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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Alive5

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AWith Alive5’s Business Class SMS platform, teams can text-enable their office phone lines to send 2-way texts, bulk messages, and manage conversations with customers, patients, clients or patrons with chatbot automation.

    $5

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    Groove (legacy product)

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AGroove by Clari is a legacy Sales Engagement product for organizing prospect outreach, capturing sales activity, and guiding seller workflows across email, calendar, CRM, and campaign tools. On August 14, 2023, Clari acquired Groove and integrated it as the sales-engagement layer of the Clari Revenue Platform. Following Clari’s subsequent merger into Salesloft in 2025, Groove became part of the combined Salesloft platform. Salesloft unified the companies under its brand on September 2, 2026;…N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Alive5Groove (legacy product)
    Considered Both Products
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Alive5Groove (legacy product)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (706 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.9
    (33 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    5.4
    (542 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    4.5
    (145 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    4.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
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    Product Scalability
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    9.1
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    Vendor post-sale
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    9.1
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Alive5Groove (legacy product)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    It is well suited for communication with existing customers and prospects. It is less appropriate for people just looking to visit our website to get up to date with the latest team news or those who aren't at a computer.
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    • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
    • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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    Pros
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    • Mobile compatibility - AliveChat has a dynamic user interface which makes its popup chat widget display and work perfectly on all devices - mobile and desktop. Thus web visitors get a complete experience no matter the device from which they use in accessing our website.
    • Analytic - AliveChat provides us with a dynamic set of website analytics that helps us in analyzing our progress or decline in a timely manner. With the analytics provided by AliveChat, we are able to monitor the number of visitors on the website at a particular time, the duration of which they have been on the website, the number of times they have been on the website in time past etc.
    • Feature packed - AliveChat is packed with features which makes the job of the customer care agents easier. For instance, with AliveChat it is very easy for an agent to transfer a web visitors chat to another agent that has better answers to the agent's query. We are also able to introduce short survey questions to web visitors, which they respond to before they begin chatting with a customer care rep.
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    • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
    • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
    • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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    Cons
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    • There seems to always be required upgrades where you need to spend more money to get a better product.
    • The look and feel continues to change, not necessarily for the bad.
    • Price point has gone up a decent amount recently.
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    Discontinued Products
    • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
    • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
    • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
    • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Discontinued Products
    I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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    Usability
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Discontinued Products
    Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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    Performance
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Everything is good
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    Support Rating
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
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    My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Discontinued Products
    It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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    Online Training
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Easy to use
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    Implementation Rating
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Discontinued Products
    At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    AliveChat really serves a different purpose than other products. Very few products offer the ability to chat through our website, so it compliments our phone, text, and email options very well.
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    Discontinued Products
    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
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    Scalability
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
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    Discontinued Products
    Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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    Return on Investment
    Alive Technologies, Inc.
    • AliveChat has made it easy for us to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. As the real-time number of visitors on the website gives us insights into the performance of ongoing campaigns.
    • AliveChat also makes it possible for us to have an idea of where our web visitors are coming from i.e. via the pre-chat survey form for instance. We are able to generate important data like how a web visitor got to know about us, their expectations when visiting our website etc.
    • AliveChat makes it easy for web visitors to get a real-time response to their questions, with a delay of probably a few seconds.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
    • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
    • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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