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    Luigi's Box

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ALuigi’s Box solutions understand customer behavior, and use data to provide better search results, recommend relevant products, and enhance the shopping experience to boost your e-commerce conversion rates and average order values. Search and Autocomplete Recommender Product Listing Shopping Assistant Conversational Agent AnalyticsN/A

    Podium

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APodium, formerly Repdrive, is a ratings and review management platform from the company of the same name in Provo, Utah.N/A
    Pricing
    Luigi's BoxPodium
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    Luigi's BoxPodium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Luigi's BoxPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (49 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (24 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Luigi's BoxPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Luigi's Box
    Luigi's Box is the perfect solution for sales platforms that have search engine problems on their site. Luigi's Box allows you to go to the next level and enable customers to find what they are looking for. With additional options to recommend and indicate substitutes and add-on products, it can work great as a sales-boosting element.
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    Podium
    Podium is well suited for several types of businesses. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, Podium would be a great way for you to ask that customers leave you a review online sharing their awesome experience. For medium to large businesses, Podium review invites can be automated through the company's customer management system, allowing the use of Podium to be simple and not timely, even with a large customer base. It may not be appropriate for a large company to manually send out individual review invites
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    Pros
    Luigi's Box
    • Recognising synonyms and mis-spellings to still show our customers accurate and relevant search results.
    • Great analytics section showing trending searches and non-converting searches, aiding in future product development and our priorities for what products we want to show the customer.
    • The boost function which allows us to prioritise showing customers certain products over others, which improves conversions.
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    Podium
    • Maintains conversations indefinitely, so we are able to go back to confirm details from conversations.
    • Provides the ability for our company to have a 'team' messaging platform where we can communicate with one another via single person to a single person, groups where we can add/subtract members of the group... this is invaluable to our organization.
    • Until today(!), we could 'share' or forward a message to one another; oddly, that feature disappeared just today, so I'm hoping it's a glitch!
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    Cons
    Luigi's Box
    • More choice for customisation and layout would be good.
    • More payment options for example the choice to pay via direct debit.
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    Podium
    • Account manager communications: I had been asking my Podium account manager for integration with our CRM tool for over 8 months before my account manager fell silent. After another 6 months, I proactively reached out only to find out that the integration had been in Beta for months and 8 other companies had already integrated. It was frustrating that my account manager did not remember a key request and make the Beta available to me the minute that it was open.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Luigi's Box
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    Podium
    Again, Podium has been so wonderful in the year and a half we have been using it, we are able to integrate it with our CRM and use alot of the available features. The most helpful has been getting TONS of reviews on MULTIPLE sites through Podium!
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    Usability
    Luigi's Box
    As I mentioned in the previous points, Luigis Box helped us to improve the overall services for our customers, whether in the area of ​​product search, optimization of various processes, improvement of service quality, etc. Within our company, all of us who work with him are really satisfied with him. If we were to recommend the tool we use to other companies, Luigi's Box would be a clear choice for us :)
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    Podium
    While giving our clients the ability to leave a review was there, we had much worse results and got fewer reviews through the Podium portal than we did by sending our clients simple email requests, or simply having our service staff ask for a review while still on the clients' job sites.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Luigi's Box
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    Podium
    We haven't had any outages or issues whenever we need it over the last few years of use
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    Performance
    Luigi's Box
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    Podium
    It moves quickly and has no issues with delays. Performance is good as it is a web-based tool
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    Support Rating
    Luigi's Box
    Their support is excellent. Quick and helpful.
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    Podium
    I have to send an email to get information. They have a chat system but I end up having to go through my rep for account questions. It was a little frustrating to not have a direct phone number to call with questions. I would like to see a helpline added.
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    Implementation Rating
    Luigi's Box
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    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Luigi's Box
    The price is a lot better than Clerk, and the speed of integration is much simpler. Our IT team had so many issues intergating Clerk and the price kept on increasing. Whereas with Luigi's Box it was the exact opposite. Price is good for the system you receive and the integration is easy.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    We use Digital Air Strike at our two GM dealerships because it is one of a small list of reputation management companies authorized by GM as part of their SFE program. Digital Air Strike surveys our customers and invites them to write a review about our dealership. It is not as effective or flexible as Podium so we have been using Podium at those dealerships alongside Digital Air Strike. We also recently started a trial use of ReplyPro which is a service that monitors review sites and writes customized responses to positive reviews and suggested responses to negative reviews. I'd like to see Podium add this as part of their service so we can consolidate 3rd party vendors and manage every aspect of online reputation management from one place.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Luigi's Box
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    Podium
    Its easy to scale to different departments as needed. We initially began using it to solve one problem and as new features became available it was easy to scale this and include other departments who could benefit from its tools
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Luigi's Box
    • Simple construction of a data feed = low cost
    • Easy to implement with the provided script - without having to hire a programmer
    • The search results presented after minor configuration are much better than in search engines built into SaaS e-commerce
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    Podium
    • I am glad there are card readers now, sales team members too often try to just send a request instead of taking payment onsite.
    • It's made capturing messaging leads much easier.
    • It's worth the cost but if it did a few more things it would be worth a lot more to us. Document signatures, surveying after jobs, even geotagging of photos/reviews for SEO
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    Luigi's Box Screenshots

    Screenshot of the main dashboard that analyzes search effectiveness, highlights trends, and flags lost or no-result queries. This is used to add synonyms or include sought-after products and services.Screenshot of an overview that presents a timeline of query performance along with a heatmap of the most clicked products.Screenshot of a funnel chart that shows impressions, clicks, and conversions for each recommendation, with options to analyze assisted or direct conversions.Screenshot of the Product Listing overview, which shows data like conversions, transactions, clicks, and more. Explore conversion rates by category or product, and analyze low-traffic products.Screenshot of a screenshot that demonstrates how Notino utilizes Luigi's Box to suggest relevant products to users.Screenshot of a showcase of how Ledvance uses Luigi's Product Listing to enhance product filtering.