Podium Corp Inc.

Podium Text Marketing

Composite Score

7.1 /10

CX Score

7.3 /10

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What is Podium Text Marketing?

Take advantage of text’s 98% open rate with SMS marketing campaigns that get a real response, and measurable results. Plus, building a prior consent opt-in list. Podium’s Interaction Management platform uses messaging to make it convenient to interact with your leads, customers, and teams along every customer touchpoint.

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Awards & Recognition

Podium Text Marketing won the following awards in the SMS Marketing category

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4 Top Rated Features

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Podium Text Marketing Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+84 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Podium Text Marketing?

7% Negative

6% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Cons

Under Delivered

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Social Media Marketing Management

Application Integration

Text Messaging

Surveys Feedback

Mobile Payments

Opt-in

Loyalty Promotions Management

Communication Archive

Scheduled Messaging

Marketing Analytics

Mobile Marketing Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 77

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Podium Text Marketing Reviews

Jennie Z.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Other
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Feb 2022

Different from other Livechat options

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Podium Text Marketing from other similar products?

Podium allows for customers to leave the site and users can text the customer directly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Direct SMS feature

What do you dislike most about this product?

No Hubspot integration, so leads have to be manually imported

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If SMS communication is important to you, then Podium is a good option. There isn't an autobot Livechat feature, so users will have to be on Podium frequently.

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

Cons

Slower Product Innovation
Under Delivered

Jennifer W.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Feb 2022

Has helped us with our online reputation!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Podium Text Marketing from other similar products?

Podium is always improving. It has allowed us to get in touch with customers where they want to be... on their phones!

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Being able to talk to customers where they want to be.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are a few features that one would assume are basic, that aren't available.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Just do it!

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Holley C.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Feb 2022

Podium is a really innovative business tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Podium Text Marketing from other similar products?

They have so many features! You can track leads, instantaneously answer consumer questions. Podium also provides privacy and safety of employees by offering to utilize a set phone number, instead of sharing your own.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The review links that connect to the POS. Seeing which employee is giving 5 stars or giving no stars.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Really not much.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It has so many helpful business tools and features.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Podium Text Marketing

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Awards & Recognition

Podium Text Marketing Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+84 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Podium Text Marketing?

Pros

Cons

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Social Media Marketing Management Ability to push content and pull leads from popular social media networks and manage social properties; aggregate and analyze social data for trend reporting.

Application Integration Includes functional and data integration with common applications such as CRM, CSM, ERP, email, etc.

Text Messaging The capability to send messages by SMS in addition to email.

Surveys Feedback Enables surveys/feedback forms to be sent to customers​

Mobile Payments The ability to process mobile payments from a mobile wallet or other mobile phone payment app

Opt-in Provides an opt-in option for potential subscribers.

Loyalty Promotions Management The solution has a comprehensive loyalty module that also supports both fixed and real-time promotions, impacting pricing or product availability

Communication Archive Includes complete conversation or thread archiving capabilities for historical reporting, investigation, audit, and compliance purposes.

Scheduled Messaging Scheduling of one-time, multiple, or repeated messaging.

Marketing Analytics Predictive analytics, machine learning, data ingestion and visualization; data segmentation; assign attributes to unstructured data; work from segmented data.

Mobile Marketing Management Includes ability to manage SMS, mobile application marketing, and push notifications on a variety of end user devices.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Podium Text Marketing Reviews

Jennie Z.

Different from other Livechat options

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Jennifer W.

Has helped us with our online reputation!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Holley C.

Podium is a really innovative business tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Feature Ratings

Social Media Marketing Management

Application Integration

Text Messaging

Surveys Feedback

Mobile Payments

Opt-in

Loyalty Promotions Management

Communication Archive

Scheduled Messaging

Marketing Analytics

Mobile Marketing Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization