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    Acquisio

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAcquisio is a performance marketing solution that enables digital marketers to manage, report, and optimize on all digital advertising initiatives in one easy-to-use dashboard, across search, social, and display. According to the vendor, this solution provides the most powerful optimization algorithm on the market which enables users to set more accurate bids and deliver more clicks at a lower cost per click. The vendor’s value proposition is that this unique high frequency, predictive…N/A

    WordStream

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AWordstream, the eponymous offering from the company in Boston, MA, provides a free tool for analyzing performance "grading" an Adwords campaign, beyond which, Wordstream Advisor provides (for a fee, though a free trial is available) recommendations to optimize a paid advertising campaign on Google, Bing, and Yahoo! search engines, and place ads. Beyond the platform, Wordstream also offers full account management services, for outsourcing one's campaign, and white labeling for…N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Google Ads
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Acquisio
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AcquisioWordStream
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.1
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.4
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
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    Usability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.2
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    9.6
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    AcquisioWordStream
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    Acquisio is ideal for marketing agencies, especially those that focus on serving a specific market. If your Agency has access to client data, depending on the data, Acquisio's software could be a powerful way to deliver that data in the form of online ads. Acquisio might be too powerful for a small business looking to manage campaigns in-house.
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    Gannett
    Do you currently use Google AdWords to drive new business for your website? Then you need WordStream. The best scenario where it has helped me is time. I used to spend easily 20 hours a week analyzing data, making minor changes, adjusting budgets, trying to just master Google AdWords! But now I'm able to spend maybe 2-3 hours a week on Google AdWords and put the rest of my attention on other responsibilities. WordStream has mastered making my time more efficient.
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    Pros
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Provides multiple methods of viewing and sharing campaign data. It is definitely an upgrade from the basic PPC reports. Fully customizable and new features are being added regularly.
    • Acquisio now provides support for the importation of the video campaign data. This saves her company lots of time as we used to have to do this process manually.
    • Aquisio now has instant chat support in the platform which saves a lot of time as you can get quick answers to any problems you may be having.
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    Gannett
    • Definitely go with a consultant. It amazed me how quickly our consultant was able to understand our business and what we sell. He was the best resource for our newly-digitized marketing team.
    • The negative keywords section was a hugely helpful tool. It saved us from so much unnecessary spend while making it easy to add negatives.
    • How quickly changes implemented were updated on AdWords was amazing. It's live, so no lag and unnecessary spend.
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    Cons
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Facebook management: You cannot manage Facebook directly through Acquisio. You can only see the data in the platform.
    • Campaign automation: The rules and algorithms takes a lot of time to be applied if you managed them manually.
    • LinkedIn: No LinkedIn integration available
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    Gannett
    • While the basic tools are pretty simple to use, the platform is actually pretty expansive and I don't feel like I've taken advantage of it (yet) as much as I could. It does require some training to get up to speed.
    • Support for Display ad campaigns is limited - this is mainly used as a way to optimize Search campaigns.
    • Reporting. I find the reporting setup to be a bit confusing and still rely on other sources for building out reports on our Adwords performance (Adwords itself and Google Analytics).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    I think the platform, with the latest release updates has a lot of great potential. The main decision, currently, is price and how that gets passed on to our clients. There has to be a conscious decision made on platform cost vs client spend and overall budget vs revenue.
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    Gannett
    Affordable, useful, informative, easy to use, continually updating and staying current
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    Usability
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    The updates they have recently made have been time consuming to keep up with
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    Gannett
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    Support Rating
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    Within the interface there is an instant chat support feature that you can use to get help right away without having to pick up the phone or look for an email address. We have have an account manager who responds to emails quickly and is always helpful. Anytime issues require further tech support we are kept up to date on the progress of the issue and they are usually resolved the same day.
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    Gannett
    I have not had any experience with the customer support team for platform issues, but the account representative checks in with us often and is always available to answer questions. We will usually get on quarterly review calls so that she can share any new updates to the platform and answer questions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    They handled it well.
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    Gannett
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    Alternatives Considered
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    We have started using Domo since we began using Acquisio and are extremely happy with Domo. We will continue to use Acquisio though because of the ability to directly manage paid search ads and the ability to create simple reports quickly. Also considering the cost of Domo, unless you specifically need reports with more sources of data, Acquisio is all you really need.
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    Gannett
    WordStream is a little different from the competition. There are much more expensive solutions that manage the account for you with more features (Kenshoo, Marin, etc) and there are cheaper solutions out there that offer some of the features that WordStream provides; however, if a marketer wants to personally manage an account with some aided help than WordStream provides a great, cost-effective solution
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    Return on Investment
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Acquisio let us create reports on the fly, saving us lots of time; time that was better spend optimizing client campaigns.
    • Acqusio's Bid and Budget Management tool (BBM) helped a struggling client achieve desired traffic and conversion results with little to no work from our agency.
    • Acquisio's quick customer service responsiveness let us get our questions answered quickly.
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    Gannett
    • I've already noted the time savings that WordStream has provided - at leats 5 hours a week (and I like to think that my time is pretty expensive/worth it).
    • Wordstream has paid for itself already, simply in removing junk from our AdWords account - junk keywords, junk AdWords groups, junk matching.
    • I think we'll find, over more time, that Wordstream will continue to provide outstanding value in dropping our CPA - once Google register sthe lack of junk, our CPC will continue to go down.
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