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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Text-Em-All

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Text-Em-All, headquartered in Frisco, delivers personalized, informational, emergency mass text messages and phone calls, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000.

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    Verint Channel Automation

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Verint Channel Automation is a social customer service software that enables companies to engage in large volumes of social media conversations with their customers. The cloud-based software combines intelligent prioritization with team management workflows.N/A
    Pricing
    Text-Em-AllVerint Channel Automation
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0
    Credits
    $0.05
    per credit
    Monthly
    $19
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Text-Em-AllVerint Channel Automation
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsText-Em-All offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to different user needs. The monthly plan starts at $19, with pricing based on group size, making it ideal for consistent senders who reach the same group(s) each month as often as needed. Plans provide access to the full range of Text-Em-All features, to ensure a comprehensive messaging experience. Additionally, the platform offers credits, or pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs ranging from 5¢ to 9¢ per credit, suitable for users with occasional or high-volume messaging needs. To help potential customers evaluate the service, Text-Em-All offers a free account so users can evaluate and try the service with 25 free credits.—
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    Text-Em-AllVerint Channel Automation
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    Text-Em-All
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    Verint
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Text-Em-AllVerint Channel Automation
    Emergency Notification System
    Comparison of Emergency Notification System features of Text-Em-All and Verint Channel Automation
    Feature
    Text-Em-All
    8.2
    26 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Verint Channel Automation
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    Ratings
    Mass Notification8.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Delivery8.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization and Templates8.123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Geo-Targeting9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Language Support7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Emergency Contacts Database8.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Two-Way Communication7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notification Reporting and Analytics7.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with External Systems7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Notifications7.620 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Text-Em-AllVerint Channel Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (215 ratings)
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (10 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (113 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Text-Em-AllVerint Channel Automation
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Text-Em-All
    We have found them to be very good for immediate communication of a brief message to a large number of people at once. Thus, it works perfectly for a neighborhood association. It may not be suitable for longer messages or situations with excessive notifications.
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    Verint
    From experience, you may ask the Conversocial team to make recommendations on licenses for larger vs. smaller social customer service teams. The need for support and the amount of usage you may get from the tool's robust offering may differ as a result of those precedents. The tool is adaptable in both scenarios it would seem.
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    Pros
    Text-Em-All
    • Scheduled delivery: works as it should every time and is SUPER convenient.
    • Mass contact upload: I was able to pull a report to excel and it loaded PERFECTLY to ‘Contacts’
    • Feedback: if anyone doesn’t get the message, I will know almost immediately.
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    Verint
    • Previous conversations: This is one of the main reasons why I personally love Conversocial over Hootsuite and other social media engagement tools. Conversocial pulls in all previous interactions we've had with community members and it helps us identify if we've already addressed their problem, if they are a detractor/advocate, and so much more. With other engagement tools, it's frustrating as a community member may repost the same thing over and over again, but at different time periods. If you're unable to see what someone has said in the past, we may waste our time replying to the same thing multiple times, or we also risk responding with the same general advice, when we could try a different approach.
    • Tags and filters: Conversocials use of tags and filters are extremely simple to use. They have shortcuts which help you easily assign a tag to an item and then you can easily pull up each of those tags within Conversocial itself or your can open up an external report. If my team is in a hurry and wants to quickly see a certain tag, we can use the filter option and within seconds we have all the information we need.
    • Simple shortcuts: Conversocial has several shortcuts that save my team a lot of time. One single button on my keyboard can apply sentiment and archive something so it's out of my way. I can also use shortcuts to apply a tag, assign an item, and do other tasks. It may seem like a small benefit but each second saved really adds up throughout each day and week.
    • Communication: As we know, technology has issues and every tech issue Conversocial has experiences has been handled extremely well. I've never encountered any issues contacting Conversocial, we're always notified when they are working on a solution and once the problem has been fixed. We also receive random pop-ups within Conversocial to notify us of known issues before our team experiences them, and when there is a new feature that we should be aware of. Their communication is always on point and it's great to know that we can always rely on them.
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    Cons
    Text-Em-All
    • My initial concern was regarding the "opt out" feature. I work with the senior population, and many of whom are not that tech-savvy. I have a couple of residents who had unintentionally opted out of messages thinking it was an individual message they were skipping. I would suggest that there be a clarifying question when a user chooses to opt out; it should default to opting out of a single message and survey the user to see if they would like to opt out of receiving additional messages. My residents were wondering why they were missing information and why I hadn't informed them of important dates and events.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    • I would like to see an improvement in the reporting dashboard which is something I mentioned to Josh (the CEO) on a call back in April. He said that it is something they are working on but to remember that this is truly a customer service social media platform so some of the features that I would like to see may not fit well with the users of the product.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Text-Em-All
