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Hoopla

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What is Hoopla?

Hoopla is a cloud based sales motivation application, available on the Salesforce AppExchange, that tracks and motivates sales teams to focus on and perform the key activities that lead to sales success and CRM adoption. Hoopla is native to the Salesforce platform, so users can create sales contests, games and leaderboards based on any Salesforce metric. Updates are streamed live on any TV, mobile or desktop screen throughout a company.

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Mike Reilly
Risk Claims Management Specialist in Human Resources at North Clackamas School District (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our student used the Hoopla website during the long-distance learning months of the pandemic. We were able to read and reference the online ebooks for several projects we worked on. The website was easy to maneuver and there were plenty of topics available for research. Thank you for this opportunity to express our insights.

Pros

  • Easy and quick access to borrow the reading materials.
  • Many different subjects available to read/review.

Cons

  • Continue to add materials as they become available.

Most Important Features

  • Plenty of materials to read/review.

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact as this is another tool for us to use for more reading

A good investment for your employees

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Allison Montes
Support Assistant in Customer Service at Arcao Tech (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many work challenges for our company. [W]e have peers working at the office, and some others working remotely which makes it harder [for people] to get motivat[ed]. Hoopla has allowed us to get closer, interact with each other's achievements, and even compete to get individual or group rewards.

Pros

  • Sports-themed contests
  • Track different metrics
  • Employee recognition

Cons

  • The search functionality gets stuck sometimes
  • Needs integrations with more tools
  • It would be nice to have more interface customization options

Most Important Features

  • Leaderboards
  • Sport-themed games
  • Real time recognition

Return on Investment

  • Improved employee's motivation
  • Created a healthy competitive environment
  • Made metrics easy to track

Alternatives Considered

Slack

Other Software Used

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Cisco AnyConnect

Hoopla the Hope for the Next Generation

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Ankit Kumar RaiView profile
Regional Manager in Corporate at Square Yards (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hoopla is part of the training manual. We use various audiobook titles in our employee training program and employee engagement programs.
1. Business & Economics Real Estate.
2. Real Estate Buying & Selling Homes.
3. Business & Economics Real Estate Mortgages

Topics include:
1. Real estate-specific negotiating.
2. Negotiation principles.
3. The real estate negotiation process.
4. How to establish rapport.
5. Discerning the other party's motivation.
6. Solve problems.
7. Negotiation strategies and tactics.

Pros

  • Hoopla makes borrowing movies very easy.
  • Hoopla makes borrowing audiobooks for training super easy.
  • Easy on the move usage on tablet or mobile.
  • Having public library easy access available.

Cons

  • If Hoopla has multiple language options in audiobooks then it would be great.
  • B2B account subscription would be a great feature.
  • Lending period could be flexible.

Most Important Features

  • Lending feature.
  • Movies, videos and audiobooks at the same place.
  • Most borrowed titles makes it easy to select best sellers.

Return on Investment

  • Most important part of business is people.
  • Hoopla helps us with employee engagement activities.
  • Hoopla helps us with training away from the working hours of office.

Other Software Used

GetBadges, Picnic Hub

Great product for book lovers

Jeremy AndersonView profile
Staff Accountant in Finance and Accounting at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Wide selection
  • Always has new content
  • Gives great new suggestions

Cons

  • Some older content is sometimes hard to find
  • Newer top sellers are usually not available right away
  • Hard to find complete series

Return on Investment

  • Increased positivity
  • Increased productivity
  • It has helped reduce idle time

Usability

Instant moral and energy booster for your Sales and Marketing teams

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Brendan O'NeilView profile
Go-To-Market Lead in Marketing at Robin (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy setup for management and for employees.
  • Helps boost moral of the team in the office.
  • It grabs everyone's attention by really encouraging engaging alerts (walk-up songs etc).

Cons

  • I wish it ran in a browser and not as a full Chrome app, would have made setup easier.
  • It was nice to have default images out of the box, more would have been nice.
  • For smaller companies, it can get pricy, quick. We 100% see the ROI to be clear.

Return on Investment

  • ROI in team moral was an easy one.
  • Call blitz's and competitions are so much better now.
  • The floor is always buzzing with something.
  • Easy way to place alerts or visuals.

Other Software Used

Slack, Troops, Chorus.ai