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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LinkedIn Sales Navigator

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALinkedIn Sales Navigator is a sales intelligence software solution offered by LinkedIn.

    $79.99

    per month

    Salesloft

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform uses AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.N/A
    Pricing
    LinkedIn Sales NavigatorSalesloft
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $79.99
    per month
    Team
    $134.99
    per license
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LinkedIn Sales NavigatorSalesloft
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LinkedIn Sales NavigatorSalesloft
    Considered Both Products
    LinkedIn
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a great tool in addition to the other tools I've used. It integrates well with both SalesLoft and Salesforce.com allowing for quick transfer of data and quick prospecting. For us, it really lowered the time needed to do a thorough mapping of a …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Sales Navigator is a nice compliment to both ZoomInfo and SalesLoft. Its features are different than those two. I think at some point it could take over what we use ZoomInfo for if they were to create a better list pull process that mirrored ZoomInfo. As for SalesLoft, I …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Linkedin Sales Navigator has a specific role in your sales strategy -- to help you find the right person based on their job title or company, etc. DiscoverOrg and SalesLoft dig a bit deeper into giving more comprehensive contact information like email and address. Those options …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    We actually use a lot of different tools and they all seem to do different things. SalesLoft is better at sending multiple touches to customers, ZoomInfo is good for finding out contact information. 6sense shows intent of what organizations are doing. I would say they each …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator it's amazing because it has LinkedIn, but the simple functionalities are very difficult to use. These days you have super tools like, FindThatLead.com which can help you to get the email of the contact directly. You can also do this if you have SalesLoft
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Just the fact that LinkedIn is THE professional social network just gives you so much more access to company and prospect insights. All the information I could possibly need is right there in the system itself so I'm not having to rely on integrations and possibly outdated or …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    I have selected LinkedIn Sales Navigator because I trusted the platform to have the widest Database that I can rely on.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    I have [not] used any other tools like [LinkedIn Sales Navigator]. It is a staple. Depending on the space you are in Twitter, or Facebook could work, but not in 99% of cases.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    The major reason LinkedIn Sales Navigator was our top choice over similar competitor solutions is that it delivers more accurate and updated information for both companies and contacts. The integration into Salesforce CRM has been absolutely seamless.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Sales Navigator's data is updated by the user. The alternatives are updated by researchers. 80% of our targets are on LinkedIn, so the 20% will need an alternative method of research. We need both.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator has the largest and most up-to-date database as compared to other similar firms, however, the platform does not provide contact information which means you need to source that elsewhere.
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Before DiscoverOrg, I used SN. After moving to a business that requires more prospecting and at heavier volumes, I moved to DiscoverOrg. DiscoverOrg offers more data on more points in the industry we desired. SN was great in doing fewer, larger sales and because of how …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    Sales Navigator has amazing data compared to DiscoverOrg, especially considering that individuals update their LinkedIn profiles themselves. LinkedIn Sales Navigator also makes it very easy to message prospects directly out of the solution. Where DiscoverOrg is better is with …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    These sources pull information from the web and their customers to build databases. While this information can sometimes be more reliable, I often have better luck getting in touch with a prospect who has a good LinkedIn and is updating their info frequently. While using the …
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    SalesLoft
    Incentivized
