I’ve recently launched my own product. And here, in the early phase, as much as later on, feedback is super important and especially bug reporting. This right here is Gleap, a beautifully designed platform that allows your users to report bugs, request features and get in contact with you. So let’s test it out together.

So, here we are on the Gleap platform, a very simple platform. And here we have an overview of all of our projects. We have our settings and then we can basically just dive in. Before we dive in, I want to show you the widget so you get an idea of what Gleap is all about. So, down here on Gleap, we have three options per standard.

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1. Features of Gleap
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3. Alternatives to Gleap
4. Future of Gleap
5. Pros & Cons of using Gleap
6. Last thoughts about Gleap

Features of Gleap

We can report an issue where we can write some text here. And then as a user, you can choose to either mark the bug, so you can see up here, I can either draw a line, maybe I can make an arrow, I can make this specific rectangle here, I can change the colour, I can make a line. As you can see here, I can also undo my lines. And then whenever I’m ready, I just click Next. And then I have my screenshot ready.

I can also record my screen. So here I can press record and then it is actually recording my screen. So I can also talk into the recording, I can mute it, and I can draw still while it’s recording. I still have all the options. So as a user, you can really help the product.

And as a product owner, you just get a lot of help based on this. So let’s just stop the recording for now. Let’s say Next. And then you can see we can submit the bug report. Going back, we can also send in feature requests. So here’s just a simple way where you give a title and a text and then you send in the feature request.

And each project on Gleap has its own roadmap which they can choose to make public or just keep internally. The last thing is the contact. Here I just write a simple message and then it’s also sent into the Gleap platform, which I’ll show you just in a moment. You can also integrate if you’re using Intercom, but that is the widget. Very simple.

I really like the design. Let’s dive into my project here. So, in the menu here, we have three main modules. We have feedback, surveys and sessions. And then within our different modules, we have even more different options.

So here we can see the bugs. So here, one of my customers, which is basically myself, has said these buttons don’t work very well on the mobile. Then I can go in, I can fix it. And then whenever I say that this is done, then this specific user will get an email telling me that the bug has now been fixed. I can also send it to an integration.

So here I’ve set up Trello as an integration. Then I can easily send it over to Trello. So I have all of my tasks there. And for each task, you can see out here on the right bar we have some information about the user. We can mark it as duplicate, we can assign it, we can change if it’s not a bug, maybe it’s a feature and so on.

We do also have session data here, so we can see the browser, we can see the version of the browser, screen height and so on. We can see the activity log. And the activity log is basically what the user has done. So you can see the user has clicked on Path, and the user has made a post to Gleaps API. The user has clicked again on this specific SVG and feedback has been received.

Here we can filter the different elements if we don’t want to see them. We can also send in custom data via Gleap. It’s very easy to set up. And then right now I don’t have Replay enabled, but here I can basically replay whatever the user experience. It is a Visa version right now, but a really powerful feature as well.

This is our bug kanban board, where we can sort it manually. We can search. We do also have crash reports and these are fetched automatically. I would really like a solution here where I could disable this for the local host. I know I can do it in the code by myself, but if they could just ignore all the local hosts, it would be a great add-on.

But again we have the conversation session data and activity log. In the conversation, I can also send this specific answer per email to the user who experienced this. And then whenever I’m done with this one, I can either drag and drop it over to Done, or I can go in and say this one is now done. I can also change the priority, as you saw before. The same is for inquiries. Here whenever someone writes via Gleap, it will be shown here.

And then we can email back and forth, just like you’ve seen from other chat systems. We do also have a feature request here where I can share this board globally with everyone. Here it’s just under review, planned, in progress and completed. So whenever someone gives a feature request, it will be added here, under review. And then I can add it to planned or I can basically remove it if I disagree with that feature.

I can also add more boards if I want to have some custom boards. Then we have Archive and spam. And then we have our dashboard. And the dashboard is just a quick overview of how it’s going, how our score is, how the widget is loading and so on. Just a quick overview.

It’s really great. Now the next module is Surveys. So here we can create a survey based on an action. So let’s say that you have an onboarding flow where the customer needs to do specific things before they can start using your product. Then after that, you can basically just ask how was our product onboarding flows?

Would you say it was good, or was it bad? What would you like to improve? So here you see we can make an entire flow where they need to basically give a number from one to five and in the end, they can just type in something if they have something specific that they want to share with us. This is a really great feature and especially when you’re building a product, the more feedback you can get in from your users and your customers, the better and more customised you can make your product for your customers. We do also have options here where we can collect the email address, we can change the thank you message, can enable the privacy policy link and so on.

And then we have an audience. So here we can choose who should receive this feedback. You can either make it dynamic and then you can choose here that it should be sent on page view, the session started. We can also say it should only be for users and so on. This is a really powerful feature and it just helps you build again a better product.

And based on this we can always get an overview of how it’s going with our onboarding and maybe we need to improve it. The last main module is sessions and here I can just see the different users who are using my platform, not right now but have used it. And then I can see what bugs have they experienced, what have they done? I can see the recent events over here as well. And I can see in the last page view also, just a simple overview.

I can then export the data or I can delete it. Now with this widget, we can also customise it. So here you can see I’ve added my own logo, I’ve added my own colours. Here I can choose to hide the name. I like that it’s there, it makes it very personalised.

I can change the corner radius, I can change the colours, I can remove the Gleap branding, I can choose the position and then I can add a custom launcher icon. That is all we can do for the design. So we can really customise it. Now for the menu as well. We can also change we can either remove the different elements if we don’t want them, we can change the text, can change the icon as well, but we can also add new menu items.

As you can see we can add a redirect to a URL but we can also add custom options. So within a custom option, we have a custom action and the action can do basically whatever you want it to be. So if you’re using a live chat like Tawk.to or Crisp, then this is the solution that needs to go with. So here we need to say start live chat just as an example. We’ll add it in the description as well.

And then here we need to name our custom action. As you can see here from the documentation, we need to do a little bit of coding. So here we need to register a custom action, we need to give it a name and then we can execute some code. So if you’re using a live chat for instance, then you can add this code and then make sure that it only executes within this if. It’s fairly simple if you know just a little bit of JavaScript.

Otherwise, just reach out to Gleap and they will happily help you get this set up. The last thing we can do with Gleap is under developer options. Here we can enable stuff like Blog, so we can enable Replays. We can include static resources and we can just set a lot of different options that will make it easier for us to find the different mistakes. Because often the user will not reach out to you if they have found a bug, they will just quit your app and then they will never come back to you.

So here, for instance, I have enabled Crash Detector, which means that every time something crashes or something happens, then I will get a report automatically so I can fix it. Of course, it’s much easier if the user reaches out because then I have screenshots maybe recording that I can use. But this will also work for me. They do also have a lot of great integrations. So you can see right now I have added Trello, but they have a lot of integrations here you can see that you can use and this means that you can basically send your bug reports or your tasks from Gleap onto a third-party system that you’re using.

Personally, I’m using Trello at the moment, so I have made integration it Trello. So all of my bug reports and issues are automatically sent to Trello and it works very well. You can choose to either do it manually or just everything will be created automatically. The last part is just your settings.

Here you set your logo and your title. We can also see how easy it is to install. So if you’re using WordPress, then you can see that they have a Seamless plugin. You can just start using it. If you have a SaaS company, you most likely use a web app.

Here you’re either using React, Vue or maybe Angular and here you can see that it’s very simple. Again, you add the library to your web app and then you just initiate this piece of code and that’s it. Then it’s running very simple. You can also customise it by adding the name which they have in their documentation as well. You can also enforce identity verification.

You can set up here your feedback flows. If you want to maybe add a new type of bug or you want to just customise it a bit more, you can translate as well Gleap into a third language. They do have some languages up here English, German, and so on. But if they don’t have your language, you can also basically translate the entire Gleap into your language and start using it. And the last parts here are very simple with Project Team and our email settings.

Gleap Pricing

Now, when we take a look at the pricing structure of Gleap, they do have a free plan and three paid plans, and the free plan is very generous. You get unlimited bug reports, you get unlimited team members and just a lot of great functionality. But when you hopefully think that Gleap is a great product, just as I do, then the growth plan is where the value really lies within. Here, you get a tonne of functionality, you get unlimited of almost everything, and you just get a product that is seamlessly integrated into your workflow. And this pricing, compared to the alternative is quite cheap.

You really get a lot of value for the money.

Alternatives to Gleap

And Instabug, which is the first alternative, is the enterprise solution. Between all of these bug reporting tools, I will say I feel that Gleap is a much more nice tool to look at. It works more seamlessly, and it’s just easier to work with. The other alternative is Marker.io.

And Marker.io started simply as a drawing app. You could take a screenshot, you could write on it, you could draw some arrows, and this was the start of them making a bug reporting tool. And I will say, Marker.io is below Gleap. They do not have as much functionality as Gleap, and the features that Gleap are working on right now are really interesting. So Marker is more for if you want an advanced editor for your users to be able to bug report because you get an entire view within Marker.io where you can really sit and draw and make very specific sketches.

Here, Gleap is more simple. You can basically draw a rectangle around the area, or you can record your screen. Very simple, yet very powerful.

Future of Gleap

Gleap is a product in rapid development, and they are developing so many features very fast. And the first thing that they are working on right now is a chatbot.

So for your Gleap, not only do you have bug reporting, you have a roadmap. You can get your users to send in feature requests and so much more. Now they are also adding a chatbot. And here I think they need to be a little bit careful because right now they are focusing on a lot of different areas, and the quality really depends on how they’re going to nail this chatbot. So we’ll have to wait and see.

It will come within a couple of weeks. The next thing they’re working on is a simple activity log so we can see each bug request or each task within our roadmap. What has happened to it? Has it been sent to Trello? Has someone commented on it?

When did we create it? And so much more so we can easily backtrace the different elements we want to find and find them fast. Furthermore, then they are working on an ability so we can create bugs on behalf of users. So if someone on Twitter tweets to you about your product that some specific features just not working, then you can go in and create a bug report via your customer’s email. So the customer will receive an email whenever this bug is resolved.

And the last element they’re working on is the due date. And this is a simple feature where we can set due dates on the specific bug reports. But I will say that it’s limited how much personally I will use it because I extract all my tasks into either my own product or into Trello. So we’ll have to wait and see.

Pros & Cons of using Gleap

Now, after using Gleap for some time, I really like the UI and the UX.

It’s easy to use, it’s modern, and it just makes everything so much better. And then the fact that we can record and see screenshots from our users, makes it possible for us to just solve these bugs so much faster. But there is one thing I really want them to improve, and that is the live chat integrations. Right now, you can’t just plug and play a solution in which you add your chatbot. Unless you’re using Intercom, you have to add a custom action if you want to add your chatbot.

If they could add just a plug-and-play solution where just as we saw with the integration could integrate our chatbot into this Gleap widget, then it would be almost a perfect widget because everything else is working so, so well.

Last thoughts about Gleap

Now. Should you go ahead and buy Gleap? I will say that if you’re running a SaaS company, then you should absolutely go ahead and buy Gleap. It will just help you handle the bug reports, and feature requests, and overall, just help you build a much better product. Overall, I have been really impressed by Gleap.

It has already helped me a lot, and I just can’t wait for the future to see the different features they will develop. I want to give Gleap four and a half stars. All the integrations just work so seamlessly together. The only thing is just a chatbot integration. If they had a plug-and-play solution on that it would have been five stars.

That’s my review.

Currently, I’m testing different AI solutions for creating content, and I’m seeing what gives the best results in terms of ranking on Google. And at the moment, I’m testing Neuronwriter, an AI SEO platform that can help you create and optimise your content for SEO. So let’s test it out together.

So here we are in the Neuronwriter platform, and it is straightforward. We have our projects here, and then we can dive in and start creating content. There are no extra tools, so let’s go into our project here and then make a new analysis right away. So for this article, I want to write about how you can plan your week. So my search phrase is: How do I prepare for my week?

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1. Features of Neuronwriter
2. Neuronwriter Pricing
3. Alternatives to Neuronwriter
4. Future of Neuronwriter
5. Pros & Cons of using Neuronwriter
6. Last thoughts about Neuronwriter

Features of Neuronwriter

The search engine is the United States, and the language is English. So now, let’s start this process so we can begin creating an article for this specific search phrase. So the first analysis is now done, and it took around 40 seconds, so it was pretty fast. And what it has done so far is that it has pulled the competition on this specific search phrase where we can see the content score based on Neuronwriter’s algorithms, and then we can see the word length, we can see the page title and the URL. So here you can choose to either take all of them and then use the competitors to optimise your content, or you can just take the top ten.

So for now, I’ll take the top ten and go to the next step. So now we’re actually in the editor of Neuronwriter. We have on the left side where we write the article and then we have all of our analysis on the right side. So on the right side, you can see that we have terms that they recommend we use and then we have terms in headers that we should use. Then we have ideas here where we can see some questions to answer.

We can see the H1s from our competitors and the second headlines from our competitors. We can see results from YouTube if you want to generate YouTube ideas. And then we can see just a settings overview here of this specific article. But what we will start with doing is creating an article draft and with an article draft, we’re basically creating a structure of the article. So again, on the right side here, you can see we have headers and we have questions.

To begin with, I want to add these specific headers and these are actually headers from the competition. But for now, we will just go with this. So let me try and add some different headings right here. And then let’s go to the section with the questions here, where I will also add some of these questions over here to my article layout. When we are here in the settings we can also take a look at the meta tags where we can write the title, we can write the description again, we can get inspired by the competitors here.

We also have assets as well where we can add new assets and this is in this case images or what could be a source you want to use. And then we have guidelines here where we can write about the persona, tone of voice, the goal with the articles and our CTAs. But for now, I think this article layout is good, so I will copy it to the editor. So now you can see that we have the structure to the left of all of the different headers that I set in based on the structure we made. So what we can now do is we can generate content.

So when I click on Generate Content it will now start generating a paragraph via AI. So here it has generated the first paragraph and it seems pretty good. It’s not so long, but I will definitely use this text. What we can then do is we can generate again for this specific section because it was not that long of a text we get. But see, the thing here now is that I’ll say use text again, but here we get two texts which are very similar and I want to be able to write extra content without duplicating myself and that is not possible right now.

I can only generate content again and even though the content is good, it’s just not long enough. We really need it to be longer. So let’s try and go to the next step here and again to generate some content. So it has its heading and it has that we need to try and include this weekly plan and deadlines and then we have here our text. So one thing that Neuronwriter is doing very well is using these NLP keywords.

So they’re saying that for this specific section we need to use these keywords in the section if possible, of course. And when we do it in this sense, then we will also see our Content score basically grow all the way up because we start to use these keywords. Now I want to say that you shouldn’t just plug in the keywords to use them. There needs to be a meaning behind why you use the keywords. The keywords are just there to help you understand what to write about.

It’s not for you to basically copy and paste. But you can see I’ve generated text three times now and our Content score went from zero to 18 right now. And we can see that we need to be at least above 30 in our Content score because between top one and top ten there is a Content score between 30 and 38. And if we want to just be in the top 30 then we need to reach a content score of at least 21. Of course, it’s not that simple.

There are a lot of other different parts that play a role but this is just an indication for you to see how well your content is going. Let’s try and generate some more content down here and see what we end up with. So one thing I noticed while I was generating content is that if I only have a heading and I want to generate content then it’s not possible. I have to write some words here that it needs to include in order for this to be able to generate content. When I test alternatives to this they do not need that so that’s just a small thing that hopefully they can tweak. Now another thing when it is we generate content then you can see we have two parameters here that we can twist and turn on. We can change the temperature of the content where the higher it is the more unique the content is but it also means that the result can be less predictable which means that we can get results in east and west based on this but let’s try and set it up to .7 we can also change the quality of this specific generation but it also means that it will come in at a higher cost but let’s say this one right now is actually at high quality we can also set it at low quality and we have set it up to very hot here at 0.7 so let’s try and add some keywords here that it needs to include and then let’s see what the output will present us with.

So here it is actually giving me a great result it is telling me very specifically what I need to do in order to plan a weekly workout and it has different steps which I know always works well in the different articles let’s try and generate again to see if we get different content and we do so here we get more of a text where it’s not stepped by step but it is still explaining how to plan your weekly workout so let’s use this text as well. So now we have generated text for almost all the different sections we now have a content score of 23 we can continue to generate content or we can work and optimise the content based on the content terms and then we can see the content score basically going up and down based on what it is we are writing.

Again we can also change the metre description and title over here and when you’re done then you just save your changes here and then you can choose to export it to right now only HTML. What I usually do is that I copy and paste it over into WordPress where I’m writing the article. Another thing within the editor is of course up here we have an overview of what we have written from a structure point of view. We can see here how many words they recommend we write and this is again based on the competition from this specific search phrase. Here we can see how easy it is to read our blog post as it is right now but one thing I want to do before we move on is I want to generate some YouTube ideas.

So right now we have an article that is telling me how I plan my week but if I want to add up with a YouTube video it would be great to see what the results are and this is again based on AI so let’s see what the video ideas look like. So there are some great results went from the first one my realistic super productive step-by-step weekly planning routine and I also like this one down here: How to plan a productive week in less than 30 minutes and these are actual YouTube videos so I can click on it to see this video from YouTube so these are pulled directly from YouTube in order for us to get inspired of how we can make our YouTube video.

Now when we are sitting in the content editor and you want to see more deep analysis you can always click up here on the top analysis where we can see our keyword difficulty we can see the search results and then we can see the competitors again as we saw in the first step where we have the content score, we have their page title and we have some more information about the different competitors and that is just a quick overview.

We can also see a competitor breakdown here where we can look at their Moz page authority, the Moz rank, we can see their content volume, we can see the quality of the content and this is again based on the same parameters as to when we sit and write in the editor so this is again great and deep analysis that we can use. We can also see the structure of our different competitors here where we can see the title, the description, and all the headers that they are using we can see the SERP layout and features, how they are ranking we can see other keyword ideas that we might be able to target with this specific article or maybe there are ideas here where we can create another article based on this and if you’re creating content then you know sometimes it’s difficult to come up with ideas so this is one way to use to come up with ideas. We can also see related searches which are pulled from Google to see what we need to target again. And the last thing is content terms and this is the same as we saw in the editor where we can just see the importance, we can see how often it’s used in the title in the headers and how often they actually use it overall and this is again compared to the competition on this specific search phrase.

So the two tabs up here are divided into the content editor and the deep analysis because when we are in the content editor then we also have some analysis over here we can work with. But it’s not as deep as when you go in and really check thoroughly through your analysis here and get a lot of great insights.

Neuronwriter Pricing

Now when we look at the pricing of Neuronwriter then they advertise with having neither a free trial nor a free plan but when you sign up you actually sign up on their free plan and on the free plan then you have three analyses you can do and you can generate 1000 words and this is each month and it is not a lot but it gives you an idea of how Neuronwriter is working.

And then if you do wish to upgrade then you need to be aware that the different plans vary on three different parameters and that is the number of projects you can have, which means websites, the number of analyses you can do and then it’s the amount of AI words you can generate. And I have to say the amount of AI words you can generate on the different plans is really low, especially when we compare it to the alternatives. But overall then the pricing is in between the different alternatives which are out there at the moment.

Alternatives to Neuronwriter

And the first alternative is Scalenut. Scalenut I have previously reviewed on the channel and Scalenut they are giving unlimited AI words to generate already in their medium plan.

Furthermore, then they have a lot of extra AI tools and they give you a more thorough analysis of your content than Neuronwriter does. So Scalenut, even though it is maybe a couple of dollars more expensive than you do also just get a lot more functionality, you get templates, you get soon a content gap and so much more because Neuronwriter is a very simple product where you can create and optimise your content and that’s about it. So if you’re looking for a very simple platform then go with Neuronwriter.

Scalenut

Scalenut offers a lot of extra AI modules to make your life easier

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The other alternative is Frase.io. And personally, I’ve always been a big fan of Frase.io and they have recently released their WordPress plugin so we can sit in WordPress and basically write our content and optimise it.

And Frase.io does also have an AI but theirs is not built on top of GPT-3 directly. They have tried to go in their own direction which means that we get a different type of content. But it is an add-on you need to add to your account, it is not part of your main subscription. So that is the only negative part about that. Other than that Frase.io is a great software to optimise your content and help you write the best possible article.

Frase.io

Frase has made the most elaborate analysis module for your content.

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Future of Neuronwriter

Now taking a look at the roadmap of Neuronwriter then it is a simple product so we will see modules built on top of Neuronwriter. And the first module they’re adding is AI article templates. These are templates that will direct your article in a specific direction. And these are templates that can change the sound of your article, can change the way it’s set up the structure, and so much more. So this is a really interesting module to add.

What we have seen from the alternatives is that it’s actually the community who is creating these templates. So if I’m for instance creating an article template, then I can easily share it with the community so everyone can benefit from it. Then they are also adding small features like recommending how many images should you use in your article. And this is based on the competition on the specific search phrase, and I think they’re going to take an average based on the competition. Furthermore, then they’re adding more analysis data such as the structure.

So when you type in a search phrase you want to optimise or create an article for, then it will pull all the competition on that specific search phrase. And then it will take a look at how the structure is on these different articles and then recommend a structure based on this. The last thing they’re adding is another AI tool to help you generate the title and the description for your article. And the way I understand it is of course the title is the title, but by description, they mean the meta description. So these are great tools that we can use and it will just make it easier and faster for us to create content which is already SEO Optimised.

Pros & Cons of using Neuronwriter

Now what I really like about using Neuronwriter is that their UI and UX are easy to use and very modern. Furthermore, then the NLP recommendations are really great. The thing I want them to improve is definitely some AI tools for creating an article. As we talked just before about titles, descriptions, the structure, those types of tools are really missing. Then I’m missing integrations to WordPress.

It would be really great if I could push my content from Neuronwriter to WordPress without I have to sit and copy and paste all the time. And the last thing is the AI Word limits are just too low on the different pricing plans. They really need to increase that, if not make them unlimited.

Last thoughts about Neuronwriter

Is Neuronwriter worth getting? Now I will say that if you’re looking for a simple Assistant to help you write SEO Optimised content and just overall optimise your content, then Neuronwriter could really be for you.

But if you’re looking for a tool where you get extra AI tools to generate structure, meta tags, titles and so on, then you should look at one of the alternatives. And therefore I want to give Neuronwriter three and a half stars. I’ve seen good results so far, but I’m really missing the extra AI features which will take it all the way through. That’s my review.

SEO is something I find really interesting, especially the technical aspect of it. Testing different ideas and just building content. This right here is SheerSEO, an SEO platform to help you track your keywords, and competitors, and build better content. So let’s test it out.

So this is the SheerSEO platform. And if you take a look on the left side of the menu, you can see we have a lot of modules to go through. And I will take you through all of these modules. To begin with, we have a dashboard here. And on the dashboard, we have a lot of great graphs to look at. We can see our organic traffic and our citation flow, which I’ll come back to.

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Features of SheerSEO

We can see the changes in our keywords, we can see the trend of our ranking and so much more great functionality. And overall, we just get a great overview of how it’s going with our SEO. So let’s jump into the first module, which is rankings.

And this is a very simple module. It just tells you how you’re ranking on the different keywords that you are tracking right now. Up here, we can choose to pull now. We can add keywords, or we can manage keywords.

For now, I’ll just look at what I have added here. As you can see I’ve added some different keywords over here. Here we can see our latest progress.

We can see what country I’m tracking these keywords in, we can see the difference from the last time, and we can see so much more.

One thing I want you to notice. Is the SERP features here. Within the SERP features, you can see that we are ranking in multiple ways. So for instance, here I’m ranking on the keyword Feedhive review, but I’m ranking both in the rotating results and in the social results.

And scrolling down here you can see I’m doing the same here as well. Here I’m only in the rotating results and so on. This is just a very simple module. We can also see our historic module here, where we can see how we’ve been ranking over time.

We can see it as a snapshot of how it was the last time it checked. We can see our rank progress, and how it’s going up and down.

You can see the different dates here. It is going to check for how it’s been going with my rankings. And now to the first competitor module, where we can compare our keywords to our competitors. So for instance, the Feedhive review where I’m ranking first, one of my competitors over here is ranking nine. Same down here for analytics review, I’m not ranking on it, but one of the competitors is ranking number ten.

So maybe I should take a look at how he has written the article to get inspired to see what I can change with my article. And this is what is so great with this competitor module because not only can we compare how we are ranking on the keywords, but we can also get inspired not only by content but also by new keywords. We can also see historical how our competitors have been ranking on the different keywords. And that is, overall the keyword ranking module. Overall it is pretty simplified, but you can also dive down and get more information in the different keywords.

But now, let’s move on to the main competitor module here.

So within the competitor module, we can check on keywords. So here I can enter a competitor’s website, and see that it is showing all the keywords that this website is ranking for. So if I need new content ideas.

This is the perfect way for you to go in and find new keywords or new search phrases to rank for.

So, for instance, going down here, you can see the best alternative to Gmail. The keyword difficulty is very high, but this competitor ranks 27, and there seems to be a lot of volume on this keyword.

Maybe I should write an article because down here, there are two search phrases that I can combine to the same article and then rank for. This adds to how great it is to use these competitor keywords to find new content ideas.

Scrolling down, you can see that there are 23 pages with keywords. Of course, this depends on how much data SheerSEO has on your competitor and how much content your competitor is ranking on.

We can also take a look at the keyword gap here. The way this works is, again, I enter a competitor’s website right here, and now, it will find gaps between my competitors’ website and my website.

