Salesforce Sales Cloud vs. VerticalResponse

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
VerticalResponse
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
VerticalResponse is an email campaign management software and services platform from Deluxe. In addition to providing email marketing tools, VerticalResponse offers fully managed email marketing services from campaign launch and management to reporting and analysis.
$9
per month
Pricing
Salesforce Sales CloudVerticalResponse
Editions & Modules
Starter
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$80.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$165.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$330.00
Per user/Per month
Basic
$11.00
per month
Pro
$16.00
per month
Pro Plus
$196.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Salesforce Sales CloudVerticalResponse
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Salesforce Sales CloudVerticalResponse
Considered Both Products
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Chose Salesforce Sales Cloud
When it comes to keeping track of your leads as well as follow ups, there is none better than Salesforce in my opinion. It is extremely simple and easy to use which is why we chose to go with it. Plus it has many more features which allows better data management.
VerticalResponse
Chose VerticalResponse
Vertical Response is most akin to Constant Contact. No frills, agile, easy to use. The one advantage that it has over Constant Contact is that you don't need to be locked into a month-to-month plan, which is what I needed. Salesforce and HubSpot aren't fair comparisons--these …
Chose VerticalResponse
This was the first bulk emailing system that I tried. I looked into Constant Contact.
Chose VerticalResponse
I think Vertical Response is a lot more user-friendly than Constant Contact and allows for more features that Constant Contact does not. I like the email WYSIWYG feature better on here and it allows us to preview our emails before we send them out to our entire customer base.
Chose VerticalResponse
Marketo covered more scope than we needed at the time.
Chose VerticalResponse
ExactTarget, MailChimp. I liked VerticalResponse's integration with Salesforce. We used MailChimp before and it says on their website they have integration with Salesforce, but we were never able to find it on the Force.com website.

For ExactTarget, we used that in the past and …
Chose VerticalResponse
Constant Contact, MailChimp. Vertical Response covered our basic needs - contacts management, newsletter and marketing email activity analysis, templates/wizards, etc. and was free for non-profits up to 10,000 contacts/month.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Salesforce Sales CloudVerticalResponse
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
237 Ratings
0% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Customer data management / contact management8.5237 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management7.9228 Ratings00 Ratings
Territory management7.4182 Ratings00 Ratings
Opportunity management8.4231 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)7.4216 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract management7.0188 Ratings00 Ratings
Quote & order management7.5172 Ratings00 Ratings
Interaction tracking7.4202 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management7.6164 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
79 Ratings
1% below category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Case management7.679 Ratings00 Ratings
Call center management7.363 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk management7.366 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.6
216 Ratings
1% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Lead management7.8211 Ratings00 Ratings
Email marketing7.4181 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
219 Ratings
2% below category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Task management7.4209 Ratings00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management7.056 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting7.7172 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
232 Ratings
1% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Forecasting7.3201 Ratings00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization7.7220 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.1229 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.0
223 Ratings
5% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Custom fields8.1221 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom objects8.1211 Ratings00 Ratings
Scripting environment7.9157 Ratings00 Ratings
API for custom integration8.0184 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.7
225 Ratings
4% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability8.8192 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.6198 Ratings00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
142 Ratings
2% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Social data7.5141 Ratings00 Ratings
Social engagement7.3138 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
192 Ratings
8% above category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Marketing automation7.8188 Ratings00 Ratings
Compensation management7.7128 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.0
203 Ratings
7% below category average
VerticalResponse
-
Ratings
Mobile access7.0203 Ratings00 Ratings
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
VerticalResponse
9.9
8 Ratings
19% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
List management00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
VerticalResponse
10.0
9 Ratings
24% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
VerticalResponse
10.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
URL Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Link Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Image Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Inbox Display00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Spam Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Salesforce Sales CloudVerticalResponse
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(369 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(56 ratings)
8.6
(19 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(120 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.8
(27 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(18 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.7
(91 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.9
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(15 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
1.0
(18 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.8
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(28 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.3
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Salesforce Sales CloudVerticalResponse
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce
Salesforce Sales Cloud is, in my experience, well suited to large B2B businesses who are driving demand and lead generation, and tracking customers through the funnel. It is a system we needed for a long time and has made a huge difference. However, I think it would have been more appropriate for a smaller business / a business who sets this up earlier on. There are great advantages to having historical data. It is really useful for allowing all commercial teams to work together, including sales, new business, marketing, client success etc. However, it relies too much too often on human error. If more things were automated and simpler, perhaps with AI queries, it could be easier to use
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VerticalResponse
For businesses requiring advanced email marketing features like sophisticated automation, in-depth analytics, and extensive customization, VerticalResponse might fall short due to its limited featuresVerticalResponse is ideal for small businesses or freelancers who need a simple, straightforward email marketing tool. Its ease of use and basic features make it suitable for those without extensive technical expertise in email marketing
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Pros
Salesforce
  • Logging notes: SF makes it easy to log notes in the timeline or static notes that live in an easy-to-see spot for longevity.
