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    Ion, by Rock Content

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools. Ion helps enterprises to build brand awareness and increase conversions and lead generation enriching their contact database with declared, high intent data. Ion helps brands launch quizzes, ROI calculators, assessments, interactive infographics, and other interactive formats in…N/A

    SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing platform that was acquired by Uberflip December 2019 was discontinued by Uberflip at the end of July 2022. It is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    Ion, by Rock ContentSnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Managed Services + SaaS
    Custom
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ion, by Rock ContentSnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$5,500 per customerNo setup fee
    Additional Detailsion’s Build Anything SaaS platform provides organizations with an entirely new and agile interactive content marketing capability. It enables non-technical marketers and designers to create, test and measure an unlimited number of all types of interactive content marketing experiences. It includes unlimited seats, experiences, tests, customization, phone and email support, analytics and more.—
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    Ion, by Rock ContentSnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Rock Content
    Chose Ion, by Rock Content
    SnapApp was a decent platform, but it was a bit limited in what we could do with it and it was challenging from an Eloqua-integration perspective regarding accessing our customers' answers.

    One of the things that drew us to Ion versus SnapApp was the advanced metrics and …
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    Chose Ion, by Rock Content
    SnapApp is our other interactive content tool. Ion is more difficult to use out of the box because it is more robust. It offers more flexibility and better design options. The integrations with CRM tools, although has more steps, is a bit more well-done. Support is absolutely …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ion, by Rock Content
    We were looking to build a pretty robust interactive experience and when I compared ion interactive with SnapApp we felt like ion was the clear winner as far as meeting our needs. It was dynamic enough for us to pretty much create anything we could imagine and that is what we …
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    Chose Ion, by Rock Content
    After a few conference calls and one online presentation from ion Interactive, we realized that we had found our company's match for online content creation. The ion platform has everything we need (and more) so there is no need to work with other resources. This makes it easy, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Ion, by Rock ContentSnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Ion, by Rock Content and SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Feature
    Ion, by Rock Content
    7.5
    105 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Ideation10.099 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Content collaboration5.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Ion, by Rock Content and SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Feature
    Ion, by Rock Content
    8.7
    120 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    9.2
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Content hub10.0104 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content10.0107 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs10.0108 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Content distribution8.093 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Content promotion8.086 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation6.090 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Ion, by Rock Content and SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Feature
    Ion, by Rock Content
    8.5
    118 Ratings
    8% above category average
    SnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Audience profiling and targeting6.091 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.095 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.0116 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard10.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Ion, by Rock ContentSnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (135 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (22 ratings)
    4.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ion, by Rock ContentSnapApp Interactive Content Marketing (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Rock Content
    If you want to choose a quick start template and fill in the fields with your content, Ion will be fantastic for you. We've done this with whitepapers and quizzes and it's been great and extremely easy to use. If you have an exact idea of what you want, and a background in web development, you may get frustrated. Ion has some quirks that make it tricky to fully customize - everyone once in a while I really just want to go into the HTML and make some changes, but can't. If you are looking to reuse a piece of content for specific targeting (industry or account-specific), Ion is great. The dynamic substitutions are great and very helpful.
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    Delivering appropriate content to your audience is easy and easy to increase reach. In its field, Snapapp excels. According to me, the ABM tracking is one of the most useful features. I can track my organization's strengths and weaknesses and work on them simultaneously. Through Audience intelligence I can analyse what engages my audience and whats not.
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    Pros
    Rock Content
    • Quick Starts make it so easy to get started.
    • Real-time updates are awesome and save a ton of wasteful process.
    • The combination of user friendliness for simple things and the flexibility to do more complex things is great.
    • Chat support is excellent and deeper-dive support has been super helpful.
    • The ability to use these tools in the cloud or embedded has given us tactic flexibility.
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    • Organically involves the potential client.
    • Intelligently captures and utilizes clients' pain points to more effectively engage and close.
    • Kinder, gentler selling voice!
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    Cons
    Rock Content
    • Ion University, while stacked with a wealth of information, is difficult to navigate from a troubleshooting perspective. The tutorial videos are all very helpful, but they are also very long. Sometimes I would want to search for how to address a particular issue I was struggling with and it would be a two-minute segment buried in a 45-minute video.
    • Again, getting back the self-guidance side of things. I think a lot of the tutorials are set up in a way that makes sense to Ion, but not as much to the end user.
    • I think the controls admins use when creating new users could be a bit more straightforward.
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    • Mobile - It is not always easy to determine how you content will look for mobile. The responsiveness is also not always on par. I thinkthey are working on this.
    • Price - As always would love to have more flexibility on price. It is pretty well priced but the cost per lead is still a bit high.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Rock Content
    We use it for every landing page and we plan on only doing more dynamic content creation. We dont see that option coming in-house any time ever in the future. ION has a very robust platform for us to work with that really allows us to do more for our customers in regards to having the one-to-one conversation.
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    We recently decided not to renew our use of SnapApp. Due to the lack of integration with our version of Eloqua (without an added cost), we determined this was not where we wanted to spend our marketing dollars. We are also streamlining our data collection processes, expanding our employee numbers, and working towards other goals as a marketing department as a company. SnapApp just didn't help us meet those goals
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    Usability
    Rock Content
    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
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    Performance
    Rock Content
    Sometimes the editor can be a little slow.
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    Support Rating
    Rock Content
    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.
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    Real team standing behind the product.
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    Online Training
    Rock Content
    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Rock Content
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Rock Content
    I was not the decision maker to choose this over Uberflip, but the UI is much more appealing to me. It's incredibly easy to use, clean, and from a backend standpoint, it requires little to no tech savvy'ness. Our team has really enjoyed using it and has required no training what-so-ever.
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    Although not a direct comparison (Canva is an online graphic design application), it has many of the editing features that I think would greatly benefit SnapApp's usability. However, as far as I'm aware, SnapApp is one of the only online platforms designed to create interactive content and is accessible for a basic user.
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    Scalability
    Rock Content
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Rock Content
    • Though we have not had the service long enough to see any measurable outcomes, we've been able to create interactive web content faster than ever before
    • The speed with which we can build interactive pages and re-use assets has been critical as projects we've done with Ion have made their way around and more and more internal clients have said "me too" for their own projects
    • It is very pricey at $28K for the base annual subscription (dropping to $24k after the first year), so depending on your budgetary situation, that may make no sense for your team--but we had contract money set aside for a company to build us a microsite for around the amount, so we just used it for Ion instead and will now be building the microsite ourselves using it
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    • SnapApp has really boosted lead generation in channels where we've struggled e.g. our company blog, owned (not paid) social media, etc.
    • It allows us to create engaging experiences for our prospects that aren't really available through other means.
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    ScreenShots

