Outgrow vs. Persado

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Outgrow
Score 9.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Outgrow enables marketers to create calculators, recommendations, quizzes and polls to better acquire, qualify, and monetize leads. Outgrow is designed so marketers can build these tools without a developer or a designer in minutes. Common Examples of interactive content that you can build with Outgrow include: ROI calculators Cost Calculators Sales lift calculators Graders Knowledge tests Fun quizzes Product recommendations
$22
per month per user
Persado
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Persado in New York offers their "Message Machine" natural language technology, which leverages a comprehensive marketing language knowledge base of over one million words and phrases, powered by AI and data science. Persado is designed to unlock the power of words to engage consumers like never before, one by one, moment by moment, across every marketing channel, driving improvements in brand engagement and revenue performance.N/A
Pricing
OutgrowPersado
Editions & Modules
Freelancer Plan
$22
per month per user
Freelancer Pro
$45
per month per user
Essentials Plan
$115
per month for 3 users
Business Plan
$720
per month
Enterprise Plan
Custom Pricing
Agency Plan
Custom Pricing
per Client
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OutgrowPersado
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOutgrow also offers the option to build interactive content including calculators, quizzes, recommendations, polls and graded tests for clients. Pricing varies based on the number of experiences built and the complexity of each experience.—
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Features
OutgrowPersado
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Outgrow
8.0
30 Ratings
1% below category average
Persado
-
Ratings
Ideation8.029 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval workflows8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
Content collaboration8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Outgrow
9.5
35 Ratings
16% above category average
Persado
-
Ratings
Content hub9.525 Ratings00 Ratings
Forms / Gated content10.030 Ratings00 Ratings
Embedded CTAs10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
Content distribution9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Content promotion9.528 Ratings00 Ratings
Content automation9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Outgrow
8.8
36 Ratings
12% above category average
Persado
-
Ratings
Audience profiling and targeting9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting9.528 Ratings00 Ratings
Content performance analytics10.033 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard8.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitive analytics7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
OutgrowPersado
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(39 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OutgrowPersado
Likelihood to Recommend
Outgrow
Well suited: When you want (potential) customers to quickly determine if your product or service is right for them. I noticed that we could make a very honest calculation tool that shows how quickly our car sharing service is beneficial to customers. These types of calculations are difficult to convey in text. Less appropriate: The length of your calculation has to be in line with what the engagement people have with your product or service. We want to determine if a shared car is interesting, so we don't want 10+ questions. But if you're selling a house you can include more questions.
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Persado
Persado is an excellent tool for a small marketing team seeking to "work smarter, not harder." The tool itself is simple to use and generates instant results, all while learning and reporting at a deeper level than a human on a marketing team could. We have been able to reach the right eyes within our audience at the right time, improving open rates and generating more revenue from our promotional emails.
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Pros
Outgrow
  • Outgrow provides a comprehensive knowledge base, which allows you to quickly become adept at using their platform.
  • They don't make any assumptions. When your quiz or calculator is ready to go live, they offer you an in-depth checklist of ideas to promote it.
  • They ensure that you have a high degree of creativity.
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Persado
  • They know way more than me on how to create effective subject lines that actually get people to open. We have solid creative and cool emails, but without the hook, it means nothing. Persado is that hook. (Side note, they are also customizable so if your company has specific guidelines/tone, you can set those parameters.)
  • The analytics are amazing! It's so cool to see the responses to various emotions ebb and flow over time. We have a few that consistently perform well (and some that consistently underperform, which makes sense for them to), and a few others that seem to react to the season somehow. How would I know this on my own? (That's right, I wouldn't.)
  • Creating these subject lines and exporting them to Listrak (our ESP) is insanely quick and easy. It takes more time for me to set up the split test in our ESP than it does to set up the subject lines in Persado.
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Cons
Outgrow
  • Some of the formulas, if you want to do more complicated quizzes, need their help. You can do simple quizzes easily. I wanted/needed something much more complicated. They did help me out for an additional fee - but it was reasonable.
  • I would love to see more examples of how/why so I can emulate them. Or even a "duplicate" another quiz and use my own words.
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Persado
  • Not so much a con, but area for improvement: an option to have reports generated automatically and sent to me weekly or similar. It would automate my learning and understanding of how the tool is working.
  • When we write control subject lines that include emojis, I have to go outside of Persado to find the emoji I want to use, copy, and come back to Persado. However there is a button to add emojis to the Persado generated subject lines.
  • Since Persado integrates with our ESP, Bronto, we'd really like to see more to the connection such as sharing conversion and revenue data.
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Usability
Outgrow
The software works fast and has an intelligent design
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Persado
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Support Rating
Outgrow
Support is very responsive and is quick to respond to questions and problems. Outgrow sometimes changes their pricing and plan structures and add/remove options without properly relaying the info to customers. They could do a better job with communications and being upfront with the pricing plans people sign up for.
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Persado
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Outgrow
The previous tools we used had no ability to make numerical calculators and limited logic jump features within surveys (if someone answers question one a particular way, skip question two, etc.) and more limited ability to direct people toward different outcomes based on how they answered questions in the surveys. Many of them didn’t have native integrations with Marketo either. These were critical features that we needed so we decided to switch to outgrow.
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Persado
Phrasee wasn't an option to select, but we did evaluate them after hearing about them at a digital marketing summit. I liked what they were doing and the emails they were sending, but the pricing structure was outrageous! There was a 0% chance our CFO would approve the budget. To add salt to the wound, they also charged outrageously for a trial period. Ugh - as much as I wanted it, there was no way I could justify the ROI. Enter Persado. I got an email from a sales rep which accompanied a resource. I got excited but hesitated. I then saw they offered a free 14-day trial. Wait - what?? Free?! Yes. Wendy gave me the grand tour and holy cannoli I was immediately impressed with the results of our very first send. And it's only gotten better. Sorry Phrasee, I'm with Persado now.
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Return on Investment
Outgrow
  • Outgrow has helped me sell more life insurance through the use of interactive calculators.
  • Outgrow has helped me attract more referral partners thus helping my agency grow.
  • Outgrow saved my agency money because I was able to cancel subscriptions to other services which offered fewer features.
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Persado
  • Granted these numbers are driven by a number of other factors as well, our email marketing program has grown by 44% and 35% in the last 2 years respectively. More email opens from Persado subject lines has certainly contributed to this growth.
  • Open rate improvement of 11% between control subjects and Persado subjects.
  • Click rate improvement of 27% between control subjects and Persado subjects.
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ScreenShots

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