So here it is showing me all the keywords my competitor is ranking for that I am not ranking for. So these is all the content pieces that I could just start writing to get more traffic on my website via these keyword ideas.

Again, a very great module, it is the same as before, just where we filter out all the pages that I’m already ranking for. Then we do also have a Backling explorer here. For the Backing Explorer again, I can see all of my competitors and then I can see what is it that they are getting their backlinks from.

So here you can see that this competitor here is getting a lot of backlinks right here. And right now, SheerSEO is showing me 214 backlinks.

And the thing I can use this for is that I can go in contact with the different websites and then send them my content.

Because if they are linking to my competitors, the chances of they are linking to me are pretty high. So here I have already now two ways how I can increase my organic traffic. I can write content for the keyword gaps and I can reach out to all the backlinks I do not have at the moment.

We do also have current competitors, which are the same as we saw before in the rankings and historical competitors where we choose a search term to see how everyone is ranking for exactly the same modules. So now, let’s move on to the research module. And this is, as you have probably guessed, that keyword research. So here, we can search on multiple keywords to get some ideas.

So here I’m searching for almost long-tail keywords and I’m searching for WordPress Image Optimization and WordPress Cache plugin. And you can see it’s finding great keywords on the WordPress Cache plugin.

But the WordPress Image optimization, it has not shown a single keyword. And this is where SheerSEO falls a bit behind on data. They do not have so much data that we can find data on the long-tail keywords.

So for this, it is not the best tool to use. I would recommend using one of the alternatives, which I’ll come back to later in this review. Here we are just getting an overview of some high-end keywords that will be difficult to rank.

So you can see we have a competition index over here where it says a scale from zero to 100. How difficult is it to rank on these keywords?

And these numbers doesn’t really add up. Unless it is 100 really easy, zero really difficult because here we have something called Best WordPress Cache Plugin. That is a keyword that I know for a fact is really difficult to rank on.

And they are also showing it with the keyword difficulty. But they are telling me that the competition index is a two out of 100. So that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

We can also see with the CPC being this high, and it is a difficult phrase to rank on. But now, let’s move on to the competitor’s keywords.

And this is the same as you saw before, where I plotted in one of the competitors and then we get all the keywords that the competitor is ranking on.

So one thing SheerSEO is doing is that they’re duplicating a lot of their modules, and when their menu is so long, it would be a benefit for them if they could combine some of their modules. We can also save the different lists, and then they will appear here. Again, we have the keyword gap where we enter the different domains that we want to see what the gaps are between so we can start ranking on them.

And then we have index pages here. So the thing here is that I have integrated my Google search console, and here it is very basically telling me that I’m ranking on 393 pages, or at least that’s what’s indexed.

I can then export it, and that’s about it. So this specific module doesn’t bring a lot of value to me. So let’s move on to the optimization targets. Within optimization, targets are where you can optimise your content to hopefully rank better.

The way it works is you enter a keyword, a URL, you choose your localization, and then you just add it and then SheerSEO will run their algorithms, and tell you where you need to improve.

So you see, I’ve added the keyword Scalenut review. I’ve added my URL. It is telling me that I’m not ranking on it. I have a pretty high on-page optimization. It could be better.

My citation flow here is on 20 and the citation flow is basically the same as the page rank. So this one I should definitely improve.

Also my trust flow as well. But the volume is not that high. You can see there’s been zero visits, which is incorrect, but that’s just the way they pull their numbers.

The further action from here is that we can ask bloggers to review our website and that you do by clicking here. Now you can see that we end up over here blog reviews, and within blog reviews, you can ask someone to look through your blog to bring feedback. Of course, this comes in at a price, but this is a great way if you want some feedback on your blogs.

Right now, there are no blogs for review. But hopefully and what I would like to see within this module is some certification or making sure that all the feedback I get is from people who know what they are talking about. Of course, it would be nice also to just get some feedback overall about the language or maybe some of the design parts. But from an SEO standpoint, it would be great if they were verified somehow. But that is the optimization target. Now let’s move on to the backlinks again here.

So within backlinks, it is now showing all the backlinks that I have to my website. And right now it is saying that I have 141 backlinks. I do have a lot more than this, but that is just because SheerSEO does not have more data than this. So they’re crawling their entire database, and they found 141 backlinks. We can also see all the links we have lost.

We can see our competitors again, and the toxic links that we maybe need to either remove or take an extra look at.

Within backlinks, we also have site history where we can see the number of backlinks going up and down. We can see our Backlinks Explorer, where we again just get an overview of our backlinks, what is the link text and what are they linking to, of course. We can see whether it’s do-follow or no-follow.

We can also check our backlinks here where we can check different links, and this is for guarded backlinks so you can define them here to start checking them as well. Not a feature I’ve been using a lot.

Now let’s move on to the on page SEO because within SheerSEO, you can also run a site audit. So within my site audit here, I have a lot of warnings. I have something that is going well and then some critical issues, and this is working like a dashboard. So this is just a quick overview of your site audit.

So let’s go to the issues, and within issues here, we have a lot of warnings, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but all the critical issues here I should take a look at. So it tells me that I have no meta description on my freebie site. And what I really like here, which I don’t see very often, is that they’re telling me how to fix it. With some small text guiding me.

This is something I like to see and would like to see more of in the different platforms.

And right now, it is telling me that these two are unminified files and that they is an external file, so I can’t do anything about that. Within the site audit, we also have URL issues. And within URL issues again it is showing me the unminified JS and it is showing me that I have duplicate OG social tags.

So I should also take a look at that. Again, it is just telling me the way to fix it is to remove the duplicate tags.

So now, let’s move on to page optimization. Within page optimisation, you can enter a keyword, and your URL, and then you get an overview. So as you saw before, within optimization targets, I have entered the Scalenut review. And then I added my URL.

So here it’s telling me that my page optimization score is 73, my content benchmark ideas are 46, and I have some issues.

The first issue is my keyword density. It is right now 0.14% and it should be between 1% and 5%.

Then this is telling me that I do not have the keyword in the title, and it shouldn’t be added separately where it’s divided by a character. That is not 100% necessary, but it tells me it’s critical.

It tells me I’m not using the keyword in the URL. I am, but I’m not using exactly the way the keyword I have entered is.

Then it is telling me that the keyword is not existing in the meta tag. That is completely irrelevant, and it’s not in the meta description.

Again, it is in the meta description, but it’s not added exactly how I’ve written it in SheerSEO. So some of these are good. For instance, the headline one exists maybe the keyword density. Of course, the meta description is relevant, that is accessible to search engines and so on. These you need to take with a bit of grain of salt.

Now we do also have content benchmarks here, and within content benchmarks, it is basically just showing me how I’m using the different words and how often I should use them. So right here, for instance, you can see that I’m using a lot of the words good, but here I should use: use cases more, and I should use Scalenut reviews more and so on. And this is down on specific keywords that they think I should use more.

Would like to see some data on why they think I should use it more. I guess that it’s because my competitors ranking on this keyword they’re using it this amount of times.

But now, let’s move on to the keyword density. Because as you saw before the keyword density for this specific blog post was not high enough.

But here, I can see the keyword density for the entire website.

So you can see the different words that you’re using, how much you’re using them in percentage, and there’s not a lot you can use this for. It’s just to overall get an idea of what you write on your website.

Now SheerSEO does also have directories, so you can submit your blog for a directory and I don’t find this so relevant. I will say that if your content is good enough, the backlinks will come by themselves. But adding your website to a directory is not necessarily a good idea. So if you use this directory, then be careful.

Now they do also have social integrations. This means that I can see who is tweeting about my website.

So, of course, there are tweets from myself, but I can also see what others are tweeting about my website. And this is just a great way if you want to add some interaction to your Twitter or also to your Facebook as well. So you can go in and retweet you can comment, can like and so on. Just a great little feature to build up your social presence as well.

The last overall module is reports. So here you can pull out data from SheerSEO if you want to share a report with a client or with your colleagues, which can be about rankings from Google. It can be competitors ranking, dashboard, backlinks, and so much more.

So that’s just a great feature, and it’s necessary if you’re running an agency.

So here we are back on the dashboard.

At the moment, SheerSEO does not have an integration with Analytics. They only support the Google search console, which is also the most important one. But I would like to see Google Analytics in the future.

SheerSEO Pricing

Now, looking at the pricing plan of SheerSEO, they have a lot of different plans, but to begin with, then they have a free plan. And this free plan you can test with ten different keywords that you can track and you do get some modules to work with. From there every time you upgrade one plan, you do get more keywords to track and you get more modules to work with as well. And both the second-highest and the highest plan have all of the modules. It is only the amount of keywords that differ between these two plans. So really go with the plan that fits the amount of keywords you want to track, or maybe the modules.

Alternatives to SheerSEO

The first alternative to SheerSEO is Ahrefs and Ahrefs is known for its backlink module. They have the most amount of backlinks in their database and overall Ahrefs compared to SheerSEO they have a lot of the same module, but data is what is really pulling Ahrefs apart.

Ahrefs have so much data. So when we need to optimise our content, research for new keywords, find content gaps and so much more, then Ahrefs just have so much more data to use and this makes it so much easier using Ahrefs to find those specific keywords we want to rank for and optimise our content. The other alternative is Semrush and I will say Semrush and Ahrefs are the two biggest platforms within SEO.

Ahrefs

I made a video of how you can use Ahrefs completely free.

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Here you just get huge amounts of data and you get a lot of different components and modules to work with. In the same way Semrush has so much data compared to SheerSEO.

You might see that they have a lot of the same modules, but again it is data that is really pulling Semrush apart, both in the keyword research part when we optimise our content, when we compare to our competitors, and so on.

So if SheerSEO can focus on getting in more data from multiple countries, then SheerSEO will really be an interesting competitor to both Ahrefs and to SEMrush.

The other alternative is Scalify and Scalify has the AI aspect of creating the ads so Scalify helps us basically generate the entire ad and we almost only have to press publish and then we move on from there.

I will also say both with AdYouNeed and with scaling, their analytics are more elaborate and overall they just add more functionality to the already great Facebook Business manager platform. The thing I’m missing a little bit with Adscook is that they add that extra help, that extra functionality that makes it easier for me to create the ads. Right now it is basically just the same as the business manager.

Future of SheerSEO

Now when we take a look at the roadmap of SheerSEO, they’re working on a lot of the right things.

The first thing I notice is that they are adding more data to the platform and this is in form of adding more countries to the keyword research.

So we can search for keywords in multiple countries and not only in English and the countries they support now. Furthermore, than they are working on improving the UI and I will say it’s not the worst UI that I’ve been working with, but I can see places where they can improve it, especially in the menu. I felt that I was clicking unnecessarily too many times and then just overall the interface could maybe need a little hand to get more modern.

Furthermore than they are working on App Store rankings so you can follow your app how it’s ranking on specific keywords. It will be really interesting to see how they will pull that off.

And the last element is at some point also adding more data. It will be possible for us to compare the organic traffic to our competitors and I hope they will develop it in a way so we can do it on specific keywords or specific URLs compared in this sense.

But again it will be interesting to see where they will pull the numbers from because that is what is really going to verify whether this feature or module will be what it is we’re looking for.

Pros & Cons of using SheerSEO

Now, after using SheerSEO, I really like that we have a lot of different modules. They have an extensive backlink explorer even though it doesn’t have so much data, and then their competitor analysis is really elaborate already, and it will be even more in the future.

The place I want them to improve is definitely the data point. They’re really missing data in their modules. And then the Google search console integration I feel that they can use it a lot more overall in the platforms to maybe pull in the keywords and the numbers from there.

Last thoughts about SheerSEO

SheerSEO is a platform that has developed a lot of great tools and features, and they’re doing well to combine all of these to keep a common thread.

The main thing they’re missing is the data sets. Adding these datasets would bring a lot more value to the different modules.

Therefore, I want to give SheerSEO three and a half stars. I’m really enjoying using the tools, but the missing data sets are what’s really pulling them down. That’s my review.

The reason why knowledge bases are so super important is that they can save you countless hours on your support if you have articles that are helping your users. In this video, I will compare Document360 with Helpjuice to determine the best knowledge base. And I will compare them on eight different points. So let’s get started.

Now we are ready to compare Helpjuice with Document360 on eight different points.

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1. API comparison
2. Knowledgebase assistant comparison
3. Integrations comparison
4. UI/UX comparison
5. Mobile app comparison
6. Analytics comparison
7. Homepage customisation comparison
8. Chrome extension comparison
9. Knowledge base design comparison
10. Pricing comparison
11. The verdict

API comparison

the first point I want to compare them on is the API. Both Helpjuice and Document360 have APIs. The first one here is Helpjuice API, which they have built, of course, within Helpjuice because it is a knowledge base system. And you can see out here that we can do everything with the API. This is great to see because, normally, the API is restricted to doing specific things. But Helpjuice has chosen just to open up for everything. So you can do everything via the API, which increases your productivity, and it’s super easy to get started. You just get your token from your settings, and then you can start using the API. So this is a plus point for Helpjuice.

Here we are for the Document360 API documentation. They are using something called Swagger for their API documentation, which works the same way.

You can see we have all the different endpoints here.

We can test them by authorising them via our API key, which we get in our settings. And then they have again opened up for everything. So you can do everything again through the API. You can create and manage categories, and you can manage articles, you can manage your team, the readers, projects and so on. So they have gone the same direction as Helpjuice and opened up completely. Swagger is an easy way to make API documentation, which is why they have probably done it like this. But I will say that Helpjuice API documentation was a little bit more UI friendly to look at.

Though I will say that here, we can easily test, and many people and developers using APIs know Swagger. So it will be easy for them just to jump right in and get started.

Knowledgebase assistant comparison

The next thing we will compare is the assistant for the Knowledge Base. This is the widget you see below that you can embed wherever you want this knowledge base. And then, people can open it up, and they can start searching for articles they can read. And I will say that Helpjuice’s Assistant down here is very well made. I can visit the knowledge base, I can contact them, or I can search for an article and see it within the assistant here. It’s a very well-made design, and it works very well. Document360 also has a knowledge base assistant. You can see a preview over here.

And it works the same way we can search for articles, we can see the knowledge base, and then we can get help on the page. So this is the preview. Again, the design is very simple, it’s minified, and it works well. And again, you can embed it wherever you want this assistant to show. You can also filter it to only show specific URLs. But everything is possible with this assistant. You just integrate it with Google Tag Manager, or you do it manually by inserting it into the code. So both of these systems have a knowledge base assistant that works well. You can search within, you can read the articles, and you can give feedback.

Integrations comparison

The third point I want to show and compare on is integrations. So here we are within Helpjuice, and they have quite some integrations already. They have the Slack, Salesforce and the list goes on down here, though I will say that at the moment, they only have Zendesk and Freshdesk. They don’t have to Intercom Crisp Chat or Help Scout. This means that when they can integrate to Intercom and these types of chats, people can search directly in Helpjuice via Intercom, or you can via Intercom Answer with articles from Helpjuice.

So this is adding up to being a more productive tool that we can use to save, again, countless hours. So right now, they have a limited amount of integration, but as you can see that these are frequently requested, and they’re working on a lot more. Within Document360. It works a little bit different. We are not showing any at the moment, but when you want to add a new integration, just click here.

And within Document360, we have a lot more integrations to work with. And they do have Intercom, chats, like live chat, Fresh chat, and so many more, even Crisp chat down here. So Document360 is very much integrated into multiple platforms compared to Helpjuice. So on this point, Document360 is ahead, and it’s very easy to set up. You just need to enter your Intercom ID and write a description here; you can set up some advanced rules if you want to. And then you have set up an integration to Intercom. It is so easy to get started.

UI/UX comparison

Now, the fourth point I want to compare on is the UI and the UX. And here I will say that Helpjuice is winning the UI and UX is easy to use, it’s more modern than Document360, and it’s just an easy way to show a lot of data without feeling overwhelmed. This one Helpjuice is ahead, and they are just doing a very well job maintaining this UI throughout all of their platform and the different modules. Within Document360, everything is a little bit more compact, and it looks a little bit less modern than Helpjuice.

And especially when we go to the documentation here, you can see again the menu is very packed together. They do very well in maintaining the same structure throughout the platform, but I would like to see more spacing and maybe some more modern lines than now. You can see where they’re doing a little bit with some spacing, and it adds a lot of value through the benefit of compact pressing everything together by showing more information to the user in less space. This can also be a productivity hack, though it can feel overwhelming to some people.

Mobile app comparison

The fifth point is mobile apps neither Helpjuice nor Document360 are right now at the moment having any mobile apps. I can’t see why they should have mobile apps, so I didn’t expect any of them to have them. It can be that you want to while you’re on the road, then you want to maybe change an article because you have an idea, or you want to create a draft while you have the idea, you want to maybe see some statistics or whatever it can be on the mobile. Though their entire platform, Document360 and Helpjuice our mobile-friendly, they can just open up a browser and use them.

But maybe a mobile app will be something they will develop in the future though I can’t see the big need for it now, so I didn’t expect any of them to have a mobile app.

Analytics comparison

Now the 6th point I want to compare on is analytics here, we are within Helpjuice in their analytics, and they keep the design overall. It’s easy to find the different statistics I want to see. I can see the support cases avoided, meaning I have sent an article instead of helping them on the chat or email.

We can see searches, articles, how it’s going, and they’re even going so far as to have this module over here which I like, and this is Answers to improve. So this means that if an article has received a lot of bad feedback, it will then appear here, which means that it maybe needs to be redone, and this is a great way to figure out maybe you have an article that’s outdated for your system or for a third party integration or it just needs to be rewritten in a more easy language. We can also see statistics on all of our different articles which are viewed most and so on. The same we can see for categories, and then we can see it for user groups. Within Document360, we have a little more data to work with. We can see geography and where people come from to read the knowledge base. We can see the performance, which is Total Likes, Total Dislikes, views and reads.

Then we can also see the average time spent on the different articles, and here on the graph, it will also show Likes, Dislikes and so on. Here we can see the leading authors, articles, categories and countries.

We can again see the search, and we can see statistics about the team accounts. We can see overall the feedback we have received. Is it good, is it bad? What do we need to improve?

We can see the link status. Do we link anywhere where it’s not working? Then we, of course, need to fix that because that’s a bad experience. Then we also have Page not Found and Ticket Deflector. So within Document360, you get more elaborate analytics to dive into and see where you can optimise. Though I will say that I still like the design more from Helpjuice, especially the graph overview.

Homepage customisation comparison

Now the 7th point I want to compare is how we can customise our home page, basically our knowledge base. And within Helpjuice, you have to be able to code to do this. It is simplified coding and HTML that you need to work with. And if you have been working with Shopify, this should be pretty straightforward.

But here, you need to sit and code the different elements you want to use. Though you can always start with a theme over here, they have a lot of great themes you can start with. But no matter your chosen theme, you must manually set and code the different elements. If you want to add more or remove stuff, you can always request expert customization where you can pay someone to do it. Here Document360 are way ahead of Helpjuice. This is a very simple way of creating and managing your knowledge base. We can easily sit and drag and drop our different components around. There is no need to be able to code. We can add a header link; we can add new elements here, which can be text columns, HTML, images, categories and even widgets as well.

So within Widgets, you can see we have the most viewed and liked articles. But here, it is so easy to work with. You drag and drop, requiring no coding knowledge at all. If you want to code, you can still add an HTML element here. And then, you can sit and code your HTML.

So you can still customise it to fit your needs, especially with HTML and CSS. But you don’t need to, you can still just use the drag and drop elements, and this works so well compared to Helpjuice.

Chrome extension comparison

Now, the last point I want to compare on is the Chrome extensions, and the Chrome extensions are working perfectly fine both for Document360 and for Helpjuice.

First off, here we are looking at Document360, and as you can see here, the way the Chrome extension work is that you always have a way to search within your articles. So if you’re using Document360 for internal use, then this is a perfect addition for your team because they can fast and easily find the article wherever they are on the web and just get an answer fast. Here we are on the Helpjuice Chrome extension, which works the same way. They have a Chrome extension up here where they can always search the articles internally with the team to see if they can get an answer to the question.

Or they maybe need to create the article because it doesn’t exist. The one thing that’s surprising me here is that Helpjuice is not 100% following the design guidelines in the Chrome extension. Here, the Document360 Chrome extension is designed better than Helpjuice, but the functionality is the same. We can get articles by searching on our question, or of course, we can then choose to create the different articles.

Knowledge base design comparison

So before we move on to comparing the pricing, I just want to show you the Help centre, the actual front page and how it looks. This is within Helpjuice, and as you saw, I just chose a theme and then went with it.

So here you can see that we have some different links, basically working as cards. We have some topics as well. And then we have popular articles and some more down here. If I click on an article, then, of course, we can read about the article, we can give feedback, we can also write feedback and can see related articles. This design within Helpjuice is working very well. It’s simple but kept modern. Now, this is within Document360, and within Document360, I’ve just chosen a theme and went with it. They also do have more modern themes.

If you’re looking for that. But here, you can see the same as we saw in the Drag and Drop builder. We have our category manager documentation. We can see some different categories here as well. We have some quick links where you can chat with us, call us or send us an email. And then even down here, we have a full-on menu where you can make it look like your website, so it looks like they’re sitting on your website. You can also, of course, change the header up here as well. You can work with the background here. And overall, this is working very well.

When we click on an article, we get this view here; we can see that out here, we can make a menu to categorise different articles so they can easily jump between them. And it’s also working very well.

We can give feedback here where we can say whether we found it helpful or not. And then otherwise, we can go to the next article. This design is also overall looking okay. The menu here I would like to be maybe a bit more modern, but overall it looks okay. And they do also support Dark Mode.

Pricing comparison

Now, the last thing I want to compare these two tools is pricing, and the first pricing we will look at is Helpjuice. Helpjuice does not have a free plan; they only have paid plans though they have a 14-day free trial.

Where you can test out, Helpjuice to see whether it’s for you or not. For the different plans here, there’s only one thing mainly changing, and that is the number of users you can have using Helpjuice. The features, the amazing customer care and the free expert customization, are there for all of them. It is only the amount of users that is different, and there are no free plans.

So if you’re looking to get all the features and you don’t have a lot of users, then Helpjuice might be the pick for you. Now, Document360 is a lot different. First off, then you can see they have a completely free plan with five accounts, a Knowledge Base version. And then you get some basic functionality to build up your knowledge base up to 50 articles. You can even work with custom branding, homepage builder, and more. Within Document360, when we scale up to the paid plans, they also offer a 14-day free trial. But you can see overall that the pricing here compared to Helpjuice is cheaper. Here with Helpjuice, it costs $120 for four-team accounts and here, we get five-team accounts for $99. Of course, this is paid yearly, but if you’re just looking to scale up and have a lot of team accounts, then Document360 might be a better choice for you.

Again, this business plan, where we get 20 team Accounts, is still cheaper than Helpjuice. So overall, though, I will say that these different features vary greatly.

If you’re looking to get a full feature set, then you need to upgrade up to the business plan here, where you can do almost everything. Of course, they also have the enterprise solution, but I will say that with the business solution here, then you are very well on the way, and you have full feature functionality almost.

You have 20 team accounts ready to go in, write the articles and create an outstanding knowledge base.

The verdict

These two tools are so close to each other in functionality that it’s almost impossible to pick between them. I will say a couple of things, though, because if we look at the pricing, then Document360 might seem like a better deal if we compare the users, but if you want all features, and full functionality, then Helpjuice is the best deal for you because it also comes at the lower price. For Helpjuice, I like the UI, though I will say that Document360 had better theme customization and more integrations overall. And this means that Document360, for me, is a slightly easier tool and more productive. Which means that it would be the choice for me. That’s it.

If you’ve seen my previous review of Pencil, then you know that I’m running Facebook ads to test different types of ads. And this is Adscook, an automation platform for your Facebook ads. And I’m excited to tell you that I will be giving away a lifetime licence to Adscook, and I will share the details later in the video. So let’s test it out.

So this is the AdsCook platform, and I am a big fan of the dashboard here. We get a lot of data and a lot of analytics, and it’s easy to understand. You can see here I’m running two campaigns that are, at the moment, paused. But here, we can see everything from demographics. We can see the top placements, and we can see top regions and just so much more great data.

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6. Last thoughts about Adscook

Features of Adscook

Here we have an overview of all of our campaigns together where we can see conversions, clicks, spending and impressions, and these you can change if you want to see Reach, for instance, or you want to see something else. This is possible.

Furthermore, then you can change the date interval up here from where you want to see data from. And then here we can see some rule activity, and I will show you the rules later. If you want to see more information about a specific campaign, then we can click on it, and then we get the same view as on the dashboard. But we get it up here where we see the clicks, impressions, reach, and the fourth one only for this specific campaign. So over here, it’s a little bit duplicate to see this one. But it is great to get in and narrow in to see what is working for this Facebook campaign.

You can see we need to do a lot more feed if it is converting. Because the first issue that I noticed with Adscook is that it’s not pulling in conversions. Within the Facebook Campaign Manager, I do have conversions, so this is the first thing that I noticed that it’s not pulling in. But let’s move on to the first module, where we can create a campaign on Facebook. What I often do is that I create a conversion campaign. This is for a website and the conversion event will be: sign up. This is a specific conversion event I have made. The conversion domain will be Planzer.io. I want to run campaign budget optimization daily. I want to use maybe 50 kroner. And then here we choose the schedule, which will just be continuously, and the bidding will be the lowest cost. Then we can move on to the next step, where we define the audience and everything I’m doing so far. We can do the same within the Facebook Business Manager. So here we choose the United States is pre-selected. We can A/B test the different languages, age, gender, and everything. We can also make a custom audience down here.

