Apollo.io vs. KickFire

When I need to find people in my specific niche to reach out to, Apollo helps me find these leads that I would not have been able to see before. I have not been able to dive deeper into the other features of Apollo yet, but I am sure they would be invaluable for most.

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For small businesses that don't have big budgets for marketing automation, VisiStat is an ideal first step. For companies that have sophisticated systems in place, VisiStat will augment your analytics and provide a deeper dive into your website activity. Since the implementation involves adding javascript to your site, the user should be familiar with how to do this

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• Consolidates tool and packs in a lot of functionality
• Keeps up with the industry trends for prospecting and data enrichment
• Offers the basics you need to get going
• Account mapping to Salesforce - reps can prospect in Apollo and can easily toggle on views to only see their own accounts.

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• De-anonymizes website activity at the account (company) level.
• Identifies net new target accounts.
• Displays click path, time on page, time per session, and engagement level of each de-anonymized website visit.
• Gives great daily insight on watchlists you've set up.
• Delivers every possible de-anonymized visit with little filtering for accuracy.
• More on the watchlists. I really love that you can receive immediate alerts on website visits from accounts you've listed on your watchlists. This way, you never miss the window of opportunity to reach out to your key targets while they are currently on your site.
• Salesforce integration is good. KickFire pushes most recent website visits, pages visited, website click path, activity percent change, and more to the given account in Salesforce. You can then create reports and run them regularly to see which accounts are surging in website activity. This is also great for account prospecting, and for planning your sales outreach plan of attack. You can see which bits of your website content are most interesting to the company, and which products they are most interested in.

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• Their reliability has been an issue for our team. The product has been down multiple times since I've been a user.
• Some times prospects titles/roles are out of date, so keeping up with those a bit more would be helpful during sourcing
• I've received a lot of spam calls that are completely irrelevant to me, but it comes down to an issue on their side with using so many numbers from different area codes. This was a major pain in the beginning, but has subsided a bit.

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• Some outdated information and your credits will be used
• Credit package sizes are not very customizable
• A tad pricy comapred to simillar prospecting tools I've seen

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Generally quite a reliable tool with decent data quality/availability. Pricing works well for our team and our use case

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We've been happy customers of VisiStat for many years. I've used the service at multiple companies and you can't beat it.

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Because in general the platform has a very complete use, for a fair and accessible price, to perform daily prospecting helps a lot to find potential prospects and take the company to a higher level and exceed the borders and barriers of not being able to find national, international and transnational companies. It also helps to grow the agenda of contacts, the contacts in the network, keep a good administration of time and activities to be performed to have adequate follow-up, increasing the chances of closing deals with new customers.

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It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.

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We've never had any outages in the 7+ years using the system.

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The system is very responsive, and when there are times in which data is loading, the VisiStat system provides humorous loading messages.

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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.

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They are very good at solving cases that I bring to them. I'd like to see more proactive support to make sure we are getting the full value out of the solution.

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The tutorials are very good and they explain how to get started using the system. The online webinars are very good for advancing your knowledge of the product.

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Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.

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As there are more credits in Apollo and it is user-friendly than the others. And mostly, I liked the accuracy of the data it provided, which is generally accurate and directed to the right person, primarily used in B2B sales from the user's perspective. I prefer this recommendation to the others.

I covered this pretty extensively in the cons. The key differentiator here is that KickFire serves up almost all the data (or so it seems) to the end client. The client then has to do their own work on interpreting it. This is good because it means we don't miss out on any website activities, but it's bad because we get a lot of false positives. 6sense uses the confidence score approach I mentioned in the Cons section, which means the match rates of the data we get are much higher. Our experience with Clearbit comes from other tools that are built on it (Bombora, Drift, etc.), and it has not been great. We've seen many more inaccuracies with Clearbit.

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We've gone from a few thousand unique visitors per month to nearly 200,000 unique visitors. VisiStat doesn't miss a beat.

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• Having customisable sequences makes it easier to follow-up when you are busy. I would have forgotten/not done certain tasks had it not been automated
• Make yourself accountable with the "Manual" tasks. Apollo.io give you all the data to make calls, and you can set yourself reminders to do it.
• Clean accurate data. I think 85% of numbers are correct and most contacts have emails. Vital for getting through.

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• Faster lead conversion
• Less time on LinkedIn trying to figure out DM (decision maker)
• Increased employee efficiency

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