    Text-Em-All is a great way to get messages to our associates versus posting on a memo board and hoping they see it. Very efficient. I would recommend this great tool to companies big or small as a form of business related communications. The only thing I would change is the ability to use more characters in the messages. And it would be a plus if you can translate to different languages in the app.
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    Verint
    The only two reasons we would not continue using Conversocial are it's lack of comprehensive analytics and its lack of Radian6's categorization tools. Tags make up for the categorization pretty well, however, and we're considering switching everything over to this now that we've tested tags for a couple months within Conversocial. (I previously wrote that Conversocial lacks support for some social channels like Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, but they have now added Instagram and YouTube.)
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    Usability
    Text-Em-All
    It's fantastic. In general, it's a 10. But I give it a 7 because of the way I know it can improve. I save my workers' names in lists...and I have only the first and last name fields to classify them. I grade my workers based on their experiences and based on their jobs; so I use the last name field to group them. This could be easier by you adding another field.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    Because of the number of features it offers and the manner in which they're presented. I've explored a number of other tools that just don't do it as well. When sorting through and responding to hundreds of social media messages each day, the number of clicks it takes to do something really matters. Conversocial does a great job of minimizing clicks and presenting the data we need without having to click to find it
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    Reliability and Availability
    Text-Em-All
    The availability of the text em all is amazing specially when we needed the most to spread out the word on an event that was happening.
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    Verint
    Downtime is very rare, and the occasional occurrences are typically a problem with Twitter or FB API.
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    Performance
    Text-Em-All
    I love the performance it provided us. Also, want to clarify that the time it takes to send out a mass text is amazing
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    Verint
    Extremely fast, practically in real time.
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    Support Rating
    Text-Em-All
    There have been few times over the last 18 years that I have had to make changes to our billing or deal with particular tech questions and I have never had any issues with their response time or ability to be helpful once the issues were communicated
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    Our account rep at Conversocial has set up a call with me every two weeks to check in, talk about new features, or answer questions. I know I can email or call her for help anytime. Their support team also responds quickly.
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    In-Person Training
    Text-Em-All
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    Comprehensive training in all aspects of the software and general usages (including social media) for both agents and managers. Simulation workshops really made the live deployment process very smooth.
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    Online Training
    Text-Em-All
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    Verint
    Outstanding & comprehensive training both on-line and instructor-led. Another crucial differentiator from competitors in our eyes.
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    Implementation Rating
    Text-Em-All
    This was the best way we were able to reach out to everyone we wanted to, being that there were some not tech-sabi elderly people. This was a better way for them to be able to get the information they needed.
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    Verint
    Without any tech requirement on our end, this was an extraordinarily easy implementation to run, compared to other platforms like live chat or email.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Text-Em-All
    Our last provider was costly for what we needed. We need the ability to text, and that's it. The sense was challenging to navigate; I had to sign a one-year contract and pay thousands upfront. Text-em-all has been the best thing.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    Early on we did comparisons with Hootsuite and later with Adobe. While they have similarities, the difference at the time and likely currently, was the personal interest and general accessibility of Conversocial's platform and people. The combination of an effective CRM solution and a team that was readily available to help proved to be the winning formula for our business.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Text-Em-All
    Seems like a fair price for the product
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Text-Em-All
    We have never had a problem being able to use Text em all when we needed it
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Text-Em-All
    • We definitely have a higher response rate when we contact applicants via text message; it seems to be the thing people check more often than email now.
    • It saves us a lot of time wasted before with "phone tag" when employees are unable to immediately to take a call.
    Incentivized
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    Verint
    • One of the biggest benefits we are seeing is that we have reduced the number of post-holiday complaints coming into head office. Since we are responding to issues and concerns as they arise, we can impact overall customer satisfaction.
    • The efficiencies gained from using a centralized platform for managing the response process has enabled us to reduce our team by 50%.
    • We can track that we are responding to a fan's first message within 30 minutes.
    • We can track the number of messages each user engages with.
    • We can see the most effective times of day to post and reply.
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    ScreenShots

    Text-Em-All Screenshots

    Screenshot of broadcast creation.Screenshot of the interface to add contacts.Screenshot of where to broadcast results.Screenshot of broadcast details.Screenshot of the contact management interface.Screenshot of two-way conversations.

    Verint Channel Automation Screenshots

    Screenshot of the same consistent experiences across different messaging platforms, in multiple languages, through a seamless blend of bots and human agentsScreenshot of Verint Channel Automation's real-time and historical analytics necessary for the most demanding modern contact centers, with insights and reporting of the performance of humans and botsScreenshot of an illustration of how agents can move across interaction types as “Conversations” without losing context, such as during bot-to-human agent handoversScreenshot of the engagement dashboard. In addition to topical insights like emergent phrases mentioned and tags being assigned to conversations, the engagement dashboard provides high-level views of how the business is performing overallScreenshot of an example of conversational experienceScreenshot of Verint Channel Automation's conversational customer experience solution, which allows natural, engaging customer conversations via messaging channels to flow across the entire customer journey.