And here, you can see that I already have a custom audience. So if I choose this custom audience, this campaign will run as a retargeting campaign because it will only target those website visitors who did not sign up. So they’re basically giving an extra chance. But other than that, I will keep this as is. And then let’s move on to the next step. And this is where we start building the campaign.

So here we can choose to use a previous post for our campaign both on Facebook and Instagram. Or we can just start building it ourselves. For now, I will just choose the existing post, and now is where it adds extra value to this phase of creating ads. And it is automation. So here, we can add things like scale profitability, we can scale best performers, can pause when the return of ads spend is negative and so on. For now, let’s say scale best performers. And this is the first rule that we’re setting up. So you can see that this rule is called scale best performers. It is on the campaign level, and this one will increase the budget by 20% until it reaches a certain limit. Let’s say 2000. It will run it once a day. And here are the conditions. So if the return of ad spends in the last three days is within 30% or higher, and the purchase is higher than zero within the last three days, then the spend will be increased by 20% until it reaches 2000. So here we can set and, or we can set or. This means if I set it to or, then only one of these needs to be fulfilled.

Right now, both of them need to be fulfilled. We can also add tasks down here if you want to add new automation or new rule.

And here, we can see that the rule should check every 12 hours and we can now publish this campaign. The next module is the audience. And within the audience, we can do again the same as we can do within the Facebook business manager. We can choose a location, and languages, we can A/B test them, and we can add the custom audience as well. Choose where we want it to be placed. And this audience we can then use when it is we create our Facebook campaigns. You saw this just before. So I will move on to the next module. And the next module is where ads could add some value to make it easier to create Facebook campaigns. Because even though Facebook campaigns have this media library, when you start uploading content and uploading photos, images, videos and so forth, then this makes it a little bit easier because here we can save everything from text, headlines, we can save URLs, and we can save from Google Drive, photos, videos, carousels and so much more. So here we can make a carousel, we can add a photo, and then we can add a headline, link description, and website URL. We can choose whether it should be video, Slideshow or images.

We can optimise the cards, and we can do a lot of different things here to create these ad sets. And this makes it possible for us to just create ads faster, more optimised and just expect a better conversion rate. So now let’s move on to the last module, which is automation. And this is what Adscook is all about, automating your Facebook campaigns to just perform better. And it is the same as you saw before when we created this campaign. They have right now these seven different templates that we can use. Not that many, but it is enough to get started. We can also just start from scratch. But let’s try this one. It’s called Activate Late conversions. So this means right now I have two campaigns, and they’re both paused. So let’s save this one and use it on the retargeting campaign. I will choose the campaign level, and I’ll say the action starts. So this means that whenever the return of ad spends in the last three days is higher than two, then start the campaign. This can be that you have paused your campaign and then after some days, the conversions start to roll in.

Then of course you want to automatically start your campaign again so you can get some more conversions. This is what that is for. Again, we can set a schedule down here that it runs every 12 hours, and that is the automation module. You can also completely start from scratch, as you saw before up here, and then you just build it out, and there are many different things you can do. The conditions here, you have a lot of different options to choose between, it can also be that if you have too many clicks and too few conversions, then pause the campaign because then we need to work on something either on the website or with the campaign because there is a mismatch. So both for pausing, for starting, for increasing, decreasing budget and maybe also just setting a budget. This is possible with automation and it just makes it a lot easier to run these ads and on a daily basis optimise your ads. Because if you have to do this manually, it requires a lot of time. So with Adscook, you save a lot of time using these different automation rules.

And you can run Adscook for as many ads you want and as many campaigns as well. The last thing is our activity log which is just basically what we have been doing, and that is the Adscook platform.

Adscook Pricing

Now using Adscook, you can start out with a 30-day free trial. They don’t have a free plan, but you have a lot of days to test out Adscook to see what’s really worth it. And then when you reach the point where you want to upgrade, hopefully then your pricing depends on your ad spend. So the higher ad spends you have, the higher the pricing will be. And compared to the alternatives I will say it is a fair price.

Alternatives to Adscook

And the first alternative is AdYouNeed a software I have previously reviewed on the channel and AdYouNeed is a step ahead of Adscook, mainly because of their creation phase of the ads and then the fact that they just support more different types of channels.

AdYouNeed

AdYouNeed is a platform if you want to collect multiple ad platforms in one place.

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The other alternative is Scalify and Scalify has the AI aspect of creating the ads so Scalify helps us basically generate the entire ad and we almost only have to press publish and then we move on from there.

Scalify

Scalify is a beautifully designed platform to help you with AI make your ads perform.

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I will also say both with AdYouNeed and with scaling, their analytics are more elaborate and overall they just add more functionality to the already great Facebook Business manager platform. The thing I’m missing a little bit with Adscook is that they add that extra help, that extra functionality that makes it easier for me to create the ads. Right now it is basically just the same as the business manager.

Future of Adscook

Now let’s take a look at the future of Adscook the first thing that they are working on which is already almost part of the platform is Auto Post Boosting. And even though there was not a lot of information about it, I understand it is that every time we make a post this will automatically be boosted. Of course, we should be able to set up some rules because it’s not all posts that we want to be boosted, but it’s an interesting feature to again automate some of this Facebook. The next thing is that they are adding integrations and this is integrations for Zapier, Google Analytics 4, Shopify and so much more. So the integration to Shopify and the Ecommerce platforms make it possible for us to run Facebook retargeting campaigns with the catalogue from our webshop or e-commerce site.

But integrations to Google Analytics 4 and Zapier are different types of integration. Because Google Analytics 4 is to pull in data to show in the Adscook platform, whereas the safety integration is to push information away from Adscook. But all of these different types of integrations will be very useful for all of us. The last thing I noticed is Google Ads. They are working on an integration with Google Ads. They haven’t officially started working on the integration but it is on their roadmap to get started with I will say that I didn’t see any TikTok ads, LinkedIn ads or Twitter ads and the fact that they are not even part of the roadmap means that if you’re looking for these type of platforms it will take a while before they reach the Adscook platform because right now they are focused on Facebook Ads and really making a great product for that. Furthermore, after that they will go over to Google Ads and then hopefully at some point in the future, we will see some more platforms being part of Adscook.

Pros & Cons of using Adscook

Now after using Adscook for some time I really like their analytics, it’s easy to work with and it’s easy to understand.

The things I want them to improve are definitely the fact that they’re not pulling in conversions from the Facebook business manager and then they don’t support other platforms than Facebook ads and the creation of both ads and the audience doesn’t bring extra value when we compare it to the business manager.

Last thoughts about Adscook

Adscook is a simple platform if you’re looking to get started running Facebook ads and you might find the Facebook business manager just too complicated I want to give Adscook three and a half stars. It’s a simple platform but I’m really missing functionality and a more interesting roadmap. That’s my review. Thank you so much for watching. Let’s catch up on the next one.

I build content daily, from social media postings to blog posts and marketing campaigns. And all of this is time-consuming, and it requires creativity. This right here is Scalenut, an AI platform that claims to be able to help you build an SEO-optimised blog post in less than five minutes. So let’s put that to the test.

This is the Scalenut platform. And I know they’ve just released their new design, and I like it so far. But here on the dashboard, we have a simple overview of some tasks you can start with. You can use their new cruise module to create an SEO blog. You can create a content brief.

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Features of Scalenut

Soon you can also create topic clusters. We have a getting started guide down here. They also have a Chrome extension where you can generate content on the web. And then they have a Facebook community. And down here, you can earn some credits if you release a review.

But let’s move on to the exciting part, the AI copywriting. So within the AI copywriter here, we have a lot of different templates, and this is what is called short-form content. So that can be a social media post, a little copy for the website, a product description, and so on. So, before we test the most exciting part of Scalenut, the cruise module, I will create a social media post so you can get an idea of how Scalenut is working. So we have a split-screen here.

On the left side, we have where we can add the output from the AI template. And on the right is where we create the AI copywriting. So let me type in these different sections here. So for the brand, I have written that Planzer.io is a task management system that collects your tasks in one view and the description I have written with planzer.io then you have one view where you can see all the information about your tasks, emails and even calendar events.

So now, let’s try and press generate and see what we get in return. So we get nine different results everywhere, from a task description with a hashtag. Then we also get some with emojis.

And down here, I like this one. All the information you need is in one place at your fingertips. It’s not so describing, but I like that they’re using emojis. That is cool. Going further up, we can see that sometimes it’s a bit of a mix.

Here it’s saying sier communication just like email addresses. Planzer.io gives you an easy link to other services that allow for communication with different people. So this one is a miss. Let’s say we do not like this one. This one here is quite good.

We will say that we like it and add it to the editor because this is the one we will be using. So here it’s telling that Planzer.io is a task management system that collects all your tasks, email and calendar events in one place; at the click of a button, you can quickly work on each of them at the time that is most comfortable and convenient to you. So, therefore, it has several possible benefits, and here I can add my benefits, but I can also press write here.

When I press write, then hopefully, it should write these different benefits. So here it has written three different types of benefits, which are pretty good. They need some minor adjustments, but I would be able to use them. The only problem now is that my social media post is quite long, and it’s most likely too long for Twitter. So maybe it will be fine on Instagram and Facebook.

So if I somehow could make these sentences shorter, then that would be preferred. So if I highlight it here, I can, of course, rephrase it. And if I click on the AI tools, I can write about this content. I can find topics for this content and I create questions about this content, but let’s try and rephrase it and then see how this will output. So here you can see that we can basically compare the original text to the rephrased text to see whether we want to use the new one or not.

I would really like a feature where I can rephrase it and tell it to shorten it up, so it’s more precise. At the moment that is not possible, but this is the editor that will also be shown later when I show the cruise mode. So we have the instructor as well. That basically works in the same way as it’s writing more AI. Then we have our connectors here where we can basically add different types of words to connect the different sentences.

And in the end, we have our AI settings here where we can basically set the configuration with some context keyword and then we can show what should the output be and how should the creativity be for this content. So this is quite an elaborate editor and it has a lot more to it when it is that we start on the cruise mode in just a moment. But as you can see they have a lot of great templates also for Google, Ads, emails, videos, even to write manuscripts and so on. And they always save it. Here in the AI docs. So this was the document we were working on just before.

So here, it has shown that I can always choose a different type of AI template if I want to create more content for this specific document. But now, let’s go to the SEO hub within the SEO hub, right now, we only have SEO documents. In some time, we will also have topic clusters and even a topic gap analysis in some time. But here we have our AI-powered SEO assistant, and there are two ways of starting this.

Either we enter a keyword here and press create SEO document, or you can go to the dashboard and do it in cruise mode. So here we have the same we need to enter a keyword, choose the target country and then press start. So the keyword we are targeting for this test is the best WordPress Image Optimisation Plugins. And this module is what Scalenut claims: you can create a blog post in less than five minutes. So let’s try it out and press start here.

So, to begin with, we need to write about our topic. So let me fill this out. So right now, I have written that this post is talking about the five best image optimisation plugins for WordPress and how it optimise your website and which one is the best to use. Right now, we have to wait for Scalenut to gather SEO data because based on my keyword, you can see up here best the WordPress Image Optimisation plugins. It is now pulling data from Google, and everywhere it can find data about questions and so forth. So we have a full SEO report we can work from. So let’s see how this will go. It says that it typically takes around 90 seconds, but now it is ready. So let’s press next here.

So here we need to write our title. So we have our blog context now. Now we need to write our title, and you have three ways of doing this. The first one is that you manually sit and type your title. You can choose an AI-generated title, or you can see what the top-ranking titles are to get inspired by this.

But for now, I will choose the first one here, the AI-generated title that says the five best WordPress image optimisation plugins that help boost your website speed. That sounds very good. So now, let’s move on to the outline. So here, we need to build an outline of H2s and H3s if you want to. So over here, you can see that they have generated a lot of H2s.

That we can take in, and what I usually like to do about blog posts is an introduction talking about what this blog post is about and then just listing the different WordPress plugins. So let’s start with this one. How does an Image Optimisation plugin work? We can also add who should use image optimisation plugins.

But what I would like is actual examples of WordPress plugins. I would like that it said ShortPixel as number one and then WP Smush as number two and so on. We can try and generate some more ideas to see if it will show. But it is showing very generic H2s at the moment. So we have to add this manually.

For now, I’ll just add ShortPixel and WP Smush, and we can then open up the H2 that I created manually here to generate H3 ideas. So these H3 ideas are made based on ShortPixel. So let’s add the cost, how it works and what ShortPixel does. And let’s see what we can get within WP Smush and generate some H3s. And we see more or less the same.

What is it, benefits and examples of how to use it? At the bottom here, we have an FAQ and these FAQs are sometimes good, sometimes less good. The first one here is basically what the entire blog post needs to answer. But we can add this one. What are the benefits of using these plugins?

We can also use this one. How do these plugins work to increase speed? So now I think we have our outline. So now let’s go to the next step, which is writing the points. So now you can see that we basically have the first draft of our blog post here.

We have some different sentences which are attached to the different headings. So we have a header two, a header three, and it is adding text to it. Overall, when I skimmed through it, it looked good. We can always add writing points, we can regenerate writing points, but when we are satisfied, we just click next. And now, in less than five minutes, we have the first draft of our blog post.

Of course, you can use a lot more time on sitting and basic editing and optimising your blog post for the content grade, which is also part of Scalenut, which I will show you just in a moment. So now you can see we have our first draft. So I will now go to the next step, and now we can either download it or we can export it to the editor to further optimise it. At the moment, the content grade is C, and they’re suggesting an A. The word count is very low at the moment that needs to go a lot up.

So let’s export it to the editor. So now you can see that this editor looks a lot like the one from when it was we created AI template content. So here we have our title, we have a basic introduction, and then we have all of our different points down here. And it is as simple as if I want to add more text here, I basically put the mouse where I want the text and then I press to write, and it will then start writing about ShortPixel. So the thing it wrote here is not exactly what I’m looking for.

Now, it’s talking about Site speed insights, but you can always edit this and optimise it. And whenever you do changes and optimise it, the content grade down here would either go up or it will go down. Over to the right here, we have our entire SEO analysis, and in here, we have, of course, the outline we have built, but then we also have the number of images, the word count and the headings that they suggest that you do and this is based on the SERP. So they have analysed maybe the top ten or top 20 in the SERP to see what is usually done, and then they’re suggesting to do the same. We also have key terms here, and key terms are what they suggest that you use. It has an importance of how important it is that you use this keyword and then the number of times that they suggest and recommend that you use this specific keyword in your text.

I would like it if they had already taken that into account when they generated the text. But you can always basically click here and generate text for this specific term, and we will now see that the word is integrated into this part of the sentence. Right here, as you can see. So there are a lot of great tools that you can use to achieve this. But going down here, you can see all the different keywords that we need to focus on and the more keywords we add, the higher content grade we get.

But of course, it needs to make sense. We also have the competition here, which is just who is ranking right now on this specific keyword. We have their content grade, and then we can also expand to see the outline. And this is just to get inspired. Again, we can generate content based on the outline.

The last module is the questions. So these are questions pulled from Google, Quora and Reddit and AI-generated questions. What you need to do is that you need to answer all of these questions within your blog post. Of course, you cannot answer all of them specifically, but you need to try and cover as many as possible that make sense.

And if there’s a surplus of the different questions that you want to use, then make a new blog post and focus on them there. But it’s just a great way that if you are hitting writer’s block, then go in here, see the questions, and then you start writing. It’s a great way. For each blog post, you can also create a brief automatically. In brief, you just get an overview of what you need to focus on.

We have the metric trends here where we can see the content grade going up and down. We can see, of course, who are ranking down to the top 30. We can see our own outline at the moment and the general guidelines as I’ve already shown you. We can see the outline of the top 30 here to get inspired. We can see the questions and the citations as well, and then we can see the key terms, but this is more or less the same as we see on our right side over here as the toolbar.

One last thing you can do within their editor is AI templates, so you always have access to these templates if you want to generate content. Furthermore, then they also have SERP ideas here, so you can write in a specific search phrase and then get ideas from the SERP. Otherwise, the rest of the editor is the same as you saw before when it was, we created a social media posting, and I will say that overall, this editor is the most elaborate that I have seen in a very long time. The last thing before we move on to the pricing is the Talent Network because within Scalenut, if you don’t want to sit and generate this yourself, then you can go to the Talent network and then you can pay someone to use Scalenut to generate a blog or an article for you can be a white paper or something third, that is also a possibility using Scalenut.

Scalenut Pricing

Now let’s discuss pricing. When it is, you start testing out Scalenut, then start with the free plan. Here you get 2000 words and some other limits you need to hold yourself within. Though I will say that when you have tested out Scalenut, hopefully, you will upgrade to one of the paid plans if you like the product. Of course.

Personally, as you probably already know now, I’m really a big fan of Scalenut the fact that we can generate so much content in so little amount of time, and you get so many different variants. Though I will say that upgrading to the individual plan, then you should maybe look at the alternative Jasper. Within Jasper, you get a higher limit for your words, and you get some more functionality. If we take a step further and look at the growth plan for Scalenut, this is where all the value lies because here, you get unlimited words that you can generate. You get almost all functionality except for team members. You need to go for the last plan if you want to have multiple users.

But the growth plan is really where you get a tonne of value for the money.

Alternatives to Scalenut

But now, let’s move on to the alternatives. And the first one, as already mentioned, is Jasper. And Jasper is still the first choice within the AI copywriting industry because they have acquired so many companies. They have so much knowledge inside their company, and they generate outstanding text, especially for their boss mode.

Rytr

Rytr is a more simplified AI text generation platform with excellent output.

watch review of rytr

The other alternative is Rytr and Rytr I have previously reviewed the Channel, and Rytr they are known for just delivering great content. Their output is outstanding though I will say that the platform overall could need maybe a UX update or just some more functionality. But if you focus on the output, then Rytr is a great choice.

Future of Scalenut

Now when we take a look at the roadmap of Scalenut, it is packed with features, and they are still being upvoted and downvoted the different features, but the features that they’re focused on now is a Plagiarism checker so we can check that all of our content is unique and we can easily copy-paste it to our website. Furthermore, then they are working on a topic cluster. This basically means that you put in a topic and then Scalenut will scrape and show you all of the topics around this specific topic. This means that for you to create authority within this specific topic, you might need to take a look at all of the topics close to this. So you basically have a cluster of topics that you need to try and cover.

This is really a valuable module, and it also shows a little bit that Scalenut is focused on the SEO aspect of generating content. Furthermore, then they’re working on a topic gap analysis. This means that Scalenut can find gaps in content that you can write and easily rank on. The technology behind it and how they will do it will be very interesting to dive into when they release it, but for now, it is just so intriguing, and I’m interested and curious to see how they will pull this off so we can try and test it off because it’s an interesting module. Furthermore that they’re working on a feature where you can optimise the documents for multiple keywords or multiple search phrases, and I don’t know how relevant it is when you look at SEO from an expert aspect, but for some, it might make sense and especially when we look into the topic clusters there will be a lot of different topics that you can basically combine into one post and then make that post focusing on multiple topics.

But as you can also see on the roadmap, there are so many features as I’m scrolling down here, and all of these features are not necessarily being developed but are requested by users. So right now, it’s up to all of us to vote up and down on the different features to see what we want to see developed.

Pros & Cons of using Scalenut

Now after using Scalenut, I am a big fan of the new module Cruise Mode. It’s just an easy way to create blog posts, and then the quality of the output is high when we compare it to the other types of AI copywriting tools. And the last thing I want to mention is their SEO analysis. It just gives you a thorough input on how you can optimise your piece of content for the specific search phrase. There is one thing, though, I want them to improve, and that is the length of the content in the different sections.

Because as you saw when we generated this blog post, the length of the different sections was just not long enough. I would like it to be longer.

Last thoughts about Scalenut

That was Scalenut, and wow, I’m impressed with such a solid AI tool with a tonne of functionality and a lot more to come. I want to give Scalenut four and a half stars. I’m impressed, but I want to see longer outputs in the different sections when it is we create the blog. That’s my review.

I’ve been looking for software that can help me automate my email marketing in every aspect. This is Zagomail, an email marketing software allowing you to build landing pages, campaigns, automation and much more.

So let’s check it out. So this is the Zagomail platform and we start here on the dashboard where you get a quick overview and an easy welcome message here. But otherwise, you have an overview of your growth, engagement and much more. And Zagomail is mainly focused on e-commerce sites. This doesn’t mean you can’t use it if you don’t have an e-commerce site, but they have a lot of benefits for e-commerce sites and e-commerce stores. So you can see here that it is telling me to integrate a Shopify store or Big Commerce Store just to begin with. I want to show you the integration because here, you can see that they integrate with Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, OptimisePress, and so much more. So if you’re using any of these types of plugins or CMS then you’re good to go with Zagomail. Otherwise, they always have the Zapier integration that you can use.

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But let’s jump right into campaigns.

Within campaigns, we have a regular campaign, sequenced and A/B split testing. So here you can see that we can create a regular campaign, A/B split campaign and sequence. Let’s, for now, just create a regular campaign. Let’s give it the name YouTube video and then create the list. All subscribers, let’s save and continue. So here we have my information. Let’s call the subject again. Youtube video, we will not add a pre-header and just save and continue. So here we are getting blocked because we’re using a Gmail, and we have to use another type of email. So let’s get back to this a little bit later. They also have a simple list overview where you can import your contacts. You can duplicate them and update them. When you import, it has to be CSV or text format would be nice to be able to import from MailChimp, active campaign or a different type of programme. We can also visit the list here, where we can just again see the subscribers, segments and our custom fields. So within segments, we can create a segment which is based on a set of parameters or requirements set by you.

So you can see here that we can say that the email needs to be this value or the first name needs to be this value. We can also use campaign action to say that they need to have opened this specific campaign. We can also add e-commerce actions that they need to have orders placed. So let’s say that you want to send an email out to everyone who has placed an order to say thank you for your order. We now have these new types of sales, for instance. That is how you do that. You create a segment here, and then you go to the campaigns and send the email or the campaigns to that specific segment. It works very well, and I will also show how you can do this with automation. Within the list, we can duplicate it, update it and when we update it then we set some different information about this specific campaign. But let’s move on to automation because within automation is where everything happens. So let’s create a new automation. When it is, you set up automation. You can choose to either build from a template or you can just start from scratch.

I want to choose this template that is just a welcome template. So up here, I have to change this form to a form that they have signed up for. What I really would like to be able to do here is to choose a list.

So every time they were added to a specific list then, this automation started, and that is not possible. You have to use either Tags or forms. So before we move on with this welcome automation, let’s go to the form section. Here we can create a simple form. We can choose whether it should be inline, a model, a floating box or a floating bar. I’ll just choose inline, and here, you can see that we have a lot of different types of templates we can use. Not super modern, but we can always make them more modern ourselves. So here we have our form, and you can click on the different elements here to edit them. And out here we have the different settings but you also have a little toolbar up here you can use. So for now I’ll just keep it as is and I’ll save the form so we can move on with the automation. Just before we move on to the automation, you can see that you here can send them to a specific page, URL you can make them stay what list should they be added to the display options here, so if it was modal, you could choose that every time they try to exit the page.

Then we show this model. It can be that they need to sign up for your newsletter, or they just need to sign up to stay tuned for all of your news. We can also set the timing and a small percentage so when they have scrolled, maybe 50% of the page, you show the modal. Here’s how you embed it. Very simple. You can choose JavaScript and HTML or just share the URL to the form. We can see the reports of the form right now, no one and that’s it. Now let’s move back to the automation here. Go to the form, update it and then choose the newest form we have just created. So now, every time they sign up via this form, it will wait 1 hour, and then we will send a campaign here we can choose to send out a sequence, or we can just choose to send out a normal campaign. As I haven’t set up a new sequence yet, I cannot choose any. You can easily create one here. Let’s call this one sequence, save and continue. Again, we will be stopped here by Gmail, but that is how you do that.

Now an interesting element is the landing page module. The Landing page module is a duplicate of the campaign module, so you can’t be very elaborate in how you design your landing pages. But just keep in mind that whatever you see here is also what is possible within the campaigns. So now let’s start, and let’s just call this Planzer.io. Let’s choose all Subscribers, Save and Continue. Now, as you saw before with the forms, we also have landing page templates and here it is mixed between some old templates and some newer ones. I like this one over here. I can always preview it to see how it looks, and how it works, and then we can choose to go with this one. So now we have chosen a template and we will now go to the drag and drop editor and this will be the exact same thing you see within the campaigns. So you can always see how it looks on mobile, how it looks on desktop, or you can preview it. Otherwise, then it’s straightforward. You can see that we can edit the text here. Let’s call this one YouTube video.

Instead, we can go up here and say Zagomail review. We can change the images, we can change the buttons where they link, and we can insert videos. And if I just close this down for a moment, you can see the different modules you can work with. So we can insert images, menus, text, and pure HTML.

So this is how you can customise it, but you can’t customise it much by not using the HTML component. Right here, we can insert the form that we just built. Let’s try and do that by clicking on it here, and then we can build a form. So it is not showing the form that I already built. This is a completely new form, so I should be able to add this form to a list. But it seems that I cannot add this to a list. So this must be just a pure lead sign-up that will be saved in a list somewhere. But for this form, we can add more options here and then you can customise it, though, only with borders.