    Ion, by Rock Content Screenshots

    Screenshot of ion empowers your other marketing technologies to deliver higher fidelity, data-driven scoring, targeting, segmentation and personalization.Screenshot of The types of interactive experiences the ion platform can create is near-endless. These are the most common types used by our customers: Assessments, Calculators, eBooks, Interactive Infographics, Interactive White Papers, Landing Pages, Lookbooks, Quizzes, Resource Library, Solution Finder.Screenshot of See what our customers are saying about our platform and services!Screenshot of Starting at $2,000 per month, you get an unlimited, scalable interactive content platform with our full feature set. Including: Unlimited experiences, unlimited use of Quick Starts, Unlimited Seats/Users, Unlimited A/B/n Testing, Unlimited Sell-Side Experiences, Unlimited Phone, email & chat support, unlimited analytics... PLUS a FREE custom-branded theme that can be applied to all of your experiences.Screenshot of You have the option to start from a template or entirely from scratch. Our Quick Start template library includes more than 100 fully tested, responsive and flexible interactive experiences you can brand, customize and launch.Screenshot of ion is the only interactive content platform that provides the scalable foundation to grow from one interactive experience to one thousand interactive experiences. With ion, interactive content development complexity, long timelines, high costs and maintenance problems are replaced with freedom and agility.

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