HG Insights Platform vs. LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HG Insights Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The HG Insights platform provides a view into global industries, markets, and companies allowing users to identify the most valuable opportunities and build strategies to maximize revenue and accelerate growth.N/A
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (formerly Rapportive) is a free Chrome Extension that shows an email recipient's LinkedIn details within the user's Gmail inbox, and allows users to jump to the contact's LinkedIn profile. Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. In November 2017, LinkedIn released a new version of Rapportive called Sales Navigator Lite for Gmail, which makes some features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator accessible from within user's email inbox. A subscription to
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Sales Intelligence Data Standards
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HG Insights Platform
9.1
37 Ratings
5% below category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
9.0
24 Ratings
15% above category average
Company information8.337 Ratings9.024 Ratings
Contact information00 Ratings8.122 Ratings
Industry information00 Ratings10.023 Ratings
Financial Research
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HG Insights Platform
8.3
35 Ratings
0% below category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
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Industry-Specific Information8.530 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
Market Research
Comparison of Market Research features of Product A and Product B
HG Insights Platform
8.1
37 Ratings
0% below category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
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Ratings
Competitor Research7.934 Ratings00 Ratings
Market Insights and Reports8.335 Ratings00 Ratings
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
HG Insights Platform
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Ratings
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
8.3
21 Ratings
7% above category average
Advanced search00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
Identification of new leads00 Ratings7.521 Ratings
List quality00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
List upload/download00 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings8.520 Ratings
Load time/data access00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
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HG Insights Platform
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Ratings
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
6.9
22 Ratings
7% below category average
Lead qualification process00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Salesforce integration00 Ratings5.516 Ratings
Company/business profiles00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Alerts and reminders00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Data hygiene00 Ratings4.120 Ratings
Automatic data refresh00 Ratings7.520 Ratings
Tags00 Ratings7.117 Ratings
Filters and segmentation00 Ratings6.618 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
HG Insights Platform
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LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
7.5
15 Ratings
0% above category average
Sales email templates00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Append emails to records00 Ratings7.015 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(43 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(41 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
HG Insights
For someone working in B2B IT Marketing, the HG Insights Platform has a wide range of data available that is suited for both a data level employee as well as an ISR. The one draw back is the integration with SFDC isn't as great as we'd like, meaning it is more manual for us to run propensity models using more than one source of data.
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LinkedIn
The Sales Navigator has allowed us to increase our awareness of our potential lead pool and has allowed us to grow our customer base. The system is easy to use and allows us to have great control over the number of leads we can see and the number of leads that we can connect to. Using the system has also helped us in being able to manage the number of leads that we can send.
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Pros
HG Insights
  • It works great for seeing if the site or app for a company is hosted on AWS.
  • Intricately uses a different approach (vs the other tools we use) - which helps confirm from another angle.
  • It has a great google chrome plug-in.
  • UI/UX is modern and clean.
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LinkedIn
  • Has many filter capabilities for me to find exactly who I am looking for.
  • Integrates with other prospecting tools to create a well rounded with the information it can collect.
  • Integrates with SFDC- automatically uploads them as leads.
  • Integrates with Salesloft for me to easily start the cadence.
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Cons
HG Insights
  • integration with SFDC could be better
  • Sometime provides back an incorrect/no match when a better is available from an uploaded file, though this is getting slightly better
  • A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful.
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LinkedIn
  • Sometimes it tells me I need to log into my LinkedIn profile when I've already logged in. It's weird. It seems to be when the email address is not found. Instead of just saying the email is not found, it tells me I need to log in. Just something I've noticed.
  • Sometimes I get this weird thing where I go to compose an email and instead of having it open all the way to the right, it opens all the way to my left. I'm pretty sure Rapportive is what's causing it. It doesn't happen very often but sometimes I see that.
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Likelihood to Renew
HG Insights
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LinkedIn
Rapportive is simple and great at what it does. Plus I anticipate they'll probably add more features in the future.
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Usability
HG Insights
It’s very easy to use, and the team is very responsive and friendly to work with. The information is unique and usable and can complement some of the data we get from call recordings. The integration with Salesforce is easy to implement and offers good insights into our database.
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LinkedIn
The user interface is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The workflow is an easy thing to incorporate into your day-to-day as a sales person. It’s very rare that I come across a glitch or website slowness. The collaborative Aspect is also a plus when I am working with others on my sales team
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Support Rating
HG Insights
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LinkedIn
I have never used Their support
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Alternatives Considered
HG Insights
- Sales Intel seems to be more of a direct competition. Their human research seems to be something interesting. Also the claim to focus on firmographics - We went with Bombora for intent technology in the past - We did not move forward with 6sense
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn Sales Navigators provides different services than most other products and has the unique ability to take advantage of LinkedIn's proprietary user data. That also comes with a drawback that the system is dependent on users to update their data in a timely and accurate manner in order to get the correct intel back to users. I'd recommend other products like Seamless.ai or MediaRadar for more accurate and updated contact information, but also to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail for better market and company intel, timely pitching opportunities and seamless integration between Gmail and LinkedIn.
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Return on Investment
HG Insights
  • I don't massively get involved in financial matters, but the propensity models we use internally to help run our campaigns are certainly a big factor when our sales people approach our clients.
  • Every campaign sold now comes with a flat data fee for us to run and use a propensity model for the activity we complete on behalf of our clients.
  • Whilst the client will never see the raw data behind the model (of which HG does play a part along with our other data sources) they are briefed on the methodology and reasoning behind them.
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LinkedIn
  • Really lets me leverage my entire business network
  • Empowers me to see the prospect's whole picture (who they know, where they went, what they do) and take advantage of that opening
  • We have no other system like it, so it's irreplaceable for us
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ScreenShots

HG Insights Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of the welcome screen.Screenshot of the HG Insights Opportunity Generator.Screenshot of HG Insights' Market Analyzer, used to interactively explore and act on your total addressable market, competitive dynamics, and whitespace with speed and confidence.