Padding, background colour, text, colour and so on. But that is also about what you need to design this form. I feel like I’m missing a way to insert the form we have already built, which is then linked up to the list as well. But maybe they will add that later on. We can also add a menu here, and this menu can then have items. So you can build a website using Zagomail. I would not recommend it, but you can if you want to. So you have multiple landing pages, and then use a menu to link in between these landing pages. You can also use the menu to link to external links like a roadmap if you have a new site somewhere or just a help desk for instance. That is also possible by adding simple menu items here, and then we add the URL. Again, we can style more or less how it looks like we are limited. And what I’m missing here is just custom pure CSS.

Just a field where I can just write my own CSS and override it because then I can really customise the look to make it look and match my own design and website. But now, when we are satisfied, we can save this landing page, and then we can exit. So now we have the content ready. Now we can then either put it up on a URL, and it can be a subdomain can also be a primary domain. You can see you just need to add this record here.

We can set it up as a redirect URL, and add Google Analytics. What I’m interested in knowing here is whether we can add Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel because it doesn’t seem that we can.

Looks like we can only add one of them. And I would like to be able to add Google Analytics 4, as Google Analytics Universal is being outfaced but now let’s just keep this as is and publish the landing page. So now we have the landing page ready. We can then go and view it. And as you can see here we have our menu, we have the form that we entered here and the video and then basically just how the landing page was.

That is how you build landing pages, but that is also how you build campaigns. You can set up sequences of campaigns, and the sequence of campaigns is basically where we send one email, wait three days, send another email, wait two days, send a third email and so forth. This you can make with email sequences, but you can also just build automation that does this for you.

Furthermore, as you saw then, we can A/B test. So we can send different types of emails to the different types of target groups or the audiences or the segments that you have set up. So there are a lot of possibilities and the last thing I just want to show you is automation because as mentioned earlier, Zagomail is really perfect for e-commerce sites. So out here, what I noticed and like is the different types of templates. So they have, of course, post-purchase, thanked you for the first-time customers and so on. But they also have an abandoned cart so this is basically a way for you to send an email to everyone who abandon their cart. Of course, you need to be able to have their email to send this, but you can always figure out a way to attach that email.

You can ask for it earlier in your flow and then integrate it with Zagomail. But before we can do this, then, we are sent to the integrations where we need to connect our store. And as I showed you before, they have a lot of integrations. And as I will discuss just at the moment, they’re adding even more integrations.

Zagomail Pricing

Now using Zagomail, you can’t use it completely free. However, they have a 14-day free trial where you can completely test out. Zagomail to see whether it’s for you or not.

And then when you have hopefully decided that Zagomail is for you, it is that you can sign up for the paid plan and when we compare the paid plan to the alternatives.

It is quite cheap within Zagomail then you pay for the number of contacts you have, and it is the same we see with the alternatives in the industry.

Alternatives to Zagomail

And talking about alternatives, the first alternative is Encharge. A product I have previously reviewed on this channel. Encharge can do a lot of the same things as ZagoMail. However, you cannot build landing pages within Encharge, though their automation is much more elaborated.

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Encharge is the perfect platform if you’re looking for advanced email automation.

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This means that within automation using Encharge you can use integrations, and a lot of actions from these integrations.

This is not currently possible within Zagomail. You can use the e-commerce functionality because Zagomail is very much pointed towards e-commerce sites.

The other alternative is Active Campaign. And Active Campaign is just the first choice within this industry of email marketing software. Because Active Campaign not only have they been in the industry for so long, they have a huge platform where you can build elaborated automation. You can build campaigns, of course, landing pages and overall Active Campaign just integrate with everything that you can imagine. So Active Campaign is the enterprise solution within this industry. But I will say that Zagomail has positively surprised me with great functionality. So I think if Zagomail continues to improve in this direction, then we will see some interesting integrations and an interesting product as well.

Future of Zagomail

now to the future of Zagomail. The first thing they’re working on is new form templates and often with these forms, we need them to match our design. So the templates are not necessary for us to just plug and play, but it is a good way for us to have a start, so we don’t need to design these forms from scratch. So it will be interesting to see what type of templates they will come up with.

The next thing that I noticed is lead scoring and lead scoring is a module not necessarily meant for e-commerce websites. This is great for websites that don’t do the same thing as e-commerce sites, but they are focused on generating leads, and lead scoring works in a way that we can say every time a contact has a lead score of 50 or above, then we need to contact them and the way they get to 50 or above is that we set up rules. So one rule can be that if this contact visits the pricing page, we assign 25 points.

If they also visit the contact page, then we add another 25 points. Now they have 50 points, and we will now contact them.

Of course, there needs to be a point where they give us the contact details so we can contact them. But this you can easily do with popups, email forms here and there, newsletter sign-ups and so forth.

This is a great module for websites that are not necessarily e-commerce sites. Furthermore, they are adding more integrations to Pabbly and Prestashop because it is still focused on e-commerce sites. So Prestashop is missing in the integration, and they will be adding that, and the Pabbly is the same as Zapier so we will have even more options to integrate Zagomail.

Furthermore, then they are adding team collaboration, and I couldn’t find a lot of information about what this exactly is, but I understand that it is a sense that you can, of course, invite your team members, but you can also work simultaneously on campaigns, lists and so forth. So I’m looking forward to seeing how they will develop this feature for us to test and use it.

And the roadmap is packed with features. They are working on a lot of great modules. I hope they will take the landing page module to the next step, so we get a more elaborate landing page builder that will make it possible just to build more great landing pages.

Pros & Cons of using Zagomail

Now, after using Zagomail for some time, I like the UX. It’s easy to use, and it’s pleasant for the eyes. Then they have a lot of elaborate automation and great integrations to support this. Though I will say that many of their landing page templates are quite outdated, their landing page builder could use some extra functionality to take it to the next step.

Last thoughts about Zagomail

I have been impressed by Zagomail. If you’re running an e-commerce site, then Zagomail is a must for you. It can only increase your conversion rate. I want to give Zagomail four stars. It’s a unique product. The only place that falls short is their landing page builder and missing integrations in the automation. That’s my review.

Building websites in 2022 has become so much easier as we can easily drag and drop our entire e-commerce site or website together. This right here is Vanjaro who claims to be able to build e-commerce sites and websites so you can start selling your products in minutes. So let’s test that use case out.

So this is the Vanjaro platform. First off it is very simple. We have an overview of our websites or e-commerce sites. Then you can create a new one or you can order a website. So if you don’t want to sit and drag and drop yourself you can easily get Vanjaro to set up your website for you. And down here you can see that either you want the basic plan at $200 or the pro plan at $500. It depends on what it is you need.

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6. Last thoughts about Vanjaro

Features of Vanjaro

But let’s go back to the dashboard here. So I have set up the first website here. So let’s go and edit this one so I can show you how it is working with Venjaro. This website when it was I set it up, I chose a template and Vanjaro then took care of the rest. So now I have a website set up and this includes a blog and it includes a store. Before we go to the store I just want to show you some core functionality. So here on the website, you’re either in view mode or in edit mode. Before we were in view mode, now we are back in edit mode. So within edit mode, if you know Elementor, you will quickly see out here that this design is looking very similar to Elementor. We have the same functionality where down here we can see how it scales on the different devices. We can preview it, we can see some history, and we can see the different layers over here in the Navigator. And then here we have our settings for this specific page. So the settings for a page are the name if we want to edit the content and personalisation. We have some SEO we can work with which is basically just a title and meta description.

Here we can enable scheduling if we want this specific page only to be available within a certain amount of time. And then here we can see some deleted apps. But let’s go back and try and edit some different elements. So first off I will close down the settings here. I will change the view to be desktop view again and then let’s add our layer, Navigator. It makes it a little bit easier for me at least. So it is as easy as you can see here where we can easily click I cannot write in here. I have to go to the options over here to start writing but it is as easy as mentioned. You can easily drag and drop around the different elements here. If we want to edit it then we double click and then we can start typing in here. There’s no way you can type out here. It only works within the editor in the design right here. I’ll just move this back and we can move this one up here again. It is quite easy to work with. If we want to add new modules, we can up here add the different modules.

So let’s say we want to add a form builder. Let’s move this one down here to the bottom of the first section. Now we have our form builder here. It can get a little bit tricky because out here we have no options to edit our form builder. We need to move the Navigator a little bit away here and then we need to click on the burger menu here. Under the burger menu, we have our form builder. I’ll close down the Navigator. So here, we can edit our forms. So over here you can see that you can add a checkbox, you can add HTML, a text area, and a text box. Of course, you can write the different elements. We can change this one from phone to something else. I can just write phone if I want to, sit and test it out. You can see up here we can set whether it should be required, whether it should be a sub-label if you want to watermark it and so forth. So you have quite a lot of different elements to work with. We can also enter it here if we want to take credit card information.

A little bit interesting to know what this is integrated up against because I haven’t set up any integrations at all. The only integrations which I will show you at the moment are Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. But here you can see we can also add some metrics, some scaled rating, page breaks and so forth. So you have a lot of options and it is quite an elaborate form builder to sit and work with. So whenever we think that this is good, we can close it down again. So now we have the different changes here for the form builder. We can always publish down here. When it is we’re publishing it, optimises the images and then it publishes the site. That is how easy it is to sit and work with. You can easily drag and drop elements in and then you can change it to be whatever you want it to be. Right here, this is just an icon that I dragged in and then I can change the icon to be whatever I want the icon to be. We can also add sections if you want to have multiple columns, of course, you can work with that here and so forth.

There are a lot of options, but now let’s go to the overall options because if you click on the burger menu again up here, then we can go to Tools and we have site logs and site logs is basically just what you have done to the website. It’s just a log over that. Going back I want to show you some integrations. So if we go to settings here then we have here integrations and connectors. There are no integrations to third-party systems except for Google. So you can set up an IMAP here where you set up. So you’re able to send out emails from your website. You can set up Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager but that’s it. We can’t even add our custom JavaScript. Then we have to go back to the columns here. We need to add custom HTML, we need to drag this over and then we need to add our script but then it’s not necessarily added in the head section. So that is something I really hope that they will take a look at. Here if I go back to email marketing, we can set up some lists, we can add subscribers, we can change the settings and so forth.

This is a very simple email marketing module and I will not recommend you necessarily use this compared to using MailChimp or Active Campaign or similar because you get very limited functionality. Within the site here you can see that we also have form submissions. So all the forms we have on our website, they will be laying in here with the information filled out can be a little bit confusing sometimes, but that’s the way they have done it. We also have the blog post here where we can sit and create blog posts. From our blog. You can see right now there is just one simple blog post. So when you start to dive into Vanjaro you can see that there is a lot of functionality. We also have our pages here. I would just really like it if they separated the editor from all the overall functionality. So the way that I have my form submissions, the way that I manage the users, the way that I manage the pages, the menu and so forth, take that away from the editor. It makes it so much cleaner and easier to use. But just remind yourself that everything is within the burger menu here and then under site.

But now let’s move on to the store. What I usually do is close this one down and then I click on the store. What we need to do now is we need to set up the store. When we set up the store we need to fill out names, addresses and so forth. So the first thing I noticed is the currency here. I cannot choose a Danish Kroner. I can only choose between these different currencies here. Would be nice to be able to add, of course, all the different currencies but I’ve now filled them out. So let’s go to the next step which is payment. Within payment here you can see that we have some different options. We can set up Stripe, we can set up Braintree and we can set up PayPal and so forth. For now, we’ll just use PayPal and then we need to set up the actual PayPal set-up. So we have a client ID and we have our client secret. For now, I’ll just keep this as is and will not set anything up. But here you can see the different options. It is quite limited, especially when you do it in countries like Denmark.

We have a lot of different types of payment methods, but of course, you can set it up here and fast get started to take payments. Here we choose whether we ship physical goods or not and then we choose whether we use FedEx, Fixed, Ups or USPS. For now, I’ll just say no, this is only digital products and then we need to set the tax, will I tax the product? I will not. So let’s finish the setup and see how this will go. So now our store is set up and now we need to figure out how can we add products. So under here on catalogue we have customers, we have sales. Our store where we can change the settings. We just set up now and then we have reported. But under catalogue is where we have all of our products. So here we can create a new product manually or you can import your products. For now, let’s just create it manually. Here we write the name, summary, and description, we upload pictures, we set the pricing, we set the category and it will then be shown in the webshop itself or in the e-commerce site. So let’s say this is our first product.

We set some summary, just writing some nonsense here, description and let’s see if we can create it just with this or if it requires more. It did not require more. So now we have a product that we have created. This is our first product. But as you can see they also have some demo products here that we can use. So now let’s go and view the store. So this is the store. Very simple. We have an overview of how our products are looking. We can add them to the cart and so forth. This is in view mode. I can then change to edit mode over here and then hopefully we can sit and change the design a bit. So here we have an app called Online Store. Again, I click here and I click Manage. When I do that then I’m sent to the manage page where we were just before where I can add products, see reviews, and categories, I can see the customers and so forth. I would like to be able to change the design of this app. Let’s try and go to the settings part here. The setting is as we saw before. We can schedule, we can see permissions and we can go to the advanced part.

But there’s no way right now for me to edit this actual part. Up here again, we have a widget, but again I cannot change this widget. I can maybe change the styling a little bit about the hover state, the state itself. I can add a class, but that’s it. It’s very simple. I would really like an easier way for me to change these different widgets. Right now I can’t seem to find a way how I can change this. Of course, I can change it manually by writing custom CSS, but that’s not the way, I would like to be able to change it by dragging and dropping. Maybe I’m missing something. Please let me know in the comment section down below if you have other thoughts on this. But over here, the last thing I just want to show you is the library. Because within the library we can build whole pages or blocks. So let’s say you want a block just to show some pricing tables. Then here you can easily take this one. We can import it to our design and then we can start working with it. So let’s see if it was imported correctly.

It seems it is not imported. So for now I’ll just show you that we can see what it looks like here. This is just an image of how it’s looking, but right now I can’t seem to import it. Maybe it’s because I’m on the shop page. It would be nice if we could still import even though we are on the shop page because I guess that we can still add the different modules up here. So if I take the block here and I drag in the section, we can easily do that. So something is definitely wrong with the import function there. But it was just to show you that it is possible for you to import the different elements. I’m really hoping that we can change the design of this online store here in the near future. Or maybe I have missed something up here we have again a store widgets. This entire store is built up of widgets and I’m really missing a way to change all of these widgets.

Vanjaro Pricing

Now getting started with Vanjaro is quite cheap. First off, then they have a 14-day free trial where you can test out all of the features within Vanjaro.

And then hopefully after those 14 days, you need to decide between what paid plan you want to go with and they have four paid plans. The first one is very simple. It costs $11 and I would say it’s perfect if you just have a personal website, a small blog or something similar. If you want to host an e-commerce website within Vanjaro, then you need to go for the next plan which costs $22. It is still quite cheap because you get an entire e-commerce site you can set up. However, if you want the full feature set and be able to build an advanced webshop, then you need to go for the third plan which comes in at $49 per month. It is still an okay price because you really get a lot of features and they have of course the fourth plan as mentioned, but that comes in at $99 and the only difference between the $49 and the $99 is the limits. So this means the number of visitors that come to your website, and the features are exactly the same.

Alternatives to Vanjaro

Now let’s discuss the alternatives. The first alternative is Shopify. Shopify is not exactly the same as Vanjaro.

You can’t especially sit and drag and drop in the same sense, but you can easily set up a webshop with Shopify and get started so easily. And Shopify is a huge company so, of course, they have a lot more features than Vanjaro, they have a lot of integrations and so forth because integration is really missing within Vanjaro. The other alternative is Elementor and as I mentioned in the Walkthrough, Elementor is very similar to Vanjaro, even though Elementor is depending on a WordPress website. Elementor is also now starting to offer hosting for you to use, basically only using Elementor and the design is very similar to Vanjaro. So if you’ve previously used Elementor you can also easily use Vanjaro. And again, Elementor is not as big as Shopify, but it runs smoothly. They have a lot of integrations that are easy to use and when it is we’re working with forms, webshop orders and so forth, we really need integrations. It just makes our lives so much easier.

Future of Vanjaro

Now let’s take a look at the future of Vanjaro. They have a long roadmap with some quite big elements. First off, then they are working on forums so you can build a website which is basically functioning as a forum.

Furthermore, then they are adding a knowledge base and help desk. So again you can build these things into your website so you can easily start using your website, drag and drop the different elements and maintain it as is. The last thing that I noticed which is quite exciting, is a popup builder and this is something that works so well within Elementor. So I hope again they will continue to be inspired by Elementor and build a popup builder that works in just the same way. One thing I was really surprised not to see on the road map is integrations. This is really something that Vanjaro is in the need of. Without integrations, we have to manually move our data from Vanjaro into a third party programme and especially when we collect email addresses. This is super frustrating. Of course, there are workarounds, but without integrations, it just makes it so much more difficult. Let’s cross our fingers and hope that they will add this to the roadmap in the near future.

Pros & Cons of using Vanjaro

Now, after using Vanjaro, I really like that I can set up an entire e-commerce site in minutes and then the fact that it’s so easy to use though, I really want them to implement integrations to make it easier for us and the design could really use an overhaul.

Last thoughts about Vanjaro

If you’ve ever built an e-commerce site or a website using Elementor then you will find Vanjaro super easy to use as it’s inspired by Elementor. I want to give Vanjaro three and a half stars they’ve built a lot of great core functionality but the fact that we’re missing integration is just a huge disadvantage. That’s my review.

I’ve been running Facebook ads recently, and I found out that graphic illustrations play a huge role in your ads to succeed. This right here is Pencil which claims to be able to generate winning ads for your brand based on AI. So let’s check it out.

This is the Pencil platform, and it is quite simple, but let me take you through it. First off then we have this type of dashboard and on the dashboard, you get a quick overview of how it’s going with your ads. So you can see up here where we have impressions of all of my ads. We have the number of clicks, and our click-through rate, and then you can see the different trends, targets and how overall it’s just going with your ads. Down here you can see all the winning ads and the losing ads and at the moment I only have one losing ad, and it is not live at the moment.

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I have another ad which will, hopefully, win, but it is not showing here. You can see up in the corner I am syncing the data at the moment. So let’s see if it will come at some point down here you can see that even though this ad is losing, the click-through rate is up by 88% and my spend is also improved a lot. So maybe this will convert to a winning ad if I start again at some point. For live ads, you can easily replace them here.

Otherwise, we can view this ad on Facebook. Now let’s go to my favourite module, the Insight module. Within the Insight module, we can see what topics we’re winning on and here you can see the impressions. We can see the target and the click-through rate as well. So here we have four different topics for a day, time, planning and week and all of these are winning topics.

One thing that’s interesting here is that these four winning topics come from an ad that is losing. So here we have something that contradicts each other, and it’s a little interesting to see how that will rule out later on. We can see I synced, and it is still only showing one ad. Going back to the Insight module. Down here we don’t have any losing topics.

Over here we can see what the ad is that is related to these topics, and it is the ad that is losing so to speak. We have some different filtering methods up here. We can change the metric if we want to. Maybe take a look at ROAS or CPC or something else. We can easily change that. To see how it is going.

I would like to be able to add multiple of these different metrics, but it will be as is and here we can see if we want to target something specific. Right now, all of these topics are at 9.42 in the CPC. Here we can change from topics to captions, for instance. So here we can see that this caption here is actually what is winning at the moment. We have no losing captions, and we can do the same as well with creatives. Here we have one winning creative from the ad that is still losing.

So I’m a little confused by that, to be honest. We also over here have the different settings we can change from all to if you want to focus on conversion or if you want to focus on acquisition, retargeting or retention, let’s change to conversion. I would like you to be able to see the conversations I have had on this specific ad because it is something I’ve set up. But at the moment, it only shows the CPC and the different elements here. But now let’s move on to what Pencil is all about.

Ideas. So with Pencil, if we just go down to the brand kit here, you set up your entire brand. So that means that you describe your brand here. You enter your logos, you enter your colours, your fonts. Let me just change this one to this font here.

You choose your music, even the backgrounds you like and your button style. So now I like how it is. And let’s go back to the ideas. Within ideas. All of this is generated based on two things.

Of course, it is all on AI, but it’s based on your brand kit and your asset library. And just to show you fast, the asset library is just pictures or videos that you upload that will be used in the ideas here. But let’s take a look at the first one here. We can either export it or upload it to Facebook manually. We can edit it, or we can change the format.

So, right now the format is just one to one. We can change it to four to five, we can change it to nine to 16 and so forth. For now, just keep it as is. But let’s edit this one because you can easily edit your video material and your images as well. So here you can see that there is only one scene.

We have a text we can change. I want to change this to a different font. We can change the line height, and the line width, we can change the colours of the text and the highlight, we can change the image, can move it around if we want to. We can again change the other text which is on the button. And you can see that this button right now is saying use the best to-do list online.

In my brand preset, I entered that I wanted to start the trial. So let me just enter that as well. We have the logo down here. That’s fine.

And the background as well. You can also add more text, you can add stickers if you want to, then you just have to upload the sticker, and then you can preview it. And when we preview it, because it’s an image, you will just see the same thing. So there it is. Let’s go back and try and edit a video.

So here we have a video called Get Better Organised. You can export it. You can change the format or we can edit it. Now, within editing, you can see here that we have the same options. We have the text, we have the packshot, and we have the background.

So we can change the same thing. We can also change the ordering of the scenes, we can duplicate them if we want to tweak them a little, and we can just delete them. If you want to change a scene, you have to use the buttons here, you cannot just scroll and here you set how long this specific scene should last. Now, let me just preview it here, so you can see what this video looks like because there is an animation between these two scenes. And what I would like to be able to do is to change the animation both here, as you can see in the images and the transition animation.

It’s a small thing, but it means something. I would also like to be able to change the button a little more. You can see below here, we can only control the rounding and the stroke width. We can’t work with padding or margin. So here I will have to set this one very high or very low if I want the stroke width to be very big or very small, but I can’t work with padding or spacing and that’s a bit of a let-down because that means a lot for the button style.

I would also like to be able to maybe integrate with Unsplash or a different type of stock photo where you can easily pull in photos. So you can use these in your ads. Right now, if I want to use Unsplash, I have to go to Unsplash and download the image or the video I want to use and then upload it into Pencil. Up here we can also change the music where we can change the music that is playing. You can see we have some different ones to choose between here, not so many and you cannot upload your sounds at the moment.

So it is very basic, but you can get some ads out of it that are usable. You definitely can. Here you can see again that all of these different ads are created based on a metric. So you can see right now the metric is set at ROAS because that’s the one I’m focusing on. The targeting is acquisition and the conversion is set hereunder objective as well.

Again, we can generate ideas. Here you can see that we set the objective, the targeting and the metric as well. We set what the topic should be and what it is we’re offering. So here we are offering a free trial. And let’s say that the topic is about a task management system.

So I chose the topic to be a task management system that collects your emails and tasks in one view. And we are offering a free trial. So now we go to the next step where we have all of our pack shots. And now we’ll generate these different graphic illustrations that we can use for our ads. So you can see here it is now finished.

And normally it says it takes up to three minutes, but this one has taken a little bit longer. But let’s take a look at the first one here, which is just an image and it is telling me that Planzer.io is your task management system, Shop Now, the text by itself is fine, but the button Shop Now is not quite what I’m looking for. As you saw before, when I generated, I gave a free trial. So this one should be more like, let’s say start a free trial. It’s not Shop Now, this one over here is a video.

So it starts by saying organise your tasks, email and calendar events in one good place. The next one is Planner is a task management system. Again, very good. And the last one is just the Planzer logo. And again, the Shop Now button.

I would like to see a button that says something about the trial. I never mentioned anything about shopping or Shop now, so that’s the only complaint. The rest looks okay. I would go in and tweak a little bit, make the picture a little bit bigger maybe and change the way the button is and so forth. But overall it looks good.

Pencil Pricing

Now, the pricing of Pencil is quite expensive. They have two plans where the cheapest one comes at $200 and the most expensive one, if we look away from the enterprise, is $600. And the difference between these is that in the do it yourself plan, you do everything yourself and you have a limit of how many times you can export your graphic illustrations or you can get the paid premium plan at $600 where professional people will do everything for you. For your graphic illustrations, I will say I feel these prices are quite high when it is we look at what we get in return.

But if it’s difficult for you to make these graphic illustrations, then you should go with Pencil. It is a great option and I feel that the features they’re developing both now and in the future are very interesting.

Alternatives to Pencil

Now let’s take a look at the alternatives. The first alternative is Crello and Crello, which has recently been acquired by Vista is an interesting company because within Crello you have no limits.

You can create as much as you want. They have tonnes of templates but there’s no AI. So you cannot in the same sense as with Pencil, go in, type a little bit about your brand, choose your brand presets and so forth. Within Crello you can choose your brand preset but there’s no AI-related. The other alternative is Canva and Canva is very similar to Crello.

They are just a step further ahead. It’s a more solid product, it’s easier to create the graphic illustrations and the videos you can even do within Canva. But again with Canva, you cannot build with AI you can’t write about your brand and then get a lot of different types of videos in your output. You can only set yourself and drag and drop the different elements.

Take a template and use maybe build a picture or build a video. There’s no AI within Canva. So if you need the AI element then Pencil is the choice for you and hopefully, they will also integrate completely with the different social media in the future. So we can control everything from Pencil because I like the way they have their insights. It’s so easy to see how it’s going with my ads.