    Chose LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    It's socially driven. People who post, move jobs, and update Linkedin are the audience members to focus on and prospect.
    Incentivized
    SalesLoft
    Chose Salesloft
    It works well with Salesforce, although one system would seem simpler.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    The timely follow ups and email monitoring make it a much more suitable solution
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Salesloft is the best.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Salesloft Rhythm (BDR/SDR home screen) provides a landing page where all the prioritized work is queued for immediate execution. The UX is clean and the only other elements is a stream of activity indicating prospects interacting with content (e.g. clicking a link in an email). …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Better service in europe, more robust and full solution, 1 tool instead of 2/3
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We only looked at two other tools when implementing Salesloft and the level of support was one of the reasons why we picked it 5 years ago. That and the functionality and integrations with our existing tools. After about three years on the platform, I looked at Outreach again …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    I have only used Salesloft.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    I like Salesloft for its user-friendliness, low learning curve, and ability to integrate with multiple third-party platforms seamlessly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We were evaluating Salesforce but now not interested to switch. Majorly because the team cannot survive without cadences.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Salesloft works great when combined with Zoominfo and Salesforce. I leverage Zoominfo and eTailsights to find prospects, import into Salesforce, and then to Salesloft for cadences.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Salesloft was easier to use and easier to set up cadences and stay organized
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    SalesLoft is in my opinion 100 times more efficient than Ringover. The calls are clearer, and the global tool allows much more (emails, cadences, reports, etc.). Pipedrive is a tool that I really appreciate because it is very intuitive and fast. On the other hand, it does not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We've used RingDNA in the past and this blows it out of the water. The technology works better. RingDNA we'd receive at least 20 spam calls a day because of the local presence feature. Never had the issue with SalesLoft. We selected Salesloft because it was really the only …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    So much better. We had sever audio issues with DialSource and it wasn’t as dynamic a product (no cadencing)
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    CRM's typically have enablement tools built in, but they are designed to solve macro business problems and this is one of the areas in which they fail. SalesLoft focuses purely on engagement and results from that engagement, which it does fantastically. I would recommend it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We used to be a XANT/Yesware shop and were disappointed with the experience because multiple sets of fields were required for streamlined activity reporting and the babysitting needed for administration of 2 applications. We compared Outreach to SalesLoft when moving to Sales …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    SalesLoft has a cleaner UI/UX than other tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    In a previous organization, I used Outreach for tracking/cadences and I believe the SalesLoft interface is very user friendly. I mostly used the plug-in when using Outreach, so I was provided a limited view which was appropriate for what I needed the software for. However, I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    I have not tried any but when making our buying decision we did review Xant, HighVelocity Sales, and a few others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    As discussed in previous questions, another tool with "similar" qualities would be HubSpot. I was introduced to HubSpot a couple years ago and used it proficiently for all my day to day tasks, calls, planning, emails, cadences, etc. When I came to Kofax SalesLoft was just being …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    When we were doing our evaluations prior to subscribing to SalesLoft we looked at these other 4 options. At the time we quickly whittled the group to just SalesLoft and Outreach as the other three solutions were just not evolved enough to handle our needs. We settled on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Chantel Herry was a great salesperson. She showed me how she was using the tool as she engaged with us. She was much more responsive to our questions than outreach was. It reminded me that I had to have a quality salesperson and a defined standard for the sales process.

