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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Groove (legacy product)

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AGroove by Clari is a legacy Sales Engagement product for organizing prospect outreach, capturing sales activity, and guiding seller workflows across email, calendar, CRM, and campaign tools. On August 14, 2023, Clari acquired Groove and integrated it as the sales-engagement layer of the Clari Revenue Platform. Following Clari’s subsequent merger into Salesloft in 2025, Groove became part of the combined Salesloft platform. Salesloft unified the companies under its brand on September 2, 2026;…N/A

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A

    Salesloft

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform uses AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.N/A
    Pricing
    Groove (legacy product)Salesforce Experience CloudSalesloft
    Editions & Modules
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    Groove (legacy product)Salesforce Experience CloudSalesloft
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Groove (legacy product)Salesforce Experience CloudSalesloft
    Considered Multiple Products
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove's integration with Salesforce is its primary differentiator. Outreach/Salesloft cater to all CRMs and their sync with SFDC has a delay, requires additional configuration, and is often frustrating for admins.

    Salesforce Sales Engagement (formerly High Velocity Sales) also …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    We demo'd Ourtreach and Outplay. Outreach would never really focus on what I, as a salesperson, was looking for - they liked to talk about the features geared to management and marketing in regards to reporting and the dashboard. They didn't have a trial either - and I would …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove is definitely more user friendly than Salesloft
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove is better for cadence visibility since Salesloft cadences lack some cross-functional visibility for teams to share cadences. Groove is easy to use with a more simple and easy-to-navigate interface than Outreach which is a little complicated to onboard and adjust to.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    I have used Salesloft in the past and feel that Groove is on-par with Salesloft. There isn't a ton that separates the two products and I feel that both are great options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove integrates with Salesforce better than Salesloft did when we had it, but is worse at tracking open rates and frequently had numbers showing up as spam. We're just getting started with Outreach, but so far it integrates well with Salesforce and my connection rate is much …
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Salesloft is miserable compared to Groove. It does not automate, it barely logs well, and it has issues fixing and automating template emails with contacts, so sometimes the emails are way off.
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove saved our team a lot of money compared to Salesloft who we used to have a contract with. Groove was much more simple and straight forward and more aligned with syncing to our CRM. Groove also has reps available every hour every business day in case we need assistance or …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    I prefer Groove over Salesloft, Outreach.io, Close.io, etc because it designed for the rep not the manager or the administrator. Makes the rep life easier which increased productivity and provides accuracy in the CRM. My reps have adopted Groove so much faster than any …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    received and send emails. We can monitor everything about our emails. We can update on our partners. We can see if they view already our emails. We can see all of the replies that they have on our emails. Easy to use because the platform is so simple. No complicated things that …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove is more helpful for me and it standouts because it is a user friendly, easy to navigate and has a lot of features. It helps me to strategies my sales pitch how I position myself to get the deal done. and it is also quite cheap compare to other competitors.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    One of the things that Groove has an advantage over other product is, it is very user friendly, from sending emails to tracking your productivity, you can also document the customers account even the account is on a different tool since we can link Groove to other tool like Sale…
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    before I only used Google Calendar as reminder on the clients or emails that I need to get back on but sometimes I still overlooked those task that I need to do but with Groove it really made an outstanding specially the auto-logging emails I don't need to manually set it up …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    So far, when I started working here, we are already using Groove. One thing I think that is gone, I think is the TextExpander extension where it will be easier to use to attach emails to our CRM using some codes we can choose to. Which is Groove where able to provide it for the …
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    My company already had a contract in place with Groove however I have been happy with the tooling overall despite not being able to easily upload full lists for example by persona.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    The ease of use, pricing, installation and most importantly the connection to Campaigns were the deciding factor for Groove. The CSM and implementation team were a bonus!
    Incentivized
    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove outdoes everything I've ever used. I've never used another product/system that gives me that kind of capability. It's outstanding!
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    They don't compare. All the data is living in 1 place.SF! Maximize your investment by aligning with a tool that is 100% supported for SF.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove tends to be easier to use from a learning and teaching perspective. The one thing I have learned is that Groove tends to be a bit more expensive as the other listed above. In a crucial market right now at the moment, it was decided to look to cheaper options.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Different products.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Outreach is superior to Groove. Outreach is more of a seamless tool with fewer bugs/glitches and an easier ability to move people through steps, log calls, and track performance.
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    Chose Groove (legacy product)
    Groove integrates seamlessly with all the systems I use, and that makes it easier for me and my daily tasks as a salesperson. The other systems did not have as seamless integrations when I used them. Things could be different, and they may have upgraded. Also, Groove has some …
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    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    SalesLoft
    Chose Salesloft
    I have used Groove and Outreach. I find Salesloft and Outreach to fit into the same category. Groove is the "cheap" or "beginners" option.
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    Chose Salesloft
