Powerful and user friendly marketing automation suite with excellent customer support.

Excellent customer service, fantastic training program, continued support.

My experience has been great. We don't have an overly complicated marketing plan and this does everything that we need it to do.

Great for hosting multiple account instances, dedicated IP address, and easy to navigate.

Locked into a major contract, which even with their lack of performance, is tough to leave. Their UI is really, really bad.

I have used and reviewed many tools, but i will say Act-On is my favorite. Easy to use, and the best customer service of any of it's competitors.

It’s been a great tool but because we couldn’t utilize all the features internally, we had to hire a consultant.

Main dislike: More personalization for our sales force to view how their customers are responding.

They have been limited on their choices of stock email templates, but in August 2014, they are releasing a new builder, which should fix this tiny problem.

Their support is amazing now that they have the live chat option.

Our sales team is massively impressed with the capabilities and insights that Act-on provides through the integration with our CRM tool.

Ease of use and template share between markets is great.

Customer support is excellent, and the constant release of point upgrades and additional, no-charge functionality is awesome. We have massively improved the quality and volume of qualified leads.

Unfortunently there was no integration with our Sage CRM so in ways we were automating but then just creating more manual work on our part because of the lack of integration.

Reporting is quite good and easy to understand. Love the continuous product improvements that are made.

Great Automation Program, Especially for SugarCRM Users.

The product and Customer Support are great. Act-On was our company's first marketing automation platform, and there are others out there, but I think our decision was a good one.

This was disappointing and one of the reasons we bought it. No improvements have been made recently.

Our sales team loves Act-On, and how much control they have over what they see, and we in marketing love the intuitive interface and the ease of setting up nurturing campaigns.

This software has great features. Act On is easy to use with the available instructions and other help information.

Decent if you already have it and infrequently email. There are better solutions at lower prices.

My favorite piece is the email marketing (including their fantastic A/B testing), and their automated programs. Integrates extremely well with Salesforce.

Usability is very bad, and support is not very helpful when things are malfunctioning.

Since the very beginning of our relationship with Act-On, they have been helpful and have always been improving the product. It is a very intuitive tool and makes marketing fun and effective.

Overall, Dynamics CRM is the biggest problem; however, if Act-On is going to support its integration with the platform, it has to better understand it. Besides that, I like the tool.

Need more some updates! it sometimes lags when it browsing different sites and options.

We switched to Act On to be able to take advantage of setting up automated campaigns based on user behavior both in our emails and on our website.

Act-On has supplied us with a platform to create quality looking emails and marketing materials with ease.

The platforms has some strong segmentation abilities and offers a lot of integrations with other tools.

Overall I would give Act-On a low pass. The issues with customer service, slightly overpriced and the lack of proper development plagued my experience.

Once you learn it, you realize how nice of a tool it is. Email campaigns, lead scoring, assessing total voice of customer -- it's all there.

A manager was brought onto the phone and we were told they would get back to us with a concession because of the severe service disruption.

What I like most about Intercom is that it makes conversing with our customers super easy.

Really nice and easy to use. Definitely worth checking out their automation tool sets as well.

Overall, our experience with Intercom is quite good. We like the product and we use it daily.

Intercom has been a wonderful experience, it is simple to use, effective, and well worth the money to keep connected with your clients.

Beyond the pale in terms of inappropriate and unprofessional.

Sometimes messages get lost and its tough to find the message trail of particular string. Sometimes unable to identify customers.

Things don't work well, customization options are very limited, users and customers get frustrated often and messages get lost in the abyss.

It's so powerful and easy to use. It was effortless to set up, and all our business users (who've never done customer support before), find it very easy to use, and the users love it too.

It integrates perfectly on the website. I also love that they are constantly coming up with new features to help our workflow.

Wonderful experience, I really enjoy using the product (even on other companies websites/products!) and would highly recommend.

A good, cost effective platform to interact with customers.

Also has strong integrations with a lot of other tools we use. It's great for being able to manage users of our SaaS, and contact them via email or a message within our app.

Intercom is really a state-of-art piece of software. If integrated properly, it can take care of amazing spectre of key activities in any company.

I also like how it gives us statistics on what is my team's response time, etc. I love how easy we can set up a business hour rule, auto-responses, and tours.

I like how this is very universal and easy to communicate with others. It is seamlessly on any website and you can communicate very quickly.

Their customer success team is great, even on the days when I'm not the most gracious customer.

The ability to converse with our customers quickly and seamlessly between email and the messenger app is great.

Intercom is super easy to set up and has the best UI / UX by far.

Great experience, we switched over from Sendgrid and prefer Intercom despite the higher price.

Intercom is great I use it daily as a support agent and get compliments on how nice it looks integrated into our website/app daily.

