5 New AppSumo Deals You SHOULD Know About (Including a $39 Live Chat Tool) - TTR 12-6-24

0:00 it's time for the taco truck roundup the show where I tell you about everything that's new at appsumo my name is Dave and I review lifetime deals every single day of the week this is not a sponsored video I'm simply going to recap some of the more popular deals to hit abso this week I've spent hours going through each tool clicking every button going through all of the menus so I can confidently tell you what is good and what you might want to skip our first tool is Charla Charla is a live chat and knowledge-based solution with AI chatbot C cap abilities but we'll put a little asteris on that because the AI part is still in experimental phase now the biggest upside to Charla is quite frankly its price it is very very affordable and you get unlimited sites and unlimited conversations for the low

0:45 low price of just 39 bucks on top of having chat on your website you also get a ticketing system so you can actually have people send in email requests as well although there's not very good integration between the live chat and the ticketing system yet although I've Been Told that that is being fixed pretty rapidly overall it has a very clean and modern interface feels just like a more expensive SAS except you can get it for a onetime price there is unlimited stacking for Charla by the way so if you want more than the five agents they give you you can go ahead and stack multiple codes literally as many as you want you get five agents per code everything else is Unlimited in my full length review I commented that there is no export options but apparently the founder is willing to work with you on that if you ever need to leave the tool you can just send in a request to

1:31 support and they will give you all of your chat history and they are also actively working on building a integrated export system right into the tool now my only other real gripe with Charlo was that it tended to drag just a little bit when switching between different screens there is a loading animation and it was kind of confusing to me it was not necessarily the average loading animation that you typically see it was a guy playing soccer or something like that so uh yeah just know that when you see that it is the loading animation instead of having the little Spinning Wheel they try to get creative all right let's head over to the comments and see what you guys thought of Charla now this was actually made because of viewer requests I don't typically review non appsumo select deals but I made an exception in this case got lots of comments here let's engage we'll start

2:17 off with a little bit of a confrontation Roberto says that Charla appears to be an excellent tool but the support has become frustratingly slow and is nearly non-existent he sent an email 4 days ago no answer so far deleting a test user so I did uh this next part that he says deleting a test user and creating a new one using the same email address generates an airr I went ahead and tested that and I can confirm that it did generate an airror for me as well so I got on this all happened within like maybe two minutes of Robert posting I validated that that does happen I jumped on their chat they didn't know who I was I said hey uh you know I've got this problem and then I said you know who I am like go check this out on the the comments and then then they joined over there and uh you know helped Robert out

3:02 so that was very cool to see um so basically they got Robert Robert all taken care of uh overall I I got very fast support I didn't go through email I went through chat thinking they're a chat company they should have live chat and sure enough they did and we've got Lindsay here saying that I've had this tool for about two months now they saw the review video and then all of a sudden they learned a bunch of new things they can accomplish with Charla so thank you very much for that Lindsay it's always great to hear that my videos are helpful just a couple more comments here on Charla because there is so much interesting conversation we've got coexist peacefully here saying Dave can you please tell me why you removed my comment I just asked you to review another tool just like others I'm wondering what was wrong with my comment very reasonable question well the answer is I did not remove your comment in fact

3:48 I did not even see it YouTube is actually terrible about notifying me of comments and also will remove them before they even get posted if their filters deem them to be at all spammy so my guess is you may have included a link to the tool you wanted to me me to review and then YouTube flagged that and removed it before I even saw it let me just give you an example of what I see on my back end here so this is my YouTube studio and if I look at my comments for this video right this is Charla um I have no filters on right now at all in fact I have the minimum amount of filters possible on YouTube for spam filtering now check this out there is a default setting it says says response status and then I haven't responded if I click this it's blank it says I've

4:35 responded to everybody so that's what I see on a regular basis however by checking this video and looking it looks like there's a bunch of comments that I haven't even seen before there's requests for other tools a bunch of people you know commenting through other experiences but I didn't get notified of those so I'm sorry if I don't reply to everybody I really do make an honest effort to try to hit everybody's questions we just need a better commity Community solution than YouTube and I'm working on it believe me and the last comment that I want to tackle here is in relation to their AI so there was quite a few comments actually about the AI features of Charla and basically I I'm confused why people are seeing this as an AI tool when the only AI feature it has is something that is marked as experimental but here uh we've got uh

