Constant Contact delivers for small businesses with tools to simplify and amplify digital marketing. Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM is a marketing and sales platform developed to help businesses build their pipeline, nurture leads and close more deals. The tools are designed to help businesses attract the right leads, nurture them with personalized content, and grow with better conversion.
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$449
per month
Keap
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Keap is a small business-focused, comprehensive sales and marketing platform which combines basic contact management, CRM, marketing automation, and e-commerce capabilities into a single, subscription-based SaaS product.
$199
per month
Pricing
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
Keap
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Lead Gen & CRM
Starting at $449
per month
Pro
$199.00
per month
Max
$289.00
per month
Max Classic
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Yes
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Above pricing based on 5000 contacts.
All plans with 1 user and 500 contacts. The price is $30.00 for each additional user.
We were using Infusionsoft, but found it to be a bit complex and expensive. We became intrigued with SharpSpring mainly because of the way they do business. No contracts, just month to month, and their price is hugely competitive. To me, it seems the big-name platforms have …
HubSpot teaches and encourages its sales force to bully you. I'm not interested in that nonsense. PLUS, HAVE YOU SEEN HOW FREAKING EXPENSIVE IT IS?!! Infusionsoft was terrific but uninteresting, and hard to manage. Marketo is hard to use. SharpSpring has a unique combination of …
We found Infusionsoft incredibly confusing to use. SharpSprings workflow editor is much more intuitive and allowed us the flexibility that we wanted in a simple way.
Infusionsoft and Pardot each have their strengths and weaknesses compared to SharpSpring. Overall, Infusionsoft and Pardot are more robust, while SharpSpring is more affordable. SharpSpring is much easier to use as an agency, as it's easy to learn and easy to manage multiple …
SharpSpring is far more powerful than Keap but it is pretty similar. There is also the agency resell value behind SharpSpring that Keap has in a smaller scale, but definitely not as in-depth.
Before going with SharpSpring we explored both HubSpot and Infusionsoft. The agency focus from SharpSpring helped us make the decision to go with them.
SharpSpring, for the price, is preferred over HubSpot and Pardot. I prefer SharpSpring to Infusionsoft/Keap for the ability to load media, track users and granular lead scoring.
Price, features & support trump the others for me, and over the years have not felt like I made the wrong choice. I have used it in many different industries with many unique requirements, and till now have found that it has been able to perform as expected. I will continue to …
CEO | B2B Marketing Strategist | Founder | Fractional CMO
Chose Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
SharpSpring offers an incredible amount of functionality and visibility in one single tool, which makes our campaigns more cohesive and our efforts more efficient. The pricing is excellent and they continue to add more functionality without dramatic price increases. The ease of …
SharpSpring is a significantly more robust system. Zoho did not have any capabilities for marketing automation and was rather mediocre in a bunch of different areas. SharpSpring, on the other hand, has way more marketing automation features. However, SharpSpring's reports and …
Sharpspring, from an ease of use perspective, is way ahead. The pricing compared to the features available also makes Sharpspring a much better prospect for us.
I have used Hubspot, Active Campaign and Infusionsoft (confusionsoft).
Sharpsping is cost-effective (which Hubspot isn't) it has a lot of functionality (Which ActiveCampaign hasnt) and it is easy to set up, use and has great support (which Infusionsoft definitely doesn't have).
Less complicated yet full of features that matter to us. Our experience and with our clients is that they are using cumbersome software to perhaps do a simple job. They are also using software in isolation - a non-integrated CRM and have a lot of manual tasks. SharpSpring can …
I have tested and/or used all of them. This is the most affordable yet still just as robust- if not better- than all of them. Really impressed with the software, the customer care and the technical support. All around an "A" from me.
When we looked at different options, Infusionsoft and ActiveCampaign were on our radar. From the research we did into Infusionsoft, it was another level of confusing. As a result, we wanted something that was powerful but wasn't going to be months and months of learning. ActiveC…
SharpSpring easily stands toe to toe with any competing product on the market. Its tools are robust and powerful. Its customer service is fast and reliable. Its price is simply unbeatable. That's why I chose SharpSpring over all the other options I researched.
When it comes to features and functionality obviously HubSpot and Marketo are ahead of everyone. However, the cost, upfront annual payment demands and difficult learning curve involved in getting to grips with these platforms made them a non-starter for an agency of our size …
Strategic LinkedIn Mentor | Authoritative Positioning and Lead Generation Specialist
Chose Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
At a fraction of the cost of HubSpot and Infusionsoft, Sharpspring has proved to be the best bang for the buck. We were able to gain access to the same functionality and customer support for a fraction of the cost of the competition. We love the ability to build dynamic lists, …
Keap
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Out of all the products we use I feel like Keap is the most feature-rich and most robust with the most tools out of the gate which allowed us to customize our campaigns more than ever, this also came with added difficulty in using keap which is something most businesses need to …
As an agency, we use all of these tools for various clients. Keap is our preferred solution because it has the most customization for any business model, makes marketing automation so easy, and keeps ample customer data that can be used for marketing and sales alike. It has …
Infusionsoft is the most robust marketing automation platform that we have used. Though it is not for beginners, this is more of a strength than a weakness. We selected Infusionsoft because it is scalable and adaptable to a variety of clients. Other platforms seem to be geared …
The others are not trying to be all things to all people. The others don't pretend their solution is the end-all-be-all to save small business owners. They are not all in one and don't pretend to be, regardless of the price points, from lower to higher. We used Infusionsoft …
SharpSpring is great for creating and tracking campaigns that span multiple channels. With the Salesforce integration, we are able to keep our Sales team focused inside Salesforce without them needing to learn a new tool. Our Marketing team uses SharpSpring to nurture leads before handing them off to the Sales team. Though the features are available, SharpSpring would not be suitable for social media management or blogs; our third-party tools do a better job at that.
