Recommendations to others considering Base:
Take the time to lean on them for a consultative approach. We couldn't use all of the platform for existing governance and regulations, so we brought in what we could use and then after achieving more buy-in and value, were able to expand into the other offerings. Make sure you understand how much backend work goes into the other programs as well as how much is actually out of the box. Some want to be your entire community or customer portal, that didn't work for us, we already had a robust community, we needed more flexibility of where we could use it as a lighter touch, so that's was a main factor for why we chose Crowdvocate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Base solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reference automation - not only removing the internal effort required to manually find, request, track, and follow up, but the fatigue some of our best customers are feeling due to repeated asks and not having an easy way to monitor thresholds
Case Study - we have several LOBs and Segments, so we have had a need to build out content where we have gaps. This has historically been hard to source, request, track, and update. Crowdvocate allows to make the ask once, but automate who it goes out to, looking for hand raises, rather than making individual requests. This dramatically improves the effort customers perceive when engaging with us.
Reviews - again, the automation through the advocate portal, emails, and in-app messaging have allowed us to scale our requests across the varying review sites.
Recognition - not having to guess what our customers want and instead, having them build points for the leaderboard and then gain access to gifts they can choose from has saved more time than most of us previously expected. They can choose between gift cards, tangible gifts, donations, services - it really is wide open and since it connects with Sendoso, it brings it all into one space, creating a more seamless experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.