Banzai Reach

RATING:

4.3

(15)

About Banzai Reach

Banzai Reach is an event management software designed to help businesses engage the target audience via multi-channel outreach campaigns. The platform enables managers to add event details including event type, date, time and address and identify target audience based on location and job experience on a unified interface. Administrators can send personalized invitations to the targeted audience via email, phone, forums and other outreach channels. Banzai Reach allows teams to share event confirmation and reminder messages with customers on a unified interface. Additionally, supervisors can securely collect attendee details in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protocols. Banzai Reach lets stakeholders scrub and validate lists and create customi...
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Banzai Reach Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Banzai Reach

1 - 5 of 15 Reviews

User Profile

Lindsey

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2019

Boost Attendance at B2B Events

PROS

- Customized for you needs - Easy to use - Quality Results

CONS

- I do not have a con, but I do think customers need to test out more than one event to determine quality. Don't expect results on the first event. Optimize and know the audience you want to target.

Brittany

Computer & Network Security, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2019

Cyber Security Events

They help augment my events that we are already doing in the field to enable us to get more bang for our buck by having a bigger, better audience!

PROS

I like that they are responsive and their service is great. They drive a good many leads to my events in a short amount of time.

CONS

I wish they had a wider security database - especially for executives/directors+

Vendor Response

Hi Brittany! Thank you for taking the time to drop us this review and for your honest feedback. Glad to hear that we were able to drive valued registrations for your events. Thank you also for the feedback about the amount of security executive/director+ leads. This is noted and will be considered for improvement. Thanks again!

Replied February 2022

User Profile

Melissa

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed April 2020

Horrible Customer Experience

The overall experience has been painful and disappointing. It started off so well, but has slowly declined. Reg is picking back up, but at this point the relationship is tarnished and I am unhappy with how they are handling a long time account. Bullying us to purchasing more and not honoring previous roll over credits seems like a very bad move in the current state of economy. I feel they need the cash flow and are just trying to stay afloat.

PROS

When we first starting using Banzai in 2018, it worked great. We had them reaching out to their database as well as our target accounts to drive registrations for events. However, things took a tragic turn in 2019. They added on webinar support capabilities and over promised and undelivered. The dashboard is relatively easy to use to set up events and add goals around registrations. You can easily see where they are in the outreach process in terms of total registrants (with ability to export the list) as well as email deliverability rates. They also have the option to send inMails as part of the cadence, but warned that there is less control over who registers from inMail.

CONS

Where to begin! First, the customer service is horrible. In two years we have had multiple account managers who made promises they couldn't keep. We purchased an additional 1,000 credits in early 2019 to use for webinars and at the end of the year had more than 900 remaining. Programs were not launched when they said they were. Emails were severely impacted by deliverability rates, but none of this was communicated. WE had to do our own digging in the dashboard to uncover insights as to why the registration wasn't there. They made every excuse in the book in our weekly calls with no sign of improvement. We were told our credits would be able to transfer to the following year (2020) since they were not able to hold up their end of the agreement and convert a decent majority of them into registrations. At the start of this year we received a new account manager yet again, who is now pressuring us to buy more credits saying the roll over isn't valid and expired. Needless to say, we are very unhappy! We tried to pull in old account managers into the discussion to make them honor their original commitment, but were blocked from this. We had to get our legal counsel involved recently to try and come up with a somewhat fair solution. We now have the next 3 months to use our roll over credits before they expire and we will be required to purchase more or terminate their partnership. I am pretty sure I know what action we will take for Q3 and it won't be to buy more.

Reason for choosing Banzai Reach

It was a cheap solution that seemed like an easy option to implement.

Lisa

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2019

Banzai is an extension of our team

We leverage Banzai to drive registrations for most of our Box-led events. We have weekly cadence calls with the Banzai team to review each event and provide updates.

PROS

It's user friendly; you can quickly see the event details.

CONS

It's not integrated with our CRM.

Spring

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2019

Banzai supplements our own Marketing efforts

PROS

The Banzai platform is super easy to use, and I love going in and checking progress on events. We are currently running around 25 events, and the platform is a must for us. I also like that we can filter out those we do not want to be contacted prior to the campaigns starting with the use of preview files. We also really like our CSM team.

CONS

We had some hiccups with webinars not hitting goals, but Banzai has rolled out a new process for them, so we hope this ups the number of registrants for those campaigns.