Outreach vs. Zoom Revenue Accelerator

Outreach is well suited for teams that need to do cold outbound to prospects. It's easy enough to create sequences that will use a variety of touchpoints (email, inMail, call, etc...). It's also easy to share sequences with team members to collaborate and the very best messaging. Outreach's integration over Salesforce and Gmail is also invaluable, without it each team member would probably spend hours per week clicking between tabs just to get to prospect information On the other hand, Outreach is not the best to help you create content, as of this writing there is no AI support. It is also worth noting that Outreach's permission structure can create a lot of confusion for team members and that untangling errors at times can become complex

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Well used and appropriate if you are on the Zoom ecosystem for your company and you use Salesforce. It is important to mention that if you book meetings via Outreach, then the meeting will be booked by using the PMI (Personal Meeting Identifier) which is basically a static meeting link your SDRs/AEs have. This PMI is not intended to be used for outbound calls, but more for private 1:1 conversations within your org, thus Zoom Revenue Accelerator has a hard time recording those by default and it needs the user to consent it every time. This is not an issue with Zoom Revenue Accelerator, however, but important to know. If you use systems such as Chili Piper for booking your meetings, you can set up and make sure that every meeting booked with Chili Piper will always be a unique Zoom ID, which is how Zoom Revenue Accelerator is intended to be used, and then the system works properly and all those meetings are recorded by default as that's how Zoom Revenue Accelerator expects you to use the default, one-time, external unique Zoom ID meetings, instead of the more private Personal Meeting ID. All-in-all, just be mindful of the tools in your ecosystem when considering this tool and make sure you tick all the boxes for it working right and the implementation to go well, otherwise you won't get the desired results which, again, isn't a lacking on Zoom Revenue Accelerator's side but your org might just not be using Zoom Revenue Accelerator as intended.

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• Organization - I know when to make calls/emails/LinkedIn connections without having to overthink anything.
• Alignment - the colleagues I work with on my accounts can keep tabs on my activity so there is no redundancy or overcommunication.
• Ease of use - all my contacts are in one place, and sending automated emails I have built in my sequences give me so much time back in my day.

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• zoomIQ provides good conversation metrics around words per minute and talk speed.
• As a sales rep, it is helpful to see the breakdown of team vs client talk time.
• Seeing the deal size and projected close date is also helpful.

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• Customer Service - zero support for small - medium businesses.
• Billing - billing is messy, and customer service for billing questions is pretty awful (if anyone is ever available).
• Bounce Rates - our bounce rates are through the roof when using Outreach which isn't a problem we have with HubSpot or Pardot.

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• Zoom IQ's graphics need improvement to be more intuitive.
• Zoom IQ does not allow you to analyze several voices simultaneously. It becomes very complicated to expand the conversations to more students.
• Personalized feedback does not always respond correctly to what has been said. There is room for improvement in audio and voice analysis.

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I like Outreach, but I do wonder about new competitors that are 25-50% less expensive.

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It has certainly been useful, but now it overlaps with other tools we are using so probably we will have to be harder on ROI here

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The ease of use for outreach is next to none. Everything is clearly explained, you can hop on a call with their support team whenever, and it effortlessly integrates into your computer. You can do everything you need sales related on it, and the learning curve is small. I'd recommend it as a first and last CRM.

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The overall support of Outreach has been great. Whenever I have a problem, they were quick to fix it and typically respond within one business day. I don't typically have many requests for support because a lot of my questions can be answered through their knowledge panel. They have been fantastic to work with overall.

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Lots of attention from the Outreach training team, with a great willingness to customize to our needs. To be clear, you get out what you put in. If you don't work with them, you'll get cookie-cutter training. But we asked for a lot of customization, and they delivered what we asked for.

Although we required a special setup, the process was quick. But we paid a lot for the implementation and didn't use 33% of the hours we purchased.

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We found that Outreach was superior to Salesloft and Gong, and a better fit for our organization for the following reasons:

• User interface and overall experience: it's just a cleaner platform and easier to work in than the other two.
• Feature set: the other two tools had more bells and whistles, but sometimes less is more, and the core functionality of Outreach is preferable.
• Integration with Salesforce
• Price
• Customer support and training options are superior on Outreach

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The features these sales enablement tools provide are pretty much the same in the aspect of usability and functionality. The advantage Zoom IQ gets over others is easy of integrating it with the default communication and collaboration tool from Zoom. Keeping things connected helps in better insights and value add.

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• The huge positive impact it had was the team not needing to spend as much time as disengaged opps as they were engaged ones. We were able to set sequences to work with them while the team could focus on generating new leads or converting Opps.
• For an AE - post demo communication is important. With templates and snippets we could just click a few buttons and have a really nice email sent out with the relevant information and then the next several steps already planned out. This freed up time for us and even allowed us to take calls a lot sooner after demo's then before. For busy days this was very helpful.

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• There is not much negative impact of Zoom only let say your sales conversion didn't happen then the money is wasted.
• Even if the sales conversion doesn't happen you can get insights about the strategies discussed.
• Actionable feedback helped us to quickly close the sales deal.

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