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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Workspace

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Workspace enables teams of all sizes to connect, create and collaborate. It includes productivity and collaboration tools for work: Gmail for custom business email, Drive for cloud storage, Docs for word processing, Meet for video and voice conferencing, Chat for team messaging, Slides for presentation building, and shared Calendars.

    $6

    per month per user

    LinkedIn Sales Navigator

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALinkedIn Sales Navigator is a sales intelligence software solution offered by LinkedIn.

    $79.99

    per month

    Pricing
    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Editions & Modules
    Business Starter
    $6
    per user/per month
    Business Standard
    $12
    per user/per month
    Business Plus
    $18
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Professional
    $79.99
    per month
    Team
    $134.99
    per license
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Workspace
    On ease of use and organization G-Suite wins for sure, but with respect to file sharing and sending it's Microsoft all the way!
    Incentivized
    LinkedIn
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    I haven't used any other products that compare to LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    54 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    56 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    66 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    49 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    Features
    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Google Workspace and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Feature
    Google Workspace
    -
    Ratings
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    7.7
    182 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Advanced search00 Ratings9.6182 Ratings
    Identification of new leads00 Ratings9.5180 Ratings
    List quality00 Ratings8.2176 Ratings
    List upload/download00 Ratings4.3121 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings8.2175 Ratings
    Load time/data access00 Ratings6.3162 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Google Workspace and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Feature
    Google Workspace
    -
    Ratings
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    8.3
    180 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Contact information00 Ratings7.9159 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings8.4180 Ratings
    Industry information00 Ratings8.6175 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Google Workspace and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Feature
    Google Workspace
    -
    Ratings
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    8.2
    177 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Lead qualification process00 Ratings8.3136 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings7.6159 Ratings
    Salesforce integration00 Ratings8.3130 Ratings
    Company/business profiles00 Ratings8.6173 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders00 Ratings8.2154 Ratings
    Data hygiene00 Ratings7.9155 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh00 Ratings6.9135 Ratings
    Tags00 Ratings8.8129 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation00 Ratings9.0163 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Google Workspace and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Feature
    Google Workspace
    -
    Ratings
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    6.6
    79 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Sales email templates00 Ratings6.972 Ratings
    Append emails to records00 Ratings6.467 Ratings
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    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Small Businesses
    Google Workspace Essentials
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Apache OpenOffice
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft 365 Business Premium
    Score9 out of 10
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (121 ratings)
    7.0
    (184 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    5.6
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.2
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google WorkspaceLinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Workspace does offer several different plans that can match well with the stage of your business. As your business grows, the higher plans can provide the better tooling or expanded features/products to scale with your needs. It would probably become very complicated to swap over to, if you are deeply embedded with another competitor. But, it could be a nice platform to consolidate several disconnected systems under one roof.
    Incentivized
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    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator is hands down the best tool for identifying targeted contacts or leads. You can drill down on a company and look at its entire workforce, or search by the exact title that is your key target. The information is up to date, as people tend to keep their LinkedIn profiles current. In terms of other marketing functions LI Sales Navigator is extremely limited. BUT if you are looking to identify contacts for prospecting purposes, then this tool is what you need.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Google
    • Google Calendar...amazing. I don't need to ask team members when they're busy anymore and play this game of bouncing times back and forth. All I need to do is enter their email address and it shows my calendar and theirs side by side and then select the day and time I find that works best for the both of us.
    • I actually prefer Google Meet over Zoom. Zoom bogs down my computer and I find their UI overcomplicated for what it actually does. Google Meet is simple and does practically everything Zoom does without needing to pay any extra money.
    • Sheets integrates with our CRM (Copper) so it's perfect for us. Being able to export information out of our CRM into sheets and then create pivot tables from that data makes our lives a million times better.
    Incentivized
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    LinkedIn
    • Search Functionality: LinkedIn Sales Navigator has one of the most powerful search functions. The filters are not unnecessary and some are very well thought of. You can drill down to finding a needle in a haystack of 20000 employee company when it comes to using LinkedIn Sales Navigator if done in the right manner.
    • Smart Links: Gone are the days of attached Decks. One can simply create their deck online using this feature on LinkedIn Sales Navigator, or even upload an existing ppt. A smart link is shareable as well as trackable for opens and clicks.
