KickFire vs. Lead Forensics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
KickFire
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
KickFire’sB2B solutions provide account-level information such as industry, revenue, employee count, and more based on an IP address. KickFire’s proprietary TWIN Caching® technology and robust firmographic database deliver business intelligence for first-party intent, content personalization, account-based marketing, predictive/intent, data enrichment, and much more. KickFire offers IP address intelligence and B2B firmographic data through its LIVE Leads platform, API, and integrations…N/A
Lead Forensics
Score 3.9 out of 10
N/A
UK company Lead Forensics offers their eponymous platform for lead generation and web analytics.N/A
Pricing
KickFireLead Forensics
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
KickFireLead Forensics
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
KickFireLead Forensics
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
KickFire
8.5
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Lead Forensics
-
Ratings
Identification of new leads9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
KickFire
7.3
2 Ratings
3% below category average
Lead Forensics
-
Ratings
Contact information6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
KickFire
8.0
2 Ratings
8% above category average
Lead Forensics
-
Ratings
Salesforce integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
KickFireLead Forensics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
1.2
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(3 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
KickFireLead Forensics
Likelihood to Recommend
KickFire
For small businesses that don't have big budgets for marketing automation, VisiStat is an ideal first step. For companies that have sophisticated systems in place, VisiStat will augment your analytics and provide a deeper dive into your website activity. Since the implementation involves adding javascript to your site, the user should be familiar with how to do this
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Lead Forensics
It is a costly solution but well worth the money because of the details and information. We used others in the past but switched because it links with WIX. Sometimes I feel as if it is not capturing all our web traffic simply because it doesn't even track when our business is using it. It is good for some leads but I think there can be more it is missing.
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Pros
KickFire
  • De-anonymizes website activity at the account (company) level.
  • Identifies net new target accounts.
  • Displays click path, time on page, time per session, and engagement level of each de-anonymized website visit.
  • Gives great daily insight on watchlists you've set up.
  • Delivers every possible de-anonymized visit with little filtering for accuracy.
  • More on the watchlists. I really love that you can receive immediate alerts on website visits from accounts you've listed on your watchlists. This way, you never miss the window of opportunity to reach out to your key targets while they are currently on your site.
  • Salesforce integration is good. KickFire pushes most recent website visits, pages visited, website click path, activity percent change, and more to the given account in Salesforce. You can then create reports and run them regularly to see which accounts are surging in website activity. This is also great for account prospecting, and for planning your sales outreach plan of attack. You can see which bits of your website content are most interesting to the company, and which products they are most interested in.
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Lead Forensics
  • It gives you valid leads that have been on your website looking for your products
  • The information is always accurate and detailed about their visit
  • It notifies you when the customer is looking for help or products, so you know when to reach out to them
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Cons
KickFire
  • Some outdated information and your credits will be used
  • Credit package sizes are not very customizable
  • A tad pricy comapred to simillar prospecting tools I've seen
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Lead Forensics
  • I wish the process could be a little more automated somehow. Right now it is more manual, at least in our process, to aggregate the accounts and segment accordingly.
  • It seems more geared towards sales, rather than marketing. We are struggling a little to use this at scale, but it could be where we are in maturity of using the product.
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Likelihood to Renew
KickFire
We've been happy customers of VisiStat for many years. I've used the service at multiple companies and you can't beat it.
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Lead Forensics
No answers on this topic
Usability
KickFire
It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.
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Lead Forensics
The tool takes a bit to learn and you go through an onboarding to get a better understanding. Once you go through that, the tool is very user friendly and a piece of cake to use - anyone can go through it, no IT skills need to run and manage their platform.
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Reliability and Availability
KickFire
We've never had any outages in the 7+ years using the system.
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Lead Forensics
No answers on this topic
Performance
KickFire
The system is very responsive, and when there are times in which data is loading, the VisiStat system provides humorous loading messages.
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Lead Forensics
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
KickFire
They are very good at solving cases that I bring to them. I'd like to see more proactive support to make sure we are getting the full value out of the solution.
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Lead Forensics
While we have not had a lot of issues, the Lead Forensics team has been helpful in addressing them. The software is fairly intuitive, and issues rarely arise. This could also be from a lack of use on our part, but we have not had a great deal of interaction with the customer support team.
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Online Training
KickFire
The tutorials are very good and they explain how to get started using the system. The online webinars are very good for advancing your knowledge of the product.
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Lead Forensics
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
KickFire
Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.
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Lead Forensics
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
KickFire
I covered this pretty extensively in the cons. The key differentiator here is that KickFire serves up almost all the data (or so it seems) to the end client. The client then has to do their own work on interpreting it. This is good because it means we don't miss out on any website activities, but it's bad because we get a lot of false positives. 6sense uses the confidence score approach I mentioned in the Cons section, which means the match rates of the data we get are much higher. Our experience with Clearbit comes from other tools that are built on it (Bombora, Drift, etc.), and it has not been great. We've seen many more inaccuracies with Clearbit.
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Lead Forensics
Lead Forensics is the best as far as I can tell, but choices that are a fraction of the cost come pretty close. Some places like ThomasNet even throw this functionality in for free now. I guess it's a question of if you view this type of intelligence as a luxury or essential.
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Scalability
KickFire
We've gone from a few thousand unique visitors per month to nearly 200,000 unique visitors. VisiStat doesn't miss a beat.
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Lead Forensics
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
KickFire
  • Faster lead conversion
  • Less time on LinkedIn trying to figure out DM (decision maker)
  • Increased employee efficiency
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Lead Forensics
  • In the end, we canceled our subscription, however, we had a couple solid leads from our use. We reached out to those clients. We didn't generate actual business, but at least we're on their radar.
  • In general, we have a better understanding of the marketing capabilities Lead Forensics can offer us. They provided us all of the tools we'd need to be able to recommend it to our clients.
  • We were able to see the effects of our marketing and learn from their successes of different tactics.
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ScreenShots

KickFire Screenshots

Screenshot of KickFire features a RESTful API builder and JSON schema that makes it simple to query by IP, domain, or company.

Lead Forensics Screenshots

Screenshot of Lead Forensics provides detailed insight with regard to who is visiting your website, where they have come from, how your visits trend over time, what they have looked at on your site, as well as providing detailed firmographics about each and every business visitor identified - all in real-time. At a glance insight for marketers to understand website performance, weak spots, campaign effectiveness and market engagement.Screenshot of Get a detailed view of precisely which businesses are visiting your website in real-time. Categorize visitors according to their stage in your sales pipeline and create actions based upon each visitor profile to commence further engagement. Understand what each visit is interested in by reviewing the time they have spent on each page, and use this information to start valuable conversations. Lastly, review the contact information, and commence pro-active engagement to give each customer and prospect an exceptional first impression.Screenshot of Understand which of your marketing campaigns and tactics are driving high value opportunities to your website. Track changes over time to understand the success of specific campaigns and monitor the performance of social media, PPC, SEO and any other referring source, enabling you to optimize campaigns and invest marketing budget where you are driving maximum engagement and return.Screenshot of Detailed firmographics relating to each visiting business, enable you to qualify and score a visitor, according to their 'fit' for your business. Understand the size and scope of each visitor, identify where they are located and get their contact information. Leverage automated lead scoring against your specific criteria in order to focus on the highest priority opportunities, in order to acquire new business, expand existing customer revenues and deliver excellent levels of customer service.