Wrike vs Podio: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Graham. I'm head of Media Operations at EssenceMediacom, and my rating out of five for Wrike is five. So we looked at all kinds of similar systems before choosing Wrike. Monday.com, Visor, Teamwork, Quickbase. None of them really came up to what we really wanted from a system that was going to integrate fully with our systems and support that management workflow from end to end. So the reasons that we chose Wrike is that it was going to help our business through our year of transformation. It was going to help us set tasks and manage tasks and manage that workflow all the way from top to bottom throughout our whole company. It was quite easy to onboard with Wrike. It took somewhere between three to six months. We went into a lot of detail with the Wrike team, they held our hand through the process, and they ended up integrating with the majority of our systems. The advice I would give people who are considering Wrike for their company is it the right fit, is it going to support your management, is it going to integrate with your systems, and is their company the right fit for you?

Speaker 1: My name is Gage. I'm in real estate, so I do real estate wholesaling. I'm an acquisitions manager, and I use Podio day to day. Overall, I would give it a five star, and I'd say it's a really helpful software for this industry. Before I was using Podio, I used REsimpli, I didn't really like it. It was more of a blocky type CRM. It was hard to adjust, and essentially I just never figured it out, so I switched over to Podio, which was a lot more simple and highly recommended by everybody that I knew. One of the main reasons that I chose Podio is because not only is it useful for real estate, I have a couple other side ventures that I use Podio for, so I can organize my contacts and subcontractors and things like that, in addition to managing my leads and sales process. Getting started with Podio in my business was fairly simple. Once you go through the setup process, you kind of tailor it to what you're going to be doing and the way you want to process your leads. From there, it's just as easy as signing in and using it. I mean, it is fairly simple to use. I would highly recommend Podio as far as being a tried and true software CRM that's been around for some time. I think that there are a lot of... Because there's already a lot of other companies that you can use to set it up, if that's too complicated for you. But ultimately, once you get Podio fine-tuned, it's an excellent CRM.