Likelihood to Recommend I have a fairly straightforward use case for Sendible and it meets almost all of my needs. If you are a small company that needs a collaborative solution to social media content creation, and likely has a small team (or no team) to manage social media postings, I think Sendible is likely a great tool to schedule posts and largely automate social media marketing. A larger company or more involved marketing team could still use Sendible to schedule and collaborate on posts. However, there may be additional features they may want or need (like the ability to promote posts) that may not be available with Sendible.
Read full review If social is a big part of your business in more departments than just marketing and communications (marcom), make sure to let the team know and ask how Viralheat can accommodate multiple users and departments. Viralheat was great during the evaluation process because they were willing to show us exactly what they could do for our company - they even customized accounts for us to show us the true value of signing on.
Read full review Pros Easy to schedule and post to all of your social media platforms. Customer support is very accommodating and always there to help. I have never had an issue with reaching someone whether it was for a quick question or to demo other features. They have an awesome affiliate program (example: I earned over $600 from one company clicking through an signing up from my affiliate link - yay!) Compared to other social media platforms, Sendible has been the most robust with features and ease of use. They are always making advances and upgrades to their service offerings to better meet the needs of their customers. Read full review Viralheat’s reporting feature delivers analytics in presentation-grade spreadsheets. I include these images in reports or presentations to different teams. Monitoring is definitely a strong point. I am not limited by a conversation or mention limitation, which is especially important when tracking high-volume products or brands. We are able to quickly identify trends and act accordingly. The user experience is a pleasant one. Viralheat offers many comprehensive features but the layout of the product is simple and intuitive. I’m able to access any feature without having to click around into multiple places. Read full review Cons Inbox. The inbox of incoming messages/posts is very clunky. Threads are separated into individual messages, making it difficult to follow conversations. Reporting. The included reporting features are limited and don't allow for enough customization to be worth using. Hashtags. When discussing the 10 most common mistakes (or whatever the title might be), we are unable to say "You won't believe #3" because the system reads this as a hashtag to link rather than just a number. It adds on editing time when approving posts. Default settings. As a Social Media Manager, it is annoying to have myself set as default when looking at the content calendar. I don't write the posts, just approved and schedule them, so manually entering in my writers' names in the filters could be made easier by making this an editable feature. Instagram. You cannot post multiple images in a single Instagram post from Sendible. Service Lists. They are supposed to be helpful in grouping your services (we do this by brand), however, these lists don't pull the information you put on individual services. So if I have a list with Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for Brand A, you can't just add the Brand A Service List filter onto the calendar and see all of those posts that are scheduled. They don't seem to have much purpose at all. Read full review Not being able to reference in the native platform (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook) the name of companies or users referenced in a post. Not being able to embed images natively. (e.g. Image attached to a post on Viralheat shows up as a url link on the native platform). Would love to see a calendar view of the scheduled posts as well as the current list view. Read full review Likelihood to Renew If I am given a larger budget to work with then I'd like a program that tracks and collects my PR hits, as well as sends me important info to respond to. I realy like the way New Brand Analytics tracks my Trip Advisor,etc ratings
Read full review Viralheat provided our team with the kind of monitoring tool we were looking for. As an added bonus, they had a member of their team brainstorm the best ways for us to set up our account to ensure we weren’t missing anything. Great customer service.
Read full review Usability Sendible is 100% web based so managing social media platforms can be done from anywhere with internet connectivity. During registration, Sendible takes its users on a tour of its main features. The sleek design was engineered by professionals who have great interest in social media marketing. There is ample support in case users get lost and there is no learning curve.
Read full review I found it really easy to use and I use it on a daily basis and can easily find my way around. It has the usability of a consumer application for an Enterprise product that does very complex things in a very elegant manner.
Read full review Support Rating Sendible has a great resource center which I have used multiple times throughout my year using the platform. There are plenty of troubleshooting articles and guides that make it easy to uncover the root of any small issues I may have.
Read full review The customer success team clearly cares about how well we do. They are quick to get back to us and they always offer to jump on a screen share so we can understand and learn new features.
Read full review Implementation Rating We were up and running within an hour.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Sendible offers outstanding value for money with majority of the features offered by more expensive platforms at a much lower cost. We were using a combination of
Hootsuite and Sendible. Sendible remains our primary social media scheduling tool and we were using the free version of
Hootsuite as it offered superior social listening, with the ability to track posts by keywords and hashtags in streams for example. Sendible does not offer this same functionality for social listening. When
Hootsuite stopped offering social listening streams for free, we dropped
Hootsuite and we are currently manually searching social media platforms one at a time until we identify a cost effective social listening tool with the required features.
Read full review We chose Viralheat because it allowed us to do multiple things from one tool. We were able to monitor our brand mentions after each video, song, or album release - this provided us with valuable feedback abouout our brand and music. We were also able to connect our accounts and engage directly with our fans as well as post new content. We monitored the analytics around each release and campaign and were able to determine which were successful.
Read full review Return on Investment Our case study on the Pinterest side of things was remarkable. Allowing us to schedule our pins in advance meant we could publish at a higher frequency and also at more meaningful times. It impacted our Pinterest growth and conversions from Pinterest very noticeably. Read full review Viralheat has helped me understand how real-life users react to things I build and/or test. I’ve gotten a better understanding of my space and the relevant news surrounding it. This helps me build a better product. It saves me a lot of time. I’m able to quickly monitor what’s important to me. Read full review ScreenShots