SalesLoft

Avantages

The tool itself is great and extremely functional, but the customer support from salelsoft is top tier.The support line for general bugs and queries are efficient and extremely helpful, and the customer success aspect provided by salelsoft is some of the best I’ve seen from any provider in their industry, and wider industry groups.Highly recommend for this reason alone.

Inconvénients

The platform itself can be slightly buggy - the focus on new releases could perhaps be toned down and instead more development work could be put into maintaining and upgrading the existing features to be more stable

Avantages

Intuitive comprehensive product. As a smaller company with tighter budgets, having a complete suite of sales engagement, analytics, forecasting, conversation intelligence, and opportunity management under one roof is essential.

Inconvénients

Honestly there isn't much, and any criticism is really just splitting hairs. Obviously the conversation intelligence and deal management modules aren't as comprehensive as stand-alone solutions, but they're pretty close and more than enough for most teams.

The salesforce integration is almost perfect and is >98% accurate. We've had an issue with salesloft not being able to write a tickbox to salesforce and that would be a nice fix to see, but again it's an inconvenience rather than a pressing issue.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à SalesLoft

Avantages

Salesloft made calling and emailing extremely easy

Inconvénients

Nothing I didnt like about Salesloft to be honest

Avantages

It is a mediocre product with a good salesforce integration

Inconvénients

We bought the product 1 year ago, have been using it for a whole year.

When we signed we were made to believe by looking at the Order form that we are buying a product for 1 year with a start day and an end day.

Apparrently they have a link to an MSA saying "unless stated otherwise on the order form" the product will auto renew. Well based on what the order form is saying the subscription was for 1 year.

They have no cancel buttons, you have to notify them 60! days before if you want to cancel and you need to speak to a "Sales" agent to cancel. Not a support, customer success or other role. They do everything in their power to make it difficult to impossible to cancel

When the subscription "renewal" occurs, they start sending you threatening emails, and will try to force you to prepay the whole year or it will go to collection

They have 0 empathy, they try to masterfully defraud customers into staying with them forever, hiding in the small letters their interpretation of auto-renewal

Very very bad, stay away. Use a legitimate company that wants you to stay because you like the value they offer.

Avantages

The most important reason for implementing Salesloft was our SDR team was slowed down by very admin heavy processes and onboarding became a time sync for new team members to learn. Salesloft meant that new team members could know exactly what was expected as outreach for certain prospects. It also means you now have access to a really rich amount of data to understand what types of outreach = success whether it be mixing up length or when certain emails are sent, no. calls etc. Suddenly having access to this information meant that the most successful SDRs no longer had information siloed to them and we could get more and more best practices shared across the team.

Inconvénients

I mentioned when assessing the features the couple of things where Salesloft could improve: - increase focus for non opp creating SDRs. This would mean that those teams could take more advantage of the coaching modules and actually get richer data when their looking for trends across performance. Most interesting to me would be- number of high value activities completed - no meetings booked - no. meetings attended - being able to read leads converted to an opportunity which is the traditional way Salesforce would identify success. Since the release of Rhythm there has been some jankiness in the tool. A few screens that don't take you where you are supposed to go and some slowness with pre-scheduled emails. Their product team has messaged and said they are working on these areas.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à SalesLoft

Avantages

Total organizational platform for my daily outbound sales duties.

Inconvénients

None. Salesloft is the best platform I have ever used. It fits perfectly with our duties.

Avantages

calling works well
records calls nice
cadences is good idea for structuring outreach

Inconvénients

requires lot of effort
customer support is not good
all our phone numbers disappeared from salesloft - required a lot of manual work

Avantages

The integration of call and email tracking with CRM, along with the use of the cadence tool, proves to be beneficial in automating and simplifying the process. Even if you lack technical expertise, you can quickly grasp its functionality as it is user-friendly and easy to understand. This reliable tool empowers you to enhance work efficiency and effortlessly manage demanding assignments.

Inconvénients

The emails sometimes encounter problems, and there can be instances of system crashes. Additionally, the notifications might be delayed, which doesn't contribute positively. To ensure smooth functioning of SalesLoft, a reliable and uninterrupted internet connection would be advantageous. Importing individual items into SalesLoft can be time-consuming, and if a crash occurs, it may take a while to resume normal operations.

Avantages

SalesLoft is a game-changer for sales teams seeking to optimise their outreach and maximize their results. As a user of SalesLoft, I have discovered several remarkable features that make it an invaluable tool for sales professionals.

Inconvénients

Some users might find less appealing is the learning curve associated with SalesLoft. While the platform offers robust functionality, mastering all its features and maximizing its potential may require time and effort.

Avantages

-It was easy to create cadences-Cadences could be pushed to my team through a variety of methods like our CRM and other marketing tools

Inconvénients

The customer service was a big let down. We lost key functionality and our support ticket was seemingly abandoned after being passed around a few months. For this reason we've decided to no longer renew our contract.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

I loved being able to see who was engaging with my emails, as well as being able to organize my sales outreach in a meaningful way & keep myself on track with cadences.

Inconvénients

There would be glitches semi-frequently. The platform would not work for a couple of hours, the "Import from Salesloft" feature wasn't working, the email signatures got messed up for multiple days at one point. I think they still have some technical things to work on but overall pretty good. Sometimes, I also think the system couldn't detect "opens," because someone would refer to reading an email that SL said they never opened.

Avantages

Thanks to Salesloft, we are able to automate all aspects of new client searches, in particular via emails. I absolutely adore how we can get analytics that show the behavior of future emails from our marketing campaigns and prepare reports and dashboards that show all the data captured, as it keeps us informed about the real level of engagement with our marketing campaigns. It's great that we can set appointments with potential clients through email and install appointments within our calendar and the client's calendar directly.