  • Logging activities: It's easy to post a call, text, email, etc.
  • API data: Once connected, SF is critical to automation, such as website activity, login activity, pages visited, etc., which saves the Customer Success side time in understanding account activity.
  • Custom fields: you can add custom fields to really personalize your experience. We use quite a few and it's brilliant.
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VerticalResponse
  • I love the ease of list builder because we often times have a lot of data to import. It would be simply impossible without this tool, considering the amount of customer data we have for any one given email.
  • We really enjoy the ease of use of the HTML wizard as well. It helps even a novice be able to make a beautiful and attention grabbing email.
  • The dashboard is functional and easy to find when you need with a quick search.
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Cons
Salesforce
  • I have hard-coded the auto-update of the phone number format and state format from some codes shared by the community, but I do not know where to do it. I cannot reset it either.
  • It is unclear what functionalities each version has. We use the enterprise version, and it seems we can only have one design of the pipeline. But different business segments would have very different sales cycles, and hence, pipeline tracking would be different. It would be nice to have this available in our version.
  • It seems I cannot create a report to pull notes logged at the account levels.
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VerticalResponse
  • The type face is small. Not sure if this is to avoid overwhelming the reader, but I could see this being an issue with vision-impaired people or people who don't see small print well.
  • Sometimes I find it takes multiple clicks to make one simple change. I wish there was a search field at the top of the screen that allowed me to jump directly to a client's entry to update it there.
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Likelihood to Renew
Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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VerticalResponse
Product is easy for both technical and non-technical people to use. A cost effective solution for sending out large number of messages. We can manage unsubscribes by individual accounts, so we can have multiple multiple accounts combined to maximize our buying power on credits. Effective API for sending/receiving data makes tool a valuable asset.
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Usability
Salesforce
Salesforce has been designed on the basis of "Clicks, not code". So anyone willing to learn the Salesforce user interface (which is quite good as far as management software platforms go) is able to become a Salesforce user or even a Salesforce administrator. You don't have to know coding language to work in the Salesforce environment. Also, Salesforce has one of the best software training resources (Trailhead) that I have ever encountered. It is free to all, easy to use, and most importantly it is interactive. No scrolling through endless text in a user manual. There are hands-on modules and related videos interlaced and through it all you earn points and badges to display your level of learning.
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VerticalResponse
I truly love this product. We are moving to an all-in-one system next year and my greatest fear in doing so is how much I will miss this platform. Although we are excited for things ahead, I will always keep Vertical Response in my back pocket incase I don't love the new platform as much
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Reliability and Availability
Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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VerticalResponse
Never had an issue with uptime
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Performance
Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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VerticalResponse
No issues
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Support Rating
Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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VerticalResponse
At Vertical Response the help desk associates are courteous, knowledgeable and helpful. You can tell they enjoy what they do. And clearly, they are well trained because most times, the first point of contact is able to resolve any issue you may have. There have been very few times where an associate has needed to get back to me or escalate me to a supervisor
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In-Person Training
Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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VerticalResponse
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Salesforce
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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VerticalResponse
Basic functions and online help...we used what was needed, at the time, and will continue to explore other online trainings as our functional needs expand
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Implementation Rating
Salesforce
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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VerticalResponse
Salesforce integration never worked right. We had to abandon.
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Alternatives Considered
Salesforce
The thing that puts Sales Cloud above the top is its simple user interface, which is easy to interact with. The visuals and automation are also quite amazing. Given its attention to data and customer relationship management, Sales Cloud is tough to beat. Of course, Microsoft Dynamics integrates nicely with other Microsoft products, and Monday is a tool everyone is familiar with, so it is hard to compete with those.
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VerticalResponse
In addition to using Vertical Response personally I also manage email marketing for clients that already use Mailchimp, Robly and Constant Contact. While most of these platforms all offer similar features I choose Vertical Response first if the client does not have a platform in place. Typically I am also teaching the client how to use this tool and the Vertical Response visual interface is very easy for me to teach a client how to navigate and create their own campaigns.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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VerticalResponse
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Salesforce
Salesforce sales cloud implementation can give you the desired outcome for your business. Its workflow, approval, sync, and file-sharing features help automate the process. The Macros feature helps business to shorten their sales cycle. Sales Cloud also allows businesses to make the right decision with its real-time business insights and analysis.
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VerticalResponse
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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VerticalResponse
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Salesforce
  • All tools we've implemented with Salesforce had a pretty quick positive ROI with the exception of CPQ & Billing. That was a very large project that I would only suggest for businesses with many SKUs that tend to be packaged together.
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VerticalResponse
  • We were able to blast out promotions our company was having to customers which created an increase in business.
  • By blasting out any service issues, it keeps our customers informed so that they are not wondering what is going on.
  • Allows us to store unsubscribed emails so that we are not constantly pestering people who do not want to be emailed.
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