    My organization selected SalesLoft. I used Outreach at a previous employer, and I found it very difficult to navigate. There were many automations to choose from and various call dispositions when using the built-in dialer, but it wasn't very user friendly. I was in charge of …
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    Chose Salesloft
    Pricing, Support, Flexibility, Responsiveness
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    Chose Salesloft
    While I am aware of other products, I have not evaluated them.
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    Chose Salesloft
    • We selected SalesLoft because its user interface and features were way beyond what these other products offered.
    • Cirrus offers notifications if someone engages, but doesn't offer the cadence support or local dial features we rely on.
    • ZoomInfo is great for finding contact info, …
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    Chose Salesloft
    I only have experience with SalesLoft and Salesforce.
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Groove (legacy product)Salesforce Experience CloudSalesloft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (706 ratings)
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    7.9
    (325 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (33 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    5.4
    (542 ratings)
    8.1
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    7.8
    (8 ratings)
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    9.1
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (145 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.7
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    Online Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
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    7.3
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
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    Configurability
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (143 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
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    9.1
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    8.2
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    9.1
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    7.3
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    User Testimonials
    Groove (legacy product)Salesforce Experience CloudSalesloft
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
    • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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    SalesLoft
    I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.
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    Pros
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    • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
    • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
    • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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    SalesLoft
    • Salesloft enables us to outreach at scale.
    • Salesloft helps us identify our warmest, most buyer ready prospects to streamline our outreach.
    • Salesloft helps us to identify quickly areas to course correct and provides the necessary data to do that.
    • Salesloft also surfaces data around outreach so we can ensure we are targeting our team with sensible KPIs that connect to our business goals.
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    Cons
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    • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
    • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
    • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
    • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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    SalesLoft
    • Would be nice to have custom reporting available. Coming from Salesforce, the included canned reports are useful but I like to roll my sleeves up and build exactly what I want.
    • Conversations will record meetings booked via MSTeams but requires the BDR/SDR to hit record. Other solutions (e.g. Chorus.ai) join as a participant and don't require a user hitting the "record" button. We have to change our flow to make this work and it is a bit clunky.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    SalesLoft
    SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.
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    Usability
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    Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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    SalesLoft
    Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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    Salesforce
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    SalesLoft
    The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Everything is good
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    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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    SalesLoft
    Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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    SalesLoft
    The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.
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    In-Person Training
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    It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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    Salesforce
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    SalesLoft
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    Online Training
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    Easy to use
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    Salesforce
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    SalesLoft
    We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SalesLoft
    must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
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    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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    SalesLoft
    Salesloft blows outreach out of the water in all aspects. One of the biggest issues I had was their unwillingness to listen to customer feedback. I had requested several small changes to be made when I had previously used the platform that unfortunately fell onto deff ears. I am much happier using Salesloft and the positive results I've experienced are a direct result of that.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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    Salesforce
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    SalesLoft
    The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
    • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
    • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
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    SalesLoft
    • I have been with a company that was using Salesloft, but moved to a competitor. I can't say it was exactly the competitors fault, as a lot of other internal changes were happening, (hence leaving the system that was working well), but we had the worst sales year in company history that year. Reps who consistently performed at or above quota were suddenly struggling to keep their pipelines in order, and the middle of the pack reps were going on PiPs and being let go.
    • Is it the dialer, or the leadership? You decide.
    • But the leadership also changed the dialer - so maybe it's both?
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