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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Consensus

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AConsensus improves the software buying process with interactive demos on demand. A digital product experience, it aims to delight buyers and deliver detailed intent data back to revenue teams, to shorten cycle times, increase close rates, and drive resource efficiency.

    $600

    per month

    Zendesk Guide

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
    Pricing
    ConsensusZendesk Guide
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    ConsensusZendesk Guide
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ConsensusZendesk Guide
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    Consensus Sales, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ConsensusZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (62 ratings)
    7.4
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.5
    (44 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    ConsensusZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    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
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    Zendesk
    In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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    Pros
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    • 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'
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    Zendesk
    • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
    • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
    • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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    Cons
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    • The analytical dashboard can be little confusing because I can see details for my whole company
    • Better way to record personalized videos in the beginning. They don't have any background filtering ability.
    • Better way to record personalized videos in the beginning. They don't have any background filtering ability.
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    Zendesk
    • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
    • Reporting metrics are lacking
    • The user interface can be confusing
    • Their support team takes a long time to respond
    • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    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
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    Zendesk
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    Usability
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    It only took me a matter of minutes to onboard myself to Consensus and start utilizing it with my clients. The platform is very simple to set up and straight forward to use. Most platforms take time to learn how to use and navigate but Consensus was very easy to pick up and use as a first time user.
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    Zendesk
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    Support Rating
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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    Alternatives Considered
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    Consensus is simple and does what it does very well. It doesn't try to be a deal room software, so they partner for that space. It did not try to be an AI transcription solution at first, so they partnered for that space. They continue to listen to their customers, improve the solution where it matters, in ways that drive the core use case of buyer enablement. I appreciate that they haven't over-indexed on fringe use cases and keep improving what their solution does very well. We continue to get very strong feedback from prospects
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    Zendesk
    It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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    Return on Investment
    Consensus Sales, Inc
    • 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.
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    Zendesk
    • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
    • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
    • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Consensus Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Consensus demo player, which is the heart of the product. Buyers tailor their demo and receive relevant messaging via interactive video demos.Screenshot of the Chrome extension, which enables sales reps to record and sens demos instantly without leaving their inbox.Screenshot of Demolytics, a feature used to dive deeper into stakeholder engagement by showing how buyers ranked features, what they watched, and who they shared the demo with.Screenshot of an example of an Interactive Product Tour, used to give buyers a multimedia experience as a supplement to interactive videos that let buyers click through stories and key product areas with text and video explainers.Screenshot of the demo library that helps manage content across teams and gives revenue operations teams a centralized place to create and share demos instantly.