CoSchedule Marketing Suite vs. Ion, by Rock Content

Ion, by Rock Content

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	CoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.	N/A
Ion, by Rock Content	Score 8.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools. Ion helps enterprises to build brand awareness and increase conversions and lead generation enriching their contact database with declared, high intent data. Ion helps brands launch quizzes, ROI calculators, assessments, interactive infographics, and other interactive formats in…	N/A

Pricing

CoSchedule Marketing Suite

Ion, by Rock Content

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Managed Services + SaaS: Custom
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Ion, by Rock Content
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$5,500 per customer

Additional Details

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ion’s Build Anything SaaS platform provides organizations with an entirely new and agile interactive content marketing capability. It enables non-technical marketers and designers to create, test and measure an unlimited number of all types of interactive content marketing experiences. It includes unlimited seats, experiences, tests, customization, phone and email support, analytics and more.

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Community Pulse
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Ion, by Rock Content
Considered Both Products	CoSchedule Marketing Suite Verified User Anonymous Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite Hootsuite has gotten soooooo expensive in relation to the functionality it provides. The value is just not there compared to when prices were lower for SMBs. In contrast, CoSchedule Marketing Suite provides huge value for the price and the tiered pricing based on users, number … Incentivized Helpful? Kèlene Poyurs Co-Founder Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule is definitely a more powerful marketing tool than Loomly or Buffer, which are more dedicated to straight social media scheduling. I preview the calendar overview offered by CoSchedule, which makes it easy to see everything at a glance. PromoRepublic is similar but … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule offers a lot more than some of its competitors, but you have to evaluate what your organization needs and doesn't need. For some organizations, they only need a content planner for social media, and CoSchedule might not be the best fit due to price compared to some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule provides collaborative planning of projects. The calendar view is very well designed. Meetings and tasks can be scheduled and tracked easily. Whatever is being done, no matter how big the task/project is, it gives a bird-eye view of everything. Additionally, it also … Incentivized Helpful? Alexa Tsongranis Founder Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite After trying other social media scheduling tools, CoSchedule is my favorite. Like I said previously, it fills the gaps I've found in other tools. I feel more organized with CoSchedule and prefer their mobile app as well. Incentivized Helpful? Kinga Odziemek Owner Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule better supports the content creation and redistribution of content activities. The best thing was that you can get it all automated here, while other tools do not provide with support. I would say CoSchedule is one of the best tools for managing both content and … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Miller Brand Builder & Keynote Speaker Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite Hootsuite Pro and Buffer Incentivized Helpful? Al Schoneman Content Marketing Manager Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite Crescendo has some very powerful features such as a built in editor that provides a simpler editing suite than Wordpress, especially valuable for contributors. The fact that it has multiple levels of contributor/author/editor is a real plus. There is also a comments box that … Incentivized Helpful?	Ion, by Rock Content Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content I haven't had a lot of experience with templated CMS systems and was not involved in the original selection, though I was part of the renewal discussions. Most of the templates I've used have been html and created in house on an as-needed bases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content I wasn't involved with that process. