On LinkedIn - It is not as personalised/granular. You can only look for prospects with industries which tend to be quite vague. Apollo.io allows Keywords which makes the search I want a lot more accurate. It also doesn't have email or call integration. I like to have everything …
The others we tried did not integrate all the tools needed for cold outreach, while staying focused on cold outreach. Zoho and HubSpot are really CRMs trying to be cold outreach, Meet Alfred is really a LinkedIn tool with some email outreach components, and Mailshake has a …
Major differentiator is the cost and accuracy of data. While other tools solves the purpose too, Apollo.io in specific gives better data which is more accurate and cheaper. They also have a startup program which gives 50% discount to startup’s with less employees which supports …
ZoomInfo had great data but the price was insane for what we needed. Lusha was cheaper but too limited we still had to use other tools for outreach and tracking. Apollo.io basically gave us the best of all products good data, built-in sequences, CRM sync, and automation all in …
Apollo.io was the best cost-adjusted option given their start up program offering which cut the cost in half. The main competitor consideration was B2B Rocket AI (not listed in the above options)
Salesloft to be exact is only a scheduling tool with having a kind of similar features like Apollo.io in context of sequences. in Salesloft there is cadence which is very similar to sequence in Apollo.io and it also works seamlessly but on the contrary it does not have …
I've had an overall great experience with Apollo.io. It allows me to reach out to my ideal customer profile at scale while being able to customise my messaging and workflow. It's also extremely easy to keep track of which leads are warm, not interested and ones to nurture. I also find it extremely useful for lead sourcing - There's a lot of filters I can use to make my list as granular as possible.
Sequencing automated email campaigns for outbound prospecting (BD Function).
Integrating with Sales Navigator to help me find emails/phone #' numbers/"add to sequence" while prospecting. It's easy and seamless to find & then load contacts into Cadences.
Integration with Salesforce is a huge plus. Allows me to not worry about logging anything, but the executive team can see my activity & what is going on (emails going out, responses I get, etc.).
The analytics on the outreach data is always helpful as well (open rates, click rates, etc.).
Credit usage is not always clear, we've done actions and then been surprised by the credit usage, so having more clarity on this BEFORE the credits are used up would be great.
LinkedIn steps are not ideal, there's no automation and does nothing to speed up or help with that step, this really is an email platform, not for social media.
It is easy to use. The UI has enough options to learn, with advanced documentation and support. The customer service is quick to respond and assists with information in real time. The UI has different segments for each feature which makes it easy to use.
Settings are easy to change as per preferred requirements
The team wants to solve probelms, but we are finding that they don't know how to solve the more technical issues quickly. I suspect that they don't have a mature process for escalations, and they don't have a usable knowledge base article repository. They seems to push emails around to let us know that people are working on the issues to find solutions, but this takes weeks and oftentimes still leaves us without a resolution.
Apollo.io has all features of prospecting, outreach automation including email sequences, campaign tracking, lead scoring, and analytics in one interface which enables sales persons to manage their entire sales funnel without having any other extra tool. Another benefit is for pricing related which has been understand from our management team.