Joe Kevens

At PartnerStack's customer conference, we had our Director of Product Management present recent product developments and what's ahead on the roadmap.

is this the most-liked post of all time in the community? 😆😬

Working on wrapping up a couple of "Views on Reviews" interviews with Axel Lavergne and Alexie Glover . My one question would be, who would you like to hear from on their views on reviews? (i.e. who do you think would be a good interviewee on the topic of reviews?)

Good call!

Meg O'Hearn I tried SourceForge back in 2021 and it didn't work at all for us (PartnerStack). In my experience, they greatly overpromised and underdelivered. They estimated an avg of 600-1000 clicks per month for us but we only had 40 landing page visits from them in our one-quarter trial period. If you're considering them, I recommend running some Google searches for your buying terms. I tried a couple myself for Tines, and didn't see SourceForge come up (see attached). If they're not ranking in search for key buying terms in your category, they very likely won't perform for you. And there's probably half a dozen other review sites to prioritize ahead of them.

I was trying to get this launched at PartnerStack, but our customer contract Ts and Cs would require opt-in permission to share out customer list with the Noble app. Unfortunately, that was a dealbreaker for us. I love the idea, wish we could have tried it.

But other leading peer review sites like G2, TrustRadius, and PeerSpot and analysts like Forrester and IDC are generally separate from one another. (Some exceptions: e.g in the go-to-market technology niche, the analyst firm GTM Partners leverages G2 peer review data, so there's mutually beneficial relationship there, too, if you're in that space)

With Gartner, it certainly is. Their Magic Quadrants use Gartner Peer Insights (peer reviews) https://www.gartner.com/en/products/peer-insights. It's arguably the main reason why one would collect peer reviews on Gartner Peer Insights (not to be confused with Gartner Digital Markets, though 😵‍💫).

Shannon was great to interview! She had great insight to share, and gave me a laugh in our chat, too. 10/10 guest!

And you beat me to posting about it on LinkedIn! I'll get to that tomorrow :)