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    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

    PartnerStack

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/APartnerStack is a partnerships platform and network built for SaaS, designed to deliver predictable revenue and accelerate growth for software businesses and their partners. The vendor states companies like Apollo, Webflow and Monday.com use PartnerStack to manage and scale their partner programs, automating partner onboarding, training, payments and more to drive their partners' success. They further state that in the past year alone, partners in the PartnerStack Network have generated…N/A
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    Free Trial
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    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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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    63%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Cision Communications Cloud
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    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MeltwaterPartnerStack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    8.5
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
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    Availability
    10.0
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    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
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    MeltwaterPartnerStack
    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.
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    PartnerStack, Inc
    creating co-branded gateway pages with your branding to collect leads from channels or referrers without having them leave your current website. managing all element of the referral programme, including authorising new partners, tracking connections, and emailing referrals. integrating with already-existing programmes like GitLab, Salesforce, and MailChimp to provide a smooth user experience. PartnerStack has the essential components needed for any Partner Program and can be integrated with your current infrastructure. With the help of the platform PartnerStack, we can create and oversee your whole relationship strategy. Manage our partners and rewards in one location by using the PartnerStack platform. build specialised partner experiences Use competitions, leaderboards, and gamification to inspire our teammates. give partners customised marketing materials (like swag) and incorporate tracking of their usage with PartnerStack
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
    • This is the best tool so far which helps me to manage the business relations, through this software I have got more power to control my various channels.
    • it is my everyday need to manage the tasks that are associated with my partners who own a particular platform like my Omni channels. It is handling everything in appropriate way.
    • Now I feel more confident in analyzing the on-boarding working of my partners and I am not at all worried about the payouts and compliance. This tool has helped me to better engage with them.
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
    • They don't provide any html or iframe script which most of the similar websites provide which I can easily add into my website
    • They have very few programs into their network when compared to other similar networks. It would be great if they could add more programs into their network.
    • Wish it had a filter for the marketplace? There are programs which pays per lead where as some pays per sale. And some pays % and some pays $.
    • About a month ago my account was suspended and I contacted them about it and was told that due to some violations of their "Terms of Service", it was suspended. And I tried contacting them but after that email they just ignored my email. No reply after even 5 - 6 emails so I stopped emails also. Few days ago I received mail from them saying my account was mistakenly suspended in a effort to remove fraudulent activity from their network & now I have started working again with them. After I got access to my account again, all of the programs I had joined were removed from my account and now I have to apply to every program once again. It would be great if they could do something from their end and join me to all those programs from their end easily rather then me applying to everyone once again.
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
    Because it delivers what they promise.
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
    Usability is the best part about PartnerStack. It's simply great!
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
    PartnerStack provides a faster interface and seems to be less confusing to use. In turn, this saves us time, especially if we just need to get a quick snapshot of the programs we're a part of and their overall health. Reporting is good for the metrics we need, but I would love more advanced reporting at some point and to see where we send the most traffic from - social, website, etc.
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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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    PartnerStack, Inc
    • We have had the option to keep up with our snap rates and have brought in a lot of cash by this setup.
    • Accomplices like PartnerStack in view of the straightforwardness with which they can get their installments and the straightforwardness with which they can follow the progress of their references.
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    Screenshot of a view of the PartnerStack dashboard; from here, users manage can all partner programs and see their impact.