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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Basic
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Apollo.ioBluebirds by Salesforce
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    Feature
    Apollo.io
    8.2
    197 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Bluebirds by Salesforce
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    Ideal customer targeting8.0190 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.2193 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Apollo.io and Bluebirds by Salesforce
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    8.2
    195 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Bluebirds by Salesforce
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    Contact information8.3195 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information8.4195 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Apollo.io and Bluebirds by Salesforce
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    Apollo.io
    7.8
    192 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Bluebirds by Salesforce
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    Lead qualification process7.9176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.6176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.1114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.1183 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.7165 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.5183 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.5173 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.8148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.3178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Apollo.io and Bluebirds by Salesforce
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.8
    170 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Bluebirds by Salesforce
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    Sales email templates7.6169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Apollo.ioBluebirds by Salesforce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apollo.io
    Based on my experience using Apollo.io, it is well-suited for organizations like startups that are actively looking to generate new leads to market their products, and for direct marketing using the Apollo.io mail system and filtering leads by locality, sector, or designation.
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    Salesforce
    so one particular use case that comes to mind is in a manufacturing ERP base solution where you have the data of your previous sales orders and purchase orders. You can use Bluebirds to analyse that data and come up with insights about how to manage your sales or how to obtain more leads based on the trend of products that have been sold in the previous quarter or year
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    Pros
    Apollo.io
    • contacts with verified emails
    • companies according to their economic sector
    • companies based on their size and revenue
    • companies based on their location
    • contactos con correos verificados
    • empresas de acuerdo a su sector económico
    • empresas de acuerdo a su tamaño y facturación
    • empresas de acuerdo a su ubicación
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    Salesforce
    • Its integration with Agent force is really amazing. Using the context by which the Agent AI has been trained, and then converting those two actual sales leads is something that Bluebirds does efficiently.
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    Cons
    Apollo.io
    • Apollo.io's sync to Salesforce is incredibly finnicky and created a large number of duplicates.
    • Apollo.io's workflow functionality is rigid and doesn't play nicely with middleware like Zapier.
    • Apollo.io is focused on helping you spin up many different emails and phone numbers in a spammy manner instead of focusing on domain reputation.
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    Salesforce
    • Honestly, I think Bluebirds does an amazing job as an augmentation on top of existing CRM, but like the functionalities it provides with the Salesforce CRM is a lot more sophisticated if you integrated with some other external vendors like Oracle or SAP. If integration were to be made more suitable with cross products, other than the Salesforce cloud itself, this will be probably the best Agent AI sales CRM augmentation product in the market.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apollo.io
    at this moment Apollo.io seems to be the perfect tool that has mastered all aspects of outbound marketing and CRM to handle and manage sales cycle.
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    Usability
    Apollo.io
    I gave it a 7 because it doesn't help you out if you're an organization that's call-heavy, because a lot of times the numbers aren't the best. It's not accurate. If you're somebody who's email and outbound and your goal is to find that, then that's cool. It works well for it. Some of the features, the AI tools, and some additional features they have are just too complex. Sometimes it's easy to use, but at the same time, there are tools that are not efficient, and it's like, "Where is this coming from?"Especially if you're looking for your niche, whatever industry you're in, and the target word, sometimes it can't find it. You can see what people are searching for, and it just doesn't add up. If you're trying to get very, very detailed, it's not the best. Sometimes it's going to depend on your industry, of course.
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    Salesforce
    I think Bluebirds is definitely one of the few products out there that provides this amazing integration with existing CRM solutions which requires minimal to no expertise in order to set up so this can be used by software engineers as well as business analyst . I like to ensure they can process or create leads from here, data and also this reduces the dependency on specific tools or the training required to learn these tools so that the cost incurred by the company is reduced as they are spending only on one tool now and at the same time, we are able to cut the manual labour to minimum.
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    Support Rating
    Apollo.io
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Apollo.io
    We found the contact data from Apollo.io was more reliable than Instantly.ai. We used Instantly.ai for about 6 months before stopping our use of it. Growbots doesn't give you as much volume for the same price at Apollo.io. However, we did close sales with Growbots, and we did not with Apollo.io. It could have just been our unique experience, but that's what happened.
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    Salesforce
    Because of its easy integration with Agent force Bluebirds is really useful. If you are already working with Salesforce ERP, that’s what we have been doing for. I think for the past 10 to 15 years, Bluebirds is probably the best option out there. Bluebirds is kind of helping in modernising the Agent based CRM era
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    Return on Investment
    Apollo.io
    • Apollo.io has helped me find a good set of new target audience for the business that I am in, essentially helping me build a prospective line and grow my lead database by 25 to 30% where I lack a certain skill
    • The Apollo.io quality of the data that it has is significantly better through other competitors like Lusha and others
    • In terms of the revenue increase, there have been certain instances where I have found a new acquirer that essentially I would not have found in a general scenario and that has help me generate from the new identified lead
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    Salesforce
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    Screenshot of people, appearing in ApolloScreenshot of Apollo's data enrichment dashboardScreenshot of a view of unified customer dataScreenshot of Apollo's AI-assisted meetings