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Anyone have recommendations or ways to get around working with a partner like Bazaarvoice for review syndication (our reviews platform is Okendo) - they charge a FORTUNE and are always unwilling to negotiate, as far as I know they have a monopoly on many retailers so if you retail with a certain partner you may be required to work with BV - but wondering if people have found ways around this
<@U08GMTJRYJD> can you elaborate on what you mean by "fairly manageable fee"? Curious what you've been quoted - we pay 2X for BV than we do for Okendo annually as of right now and all they do is syndicate the reviews we're already collecting.
$6K for one partner/one brand is already likely more than Okendo or your reviews partner depending on the size of your plan - but yes it's min $10K per brand (we have 3) even if it's only for a couple of retail partners. Exorbitant fees - they have a monopoly with many of the retail partners and use that to charge these insane markups on very basic tech
what do you mean? it's all under the same parent company - but they work with different retailers in some cases, and it's different product
I hated BV and moved to Power Reviews for syndication to Target. Was maybe 10% cheaper but they were easier to work with and did multiple syndication periods throughout the year
Do you need to syndicate to any other retailers besides target?