Future of Pencil

Now let’s take a look at the future of Pencil. The first thing that I noticed when I started testing out Pencil is that they’re working on integrations to TikTok, YouTube ads and even Amazon ads. So with a click of a button can generate videos or graphical materials for ads for multiple platforms. That is a huge time saver. Furthermore, then they are building a brand asset preset.

The difference here is that when you create your brand instead of just having this empty shell that you have to sit and fill out, you get some presets that you can use. So overall it just makes it a lot easier to fill out your brand. You know exactly what you need to fill out and in the end, they will just give you better ads. Now as I mentioned, it is quite an expensive tool to use so they are working on a pay as you go plan. This means you pay only for what you use.

So if you export in January 2 exports but only in February do a single one and then in March you do five exports. That’s three different prices you have to pay and I think this is very intriguing for a lot of people. Now the last exciting thing is that they are building another AI tool to generate Captions and this is quite interesting because I feel this is in the direction of having a fully integrated platform with Facebook in this case. After all, with Captions we now have the description, we have maybe a title and we have the graphical illustration, then we just need to input our URL and then we have full ads that are ready to just publish on Facebook. So this is quite exciting to see how they will develop these different features.

Pros & Cons of using Pencil

Now after using Pencil I like their insights module. It’s easy to understand and it is overall just easy to create and edit your video material. Though I will say it is quite expensive and I feel it’s a bit of a letdown that we can’t create our ads through Pencil. That would be a time saver.

Last thoughts about Pencil

Running Facebook ads has become easier but Pencil helps you with the graphical aspect of your ads though it’s not perfect luckily we can edit the video material. I want to give Pencil four stars. It’s a solid product and if they can just integrate fully with Facebook and we can start generating captions, then we will have an outstanding product to test ads on Facebook and the other social media.

A project management system is there to help project managers basically make their work a lot easier. This right here is Kure, which is more than just an AI project management software. It can also help you optimise your processes. So let’s check it out.

So this is the Kure platform, which is rather simple. There is no dashboard, there are no statistics on what you can work on projects. So let’s dive right in and create our first project. When we create a project here, we need to say what the project is about. Basically, what process do you want to optimise?

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So, in this case, I want to optimise setting up a WordPress website. Let’s go to the next step. What about setting up a WordPress website, Do you want to optimise? I want to be able to do it faster.

And the next step here is, is it possible to measure or observe this, and we can basically measure it. You can choose whether you can measure it or you can observe it, or you can do neither, because this will help you later on. But right now we can measure it by time. So now let’s go to the next step here. We need to choose whether we want to increase or decrease doing this faster.

In theory, I want to decrease the time, but you can also say that I want to increase the speed. So you need to basically choose what is right for you. In this case, I will choose decrease. So here we want to lower setup WordPress website. I want to be able to do it faster.

In this sentence it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but we will continue. Here we need to choose whether we want to do it as a quick win or a root cause exploration. Let’s choose the root cause exploration over here. You can then see what the different steps are. If I change to a quick win, then you can see it changes.

For now, I’ll take the root cause exploration and move on because it is a root cause that we want to change. It is something we often do in this example. So now let’s go to the next step. So what you have already guessed now is that it takes some time to set up your project and that is because you need to fill out a lot of information. So, basically, Kure can help you optimise the way you work in the best possible sense.

So, the next step here is whether the project is important to business. Would this be generally recognised as an important project? And yes, it would. Does the project aim to solve a problem whose solution is currently unknown? Well, kind of, yes.

The project focuses on work and processes that are currently being done in the organisation. That is correct. Is there someone in the leadership who will sponsor this project? It will be sponsored by the entire company, so I will say no. So here you can see that I had to answer a lot of different questions about this project.

I will now press complete, so we can move on to the next step. So here we need to choose how we will measure basically the process of setting up a WordPress website and I will be able to do this in hours. So let’s go to the next step. Again, I have to go through a set of questions in order to set up my project. So here you can see that I want to decrease setting up a WordPress website from 40 hours to 20 hours by the end of June I’ve answered all the questions.

So let’s move on to the next step. So I’ve just written that right now it takes too much time setting up a WordPress website and as it’s a core process we need to do it faster. Again, I need to go through a set of questions in order to set up this part of the project. So again, in the next step here, I have filled out information about our problem, the business case, the benefits, the goal statement, what the team looks like, the scope of the project and the timeline. So let’s complete this.

So right at this moment I’m actually stuck, it is telling me that charter is not completed yet, but it is not telling me what is not completed. And this is rather frustrating because I have no idea how to move on from now and this is really a big issue within Kure We are really missing better help. What we can do is manually move on to VOC and here again, we need to fill out a lot of information to create this project just to show you the different steps. You can see that. First we fill out the opportunity where we have a screener, goal statement, Charter, VOC and SIPOC.

Then we need to describe our process. And this is with swim lanes and how you want to solve it. Then we take a look at what is it that’s causing the problem where we will look into clues, fish bones the why’s and to confirm it all. And in the end, we will look at the solution. What are the different solutions, how to implement them to BMAP and so forth.

Just for the sake, I will go to an implementation plan which is basically just adding tasks. Now one thing I do not like about Kure is the fact that we have to go through all of these steps in order to create our project. I do understand that it makes it easier and the more thorough you are creating your project, the easier it is to basically create your project, and it makes it easier to use. But you can see here that at the moment I’m missing to fill out so many types of modules and if I just want to get started to use Kure for my project and then maybe later on fill out this information. It is not possible from the start, I have to fill out all of this information, and it is a huge blocker, because then I have to save my information in a different type of programme until I get the time to fill it out.

And there is so much information that I don’t necessarily have that I need to gather from clients, from team colleagues and so forth. So the sense of creating a project in this way is just not working for me at the moment. I really want them to take an extra look at this and make people create a project with the information they have, start using the project and then basically fill in the information as they get it project by project. Because right now, this is just not an easy way to start a project. The easiest project you can set up is a quick win.

One I have is a quick win. I have started slowly. Again, right now I need to fill out a charter. You can see I need to fill out my process, what’s causing my problem and then still I need to fill out a lot of different modules, and again they’re not helping me to tell what is it that I’m missing in the different modules. It’s just telling me that I have not filled out my charter properly, but it’s not telling me what it is that I haven’t filled out. So I really hope that they will take an extra look at that because from a UX standpoint it’s just not very well done.

Kure Pricing

Now let’s take a look at the pricing. It is rather simple, and you can use it completely free for up to five users. This means you can really test Kure through to figure out whether it’s for you or not and try the different modules because you get almost all the modules within the free plan. There are a few modules you do not get, and then you’re limited on the Max upload size as well. But if you do decide to upgrade, then be aware that it is rather expensive.

If you ask me, it costs $39 per user when you have upgraded, and compared to maybe Monday.com which is one of the alternatives. Upgrading on Monday.com starts at $8, and then it just goes up from there. So if we compare to the $8 of course it’s rather expensive but Monday.com also have more expensive plans with more features, so it really compares and everything is relative when it comes to these pricing because within Kure you do also get the AI powered project management creation and so much more and especially in the future it will be interesting to see when it is the add all the modules, whether the price will increase.

Alternatives to Kure

But as mentioned, the alternative is Monday.com, and I will say Monday.com has a better design, more agility and more integrations overall, which makes Monday.com the better choice if we look at it overall as a project management system.

But if we look at it from the point of view that Kure has AI powered project creation, they have the entire process optimisation and so much more than they are way ahead of Monday.com, so it really depends on what it is you need. I just really hope that Kure at least will upgrade their design to be more modern than it is now.

Future of Kure

Now let’s take a look at the future of Kure. First off then they are working on better tutorials and as you saw when we went over the features this is highly needed because Kure is a very complex product, so they somehow need to try and simplify this, and they do already have tutorials now, but it’s important that they get updated and that they just get better and easier to understand. Then they are also adding another module called Creative Solution and this module will help you faster and more creative to find the right solution for your project, because often, when we create a project, it is basically a problem that we are trying to solve.

On top of this, they are also adding an entire toolbox, which is basically a set of different types of tools that can help you in the entire process of creating the project until it is finished, and you have found a solution to your project. The last thing I just want to mention is the UX. I really hope that they will revamp the UX and make it more modern, maybe get a little inspired by Monday.com of how they have managed to do it because it is so modern and easy to use, and it is just top-notch and then last but not least I hope to see some integrations especially to Zapier, so we can make our data flow between the different programmes that we’re using.

Pros & Cons using Kure

Now, after using Kure for some time, I really like that it helps me process optimise all of my processes and then that it is AI powered in the different steps. While I was creating my project. Though I hope that they will revamp the entire UX and then add integrations, so we can move our data from one place to another.

Last thoughts about Kure

Kure is trying to take a different approach to the project management software market by optimising all of its projects. I want to give Kure three and a half stars. The core functionality is interesting, but the UX really needs a revamp. That’s my review.

SEO combined with AI should give you the best possible setup to succeed with your SEO strategy. This right here is Squirrly SEO, an SEO WordPress plugin which combines AI with SEO experts knowledge to help you succeed with your SEO marketing. So let’s check it out.

So here we are in the Squirrly SEO plugin and as some of you may notice I’m in a WordPress setup here. Squirrly SEO does also have a cloud app, but it is the same things that you can do here it’s just more integrated. So we will use this as an example, and they’ve just revamped the entire design. So the first thing we see here is an overview and on the overview, we have what we need to focus on next. We have the main features and then down here you can see we have some material that we can read, watch, use in order to improve our SEO.

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Features of Squirrly SEO

What I would recommend you do is start by taking a one – page set up. So here you choose whether you need no SEO configuration, if you need the recommended mode or an expert mode. So I will choose expert mode for now. You can see there are some different steps we need to go through. We have some automation, we need to add a page and so forth.

So scrolling down here you’re basically building your XML sitemap and this sitemap is used for Google Search Console. So Google knows what pages you want to be crawled and what pages do you not want to be crawled. So here you can see that I want my home page to be crawled, I want my posts and my pages, and then I also want my images, videos and here there is actually a nice feature. So, every time I make a new post, then automatically this plugin will then Ping the different types of search engines to tell them that now they need to crawl this post and this will allow this post to be able to rank faster. We also have robots.txt you can enable, and then we have some meta tags that you can enable as well for the title, the description, the keyword which doesn’t really make a lot of sense, the canonical and so forth.

We also have social media, rich snippets, SEO automation and extra options down here. So they do support local SEO for an optimization standpoint, but it’s not something I will dive into now. So let’s save and continue. So the next step is where you can set Focus pages and the Focus page is something you really want to spend time and energy on getting to rank on Google.

So, normally, you will set two to three different types of pages or posts as your focus page or post, and then you will do everything you can to optimise that. So you can see I have here workload management for better teamwork. I’ve set that as a focus page. Let’s also set this one up here as a focus page, and then we’ll now move on to the next step. The next step here is where you set up your social media accounts, your Twitter, Facebook and so forth.

And then down here you can choose an organisation name, description, some address. And here I just set the logo. This is just some information that they will use and this is made for E-A-T. So this will help you basically create authority within your industry if it shows that you know what you’re talking about. But it is a minor thing. Of course, it is always your content to talk with your authority.

So let’s save and continue. So here we need to mention what the topic is overall for our site. So I’ll just write it to do here, then save and continue. So now it is ready. Down here you can see that if you’re an SEO beginner you click this button.

But if you’re an SEO expert you click this button. So as I chose the SEO expert before I will click that button. Here you can see that you need to set your blogging frequency, you need to set some different settings down here that we already set above in our XML. Over here, we have our robot file that we can fill out, change and edit, and then we have some advanced settings if you want to load Squirrly, front-end CSS if you want to use the late buffer and so forth. This is just an advance to basically optimise your Squirrly set up for every module you’re within. You have a to-do out here, and I have already filled out all of these different to-dos. But what it says here is that you can also connect your Google Analytics and your Google Search Console and what this helps you with is basically to be able to track better and easily and just make the data flow much better.

Out here, we always have a menu where we can go through the different types of tools that we have in this module. So, before we were on Tweaks and sitemaps, you can see we also have SEO metres, we have social media and so forth. But we have already set all of these settings. So now let’s go back and choose another module. And here, one thing I do not like that much about Squirrly SEO is now when I want to go back to a different module I have to click on the logo.

I can’t get it to show in the menu itself. So you can see we have made some changes. So right now it’s checking the website just to see if we need to change anything. But if you want to do that manually, you can always click here to run an SEO test. Now when we’ve been through the one-page set-up let’s go to the keyword research.

This is just a keyword research tool where you can apply any keyword, and then you will get some assumptions, you will get some suggestions for what keywords you can track as well. So here let’s set a to-do app as a keyword. I will not choose a country, I will just go to the next one. So here Squirrly SEO, based on the data that they already have, the data from Google and so forth, is suggesting me to maybe take a look at these keywords. So I like this keyword down here, and I also like the to-do app free keywords.

Then let’s just keep it at that, and then we’ll do our research. Now, within the keywords we have chosen, we can then choose to do research for up to 20 results or for 50 results. For now, I’ll just do for 20 results. So now it is ready, and it is giving me brilliant information. It is not a lot, but it’s exactly what I need.

So, basically it is sorted by the keyword on top is which has the highest chance of ranking. So here it is said there is a low ranking chance on this keyword. That means it’s very populated and there are a lot of different companies which are focused on this keyword. So you can see here that it is discussed very few times. The search for this keyword is ten to 100 per month.

I think it’s a lot higher. So, these different types of intervals you need to take with a grain of salt because that is just an approximate result. You can see we added a to-do app, ourselves that is searched approximately 2000 times a month, but there is a very low ranking chance for this one. But what I want to do now is to add this keyword to my briefcase. It has already been added.

So I’ll just take this one and add. What you can also choose, let’s say that we want to rank for this keyword to-do list app. Then you can choose to optimise for this. So if I click on optimise for this, then we will be shown a new post where it has filled out already here, and then we can basically just start writing. I will come back to this view just in a moment.

But now when we have added the keyword to our briefcase, we can go into our briefcase, and then we can see the keywords here. So here you can see whether we are ranking or not on these different keywords. We can see some more information which is basically the same as we saw just before. We can see how much it’s searched and so forth. So this is basically just to see how you’re ranking on the different keywords.

You can also create labels for your keywords if you want to make it easier to organise your keywords, and then you can see the suggested keywords as well. That is the keyword research tool, and it is very extensive, and I’ve had a lot of luck finding different keywords or search phrases that I can focus on for my WordPress set up here. But let’s try and go back now. So we’ve been through the keyword research and the briefcase. The next is our live assistant.

So the live assistant is basically within us when we sit and basically write our content. So here you can see that we can add a new post or page and then start typing and optimising for that. But what I want to show you is a post I’ve already made. So here we have a post about how you should plan your week online, a digital way of being productive. It’s not so long but it is optimised.

So you can see my Squirrly score over here at 78%, which is rather good, but it is based on this keyword here. We can then enhance it here where we can use images. We can see how it’s talked about on Twitter, on the Wikipedia and with Squirrly’s own blogging assistant, you can see that they are finding relevant content that I can use, or I can read in order to improve my blog post even more. And the last one here is just even more content. It’s basically my own articles that I can use in order to see whether I can make maybe a linking between them or I can just use some of the content I’ve already written.

Step three is the analysis. So here is basically a checkmark. So here you can see that we need to use the keyword with two or more words. We need to make sure that the keyword is presented in the URL. We need to make sure that the title is Google friendly.

It says it’s over optimised in this case. And there are some more elements here. So here you can see that it is telling me to write one or more words after my first keyword, and then it is highlighting where I’m using this keyword. For now, it looks good.

You can see there are a lot of different checkpoints that we can go through. I will just continue to the last step, which is the deep focus step. So, as I showed you before, you can add this as a focus page and when you have it as a focus page, then you get even more data. So let’s see one of the focus pages here we have up here. Let’s see the tasks that Squirrly SEO is telling me to focus on in order to make this rank higher.

So, as you can see, we have a lot of different things that we need to focus on here. We do not have enough backlinks, we don’t have any inner links. The traffic is not very good. We need to focus on the strategy and so forth. So, for backlinks and for inner links, that makes sense.

And the same for an SEO image. That also makes sense. But what I’m missing is when I click on strategy here it needs to tell me what to do, and it is telling me I need to add this keyword to my briefcase, and then I need to make a label that exists for it. It is not necessarily doing something for the SEO chances of this article’s ranking, but it is helping you to have a bigger focus on it. For backlinks here, you see that we need to have at least 100 backlinks, we need to have 30 referring domains and 100 majestic SEO links.

The same for the inner links here. We need to get five inner links over here on the platform Health. You can see we need to get an audit score above 70%. Right now it’s just 70%, and then we need to work on the SEO score. Right now it is loaded 2.99 seconds, we need to get that down.

So, all of these different points you can always click on to see what it is you need to improve. And when you improve these different elements, then you will see your post rank higher and that is what I really like about these focus pages. Furthermore, then you have material down here that you can use, and you have some tips and tricks as well. But the focus pages you should only use for the posts or pages that you’re focused on getting ranked really high, and maybe they’re a little difficult to rank but especially for those pages that brings in the revenue or brings in the traffic to your website. Within Squirrly SEO there are a lot of tools.

For instance, here we have bulk SEO and within bulk SEO, you can see that we get an overview of all of our posts and pages. You can change up here to do page and step, and then we can see what we are missing. So on the pricing page for instance I’m missing some meta tags, I’m missing open graph, and I’m missing a Twitter card and that is counting for all of my different pages. Going back to the post, it looks a lot better, but you can see on this post here I need to add some meta tags and on this post here I need to add some open graph as well. So this is just a great way for you to quickly see whether there is any technical SEO that you need to get in order.

And they have a lot of tools like this within Squirrly SEO. The last tool I just want to show you is the SEO audit, because you can run an SEO audit for a specific page. So in here let’s say that we want to add this page here for an audit. What it will now do is analyse this page and basically give me some points that I need to improve. So here this is a different one.

Let’s use this one as an example. Here my audit score is 62 and, of course, we want to get it above 80, but as close to 100 as possible. Scrolling down here is where we can see what we need to improve. These are especially the traffic points we need to improve here. It’s telling me that within the SEO I’m doing 22 out of 22 which is fantastic.

Scrolling further down, there should be some points that we need to improve. So, within social we need to add share buttons in articles, and we need to get them shared on social media as well. Scrolling further down, we need backlinks, especially MOZ backlinks, and we need backlinks with no following as well. We need some page authority. Right now it is 3.0 in average authority.

We need to get that up. We need to get our Alexa rank down and so forth. So you can see, by running this site’s audit, we get a technical review of our page or post to see what we need to improve. Of course, it is not analysing the content itself, it is taking it from a technical point of view.

Squirrly SEO Pricing

Now let’s discuss pricing. They don’t have a free plan or a trial where you can try out Squirrly. They only have three paid plans that you can try out and these three paid plans can be confusing when you look at them. But just be aware that they differ on both features and the limits that you get, especially for the keyword research tool. I will say that I will recommend the pro plan to most of you guys.

Alternatives to Squirrly SEO

But let’s move on to the alternatives. The first alternative is Yoast SEO and I will say that Yoast SEO in recent years has really been popular. It has been the number one choice of SEO plugins. You can almost not find a WordPress website where Yoast SEO was not installed. But in recent years we’ve seen Rank Math SEO popping up, and then we have seen Squirrly SEO pop up as well and Yoast SEO is really starting to fall behind, especially on their features. They’re not following up on the AI possibilities and so much more.

But the other alternative is Rank Math SEO. Personally on my multiple websites I’m using a mix between Rank Math SEO Squirrly SEO and Rank Math SEO at the moment my absolute favourite SEO WordPress plugin and that is especially because they are so much on the beat with their different features. They have just recently released an AI feature where we can generate content that we can use on our WordPress website, and we can do this within our WordPress website. So we don’t need a third party programme to do this.

And the schema structure within Rank Math SEO is what really sets Rank Math SEO apart. Because it is just outstanding and that is something I have seen over and over again. So in the bunch of these three SEO plugins, I will say that Rank Math SEO and Squirrly SEO are up there. I’m just really hoping that Squirrly SEO will take a look at their UX to modernise it but also make it easier to use and maybe start to play more with AI than they are doing already because Rank Math SEO is still a tad in front of Squirrly SEO in terms of features and usability.

Future of Squirrly SEO

Now let’s take a look at the roadmap. This roadmap is really packed with features, design optimisations and overall just fixes it is really exciting. But there are some elements that I have pointed out and the first one is they just revamped the entire design of the plugin, which means that the Cloud app now needs to get this new design. Furthermore, then they’re working on a lot of different customer experience optimizations, so it gets easier to use because even though we have a new design it is still not totally optimised to be easy to use all the different features. Then they are working on a new backlink and social media reporting, so we get more data and maybe just in a prettier format when we pull out all of these reports.

And last but not least then they’re working on a huge local ranking module. This means that not only can we track our rankings in our local environment and our local cities, but we can also optimise our content to rank higher in the locals. So it will be fascinating to see how they will develop that and how easy it will be to use.

Pros & Cons using Squirrly SEO

After using Squirrly SEO for some time. What I really like is that, finally, we have a plugin which is good at explaining what they are doing in the different SEO processes and then just the keyword research tool is so outstanding. Though I will say that the UX needs even more improvements.

I know they have just revamped it, but I don’t feel it’s there. It’s still difficult to use and then the local rankings I’m hoping to see just an MVP in the near future.

Last thoughts about Squirrly SEO

Squirrly SEO has tried to take a different approach to the market of SEO plugins and their keyword research tool is extensive. Plus, their live assistant takes it an even step further. I want to give Squirrly SEO four and a half stars. It is an outstanding plugin, but the design is still a setback for me. They are getting closer though.

That’s my review.

Giving feedback on websites and images can sometimes be really difficult if you can’t draw on them. This right here is Webvizio, which allows you to put a marker exactly where you want to give feedback and explain it. So let’s check it out.

So this is the Webvizio platform. And overall, I think the design looks great. There are some minor tweaks you can do, but it looks great. Then we have our different types of websites that I have already used and played a little around with. And up here we can see where I have tasks assigned to me. So let’s go back and let’s maybe delete this project right here and then create it as a new one. When you create new projects, you can either at a URL or you can add an image. For now, we will just enter the URL and right now we are preparing a screenshot. So you can see here in the screenshot, everything looks fine. There is an image of me images of the blog post I have, so let’s open up the project.

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Features of Webvizio

Now what is happening is that it’s loading a live version off the website, and you can see that it is now missing all the images down here. So one thing I have noticed with Webvizio is that it doesn’t load the images. If you’re using lazy load, which in 2022, hopefully a lot of websites are doing. But now let’s just dive right in and show the core functionality of Webvizio, which is giving feedback. So let’s say this text here, the latest software reviews. I want to have that changed. What I do is hover over this specific text, and then I just click, and then I say, Change the text. Let’s change the text to recent software reviews. Here I can set how the priority of this task should be low, normal, high. And then I just create it, I can also attach a document or an image to it. I can tag someone if I want them to really focus on this or reply to me, or I can just create it as a normal task.

Now when it’s created, you can see here there is a number here, number one, which is the first task. So if I go up here, and I say this button here, let’s change this to download E-Paper. Again, change the text in the title and create. So now we have two comments and two tasks. So here you can see that we have two open tasks. We have no progress and none is done. What I can do with all of these comments or tasks is that I can assign them. So if I click on the change text number two here, then I can assign myself to it. So now I’m assigned to this task, I can then change it to be in progress if I’m working on it. And then you can see up here it is changing as well. So now we have one open and one in progress. One thing I really like about this being live and not just a screenshot, is that I can see browser information. Sometimes we all know that our website can look differently in Safari compared to Chrome and even in Firefox.

So having this browser info is really a great feature. We can also take a screenshot of the website here to have it saved exactly how it’s looking right now. But that is the core functionality. Down here we can select multiple tasks if we want to work with them, or we can just create a normal task without any comment or function to this specific website. Now, one thing you can also do is enter browse mode. Browse mode is great if you want to give feedback on multiple pages on the same website. So you can see up here I have a menu, so let’s click on Software Review. What is happening now is that it’s opening a new tab up here with this software review. So if I go back to the first tab, we still have our front page here with the two comments that I added. Right now this one is in progress and here we have another tab with the software reviews. Again, I can enter browse mode, and then I can enter and open a third tab here.

I really like this because here you have one environment where you work with the same website on multiple pages. So here again, I can give feedback. I can say this title should be changed to something else. I can cancel this one. I can scroll down and give different types of feedback. If I want to check the responsiveness about the website, I can also here change to let’s say we want to see it on how it looks within iPad Pro. Maybe we want to see how it looks on an iPhone 11 Pro Max just to see if it scales correctly. And right now it is. Let’s enter browse mode. Then we can also test the menu. It is working, we can test the search function. It is also working, but you can see that the text is just too large. If I enter task mode again, let’s click here and say make the text smaller on iPhone in general just mobile. Now there is a third task here let’s enter browse more again and close this one down.

So now I have actually created a task on something that’s hidden. So, on this specific view to the right, it is a little difficult to see, but we always have an overview over here of all the tasks. But what would be nice is that when I click on this specific task, it would then open up the search and then show me the task here. Small feature, but it would make it easier to use it. If you want, you can also rotate to see how it looks in landscape mode, or you can enter specific responsiveness here. If you want to check a specific screen size, Webvizio does not have it. We can also always refresh the project, so imagine that they have made some changes. Then you just refresh the project to confirm if they have done it correctly. Otherwise, you can share the project here with whoever needs to act on it or also maybe give some feedback on the specific website. That is the core functionality and that is how you give feedback, whether you’re using it on the websites or on images.

