (51 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (38 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.8
    (37 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LocaliQOlark
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gannett
    LocaliQ is well-suited, in our experience, for B2B marketing and, specifically, hyper-targeted and personalized marketing efforts. The geofencing capability is excellent at helping us deliver messages literally to the doorsteps of our target prospects. The proprietary software they use for this targeting is worth the money, and their reps, specifically Nikki Rowell and Sarah Pena, are fantastic and delightful people to work with. The only scenario that was slightly underwhelming was LinkedIn. Their tools don't deliver any additional value to LinkedIn ad campaigns, so it's not worth paying LocaliQ to run these campaigns; we can run them ourselves, which doesn't require much effort. That is just a small downside. We are extremely pleased with LocaliQ and their whole team.
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    Olark
    Olark chat is easy to set up and use. You can have more than one user logged in to monitor the chat on different computers. This makes a fast response time more likely. Although you have to be sure to keep your volume up on the computer so you hear the sound letting you know there's a chat waiting. I like that you can see the customers path through the website and you can put clickable links while you are in a chat to guide the customer to a product or a help page. Plus you can see if they actually went there. This makes it easier to upsell
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    Pros
    Gannett
    • ThriveHive is a smaller marketing team dedicated to helping small to medium sized businesses perfect their marketing messages. ThriveHive is particularity good at understanding how Google, and other search engines work, and have been instrumental in helping my company to grow and evolve.
    • With ThriveHive, you get a dedicated coach who is matched to your type of business. This experience with similar businesses gives your coach a better understanding of your business and the challenges your company faces.
    • My coach is very good at responding to my needs within 1 to 2 business days. Email contacts are fluent and as often as I need, to discuss ideas or questions. I can only speak of my relationship with my coach, and I am very pleased.
    • I feel that ThriveHive makes every effort to take excellent care of their clients, and makes you feel like you are their most important customer. I definitely believe that this is one of ThriveHives' greatest assets.
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    Olark
    • Olark is user friendly for both sides of the CHAT conversation. If you are initiating the chat, or the one receiving the chat, it is extremely easy to follow and use. There are many different levels of computer use comprehension and Olark is for every level.
    • Olark has reporting features to allow you to check the quality of your employees chat abilities as well as their productivity. It provides feedback for the employee themselves to also see how they are doing and take any suggestions the customer may leave for them regarding their chat experience.
    • Olark is very affordable and offers you the option, at a low cost, to look bigger and more professional that you even are. We were a smaller company and has the chat option with Olark and now have grown tremendously and STILL have the Olark chat option. Olark allowed us to grow and provide professionalism to our customers .
    • The Olark program allows you to set up quick responses to keep your customer from waiting, and to allow your employees to not have to retype the same response over and over. It is a great program that the employees really enjoy as well. It reminds you if you forgot to log out when you left your desk and provides your customer a quick note giving them the option to send the chat as an email inquiry instead, so you don't miss a thing.
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    Cons
    Gannett
    • LocaliQ could improve how it tracks and reports on customer journeys across those channels to provide a clearer view of ROI.
    • The pricing structure is not fully transparent, making it hard to understand the true costs associated with campaigns. Breaking down the fees associated with LocaliQ would make budgeting easier.
    • LocaliQ is able to provide basic ad creative, but there tends to be a disconnect between our brand voice and what is expected with creative. It would be nice to be able to get all design work within LocaliQ rather than have to use and outside designer all the time.
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    Olark
    • Not really an area of improvement for Olark specifically, but I will offer that it is incredibly important to keep in mind your company's "shopping hours" or peak traffic times (there is a Reports feature on the software that allows you to analyze peak traffic times).
    • Transcript history can be a little tricky - if you're searching for a specific past conversation, sometimes you may get multiple search results and have to sift through them until you find exactly what you're looking for.
    • I'd also offer that you will occasionally come across folks that are on your site to cyberbully or say nonsensical things. While there isn't an absolute fullproof way to deal with this, Olark does offer a nice "block" feature to disregard any unwanted conversations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gannett
    No answers on this topic
    Olark
    To be honest, renewal decisions are not currently within my power. Hypothetically speaking, I'm very comfortable with the platform, have used it daily for nearly a year, and would see no reason to switch to anything else. The small criticisms I had are not significant enough to deter me from using Olark. It's a user friendly, effective tool for our department.
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    Usability
    Gannett
    Overall usability pretty good. If we would have gotten better return on our advertising dollar I would have continued with them - their dashboard was very easy to use and the recaps they provided were helpful. They try to put data in bite-sized pieces for the client that are understandable (unlike google's reporting page itself which can be a bit difficult to understand at times). Their team was friendly, semi-responsive, and provided explanations when requested
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    Olark
    It is simply easy and customizable to be exactly what you need it to be
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    Support Rating
    Gannett
    No answers on this topic
    Olark
    Our organization does not have any complaints about Olark's Support. Anytime we reached out to them for assistance, we received a prompt, helpful reply! As mentioned previously, we used Olark fairly basically so we didn't have too much need to work with their support team other than a few general questions here and there. They were always pleasant to work with.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Gannett
    LocaliQ is more economical that marketing agencies we've used in the past. Our dollar goes farther. We've also used services from phonebook providers that were getting into the online advertising field. At the time, it was just being introduced so the reps knowledge on the topic was quiet limited.
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    Olark
    Olark has an easier implementation process and has better functionality such as the ability to send commands through the platform to either create a ticket in your CRM or push an opportunity to salesforce; you're even able to 'push' the end user to a web page. Implementing their SDK is a snap as well.
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    Scalability
    Gannett
    As mentioned prior, their ability to utilize and maximize our resources so that we receive the best results on all avenues of marketing and advertising. We see better lead generation, brand recognition and top of mind awareness due to LocaliQ efforts
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    Olark
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Gannett
    • It's hard to quantify but I know I've had at least 5 to 10 new clients in the last 6 months come from efforts related to my website
    • Not having to work on my website myself also helped free up my time, I don't need to worry!
    • Customer service is good, the team doesn't wait till there is a problem, they schedule check ins regularly
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    Olark
    • Olark allows my customer support team to respond to inquiries much faster than before.
    • We have seen an uptick in sales as we are able to address more questions from website visitors.
    • We have changed the design of our website based on chat feedback and questions obtained through Olark.
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    ScreenShots

    LocaliQ Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Dash lead management dashboard and engagement centerScreenshot of the Marketing Dashboard, which provides access to reports 24/7, or can be used to listen to phone calls and recordings, and manage a lead inbox. LocaliQ customers receive access to the Marketing Dashboard with the purchase of any other products at no additional cost. Upgrades available for automated lead nurture solutions.Screenshot of LocaliQ’s search ad technology includes expertise from account setup and keyword creation to data analysis and reporting across multiple search engines.Screenshot of Social ads, based on a business's unique goals and budget.Screenshot of LocaliQ listings solutions to get a business accurately listed, with lower cost or premium options.Screenshot of the AI-powered Dash SMS Agent that qualifies leads and convert customers. AI responses are generated using website content to provide a customer experience as good or better than a human interaction.