ClearSlide enables sales and marketing teams to find content, communicate it whether in-person, on the phone or through email, and get insights into how customers engage, with the goal of helping sales and marketing teams make every interaction count and create amazing customer experiences. ClearSlide is a system of engagement for sales, marketing & services teams. For managers and leaders, ClearSlide provides engagement dashboards to improve deal visibility, coaching, and stronger…
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Momentum.io
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Momentum is a no code platform to automate sales workflows. Embedded into existing sales-first tooling, from Slack and Salesforce to Asana and Outreach, Momentum's access gives revenue team the building blocks to operationalize sales motions.
Clearslide makes it easy to share files with anyone via a single link. It simplifies the process of document sharing in the new "work from home" age we have now and allows multiple parties to view the same document, either simultaneously or separately. It is less appropriate for sensitive information, as the link can easily be shared between parties or forwarded on, so there is no gatekeeping.
If you are a lean organization with looking to find a revenue orchestration and AI tool for call summaries, automatic field updates, etc. then I think Momentum is worth considering since there aren't many "small-player" alternatives in the market. The pricing is much better than comparable larger-players (i.e. Gong), and the Momentum is quick to iterate on their existing features and resolve bugs quickly.
Analytics: for sales, especially when selling virtually, it can be difficult to know if your customers are engaged with the presentation. Clearslide will give you reports that indicate how long customers were viewing what you were presenting, if/when you lost them, and at what place in your presentation you lost them. It can also show you how long potential customers spent reviewing follow-up materials you've sent them.
Screenshare: the screenshare functionality, when using Google Chrome, is very seamless, and the customer can take over the screenshare without needing any downloads or plug-ins.
Presenting: It's quite easy to present material with Clearslide, and to move between materials that you are presenting.
Call quality with CS has always been an issue in my two (2) years of experience with the platform. CS upgraded their phone provider in winter 2018, but the call quality has only been marginally improved from my perspective. Also, with the switch to a new phone provider, users are required to use a new conference line, access number, and a leader pin. The leader pin is new and adds an extra step to setting up a conference line, which seems unnecessary.
Content curation is probably my biggest issue with CS. With previous experience in a sales enablement company, I've seen how content can be curated to map to the seller's specific stage in a deal cycle, which is what most companies want. CS does not have this functionality from my perspective, and if it does, then overall curation capabilities are weak. Rather than curating content to match a seller's current point in a sales process, CS relies on surfacing content that is most popular or recently added. There is a search feature, which works well if you know what the collateral is called, but it is not scanning the content of documents to find what is most relevant. I equate the content feature of CS to a search that you would do in your computer's "Download" folder or even in Dropbox. If your company is smaller and only needs to surface a few pieces of collateral, then CS will work fine. If your organization is larger with large amounts of specific collateral, then I would look elsewhere.
The CS plugins for Outlook, Gmail, or your web browser are great ideas but executed poorly. The integrations have caused a lot of headaches for colleagues and me since their release. They have caused our email to close unexpectedly, content to not be linked properly, or emails to not be tracked. The idea for these integrations was to reduce the amount of time a seller has to jump between windows, which is awesome, but the integrations are full of glitches. One of the biggest glitches I've seen is how CS, Grammarly, and Outlook all work together. CS is always the component of those three that causes everything to freeze or crash. In short, the integrations are a great idea but executed poorly at this time.
ClearSlide is embedded in our culture and in our organization. The sales and marketing teams use ClearSlide on a daily basis to share information and presentations as well as communicate "what is working." Our leadership uses the analytics to provide improved feedback and coaching regarding bottlenecks our representatives are experiencing.
There's no doubt in this of renewal. We are all set and planning in phases to acquire more and more licenses. We provide AI licenses to sales account managers on the very first day. This is a mandatory onboarding step. Everything is going well.
Its easy to use from a presenter's perspective. Its web based so anyone who can navigate Facebook can open a live pitch or shared file. This makes it easy to give live demos, share files, and share screens with out downloading any software or installing java patches
The learning curve is extremely low. Almost anyone can get started building workflows. To the point, we have many sales reps who can create their own alerts and/or determine deal room criteria. I had never used Momentum before I joined Ramp and was building and updating existing workflows on my first day.
I was mostly involved in the implementation process and syncing ClearSlide with Salesforce, and I would say the support was mostly average. It took a few times to get everything scheduled, and a lot of the process was left up to me. I was reading through the documents that they supplied. It wasn't complicated, but more direct support would have been appreciated.
We have a shared slack channel with Momentum and their responsiveness and attentiveness to our concerns and bugs is top notch. They are quick to investigate and do a solid job of providing updates throughout the eval process. They typically resolve and respond rather quickly. The only reason this isn't a 10 is due to what I perceive as occasional resource constraints. Sometimes it does take a bit to hear back and the updates aren't ALWAYS proactive. I'm being nitpicky, but I think there's some room for improvement before calling this a 10/10.
In summary, Momentum.io truly shines when enhancing the Salesforce-Slack experience. However, when workflows become highly complex, require extensive integration outside of its core platforms, demand meticulous governance at scale, or necessitate deep operational analytics, its elegance can give way to a more cumbersome administration and implementation effort.
ClearSlide stacks up to be as good as any of the aforementioned tools. We selected Clearslide because of its ease of use and implementation. It did not take our team too long to get acclimated with how ClearSlide works and how they would be using it, allowing them to generate more meetings and more revenue.
Troops was acquired by Salesforce and is no longer available Gong is focused on convo intelligence and keeps the data fairly locked up in their platform with limited pass through to slack or CRM. AI use cases are one off / blackbox vs customizable for your business needs. Momentum is built on AI, its not a bolt on that other companies are trying to add as a means to catch up.
This product ROCKS!!!! ClearSlide shortened my sales cycle by over 50% by enabling to jump right into a LIVE demo on an initial client call so I don't have to waste time scheduling a demo at later date. People are busy and finding a time to schedule a call can take days or weeks
Momentum.io makes the whole customer onboarding process faster and smoother, which leads to a better customer experience, faster time to value and eventually less churned customers
Lower customer aacquisition costs due to integrated workflows through Slack and Salesforce
Improved forecasting due to better visibility through integrations