5:22 tar saying that they have not yet finished a very B basic issue of Bot to human transfer and I think this stuff will all come as soon as the AI stuff moves out of experimental and even into beta mode so definitely stay tuned I think we're going to see some good updates to charlot now I'm going to give this a final score 8.3 out of 10 definitely go check out Charla if you want some live chat on your website with AI possibly to come later up next is dinos send dinos send is an email marketing platform it can do both newsletters or broadcasts as well as automated drip sequences I found it to be a very enjoyable clean interface uh it has a nice solid ID email Builder with a very simpl to ous drag and drop system and when you're about to send an email off it even shows you a built-in spam checking score so that is a really

6:09 nice little extra cherry on top and the automation Builder was clear as day it was very simple to get set up knowing exactly what was going to happen between sending email one to email 2 putting a delay in between getting everything branched off if I wanted certain conditions it was really simple to use my only gripes with Dino send was the fact that everything on the UI basically required two clicks there was no clickable main menus everything was nested inside of triple dots you had to click them and then you got extra options but there was no main options so that was very frustrating and it definitely slowed down the user interface also when adding new items like a segment inside of an audience when you enter in the name of the segment and then click add there's a motal popup and it it just doesn't go away like you're going to add another

6:54 one but it was just a very kind of confusing interface so just little tweaks that some stuff that would be very simple to fix honestly um but just a few rough edges get those ironed out and it's going to be a really nice tool I guess the one other kind of downside is they have a super basic AI integration into their email Builder it's basically just like you know write a little prompt about what you want the email to be and then you copy and paste into the email Builder definitely just use your chat GPT Plus or flawed Pro subscription or whatever and just you know utilize that it's going to write much better emails if you're relying on AI to write emails over to the comments we've got Brad stops here 8862 saying another great review a couple quick questions for those of us not well-versed in email marketing first do I need to have a paid email service to

7:40 work with this or can I utilize a free personal Google or Outlook account so to answer that question you don't need anything extra you just sign up for the service you add your domain as being okay to send through the service and then you're golden you'll utilize their servers to send email out you will not be receiving any email to this tool you'll not check email from this tool you'll only be sending email out and then you'll use your regular workmail to actually receive the messages now if you want to send for address that you don't actually check I don't recommend that but you could do that you just set the reply to address to be the actual email address that you you know read on a regular basis the second question is how does this compare to something like Tarvin another recent appsumo deal and my answer to that would be I've got a

8:26 full video on Tarvin you should definitely go check that out I'll link to that in the description or just head to my channel and search for Tarvin that way you can watch both videos and kind of determine which one is a good fit for you bur beep says uh thanks for the video Dave it seems like none of the new breed of mail platforms handle RSS feed campaigns so what he's talking about here is if you got a Blog you're putting out regular posts on your website you want to turn those blog posts into an email newsletter or maybe you just send a Chronicle of everything that you've posted over the last week or the last month well some older tools allow allow you to do that right inside of the tool and he mentions a couple here like MailChimp and mailer light and even Constant Contact and a Weber those are definitely old school email marketing tools but none of the email new new email tools do that at least according

9:13 to bur beep I would mention right away that uh senf Fox does this and it does a pretty good job of it so definitely check out senf Fox you might want to consider getting maybe one of their higher tier abso plans but then also pay the $10 a month for their empire add-on that gives you removal of all of the sinf fox branding as well as their better deliverability I think that is one of the better deals for email marketing out there so I've got a full video on senf Fox I'll link to that in the description as well you can go ahead and check that out overall Dino send is quite good I definitely recommend trying it out and seeing if it's a good fit for you I ended up giving it a 7.2 out of 10 our next deal is clippy clippy is a CRM focused on sales pipeline management and it has pretty good email integration as long as you use Google or Outlook now

9:58 they're adding an smt connection later but that's not here right now why I say it's a good integration is they do a really nice job of gathering up all of your emails all of your existing contacts and then even sprucing them up adding in some extra information that they get from scraping and Ai and kind of collecting everything together inside of your CRM overall the clippy interface is nice clean modern very notion esque I would say definitely an upgrade over many crms that I've tested over the years uh typically they tend to be a little bit ugly and cold feeling and that is not very enjoyable when you need to basically live in your CRM for a salesperson now clippy also had this really other interesting feature of meeting scheduling built into the tool and the way this worked is you actually book the meetings through Google or

