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    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (formerly Rapportive) was offered as a 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 made some features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator accessible from within user's email inbox. But the products are…

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    Vainu

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Traditional sales prospecting is inefficient and tiring. Vainu aims to fix it by transforming disorganized open and big data into insightful leads. Vainu is a sales intelligence, prospecting and account insights platform which aims to help users discover actionable account insights, identify timely prospecting signals, and determine the most valuable sales prospects from a database of +108 million companies enriched with open data. Currently over 1000 organizations and over…N/A
    Pricing
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Vainu
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued) and Vainu
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    8.3
    21 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Vainu
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Advanced search9.019 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Identification of new leads7.521 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    List quality9.019 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    List upload/download8.017 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.520 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.020 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued) and Vainu
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    9.0
    24 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Vainu
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Contact information8.022 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Company information9.024 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Industry information10.023 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued) and Vainu
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    6.9
    22 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Vainu
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Lead qualification process8.018 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations8.018 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Salesforce integration5.516 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Company/business profiles7.522 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders8.015 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Data hygiene4.020 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.520 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Tags7.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation6.518 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued) and Vainu
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    7.5
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Vainu
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Small Businesses
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Score8.5 out of 10
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)Vainu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Vainu
    Vainu is the best software I have ever used for prospecting. It offers everything that we need for sale, prospecting and leads, and indeed really cost-effective. It's really a small investment when comparing what it can bring to your business. Vainu is not indispensable If you don't have an active selling team and continuous need for new prospects.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Vainu
    • You save time and find right prospects as fast as possible.
    • It's also easy to sort prospects by industry, revenue, digital foot print... etc.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Vainu
    • Vainu has fixed all bugs we have reported. So no, can't really say what I dislike...
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Vainu
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Incentivized
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    Vainu
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    I have never used Their support
    Incentivized
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    Vainu
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Vainu
    Vainu contacted me 15 months ago. I had been looking for a good prospecting tool a long time before that. There wasn't any reason not to take the test! The introduction went well. We got guidance many times. Our new sales team members can still receive training from them if we want. They have been interested in our feedback.
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    Return on Investment
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    • 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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    Vainu
    • Your sales team saves time and find right prospects as fast as possible.
    • Your sales team members like their work more when you provide a good tool for prospecting
    • More efficient time management and more sales
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