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    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
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    Podium
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    Podium
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    Podium
    Considered Both Products
    Podium
    Chose Podium
    In my opinion, OpenPhone is 10x better. Literally 1/5 the price.
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    I haven't used any other service.
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    Chose Podium
    Just selected Podium as it had a partnership with our parent dealer company, a choice we do regret today
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    We haven't tried or looked at others. However, we are now looking at 8X8.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    We are currently talking to them because of our interest in document signatures.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    Reviewvio was terrible. Actually, it was always done and having "bugs" that keep things from working properly. And we have attempted to cancel the subscription and they are still charging our card.
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    Chose Podium
    I trust Podium and am not willing to switch to another platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    I can't recall the 'other' company we considered this year, but Podium won out because of the 'team chat' feature. It is our primary means of communicating with one another, both one-to-one and via teams/groups.
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    Chose Podium
    Similar but Birdeye is less expensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    Podium had reached out to me years ago and stayed in touch. I felt they were the best and most professional company. Some others in our industry had tried competitors with mixed results. I did not even shop around when we went with Podium.
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    Chose Podium
    We had the advantage of Podium integrating with our point of sale software already so that was a huge plus. We also felt that SMS gave people more freedom to communicate at their pace on their mobile device rather than being tied to a web browser or figuring out which tab they …
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    I haven't looked into the competitive platforms yet but I will be doing that.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    We have tried a few, but I won't mention them by name. This is a review of Podium.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    used to use "Skipio" for texting and "social climb" for reviews, using all different systems for something one product can do, is just a pain! So it has been FANTASTIC!

    We use Podium all day every day and we had to log in to multiple account systems to do all the things that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    I have never heard of any of these other companies. I met Podium at the Las Vegas Furniture Market Trade Show and signed up right away because I could see the value in it. The sites we see most reviews on are Google, Yelp, and Trip Advisor. I didn't know there were more …
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    Chose Podium
    We have evaluated multiple smaller companies that do not appear on TrustRadius including Swell, Yext, Solutions by Text, and ReviewInc. We currently utilize Podium for its integrations with our point of sale system and the fact that they have negotiated the cheapest rate on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    The other software we have used which I will not name has an incredibly clunky UI that is straight out of the '90s. On top of that conversations are hardly organized making it difficult to manage multiple conversations. Podium is faster, more efficient, easier to learn, and …
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    Chose Podium
    I haven't seen a comparable product to Podium. They do the best job at this.
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    Chose Podium
    We used Reputation.com in the past. We were receiving tons of negative reviews from their email blasts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    BirdEye was not easy to use and it did not give us the features we were looking for such as SMS and our employees would not use because it slowed them down with little ROI.
    Incentivized
    Chose Podium
    To be completely candid, I have not used another review software other than Podium. I've worked here for just over 2 years, and our company had just started using Podium. Podium has been useful and successful for our team; therefore, there has not been any reason for me to …
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    Chose Podium
    This is the first of its kind we have used for reviews.
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    Chose Podium
    Their product is up to date and always improving. The other software we were using was more expensive and ancient in the software world.
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    Chose Podium
    Very comfortable, however, where Podium offers a flat rate for all of its services, Reputation.com has an "al la carte" approach where you select the services you wish to use.

    Examples: Auto-sending review request, responding to messages sent back by customers, in-depth …
    Incentivized
    Chose 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 …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    58%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    64%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Small Businesses
    Affinity CRM
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    Hunter
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Podium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Podium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Scalability
    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
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    Return on Investment
    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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