Inconvénients

I'm having some minor issues with Salesloft, maybe due to a misunderstanding of the correct way to handle some tools, and I also can't filter the records properly to easily identify what I'm looking for sometimes. This causes me some frustration.

Avantages

I like the fact that all email communication can be turned to cadences, and we can move away from antiquated email templates. I'm a big fan of the dashboard, that shows what calls, emails or tasks are due each day.

Inconvénients

The only thing I wish was different is the navigation, sometimes it requires a few too many clicks to get to cadences or schedule an email send.

Avantages

The ease of use speeds up onboarding, converting new workers into producers in weeks. SalesLoft simplifies prospecting and keeps sales teams up to date on communication plans with potential accounts and leads. Analytics provide vital data to ensure you're continuously improving sales cycle efficiencies. It also helps the marketing team manage messaging style and content. Thus, Sales teams can focus on selling instead of creating messaging. The onboarding procedure was meticulously and it was easily set up.

Inconvénients

The only major issue I've had is arranging our emails. If you develop a template and then send it, it seems sloppy and likes it originated from just a computerized method.

Avantages

Having email templates and being able to create cadences can be useful.

Inconvénients

More bugs than a low budget apartment in a bad neighborhood
Dialer is bad and slow
calls frequently do not log- Salesforce integration is bad
Got labeled a spammer
Doesn't work well with Outlook/O365
Delay on emails
Certain graphics and text go through poorly/unprofessionally
Attachments frequently don't work/won't go through
Support is very bad
No functionality to pre-list call outcomes to speed up slow dialer
No importance or other buttons on email
The "opened by" functionality isn't smart enough to know if you opened the email or your prospect did
Limited LinkedIn integration
Imports frequently fail and take longer than they should, particularly if from a report rather than lead view

Avantages

The product has a lot more depths than similiar products and offers many great features.

Inconvénients

Hubspot Integration is not greatOnboarding and ongoing Service are really bad

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à SalesLoft

Avantages

In terms of cadence and transaction follow-up, ease of use is important. The ability to see deals from the perspective of management allows for clear transaction intelligence. Salesloft is reliable, has a built-in Gmail integration, and is simple to use throughout the sales process. We've used different sales tools before, but Salesloft is significantly superior and more comprehensive. For SDRs and AEs, we've had to use distinct tools.

Inconvénients

Deals is a separate platform that SL has integrated within the technology. Without some of the same metrics and reporting capabilities as Cadence, it doesn't have the same feel. Deals are getting better, and I'm excited about the changes to uniform Cadence and Deals.

Avantages

We purchased this product just over a year ago and there really is so much you can do. The reporting capabilities are virtually endless. I love the plugs into Slack and Salesforce. We use those daily. It really motivates my team to see who is setting meetings through SalesLoft and when they are being scheduled.

Inconvénients

This has been a very heavy lift. Things that would would think are intuitive are not. Changing the time for a cadence step is not as simple as changing the time. We have had to undergo multiple trainings for my team to bring everyone up to speed and training new hires has been difficult. That being said, there is a lot this product can do and will likely become very powerful once everyone gets the hang of it.

Avantages

Ease of use, volume of outreach in a matter of minutes, prospect tracking

Inconvénients

Texting is not easy to use and opting each prospect to allow for texting is a process. The app also needs to be better updated.

Avantages

We recently switched from another software to SalesLoft and it has made a massive difference. We can now pull data from SalesLoft into our analytics platform and make proactive decisions. SalesLoft allows me to accurately log every interaction I have with prospects, it allows me to see prospect activity on emails I have sent. I can integrate LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Salesforce to make the sales flow so much smoother.

Inconvénients

I honestly haven't run into a con or problem with SalesLoft yet, any bump we see is easily fixed in less than a day - normally a matter of minutes.

Avantages

Salesloft made my sales life more productive and more proactive than I ever thought it could be. This software gives me insight and data around my sales calls and activities that I never thought about before. I now have more actionable insight around my prospects and more resources readily available to make the mundane tasks of sales less time consuming.

Inconvénients

There are very few areas that I think Salesloft needs to improve because it's so cutting edge but I would like for the dial pad functionality to be more effective when interacting with the extensions of the phone system I'm calling into.

Avantages

Ability to integrate with Salesforce and it makes it easier to prospect by building out templates and cadences.

Inconvénients

The data management can get a little messy if you are switching account/contact owners, but the work around is to re-import.

Avantages

I really like using Salesloft to send out mass emails to long contact lists, the feature to populate personalized information using specific tags such as First_Name or Company_Name are extremely helpful in making prospecting emails not look like spam. The ability to schedule email blasts is also extremely helpful as are the tracking features to monitor who is opening your emails so you can gauge interest.

Inconvénients

The reporting feature of the software is sometimes inaccurate in its reporting of who opened certain emails, and I also have seen issues with its reporting of dates emails were sent especially when it sends that information over to Salesforce, however this integration is extremely useful and saves time.

Avantages

The software is easy to use, effective and allows me to personalize my outreach at scale - which is incredibly valuable

Inconvénients

To be quite frank, the support team and CS teams at SalesLoft leave a lot to be desired and this is congruent to multiple conversations I have had with other SalesLoft customers

Avantages

As an SDR, I use SalesLoft everyday. It makes my job 10x easier by organizing and planning my outreach. Your "cadences" can include emails, calls, or social media steps and the prospects' social accounts are all linked inside the platform

Inconvénients

Making calls within the platform is sometimes a pain. Since they use Twilio as the technology to make calls, dial-by-name directories and extensions mess up frequently.