Close CRM vs. Observe.ai

Excellent software to increase sales and follow up with existing and new customers. Email and SMS handling are really easy for the sales team, managing leads is really great, and Close merges duplicate leads to help our Data Leads avoid repetitive and unnecessary calls. As mentioned in some comments before, must improve in reports, Close is not appropriate to handle or track agents' hours making it necessary to implement additional software to cover this area.

Incentivized

Observe.ai is incredibly well
suited for uncovering trends. The accuracy of their transcripts paired with how
easy it is for any user to find insights helps us tap of data you would think would
be impossible to get, or at least in a very slow and manual process (listening
to call samples, 1 call at a time it’s a thing of the past now).

This simplicity of use and the power
of their machine learning and AI applications have proven to be particularly
helpful for us to boost our agent performance and training.

Observe.ai is still at the early stages
of real-time agent assist, so I would not recommend it right now for that type
of application.

Incentivized

• Email sequences. Create and send a sequence of emails until the sequence finishes or the contact replies to your email. You can also pause the sequence manually.
• Email sync. Syncs in real time with your email account, which is huge.
• Zapier integration. We've automated a lot of our pipeline management through the Zapier integration. This saves us soooo much time.

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• Call audit evaluation tools.
• Call transcription.
• Agent Leaderboard.
• Agent coaching tool/performance tracker.

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• Make it so one can set the time at which the emails go out.
• Make it easier to set up my workflow.

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• 71% increase in sales since implementation.
• 33% decrease in customer escalations since implementation.
• 20% increase in script compliance since implementation.

Incentivized

We are very satisfied with the features, support, follow up and value that Observe.ai has brought to our organization. They are also very easy to deal with and very willing to listen to recommendations to help boost the solution.

Incentivized

It's my favorite CRM to recommend to sales organizations. Robust Telephony options including a Power Dialer, SMS, and Voice Drop, are completely integrated into the CRM. The kicker is you can have "Unlimited" contacts where many platforms charge based on the number of users. This can make a huge difference in monthly billing.

Incentivized

Their UI is very easy to navigate and understand. Most features are easily accessible and they seem well balanced and connected with each other. Users at our company have been trained with good proficiency levels in just a few hours, and high proficiency can be achieved in a week or less if you spend the time to practice.

Incentivized

I haven't really had the need to use their support, but the only time I had an issue with the platform, the Close team was very attentive and responded in a short span of time. Also they take minimal time to solve issues. The only con here is there is no way to reach out to them apart from email.

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Pipedrive was great for us for a long time. We used it for over 4 years. Our product and process was simple. When things got more complex, we needed something that could handle our growing needs and Pipedrive kept falling short. We built our own custom solution in Airtable and though it worked, we spend a lot of time managing it. Close was able to solve all our issues and save us hours per week in admin work.

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Observe.ai provided our business a pricing structure that was attainable with our required ROI.

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• Positive - It's much easier now with Close.io to make sure that no deal falls through the cracks. Therefore helping us recover lost revenue.

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• The BEST ROI we have spent in years.
• Fraction of a penny per call.
• Increased overall revenue and revenue by person.

Incentivized