Landingi vs. Ion, by Rock Content

Landingi is extremely powerful if you need to build quick, beautiful, high-converting landing pages for social media campaigns or PPC/paid traffic campaigns. Pages built with it won't likely be great SEO-wise, so I wouldn't count on ranking these landing pages for organic traffic from the search engines, but if you drive traffic by any other means and don't currently send your visitors to well-designed landing pages, you're likely missing out on a lot of leads and sales--and Landingi makes is very easy to create these landing pages quickly.

Incentivized

I don't give 9 ratings easily. Anyone wanting greater user engagement would benefit from ion interactive. I can slap together a simple interactive tool for a social post easily. I also have a plan selector with complex logic built in that would have cost me $50k to build without ion. Now I'm able to duplicate it and make adjustments to use it for various other applications. We've created a couple dozen fun interactive tools for social posts and now we simply re-purpose them easily to create new ones frequently. I just created a new page for our website that we'll want to be fluid; so the site developers suggested we simply embed an ion tool to give us real-time flexibility. Marketers in other divisions are jealous when they see all the fun stuff we're doing--they're gradually becoming ion converts

Incentivized

• We can build quick Landing Pages
• We can integrate with the many third party email apps like Mailchimp, Drip, ActiveCampaing and many more
• We also easily can manage leads by integrating with CRMs like PipeDrive, HubSpot.

Incentivized

• I love that ion interactive autosaves. So many of these platforms leave me terrified of disconnection or closing my laptop.
• This WYSIWYG actually works. I've yet to have a translation or code glitch.
• Fast load times are a huge bonus, as well as mobile-optimized display.

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• Responsive layout is very clunky at times. Moving an element around may require serious adjustment in different screen sizes.
• I'd love the option to simply copy and paste a whole section, for times when I have two similar pages and want to add a new section to both.
• I'd like to see lead information in the email, instead of having to log in to see the lead.

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• no revert option/revision history if you make a bad mistake
• some simple styles that should be just there for you have to be made through custom CSS
• some of their template options have some pretty bad designs and are not usable beyond a basic functionality level/have to be completely reskinned

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Because unless I find something better to replace it with, we're probably going to renew our contract. Ideally, Ion interactive can update Liveball so it's easier to use, more functionality that includes forms and javascript options currently not in place

Usability is straightforward, with extensive documentation and tutorials provided to ensure landing pages are built to specifications and can be optimized for performance. Built-in platform funnels give insight into customer dropoff, success/failures, and conversions (at a glance). Setting up a landing page can be done quickly and easily, with numerous integrations (CRMs like SalesForce, for instance) supported

Incentivized

Sometimes the editor can be a little slow.

I haven't ever reached out to Landingi support, so I really don't know what their support is like. I just didn't want to give them a lower score since I don't know how good or bad it is. They've created a great product and I haven't had any bugs or issues, and have been able to figure out how to utilize the features I'm interested in by messing around with the interface or looking at their blog posts/updates.

Incentivized

The ION support team is amazing. There has not been a single issue they they could not solve for me. If there is a feature or request that they do not have, they have even, on occasion, created custom scripts for our team. *Update 6/5/17 - ION has continued to delight on multiple occasions. I appreciate their attention to detail and ability to solve whatever issue I have. After 3+ years of use and support, ION still has my full endorsement.

Incentivized

They offer a great amount of online training, videos, articles, etc. There is usually an answer available if you run into an issue. I would recommend taking advantage of the online training they offer. I wish I would have done it sooner.

Incentivized

There were a lot of things we learned about the tool once we really got in and got our hands dirty. Being hands-on was essential for our team to be able to utilize ION in the most effective manner.

Incentivized

I've never used a kind-for-kind alternative. Leadpages is generally the market leader, has way more features, and comes in at a much higher price point. Wix is for building rudimentary websites, and offers no integrations outside of their own ecosystem. However, in general, if you need to create anything more than just simple landing pages, I'd recommend Thrive Architect. It's also a front-end builder, but it's for an entire Wordpress site. Again though, it's apples and oranges when it comes to comparing Landingi. I selected Landingi because I was able to obtain it for a one-time price. At the end of the day, I would recommend it as long as they get their spam issues resolved.

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I haven't had a lot of experience with templated CMS systems and was not involved in the original selection, though I was part of the renewal discussions. Most of the templates I've used have been html and created in house on an as-needed bases

Incentivized

Separate client portfolios enable scalability, however, some elements are still grouped for all accounts so it's difficult to scale for an ad agency with multiple clients. Would prefer totally separate sections of the platform for all clients with each element housed separately.

Incentivized

• We save an estimates 12 hours a month on landing page creation.
• ROI was realized within the first month of using Landingi.
• We are able to offer marketing services to a wider range of niches due to the speed of our landing page creation process.

Incentivized

• So far the impact has been positive, but as we are new to the platform that opinion is based on relatively few interactive assets.
• There hasn't been any negative reactions or impact from Ion as of yet, but as I said before it's still early for us in terms of usage (less than a year).
• We do really appreciate the level of complexity and customization available in the platform.

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