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    Swag Pro

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APrintfection is a swag management platform that aims to simplify the buying, managing, and distribution of swag and branded merchandise, from the company of the same name in Denver. They offer a suite of online swag management tools and APIs alongside custom printing, inventory management, and distribution. The vendor states their customers use the platform to drive more leads, reward customers, and engage employees.N/A

    Twilio SendGrid

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ATwilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns provides users with segmentation, campaign editing, and deliverability. According to the vendor, Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns is trusted by over 80,000 customers globally, including Airbnb, Spotify and Uber. Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns aims to help users by providing: MORE EFFICIENT EMAIL BUILDING The campaign building process is free from frustrating, rigid step-by-step wizards that slow users down. The vendor says…

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    Swag ProTwilio SendGrid
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    Basic
    $15
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    Advanced
    $60
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    Free
    Free
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    Swag ProTwilio SendGrid
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    Printfection
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    79 Answers
    75%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    68 Answers
    72%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    56 Answers
    65%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    54 Answers
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Swag ProTwilio SendGrid
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Swag Pro and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Swag Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.8
    50 Ratings
    17% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.337 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings6.740 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings4.438 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings9.330 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings5.050 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings4.744 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings4.624 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Swag Pro and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Swag Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio SendGrid
    6.1
    50 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings4.648 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings5.148 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Swag Pro and Twilio SendGrid
    Feature
    Swag Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio SendGrid
    8.2
    12 Ratings
    1% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings7.512 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings8.111 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings9.112 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Swag ProTwilio SendGrid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (83 ratings)
    4.7
    (61 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    4.9
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.0
    (82 ratings)
    3.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.3
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    User Testimonials
    Swag ProTwilio SendGrid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Printfection
    B2B companies, SaaS companies, larger or important swag or customer gifting motions, ABM strategies, large customer thank you motions, certification programs where earners are thanked or rewarded, lean teams, ample budgets, field sales teams with agency of gifting and swag, marketing teams that don't have room or space for holding or managing inventory
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    Twilio
    If you're prepared to build out your whole staff UX, audience creation, email production, and analytics on your own using API, this tool may have that flexibility. If you require a sturdy drag and drop production tool, this tool has it but at the expense of a lot of other critical functionality. Out of the box analytics/reporting, is extremely limited. Complex queries, even something like pulling those who haven't engaged in email within a certain time period, is clunky. If you require any support at all, this is not the tool for you. I'm a deliverability consultant and have used many of the top email marketing tools and SendGrid has been extremely difficult for my team. I do not recommend it. Shiny and bright during sales, pretty disappointing thereafter.
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    Pros
    Printfection
    • The swag catalogue has lots of items to choose from and they try to source anything else you need
    • Takes care of the logistical challenges of getting swag to offices, events and to customers
    • Their customer team are really hands on and helpful
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    Twilio
    • Managing email lists / audiences is easy with features like groups and segments.
    • They provide pre-built email templates that are very easy to modify. It is also super easy to create new email templates with their drag-and-drop email builder.
    • Provides clear / easy-to-read analytics of email campaigns.
    • I can easily import large email contact lists all at once or add a user manually one-at-a-time, when needed.
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    Cons
    Printfection
    • Their Giveaway feature was made some improvements but I would like to see it be more flexible
    • Being able to get more samples of products and printing prior to ordering
    • Swag photography/ items in stock in our closet- we had to provide photos of these items
    • Better updates on swag items that are low in stock
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    Twilio
    • Not necessarily their Email API but their email in general - they are currently in beta for automated email sequences but are still bare bones. Much more work is needed before it can be used mainstream and be able to convert everything to SendGrid.
    • Helping with warming up our dedicated IP for the best-sending score.
    • We seem to hit the promotions folder a decent amount (maybe the IP problem above) and even a lot of their emails hit my spam or promotions folder (whether they be transactional or marketing) which isn't a great sign when trusting an ESP.
    • Transactional email sequences would be a huge plus.
