Bizzabo: All Smoke and Mirrors

Learning Resources. During the sales process, it is made very clear that once you sign a contract, you will have endless resources available to you for self-learning. The links to these tools were broken or outdated. Bizzabo completes so many updates to their platform but doesn't update the learning pages to reflect. You are sent an Excel spreadsheet with a checklist of items to work your way through and links are given, but the majority of the links were broken. The learning videos were very high-level. The online resources that didn't have the links broken, were more like blog posts followed by user comments.

Support Management. I had weekly and then bi-weekly calls with our support account manager to help our team learn the basics of using Bizzabo. These were more of a sales call where Bizzabo was continually trying to upsell us or ask us how they can support us with more events in the future. I repeatedly kept telling our support manager that we don't need support for in-person events, yet each week was another opportunity for Bizzabo to ask us how they can support us for in-person events.

Transparency. During the sales process and practice demos, Bizzabo came across very clear that the platform was easy to use and very user friendly. Consider it like this; you purchase a Ford but it has Ferrari parts and the instructions are in Italian.

Sales Process. In my opinion, very in your face about signing a contract. Bizzabo will email you non-stop until they get a signed contract.