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content N/A Incentivized Helpful? KK Keefer Kopco Online Marketing Manager Chose Ion, by Rock Content I have not used any other platforms like ion. Incentivized Helpful? JB JAIMIE BAKAS Senior Manager, Digital Marketing Chose Ion, by Rock Content Not sure Incentivized Helpful? SG Steve Gandola Market Manager Chose Ion, by Rock Content When I chose ion, my alternative was to have developers build what I was envisioning. Just two tools I wanted were going to cost me $50k to build. With ion I was able to create those, plus dozens of other tools. Early on when I started using ion, another division had just … Incentivized Helpful? Maria Carver Production Specialist Chose Ion, by Rock Content Incredible customer support is one of the reasons for opting towards ion interactive. They have been very useful and helping in every way possible. Incentivized Helpful? Natalia Ransom Designer, Content manager Chose Ion, by Rock Content I was not involved in selecting the product. Incentivized Helpful? Taylor Bornstein Copywriter Chose Ion, by Rock Content SnapApp was a decent platform, but it was a bit limited in what we could do with it and it was challenging from an Eloqua-integration perspective regarding accessing our customers' answers. One of the things that drew us to Ion versus SnapApp was the advanced metrics and … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Howe Web Producer II Chose Ion, by Rock Content This is the first Ion product that we have tried. Incentivized Helpful? Aubyn Scolnick Product Marketing Manager Chose Ion, by Rock Content I was not the decision maker to choose this over Uberflip, but the UI is much more appealing to me. It's incredibly easy to use, clean, and from a backend standpoint, it requires little to no tech savvy'ness. Our team has really enjoyed using it and has required no training … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content Compared to Adobe's products, I prefer ion. However, Optimizely is slightly more intuitive to use than ion, but the value comes in big savings over Optimizely's prices. Incentivized Helpful? Cara Westhouse Senior Manager, Site Optimization and Client Engagement Chose Ion, by Rock Content The primary reason is flexibility and customer service! Incentivized Helpful? Krista Suchy Lohse, MBA Analyst, Site Optimization & Testing Chose Ion, by Rock Content ion is in a different league than other well-known landing page providers. They deal with many large organizations and their landing pages feel more professional than competitors. The key piece in my decision to move forward with them was their customer support and tool … Incentivized Helpful? Hattie Holm Analyst, Site Optimization and Analytics Chose Ion, by Rock Content Again, functionality and customer service beat them all. Incentivized Helpful? James Dilgul Digital Marketing, Global Lead Chose Ion, by Rock Content There are obviously other platforms out there that do more or less in different capacities. Platforms like Marketo are more user-friendly in places and have more marketing automation functionality, but fewer features and functionality for landing page creation. Whereas … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content The ion interactive just offers so many more options for customization. You can make the pages you create truly beautiful. Act-on has worked well for simple, straightforward pages and emails, but it ultimately just cannot accomplish the same results as ion without the use of an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content The closest tool I can compare ion to is WordPress. To me, ion is easier to use, with more interactive features. Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Bond Motion Graphics Specialist Chose Ion, by Rock Content Honestly, we did not evaluate competitors--we had an influential new member of our marketing team come in with previous experience using Ion from another company, and after checking it out/evaluating it, we did their sandbox demo and found it to be very usable...and what we … Incentivized Helpful? Abraham Nord Conversion Improvement Manager Chose Ion, by Rock Content I prefer ION because of the granularity of visitor data that I have access to and am able to analyze / optimize off of. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content Both ion and Drupal are essential in our business but they're used in completely different methods. Our Drupal pages are live and searchable on Google. Our landing pages are not indexed because we [like] to pinpoint traffic sources to them. We can turn a traffic source on and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content The ion platform is easy to use and quick to create websites. Using ion allows us to not need developer resources to create the websites. It is cost effective. The decision to use ion was made prior to my arrival at the company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content ion is a comparable product to Wordpress in some aspects of user experience and versatility. We've integrated elements of ion with Salesforce, which has given certain groups more flexibility in their day-to-day tasks. There are pros and cons when comparing Ion to Drupal, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content There are endless ways to make your content interactive and personalized in Ion Interactive. My organization switched from another content creation tool to Ion and although the learning curve is quite high, we've all been enjoying the experience and execution on Ion more than … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ion, by Rock Content I've used squarespace, which is perfect to build my portfolio site. But ion is an ideal place to build templates with strict styleguides for our marketing team to use. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

