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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OutboundEngine

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOutboundEngine provides a hands-off way for small business owners to market and grow their business. The product aims to provide small businesses with what big companies have achieved with marketing automation. The service aims to help users keep in touch with clients and prospects with professionally designed, branded campaigns. Benefits include: driving engagement, surfacing warm leads from current contacts, generating referrals and repeat business from their existing contacts, social…

    $199

    per user

    ZeroBounce

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AZeroBounce is an email list validator that removes all invalid email addresses to prevent bounces and preserve the sender's reputation.

    $39

    one-time fee 2,000 emails

    Pricing
    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $199
    per user
    Value
    $299
    per user
    Premium
    $499
    per user
    Pay-as-you-Go
    $39
    one-time fee starting at 2000 credits
    ZeroBounce ONE
    $99
    per month starting with 10000 credits
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$99 per userNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMore information is available on the vendor's website.Plans scale to provide additional validations. A discount of ZeroBounce ONE is available for annual billing. Enterprise customers who need to validate more than 1,000,000 email addresses per month should contact the ZeroBounce sales team for a customized quote.
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    Community Pulse
    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Considered Both Products
    Elm Street Technology
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    ZeroBounce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    75%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    75%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of OutboundEngine and ZeroBounce
    Feature
    OutboundEngine
    5.9
    50 Ratings
    21% below category average
    ZeroBounce
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting3.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management6.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of OutboundEngine and ZeroBounce
    Feature
    OutboundEngine
    5.3
    38 Ratings
    23% below category average
    ZeroBounce
    -
    Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks5.338 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of OutboundEngine and ZeroBounce
    Feature
    OutboundEngine
    10.0
    48 Ratings
    36% above category average
    ZeroBounce
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
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    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Small Businesses
    HighLevel
    Score9.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    LocaliQ
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (61 ratings)
    9.1
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    9.4
    (24 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (24 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OutboundEngineZeroBounce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Elm Street Technology
    OutboundEngine does a referral campaign and I've been able to close a couple of deals based on getting in touch with people who engage with this campaign and state they could use my services in the next 6 months. This is a great follow up tool for those you may or may not know are going to be needing your services.
    Incentivized
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    ZeroBounce
    At the outset of my position with my current company, we used a marketing automation system that was known as a swiss army knife: it could do many things, but none of them well. They had no built in functionality for boosting email deliverability. Digging in to find out what we could do to improve our authority, we learned we needed to clean our lists before sending. ZeroBounce does everything we need it to, and at a reasonable price. What more could you want?
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    Pros
    Elm Street Technology
    • The content that they generate to send to our clients is relevant and the clients want to engage with us. It makes us appear more professional and consistent, even though we are a smaller company.
    • It helps us stay in touch with clients and helps us stay top of mind. We are able to generate more new business leads if we are in consistent contact with current, former, and potential clients.
    • Their customer service and support is outstanding. All my questions were answered and I went into the program feeling confident and knowledgeable.
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    ZeroBounce
    • Bulk List validation up to 25 IDs per action is useful in some situations, as we don't want to create a CSV file every time, and for this smaller number.
    • We sometimes use the email Finder option when we can't find an email for a person on any other platform.
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    Cons
    Elm Street Technology
    • I do not like the use of drawings to attract new customers, and they have ignored my requests to eliminate that for my personal emails.
    • I do not like it when a competitor in my immediate market has the same posts. It cheapens the service or makes it appear that I am simply sharing another's post.
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    ZeroBounce
    • Navigating among bulk validation, CSV upload, and single-ID validation is hard, and sometimes finding them or switching between them can be made more user-friendly.
    • Results: After bulk validation, we receive the results in a Zip file, which is useful sometimes but not every time, as we have to un-zip, and there will be a different CSV file for each result. The final results can be made simple, like email ID in column A, results (valid or Invalid) in column B.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Elm Street Technology
    The biggest issue is poor ROI. The second biggest issue is rigid customer service process, lack of a sense of urgency, and inability to reach out to upper management with issues.
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    ZeroBounce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Elm Street Technology
    Overall, OutboundEngine is very user friendly. It is simple to set up and explore, and if there are any issues or questions, the customer service team and account managers are always available to help. They are very knowledgeable and were able to explain everything in detail to me. The program is easy to navigate and helps me stay organized, and an uncomplicated and straightforward solution was exactly what I was looking for
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    ZeroBounce
    For the large suite of services that they offer their system is pretty easy to understand and navigate. ZeroBonce is also NOT one of those services that is constantly tweaking their UI and making it hard to find tasks that you regularly use. More complex tasks can be more challenging but that's understandable. They also have an extensive restful API that if technical enough allow you to automate some of your most used tasks. They stand behind their product with good documentation as well as high quality customer service.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Elm Street Technology
    I haven't had to contact Outbound Engine because I haven't had any application errors or unplanned outages. I basically have had such a trouble free experience with them that I haven't had to call. Everything is automated and I get a notice to review every isse. I suppose if I personalized the newsletter a bit more and added some of my own articles, I would need to contact them, (which I should really start to do) but so far things have been so on point, I haven't felt the need.
    Incentivized
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    ZeroBounce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Elm Street Technology
    The customer service was excellent! Everyone I spoke to was kind and knowledgeable. My account manager was easily reachable. Setup of the OutboundEngine program was explained really thoroughly, and we knew how we could best use the product to meet the needs of our clients and get our online and social media presence off the ground.
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    ZeroBounce
    We have used ZeroBounce for about 18 months and it works flawlessly. We are able to get all of our questions/issues answered immediately. Felt very comfortable with the product immediately - used their web site which walked us through it and were able to get up and running within minutes. I really haven't had any issues that required support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Elm Street Technology
    I selected it for the ability to have an automated system do 3 things all at once, social media posts, emails and the instant communication with the chat box. I have never seen a chat come through that lead to a helpful client touchpoint. I have never used another product but have since begun to weigh some of the less expensive options.
    Incentivized
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    ZeroBounce
    We considered AtData since it was recommended by a colleague who has used it in the past. We ultimately ended up going with ZeroBounce based on the cost and documentation/resources available. Email validation tools are probably very similar, but ZeroBounce seemed the simplest for us, and we needed to implement one fast, so activation time was very quick.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Elm Street Technology
    • One client identified how one article I sent that he read saved him from having to replace his entire AC system.
    • One client actually thought I was sending this to him personally because I valued him
    • One of the above transacted with me twice for over $3M in sales
    Incentivized
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    ZeroBounce
    • Our deliverability is approximately 99% on most emails we send thanks to ZeroBounce
    • We've had an increase in our domain reputation
    • The price is affordable and similar to other tools that do the same, but are not as accurate as ZeroBounce
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    OutboundEngine Screenshots

    Screenshot of Automated Social Media MarketingScreenshot of A personalized snapshot of your account activity and warmest leads.Screenshot of Personally designed, tested, and automated emails

    ZeroBounce Screenshots

    Screenshot of email list bulk validation, with tools to increase the chances of landing in the inbox. Emails can be tested to see if they'll go to the inbox, and Activity Data displays extra insights about subscribers.Screenshot of ZeroBounce's Executive Overview report that shows: 
-Top Domains : This shows the top 10 domains found in an email list and breaks it down by percentages, giving a better picture of the different domains in the database for planning.
-Validation Results: provides the overall statistics of the different email validation results of the entire file, showing how many emails in thelist were valid, invalid, spam traps, catch-all, unknown or abuse (complainers).
-Data Appends: This shows how successful ZeroBounce was in appending additional data to the email list. For some contacts, the email checker will add the subscriber’s first and last name, gender, location and age of the email address.
-IP Location Data Appends: If uploading the IP addresses along with emails, the report will show the demographics by top countries and top regions/states.Screenshot of Email deliverability testing: The mail server tester can be used to check configurations. The inbox placement tester shows where emails will land. The inbox tester shows if the email could land in spam to fix it ahead of time.Screenshot of IP and domain blacklisting: ZeroBounce can be used to monitor an IP and domain to make sure they never end up on an email blacklist, running hundreds of daily tests to keep users updated, and making it easier to get delisted.Screenshot of where to see if an IP and domain are blocked: ZeroBounce can be used to monitor an IP and domain to make sure they never end up on an email blacklist, running hundreds of daily tests to keep users updated, and making it easier to get delisted.