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Birdeye is the leading AI-powered reputation and social media management platform for local brands.
Grade.us lets agencies and marketers manage hundreds of clients/locations in one dashboard. We cover industries including auto, healthcare, home and professional services, hospitality, retail & more.
The automation of texting and emailing customers to request reviews is great. What we like the best is the way that the emails and text messages look when a customer receives them.
The customer support is one of the worst that we have ever dealt with.
Effective software for the price. Ease of gaining positive reviews is its most valuable feature.
This will lead to reviews being taken down and a negative impact on your business' marketing efforts on those sites.
The setup process was seamless, and we greatly appreciated collaborating with our dedicated Implementation Specialist.
They have shown poor ethics in the wake of the pandemic.
This software gives a great boost to your online reputation. The customer support is excellent and the dashboard is super user-friendly.
Sometimes old correspondence will pop up in our 'Open' inbox and I'm not sure why that is. It could be user error, but IDK.
I love that it pulls all of our reviews into one easy to manage dashboard. I also like that it gives us a solid analytic resource for our gains and setbacks.
But the problem I just had took 2 hours of my day when with a short conversation, it would have been 20 minutes. This is maddening and definitely takes away from the experience.
What I love about it is the clean organized look, the email follow up, how easy it was to set up and of course that awesome customer support.
The support response time was awful. There was an issue with texts not going through on AT&T cell numbers, and their response was to either.
However, the customer support team has been amazing in their response time when I am in need of assistance. The ease of uploading a CSV file to the platform is astounding, as well.
There are many review management tools out there. Some lack in features, and others are just too expensive.
Web-based application with well-designed interface, great tool for team collaboration, great features for accountability and reporting, customer service team is friendly and responsive.
Rather expensive, especially if you have to factor in exchange rates. Support is limited to their head office location hours so not ideal for people in other world regions.
Dana: Hello, my name is Dana. I'm a brand ambassador for a large construction company, and I give Birdeye a four rating. I switched from Podium and the reason why I switched was because of price. The reasons why I chose Birdeye is my rep told me I would get everything that Podium offered for less. Onboarding was a cluster. They promised me I'd be onboarded, and then they found out that they were too busy and it was delayed by two weeks. I would recommend other people using Birdeye to make sure that they get everything in writing before they agree to their terms. I think they were a little bit fast on the sales pitch and did not provide everything they offered.
Julie W: Hi, my name is Julie. I'm a project coordinator in the digital marketing industry, and I give Grade.us a four out of five stars. So when we were looking at different review marketing softwares, we were really trying to come up with a great system that would be as automated as possible to help our clients gain more positive reviews online. And when we were considering different tools, we also considered BirdEye and ended up choosing Grade.us instead. There were really three main reasons why we chose Grade.us instead of BirdEye or the other competitors. The price was right, especially as we added more and more accounts, more and more clients to our account. The features and functions were exactly what we needed them to be, and it was also very user-friendly and very easy to use and to upload lists of clients to send review requests to. When we first started using Grade.us, it was very easy to get started. Their support team is great and they helped with all the questions that we had along the way. Really though, it's designed to be very user-friendly. So it wasn't too much of a learning curve. A little bit of having to look around for a few different features that we needed or having to go to different screens, but once we got the hang of it, it was super easy. If you are looking for a great review marketing software, I highly recommend Grade.us. And if you're shopping around, whether you are a digital marketer who's helping your clients to get more reviews or whether you're a business owner who wants to get more great reviews yourself, just some things to keep in mind are, think about all the functions that you're going to need. Think about how the process is going to work from start to finish. How are you going to get that customer information so that you can send request to them to leave a review? Really think through the whole process and the whole system and make sure that you're choosing a software that has everything that you're going to need.
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