iContact Pro Select vs. Thryv

Vocus is well-suited for press release posting via Vocus’ PRWeb subsidiary. Vocus is also great for social media such as Facebook promotions e.g: sign-up pages, sweepstakes, and fan offers. However, I did not like that "buying signals” draws on Twitter only. Vocus was well-suited where user rights are organized around “profiles”, which might relate to a company, brand, or product line. This approach made sense for our small business. However, since users are either assigned to a profile or not, there does not appear to be finer divisions of rights for specific features

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Thryv is not for everyone! It all depends on the needs of the individual's business. If they are wanting to scale back on the number of tools they have to use and pay for, to accomplish their business needs and those tools include a scheduler, Social Media planning/posting tool, an email marketing tool, etc. then Thryv could be for them! If they are looking for a tool to automate some of the communications with their clients, Thryv could be a fit there, too! BUT if they are a small business, solopreneur, and need to start with the entry package BEWARE! The Premium package doesn't have the basic things that the more expensive packages do. One is a customized email signature so you can have you logo, picture, etc. in your email signature. This wasn't offered at all a year ago. I asked for it to be added. Evidently others did too because this week I got an email that they had added it BUT NOT for the Premium Package. Something that is basic that EVERYONE should have access to BUT you have to pay more! It didn't make me feel like a valued customer that's for sure.

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• Ease and speed of getting out a PR release
• Getting started with creating a new activity is just a few clicks
• The ability to build a campaign and connect different emails, social media posts and PR releases in to one project with overall metrics.

• Allows me to send unlimited socail media posts and emails.
• Allows me to collect information on customer.
• Allows me to have all my customers info in one safe place.
• Creates posts for my social media 12 times a month.
• Keeps my webite up to date and helps me with updates.
• Has the most amazing customer service via chat and phone.

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• For the campaign management feature, provide a campaign diagram to better track campaigns.
• For the reporting and analysis feature, provide a scheduled report delivery option.
• Provide podcasts as another form of technical support.

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• I await the day that Thryv can integrate with Xero.
• Google Messages integration would be handy.
• There have been less than a handful of days where the site crashes and I have to reload it several times to get it to work properly.

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Vocus works very well for a variety of business sizes. It is also well-suited for both mobile (iOS and Android) and PC platforms. These reports are comprehensive:

• Campaign Performance Reports
• Email Performance Reports
• Landing Page Performance Reports
• Web Analytics

In addition, they also offer great technical support and a lot of resources such as white papers, blog, and tips and hints

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It is very easy to use and the features are great for the ones we utilize. If you have any issues at all, customer service or our sales rep is great to work with and fixes what issues I have. They are always willing to help out and to follow up to make sure you don't have any more issues.

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Although getting through to the right person may take a while, they have the ability to take over your screen and always assist with whatever you need.

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I've used MailChimp before to generate emails and found Vocus to be a better option because it is an overall suite providing the tools to create customizable emails as well as many other features including press releases, social media etc. Vocus is an all-in-one platform for marketing which makes things more efficient for the user by being able to handle all marketing through one outlet.

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I chose Thryv not just because the price was budget-friendly but because of the ease of use and ability to learn how to leverage the platform to meet my business's growing needs.

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• Vocus has allowed us to increase and strengthen our customer interaction via social media.
• Vocus has allowed us to generate and track more leads.

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• Increased Social Media Presence has kept us in touch with clients
• I believe our overall package has resulted in increased web traffic. More clients are finding us through social media and web searches than any other year before.

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