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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MessageGears

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMessageGears is a hybrid email marketing service built around deliverability, actionable customer data, and audience segmentation and targeting.N/A

    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
    MessageGearsSalesloft
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MessageGearsSalesloft
    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
    MessageGearsSalesloft
    Considered Both Products
    MessageGears
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    SalesLoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    95 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    74 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    95 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    73 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    65 Answers
    Features
    MessageGearsSalesloft
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of MessageGears and Salesloft
    Feature
    MessageGears
    3.3
    3 Ratings
    83% below category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor1.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content3.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content2.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing2.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting3.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management2.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences2.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of MessageGears and Salesloft
    Feature
    MessageGears
    1.1
    3 Ratings
    149% below category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards1.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports1.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of MessageGears and Salesloft
    Feature
    MessageGears
    3.7
    3 Ratings
    75% below category average
    Salesloft
    -
    Ratings
    URL Validation1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Tracking2.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Image Validation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbox Display7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spam Testing1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    MessageGearsSalesloft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.9
    (325 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 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
    MessageGearsSalesloft
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MessageGears
    MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.
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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
    MessageGears
    • The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.
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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
    MessageGears
    • Multivariate testing
    • WYSIWYG email builder
    • SQL audience error report
    • Native reporting
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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
    MessageGears
    No answers on this topic
    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
    MessageGears
    Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality
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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
    MessageGears
    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
    MessageGears
    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
    MessageGears
    MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.
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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
    MessageGears
    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
    MessageGears
    No answers on this topic
    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
    MessageGears
    MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.
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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
    MessageGears
    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
    MessageGears
    • Sending more email!
    • Onboarding handoff was a little rough
    • Great control on who we are sending to
    • Dynamic content is very easy!
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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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