    • Fewer Clicks: With a single click, I can filter out decision-makers in any company. With a single click, I can import contacts from LinkedIn Sales Navigator to Salesforce. Lesser clicks are actually less stressful if you think.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Pricing is a little bit higher than other services
    • The cost of each email inbox costs the same whether you want just email or all of the features. For example, we wanted a support email address that we could setup our support desk with. The cost of that added account is the same as the account I use with all of the features.
    • They removed their free tier for small organizations like mine and restricted the free tier from adding new domain names. This was likely due to abuse, but everyone lost the privilege of the free service.
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    LinkedIn
    • Inbox needs work - too much confusion around your LinkedIn inbox and Sales Nav inbox
    • Sorting - need a better, faster way to sort by for prospect lists and account lists
    • Only voluntarily shared information. No cross checking or using API’s like a ZoomInfo
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    There is no better solution for cloud storage and real time collaboration. The amount of features included in G Suite is unmatched and out of other things we’ve tried over the years, nothing comes close to being as great of a tool.
    Incentivized
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    LinkedIn
    This question is a no-brainer. The tool is the industry standard for anyone tied to sales and marketing. The name "LinkedIn Sales Navigator" is synonymous with streamlining relevant customer and account data in an easy to use format that is actionable and intelligent. The focus on continuous improvement and richer means of communicating with customers and prospects is evident each time new features are rolled out. The social component of the tool even includes a gamification component to ensure that peers remain relevant among each other, which is refreshing and enjoyable for those who engage the tool on a daily basis.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Workspace is incredibly intuitive and user friendly. It's easy to adopt through simple features, for example the prompts to enable Gemini on each call for note taking is reliable, and helps to stop you forgetting to use the feature. The main reason for a strong rating is the consistency and reliability, whilst there's definitely areas for improvement, for example additional calendar features (sharing), or deeper functionality in sheets. The level that it provides means that anyone adopting it will be able to take full use of features within a day or two. Gmail, calendar and the documentation suite contain all the basic features for a small / medium business to run at a high level day to day, with minimal downtime or learning curves.
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    LinkedIn
    Overall, it's very user-friendly. It's hard for a tool to make sorting through loads of data easy, but Sales Nav does this very well. Its advanced search features enable us to be selective in finding the right people to talk to and connect with.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Google
    My experiences of getting support have been positive. Calling in is not overly difficult, but it does require getting a PIN. The knowledge of those responding to the calls has been impressive. I have managed to work with them to fix two Google bugs that I had identified. These bugs required a some technical expertise and the support staff were able to understand the issue and forward the concerns to the appropriate persons. The first bug was fixed with 24 hours. The second bug took a little longer, but it was also more complicated to reproduce.
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    LinkedIn
    I would recommend LinkedIn Sales Navigator entirely. It has been the most user-friendly tool to use starting off in a sales role. I genuinely enjoy the navigation of the tool and how easy it is to save lists and see job changes within those lists. Generating leads and finding the most up to date information on prospects is all housed within this tool.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    nothing to say
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    LinkedIn
    I am unsure of the rollout, as I was not involved. I was an early adopter, and I have had a lot of success with the tool personally at multiple organizations, but I have no idea whether the implementation process encountered any errors. I can personally say that it works, and that I have not encountered significant issues with the tool since adoption, although a few issues like messages showing up as being unread even though they have been opened have been an on-again/off-again issues throughout the past few years. Overall, the company is doing a great job, and our implementation seems to have been effective.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    There are lots of competitors to various tools in Workspace, like Meet versus Zoom. However, Microsoft is the other big competitor I can think of for Google Workspace as a whole. To me, at least, the strength of Workspace is how easy it is to share and collaborate with others. For items that I only need for myself and can keep on my own computer, I typically rely on Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. For items that I need to share, I turn to Workspace a lot. Being able to collaborate in real-time and not having to send documents back and forth is so amazing, and such a time saver. And I love that Workspace is also a built-in tool with Dropbox now.
    Incentivized
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    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator is much more valuable than Dice or Cognism, as we do most of our prospecting on LinkedIn. Therefore, it means we can build lists of our prospects based on activity, connections, and buying intention. With Cognism and Dice, you cannot do this as they do not work alongside the LinkedIn platform and, therefore, lack the functionality that is essential to what we are using the platform for.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Zero to no time managing tools allows us to focus on work saving us time and money
    • Google Workspace allowed us to seamlessly transition to a fully remote workforce when the Coronavirus pandemic started - no lost time or productivity.
    • Easily able to extend our workspace and add features, e.g. Voice, saving us time implementing other services.
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    LinkedIn
    • Helped warm up a few leads that I was having trouble getting in touch with via phone and email
    • Allowed me to better identify the key stakeholders at companies I was targeting
    • Kept me up to date on what was happening with my prospects and their companies.
    Incentivized
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