    • Now that Twilio owns SenGrid, having an integrated platform where you could see all our transactional emails together.
    • Better reporting and split reporting between transactional and marketing emails.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Printfection
    We are currently extremely satisfied with printfection. The quality of swag is very good, but the customer service ranks high above any other swag company. I have been working closely with my Printfection manager (Tyler Rowland) and he has been more than helpful from the start.
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    Twilio
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    Usability
    Printfection
    I think they do their work well. It's just not amazing or a company I feel a necessity to keep. If someone had the same service with the same cost, I might suggest asking both about the level of customer service.
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    Twilio
    It is usable but needs improvement in overall user experience and ease of use. A new joinee/anyone new to the tool would need more tarining currently before he can use the platform seamlessly. The set-up to value realization time for Twilio SendGrid customers is generally high because of this concern.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Printfection
    Prinfection's availability has been great. There was one time when a product we needed wasn't available, but our Printfection rep made sure to get what we needed.
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    Twilio
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    Performance
    Printfection
    Printfection's performance has been top-notch. We have been using Printfection for only about 8 months, and have not had any issues with performance.
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    Twilio
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    Support Rating
    Printfection
    They're willing to help and do what is necessary, even when unnecessary. This is the case when I don't need service at that level, but I'd rather have excellent service always than wonder if it will be there when I need it. Overall, they are perfect, and they have good intentions.
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    Twilio
    Twilio SendGrid Email API is everything we want it to be, and we have no reason to look for any other solution. Features and pricing match exactly what we need. As developers for SaaS products, Twilio SendGrid Email API provides a great service. I hope that they stay this way and don't inflate the service with too many marketing oriented features, because there are other tools for that and Twilio SendGrid Email API is a API for sending email first and foremost.
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    In-Person Training
    Printfection
    Tyler led some of our staff through training and was very helpful. Tyler was also always available for any questions after training was complete.
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Printfection
    We completed online training with a Printfection rep leading us through the process. This made the whole experience easy and helpful.
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    Twilio
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    Implementation Rating
    Printfection
    Their team is very helpful in getting set up and we felt like they worked with us on price and also getting our previous inventory we had at our offices set up in Printfection. The only down side of shipping in your items to Printfection is the photography of the items (which clients can see) is pretty terrible if you don't have clear product photos prior to sending the items to Printfection warehouse.
    **All items purchased through Printfection the product photos look better (so this issue won't be the case with those who aren't shipping existing swag to their warehouse)
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    Twilio
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    Alternatives Considered
    Printfection
    I reserached swag platforms and narrowed it down to 3 that I wanted to learn more about. I based my choices on response time to demo requests, customer service, items, ability to meet the needs of my supervisor, etc. I learned that 2 out of the 3 platforms I found were both under Custom Ink which I have used in the past. So I know the items are of good quality. The main deciding factor was the staff. Both companies had nice staff. But Printfection did a superb job of not making me feel like a cutomer but a friend. I didn't fee like I was a sale but a partner.
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    Twilio
    Sendgrid has a lot of features that other providers have and a few more - like the dynamic template builder, which AWS SES doesn't have. We choose the provider based on the scenario of use and the provider we're using. If we're going to be making regular changes to a template, then we'd go with Sendgrid, as the changes will be easier to make and don't necessarily require developer intervention.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Printfection
    Simple pricing and easy to pitch to stakeholders
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    Twilio
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    Scalability
    Printfection
    Only two departments use this product effectively. Ideally we have two other departments would use it, but they kept getting confused on how to navigate through it.
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    Twilio
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    Professional Services
    Printfection
    There aren't many professional services besides what is related to their product. What would have been great was to get design services included in our membership since we dont have one in house
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    Twilio
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    Return on Investment
    Printfection
    • Printfection is far more expensive than what we were previously using and we haven't seen a huge ROI yet in terms of influence on pipeline.
    • Our employees are more engaged using Printfection than they were with our previous tool.
    • Printfection helps with product design and research which saves me a ton of time when selecting new items.
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    Twilio
    • As it was cheaper than the transactional service we previously used, it saved costs.
    • The API was relatively easy to work with so it helped us ship the service and test it quickly.
    • We still use the transactional email service, even though we recognize its limits as it meets our immediate needs.
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