Campaign Monitor by Marigold vs Ceros: Which is a better fit?

Julliana R.: Hi, I'm Julie, I'm an attorney and partner at a law firm in the legal industry and our rating for B12 is four. Before we had B12 we did not have a website, so we weren't using anything. It wasn't working out because whenever a client tries to find you or look you up and you don't have an online presence, specifically a website, it doesn't make them think that you're legitimate. We chose B12 primarily because it was the best option in our budget. We had a very limited budget but we didn't want to necessarily sacrifice the quality of the website or have it look like something that was low quality. B12 uses AI to take your concept and create a website at a low cost but it's still highly functional. Gives the client something to look at that is still... Evokes that high quality and just well executed website look. Getting started with B12 was quite easy. We had a... I don't know exactly what they call it but basically like a pitch or vision meeting with one of their developers to let them know what we wanted, who we are, and what we wanted the website to convey. They took all of our ideas and within less than a couple of weeks, they had a initial draft ready for us. It required a couple of tweaks, we drafted a lot of the content, and everything launched relatively quickly. For anyone considering B12, before you make the decision, I would sit down with you and whoever else are the decision makers in your business and really try to pin down what it is you want your website to be, what message you want it to convey, who you are, and just the essence of what you want your website to show to your clients. Once you have that vision of who you are and what your business is, I think it would be a lot easier talking to the development teams so they can produce something that works for your company.

Savannah: Hi, my name is Savannah. I'm a visual content strategist for an international non-profit called One Hope, and we love Ceros, so I'd definitely give it five stars. So Ceros solved a couple of problems for us. We initially went to it wanting an annual report. So our program before that actually would've just been Adobe for a static digital report. And now it lives online as a live web page, but we also use it for other websites. So with that, our other back-end tool was more of a WordPress tool. So we opted for Ceros largely because we wanted an interactive tool. We wanted our content to be more back and forth with our audience. And so we wanted a digital annual report where people could donate directly through the page. They could engage with videos and non-static content. And so yeah, that was why we wanted a program like this. And Ceros, it superseded our expectations. Ceros is a fairly intuitive platform, but I've also been working in Adobe for a long time. So I do think there's a bit of a learning curve. I think even they recommend 20 hours at least in the platform to kind of master it, know your way around. But they have a ton of educational resources to help users on board. So even if you're not a designer or someone with my background, you can learn it. You just need to put in some hours to get used to it. It's not as quite as easy as Canva, but certainly not as difficult as working from scratch. So I think Ceros opens a lot of doors for people who can't have an in-house developer for whatever reason, you do not need to know code to use the platform. You do not need to have even necessarily design experience to use the platform. They have a ton of templates that you can choose from. So I think this opens opportunity for a lot of people to bring that kind of work in-house and really customize what you're looking for. I just want to recommend putting in the time to really use it for all its worth. There are a lot of functions to it that are a bit, I would say, quiet or not as noticeable. So do the classes, use their resources to really learn the platforms so that you can make the most out of it.