Keap is very good at contact management and automation creation but weaker at email campaign creation. I was particularly interested in a function where when manually entering a new contact, you are then able to email that contact using a premade HTML template. It will currently not do this. There is a workaround, but it is unnecessarily ponderous.
Their Emailers are very easy to construct and user-friendly. It takes your Newsletter and sales emails to the next level, especially with the action groups and trigger functionalities.
The life of the lead functionality allows you to see when leads get warmer, so you know when to send them what. Helps improve conversions.
The landing page builder is a bit hard to use. Doesn’t have much flexibility.
Sometimes confusing between types of workflows to use. Opportunity versus visual.
If you imported contacts that weren’t formatted correctly. It is hard to delete a bull amount. Need to type DELETE for each one manually. No bull options to make changes.
More articles and videos on how to use the various functions of Keap
Having representatives designated to certain regions or companies for a point of contact when help is needed
More options when building the emails. While the click and drop options can be a plus, they can also be negative because you are limited to image and text sizing and positions
We have been very impressed with all aspects of this software and the potential for it to radically change how we operate is huge! Support has been exceptional and we have discovered many extra uses for the software than originally thought. Not only will it give us benefits for our company's growth, but for our client's growth as well.
We have invested a lot into Infusionsoft and are using it to automate our processes and marketing. Changing CRMs would have a HUGE cost for us and based on our evaluations, the grass isn't greener elsewhere. Infusiosoft fits most of our needs and is slowly getting better each year. Their support is great and we will continue to use them until something much better comes around or our company outgrows a small business CRM.
This rating is coming from an administrative perspective. With so many features, workflows, dashboards, and more, there is certainly a lot going on, and even the most savvy software user can get a little overwhelmed when trying to decide how to best implement and utilize the platform to its full potential. That being said, the SharpSpring platform is well-implemented and well-organized, with most solutions being fairly intuitive, once you have a grasp of the software. It is fairly easy to learn, but difficult to master. Just like any powerful platform, however, the complexity is worth it, and once you are comfortable navigating and problem solving within SharpSpring, it becomes a great marketing and sales tool which can do virtually anything you need it to.
You do need to spend some time on-boarding and implementing the software in order to have full functionality. We were lucky - we had colleagues at the university with experience with Keap and then hired an intern familiar with the software to get us set up and ready to use it. We've had some functionality issues with it along the way and that has frustrated myself and the other uses in our department.
OMG, it's all in one and that compromises everything, fundamentally. If you want a race car, invest in a race car. If you want a dune buggy, get that. If you want a boat that floats, go for it.
The support is great which really helps overcome challenges if you become stuck and the training videos are great too. Same-day replies are great and I even got some help with some CSS code on the chat. Not many organizations would do this or even respond.
Generally, very responsive support for even our more complicated issues. We do have some open issues that we need resolutions on and that I understand are complicated and will take longer to resolve but the open issues are significantly impacting to our business.
I have been to a number of in-person training sessions over the years with Keap and all of them have been FANTASTIC. They really put a lot of time and effort into these sessions. Staff and facilitators go out of their way to ensure that participants are getting what they need.
The results of training online are often based on how people learn. The training was great but with feature updates, you just have to get in there sometimes and do it! The training definitely lays a firm enough foundation for you to be successful even if its can't be updated with every feature update.
Overall I would say to be patient and bring everyone who will be touching the platform to the onboarding sessions. The Virtual Classroom lets you onboard as quickly or slowly as you want. Sales, marketing, design, account management, get 'em all in on it. For the most part, they will be happy to use this platform. I recommend getting as many people as possible to see the SharpSpring demo.
Don't let the fear of implementing a new software solution keep you from unleashing the power of automation that Infusionsoft provides. With the right implementation partner, the process can not only be smooth and painless, it can actually help you get a better understanding for how your current communication process can be improved upon.
We use different CRMs for different clients, mostly due to budget and other requirements. SharpSpring from Constant Contact is in the middle, price-wise, but is slightly more user-friendly than ActiveCampaign when it comes to certain things, such as drip campaigns and workflows. Though the price can be prohibitive to some clients, it is extremely robust. I definitely prefer the list-building, the ability to send smart emails and the WYSIWYG editor.
Keap is fast. The learning curve is shorter and they have an academy for learning with videos quite extensive that explain a lot of different scenarios, specially when you need to customize scenarios of automations and segments. Is cheaper if you consider that this services CRM + Mailing don´t come often in one package and the realiability to send mails is quite good.
You get a lot of features included, but you don't need to use them all at once to start seeing an effect. When you are ready to use them, they are there. It also scales without costing too much money.
Streamlined Processes - sales and marketing are now all in the same place.
Reduced Number of Platforms/Tools - CRM/lead management, email, automation, landing pages, forms, etc are all in the same place rather than using multiple tools.
Time-saving - sales pipeline is very easy to use for sales. For marketing, we have dozens of workflows that eliminate much of our manual processes from the past.
Return on Investment - We're more focused on moving the building the business than ever before because SharpSpring has simplified so many of our business operations and we're seeing massive results!
Lead generation - Up SIGNIFICANTLY (between 3x & 4x) since setting up SharpSpring.
Automation has allowed us to be more engaged and invested in our customers by reminding us about birthdays and other important events in their lives so that we can celebrate with them.
We lacked the manpower to sell and distribute orders online before setting up the payments and automation features. We now collect $5k+ a week in lost sales through online ordering.
List cleaning functionality and engagment settings have allowed us to run a 40-50% email open rate that allows us to create an engaged community around local events and opportunities as well as sales and special offerings.