Overall, this is a great tool. If you do customer support, this is a great way to get started.

It can be confusing to use. The API CAN be confusing at first since there is a lot of terminology they use.

Overall I would thoroughly recommend intercom, it is easy to use and a great product.

I love that in this software you can tag people in conversations if you need their help and get the customer taken care of quicker.

I love going in an building efficiencies. It's saved me a bunch of money.

I liked that it alerted you on replies and new messages almost instantly. This was the first conversational/relationship platform I used for work and it was good enough.

I have had a great experience and I really hope they keep implementing this fantastic solution.

I like that users are able to reach us at Mercurie for our flagship product. I also love that we are able tosend them emails triggered by rules set by us.

Unreponsive and caused a severe service disruption.

The menu layouts can get confusing and I do get lost now and again on the GUI.

Intercom is super easy to use. I love being able to jump on chats and help our users instantly.

US Dollar

Established in 2008, Act-On is a comprehensive marketing automation tool designed to offer a complete suite of applications, including email marketing, website visitor tracking, lead management, social media management, reporting and analytics, as well as integrations with webinar and event planning.


With Act-On's email marketing, businesses can segment their customers into a variety of categories, allowing marketers to focus on a particular target market within that email group. The software offers core website tracking feature, which gives complete visibility into the types of customers that are visiting their site as well as their activities and the time spent on different contents while they are on the website.


Act-On offers tools to build and optimize campaigns, generate leads, score and prioritize prospects, among others. The solution is capable of integrating with almost any leading CRM available in the market. Act-On is ideal for small marketing teams needing a marketing automation tool with minimal IT involvement.



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Real-Time Analytics

Engagement Tracking

A/B Testing

Website Analytics

Lead Notifications

Customer Surveys

Multi-Channel Marketing

Personalization

Social Marketing

Online Forms

Lead Engagement

Lead Capture

Activity Tracking

SEO Management

Customer Segmentation

Drip Campaigns

Responsive Web Design

Data Extraction

Lead Distribution

Multi-Campaign

Pipeline Management

Lead Database Integration

Customizable Fields

Campaign Scheduling

Template Management

ROI Tracking

Data Import/Export

Campaign Segmentation

Email Tracking

Email Campaign Management

Lead Generation

Email Templates

Subscriber Management

Contact Management

Lead Verification/Validation

Form Builder

Lead Management

Conversion Rate Optimization

Email Marketing

Social Media Monitoring

List Management

Sales Reports

Real Time Data

Performance Metrics

Channel Management

Click Tracking

Marketing Automation

Landing Pages/Web Forms

Role-Based Permissions

Social Media Integration

Lead Segmentation

Real-Time Notifications

Forms Management

Customizable CTAs

Workflow Management

Source Tracking

Dynamic Content

Event Triggered Actions

Customization

Activity Dashboard

CAN-SPAM Compliance

Reporting & Statistics

Segmentation

Data Visualization

Visitor Tracking

Website Visitor Tracking

Customizable Templates

WYSIWYG Editor

Image Library

Conversion Tracking

Lead Nurturing

Interaction Tracking

Dashboard

Web Forms

Mobile-Optimized Email

Spam Blocker

Campaign Personalization

Real Time Reporting

Customizable Branding

Behavior Tracking

Reporting/Analytics

Contact Database

Mailing List Management

Prioritization

Campaign Analytics

Trend Analysis

Lead Qualification

Customizable Forms

Target Account Identification

Drag & Drop

Social Promotion

Autoresponders

Pipeline Reports

Third-Party Integrations

Campaign Management

Search Marketing

Prospecting Tools

Multivariate Testing

Mac OS

Web browser (OS agnostic)

Windows 8

Windows 10

Professional (for growing businesses): from $900/month (billed annually) - starts at 2500 active contacts, 3 marketing users, and 50 sales users.

Enterprise: from $2,000/month (billed annually) - starts at 2,500 active contacts, 6 marketing users, and 100 sales users.

Contact Act-On for a customized quote.
Discounts are available for registered non-profit organizations.

Email/Help Desk

FAQs/Forum

Knowledge Base

Phone Support

24/7 (Live Rep)

Chat

2-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1000

1000+

Act-On

In Person

Live Online

Webinars

Documentation

Intercom is the only complete Customer Service solution that provides a seamless customer experience across automation and human support, delivering increased customer satisfaction while reducing costs. We're building a future where most customer conversations are successfully resolved without needing human support, freeing up your team to work on higher value customer conversations.

Support Ticket Management

AB Testing

Surveys & Feedback

Automated Responses

Code-free Development

Access Controls/Permissions

Transfers/Routing

Customer Service Analytics

Sentiment Analysis

For Sales/Marketing

Customer Database

Query Suggestions

Collaboration Tools

Automated Routing

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