iZooto vs. VWO Engage

iZooto is great if you have a case where you are selling something to consumers on your site. Or are looking to re-target them after they came to you. It may not be suited for targeting existing customers of a SaaS company who have already been acquired, when you've got the user locked in. However it can be useful to retarget the top level funnel of a SaaS company and increase leads.

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If you have a large or small blog following/audience, this is an excellent tool to help keep readers engaged and on top of your new content releases. You can also utilize this product for automated DRIP campaigns that will, following a schedule you create, notify users at preset intervals to help nurture your leads or existing customers as part of your sales funnel. Even new bloggers with smaller audiences can utilize a tool like this to help generate more consistent web traffic to your content. I am averaging a +16% clickthrough rate regularly on my RSS to push notifications after just a few months of use.

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• iZooto allows us to keep up to date with various browser developments & push notification standards that keep evolving.
• iZooto allows us to re-target users who viewed a particular product, or products in a certain price range or users from a certain location or all all of these together.
• iZooto allows us to monetise our push notifications without any extra effort.

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• Easy, guided setup.
• Easy implementation.
• User friendly.
• You're able to make your changes very fast, apply them and you're ready!
• The customer service is great, had a question after migrating to HTTPS, they provided fast and very accurate help, how to make it use on migrated site.
• Supports mobile devices.

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• Their WordPress plugin works but is a bit glitchy when you try to override a post's default settings in the notification
• More opportunities to brand the opt in prompt would be great -- with, say, our logo, though I am not sure it's supported by browsers
• There is no clear way to UNSUBSCRIBE from prompts, unlike with OneSignal.

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• I can tell they are based somewhere on the other side of the world, so when it's middle of the day here in the USA, they aren't always very responsive.
• There have been a couple hiccups with billing issues that mainly stemmed from them not having an internal billing system, but had it outsourced to another company.

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They were on top of things right away when I reported an issue with their WordPress plugin, or when I needed to switch from Shopify to WordPress. Very hands-on and responsive. They have built-in live chat support in their app, though it would be nice if they incorporated it into their WordPress plugin too, so I didn't have to leave WordPress to report issues.

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I never accessed support, but I did use the help files to get the service implemented and they were helpful and informative enough that I did not need to use individual support for any purposes. My rating therefore is kind of in the "indifferent" scale only because I did not use it at all.

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OneSignal is free up to a very high limit, whereas iZooto is paid. But OneSignal is only suitable for posting notifications about news articles, whereas iZooto has cart abandonment. That alone makes it a no brainer. Also, the custom prompts to subscriptions add a nice touch and a way to start a non-generic relationship from the very first touch.

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• I bought iZooto as a lifetime deal when it was on early beta, so the ROI is high. I am about to transition a major news property I manage on to iZooto from OneSignal as it allows for easy segmentation and cart recovery, which OneSignal does not offer, at least anywhere near as easily.
• We spend up to $20 on user acquisition, and since implementing iZooto, that number has gone down to closer to $15. Still, I cannot say if the whole gain is from iZooto, as attribution is messy, but I'm sure it has contributed to our efficiency.
• Push notifications are the 4th highest source of referrals for us, so it's bringing users back.

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• We saw surprisingly high subscription rates when we launched push notifications on our site using PushCrew, and it's been consistently building since then.
• Engagement is fairly high on push notifications we send out, ranging between 2-11%
• Put in the mix with our other outreach mechanisms, push notifications has been a strong performer that requires very little effort on the part of our team

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