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    ConnectAndSell

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AConnectAndSell takes the problem of getting decision makers on the phone and makes it go away. A typical Sales Rep will have more sales conversations using ConnectAndSell in one hour than they would typically have in an entire week.N/A

    People.ai

    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    People.ai is a revenue intelligence platform for go-to-market teams. The platform promises to help sales, marketing and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer. Customers include: Lyft, Gainsight, Tanium and Palo Alto Networks. People.ai helps them capture contacts, activity and engagement and drive actionable insights across all their revenue generation. Founded in 2016, People.ai is based in San Francisco and is backed by Y Combinator and…N/A
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    ConnectAndSellPeople.ai
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup Fee$6,000 Diagnostic Evaluation incluses unlimited use for two named users for one month.No setup fee
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    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    ConnectAndSellPeople.ai
    Preview Dialer
    Comparison of Preview Dialer features of ConnectAndSell and People.ai
    Feature
    ConnectAndSell
    5.0
    9 Ratings
    37% below category average
    People.ai
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    Contact preview6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dialer-CRM integration2.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call notes & tags6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic call logging6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Core Dialer
    Comparison of Core Dialer features of ConnectAndSell and People.ai
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    ConnectAndSell
    4.7
    9 Ratings
    48% below category average
    People.ai
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    Outbound dialing7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbound routing4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom caller ID7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call5.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recorded voicemail drop2.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dialer contact import2.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign & list management6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Follow-up and Quality Assurance
    Comparison of Call Follow-up and Quality Assurance features of ConnectAndSell and People.ai
    Feature
    ConnectAndSell
    5.7
    9 Ratings
    29% below category average
    People.ai
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    Follow-up calls7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dialer reporting & analytics4.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dialer compliance6.08 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ConnectAndSellPeople.ai
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    ConnectAndSellPeople.ai
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    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    If your organization relies on outbound leads through cold calling, this is a great tool for you. ConnectAndSell definitely made the associate's jobs easier at our company and allowed them to produce greater output than they could have done manually without such a tool. This tool is less appropriate if cold calling isn't a big part of your company's lead generation efforts.
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    People.ai, Inc.
    I've been using People.ai for a bit now, and I've been consistently impressed. I use it to track how my team is doing, how my clients are doing, and how I'm doing. I can create custom dashboards with any metric I want to see. I can set goals, and they'll track my progress towards those goals. I can set up competitions between my team, and they'll tell me who's winning and who's losing. You can share these dashboards with your team, which means that everyone can see how everyone else is doing.
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    Pros
    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    • Builds lead lists.
    • Maximizes connections with prospects.
    • Provides guidance for how to approach future prospects.
    • Leaves strategic voicemails for prospects.
    • Sends emails based on programmable metrics.
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    People.ai, Inc.
    • Their Deal Room presents times when you are multi-threaded, engaged with executives, and have an upcoming meeting scheduled rather than stalking your reps calendar and salesforce activities.
    • They allow you to create areas performance dashboard with custom KPIs you want to measure
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    Cons
    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    • One thing that's been difficult about Connect and Sell is some people can tell you've been patched through so if you can work past the initial conversation it ends up working great.
    • The system has worked great with outreach which we've integrated our contacts directly into the system. Because of this the connection between outreach and connect and sell don't always communicate calls and metrics which are crucial for us to know conversion rates.
    • We had a hard time getting the system implemented quickly and working the way we wanted it to. Because of the implementation specialist we were working with problems weren't solved quickly rather they were worked through quickly however they were solved.
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    People.ai, Inc.
    • People.ai has a robust platform, however, this requires sales reps to log into one more platform and the People.ai platform is not customizable for selecting what can be viewed by users. If People.ai were to make the features in their platform available in Salesforce it would be a huge win for leveraging the data they aggregate. Hoping an API will soon be on the Roadmap
    • Time Spent. People.ai uses some logic to attribute values on the "time spent" on the activities being captured. They did improve their meeting aggregations so that they were not "double counting" time when multiple meetings were booked in the same time slot for a rep. Email time spent still seems to have some errors as the time spent on emails can show in excess of the weekly working hours of the reps.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    For the right reps who are good at talking to prospects who aren't expecting their call, this is a no brainer.
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    People.ai, Inc.
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    Support Rating
    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    I have had a few support calls with their people. They are totally reachable and helpful, sharing screens, controlling my screen, showing why things happened, not just correcting it. If you have an issue with the software, let them help. They are there for you, and they are friendly, accessible, and happy to do their job.
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    People.ai, Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    We have moved to Salesloft. Salesloft gave us greater visibility into performance metrics and integrated with more software which in turn helped streamline our business.
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    People.ai, Inc.
    The easiest comparison would be to email automation vendors like a SalesLoft, Outreach, or Groove. But People.ai doesn't have a template email send like a sequence or cadence feature you would find with them. It is more of a compliment to the email automation vendors than a competitor in my opinion. We want our SDRs to have the ability run sizable outbound campaigns so they still use Outreach. However, we deactivated the Outreach activity sync and run activity syncing through People.ai. If someone gets added into the email CC, People.ai will grab that person and create them as a contact against the matching Salesforce account. For our Sales reps, we want them to have the ability to track opens, link clicks, and send templated emails so we have them use Groove. Again, we deactivated the Salesforce sync and use People.ai syncing. This is a great way to automate the pain away from creating Opportunity Contact Roles and create all relevant contacts in Salesforce from CC's on emails to people added last minute on a calendar invite. My favorite part is how it ingests data directly from Google and doesn't allow a Sales Rep to not to sync an activity to Salesforce, it happens automagically
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    Return on Investment
    ConnectAndSell, Inc.
    • It gives you greater potential to lock in a client, but I'm not sure from my end if this ROI is worth the headaches. It has a lot of work before it can become a truly reliable source for outbounding.
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    People.ai, Inc.
    • Time back for the whole team. We don't log calls anymore, we just work.
    • Great insight into who on your team may be wasting time with low-impact customers. This is near impossible to measure without this tool.
    • Marketing data is always current so we email the right people vs relying on my teams (Sales, Marketing, anyone) to be data stewards.
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