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    Bombora

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ABombora provides Intent data for B2B marketers. Bombora’s data promises to align marketing and sales teams and enable them to base their actions on the knowledge of which companies are in market for products and services. Bombora’s Company Surge™ data reports on changes in consumption of specific product related topics from within businesses. The source of this data is a co-operative of premium B2B media companies in the world. Members contribute content consumption and behavioral data about…N/A

    Closely

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AClosely is a LinkedIn automation tool used to grow a network on autopilot, bring a new perspective to a LinkedIn network, personalize campaigns with a data export tool, find new B2B sales opportunities through conversations, and send personalised messages on a large scale. Closely helps users find new leads in a click and bring, send a personalized message to all leads and to boost B2B sales. Another feature of Closely is that it can be used…

    $49

    per month 500 Lead Finder Credits monthly

    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Personal
    $49
    per month 500 Lead Finder Credits monthly
    Growth
    $83
    per month 5000 Lead Finder Credits monthly
    Pro
    $166
    per month Unlimited Lead Finder Credits
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBombora is based on: - The volume of Intent data needed - Preferred integrations or partner platforms - The level of support needed to get started
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    Bombora
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Bombora and Closely
    Feature
    Bombora
    7.7
    36 Ratings
    14% below category average
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    Contact information3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information10.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bombora and Closely
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    Bombora
    -
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    Closely
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Dealfront
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    Score10 out of 10
    Dealfront
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BomboraClosely
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bombora
    Bombora is the perfect tool for anyone looking to understand their B2B customer and their buyer's journey better. Companies produce tons of content - and pay lots of money creating and then amplifying it too. But is it really what the customer is interested in? Now you don't have to guess, you can know thanks to company surge data.
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    Closely
    Closing rates increase up to 25% when using Closely’s automated outreach platform. Closely gives you the ability to reach out to the exact people who are interested in your offer. You can set up the entire campaign, and then Closely will take over everything else. You can choose your message and deliver it using email or text. Sometimes the interface can be a little slow. I would suggest doing some testing before committing to this tool. Closely saves time, which is important to me. I have been using it for about a month now, and I have noticed that my close rate has increased by 25%. I am able to focus on building my list instead of doing the tedious task of emailing people.
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    Pros
    Bombora
    • Intent topics, as well as the clusters tied to them, have enabled our PMMs to be more granular with specific workloads that are based on industry.
    • The "Account Intent" option within the "Insights" tab allowed us to look specifically into historical data tied to current activities that we were experiencing with that account.
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    Closely
    • I have not had any issues with LinkedIn filters.
    • The inbox feature is like a mini-CRM.
    • Closely now has a chrome extension adding more functionality.
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    Cons
    Bombora
    • Downloading intent data and trying to use it outside of their environment is tricky because the data is essentially one large worksheet. We want to overlay the data with our own data but joining it all together is tricky. Our data comes from D&B so the names provided by D&B don't always match what we get from Bombora so account matching is not very clean.
    • Customer service is a bit hit or miss. I worked with an account rep to try and resolve it but she couldn't. However, she did open a ticket with the Bombora help desk to try and get me answers. I waited more than a week and got no answer. I followed up and the reply was the original owner of the ticket is out and the new ticket owner was wondering if I had rerun the report to see if the problem went away.
    • Despite having a self-service type set up for the dashboards and reports, trying to understand what exactly needs to be filled in isn't always easy. The data doesn't match up with what we download so trying to compare the dashboards/reports to the extract is next to impossible?! It shouldn't be this way.
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    Closely
    • Automated Birthday messages
    • Automated congratulations of milestones
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    Usability
    Bombora
    I give Bombora an 8 as they do intent well for now. Not a 10 because again its a one trick pony where there are other platforms like ZoomInfo that offer intent as well plus so much more. From an end user perspective, I'd like Bombora to build out first party intent data capabilities to combine into the scoring.
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    Support Rating
    Bombora
    Our CSM team is always available for us to meet with via an outreach click to book an invite and we have standing meetings. They met with us on day 1 of implementation and had us up and running that evening. They even go to the lengths of matching industry tenured folks with us to help us move faster.
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    Online Training
    Bombora
    There is a room for improvement in a layman's perspective as it was difficult for our to understand things during training and had to rearrange sessions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bombora
    Liked the implementation, however there is a still room for improvement for the support needed in overall implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bombora
    Bombora doesn't give you a token for the number of accounts that are populated. You can search and request as many as you'd like. With other platforms, they provide you a token, and if you use all your tokens for the month, then you have to wait til next month.
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    Scalability
    Bombora
    Need improvement in places such as visualisation & UX
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    Return on Investment
    Bombora
    • Bombora played a big role in us proving the effectiveness of ABM for our organization and had a huge impact on us gaining approval for a full ABM platform.
    • Bombora helped us identify key target accounts that brought great net new business to our company.
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    Closely
    • 25% increase on close rate
    • Additional social channel to nurture leads
    • Countless hours saved
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