10:44 Microsoft but it will bring along its little AI assistant to do notetaking for you you get a set number of minutes with each plan on Appo so you get a higher plan you get more minutes lower plan gets less minutes uh but then it takes notes for you and brings those back into this M that's a pretty cool idea there's also a voice note recording right inside of clippy where it'll actually let you just talk into your microphone talk to your laptop make a recording and then transcribe that you can also share those notes as well as knowledge-based articles with your team so if there's sales information that you want to share uh you know just contract information about clients you can easily do that internally as far as the downsides of clippy I would say one of the biggest downsides is related to their pricing tiers now I want to preface this by saying that generally I don't complain

11:31 about the pricing tiers on appsumo I feel like they are abundantly generous and all of these tools are stupidly cheap when people complain about stuff being expensive I don't really get it but with clippy they do not give you email per seat so basically what I'm saying here is you could have let's say 10 agents on your account but you don't get 10 email addresses and that's just kind of weird because a lot of businesses use their agents as the actual email address we don't all use role based accounts that's what I'm getting at so just up those limits to be you know one to one in terms of seats per email address and things will look a lot better in my opinion also as long as I'm complaining the pipeline stages were not customizable so your sales pipeline a pretty important part of CRM you couldn't actually change the names of

12:17 the stages or even remove some of the stages if they were not relevant to your business now certainly most businesses will do proposals but not all a lot of people will close deals on Discovery calls and never do proposal at all so it' be nice to you know at least hide some of those stages but currently not an option heading over to the comments we've got vasty design here saying hi Dave seems like way too young of a product good price if you need a CRM right away I agree I think it is a very good price and it's clearly a younger product but I also think it's full featured enough to begin using especially for the right person it's sometimes difficult to see outside of our own needs and very often a more limited product is going to be more appealing to many people new neg ATM says thanks Dave I've become a big fan I

13:04 didn't see a place to add PDFs to a company or person we like to upload or attach documents like contracts and other collateral and I did confirm there is no way to upload any assets to contacts or companies inside of clippy and producti dos says thanks for the review could you please create a video about your studio is this an AI generated background Studio can you create a video of how to do it thank you sorry to disappoint this is a real room it's this the real camera yeah I'm a real person last I checked I'd be happy to make some content about my my video process actually get quite a few questions about which tools I use to record so I've done that in the past but it's probably time for an update so stay tuned for that probably in the new year though we'll get through December 1st

13:50 overall clippy is solid definitely lacking a few customizations but I think it's going to appeal to a certain crowd that just wants to get business done and not monkey around with a lot of settings I gave it a 7.4 out of 10 all right we still got two more tools to talk about this week but before we do that I want to just ask if you're enjoying this content go ahead and hit the like button if you've never subscribed to this channel before now is the time to do so I'm making new lifetime deal reviews every single day of the week so if you want to grow your online business you are in the right place all right moving on our next tool of the week is topic Mojo with topic Mojo you can generate content ideas and do topic research now the idea here is that maybe you've got a seed word like I don't know how about baking cakes then you can find all of

14:37 the longtail keywords that are surrounding the concept of baking cakes maybe they're going to talk about baking birthday cakes or chocolate cakes or you know just kind of more detailed search terms now this is helpful but it's not too unlike what you could get from just doing a Google autocomplete type of search where it becomes more interesting is that you can actually do these search sech is not just on search engines but inside of social media so you want to see you know what is trending around cake baking on YouTube well you can see the latest videos there although you could just go to YouTube and search for it as well overall in my full length video I was trying out the tool in the beginning and very optimistic about it I really wanted this tool to be great but the deeper I got into the product the more it started to fall down and just

15:23 become kind of disappointing not kind of it was disappointing I had trouble getting any data out related to Twitter the filtering system of their YouTube videos just was unreliable it did not work correctly and the SEO metrics the stuff that actually could be useful well that's hidden behind a pay wall you have to have a monthly subscription to see any of that data they also have some AI writing capabilities but don't waste your time they are not very high quality when you compare them to something like chat GPT or Claude it's just very very sparse content and it looked like maybe it was using gpt3 o even okay maybe 3.5 I don't really know but it wasn't very high quality the winner 3163 says should be called topic bug I think you wasted

16:09 your time touche SML 4 says it had great potential once however they have killed it so that opened up a Pandora's Box where I heard about all of these stories of how the creator of this tool was basically a scammer I don't know anything about that and I'm not going to spread any detailed rumors here but just beware that most of this tool was not very functional and so I probably wouldn't recommend it and honestly I wouldn't mind if abso decided to take it off of their Marketplace doesn't seem like it's a great representation of the appsumo select brand like Mr Bex here says don't buy this tool the founder is a shady person and scam buyers with his other startups uh brand overflow so I'm not familiar with any of that so I'm not saying it's true or untrue but you know

16:54 buy or beware this is what the internet is saying a little less dramatic of a reply is from the shave tutor here says I definitely agree with your tepid rating I picked up TM from a previous appsumo Run results I get with this tool are just okay and just serges here it says shame that topic Mojo team is so apathetic this tool had great potential so again just kind of emphasizing yeah probably stay away from this one I ended up giving topic Mojo a 5.1 out of 10 our last tool of the week is here and it is Click analytic this is an influencer marketing platform that gives you a way to find influencers connect with them and start to track your brand deals so I was pretty impressed with click analytic there's a lot of tools built into make up this entire package it's really like a tool box or a tool kit so essentially

17:41 we've got the Discover screen where you can filter very specifically the types of influencers you want to find now it's not so much the content they make you can definitely filter for that but you can also very very specifically filter the language they speak the audience they reach the age of the audience the type of audience members that leave comments so you can get super granular here and definitely dial into the types of influencers that will work well for your brand once you find those influencers you can compare them using their built-in analytics and since I was actually listed on the tool itself because you know I have this YouTube channel I can validate that a lot of the analytics were really accurate the only thing that I found to be a little bit laughable was some of the prices they were either just extravagantly high for

18:27 the top influencers which those might be accurate I have no idea but for influencers like my size or even middle siiz ones like Tim Ferris I mean he's not middle he's pretty big time right they had some kind of laughable numbers like I think they said you could work with me for $30 sorry but they also said that you could work with Tim Ferris for like $400 uh so they're just trying to estimate these numbers but I I don't think they're going to be super accurate all the time now there is a full cold Outreach tool built right into this so you can go ahead and find influencers and then set up automations to email them you will need to connect up your Google account to do so it only works with Google no other providers are integrated if you're a Shopify and clayo user there is Integrations on the higher tiers for Shopify I think everybody gets

19:14 the caveo one but kind of the joint uh you know integration between those two tools is already kind of the standard for Shopify store owners so if you get tier three or tier four you'll be able to track your promo codes that you issue to influencers and you'll also be able to uh send off free Goods to influencers directly through the tool I guess the only other downsides other than the ones I've already mentioned are the fact that there are some loading delays As you move around the interface it's not super Snappy uh there's also a 10% Market Place fee let me explain that there's another another section of the tool I've not even mentioned in this review where you can go ahead and post like what you're looking for like I'm going to do a brand deal I'm looking for people to post photos I'm looking for people to create videos and then uh creators can see that and apply now if you end up

20:01 booking a deal through that they do take a 10% fee otherwise there's no other fees throughout the tool so it's up to you whether or not you want to use that Marketplace if it's a good way to reach creators then maybe it's worth the 10% to you otherwise I really like click analytics I think it has a bright future in front of it it's certainly an opportunity to get in on a tool when it's you know earlier on and you know not as expensive as it's going to be these types of tools tend to be very very expensive uh making things like email marketing look downright affordable so definitely jump on this if you've got an e-commerce store and you're looking to get into maybe you already have a platform and you want to move from it but if you're especially looking to get into influencer marketing this seems like a very smart way to go I ended up giving click analytics a 7.1 out of 10 all right that's all of the

20:48 deals for this week if you've enjoyed this video definitely leave me a comment down below of course I've also got my appsumo affiliate link if you want to support this content you can click that before making a purchase for any of the tools in this video or anything in general over at appsumo I'll definitely be back on Monday with more LTD reviews thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next review