And again, you can see assigned to me because I have tasks here assigned to me, then I can go to the project via this menu. For each project we also have settings and under each of these settings you can see that we have the Webvizio script and what they do is that they recommend that you enable this script. If your website is not loading properly and as you saw with the images, I should maybe try and enable this script to see if it will then load it more properly. We also have a team here. We have reports. Here I can download a task report which is basically just an overview of the tasks. We have an activity log where we can see what has been done, and then we have integrations. Right now they only have a Trello integration and I have set it up right now, but I haven’t figured out a way how to use this integration. I’ve only set it up, and now you can see I have attached it to this specific project, but there’s no way for me to shoot over the tasks.

So let’s try and go back and see if we can figure that out. So you can see that we have a task and I would like to be able to take this task and create it in Trello. Right now, it is said that it was created in Trello. Before I check, I just want to show you that I can also add comments down here to the specific task saying this is now done, for instance, and then post the comment here. Now I’ll just go to Trello and check whether the task has been created. So, as you can see here, it runs completely automatically. So it has created the task in Trello here even with an image, it is created with the text and the title as well, and it has added it to a new list. So it has one list per project. This works very well and it is completely automated. I would like to have some control where I control whether it should go into Trello or not, but right now it is running automatically, and I must say that it’s just working very well.

The way you set up Trello integration is here where you just go to the settings, and then you enable your account, you connect it, or you change it in this case. You can see here that they’re working on a lot of integrations, which I will also discuss a bit later in the video in the future section.

Webvizio Pricing

Now the pricing of Webvizio, it’s very simple. They have two different types of plans. And the first one is a free plan where you get some functionality at least enough to that you can sit and give feedback, but you can’t collaborate. So you have to put feedback on this specific image, and then you have to share it at some point or maybe screenshot it. The other plan is a paid plan where you pay 8 USD per user that you have. This is quite cheap compared to the alternatives, which I will discuss just in a moment. And with this paid plan, you also get all the functionality, everything from team management to integrations and much more.

Alternatives to Webvizio

But let’s go back to the alternative, because the main alternative to Webvizio is Ruttl. And Ruttl is something I have used previously myself. And what I really like about Ruttl is that you can sit and live change the website. So this means that not only can you give feedback, you can also show what you want it to look like. Of course, there are some limitations to what you can do, but you can change colours, you can change the text, you can move it around and much more. So, at least you can give a better idea to the designer or the developer of how this should end up looking. Furthermore, then Ruttl has more integrations, a more modern design. And then, last but not least, you can use it for your localhost. So if you’re a developer or designer, and you sit in Google Chrome and you sit and work with your design or your project, then you can use Ruttl because they have a Chrome extension that allows you to give feedback on localhost.

And this is really a game changer because it makes it so much easier. The way we have to do it right now with Webvizio is that I have to take a screenshot, upload it to Webvizio, and then I can start commenting on it. So this saves us a lot of time, and it just makes it a lot easier to use. So if you’re going for the more mature product, then take a look at Ruttl. But if you want a faster and more lean product that might develop into something better in the future, then maybe stay with Webvizio at the moment.

Future of Webvizio

Now taking a look at the future of Webvizio they are first, working on a lot of integrations. This I’m really happy to see because integrations means automations, which means that we will save even more time. Imagine that you can sit, comment on a design within Webvizio and then automatically create a task in Trello and ClickUp or even in Slack. And this just shows this entire eco flow of how everything is connected together, because they are working on integration for these three programmes at the moment and more in the near future.

Then they’re also adding a team productivity dashboard. And with this team productivity dashboard, we can see what our team members are doing. So it will be interesting to see how they will really develop this and what the use case exactly will be, because they are also working on task deadlines and task time log. So we can not only set deadlines, but we can also log the time we spend on a specific comment. I will say that these types of features are good to use. But Webvizio needs to be careful that they are not working too much towards being a project management system. But they need to keep within being able to give visual feedback because at deadlines and logging your time is something that we see within project management software and not within visual feedback systems. So let’s see how they will develop these features and what the use case will be.

Pros & Cons using Webvizio

Now after using Webvizio for some time, I really like that I can use multiple tabs for the same project and the same website, and then it’s just very easy to use.

Two things I really want them to improve is developing a Chrome extension, so we can use it for localhost and then, when it is, we load websites. If your website is using lazy load, then it doesn’t load your images properly.

Last thoughts about Webvizio

With a tool like Webvizio we are really saving time on communication, and we just end up with a better product overall. I want to give Webvizio three and a half stars. The core functionality works perfectly, but websites with lazy load doesn’t load properly within Webvizio. And then I really need localhost feedback. That’s my review.

Conversion rate is an extremely important factor for many types of businesses, and it’s often achieved through landing pages. This right here is Marcom Robot where you can build landing pages, A/B test them and much more. Let’s check it out.

Here we are in the Marcom Robot platform and as you can see, there’s no overview at the moment. We are thrown directly into the landing pages, but I know that they are working on an overview which we will discuss a bit more in the future section. But here we have an overview of our landing pages. Up here we can see the amount of traffic that we have had and the amount of traffic that we are allowed to have. But let’s dive right in and create our first landing page.

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Here you can choose to either start from a blank page or you can choose one of the premade templates that they have made already. I would like to see more templates, but I feel that they are pretty modern. So let’s just use the product launch template right here. Let’s call it Product Launch as it was called. And here we can choose whether we want to add SEO details.

For me, it is not so relevant because this is just a landing page that I will use for a marketing campaign. So it will be on and off. But here you can fill that out. Then you can choose whether it should be search engine indexed, whether it should be a 301 redirect. That is, if you’re using a subdomain for your landing page and whether you want to have email notifications every time there is a new lead.

But for now let’s just create this landing page. So here we are in the builder, and we have different tools to work with. Here we have different sections that we can add. We can add a blog, text, form, image, buttons and different things down here and scrolling down, then you can see the entire design how it is, and we can easily drag and drop these things around. Now, one thing that I’m not a big fan of is that I can drag them exactly how I want them to be placed on the landing page.

This means that let’s say that I always want to have a margin of 20 pixels below all of my subheadings. That is not possible because I have to drag and drop it like this. So, a grid panel in the future would really be a game changer. But you can see it is as easy as this. We can change this to easy like this, and then we have changed a heading, and it’s saved by itself.

But you can always save manually here. Furthermore, here we have a layout and here you can see the different sections. When I click on it, then I’m shown the section, and then we can click on the different panels and the different blocks basically, and we can move them up or down based on what it is we want to do with them. Right now nothing is happening when I click, and I can’t drag and drop it either. But out here we can, of course, drag and drop it around if we want to.

And for each component you press on, you also have a component panel out here. And here you can see the alignment of the X and the Y. You see the height, the width, and, if you want to use rounded corners, how the image should be, the opacity and so forth. Here you can hide it and show it on your mobile if you want to. And we can always see up here how the landing page looks on a mobile.

By clicking on the filter. We can also enable the grid filter here, where we can say whether we want to have three, four, eight or twelve grids. This is an easy way to help us, but it is still not defined. It’s exactly that you need to keep yourself within this grid. But let’s try and add a form out here because we want them to be able to sign up for this form. Right now I have two premade forms, but let’s create a new form, so you can see how this works as well.

So here you can see that we can use the form builder, build a form from HTML, or we can integrate a third party form. For now, I’ll just build a custom form and call it Product launch again. Let’s create it and then let’s fill out the different fields we need. So you can see out here we have different input types. I just need an email.

And let’s say we also need a custom field as well. So we have the email and then the custom field here where we can say something like what is your name? We can also enter a placeholder, but let’s keep this as is. Then we have to submit your form. I will just say sign up for trial just in case here.

Here you can choose whether it should be a single field or it should be a multiple field. And now let’s press Save. You can always preview it. But now let’s go back to our landing page and insert this form we have just built.

So again, just like before, we will take the form, and we’ll drag it over here, and then we will choose our product launch form and basically just add it in. And you can see right now this one is absolute. So it doesn’t move the things around, which can be a bit frustrating and at the moment there is no way for me to make this one relative. It can only be absolute. So I have to basically drag and drop the different elements around in order to be able to basically drag and drop my form around.

One thing I did notice is that within Safari it can sometimes get stuck. So just be aware of that. I think if you use Google Chrome you will most likely not experience any of those elements. But you can see over here we have all the different elements that we can insert and right now here there is an element where we need to fill out an image and right now it is just an empty placeholder. So let’s choose an image here.

When you choose an image, you have your own library, and then you have the Unsplash library. So here we’ll just choose an image of a computer right here, and then it will then insert it. See the thing here is that again I have to drag and drop this image to fit exactly into this border. It would be nice if it just did it for me and that is what I mean overall, I feel that I need more help to build these landing pages from the system itself because it is just too customisable at the moment.

But this is how you build different landing pages. Now let’s try and publish and preview it. So here we are previewing the landing page, and it is as we saw from the beginning. You can then see how it looks on tablet and on mobile as well, so you can see it scales very fine, and I didn’t have to think about anything. There are some scrolling issues though that they need to be able to fix but overall I don’t have to think about those elements.

It does it automatically where it pulls them under each other without having to do anything in the design process. So those are the landing pages and the forms as you just saw. We can also create a form from a third party where let’s just try and call this one product launch as well created. And then here we need to add our third party form. This can be MailChimp form, a Sengrid form or something third that you basically just copy and paste into here.

You can see they also mentioned HubSpot and Pardot as well. That is very simple to set up and then all the forms when they’re filled out they will land in here where you will then have an overview of your leads, and you can export it to Excel at the moment. We can also help boost the lead quality when we validate the email. We have some geo tracking and overall just lead enrichment as well. But in order to do this, you need the best plan.

One thing we just skipped was the Gallery, but you saw it just before. So we have our own Gallery with the images we have used, and they have an integration with Unsplash as well. You can always upload your own images that you want to use on the landing pages. So this is basically just an overview like we know it from WordPress for instance, now you can also set up presets in here and within presets it’s basically just a set of colours. So let’s call this one default, and then we can add some colours down here.

So I want to use the red colour here, and it is called default right now. It would be nice if I could add multiple colours in one preset and then be able to use them on the landing page. So all the colours on the landing page change based on my preset, because right now here I still have to manually click on all the different colours I want to use. Just a way to set a primary secondary and a third colour would be a nice way. And, of course, the text colour as well.

But this is just a simple way. We can also set presets for fonts as well. Here, where we create a new font preset, we can only choose the fonts that they have here, which is very, very few would be nice if we could add our own fonts or at least they had some more Google fonts to choose between, but that you can also set here as well. So this is one way for you to basically keep the same font size and the same font all over your landing page. But now let’s move on to the most exciting thing which is the A/B testing. So this is a great way for you to basically try different things. And here what we will do is to create a new A/B test and call it a product launch again and then here we need to choose two pages.

So here I can choose page A, which would be, in theory, the landing page down here. It is a little frustrating, I have to write that in. So for the test purpose here I’ll just enter my own website and then down here I will enter my own website in Danish as well. Just so, we have two different variations. Here we choose whether we want to split it 50/50, 75/25 or something similar, and then we will create it here.

When you set up these A/B testing, you cannot use the Marcom Robot page. So you have to use your own domain for this, which you set up in the settings. So going to the settings here we have the domains and within domains you set up your own domain that you can use for all of your landing pages, and it’s very easy. You just set it up here, add the new domain, and then you need to change your DNS settings here for the CNAME record and the text record as well. So you show that you actually own this domain, and then you can set up your A/B testing.

But one thing they also have down here is integration. And not only do they have APIs and both the key and the documentation, but they also have a Zapier integration. So here you see that we can integrate with Sendgrid, we can integrate with MailChimp, ActiveCampaign and much more. And this is in order to send your leads from the forms all the way over to the third party system that you are using. So this is what I’m talking about when I mean a streamlined workflow, because otherwise you have to manually go into Marcom Robot, export all of your leads and then upload them to whatever system you want to send emails through.

So this is a great and streamlined way for you to have all of your leads in one place. They also have webhooks that you can use. They have a Script Centre and if you experience a lot of spam on your landing pages, you can exclude IP’s down here as well. Just going briefly back to the Script Centre/ within the Script Centre, it’s a good idea to add something like analytics. So let’s say that here we want to use, as it says here, Google Analytics on this page.

Let’s press next and here we can see that it will send the events for the following button clicks, text links, form submissions and variant tracking. And this is for the A/B testing. So here you just enter your Analytics tracking. And at the moment, it is not supporting Google Analytics 4. So you have to use Google Analytics Universal or the Tag Manager as well.

You can also insert a custom script and, in this case, you can use Google Analytics 4. Or you can use the Facebook Pixel as well. So that is overall the Marcom Robot platform, where you can build landing pages, A/B test them and create a streamlined workflow for all of your leads to be sent to a third party system.

Marcom Robot Pricing

Now let’s discuss the pricing. They do have a free plan, very limited. Even though you get almost all the functionality except for A/B testing, you only have 500 visitors per month, which seems like a lot maybe to you, but when you start sending traffic to your landing page, and you test it yourself, and you visit it, then you will quickly see yourself having used those 500 visitors. Luckily, they have paid plans where you get more visitors. But even though if you take the most expensive plan here, you have 30,000 visitors, you have unlimited landing pages and this is not 30,000 visitors per landing page, this is in total.

So if you have 100 landing pages, then it’s only 300 visitors per landing page. And then you will quickly see it come to an end. So I hope that we will see these limits increase.

Alternatives to Marcom Robot

Now, the first alternative to Marcom Robot, as I see it, is Unbounce. And Unbounce to me, is probably the number one choice on landing pages because Unbounce is just possible to do anything. They have all the integrations needed, they have all the forms we can build and the way we can build our landing page is much more extensive, and I feel it is much easier compared to Marcom Robot even though within Marcom Robot we can customise it more because we can literally drag and drop it is exactly where it is we want it to be within Unbounce we have this grid field that we need to work with which could be a good idea also to have within Marcom Robot.

The other alternative is Instapage and I feel Instapage is very close to Unbounce though when we have these two Unbounce and Instapage they are a lot more expensive compared to Marcom Robot. But you do also get more functionality, more visitors and, overall, just a better, more refined product. So it does make sense. So it is really up to you whether you want to have this product where you have full customisability, then you need to go with Marcom Robot. But if you want a more mature product where everything has been defined for you, then take a look at Unbounce or Instapage.

Future of Marcom Robot

Now let’s take a look into the future because Marcom Robot really have a feature packed roadmap. First off then they’re working on a dashboard overview which basically explains itself for us to get an overview of our landing pages, the amount of visitors we have and just the leads overall. How is it going? Then they’re working on shared sections. This means that we can build a section on a landing page and then save it, so we can then reuse it on other landing pages and, overall, just build landing pages much faster.

Furthermore, they also allow for form templates. So imagine that you reuse the same form, or you have maybe bits and pieces of different types of forms you want to use. Then you can build it together as a form template and reuse it, so you again can build landing pages much faster. Then they are working on a cookie consent banner and this is, of course, most highly needed because it is per law in Europe at least that we need to have this banner in order to be able to use cookies. So if we can’t insert analytics on our landing pages it really makes it difficult for us to know how it is exactly going.

And last but not least, they are working to overall improve their UX builder, make it easy to undo our different mistakes and just make it easier to build landing pages. Hopefully we’ll see a grid panel in this process as well.

Pros & Cons using Marcom Robot

After using Marcom Robot, I really like it’s possible to customise the landing page down to pixels and then the Zapier integration is really a game changer and the team behind is trying to build multiple products into one. Though I really want them to improve that the images are not served in next generation format, which is not a positive thing for our loading time and then the customisation is not always a good idea. I would like to have a grid panel.

Last thoughts about Marcom Robot

Building landing pages is crucial in order to succeed with your marketing. Being able to test multiple variations of your landing pages and have a streamlined flow is key to success. I want to give Marcom Robot four stars. Even though their roadmap is packed, I really feel they have great functionality and their ability to A/B test the landing pages.

That’s my review.

One thing I’ve worked with during the years is how to improve onboarding of new clients and new colleagues. This right here is Superdocu, a platform that allows you to onboard both clients and colleagues at a rapid speed filled with information. Let’s check it out.

So this is the Superdocu platform and the dashboard right now is not showing much. It’s basically just showing contacts to handle, my profile and a help centre. I know they’re working on revamping the dashboard, but let’s dive right into the first module, which is contacts. If I add a contact here fast, I’ll just add myself. Then we had our first contact in play here.

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I can then add a workflow to this contact. So let’s say it’s an employee. Then I can choose the workflow that I have made already for employee onboarding, and then I’m now inviting it. So now you can see I’ve added the workflow employee onboarding and for employee onboarding, we can see how far they are in this specific onboarding. So you can see they have not even filled out basic information, emergency or misc.

And they’re also missing the legal documents and the checklist down here. So I’ll show you just in a moment when we fill that out. But before that, let’s go to the workflows. So within workflows we have a list of all of our workflows. And right now there is the employee onboarding workflow.

Let’s go into settings, so we can see how this has been set up. So here we have all of our different workflow steps, and you can see that they vary from a screen, a form, document, even a checklist down here. And we can add multiple steps here. And here it is where you choose the type, so it can be a simple screen where we show some welcome text, or it can be an end screen that tells something about what will happen next.

There is already an end screen, so I will not add anything at the moment. We can then edit the end screen here where you can see that the title on the screen is thank you. And here it is: Thank you for going through the onboarding process. We look forward to working with you.

And as well, there is a starting screen. There are also forms we can work with here. If I edit the form, then I can only edit the form name. But if I go into the module itself, then you can see I can work in the fields. And here we can add different types of input fields.

You can see you have a long list here of different types of fields you can add, and then you basically just build out your form like this. I would really like this to be visual, so I was building a visual form and not in the same sense as this, but you can always press preview, and then you can see what the form looks like. We can then test it out with name, email address and so forth and then send the info. I would just again really like this to be visual but let’s go back here because there are also the documents form here. So, if I configure the module here then you can see that there are some different documents they need to upload. So the first one here is that they need to sign and return the offer letter.

Here you can see that they need to download the offer letter, sign it and then upload it again. So the offer letter here is not anywhere to be found. So that needs to be sent separately in a private email or something. But what you can also do is make it expire. Here, for instance, this is an ID card.

So here the client or the colleague who is filling out needs to fill out the expiry date. And this is because it’s an ID card. And what would be really interested in the future would be that, whenever Superdocu you see that the ID card is about to expire, then they will shoot out an email that the client or the colleague needs to update their ID card. So we always have it updated. Going down here, we have basically the same with the documents.

This is just an IBAN for doing payments and so forth. So the platform itself is rather simple to work with. I just wish it was more visual. So you can see me scrolling down here. We also have some general information.

They can only fill it out once. What is the workflow name? And then we have reminders. So here you can set up a reminder that, in this case it says we would like you to remind them that they are still waiting for some information and here we choose when they should receive it and how many times they should receive it. And here you can basically just enable and disable it.

We can also preview this reminder by clicking on the preview here and then here you can see a very simple reminder with my name, what the text is, and then they can access the dashboard to continue. We can also go to the portals here and within the portal is basically where you collect everything. So right now I have a portal called Employee Onboarding. Here we can do a portal name, a welcome message, What workflow is associated to this portal? What is a screening question we can set and then here we have the URL.

So let’s copy the URL. We’ll just set this one to be live. And now let’s try and see how it looks from the front end perspective. So here you can see that when I start I need to consent that my data is being processed by in this case myself, and then I’ll submit it, so I can now get started. So here you can see the onboarding flow and the first is just a starting screen that says welcome as you saw before on the back end, When I press next here, then I can fill out some information.

The next step here is where we need to upload the legal documents. So here you can see that we need to sign and return the offer letter. So it says download the offer letter, sign it and upload it back here. So when I press import, then I can upload the document. The same for the ID card, the profile picture and so forth.

Let’s see if we can move on. We can move on without filling out those documents. And here we need to again fill out some information. One thing that’s confusing me is that I can press send emergency info, but I can also press next. As a user of this, I’m a little in doubt what I need to do but let me just go back to the documents for a second here and then go back to the first screen.

One thing here I would like Superdocu to add is some conditions because I live in Denmark and within Denmark we don’t have States that is mainly in the United States and similar countries. So, in this case, I would like this field state of residency to be hidden if I choose Denmark, for instance. So I should be able to say if they choose this value in this field, then hide or show this specific field. That would be a small change, but it would really make a difference. But that is what the onboarding flow looks like for the client or the colleague who needs to go through it.

We are now back at the back end and as I just showed you in the portal now I want to show you some templates, because when it is you need to build your different types of onboarding flows. Often you will find yourself reusing the same type of content, whether it’s a client, a colleague or a specific colleague in some niche or some branch over here. So you can see we already have five different templates and if I go to the settings here, then you can see the form which I just showed you before from the front end. And the form consists of a first name, last name, email address and so forth. So this is a way for you to be able to fast onboarding flows and that is what this is all about.

We want to be able to spend as little time as possible building this and to add up to that, then they have also made a library of different workflows. So when I set up my first employee onboarding I basically just chose the workflow over here, and then I started working from this. You can see there’s also real estate seller documents. I can choose that, and then I can start to build basically an onboarding flow for this specific case. This really helps to save a tonne of time because you don’t have to manually sit and build every single step.

You can always add to this template, or you can remove if there’s something you don’t need. But this just gives you a perfect starting point. The last thing I just want to show you is the settings. Within settings, we have user management, so you can set different roles. But the most interesting thing is the API because they have both Zapier token, so you can integrate this with Zapier, and then they have web hooks and I know that they’re almost finished with their Rest Open API. So these are three different ways that you can connect to Superdocu and basically automate your onboarding flow even further to share the information from Superdocu to a third party system if you want to keep it in a different type of system that is maybe more secure, or you just like to keep all the information of your colleagues or clients in that system. So I really like that. And that is overall, the Superdocu platform.

Superdocu Pricing

The pricing of Superdocu is very simple. There are two plans, and they differ on the amount of invites you get. And if you want the Zapier integration, you need to upgrade to the most expensive plan. And overall, when we compare this price to the alternative, it is a bit pricey. So let’s see whether it’s worth it in the future.

For now, you can do a seven – day free trial. And for me, when it comes to an onboarding product, seven days is just not enough because you need to have time to set up the environment. Of course, make sure that it is exactly how you want it to be and then try and onboard a client or a colleague. And in seven days that is just not possible.

Alternatives to Superdocu

Now the alternative to Superdocu is FileInvite and FileInvite is ahead of Superdocu.

They have more examples, they are broader in their target groups, they just have more templates to work with and then when it comes to integration, they are also ahead. And FileInvite is even cheaper than Superdocu. So these two compared to each other. I am mostly towards FileInvite at the moment, but Superdocu has a fascinating roadmap and if they can execute that within a short time period, then there will be a very interesting alternative in the near future.

Future of Superdocu

Now let’s take a look into the future of Superdocu. First off, then they take a look at the onboarding flow, and then they just completely redesign it. And this is great news because for me, what I really want to see is a new design. I feel the overall UI, and UX is really outdated. Furthermore, then they’re working on a new dashboard which they will completely revamp with more information for us to always be able to see what status is our different clients and colleagues in. Last but not least then they’re working on more integrations to Pabbly, esignature and much more, so we can even more elaborate our onboarding flows to make it possible to sign the different documents and much more.

This is really exciting so let’s see when and how they will implement this.

Pros & Cons using Superdocu

After using Superdocu for some time I really like that I’m finally saving time on my onboarding for both clients and colleagues and then the fact that we have API, webhooks and a Zapier integration. The things I want them to improve are the outdated design and then the customisation of the onboarding flow design. We can’t really move or change anything around in there.

Last thoughts about Superdocu

Overall, I’m satisfied with Superdocu. The most important thing is that it’s saving me time and the improvements mentioned will just make it even better. I want to give Superdocu three and a half stars. It does what it needs to do, but I’m missing custom options to control the design in the onboarding flows. That’s my review.

I have tried to build numerous products, but my question is always, what should I prioritise next? Right here is Calido who has built an algorithm to help you always prioritise the right tasks and get a quick win for your product. Let’s check it out.

Here we are in the Calido platform, and we’re just thrown straight into it. There are two workspaces. There is my own workspace where I have some quick notes. I have a simple roadmap which is basically just a list of the different tasks. Then I have more features and roadmap where it’s a kanban view.

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We can also change this up here into a tree view or roadmap view actually in this sense. And then we have some user personas which have been built for my business in this case. And you can see we have Sally, the Novi salesperson, Mike, the sales manager and so on. All of these different views out here are basically the same but with different content. So, this first time here I will not dive right into it.

But what I will show you is my sample workspace here. Within a sample workspace, we have three different categories to focus on. We have the strategy, product management and product marketing. So let’s start with the strategy. Under a strategy, you can see we have the OKRs, which are the goals we need to reach.

All of these goals have a risk, an assignee and the team. They do also have a due date and the risk is not super important. But you can set it if you want to. It is progress that is most important. So here you can see that, for instance, we need to scale the Salesforce ecosystem to 2K daily active users by Q2 22.

I can then get it elaborated if I press edit on the side panel, and then we can see the related one which is basically the same under here. We can set comments, and we can see and set attachments. But what is fascinating is to see these under here. So here we have implemented real – time customer record synchronisation in Q2. What we can do is set a risk if we want low, medium, high.

