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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    KickFire

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AKickFire’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

    Salesforce Starter

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Salesforce Starter (formerly Salesforce Essentials) is a small business CRM that replaces the former SalesforceIQ product. It is priced at $35 per user, on a monthly basis, or at $25 per month for if billed annually ($300) and can be tried free for 14 days on a trial.

    $35

    per month per user

    Pricing
    KickFireSalesforce Starter
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    KickFireSalesforce Starter
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    KickFireSalesforce Starter
    Considered Both Products
    KickFire
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    KickFireSalesforce Starter
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Salesforce Starter
    -
    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 KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Starter
    -
    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 KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Salesforce Starter
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.7
    7 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings9.46 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    7.2
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lead management00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Task management00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings5.75 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Social engagement00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of KickFire and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.3
    6 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KickFireSalesforce Starter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 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)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    KickFireSalesforce Starter
    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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    Salesforce
    If you own a business that has complex selling processes or requires integrations with 3rd party tools/systems, you should look at Professional, Enterprise, or Unlimited editions. Salesforce operates very well across pretty much every industry, but not all sales, marketing, and operational processes are created equal. If your marketing process requires a long list of sendable contacts then I would recommend adding on Pardot or Hubspot. Always start small and scale up, to avoid boxing yourself in down the road.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Tracking phone calls is extremely easy when using the app on the iphone. After a phone call is complete it prompts the user to enter in call details.
    • SalesforceIQ also automatically logs emails for us. This has saved us time from entering in information manually.
    • SalesforceIQ was easy to set up and allowed us customization for fields that were relevant to our business.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Table views can be sorted by column. Filters can be applied, but only to one column. Multi-column filtering like Excel allows would be extremely useful and a big improvement.
    • The ability to quick copy data in a table view would also be helpful, like (ctrl ') in excel.
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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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    KickFire
    It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.
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    Salesforce
    The system is very user-friendly on a desktop but lacks mobile friendliness. The Customer relationship manager disappears after the deal is signed. We struggled to get the system in a usable format, which was not cost-effective. The CRM system on desktop was great but way more complicated than it should be.
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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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    Salesforce
    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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    Salesforce
    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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
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    Implementation Rating
    KickFire
    Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.
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    Salesforce
    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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    Salesforce
    more expensive but as an industry leader and go, the learning curve pays for itself in ROI in lost time in onboarding
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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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    Salesforce
    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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    Salesforce
    • It made the job more efficient for staff so they can spend time doing other tasks rather than configuring and maintaining Salesforce Starter.
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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.

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