Likelihood to Recommend Within the last 6 months, I've run a personal A/B test on opportunities with and without Consensus videos being sent after every meeting. Those opportunities where I sent Consensus videos after every meeting had a >50% likelihood of closing and/or progressed past the Proposal phase. Those opportunities where I did not send Consensus video, I was left unanswered more often than not
Read full review Basically if you want to provide a walk-through of a website, then Storylane is well suited. I can't think of a scenario where it is less appropriate unless you are trying to use it for something it isn't intended for. I'm not sure if it will work with a WASM page, so if you are working with WASM, you should at least test that out.
Read full review Pros The ability to tailor demos and demoboards to show various functionality of the product. We appreciate the features Consensus has to customize demos in various forms. The customer service and post-sales trainings the Consensus team has held for our company have been extremely beneficial. I personally appreciated learning how demos are better received when they're not 'perfect' Read full review Allows you to easily grab the visual assets to create a walk through. The analytics that are integrated give you a very specific view of engagement. Even the most complex web pages can be saved in Storylane, definitely a robust engine. Read full review Cons The front-end UX could be improved to look and feel more like a mature SaaS solution There's a limited amount of help resources to assist throughout the video building process I'd like to see more integrations with broader SaaS solutions to unlock more use cases (i.e. Engaging in group formats, long-form webinars, etc) Read full review The relationship between "pages" and "steps" can get very confusing if you are having to do a mass revamp of a saved story. Some of the interface is less than intuitive than it could be. I'm not a fan of mouse over features, I realize it is a modern metaphor, but it's a bad one. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Consensus has been a valuable and vital sales tool at every stage of our sales cycle. In the very early stages of prospect education, you can send videos to get them familiar and up to speed with our product without a solution consultant's involvement. It is also a very powerful tool at the later stages of the sales cycle, with the ability to tailor demos and intro videos and record exec alignment itro videos, which we have had great success with
Read full review Usability I think it is pretty easy to use, but the UI is not as straightforward as I would like. Also when the UI was updated recently I didn't know where certain old features lived. But overall I really like using it and it has been effective for me and my team members.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We did not find a similar solution that could provide the prospect experience Consensus provides. We did not seriously evaluate any other platform like we did with Consensus. Consensus allows your prospects to select their interests and only show them the relevant parts of your product. No other software we evaluated could do it like Consensus
Read full review They are both good products and pretty similar.
Navattic definitely had some strong features, but with Storylane, they were incredibly responsive to requests for help and feature requests and it just "looked" better. Storylane also "felt" better in terms of working with it. There were some design flow decisions made with
Navattic that I found to be a bit counterintuitive.
Read full review Return on Investment I closed 3 deals last year by prospects using Consensus and finding additional modules they wanted to purchase. Consensus speed up the buying process in 6 of my deals last year to close in quarter. Consensus saved me time from doing additional live demos. Read full review We were getting thousands of engagements on our Story's. We are able to use them as an educational resource when potential clients asked a question. The SDR's were able to use them as assets to create interest. Read full review ScreenShots