But it is the progress bar here which is most important. So when these are created, you can see that we have some different values to set here. But it is definitely the progress that is most important and will be updated the most because when I update the progress here, then the overall progress is also updated. So you can see I can set these all the way up here, and then I have to actually manually set this one up here. That would be a nice feature that it updated by itself.

But this is the OKR section. Then we also have initiatives and goals. And here we can see that we want to add video conferencing, and we want to have 1000 teams using the video conference. If I want to see it again, I need to edit it, and now you can see it is the same view, but we have different values we can work with. We have the initiative score that we can set here and this is based on the competition, the growth and the risk.

Then we also have competition, growth and risk out here. We can also link this to a Jira task if there is one in there. So they will always be updated. So this initiative score, if I change, the competition will also change, and we want this one to be as high as possible, because then we will focus on it, and you can see as it changes, it also goes down because this is sorted by what we need to tackle first. So, right now it is video conferencing we need to tackle first.

And overall, within Calido what I really like is that these different types of values you enter will be calculated into one score and that score you can use to do multiple things. In this case, the higher the score, the sooner we need to focus on this. Now let’s move on to vision. This view is very simple. You can see there are two visions, a collaboration app and a mobile app and I can then edit it in the side panel to see related, comments and attachments.

On the details we can basically describe the vision, give it a name and that’s it. Of course, we can add a vision statement, we can add child tasks to it, and then we can duplicate it. So a vision statement is basically the same as you see here. It’s just a new vision. So this view is very simple.

So let’s move on to the SWOT analysis. And again, you have probably seen it now, but all of these views are more or less the same. They just change a bit with every different type of module. So here you can see we have our strengths, our weaknesses, opportunities and threads. So here you can basically just enter under the strength.

If it’s a strength, you want to enter the weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Because all the modules we are going through right now are related to the product strategy, soon we will come to the product management. We can see this is a string. So we can see what the action plan, is. And again, we have the related comments and attachments.

So it is the same view. You can see we can finish it, we have worked on it, we are done with it. But you can say that a SWOT analysis, you don’t really finish a strength, it is just there to highlight that this is a strength. Then the last menu point on the strategy is customers and leads and here again, we just have a list and this is a small CRM system that would be interesting if they would maybe integrate into another CRM system. But here you can see that we have a renewal date, the health of this client, what products they have bought, the lifetime value and so on.

So these different types of values are great. We should probably have a way to update this because if you have 1000 clients, it would be a nightmare to keep updated. But that is something that we will wait to have in the future with all the integrations coming, especially the Zapier integration. But this is just a small CRM system. Now let’s move on to product management.

Within product management, we have three different modules to work on. We have our capacity planning, our collaboration app and a payment app. So let’s start with the capacity planning here. And the capacity planning is a way for you to see whether you have enough space to take on more work. So here you can see that here we have a Salesforce integration.

Right now it is on the product team and Zak is here, Zak is the assignee, and he has completed this task. Let’s go back and see if there is one that’s not completed. So here you can see that the Zendesk integration is right now on the development team, and it is in progress. What we can do is we can close down here, and then we can show the kanban view because it’s a little easier for us to see. So, right now the kanban view is made by different types of people working on it.

Let’s see if I can change it to be the status of the task. So if I click on kanban settings you can see if I change the status here then we have a different type of view and this counts for all the different views you’ve seen just before. So now let’s move on to the Collaboration app. Within the Collaboration app, we have ideas, customer feedback and a features roadmap. The features roadmap is the same as we’ve seen up here and here you can see the different tasks.

But before we dive into that, everything starts with an idea. So here we have all the different ideas, and you can see that these three down here have been submitted. This one up here is actually planned. We have some large ones and are under consideration. So let’s try and open up this one called Build Role Editor for Admin module.

You can see the status is submitted. What we can do is change it to a plan. So now it also updates our public roadmap which we had shared with all of our users. And in that roadmap they can also vote. So you can see all the different votes here.

So, in theory, we should focus on Salesforce integration first, but that has already been launched. Next is the HubSpot integration which has been planned and then, in theory, we should go with the two-factor authentication for collaboration apps. But here it is strictly integrated with your public roadmap. So all the votes and everything from there is pulled here. So you can see what ideas to work on next.

In the customer feedback again, it comes from your public roadmap and with integration soon we can pull in feedback from Zendesk and through Zapier from Intercom or whatever chat system you’re using. But here you can see that we have some feedback that they’re not able to save report filters. It has critical importance, so we just need to tackle this as fast as possible. I feel that I’m missing a way to easily move this from the customer feedback over to the roadmap because as I see here, we can set some feedback channel progress the customer which is related to this, the importance, but we can’t set the roadmap for this specific task.

That would be a nice feature, just an add-on. But when we then want to tackle this feature that we’re not able to save Report filters. Then we could go over here to the features and roadmap, and then we could basically just add it as a task in the plan, maybe. And then we’ll basically just write in can’t save reports, and we’ll save it as planned for now. So now you can see that we can’t set reports here we need to focus on this.

Now, what I really like here is this rice score. So if I go back here, and I click on Roll up Dashboard, you can see it has a rice score of 34. And this is based on four different parameters. It is based on the reach, the confidence, the effort and the impact.

So the higher the reach and the higher the effort and the higher the impact, the more we need to focus on this. But if the effort is too high and the impact is not high enough, then we should not focus on this because then it will take a long time to work on, which means it will take a long time before the users can actually start using this feature. That is what I really like about this rice feature. It is definitely my favourite feature within Calido, but that is how you use the roadmap.

In the payment app. I will just quickly show you again, We have ideas, we have customer feedback, and we have the features and roadmap and that is because we have a collaboration app, and we have a payment app. So these are two different apps that we’re working on. So this means that under product management you can set up multiple roadmaps or multiple products to run simultaneously. Now let’s move on to the last module, which is the product marketing. And this is a very simple module.

First off, we have personas and personas are just your regular type of target group. So you can see here we have some different values to set. Technical experience, road warrior, experience level, and so on. We can then see more information about it here. Or you can see the persona, persona type.

We can see again all the different values that I just told you before. And then again, we have related comments and attachments that go through the entire system. So if I close this one down, we can then add an item which is a persona. We can call this one Phillip the Freelancer. And then I can start to fill out information about this type of persona.

What this does, even though it’s very simple, are that it collects everything within Calido. So you have everything you need for your product within Calido and all the information is saved here So even though it’s simple, it is a really neat feature. We also have the launch plan here, which is again the list view. But here we can set up the different tasks that we need to do.

We can set a start date, end date. We can change to the kanban view again, as you’ve seen before, to really get an overview of what it is we need to focus on. So here, for instance, we have marketing and communication readiness. This is the marketing team, the status is in progress, and so on. So this is basically just a task board, but it is giving us a way to tell that it’s a launch plan, so everyone knows what it is.

The last module down here is competitive analysis and here we can add all of our competitors. So the first competitor here is WinCollab. So, if I edit this in the side panel, then you can see that this editor has a start date and end date. That seems a bit irrelevant to me, but here we can add a description of it. We can say how good are they?

How do we stack up to them? The pricing and the feature set would be really nice to see. Again because this is something we’ve seen in the entire platform. But based on these parameters, how close of a competitor is this to us? That will be fascinating to see, but that is overall the Calido platform.

As you can see, even though a lot of the modules are simple and do not have a lot of functionality, when you dive in, and you start working with the scores, and you follow the system that Calido has built, then you will end up with a great product that is built for your users, which means that it will hopefully just excel.

Calido Pricing

Now, the price of Calido is very different compared to the alternatives. Normally, in this industry of these types of products we see a per member price. But with Calido it is a package deal. You get where you get the amount of members inside that package, and they don’t have a free plan, but they do have a free trial that you can test out Calido for 14 days and asked that I when I started testing out Calido, and it is a great way for you to try out Calido to figure out whether it fits into your Arsenal of products.

Alternatives to Calido

Now, the first alternative to Calido is Productboard, and Productboard is the number one choice within these types of product management boards because Productboard allows you to integrate to almost any type of other product out there. And this makes it possible for you to streamline your entire workflow. And then they just have a great and fantastic platform to work with. Now, the other alternative is ClickUp, and ClickUp is more of this diverse type of product that can do almost anything. But ClickUp does not have the same type of OKRs, the same type of goals to follow and the overall structure.

ClickUp is really just a skillet that you get, and then you can build on top of that. So I will say ClickUp is more of a second competitor, whereas Productboard is right in the inner circle of being a straight alternative to Calido.

Future of Calido

Now, the future of Calido is really exciting. First off, then they’re working on a lot of small tweaks, so it will be a lot easier to use Calido and we really need that because sometimes it can be a little bit difficult to figure out where the different features are. Then they are working on a Zapier integration and this integration is really exciting because this will open up to almost anything. Now, you can integrate with your Jira. If you’re using that for your Sprint management, you can integrate with Zendesk to shoot in directly from Zendesk, some different types of products or different types of tasks you want to develop and so much more.

Then they are also building an entire notification system. And it is so important for us to stay in the loop. Without notifications, it’s difficult for us to know what we need to react on and what has actually happened since we were last signed in to Calido. Last but not least, when we look further ahead into the future, then they have a lot of integrations under consideration at the moment. This means that all of these integrations, like Zendesk and HubSpot are integrated, are native integrations which makes it a lot easier to use Calido and basically just streamlines your entire workflow.

Pros & Cons using Calido

Now, after using Calido, I really like that you get a full product with OKRs and much more. Then you get a modern UX and, overall, help to build a better product. Now, the thing they should improve is definitely the UX. It can be a little difficult to figure out sometimes, and then we’re missing a lot of integrations to really utilise Calido.

Last thoughts about Calido

Overall, Calido is a great product with a score that helps you make product – driven decisions. I want to give Calido four stars. It is a neat product, but they really need to improve the overall flow of the application. That’s my review.

Imagine software where you can collect all your customer information in one place. This right here is UChat who claims to be a one – stop AI customer chatbot. I wanted to put it to the test so let’s check it out.

So this is the UChat platform. And as you can see, it is a big platform with a lot of different bots. So I will go through the primary functionality and show you. The first thing is the dashboard, which is always just a quick overview. And then here we have the live chat, which is basically you using the inbox to chat with whoever surpassed your AI chatbot that you had set up.

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So going back to the dashboard we have our omnichannel here where you can basically collect all communication into UChat, but you cannot connect your email communication. And that is the one flaw I see with UChat. But if we just go right down to our bots, then I have already now set up one bot and this is just a very simple bot with a flow that I will show you. So in here we have a published version of a flow that I have just used a template for. If we Zoom in, you can see that the first step is where they get a welcome, where it says hello, the first name welcome.

And that is because if we go back up here you can see that the first is just the start and then it’s asking for a welcome basically very simple. Then you can try out some features here where you can send an image, send location, ask for email or talk to an agent. And if they press talk to an agent then it is that we get it and we have to chat with this specific person. You can see down here we have all of the different selections and then we have some more settings over here that we can change and do how we would like.

But you can see all of these different settings have aligned with them and that is because they go to different endpoints depending on what they are choosing. So, for instance, if I choose to talk to an agent, then I will basically just be shown talking to the agent, as you can see here, and it will set the persona Alice. The next step would then be to send a message. And this is a chatbot. Hi, I’m Alice, how may I help you in this case. That is just a very simple flow.

If I just zoom out a little here, the next entry asks for email. So if I go up here then you can see it is very simple, just asking for an email. Again, send location, very simple sending location. And the last one is just sending an image. And that is because this is just an example.

On a very simple chatbot, you can see that we also have button features here, and the button features go down to have even more buttons. And if I click on the normal button it will basically just write you pressed the button. But I can also open a website, or I can call this specific person. So this is how you work with the flow builder, and you can change and add as much as you like. So you can see that this one here is going to talk to agents.

I could also move it to point at a different thing, but here you can see again talk to the agent. We have some settings we can work with and what message should be sent because this is the next step as you saw just before. So this is the flow builder working with. We can also go to the flows here where we can create sub flows. So, if your flow needs to, maybe you want to have it more organised, then you can create a sub flow.

So whenever they press something in your main flow then they’re redirected to sub flow. That is a very simple way of setting it up. So you have an overview. We can also see analytics of this specific chatbot where we can see how many messages have been sent, received. We can see the language, and we can see some information about who are in this chatbot using it.

We also have the live chat view which you saw just before as well. We have bot users here, which is basically the users using this specific bot. And then we have automation as well. So we can set up some default reply. We can set up keywords as well.

So, if there is a specific keyword mentioned, then we can add different variations that the bot can then reply with. So let’s say that you’re a SaaS company and every time you see the word churn being mentioned, or I want to quit my subscription, then you can send specific messages, or you can do something specific with the person who is in this chatbot right now. Again, another great feature. There’s also content down here where we are asking for a phone number. We have the date and the date time and these are the user fields.

Then we also have bot fields. We have tags, personas and even message templates. So the personas, as you saw before, we have Alice. And Alice was also part of the flow builder where Alice was basically the one talking as the robot. But here you can set up all the different content that you want.

You can also set up customer feedback topics and much more. Then we have tools here as well, where we can see some error logs, we can see if anyone is testing them. We can set up multiple languages, set up widgets, inbound web hooks and much more. But what I want to show you is broadcasts, because within broadcast we can set up messages to be sent. So let’s just add the name new broadcast, and we will say that if the person has the tag talk to agent then we will do something.

So the condition right now is that whenever someone has the tag to talk to an agent, then we will choose a sub flow and this sub flow could be to send them a message. It could be to ask them a specific question based on what they have written or something even third, you can also create a new workflow here. This is just another way to personalise this experience even more on your website.

You can also send the message immediately, or we can schedule it for later. So, if you want it to be a little more humanised then you can send the message maybe two or three minutes later or even some hours later. But that is how you set up broadcasts. The last part is just settings where you can set user limits. You can set some clean up, so you get some clean data after a few days.

And here you can see that the channel which has been set up with this specific chatbot. So, with these chatbots, you can see you have a lot of great functionality that you can use, and you can always set up a new chatbot via all of these templates here. So you can see there’s a template for Coffee shop template, there is for Rock Paper Scissor game template. Very fun, but it’s just a small game you can use. There are some Google Beginner templates, and you can see that there are multiple pages here that you can use and set up these different templates and all of these are free to use, so you can just take them and then use them.

There are a lot of great ones. If you have a webshop or ecommerce site, then they are already premade and that is just down in the template store. We also have integrations, and you can see here how long the list is. We have so many great integrations, and we do also have an SMTP profile. So SMTP is for sending out emails.

Again, I wish they had an IMAP functionality here, so we could set up our email to really collect all the communication. But already now when I’m seeing the phone numbers, stripe, slack even, there are so many great integrations and UChat is the AI chatbot within this industry that has the most amount of integrations. So if you’re looking for integrations or just a way to integrate UChat into your already current flow then UChat is a great option because you can always just use Zapier and then via Zapier integrate to whatever it is you want because Zapier is really the bridge between UChat and whatever chat or every app that you’re using. You can also set up mini apps. A mini app can be something like Bitly, it can be a WooCommerce integration, integration to Encharge even which I’m personally using.

And you can see as I scroll down here, there are a lot of great ones you can use and there are even multiple pages. And you can also set up Google Analytics event tracking. So this is a great way for you to add another layer. Not only do we have integrations, we also have these mini apps that we can use to improve our data, our scalability of our businesses to use UChat to really just utilise all the data there is to know everything about our users, especially through this integration with Google Analytics. And as I said before, if you have an ecommerce shop, you can also here add all of your products, so you can use those in your chat Flow builder to suggest products based on what they’re asking for.

It would be great here to have a functionality to import, or you can always set up one of those integrations in the mini app to pull in the product. So your product database in UChat is always updated with your newest products. But this is a great way to use the flow builder, so you can suggest products based on what the user is asking for. The last piece is basically just content, but again, you need to first create a mini app before you can create content. And up here we basically just have the bot templates, the mini apps and the email templates as well.

So overall you can see that UChat has a tonne of functionality, and it’s really important to figure out what you need from UChat and only set up what you need because you can set up endless different flows and chats. But if they’re not used then it’s a bit of a waste. But I will definitely, from my point of view, recommend UChat. If you’re looking for a chatbot that needs to integrate with almost anything.

UChat Pricing

The main price of UChat is higher than the competition, and it is mainly because they have more integrations. It is overall just a bigger system, but you can start completely free as did I, when I tested out UChat and then later on you can upgrade and at the moment they’re actually running a promo where you can upgrade for even less than what they’re asking.

But just be aware that it is only for one chatbot. So, if you want to run Facebook, Instagram, Google, my business has three chatbots and every extra chatbot costs $5, so just be aware of that.

Alternatives to UChat

The two alternatives to UChat, as I see it, are ManyChat and Chatfuel, but both of these are actually behind UChat. UChat has more integration, a bigger system, and the flow builder, as you just saw in the Walkthrough, it’s just so much bigger and has more possibilities. So UChat is the number one choice in this industry of AI chatbots, so it’s fascinating and especially when we discuss the future just in a moment.

Future of UChat

Now to the future of UChat. First off, they are building integrations with Freshchat and Intercom. For me, this is fascinating because that is derouting a bit away from them building their own live chat. So, as you also saw in the walkthrough, they do have an inbox functionality and this allows the users of UChat to use UChat as a live chat, but these integrations show that UChat is going in different directions, so it will be interesting to see how they will actually solve that issue. Furthermore, then they’re adding a web view which makes it possible to ask questions, show buttons and much more in the web view itself after the chatbot and then last not least they’re doing a lot of minor changes, fixes and overall improvements of UChat, so it will be faster to use, easier to use, and we will hopefully convert more visitors into customers.

Pros & Cons using UChat

Now after using UChat I’m a big fan of the amount of integrations they have, the flow builder itself and the functionality of doing broadcasts. One thing I do not like about UChat is the missing IMAP integration that would really take them to the next level.

Last thoughts about UChat

Chat platforms are evolving more and more each year and, with AI being integrated then we can offer even better customer service. I’m really impressed by UChat and I want to give them four and a half stars. If they just had the IMAP integration, then they would be a perfect place to collect all of our communication. That’s my review.

SEO is a big passion for me, which is why I study every week in order to figure out how I can improve my content writing skills. I stumbled upon Quickblog which is a platform that allows you to offer optimise your content on multiple parameters. Let’s check it out.

So this is the Quickblog platform, and you have just thrown directly into the dashboard where you basically have an overview of the different posts you have created. Here in the menu, we can create a new post, we have some analytics and integrations. But let’s dive right into what Quickblog is all about building content. So here you can see that we have some different elements. We need to type in a title, and, of course, content.

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Then down here we have some SEO settings we need to set, and then we have at the bottom the SEO scorer and I will share my doubts about this SEO score just a moment. But to begin with, I’ll just fill out some information here. So I have taken one of my previous articles I wrote some months ago. I have added a title How to Succeed with Internal Link Building using WordPress. And this article is doing just fine on Google, and it is drawing in some attention and some visitors as well.

So you can see as I Scroll down here, it is quite a long article, so I’ve pulled that in to see how this works. So what is important before the SEO score starts counting is that you set an SEO primary keyword because this requires knowing what the content needs to be optimised against. And if I delete this one, you can see that the SEO score goes to zero. So it’s important that you set your primary keyword. You can also set a secondary keyword, but it’s not important.

Here I have entered my SEO post title, and then I have written a short SEO meta description. All of this is very optimised, and I have already seen proof that it’s working, but I do only get a score of 26%. So let’s see why this is. The first issue is my URL. My SEO primary keyword is not in the URL.

Now let’s go back and see. Right now my SEO primary keyword is Internal link building WordPress. And when I saw it here then it says Internal link building using WordPress. In this case, Google is smart enough to know that. Okay, the keyword here is Internal link building WordPress.

But Quickblog is telling me that I have to delete “using” and then save it like this. So now you can see that it’s green, but that’s just really not relevant. And that’s why overall these different types of guidance are good. But you need to take them with a grain of salt because it is okay to write using them here. It will still work on Google, and it will still rank.

It will definitely still rank. You can see it here. It’s also telling me that I need to use my primary keyword within the first 50 characters of the URL slot. Again, the same issue. I can also just turn around and say internal link building WordPress how to succeed. So let’s try and do that fast.

So now you can see that I got a 100% URL score, but it is not that important. Down here in the title it is said that my title should not be empty. That is very easy to come upon. The SEO primary keyword should be in the title. So let’s go back up and check my title.

Again, it says how to succeed with internal link building using WordPress. If I delete it then this one will be green and this one here as well. So what I just want to say is that these different types of tips and tricks are good, but you need to take them with a grain of salt and really figure out whether it is that important. Over here we have the content score, and it’s telling me that the primary keyword needs to be in the first paragraph of the blog post content body. That is fair enough.

It is telling me that I need to use my primary keyword at least more than 2% right here, and it appears only once, and it is recommending me 24 out of 48 and this is just very generic guiding. So, overall, the SEO score is great. It is great tips and tricks they’re coming with but just really think it through. Over here, we can choose whether this should be live. Who’s the author?

It is, of course, myself. The category. We can also set some related posts and that is because you can also use Quickblog as a blog. So let’s enable commenting, enable sharing as well. And then we will update this post.

So if I click on preview this blog post now then I can see my blog post here, and it is, of course, just text, there are no images or anything. Scrolling down to the bottom. We have the conclusion and that’s it. Now one thing I would like to see is the actual overall design of the blog. So let’s go back to the dashboard here because I just want to show you something before that.

When you have built your content out here, then you can request indexing and that is for Bing and Google search. So you can get your blog on Google Over here we have some analytics about your blog where you can see basic information about how many visits and who’s reading it. If I click on analytics by itself it is saying that I don’t have access to view this analytics which is a bit strange to me because I do have access and the last option is to duplicate it. Now, going down to the integrations at the bottom here, you can see that we can insert a Google Analytics property ID, so you can analyse your blog even more.

You can set up a domain or website where you want to show your blog and that is because you can embed it, which I will show you just in a moment. You can set up your Shopify license key. You can also generate one. And then you can set two other different values down here at the bottom. Going over to the settings here you have blog settings and in blog settings you can see that this is how you install your blog. So first you copy the script here, and then you paste in the DIV element here where it is you want to show your blog, so you can easily embed it on your website.

We also have some layout settings here where we can set the blog URL, you can set an SEO heading. Overall, you can set some codes here. Basically JS and CSS. You can set some different settings of the time zone, the date format and that’s about it. In additional settings, you can see we can work a little with the design, but we cannot sit and drag and drop the elements around.

Build a sidebar, set a header image. That is not possible. You have these different elements that you can use. So we can make it a three – column. We can keep it at one column or make it two columns.

We can set some navigation. Choose where the navigation should be. We can set up search, very basic blogs. We also have button settings here and that is the overall CSS and styling of your blog. So you can make it into your universe, so it really matches your website. And then we can also import content.

You can either do it by Google sheet or upload a CSV file. So you can just load all of your content in at once. Going back to the dashboard here where we have an overview of all of our content. I just want to show you up here. You can also change the language.

So if you’re writing content in French, German or even Italian then that is also possible to use Quickblog for. And that is overall the Platform Quickblog at the moment it’s very simple and that is a good thing. It is easy to use, it’s easy to change and optimise your content. And you can see down here we have my link for the current blog. So let’s go in and see it.

So again I am shown the same URL as I saw before, so I can’t really preview it. When I use the link itself, it says that the page could not be found, but overall that is the platform Quickblog.

Quickblog Pricing

When I first stumbled upon Quickblog I had to check out the pricing to see where it was compared to the competitors, and you can start completely free, as I did while I tested out Quickblog. And then when you want to upgrade, which is usually because we want to remove the branding, then you can do that for only $9. And if you are an agency, then go for the last plan because here you get 15 blogs that you can manage. And there are, of course, blogs that you can embed on multiple websites. So that is how the pricing works.

Alternatives to Quickblog

Now the only alternative that I see is DropInBlog. DropIinBlog not only has a more modern design, but it also has more functionality. As you just saw in the walk through, it’s not possible to customise your block so much within Quickblog, but the future of Quickblog looks very exciting, especially all the integrations coming up.

Future of Quickblog

Now to the exciting future of Quickblog. First off, they’re working on a blog schema.

This is something I have very good experience with using Rank Math on WordPress websites, because the schema is what tells Google what this specific piece of content is about. So let’s say it’s a product review. The blog schema can fast and easily tell Google that this is a product review, so there are probably some stars you need to show me a picture or something third. And all of this combined is what really makes you stand out in the SERP altogether.

Then they are also working on a Shopify integration, so we can easily have a blog on our Shopify webshop. They’re working on multiple integrations to Zapier, Pabbly and Integrately, so we can send our content around. So you can actually sit and build content in Quickblog and then send it over to your WordPress website. If you don’t want to embed this Quickblog on your website. Last but not least then they’re working on a Google Search Console integration.

This makes it possible to draw in data to begin with just to show you what keywords you’re ranking on. And, of course, what people are clicking on later on. What will be interesting is to tell us what we can optimise our content for. Maybe it could be that in the Google Search Console they can see that people are searching a lot for this term. They click on your article, but then they leave fast.

Because your article is not exactly about this search term, then you should focus on that search term. And that is, of course, just one example. There are really a lot of ways that we can utilise all the data from Google Search Console in order to create better content. It is really exciting.

Pros & Cons using Quickblog

Now, after using Quickblog for some time, I really like that it was easy to get started and set up. It is so easy to embed your blog and then Quickblog’s future is really promising. Now the design options for your blog are too limited and then the SEO score, in my opinion, is just too outdated.

