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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Audience Republic

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A

    Listrak

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AListrak, headquartered in Pennsylvania, offers a customer data and marketing platform for retailers that features email marketing with social network engagement, abandoned cart rescue, and in-store data / information retrieval. Listrak is retail-specific and helps create an integrated and personalized customer experience across physical stores, ecommerce stores, social networks, or email, helping retail entities of widely varying sizes, small to large, to achieve their marketing goals. Listrak…N/A
    Pricing
    Audience RepublicListrak
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Audience RepublicListrak
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Audience RepublicListrak
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Audience Republic and Listrak
    Feature
    Audience Republic
    2.4
    1 Ratings
    107% below category average
    Listrak
    -
    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 Listrak
    Feature
    Audience Republic
    2.0
    1 Ratings
    117% below category average
    Listrak
    -
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    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 Listrak
    Feature
    Audience Republic
    1.5
    1 Ratings
    137% below category average
    Listrak
    -
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    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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    User Ratings
    Audience RepublicListrak
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Audience RepublicListrak
    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.
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    Listrak
    It is definitely a contender if you run an e-commerce website. It connects with a host of different e-comm platforms (we use Magento) which makes product recommendations, purchase history/amounts, website behavior, etc. a lot easier to segment on and set trigger campaigns or targeted sends. If you're a B2B company, you probably won't want to use Listrak. The tools they have don't accommodate that segment as well as B2C, as many features would go unused since they simply don't make sense. I'm sure there are instances where Listrak would work just fine, but coming from that area previously, it is definitely a B2C tool.
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    Pros
    Audience Republic
    • Segmentation
    • EDM template refinements
    • Data acquisition
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    Listrak
    • Segmentation is one of my favorite features. We love being able to pull specific audiences and tailor our marketing to the individual customer.
    • Importing and exporting lists is very self explanatory and easy to manage.
    • The main dash has a great overview of your most recent messages and metrics.
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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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    Listrak
    • It is rare that I have issues or feel like Listrak has an area to improve in. The company is constantly ahead of the market and making additions/improvements on a monthly basis. That being said ... I have one area to suggest improvements: COMPOSER
    • Composer - Drag & Drop editor: Although their design software with the new 'Composer' is better than your average WYSIWYG editor, their drag & drop editor lacks some basic design tools that stunt your ability to design out-of-the-box email campaigns. I typically write all my email code, so this doesn’t necessarily affect me in a negative manner. But ... if coding emails isn't your strong point, then the lack of design features and limited template selection could be bothersome. (*disclaimer - I do not believe Listrak's drag & drop editor is garbage, but it does fall short when compared to some of its competition.)
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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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    Listrak
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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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    Listrak
    The Bronto platform is so similar to Listrak in that it made no sense for us to move unless there were significant cost savings (there weren't). We are so intertwined with Listrak that it would be painful to move for the sake of moving. Klaviyo is very DIY which can be great. We find that we do our best work with hand-holding and account support.
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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.
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    Listrak
    • Increasing our awareness of effective marketing email campaigns
    • Reducing the effectiveness of our campaigns due to the complexity of software and inability to cancel our contract despite being LOYAL customers for 2 years.
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