    The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    XANT and Outcreach—SalesLoft is far superior in ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    My organization selected SalesLoft. I used Outreach at a previous employer, and I found it very difficult to navigate. There were many automations to choose from and various call dispositions when using the built-in dialer, but it wasn't very user friendly. I was in charge of …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    95 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    56 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    74 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    66 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    95 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    49 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    73 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    65 Answers
    Features
    LinkedIn Sales NavigatorSalesloft
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Salesloft
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    7.7
    182 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Advanced search9.6182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads9.5180 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality8.2176 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download4.3121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.2175 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access6.3162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Salesloft
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    8.3
    180 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information7.9159 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information8.4180 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information8.6175 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Salesloft
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    8.2
    177 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Lead qualification process8.3136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.6159 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.3130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.6173 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders8.2154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.9155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh6.9135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags8.8129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation9.0163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Salesloft
    Feature
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator
    6.6
    79 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates6.972 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records6.467 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LinkedIn Sales NavigatorSalesloft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (184 ratings)
    7.9
    (325 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    5.6
    (12 ratings)
    7.8
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (143 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LinkedIn Sales NavigatorSalesloft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator is hands down the best tool for identifying targeted contacts or leads. You can drill down on a company and look at its entire workforce, or search by the exact title that is your key target. The information is up to date, as people tend to keep their LinkedIn profiles current. In terms of other marketing functions LI Sales Navigator is extremely limited. BUT if you are looking to identify contacts for prospecting purposes, then this tool is what you need.
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    SalesLoft
    I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.
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    Pros
    LinkedIn
    • Search Functionality: LinkedIn Sales Navigator has one of the most powerful search functions. The filters are not unnecessary and some are very well thought of. You can drill down to finding a needle in a haystack of 20000 employee company when it comes to using LinkedIn Sales Navigator if done in the right manner.
    • Smart Links: Gone are the days of attached Decks. One can simply create their deck online using this feature on LinkedIn Sales Navigator, or even upload an existing ppt. A smart link is shareable as well as trackable for opens and clicks.
    • Fewer Clicks: With a single click, I can filter out decision-makers in any company. With a single click, I can import contacts from LinkedIn Sales Navigator to Salesforce. Lesser clicks are actually less stressful if you think.
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    SalesLoft
    • Salesloft enables us to outreach at scale.
    • Salesloft helps us identify our warmest, most buyer ready prospects to streamline our outreach.
    • Salesloft helps us to identify quickly areas to course correct and provides the necessary data to do that.
    • Salesloft also surfaces data around outreach so we can ensure we are targeting our team with sensible KPIs that connect to our business goals.
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    Cons
    LinkedIn
    • Inbox needs work - too much confusion around your LinkedIn inbox and Sales Nav inbox
    • Sorting - need a better, faster way to sort by for prospect lists and account lists
    • Only voluntarily shared information. No cross checking or using API’s like a ZoomInfo
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    SalesLoft
    • Would be nice to have custom reporting available. Coming from Salesforce, the included canned reports are useful but I like to roll my sleeves up and build exactly what I want.
    • Conversations will record meetings booked via MSTeams but requires the BDR/SDR to hit record. Other solutions (e.g. Chorus.ai) join as a participant and don't require a user hitting the "record" button. We have to change our flow to make this work and it is a bit clunky.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LinkedIn
    This question is a no-brainer. The tool is the industry standard for anyone tied to sales and marketing. The name "LinkedIn Sales Navigator" is synonymous with streamlining relevant customer and account data in an easy to use format that is actionable and intelligent. The focus on continuous improvement and richer means of communicating with customers and prospects is evident each time new features are rolled out. The social component of the tool even includes a gamification component to ensure that peers remain relevant among each other, which is refreshing and enjoyable for those who engage the tool on a daily basis.
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    SalesLoft
    SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.
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    Usability
    LinkedIn
    Overall, it's very user-friendly. It's hard for a tool to make sorting through loads of data easy, but Sales Nav does this very well. Its advanced search features enable us to be selective in finding the right people to talk to and connect with.
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    SalesLoft
    Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    SalesLoft
    The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.
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    Performance
    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    SalesLoft
    Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce
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    Support Rating
    LinkedIn
    I would recommend LinkedIn Sales Navigator entirely. It has been the most user-friendly tool to use starting off in a sales role. I genuinely enjoy the navigation of the tool and how easy it is to save lists and see job changes within those lists. Generating leads and finding the most up to date information on prospects is all housed within this tool.
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    SalesLoft
    The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.
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    Online Training
    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    SalesLoft
    We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.
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    Implementation Rating
    LinkedIn
    I am unsure of the rollout, as I was not involved. I was an early adopter, and I have had a lot of success with the tool personally at multiple organizations, but I have no idea whether the implementation process encountered any errors. I can personally say that it works, and that I have not encountered significant issues with the tool since adoption, although a few issues like messages showing up as being unread even though they have been opened have been an on-again/off-again issues throughout the past few years. Overall, the company is doing a great job, and our implementation seems to have been effective.
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    SalesLoft
    must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
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    Alternatives Considered
    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator is much more valuable than Dice or Cognism, as we do most of our prospecting on LinkedIn. Therefore, it means we can build lists of our prospects based on activity, connections, and buying intention. With Cognism and Dice, you cannot do this as they do not work alongside the LinkedIn platform and, therefore, lack the functionality that is essential to what we are using the platform for.
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    SalesLoft
    Salesloft blows outreach out of the water in all aspects. One of the biggest issues I had was their unwillingness to listen to customer feedback. I had requested several small changes to be made when I had previously used the platform that unfortunately fell onto deff ears. I am much happier using Salesloft and the positive results I've experienced are a direct result of that.
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    Scalability
    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    SalesLoft
    The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams
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    Return on Investment
    LinkedIn
    • Helped warm up a few leads that I was having trouble getting in touch with via phone and email
    • Allowed me to better identify the key stakeholders at companies I was targeting
    • Kept me up to date on what was happening with my prospects and their companies.
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    SalesLoft
    • I have been with a company that was using Salesloft, but moved to a competitor. I can't say it was exactly the competitors fault, as a lot of other internal changes were happening, (hence leaving the system that was working well), but we had the worst sales year in company history that year. Reps who consistently performed at or above quota were suddenly struggling to keep their pipelines in order, and the middle of the pack reps were going on PiPs and being let go.
    • Is it the dialer, or the leadership? You decide.
    • But the leadership also changed the dialer - so maybe it's both?
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