Last thoughts about Quickblog

SEO is still difficult in 2022, so the more help we can get from technology and software, the more we can all benefit from it. I want to give Quickblog three stars. I think the idea is great, but we really need more customisation options. That’s my review.

Having a platform where you can collect all the information about your company in one place seems like a good idea, but is it? This right here is Workpark, a platform where you can manage your finances, payrolls, even projects, and so much more. Let’s check it out.

So here we are on the Workpark platform and I want to try and take you through some use cases using Workpark. First off, you can see that the logo is in black, even though I would like it to be in white. But that’s just a minor UX thing. We have our mission control here, which is a dashboard of the workload, just some different numbers we can use from the different modules. And then we have, of course, all the modules over here.

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We do also have a message module where you can message within your team, or you can actually also message with clients here. At the bottom here we have a dock and that is just a quick overview of your notifications, unread messages, and you can add some sticky notes over here. I’ll just add this one right there. Then I’ll just have that as a note. Then we also have to close down the dock here announcements. An announcement could be to your entire team or to all of your clients.

So it could be that maybe you are off for holiday from 1 January until 20 January. Then you can add that as an announcement in here by just adding, let’s say holiday as a subject. I am out of the office in January, for instance, share with clients and then post it. Then we do also have meetings here and there is actually an integration into Zoom. Here we can add a new meeting, and we can just call it a meeting name actually, to be honest.

Add a colour where it doesn’t really matter, category let’s choose the random one here, meeting type, no category, some description here. And then let’s keep this as is. I’ll just set a date for 28. A little confused why I can’t add the Zoom here as integration, but let’s keep this as is.

So you can see here that I have actually filled everything out.But they’re telling me that the date is Invalid, which it is not. So that’s a little confusing as well. Now let me take you through the first use case and this is that we need to onboard a new colleague. So what we do is go to HR where we have an employee list, then we add a new employee.

Let’s give it employee ID twelve. Let’s call this one my own name Phillip. Then here we have an email. I’ll just write some nonsense. We need to set a password as well.

We can also generate. Then we can set a Slack username when they are going to join, when they will exit. Which is a little strange because it is an employee. So hopefully they won’t exit. We can set the gender over here, address and then some different elements down here. Now, one thing that I noticed is that I can only set an hourly rate in US dollars.

This is an employee and often at least in Denmark, we set monthly rates and I can’t set a monthly rate in here. And I can only work with the US dollar as is. Overall in the system I can change to other currencies, but I can’t change to the Danish currency. Here we choose whether login should be enabled or not. And this is probably back up here where we set a password and email.

We can also choose the Department they need to be within and the designation. We can set up some skills, and then we can upload a photo if we want to. So now an employee has been created. You can see it says up here, Phillip, and it says designer. I can then set a user role.

I’ll just set employee, and now we have the user ready or actually the employee. What we can then do is let’s say the employee needs some holiday that we set in here where we add some holiday. We say from 25. And what the holiday is, we’ll just call this holiday here. Again, I’m actually missing a date range because often a holiday is more dates and I don’t want to sit here and add each of these and write an occasion.

That’s also a bit of something they need to fix. But now I’ve created a holiday here. And again, who is this holiday actually for? Is it for me? Is it for a specific employee?

That is again also missing. We can also set leaves here as well. It works the same way where we can assign some leave. Who is the member? I will say again, Phillip, what is the leave type?

Is it a single day? Is it multiple days? What is the reason? And has it been approved? And yes.

So let’s save this one as well. So now there’s also leave. So now let’s say that everything has gone well, and it is now time to pay out the first salary. So here you can see that we can actually set a monthly salary here even though we couldn’t set it on the employee itself. So let’s just set this one to 10,000 and save it.

So now the salary has been set. We can then either update it when change it. We can either increase it or decrease it. We can see the salary history here as well. And that is about it.

See, I’m really missing a lot here because within salaries, if I just go back to that for a second, at least in Denmark there are a lot of regulations which needs to be followed there needs to be sent into the taxes and so forth. So this is a very, very small version of what a salary module could be. So we definitely need some elaboration on this in the future, but it is a fine start. As mentioned, they do also have a Zoom integration down here where you can have Zoom meetings. We also have the Zoom settings here where you set up the API key and the Zoom secret.

So you still need to sign up for a Zoom account. So that is one type of use case. The other use case is if we want to create a project for a client. So let’s go to customers here and then let’s click on clients. So in here we can add a new client, we’ll just call it Mr. and then client name.

Some nonsense here about email. We can set up an organisation here, there are some different ones. I will just send it to some nonsense data here just so we can create it. It’s really a lot of data I need to enter here in order to just create a client. It would be nice to just have some minimal data, and then I can always add more later on. But now the client has been created.

So let’s go back to the work here into projects and create a project for this client. Let’s call this one project name and for the categories we’ll just create a new category. We’ll call it Website. The start date will be 1 May and the deadline will be 30 June. We can also choose not to set a deadline.

Here we can say whether it should be allowed to manually log the time. Who are the project members? I will set up myself and Phillip and down here is where we set up the client we just created. Let’s say that the project budget is 2000, and we have 1000 hours allocated. Right now the project status is in progress, and I’ll now save it.

So here we have our first project and if I click on it then we can see even more data. We can, of course, see the data that we have entered, but we can also see the progress. But right now we’re missing some tasks here. So, if I go to the task module over here, I can then create new tasks. I’ll create a task here, just very simple.

Choose the project name, call it the task title here. When it’s the start date, the due date is set to the same day and I will assign it to myself. In this case, keep the priority as it is and then press Save. So now we have the first task created, and it is very easy to see. We have the incomplete, completed.

We can also change to a board mode here where we can drag it in between. We can also check it as a workload to see how much workload we actually have? Do we have space to take this task in? Then we have the calendar view up here where we can see the task as well, and then we have the table view also. Right now the task is done, so it is not showing. This flow of creating tasks in a project is not very efficient.

It really takes a long time to create these tasks. I do like the board here. I would like to be able to add more types, so we have incomplete, in progress, in review maybe, and then completed. So the customer or the client needs to always go and see what tasks are in review and then check them out and approve them if they are good enough or give some feedback on them. But this entire ecosystem of the project management system is not so elaborate, and it’s not so efficient.

And this is what you get with these business management software, because they basically need to try and collect so many types of software into one software, and they even need to make it efficient as well. So it’s not always that it’s possible. And that’s why I’m always a little in doubt whether these business management software are a good idea because they are only to a very niche target group, and it’s not always a good idea to really do it this way. But if you don’t care about efficiency, and you just want to have everything collected in one place, then it could be ideal for you to use a Workpark.

Workpark Pricing

When I first saw the pricing of Workpark, I thought to myself that it was quite overpriced until I compared it to the alternative to see why the price is as it is, and that is because of the amount of modules and components you get. However, the pricing of Workpark, the reason why it is as it is because you get the number of users within each plan, whereas the alternatives, for instance, Zoho or Honeybook, you get per user, so you pay per user for the alternatives, whereas you pay for a package of 5, 10, 20 users within Workpark.

But as you can see, they have three plans, and they don’t differ on the amount of features, they differ on the amount of storage you get and the amount of team members you have within one plan. And they do have a 14-day free trial where you can test out Workpark to see whether it’s for you or not.

Alternatives to Workpark

The alternatives to Workpark are first off, Zoho. Zoho is a very well – known product, and they have so many types of products within their umbrella. They have for emails, they have for project management, and they do also have for business management. So, within Zoho you get all the same modules as you get within Workpark.

But Zoho runs a different pricing structure. Here you pay per user, whereas within Workpark you pay for a package of users. The other alternative is Honeybook. Honeybook doesn’t have the exact same amount of modules as we see within Workpark they don’t have the entire HR module for instance, and they are working on the finance module but here it is the same as Zoho where you pay per user so based on these three you really need to figure out where your needs lay.

Future of Workpark

Now let’s take a look at the future of Workpark. First off they’re working at client collaborators. This means that your clients will get access to the platform. Of course, you decide what they get access to, but this will save you a lot of time on communication because the client can check the status themselves. Furthermore, then they’re working on more templates for invoices and contracts then they’re working on a timer in the dock so that we can manage our time and basically record the amount of time that we spend on a specific task and last but not least then they’re working on integrations. And this is to integration platforms like Zapier, SyncSpider, Integromate and so forth. Of course, they’re working on a lot more, but these four elements are what I see as the most exciting coming very soon.

Pros & Cons using Workpark

After using Workpark I really like that everything is collected in one place, but each of these modules is just not elaborate enough.

I can’t set a monthly salary on employees and then the overall feel of the UX is just not there.

Last thoughts about Workpark

The idea of collecting everything in one place like Workpark is great, but they don’t manage to deliver a solution which is fulfilling yet. I want to give Workpark two and a half stars. Their intentions are good, but they really have a long way to go. That’s my review.

Backup is something we tell ourselves that we will always do later on, but we never get to do it. This right here is BackupSheep which can back up your website files, images and so much more. Let’s check it out.

So this is the BackupSheep platform, by itself. It doesn’t have a lot to it. It is definitely integrations we need to work at because up here we have our home, we have the nodes that we’re using, and you can see it is just the statistics here which are changing. Then we have the live chat which is the support, we have the documentation and the change log. So let’s dive into integrations here.

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Under integrations, we have cloud providers where you can see we have AWS, Digital Ocean and some other ones. Then we have databases where you can see we have MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB. Furthermore, then we have web servers which are just SFTP/FTP sign in. You can also use SSH, and then we have storage platforms. Under storage platforms we have something like Digital Ocean again, Dropbox, FileBase, Google Drive and so on.

So you can also use this to back up your private files. It is not only the website, et cetera. So you can also use this for your private files. It is not only databases and websites but let’s dive in and try and set up a MySQL back up right here as a database. When we set up a new integration, we need to give it a name, we need to set the endpoint and this is where it should basically pull the data from.

And you can see that we get an IP here. So, what can happen sometimes is that your server thinks that this is some suspicious activity on the server, and therefore they want to ban this IP. But if you whitelist it, you will never have this happening. So let’s just call this integration YouTube video. Just for the sake of this review.

We have the database name, database type and the rest of the information down here. So I’m choosing MySQL. So let me just fill out the rest of the information. So I have now added the integration here and what I can then do is to create a database node, because for this node it needs to be combined with the integration in order for the node to actually work and run these backups. So here you can see that we have all different tables.

I’ll just back up all the tables, I’ll just call this one a name, and I’ll add some nodes here, and then we’ll create the actual node. So now you can see that we have a backup of this MySQL database. We can set up some notifications which will be sent by email over here, we can create backups, we can add a schedule. Of course, we can modify the settings. But I will start by creating a new schedule.

Lets’s just called this one backup and here we need to say that it needs to take a backup every single day and the amount of backups lets say that we need to always keep ten backups and the time zone I will set to Europe. So what I really like here is that you can set up multiple locations. This makes it even more secure for you, because then if something happens physically to the place where the server is holding your backup, then at least there is another place where the backup is available. So let’s create this schedule here. So it will now automatically make a backup every single day in those places that we just set.

We can also manually create a backup right now. Let’s set it to just Europe for this one and then create backup. So now it started the backup, and it will finish in a few seconds. And when it then finishes, whether it fails or succeeds, then we will get an email with a notification that tells us how it went. That is the MySQL setup.

Let’s try and go back to integrations and set up a very simple Dropbox integration. So scrolling down here we have the storage platforms and right here we have Dropbox. So Dropbox is a lot simpler to set up, because if I click on Dropbox here, I am sent to Dropbox to simply just sign in. So now it is connected successfully. So let’s try and go down and click on Dropbox again.

So you see here it has connected to my account and I can then modify it, pause it and delete it. So here, if I say modify integration, it will basically just say the name and the node. I can’t really work with it. I can’t say that it needs to take this often a backup. When should it take a backup?

Where should we save it? Just as we saw with MySQL, this one is simple to set up, but the settings afterwards are very simplified. I will just delete it again as a storage. So now let’s go back to integrations and the last one I want to show you is a very simple FTP web server set up.

So when I click here, then we see a window very much like the one we saw before, and we need to fill out some information about where we should basically pull the data from, the name, the host name and so on. So let me just fill this out. So now I have added integration for my own website with an SFTP sign in. I will then again create the website node here and then on the left side we can then see all the folders that we have on my website. At the moment, the website is in the public folder.

So I’ll just only include the public folder and up here again let’s just call it very simple backup. You can also exclude here you can say backup everything except for these specific paths. But I will keep this as is, and then I’ll create the node again. We see the same view we saw with MySQL, where I can create a simple backup. I can add a schedule to tell us to take it back up every single day.

And again, I can set the number of backups, the time zone and where it should save these backups. Again, I can actually save it on Dropbox as well, which takes me back to the integrations because this is basically just a way where you can store your own platforms, so you can’t really take a backup of your Dropbox. You can just use Dropbox to store your files, which really limits this. I would really like to be able to back up my Dropbox or my Google Drive into this platform. But another thing is that more and more platforms, especially website platforms, have backup built in to the system.

So whether you’re using a WordPress managed server hosting, then they often have backup built in. It is mainly for if you have some custom FTP set up or a very limited domain provider or hosting, then this could be interesting for you. Of course, if you have something specific like your own build system, then again, this would also be interesting for you. But as a private person, I would like to be able to basically back up my Dropbox and Google Drive and so on. So I have another place to back up my documents, my files, my pictures even.

But at this moment it is not possible. It is only possible to basically back up your cloud providers, your databases and web servers. And then you can choose whether you want to back it up on BackupSheep or you want to use one of your other cloud providers, as we saw down here, which is basically your storage platform.

BackupSheep Pricing

Now the pricing of BackupSheep is very simple. You have a free plan and a paid plan. And on the free plan, you get 25 GB of storage and three nodes. That is a lot of storage. And that basically means that you can set up three integrations where they cannot together surpass 25 GB.

The unlimited plan. You have unlimited nodes, so you can set up as many integrations as you want to, but you are still limited to two terabytes of storage.

Alternatives to BackupSheep

The alternative to BackupSheep is Snapshooter and these two, compared to each other, are very similar. They have more or less the same integrations. The pricing are very much alike, but I still feel that Backup Sheets are taking it a step further.

I would, however, like it if BackupSheep could make it a little easier to do all of these integrations. I know with Dropbox and etcetera, it’s really easy, but for instance with the VPS, the FTP and so on, I feel it could be made easier. As I mentioned in the walkthrough.

Future of BackupSheep

Now, the future of BackupSheep seems quite interesting. First off they’re working on a restore function so let’s say that you finally want to restore a backup that you have made instead of what you have to do now where you have to download it manually upload it to wherever the backup needs to go. Then with the restore function you can basically with one click restore this backup, so it’s live again.

It will save you a tonne of time. Furthermore, then they are adding more integrations to Pcloud and Plesk which is a lot like Cpanel and last but not least, then they are adding automatic cleaning. This means that you can say that every time there is a backup that is older than 30 days, then you have to delete it. In this way, you will never surpass the amount of gigabytes that you have on your account, and you will have a clean interface of only the backups that you need to keep.

Pros & Cons using BackupSheep

Using BackupSheep I really like that they have a lot of integrations and even more is coming soon, and then their automatic scheduled backup really makes it easy for me, but the fact that I have to manually download and upload to use the restoring function is a bit of a tedious process, and then it is not always easy to set up these different integrations.

Last thoughts about BackupSheep

Backup is super important and once you’ve set it up it just runs automatically in the background. You never have to think about it again until you need to restore a backup.

I want to give BackupSheep four stars. It’s a great and solid backup platform but the restoring process really needs to be improved. That’s my review.

When I first saw Satiurn I was really wondering whether this was the one. The project management software with all the features needed, because they have a modern design, they have boards, they have pipelines. But what about automations? Let’s check it out.

So this is the dashboard of Satiurn with a calendar. We can either take it monthly or weekly, and then we have our agenda over here with our reminders, tasks, transactions and proposals. We can easily search here for all the different boards, tasks, users, et cetera. For instance, I’m right now searching for WordPress, which is one of the tasks. And surprisingly it’s not showing.

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1. Features of Satiurn
2. Satiurn Pricing
3. Alternatives to Satiurn
4. Future of Satiurn
5. Pros & Cons using Satiurn
6. Last thoughts about Satiurn

Features of Satiurn

But let’s move on and go directly into projects. For each project, you can attach a pipeline, and a pipeline is basically for doing sales. So let’s just jump right into the first project I’ve created, which is the WordPress website. Here you can see that we have a Kanban board where we have to do, in progress. And then let’s just add another list called Done.

I have some tasks over here. The first one is to set up a website. And for each task you can see that we have deadline, we can track time, we can set priority, and a lot more you can see here. We can also assign, and we can invite and send a link to the specific task as well. We can add to-dos comments. We also have files now going back.

We can easily drag and drop between the different stages here. And it’s very easy to create a new task. You just click the plus icon, and then you write a new task and another new task. It’s very easy and it works very well. You can also use the task table view if that works better for you personally.

For me, I like the kanban most. We also have a timeline view, but this only works if you have set up different deadlines. Otherwise, you won’t be able to see the tasks here. But for instance, here I can see that I want to work on this task for a couple of days. So let’s just set it here.

So now it’s to do. And now you can see that the due date is from 11th April until 20 April, and then it lasts that number of days. We also have issues and issues that are basically bugs or something that has been reported. You can add that in here, and then you can add the specific issue. It could be that the website is down right now, it is in production.

Let’s create this one. When you have fixed it, you just mark it as resolved. You can also assign over here I’ll just assign myself. Up here we have a where we can filter the view. Depending on what view we are on here, we can group it on the task table and kanban again, we can group it, and we can also view the archive tasks.

But for instance, here I have a task called set up design. Let’s see if we can search for set up design and see if we can get anything. Here it is actually showing me set up a website twice. So it seems this search feature is not so optimised at the moment because I only have one task called setting up a website.

That is the project management part. Let’s go onto the pipeline. Let’s call this one very simple Sales. Keep this one as is and create it. So here it is just a simple sales funnel.

It is just a CRM system where you can manage all of your proposals, sales etc. So let’s call this one again WordPress. It is a sale and let’s say the value is 2000. The deadline for this is 14 April and the assignee is myself. The probability I will set this one to 50/50 and then let’s create it.

So now we have our sale here. You can see again we have a kanban, a task table, a timeline, and then we have our deal here. And for this specific deal, it is now basically a project because, as you saw, we have different views here. For this deal we can also set up planning where it is that we basically set up reminders that we have to call on this specific day, or we have to send an email. We can see the different stages here.

We can set up to-dos, and then we can have some contact or proposals down here. So, as you can see, we can create a new proposal and for this proposal I will just create myself as a contact and then in the next step we have to set up the service data. Here we need to add the items. This can be: Set up website that costs 1000, and then it can also be set up design also 1000 in this case. So, now we have two items.

Let’s go to the last step which is basically just a recap and here you can see final instalment. It says zero here and the payment date we will set is 29 April. So right now it says there is an issue here and that’s because I need to choose a folder, let’s choose running. And now the recap is ready.

So I can create this proposal. So now we have a proposal ready right here. You can see we can then do some more stuff. We can add attachments, we can add labels, we can duplicate them, we can share them and so on because you want to be able to share them with your potential client. And then we also have contacts here, and then we can add some notes down in the history that is pipelines.

We also have a chat module here and what I really like is the idea of creating a chat room for each of your different projects. So this is fascinating, but whether people will use it or not is really an interesting thing as well, because we have Slack and other chat programmes which are used widely in so many companies, so it will be a lot easier for them just to write in Slack. But here at least, you can say that a pro for using this chat is that everything related to this project is collected in one place in Satiurn. So I will say there are pros and cons for using the chat system here, but it works very well, and we can see down here that I can just send messages, and it’s live and in real time as well. We also have a planner here and a planner is basically an overview of all of your different projects running.

So here you can see that we need to from 11 April until further ahead to set up a website. You can see right now it is on track and if I click on it then we have the different information we sold just before the task. A very simple view, but this is a great view in order to figure out how much space you have to take on tasks? So maybe you have to rearrange some tasks and so on. So I really like this view, especially when we can see it and go through the different weeks.

I would like to be able to just scroll horizontally, so I don’t have to click this button up here every time. But over here we can also say that we do not work Saturday and Sunday and our hours are approximately 8 hours a day. Then we do also have the administration module and that is where you control your finances, your proposals and your dashboard. Overall, in the finances you can set up transactions and I will say finances, that’s a big module to just take on, and they have simplified it a lot. But I’m almost certain that this module does not support all the different government regulated rules there are.

So I think you need to take this with a little grain of salt and figure out whether you really want to use it or not. At least you can export to PDF, you can manage categories and, of course, create new transactions. But what’s interesting in here is of course proposals. So, as you saw before, we created this proposal here, and we have our different folders out here. We can then share the proposal, or we can basically just edit it and here you can see the proposal set up.

It says zero everywhere even though I said 1000. But maybe I was missing some numbers and here we can restore it to the last. We can export it as a PDF, or we can send it by email and, over here, we can just save the document as is. So let’s go back because we still have our proposal and this is basically the same view you saw before. And then the dashboard is an overview of your transactions, your proposals, and then you have a business chart down here.

So let’s for fun, try and add a transaction here. Let’s call this one website. I bought a new website, and then we’ll add the different information down here as well. So now I have added a transaction for 2000 because I bought a website. This is just an example.

And then on the dashboard here you can then again see that we have 2000 in estimated expenses. We do not have any income yet because, as you saw, the proposal is still running and has not been approved yet. We do also have contacts over here and this is just basically an overview of your customers. And again, as you saw before with the pipelines, this is also for a CRM system, so you can use this one as well to manage your customers, your collaborators and your suppliers. We do also have a team here just with my own information.

And then we have the boards and the sales down here, which is basically the same as going to a project and clicking on the board. Now, one thing I’m really missing about these project management modules are that we can invite the clients because right now if the client wants to add more tasks or the client wants to see what the progress is, then they have to manually email me and tell me whatever they have of intent. But if I was able to basically invite them into Satiurn to follow the progress of their own system, I would save a lot of time communication. That would be a nice add-on. And then of course we’re missing a lot of integrations and automation because going down to the settings here, you can see that we have the business, we have branding where we can add our own logo to really white label it.

We have translations if you want to have it in your own language. We have payments, and we have an API as well. And then we have webhooks. So in theory you can integrate this with third party systems, but it’s definitely not as easy as if they had already made the integration for you. So those are just small things that will really lift Satiurn and make it an even better product.

Satiurn Pricing

Now let’s discuss pricing, because what they really highlight on their pricing plan is that they are a lot cheaper than the alternatives. And when they compare themselves to the alternatives, they also showcase how many products they actually replace. Because not only is it a project management software, you can also handle your proposals, your finances, and basically your entire sale within Satiurn. And not only does it replace products, it’s also a lot cheaper. And as you can see, they have two paid plans, but you can also use it for free, even though they don’t highlight it.

If you go to the front page. Then you can see that you can start out for free, testing out Satiurn and then actually using it. And when you have decided, then you can always upgrade to one of the paid plans.

Alternatives to Satiurn

Now the alternative to Satiurn as I see it is first off, Monday.com. Monday.com is now mainly a project management software, but it’s so agile that you can use it for almost anything you want to basically handle.

You can use it to handle orders, to handle some type of finances, to handle a pipeline, and so much more. So, based on that, compared to Satiurn, Monday.com is definitely a more beneficial product because they also have automations, and they integrate with so many more products than Satiurn at the moment. But Satiurn is just a very simplified version of Monday.com. The other alternative is Clickup.com and Clickup.com is as Monday.com very agile. But what I find about Clickup.com is that it can sometimes be a little complicated to figure out because it has so many features that you can use.

ClickUp also has a lot of automations and integrations, but what ClickUp is missing is a two-way integration. So it is integrated with other systems. So, whenever something happens in ClickUp it should also be updated on an external system. That is one part that ClickUp is missing. And again compared to Satiurn it’s just a more simplified version of ClickUp.

In this case you don’t have so many features to play around with, but sometimes that is also better because then you don’t get confused by using the product.

Future of Satiurn

Now the future of Satiurn is really defining what route they are taking. The first thing I noticed was that they are working on integrations and this is integrations for KonnectzIT and for Pabbly and this really shows that they’re taking the automation route which is what Satiurn is really missing because with automations we will save time, and we’ll be able to make less mistakes because we take the manual aspect away. Furthermore, then they are adding a contract module. And this contract module adds to this entire circle of Satiurn being a business management software and not only project management software. For the project side, they are adding budgeting and milestones. This means it will be a lot easier for you to manage your projects, estimate them, so you can give a precise price for all of your clients.

But it will be interesting to see how they will develop these products and whether they will be up to the standard that we can actually use them.

Pros & Cons using Satiurn

Now after using Satiurn and I really like the chat rooms, it’s easy to use, and you get a lot of value for money though, I’m really missing automations, integrations and then a common thread throughout the different modules.

Last thoughts about Satiurn

It’s interesting what Satiurn is doing of taking this approach to try and collect everything within one software. Would I recommend Satiurn? I will say if you’re a freelancer or a small team who just needs simple project management software features then Satiurn could be for you but if you’re a larger setup, or you don’t want to have manual tasks then you need to look for another software. I want to give Satiurn three stars as a simple project management software it’s great, but they really need to work on their workflow.

That’s my review.