Localist vs Lately
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Sir Richard BransonMost popular feedback for Localist
Our previous website calendar system consisted of our staff manually entering events when the public would email them to us. Even with copy/pasting each field, it would take up some time to process a lot of requests. Now, we can approve or deny events with the click of a button and the public takes the time to format the events themselves. This also allows for required fields so we don't receive events with missing information.
Frankie R.
About Localist
Localist brings together all the event management and marketing automation tools you need in one place. Our user-friendly platform makes all events (free and paid, online and in-person) more discoverable, by centralizing and automating all of your event and calendar assets. With extensive integrations and an API, Localist works with all of your existing tools. And, we centralize the event listings process with a streamlined workflow.
Most popular feedback for Lately
I was looking for a product to help me with social media and our blog. Lately was able to read through my blog posts and take each post and break it down into a social media post that I could use on many different platforms. It also has the ability to do video now.
Brent W P
About Lately
All-in-one marketing dashboard that pulls together content, project management, and analytics in one place.
Localist reviews
We looked at many different event software solutions before deciding on Localist. It's a great product, and the customer service is unparalleled.
- Nicky E. Associate Director of Digital Media
I'm very familiar with Localist after having used it for a few years so I'm reluctant to change to a different email merge system but I do find it to be user-friendly and easy to introduce people to.
- Raymond R. Web Designer
In our particular application, there just isn't very much traffic. The idea of a dedicated event calendar can feel like too much when everyone already uses their own CRM or email lists to communicate about events. More flexible integrations would be a nice feature, like if Localist could pull in events automatically from third-party CRMs. Customizeable reminder messages and follow-up messaging would also add value.
- Craig B. Assistant Director
Lately reviews
We are able to show our board of directors that we are reaching the right demographics and it help us gain sponsorship and advertisements to keep the business growing.
- Rodney M. Vice President of Content Acquisitions
Very easy auto-creation and scheduling of content campaigns across social media and over time. Including images/graphics has dramatically boosted engagement, and re-use of content is a major timesaver.
- Rich M. CEO/Product Management Guru
I have noticed some features like the queue have tended to be a little buggy for me at times (when I try to reorganize posts, they jump back to the original order) . I think it would be extremely helpful to be able to add several pipelines that operate similar to the queue (continue adding posts for different social networks and have these queues work independently of each other). For example, I could set up one queue that publishes a specific type of content weekly and another queue that publishes a different type of content daily.
- Nicholas N. Owner
Pros & cons
Localist
| Pros |
|---|
| The solution is very flexible to our needs and the branding capabilities are impressive |
| The ease of use and empowerment of users to submit events |
| Localist is very easy to setup and administer and is a very powerful calendar platform to help manage and promote our many events on campus |
| Administrators love the ease of setup, reporting and the configuration flexibility." |
| Cons |
|---|
| The webinar on Channels was so confusing that it took me months to figure out what they were talking about |
| Again, lots of learn-by-doing |
| We also found an issue with users being able to create their own avatar, in some cases the avatar could be offensive and there is no way to easily "report" that to the calendar admins |
| Support has been generally terrible |
| Anything outside of the basic functionality is simply not supported and they have been unwilling to implement ANY requests that we've made |
| On several occasions the answers provided by support have been blatantly wrong and only through our own channels have we been able to fix problems that the vendor created." |
Lately
| Pros |
|---|
| That you can have all the content in one place and create your posts for all different channels in one place |
| Also that you can import content from the website, have brand message, mission, etc |
| all unified |
| A very good new social media tool. |
| Cons |
|---|
| Takes a bit of time to learn how to use |
| Too expensive for normal solopreneurs |
| The basic plan allows only 5 social media accounts, while others for half the price allows 10 social media accounts |
| And it is true, you might not be able to do all the content creation in one place on other tools as on trylately, but still a too costly price |
| However, I can agree it is a tool for people already on a certain level. |
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