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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Audience Republic

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A

    Autoklose

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Autoklose, a VanillaSoft brand, is an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization.

    $59.99

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Audience RepublicAutoklose
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Auto Kloser
    $59.99
    per month per user
    Advanced Kloser
    $69.99
    per month per user
    Accelerated Kloser
    $99.99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Audience RepublicAutoklose
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Audience RepublicAutoklose
    Considered Both Products
    Audience Republic
    No answer on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    Audience RepublicAutoklose
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Audience Republic and Autoklose
    Feature
    Audience Republic
    2.4
    1 Ratings
    107% below category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Audience Republic and Autoklose
    Feature
    Audience Republic
    2.0
    1 Ratings
    117% below category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Audience Republic and Autoklose
    Feature
    Audience Republic
    1.5
    1 Ratings
    137% below category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    URL Validation2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Tracking2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Image Validation2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbox Display1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spam Testing1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Audience RepublicAutoklose
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (30 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Audience RepublicAutoklose
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Audience Republic
    Audience Republic is good for data acquisition using their gamified competitions, but I think that's about the only point of difference it has from Braze, Mailchimp or Campaign Monitor. While they promise to allow you to easily segment data from ticketing outlets, in my opinion, this is a blatant falsehood. In my experience, excuses come through thick and fast from the customer service team, but nothing has been resolved in the 2.5 years of using them.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
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    Pros
    Audience Republic
    • Segmentation
    • EDM template refinements
    • Data acquisition
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    VanillaSoft
    • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
    • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
    • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
    • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
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    Cons
    Audience Republic
    • Integration of ticketing agencies
    • More flexible templates
    • Better customer service
    • Not lying about the fees charged to other clients
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    VanillaSoft
    • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
    • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
    • 30 messages per minute
    • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
    • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
    • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
    • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
    • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Usability
    Audience Republic
    It's easy enough to use, even for a beginner, but I think the usability is dampened by the terrible dynamics of the platform and, in my experience, how they create more manual labour and legwork instead of the optimisation they promise.
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    VanillaSoft
    Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
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    Performance
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
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    Support Rating
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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    In-Person Training
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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    Online Training
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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    Implementation Rating
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Alternatives Considered
    Audience Republic
    All of these platforms offer the same level of performance to Audience Republic, but are a lot cheaper. I didn't choose Audience Republic, it was passed down to me from a former employee. I am in the process of moving to Braze as for the exact same service they will save our company $100k a year.
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    VanillaSoft
    I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
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    Scalability
    Audience Republic
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
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    Return on Investment
    Audience Republic
    • Besides from the gamified competitions to attain data to then market to, literally nothing that I couldn't get from a competitor.
    • Audience Republic lie to us about how much their services cost. They were charging us 0.0053c per email send (and they upped this price without telling us one month), and a peer told me they were paying 0.0015c per send. In my opinion, they are not trustworthy.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
    • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Autoklose Screenshots

    Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence