Autoklose vs. Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Autoklose
Score 8.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Autoklose headquartered in Toronto provides an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization, sales intelligence with contact verification, follow-up tracking, and integration with commonly used CRMs (e.g. Salesforce), marketing suites (e.g. Hubspot), and email marketing tools (Mailchimp) to coordinate activites between them.N/A
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
Score 8.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Constant Contact delivers for small businesses with tools to simplify and amplify digital marketing. Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM is a marketing and sales platform developed to help businesses build their pipeline, nurture leads and close more deals. The tools are designed to help businesses attract the right leads, nurture them with personalized content, and grow with better conversion. Attract - Acquires hot leads faster with email & social marketing, plus retargeting…
$449
per month
Pricing
AutokloseConstant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
Editions & Modules
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Lead Gen & CRM
Starting at $449
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AutokloseConstant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
Additional DetailsAbove pricing based on 5000 contacts.
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Top Pros
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Autoklose
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Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.5
508 Ratings
4% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.8468 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings7.4452 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.6433 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings6.3440 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings7.5395 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings4.1426 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.9496 Ratings
List management00 Ratings9.3498 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.3473 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Autoklose
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Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
8.8
497 Ratings
13% above category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.5484 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.6490 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings8.4466 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.9462 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
8.1
400 Ratings
6% above category average
Calendaring00 Ratings8.0338 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings8.2318 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Autoklose
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Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.3
377 Ratings
3% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.2316 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings7.5362 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
8.5
494 Ratings
13% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.4486 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.5486 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.8447 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.8
466 Ratings
3% above category average
API00 Ratings7.9364 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.9403 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings8.5439 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings8.1217 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.298 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings7.291 Ratings
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User Ratings
AutokloseConstant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(33 ratings)
9.0
(522 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.1
(32 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(30 ratings)
6.7
(70 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
3.2
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(30 ratings)
8.2
(71 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
6.5
(10 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
2.9
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
VanillaSoft
If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
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Constant Contact
SharpSpring is great for creating and tracking campaigns that span multiple channels. With the Salesforce integration, we are able to keep our Sales team focused inside Salesforce without them needing to learn a new tool. Our Marketing team uses SharpSpring to nurture leads before handing them off to the Sales team. Though the features are available, SharpSpring would not be suitable for social media management or blogs; our third-party tools do a better job at that.
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Pros
VanillaSoft
  • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
  • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
  • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
  • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
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Constant Contact
  • Their Emailers are very easy to construct and user-friendly. It takes your Newsletter and sales emails to the next level, especially with the action groups and trigger functionalities.
  • The life of the lead functionality allows you to see when leads get warmer, so you know when to send them what. Helps improve conversions.
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Cons
VanillaSoft
  • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
  • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
  • 30 messages per minute
  • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
  • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
  • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
  • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
  • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
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Constant Contact
  • The landing page builder is a bit hard to use. Doesn’t have much flexibility.
  • Sometimes confusing between types of workflows to use. Opportunity versus visual.
  • If you imported contacts that weren’t formatted correctly. It is hard to delete a bull amount. Need to type DELETE for each one manually. No bull options to make changes.
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Likelihood to Renew
VanillaSoft
We love it and it works
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Constant Contact
We have been very impressed with all aspects of this software and the potential for it to radically change how we operate is huge! Support has been exceptional and we have discovered many extra uses for the software than originally thought. Not only will it give us benefits for our company's growth, but for our client's growth as well.
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Usability
VanillaSoft
Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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Constant Contact
This rating is coming from an administrative perspective. With so many features, workflows, dashboards, and more, there is certainly a lot going on, and even the most savvy software user can get a little overwhelmed when trying to decide how to best implement and utilize the platform to its full potential. That being said, the SharpSpring platform is well-implemented and well-organized, with most solutions being fairly intuitive, once you have a grasp of the software. It is fairly easy to learn, but difficult to master. Just like any powerful platform, however, the complexity is worth it, and once you are comfortable navigating and problem solving within SharpSpring, it becomes a great marketing and sales tool which can do virtually anything you need it to.
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Reliability and Availability
VanillaSoft
We have really had no issues.
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Constant Contact
No answers on this topic
Performance
VanillaSoft
Always loads fast.
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Constant Contact
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
VanillaSoft
Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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Constant Contact
The support is great which really helps overcome challenges if you become stuck and the training videos are great too. Same-day replies are great and I even got some help with some CSS code on the chat. Not many organizations would do this or even respond.
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In-Person Training
VanillaSoft
Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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Constant Contact
No answers on this topic
Online Training
VanillaSoft
Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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Constant Contact
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
VanillaSoft
It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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Constant Contact
Overall I would say to be patient and bring everyone who will be touching the platform to the onboarding sessions. The Virtual Classroom lets you onboard as quickly or slowly as you want. Sales, marketing, design, account management, get 'em all in on it. For the most part, they will be happy to use this platform. I recommend getting as many people as possible to see the SharpSpring demo.
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Alternatives Considered
VanillaSoft
I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
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Constant Contact
We use different CRMs for different clients, mostly due to budget and other requirements. SharpSpring from Constant Contact is in the middle, price-wise, but is slightly more user-friendly than ActiveCampaign when it comes to certain things, such as drip campaigns and workflows. Though the price can be prohibitive to some clients, it is extremely robust. I definitely prefer the list-building, the ability to send smart emails and the WYSIWYG editor.
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Scalability
VanillaSoft
It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
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Constant Contact
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
VanillaSoft
  • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
  • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
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Constant Contact
  • Streamlined Processes - sales and marketing are now all in the same place.
  • Reduced Number of Platforms/Tools - CRM/lead management, email, automation, landing pages, forms, etc are all in the same place rather than using multiple tools.
  • Time-saving - sales pipeline is very easy to use for sales. For marketing, we have dozens of workflows that eliminate much of our manual processes from the past.
  • Return on Investment - We're more focused on moving the building the business than ever before because SharpSpring has simplified so many of our business operations and we're seeing massive results!
  • Lead generation - Up SIGNIFICANTLY (between 3x & 4x) since setting up SharpSpring.
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ScreenShots

Autoklose Screenshots

Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence