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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

    VerticalResponse

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVerticalResponse is an email campaign management software and services platform from Deluxe. In addition to providing email marketing tools, VerticalResponse offers fully managed email marketing services from campaign launch and management to reporting and analysis.

    $9

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    Pricing
    KickFireVerticalResponse
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $11.00
    per month
    Pro
    $16.00
    per month
    Pro Plus
    $196.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KickFireVerticalResponse
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    KickFireVerticalResponse
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of KickFire and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    KickFire
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    VerticalResponse
    -
    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 VerticalResponse
    Feature
    KickFire
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    VerticalResponse
    -
    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 VerticalResponse
    Feature
    KickFire
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    VerticalResponse
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of KickFire and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    9.9
    8 Ratings
    21% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of KickFire and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    10.0
    9 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of KickFire and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    KickFireVerticalResponse
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KickFireVerticalResponse
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 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
    KickFireVerticalResponse
    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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    VerticalResponse
    For businesses requiring advanced email marketing features like sophisticated automation, in-depth analytics, and extensive customization, VerticalResponse might fall short due to its limited featuresVerticalResponse is ideal for small businesses or freelancers who need a simple, straightforward email marketing tool. Its ease of use and basic features make it suitable for those without extensive technical expertise in email marketing
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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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    VerticalResponse
    • I love the ease of list builder because we often times have a lot of data to import. It would be simply impossible without this tool, considering the amount of customer data we have for any one given email.
    • We really enjoy the ease of use of the HTML wizard as well. It helps even a novice be able to make a beautiful and attention grabbing email.
    • The dashboard is functional and easy to find when you need with a quick search.
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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
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    • The type face is small. Not sure if this is to avoid overwhelming the reader, but I could see this being an issue with vision-impaired people or people who don't see small print well.
    • Sometimes I find it takes multiple clicks to make one simple change. I wish there was a search field at the top of the screen that allowed me to jump directly to a client's entry to update it there.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    Product is easy for both technical and non-technical people to use. A cost effective solution for sending out large number of messages. We can manage unsubscribes by individual accounts, so we can have multiple multiple accounts combined to maximize our buying power on credits. Effective API for sending/receiving data makes tool a valuable asset.
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    Usability
    KickFire
    It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.
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    VerticalResponse
    I truly love this product. We are moving to an all-in-one system next year and my greatest fear in doing so is how much I will miss this platform. Although we are excited for things ahead, I will always keep Vertical Response in my back pocket incase I don't love the new platform as much
    Incentivized
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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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    VerticalResponse
    Never had an issue with uptime
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    Performance
    KickFire
    The system is very responsive, and when there are times in which data is loading, the VisiStat system provides humorous loading messages.
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    No issues
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    At Vertical Response the help desk associates are courteous, knowledgeable and helpful. You can tell they enjoy what they do. And clearly, they are well trained because most times, the first point of contact is able to resolve any issue you may have. There have been very few times where an associate has needed to get back to me or escalate me to a supervisor
    Incentivized
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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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    VerticalResponse
    Basic functions and online help...we used what was needed, at the time, and will continue to explore other online trainings as our functional needs expand
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    Implementation Rating
    KickFire
    Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.
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    VerticalResponse
    Salesforce integration never worked right. We had to abandon.
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    In addition to using Vertical Response personally I also manage email marketing for clients that already use Mailchimp, Robly and Constant Contact. While most of these platforms all offer similar features I choose Vertical Response first if the client does not have a platform in place. Typically I am also teaching the client how to use this tool and the Vertical Response visual interface is very easy for me to teach a client how to navigate and create their own campaigns.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    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
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    • We were able to blast out promotions our company was having to customers which created an increase in business.
    • By blasting out any service issues, it keeps our customers informed so that they are not wondering what is going on.
    • Allows us to store unsubscribed emails so that we are not constantly pestering people who do not want to be emailed.
    Incentivized
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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.