monday.com vs Ahrefs: Which is a better fit?

Amber: My name is Amber. I'm an IT project manager for a healthcare company. The company size is about 5,000. Also, the product for Monday, I would rate it a five. So I was using Asana prior to monday.com and the reason why that wasn't really working, lack of features. So that product didn't allow a lot of implementations as monday.com allows. Meaning when I'm working with a team, I'm able to just go ahead and put in all of their resources. So the resource management was really great. If there were any files, like large files, it was easier to share out with the team using monday.com so everyone could have access to it. Asana, unfortunately, it just allowed me to track task, but working with a larger sized team and a bigger company, monday.com was perfect for that. I chose monday.com basically for my team and my team's size. So I was able to allow my team to get acquainted with the monday.com product. A lot of them were used to using Asana. A lot of them were used to me tagging them in their task, but I showed them that that tool for monday.com allowed me to go a deeper depth with them and dive into really what their assigned tasks were individually for the team. So they were able to keep track of that. Also, I was managing about four plus projects at the same time, so it was a lot easier for me to go ahead and create different tasks per project for team members. So I worked with the digital team, I worked with creative, I worked with the real estate team. So all of that was just easier to keep separate and just allow those teams to really go in and own their task and own their individual projects that they were doing. When getting set up with monday.com, it really didn't take very long because as a project manager, I am trained to use a lot of different resources and tools. I liked the layout of it a lot better, again, than a lot of the other project management tools that I've used in the past, like Asana and Jira. monday.com just had a very simple design and layout, so it was very easy for me to go ahead if I needed to add anything into projects. Like again, the file sizes were very large for our teams, because they were very large projects. So getting set up took about, I'd say a couple of weeks, but first off the first week was training the team members on using that tool. So they were really happy with the training that we provided for them for that week-long training. Then the second week was just going ahead and doing the trial run with the team to see how again, the team liked the product. They did find it a lot easier to work with again, because when you're managing four different projects and there's about 12 people per team, they like the simplicity of being able to own their task and be able to go in and make their own edits and share their files, sizes, however large, throughout the team. So it took about a couple of weeks, but the team definitely was appreciative of me implementing that tool. So the advice I would give to anyone interested in trying out monday.com, first off the pricing, depends again on what you're looking for. The product is great, so I recommend doing the trial run with your team. I know a lot of people from different companies might have smaller companies, and they're used to using that product like Asana. Our company was much smaller and we really didn't have the funds to try to venture out and try a bunch of different products, but monday.com was recommended to us, so we decided to give that a trial run. Based on the pricing, we were able to afford it. So if you're interested in using that product, do your research, find out what you're looking for specifically. You might not need as many resources as a larger company does, but it is nice to have that benefit for your team members so that they're able to just complete their task on time, keeping track of their own individual projects. They can own that. So yes, just definitely go ahead and do your research. It depends on what company, again, you are. I was healthcare, so for us, our healthcare team was a much larger size, and that product just fit with our team.

Max: My name is Max. I'm the director of growth at Squared Media, and I would rate Ahrefs a five out five. Prior to using Ahrefs, I'd used Semrush, I'd used SpyFu, I'd used Moz Pro, and those were all decent. Semrush being the next best tool. They didn't have quite the tool suite that Ahrefs has. Ahrefs is really a renaissance span tool when it comes to anything and everything that you need for SEO and I found that Semrush or Moz Pro or SpyFu just didn't have quite the product offering or the tool suite that I needed. It was always frustrating to have to navigate from one tool to the other and pay for all these subscriptions, but all of the tools that I needed were in Ahrefs instead of having to pay for all three or sometimes four or five different tools to just do what one tool, Ahrefs, could do. Ahrefs has a massive product suite. There's so much that you can do within that tool. I also chose Ahrefs because of how agile it is. And what I mean by that is navigating the data that's native to Ahrefs is really simple and very robust. It's very easy to narrow down on a keyword research search from three million keywords and specify across numerous filters to get to just that exact goldilocks zone of what you're looking for. In the site audit tool, for example, you can do the same thing to whittle down URLs to extremely specific criteria. And so the tool, between its product offering, how wide it is, and between that and how agile it is, it just makes it a clear winner in the SEO tool community, you could say. Getting started with Ahrefs, super easy. There's no complicated onboarding process. It's pretty much plug and play. Once you've paid for your subscription, you have access to everything that your subscription entails, and there's really nothing special that you need to do to get access to the tools that you need to use. I would tell anyone who's considering Ahrefs that don't be intimidated by the interface. When you get in there, if you've done a free trial, you've seen just how much there is. And I would encourage anyone not to be intimidated by that because once you get some time in there you'll know that it's really just a superior tool to anything else that could be considered an apples-to-apples competitor. And so take your time with it because it really is more powerful than any other tool. The only other tool that slightly rivals it is Semrush. If Ahrefs is 100, I think Semrush is a 90, so just don't be intimidated by the user interface because it really does offer a robust offering that just is unrivaled.