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    TrustRadius for Vendors

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AVirtually 100% of B2B tech professionals want to self-serve and control their buying journey. Influence, engage, and win them on TrustRadius. The only decisioning platform built for modern buyers.

    $30,000

    per year

    Pricing
    PodiumTrustRadius for Vendors
    Editions & Modules
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    Customer Voice
    Starting at $30,000 (multi-year discount available)
    per year per product
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PodiumTrustRadius for Vendors
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Multi-year discount available
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    Community Pulse
    PodiumTrustRadius for Vendors
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    58%
    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
    100 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
    81 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    64%
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    95 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    PodiumTrustRadius for Vendors
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    8.5
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    Usability
    7.0
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    9.9
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    Availability
    10.0
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    -
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    Performance
    10.0
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    -
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    5.5
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PodiumTrustRadius for Vendors
    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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    Well suited if you want a presence on all of the "big review sites" - it's best practice for your business to be engaged on all of the sites, as prospects are reading and searching. I would say it's less appropriate if your typical buyer does not research for the product you are selling, or perhaps if your competitors are not present on this site.
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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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    HG Insights
    • Actively working with us to generate reviews
    • Actively working with us to showcase the reviews we get
    • Actively presenting us to the market by featuring us on special pages such as Vector Databases — and on the TrustRadius home page
    • Professional team providing us with services — but also colleagues and friends
    • We needed better ways to sort our reviews for score and recency, and TrustRadius for Vendors helped us get there
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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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    • Due to TrustRadius reviews being a bit lengthy, I think it can hinder response volume.
    • While not a major issue, it would be nice to have a TrustRadius Slack/chat integration where I could quickly reach my reps. That being said, my reps already have a great response time!
    • It would be nice if I could run a report on how my company's competitors are performing on TrustRadius for Vendors.
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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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    HG Insights
    We definitely see the value in peer review platforms like TrustRadius. Being able to hear from our customers and partners and share that information across the organization is very important to WatchGuard. I really see working with TrustRadius as a partnership that has been beneficial for both organizations and is continuing to prove very successful
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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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    It was easy to integrate, pull data and reports from, and really easy to customize the design to fit the branding of our site. I found it easy to show other team members how to use. Our whole team was able to get around the system to fit their different needs
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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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    HG Insights
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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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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HG Insights
    Many of our ongoing comms have been automated or moved to an office-hours model, so we don't get much support from our accounts team. In comparison, there are other review vendors we work with with whom we are much more likely to expand, given their ongoing support and the insights they share. Overall, I feel the customer support team should be more hands-on and strategic, as there could be opportunities to upsell and expand with customers who are being missed.
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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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    HG Insights
    My only key insight is to make sure that you remember the TrustRadius team is your partner, not your enemy! They are there to help ensure the success within your organization and will do everything they can to help you meet your goals.
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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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    HG Insights
    We are also working with G2 and I consider the platforms complementing each other. With TrustRadius for Vendors we collect complex review content reflecting attribute ratings of our products, different use cases and deployments our clients experiment, reviewers sentiments. Using quotes tagging and Chrome Extension feature we can map the most relevant reviews to the right audience, messaging or industry. The vendor portal has multiple selections available, for me it is very important to be able to check only with a click the number of ratings or the number of reviews for different date range or to check if my product is qualified for next awards.
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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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    HG Insights
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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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    HG Insights
    • We can't necessarily track ROI on this, but TrustRadius for Vendors has definitely influenced many buyers at some point in their purchasing journey.
    • Webhooks would help us track some of the above & when we get them set up, I'm sure we'll see many new leads coming in.
    • We just signed on for Buyer Intent, so we will be able to speak on this later on.
    Incentivized
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