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Podium Overview

What is Podium?

Podium is the all-in-one AI-powered lead management and communication platform used by more than 100,000 businesses to acquire and convert new customers. At the forefront of Podium’s innovation is its AI employee, who ensures businesses respond to leads instantly, anytime of the day or night—significantly increasing lead conversion rates and revenue. Podium helps businesses obtain more reviews, rank higher on Google, and consolidate lead channels. Businesses can call and text customers from the web and/or mobile app, send payment links, drive repeat business through bulk messages, and more—all managed and delivered from one easy-to-use dashboard. Additionally, with Podium’s AI Employee and automations, businesses can efficiently handle customer inquiries seamlessly across all communication channels, providing timely and accurate responses that drive sales. Podium’s innovative work has gained recognition on top industry lists, such as Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000, and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. Podium was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah. It is currently backed by Accel, Summit Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Y Combinator.

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Product Description

Podium empowers local businesses to do more business in less time with the simplicity of text messaging. Our platform allows you to get more reviews, gather more leads, get paid via text, send text marketing campaigns, centralize communications, and more.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Podium is solely focused on building our product to help businesses win. Our platform provides solutions for the entire customer experience from business consideration with review management features, lead management with our unified inbox, to long term retention with text marketing.

Here are some features our customers love most about us:
- Automated Review Requests
- Phone System and VoIP Solutions
- AI assistant for customer communications
- Text Marketing Management
- Continuous innovation and product improvement
- An all-in-one platform, not another point solution


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Podium
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Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
Lehi, UT
Twitter
@PodiumHQ
3,445 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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1,359 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Podium is a customer interaction platform that uses messaging and automation to help businesses improve their customer engagement, reviews, and local SEO strategies.


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Josh D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
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A good avenue to convert sessions into leads by allowing customers to text chat and capturing some detailers we might not have got. Easy of autom...
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5.0 out of 5
"A great platform for client and service communication."
It is a fast and very managable way of communicating with clients for our buisness.
Gus S.
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Gus S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"It has been pretty easy to navigate through podium."
The thing I like beat might just be the many fictions it has and how it can keep my messages organized.
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Deanna N.
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What do you like best about Podium?

I love how helpful the Podium team has been with our company. We have participated in a pilot program that is about to go live and Cody Hayes has helped collaborate with our team. He is always happy to help and always prompt to respond. Cody has explained everything in a way that is easy to understand and has helped ease our integration. Our team has used Podium for a few months now and we are excited to partner with them. Thank you for all of your help Cody! We appreciate you and your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Podium is a little on the expensive side but they add a lot of value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Podium is great because it brings all of the lead aggregators into one inbox. This makes it very user friendly and saves us time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Whitney Adamson of Podium

We're thrilled to hear that Cody and our team have been so helpful in collaborating with your company and easing the integration process. We appreciate your feedback and are excited to continue our partnership with you.

LW
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Podium?

The texting feature & being able to link to our showroom number!! We love the payment system too-- quick and easy to use.

Love that everything is doucment & phone calls can be recorded too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Not able to group text multiple clients at one time. Not much else is an issue-- may be nice to eventually organize text the way we prefer then a set standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps us to keep things in 1 portal & easily accessible for all employees so everyone is on the same page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TK
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What do you like best about Podium?

Podium is very easy to use especially for lead generating that sends leads from customers whom have questions about products on your companies website. This platform makes it very easy for customers to comunicate with your business especially if they are not able to physically come in they can make secure payments through thier E-mail or cell phone. I can make templates for appointment reminders, payment reminders, and updates on purchases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

I have not come accross any dislikes about podium so far and have been a customer for over 3 years. They have updates every so often but the updates just make the platform even easier. I highly recommend Podium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Podium helps us with payment reminders, customer appointment reminders and text communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas H.
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What do you like best about Podium?

