Drip Ecommerce CRM vs. Smartlead

If you're looking to take your email program to the next level with automation, you definitely need to consider Drip. Their support team is always timely and helpful whenever we've needed guidance on the platform or using the API. They are constantly improving their tools. It never feels stagnant or lacking in critical features. Their prebuilt workflows make getting started very easy and you can start driving more revenue almost immediately.

Incentivized

If you're on a budget, it's great because it gets you a lot of leads for free on a ~$200 plan. So you don't have to worry about making or buying lists for your email outreach.

Incentivized

• Simplicity + power. Drip is one of the quickest platforms to use in terms of setting up simple drip email sequences. Yet it also packs enormous power if you need to do complex automation.
• Drip's direct integrations with other systems mean you can easily create hyper-personalized communications and anybody can set this up.
• Drip's Javascript embed is easy to setup and great for helping to build deeper insights into customer behavior as well as triggering automation.

Incentivized

• It's a good campaign management tool for cold outreach.
• Email warmup has given me good result.
• The unified inbox, which integrates all inboxes under one roof, is a time-saver and a tremendously important feature.

Incentivized

• Possibly more email design templates for "new" users to automation, HTML coding, integrations, webhooks, etc.
• Any supported integration partners are always good to see. They have expanded in this area, recently.
• Some sort of WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop email editor, wouldn't hurt.
• Sometimes, when trying to implement advanced HTML coding to an email template, the code doesn't stick, save or format as "native HTML."

Incentivized

• The UI & UX is still not there with a lot of room for improvement.
• Regular downtimes, complexity and bulking of the platform is an overkill.
• It used to be very minimalistic but now it's just too much to handle.

Incentivized

It’s easy for not just experts, but anyone. Both of my VAs picked it up really quickly

Incentivized

-1 point just for the UI/UX and over-engineering.

Incentivized

Again, this is dependent on the use case. If you are a small- to medium-sized business that doesn't have a sales team, this is likely a great product for you. It is also a good price compared to larger enterprise software. Other software I have used worked better for other companies I worked for, but Drip fits best for my current company.

Incentivized

• Saves hours of typing redundant emails
• Helps with our retention based on the constant contact with our current clients
• Keeps our prospects up to date as we move through the stages of the sales cycle which also increases our capacity to handle more volume.

Incentivized

• It has mostly a positive impact on its warm-up, which has ensured that our emails land in the inbox rather than spam.
• I was able to get a 12% reply rate for one of the ICPs..

Incentivized