DirectLync is an all-in-one marketing platform that is designed to help small businesses achieve their sales and marketing goals. The platform brings together contact management, email marketing, social media management, and website CMS into one platform. It provides integrated reporting for all channels saving marketers hours a week in time spent collecting and analyzing data from different sources. Integrated reporting easily enables marketers to get a comprehensive view of their campaigns.…
$20
Month
Leadfwd
Score8.2 out of 10
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Leadfwd, from the company of the same name in Staten Island, combines B2B Prospecting, Sales Outreach and Account-Based Marketing. It replaces the former INBOX25.
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Pricing
DirectLync
Leadfwd
Editions & Modules
Basic
$20.00
Month
Essential
$99.00
Month
Pro
$249.00
Month
Premium
$599.00
Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DirectLync
Leadfwd
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Features
DirectLync
Leadfwd
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of DirectLync and Leadfwd
Feature
DirectLync
8.5
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Leadfwd
7.4
2 Ratings
5% below category average
Email deliverability reporting
8.01 Ratings
9.62 Ratings
List management
9.01 Ratings
8.62 Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor
00 Ratings
7.02 Ratings
Dynamic content
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Landing pages
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
A/B testing
00 Ratings
3.22 Ratings
Mobile optimization
00 Ratings
6.22 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences
00 Ratings
8.82 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of DirectLync and Leadfwd
Feature
DirectLync
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
8.0
2 Ratings
1% above category average
Lead nurturing automation
00 Ratings
8.42 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading
00 Ratings
7.32 Ratings
Data quality management
00 Ratings
7.72 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks
00 Ratings
8.52 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of DirectLync and Leadfwd
Feature
DirectLync
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Calendaring
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of DirectLync and Leadfwd
Feature
DirectLync
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
7.5
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Social profile integration
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of DirectLync and Leadfwd
Feature
DirectLync
-
Ratings
Leadfwd
6.3
2 Ratings
17% below category average
Dashboards
00 Ratings
6.52 Ratings
Standard reports
00 Ratings
6.32 Ratings
Custom reports
00 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of DirectLync and Leadfwd
Girls PACT receives regular compliments on its website! The audience for our website is potential donors. DirectLync nailed it! The design is clean, modern, professional, user friendly, intuitive and really represents our brand. They gave us some great coaching and guidance as we were creating and preparing content. It was a really fun project!
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I think Inbox25 is a great fit for companies outgrowing lower-end, disconnected email marketing applications. Companies with a more formalized marketing organization that send a lot of emails (tens of thousands monthly or more) will be better served with a product like Inbox25 that is less complex, easier to use, and much more affordable (30% lower by our experience) from the larger marketing automation products on the market. Our company has 3 full-time marketing staff with over 100,000 contacts (with valid emails) that we target in various direct and drip email campaigns and Inbox25 fits our needs just fine. I suspect that we may outgrow the product eventually but I think it'll meet our needs just fine for many years to come.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Inbox25 is in a growth phase and has transformed their product pretty fast. With that comes an increased need to continually learn how to leverage new features.
Tutorials and product documentation exist but it is relatively minimal. They overcome this with personalized, one-on-one training that is recorded for future review using a project management platform.
Inbox25 has expanded beyond Sugar CRM to include Salesforce.com integration. I'm not sure if they plan to add integrations to other applications but they are positioned well for growth.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
DirectLync has saved our marketing budget thousands of dollars! They have been so generous supporting the marketing needs of Girls PACT, a nonprofit organization.
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We have successfully moved cold suspects to leads and leads to opportunities, and opportunities to customers with Inbox25. We are just now starting to realize more value given that we've only recently started using the more advanced drip marketing and lead scoring features.
When we used the pay-as-you-go version we were paying just pennies per email and remained CAN-Spam Act compliant. It was harder to quantify the ROI then but it was apparent that email marketing was working and moving prospects from one sales stage to another. It was also very useful for re-engaging prospects and promoting products and services to customers.
Our total investment in the advanced edition is less $30,000 annually and we expect the ROI to be less than one year. It could have been sooner if we'd have been more thoughtful in our initial implementation.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info