CoSchedule Marketing Suite

Ion, by Rock Content

Content Creation

Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average	Ion, by Rock Content 7.5 Ratings 7% below category average
Ideation	5.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Content collaboration	7.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Content calendar	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Content Publishing

Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite 10.0 Ratings 21% above category average	Ion, by Rock Content 8.7 Ratings 7% above category average
Content distribution	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Content promotion	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Content automation	10.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Content hub	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Forms / Gated content	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Embedded CTAs	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Content Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite 10.0 Ratings 24% above category average	Ion, by Rock Content 8.5 Ratings 8% above category average
Closed-loop tracking and reporting	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Content performance analytics	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Audience profiling and targeting	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Ion, by Rock Content
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.4 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Ion, by Rock Content
Likelihood to Recommend	CoSchedule does more than just content planning, it helps you organize your content, betters your content with headline analyzers, and allows you to organize your work and marketing calendars as well. If your organization is in a spot where you need a well-rounded tool to help with content, marketing, or even task organization, CoSchedule might be the right fit. Incentivized Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Read full review	I don't give 9 ratings easily. Anyone wanting greater user engagement would benefit from ion interactive. I can slap together a simple interactive tool for a social post easily. I also have a plan selector with complex logic built in that would have cost me $50k to build without ion. Now I'm able to duplicate it and make adjustments to use it for various other applications. We've created a couple dozen fun interactive tools for social posts and now we simply re-purpose them easily to create new ones frequently. I just created a new page for our website that we'll want to be fluid; so the site developers suggested we simply embed an ion tool to give us real-time flexibility. Marketers in other divisions are jealous when they see all the fun stuff we're doing--they're gradually becoming ion converts Incentivized SG Steve Gandola Market Manager Read full review
Pros	Best time to post is great at updating to when we get the most engagement by platform Requeue tool to slate out additional posts for a given piece of content is a huge time saver Aggregate analytics tool shows us a peek across our posts on a given platform that's actually easier to read than the platform itself Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I love that ion interactive autosaves. So many of these platforms leave me terrified of disconnection or closing my laptop. This WYSIWYG actually works. I've yet to have a translation or code glitch. Fast load times are a huge bonus, as well as mobile-optimized display. Incentivized Aubyn Scolnick Product Marketing Manager Read full review
Cons	The import Google Doc to WordPress functionality never worked successfully or reliably for me. So I just manually copy and paste Google Docs to the WordPress editor instead. The social sharing counter was not that helpful, because it only counted Facebook and Google+. Who uses Google+ anymore? Plus, now they don't even show the social counter in the monthly calendar view. so you can't see the numbers without doing some extra digging. In the monthly calendar view, some titles get cut off if they don't wrap cleanly in the day's box. So I would make it look cleaner instead of having words broken up by a hyphen. Incentivized Brandon Weaver Head of Content Read full review	no revert option/revision history if you make a bad mistake some simple styles that should be just there for you have to be made through custom CSS some of their template options have some pretty bad designs and are not usable beyond a basic functionality level/have to be completely reskinned Incentivized Jesse Bond Motion Graphics Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Because unless I find something better to replace it with, we're probably going to renew our contract. Ideally, Ion interactive can update Liveball so it's easier to use, more functionality that includes forms and javascript options currently not in place Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	The interface is very intuitive, from setting up social profiles, to posting, to tags, to optimizing for best day/time to post. It's super easy to scan the aggregate analytics. The calendar is very easy to grok at a glance, and the more advanced functionality is intuitive to set up. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Usability is straightforward, with extensive documentation and tutorials provided to ensure landing pages are built to specifications and can be optimized for performance. Built-in platform funnels give insight into customer dropoff, success/failures, and conversions (at a glance). Setting up a landing page can be done quickly and easily, with numerous integrations (CRMs like SalesForce, for instance) supported Incentivized Leah Jakaitis Senior Data Analyst Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Sometimes the editor can be a little slow. Kelly Saux Director Direct Response Marketing Read full review
Support Rating	I didn't have to use their official support, but I can say that they put out a lot of content online to help users. Their YouTube page has quite an array of tutorial videos explaining how things work and how to get the most out of their tools. If you're struggling, before picking up a phone or blasting off an email, try searching for your problem on YouTube or their forums. Incentivized Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Read full review	The ION support team is amazing. There has not been a single issue they they could not solve for me. If there is a feature or request that they do not have, they have even, on occasion, created custom scripts for our team. *Update 6/5/17 - ION has continued to delight on multiple occasions. I appreciate their attention to detail and ability to solve whatever issue I have. After 3+ years of use and support, ION still has my full endorsement. Incentivized Chris Schultz Web Administrator Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	They offer a great amount of online training, videos, articles, etc. There is usually an answer available if you run into an issue. I would recommend taking advantage of the online training they offer. I wish I would have done it sooner. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	There were a lot of things we learned about the tool once we really got in and got our hands dirty. Being hands-on was essential for our team to be able to utilize ION in the most effective manner. Incentivized Jessica Hill Art Director Read full review
Alternatives Considered	CoSchedule is definitely a more powerful marketing tool than Loomly or Buffer, which are more dedicated to straight social media scheduling. I preview the calendar overview offered by CoSchedule, which makes it easy to see everything at a glance. PromoRepublic is similar but has the added Canva-type integration, which makes it more appealing to our clients who want to be able to easily put together their own images. CoSchedule is a bit pricy, which can be prohibitive for clients who don't pay in dollars. Incentivized Kèlene Poyurs Co-Founder Read full review	I haven't had a lot of experience with templated CMS systems and was not involved in the original selection, though I was part of the renewal discussions. Most of the templates I've used have been html and created in house on an as-needed bases Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	Separate client portfolios enable scalability, however, some elements are still grouped for all accounts so it's difficult to scale for an ad agency with multiple clients. Would prefer totally separate sections of the platform for all clients with each element housed separately. Incentivized Georgia Dardick Co-Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	Operationally, it is easier and faster to train new staff and get them comfortable in their roles and with their projects. We are producing more content, faster. We are more aware of what everyone else in the department is working on. Incentivized Nate Casimiro Marketing Operations Manager Read full review	So far the impact has been positive, but as we are new to the platform that opinion is based on relatively few interactive assets. There hasn't been any negative reactions or impact from Ion as of yet, but as I said before it's still early for us in terms of usage (less than a year). We do really appreciate the level of complexity and customization available in the platform. Incentivized Taylor Bornstein Copywriter Read full review
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