Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM vs. kvCORE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Constant Contact Advanced Automation helps users to send the right message at the right time, from Social to SMS and email to ecommerce. Multi-Channel Campaigns - Create comprehensive marketing campaigns with just a few clicks. The Campaign Builder tool can help launch a multi-channel campaign across email, social, and SMS. Pre-Built Automation Templates - Setup your automations quickly with pre-built automation templates to…
$449
per month
kvCORE
Score 2.7 out of 10
N/A
The kvCORE platform is described by the vendor, Inside Real Estate in Draper, as a next-gen solution for modern brokerages and enterprises to run their entire business on one platform.N/A
Pricing
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRMkvCORE
Editions & Modules
Lite
$12
per month
Standard
$35
per month
Premium
$80
per month
Lead Gen & CRM
Starting at $449
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRMkvCORE
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
Additional DetailsAbove pricing based on 5000 contacts.
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Features
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRMkvCORE
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.5
508 Ratings
3% below category average
kvCORE
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor7.7468 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.3452 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content6.8433 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages6.4440 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing7.5395 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization5.1426 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.8496 Ratings00 Ratings
List management9.2498 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences9.2473 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
8.8
497 Ratings
11% above category average
kvCORE
-
Ratings
Lead nurturing automation9.4484 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading8.5490 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management8.3466 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks8.9462 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.7
400 Ratings
1% above category average
kvCORE
-
Ratings
Calendaring8.1338 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.4318 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.3
377 Ratings
4% below category average
kvCORE
-
Ratings
Social sharing and campaigns7.1316 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration7.5362 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
8.3
494 Ratings
11% above category average
kvCORE
-
Ratings
Dashboards8.1486 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.1486 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports8.6447 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM
7.7
466 Ratings
1% above category average
kvCORE
-
Ratings
API7.7364 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals7.9403 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability8.6439 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.9217 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.098 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM7.091 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.9 out of 10

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Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10

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User Ratings
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRMkvCORE
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(522 ratings)
2.4
(25 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(32 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(70 ratings)
1.9
(3 ratings)
Availability
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
3.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(71 ratings)
2.0
(9 ratings)
Online Training
4.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.5
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
4.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
2.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRMkvCORE
Likelihood to Recommend
Constant Contact
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.
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Inside Real Estate
I think if you have a very large brokerage and can afford to pay for a fully customized set up then it may be worthwhile. I would make sure you have a dedicated support team, not an account manager. In my opinion, the account managers are worthless and will not respond most of the time. We are on our second account manager in 9 months of using the system and cannot get in touch with him. In my experience, the account managers have no knowledge of how the system works or how anyone in real estate would want it to work. Obviously, I can only say this for the two managers we have had so far. I would steer clear of this system unless you want to spend a few thousand a month for a system that, I feel, will impede your business rather than improve it.
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Pros
Constant Contact
  • 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.
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Inside Real Estate
  • Not one thing!
  • It sends unwanted canned responses to potential clients that you haven't approved. You must figure out how to use it to make them stop. This was day 1.
  • If you like to learn using many many different videos to learn a product, then this maybe for you.
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Cons
Constant Contact
  • 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.
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Inside Real Estate
  • Their support is good, but wait times can be long. They want you to use their chat, but then when you ask your question, it can be a several hour wait time between responses. The people are nice and resolve your issue. But I think chat is for quick back and forth communication, not something with a long delay. Also, you can only really do it effectively on your computer, not on your phone.
  • It's proving very tough to track leads from campaigns we are running ourselves. If your website converts a lead, it really just gives you the website source, and even that only some of the time. It would be great to create custom sources and have kvCORE track that traffic and lead via some sort of UTM tag or URL parameter.
  • Some of the load times aren't great. When I load up my database, it takes a while to actually display. Also, when a lead is claimed in a pond, you have to refresh to be able to contact them. Then once you add a campaign, you have to refresh again to see the tasks that fire. This is a bit clunky.
  • The app is great, but there is still some limited functionality. It would be great to access and claim leads from a pond on the mobile app. Also if you could get push notifications when new leads are added. Our time to lead sucks, and that's because kvCORE doesn't alert you super quickly.
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Likelihood to Renew
Constant Contact
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.
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Inside Real Estate
No answers on this topic
Usability
Constant Contact
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.
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Inside Real Estate
It doesn't deserve a zero because you can access contacts and get reminders to contact them. In my experience, you can not use the system for proper communication with both prospects and their spouses.
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Support Rating
Constant Contact
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.
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Inside Real Estate
I love kvCORE's support. Having the little chat feature in the bottom right of my screen the whole time I'm working takes away any stress or worry about using it. When I first started using it, I learned its features by clicking and trying things, and more than once I had to go into the chat support and ask how to undo or fix what I had done. I don't think I've ever waited more than 5 minutes to get a reply back and it being almost instant and right there on my screen allowed me to continue working and know immediately when my question had been answered.
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Implementation Rating
Constant Contact
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.
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Inside Real Estate
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Alternatives Considered
Constant Contact
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.
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Inside Real Estate
Konversion and BoomTown are the only two I have used. Both have their things to recommend. Since I used Konversion, using kvCORE was simpler and I was able to upload my contacts seamlessly. This made adopting a new system easier and less likely to have a gap in contacting customers.
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Return on Investment
Constant Contact
  • 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.
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Inside Real Estate
  • Because I am an EXP agent, I receive kvCore for $50/month so I have a $1550/month positive over any non-EXP agent.
  • Great new lead follow up with automatic and realistic contact for a higher conversion rate that I couldn't do by myself.
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ScreenShots

Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of Get a multi-channel campaign in just a few clicks with the Campaign Builder. Make a few selections and AI does the campaign building for you.Screenshot of Use the power of the AI Content Generator to create content for emails, social posts, or SMS.Screenshot of Curate Advanced Automation workflows to make sure your marketing is always on - even when you're not.Screenshot of Reach your customers wherever they are with SMS Marketing.Screenshot of Plan and post your social media messaging across platforms with our Social Posting tool.Screenshot of Integrate with powerful tools to grow more using Constant Contact.

kvCORE Screenshots

Screenshot of IDX websites for all agents - with behavioral intelligence & chat.Screenshot of Smart CRM bubbles up top priorities each day in 1 dashboard.Screenshot of Agents wake up to warm leads right on their phone.Screenshot of Mass Email + Text, Video Messaging, Power Dialer, Pond Accounts + MoreScreenshot of Drive listing exposure with seamless social media sharing.Screenshot of Tight transaction and business analytics integration.