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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Meltwater

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMeltwater Media Intelligence platform is a set of public relations software tools for media monitoring, social media monitoring, and collecting brand insights. The four areas of functionality are Monitor, Analyze, Distribute, and Engage. (Note that this product combines features from the vendor Meltwater's former Buzz, Press, and News products.)N/A

    Neuron

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Neuron (formerly Prospect) is a sales tool used to find contact data for any prospect and import it directly into Salesforce in one click.

    $149

    per month per user

    Pricing
    MeltwaterNeuron
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    MeltwaterNeuron
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Meltwater
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    63%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    62%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    69%
    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    63%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    MeltwaterNeuron
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Meltwater and Neuron
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    Meltwater
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    Ratings
    Neuron
    5.8
    10 Ratings
    28% below category average
    List quality00 Ratings4.36 Ratings
    List upload/download00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings4.56 Ratings
    Load time/data access00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Meltwater and Neuron
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Neuron
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Contact information00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Meltwater and Neuron
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Neuron
    7.4
    10 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Lead qualification process00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Salesforce integration00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Company/business profiles00 Ratings8.38 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders00 Ratings5.65 Ratings
    Data hygiene00 Ratings6.610 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh00 Ratings6.89 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    MeltwaterNeuron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    9.8
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
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    Usability
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    -
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    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    MeltwaterNeuron
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Meltwater
    Meltwater is well-suited for agencies that have an engagement team who is looking to service a variety of client needs such as social media reporting, public relations outreach, and community management. If you're looking to have a platform serve just one need, you can still use Meltwater but will get more bang for your buck if you are needing a variety of tools.
    Incentivized
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
    Its well suited If you find yourself manually placing contact details in CRMs or you're using multiple tools to find relevant and accurate contact details. Not so relevant if you already sheet of contact details and you can simply import it as a CSV in certain tools
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    Pros
    Meltwater
    • Media research - you can search for relevant publications and journalists to add to your media list.
    • Earned media coverage - you can search for coverage of your brand and find news stories that also include data that may be useful (how many people did the story reach for example).
    • Building media lists - if you have no current existing list, you can build and export one in Excel for example.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
    • Creating/updating contacts in Salesforce
    • Finding accurate email addresses
    • UI is great. Easy to use
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    Cons
    Meltwater
    • The dashboards are not user-friendly, customizable (color, font size, etc.), or worthy of presenting to a client. All of the insights from a dashboard get pulled from the platform and placed into a more client-friendly presentation.
    • Paywalls for certain publications connected to who-knows-what. DowJones racket limits media monitoring capabilities and results in manual searches for a growing number of publications.
    • TVeyes, the broadcast monitoring arm of the media monitoring capabilities, just needs TLC and to become more client-facing. Currently, the links produced to share clips look sketchy, and they have a relatively short shelf life.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
    • Minimizing minor bugs
    • Being able to export contacts for varying accounts to corresponding tabs in Google Drive
    • Being able to prospect more than 25 at a time
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Meltwater
    Meltwater works well for our organization and has allowed us to meet our internal goals. We are always open to new products and services that may be able to provide similar or better features; however, our experience has been that many of Meltwater's competitors are not up to the task.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
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    Usability
    Meltwater
    Once you get some basic training it's pretty easy to use. I would like to see training manuals, or instructional videos to help me explore features I'm not currently using.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
    Super easy to use, the only thing I wish they would change is that you always need to check the prospects linkedin page to see if there's been an update to their contact (eg. if contact didnt have a mobile number saved, they may now, so you need to check linkedin every single time before reaching out). Other than that, this is by far the best tool for pulling numbers and emails.
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    Support Rating
    Meltwater
    Our account rep at Meltwater went dark for a long time. Then, a couple of weeks ago, our new account manager reached out to set up a meeting. Apparently, they had a big shakeup in the company, and there were some personnel changes. Our new account rep was great in discussing the platform's capabilities that were available to us and even offered to schedule a follow-up meeting with his technical team to introduce our new social media team members to the platform and how it could help them with their jobs.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
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    In-Person Training
    Meltwater
    Again, really in-depth and helpful for a program that is really easy to use.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
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    Online Training
    Meltwater
    Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
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    Implementation Rating
    Meltwater
    You are only allowed 15 users, so make sure you've identified who will have access to use the tool.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Meltwater
    I was looking for a full-service option. I did some research. What really sold me was the presentation. They offered products that were helpful, and I wasn’t even aware of them. It is more expensive than the other products that are out there, but you get more. The other companies are good, but Meltwater Media Intelligence is more full service.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
    zoominfo has old contact info, a lot of the time i look at specific people and their companies aren't updated. I get intent emailed to me from zoominfo for job changes and it will be 6-12 months after someone changed jobs so the information is just not accurate enough. apollo only pulls headquarters info, never had an accurate cell number from it so i stopped using it pretty quickly during our eval
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    Return on Investment
    Meltwater
    • As a PR firm, we rely on the media databases that [Meltwater Media Intelligence Platform] supplies to deliver the media exposure that they expect from us.
    • We utilize their tracking of media hits for our overall reporting to our clients.
    • Both of these are advantageous in helping us to not only keep our existing clients happy but also to gain new clients (and, in turn - revenue), as well.
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    Planleaf, Inc. (Neuron)
    • I prefer using it from the SalesNav page compared to Zoominfo - seems way more up to date
    • Allows me to massively scale my prospecting by keeping me in page and I don't have to look up and cross reference on other tools
    • While it has a smaller set of functionality that I can use it for relative to Zoominfo, the things that it does do I've always felt it did a better job
    • Really simple UI and doesn't prompt me to sign in every day which I appreciate.
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