Dotdigital vs Ambassador

"Good platform but some niggles around pricing and set-up" What do you like best about Dotdigital? The platform itself is solid and well featured, with good deliverability, personalisation and scheduling options, management of contacts, segmentation, reporting, A/B testing and automation, SMS and web chat integration. Emails based on the paid-for template format well across all devices and clients with excellent consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dotdigital? Pricing is a niggle, as the number of live contacts at a basic paid account level is not as generous as most competitors. Testing on a range of clients and devices is chargeable for each send and the monthly fees are also steep compared to the competition. Additional functionality such as Web Insights is available in most plans, but you have to set it up yourself, it is not included as part of the on-boarding process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dotdigital solving and how is that benefiting you? Overall the dotdigital platform is a reliable tool for email and SMS marketing. I have used it on e-commerce and lead generation sites and it performs well on both.

- Jonathan W.

"Stand out Support Team" What do you like best about Dotdigital? I was completely blown away with the level of customer service through the chat function on the website. Great that it is actually a real person that you speak to! I came to DotDigtial from another platform so I had to hit the ground running with my learning - they were helpful every step of the way often going above and beyond to help. Hannah, our Customer Success Manager has been awesome too - coming over to our location to fully understand the business and give her input on what she thought were the best steps going forward. Hannah has been such a support and honestly (as cheesy as it sounds) I don't think I would have got so far, so quickly without her! I love all the Webinsight info that we have been able to link to our account so that we can fully understand and target our customer base. The analytics side of things is great and tells me everything I need. I like that DD is an all-round platform and allows me to add and take away additional services, for instance, chat and text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dotdigital? There is nothing I dislike - but there are areas I feel could be improved. I would love the sharing on social to be a bit more updated and more user-friendly. I feel it is out of date and doesn't perform as well as it could. A/B testing could be slightly improved too to give more options when choosing the finer details of a send. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dotdigital solving and how is that benefiting you? The support team have helped me some much in putting together a unique preference centre for our customers. I feel they went above and beyond in supporting me throughout the creation of this.

- Becky C.

"DotDigitial enables businesses to redefine their customer management" What do you like best about Dotdigital? The integration with DotDigital and Dynamics allows us to create brilliant data-led campaigns and manage our communities better than ever before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dotdigital? The data and analysis is severely lacking. For example, we use DD throughout the entire email campaign and registration process for our events through forms. Despite this, there is no source information, completion funnels or additional analysis offered. No customer journey analysis. The data is there! Why can't teams access it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dotdigital solving and how is that benefiting you? Allowing our CRM to power our marketing. Through the integrations we have, our CRM is no longer a database the team have to log into, it is now where the team live. Without DotDigital, we wouldn't be able to have this mindset.

- Tom P.

"Only Ambassador Program you need!" What do you like best about Ambassador Referral Marketing? The simplicity of setting up campaigns, the ability to monitor every ambassador and their sales, and the ability to pay ambassadors all in one tool! I have tried numerous other softwares like Referral Candy and this software hands down does it all, they have just released a new look and function which supports the backend that much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ambassador Referral Marketing? The codes are not as simple as a URL with our name, each unique code has to be mbsy.co/company/ambassador. These would be great if they were slimmer for handing out business cards or person to person marketing like a bit.ly shortcode length. But this software does the job right in the online environment of referring customers, it would just be better to put a friendly code on our teams business cards so there is a potienital sale during networking events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ambassador Referral Marketing: Get a full time Ambassador lead internally to run your Ambassador program, someone with marketing and social media experience. It needs to be a full time job that a leader can guide quality ambassadors through proper messaging and communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ambassador Referral Marketing solving and how is that benefiting you? We are solving the power of word of mouth advertising by using GetAmbassador, our marketing force is limited by the fact we are a company. Once you have a community spreading the word about your brand/product the sky is the limit. Ambassadors are more trusted because they are an individual, not a marketing organization promoting the product. The benefits we have seen are from Ambassador testimonial videos. The refer a friend campaign has provided a streamlined, consumer facing page that makes it easy to capture consumer emails and allows them to share via social media to their network of friends and family.

- Justin G. VP Product Development

"Powerful Referral / Affiliate Platform" What do you like best about Ambassador Referral Marketing? Multi-campaign capabilities, dashboard, great referral platform and works very well as an affiliate platform as well. We also really liked the versatility in payment methods, including cash (paypal, bank transfer, dwolla), gift cards, store coupons, voucher codes. We also felt the customer on-boarding and on-going support were excellent! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ambassador Referral Marketing? I wound not call it a dislike... but given that GetAmbassador is a robust and powerful platform, it does take some up front effort to get it setup properly. It also requires an on-going commitment and focus to make the program successful. The GetAmbassador team was exceptional in helping us work through the implementation and continue to work with us on maximizing the effectiveness of our campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Ambassador Referral Marketing: We researched the market extensively as we were evaluating platforms to launch our referral & affiliate programs. GetAmbassador combined all of our key requirements: ability to create and launch multiple campaigns as our referral programs vary depending on customer and prospect types. We also found this platform to be a great fit for an affiliate program with partners, influencers and re-sellers. Our customers and partners love the ability to track their referrals on the robust GetAmbassador dashboard. For our team it is also invaluable as we can effectively monitor, evaluate and manage our campaigns. We also loved the ability to provide cash, gift cards and / or store credits. The most impressive part of our experience was the organized and very responsive customer on-boarding and on-going support. This is a world class company and we look forward to many more successful years working with GetAmbassador! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ambassador Referral Marketing solving and how is that benefiting you? To promote viral sharing of our products by our customers, prospects and partners with friends, family and followers. We have been able to amplify our reach exponential with the GetAmbassador platform increasing our qualified prospect base and conversions

- David L.

"Powerful referral marketing tools that are easy for your referral partners to use!" What do you like best about Ambassador Referral Marketing? We've really enjoyed how transparent it makes the referral process. Your referral partners know the status of their referrals and you have high confidence that nothing is getting 'lost in the system'. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Ambassador Referral Marketing? It works great - super easy for my team to share and engage with. No complaints really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Ambassador Referral Marketing solving and how is that benefiting you? We really wanted something that would energize our referral program and add high transparency around how great referrals were being paid out.

- Tom F. Senior Account Executive, Global Enterprise Sales