Transparency! No more passing messages from the field to the office to the customer! Now everything is in one place. Customers are happier that we are all on the same page! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Notifications after hours don't get sent to one person. If that would be added that would be perfect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Communicating with customers! Recorded calls that are transcribed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Whitney Adamson of Podium

We're glad to hear that Podium has helped streamline communication and improve transparency for your business. We appreciate your feedback about after-hours notifications and will share this with our team for future improvements.

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What do you like best about Podium?

We find the Podium platform user-friendly and effective, especially for managing Google reviews. Our customer service representatives adapt quickly to using it in their day to day work. A true highlight of our relationship with Podium is the responsiveness and expertise of our account managers, Camiele and Ashley. We are grateful to have such a wonderful support team! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

We've encountered some issues in our experience with Podium. The main problem is with the API. Despite working with the development team for nearly two years, we still can't automatically import text conversations into our CRM. This lack of progress is frustrating and inconvenient, requiring extra steps to manually save and attach conversations to accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is allowing us to manage our online reputation as well as allowing our customers to reach us via texting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Whitney Adamson of Podium

Thank you for sharing how Podium has helped you manage your online reputation and provide texting capabilities for your customers. We're committed to addressing the API issue and improving our platform to better meet your needs. We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to support your company.

CP
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What do you like best about Podium?

I love that Podium is constantly improving their user platform. It is becoming more and more on point with a CRM system. We are excited to continually see the upgrades and additions so we can fully integrate our CRM with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Only that all the CRM needs are not fully implemented yet- but we see that they are on a path to get us there soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Podium has helped our business process payments and allowing easy communication with our customers in a really organized manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC
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What do you like best about Podium?

Podium is really easy to use and user friendly. I like that it will notify you via email if a message hasn't been responded to within a certain amount of minutes, and if you want it to have AI then it is great for responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Sometimes the AI is too quick for us to respond, but I think that can be changed in the settings. It also allows you to assign it to someone if you need more time before the AI agent texts back. It would be helpful if Podium and Service Titan could merge and it can all be located in one space instead of 2 separate places. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our business hasnt had any issues with anything needing to be resolved that I am aware of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Whitney Adamson of Podium

We're glad to hear that you find Podium easy to use and user-friendly. The email notification feature and AI responses are designed to help streamline communication. We appreciate your feedback about the AI response speed, and we'll take it into consideration for future improvements. Thank you for your suggestion about merging with Service Titan; we'll pass that along to our team for review.

Adrienne T.
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What do you like best about Podium?

The initial reason we got Podium was for texting - which is our favorite part still. Since beginning our business relationship with Podium, we've began using their other features, mainly payments and have loved growing and developing with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Not a dislike, but if I needed to say something that it doesn't do that I wish it did do is integrate with our other softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Podium best serves us as a time management tool. It makes our company more efficient and helps management monitor customer relations more closely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Podium?

I like the ease of the software and if an issue were to come up the support team is always willing to help. We just started to utilize the AI employee and it works great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Something I dislike about Podium is that we do not receive emails when updates are coming out. For instance a few weeks ago there was a major update to the home screen in our Podium and there was no warning for this update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick service to our members. This benefits us because in today's ever-changing tech world some people would rather text than talk on the phone. Some people only have text so it helps us out a lot when we need to get in touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Podium?

We used to operate our communication off of a single phone, which forced customer communication through one person. Podium has streamlined all of our communication and allowed for many of our employees to enage in customer communication quickly and effectively. We have found that the text to pay option has sped up our collection time greatly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Podium?

Our only concern with podium is with bulk messaging. We would like to be able to text our regular, weekly customers and leave out our 'one off' customers. However, having to tag each weekly service customer is a bit cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Podium solving and how is that benefiting you?

Podium allows us to assign conversations to those in the company who are best equipped ot answer customer questions and concerns. The text to pay option has been a big hit with our customers who always lost their invoice in their email inbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Whitney Adamson of Podium

It's great to hear that Podium has helped your team efficiently manage customer communication and improve collection time. We're committed to providing solutions that benefit businesses like yours.