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CIENCE Sales Development (legacy)

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52 Reviews and Ratings

What is CIENCE Sales Development (legacy)?

In the legacy Managed Services model, CIENCE provided lead generation services to businesses looking for fast growth by offering multi-channel outbound sales specialization.

CIENCE combines research with personalized messaging delivered through multiple channels to create a predictable stream of qualified appointments for sales teams. The vendor states that to date, they have delivered more than 10's of million leads to over 2,500 clients in over 225 industries.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Leads Dashboard that the CIENCE Team Member works in, daily.
An shortlist of partnerships.
Activity reports from CIENCE offer a convenient way of keeping up with successes.
Each campaign gets its own dedicated, custom-fit landing page.

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Beware of Scam

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Beware of Scam!I recently engaged CIENCE Lead Generation, paying $10,000 for 250 qualified leads, expecting a professional service and solid prospects. Unfortunately, what I received was far from that. The leads they presented were completely fabricated—none of the individuals or businesses had requested information about my company. In fact, we obtained sworn affidavits from many of these so-called "leads" affirming they had never heard of us or requested any information. This is a blatant scam, and we're now in the process of pursuing legal action against CIENCE to recover our full payment. If you are considering working with them for lead generation, I strongly urge you to reconsider. Their practices are fraudulent, and you risk losing a significant amount of money without getting anything of value in return. We were misled, and now we're facing the consequences of trusting this company. Don’t make the same mistake.

Pros

  • They scam well.

Cons

  • scam
  • made up data

Return on Investment

  • no roi at all

Usability

DON'T ROUCH WITH A BARGE POLE

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Outreach business development

Pros

  • Says hello with a smile.
  • Says goodbye with a smile.

Cons

  • Honesty.
  • Communications internally amongst their own team.
  • Process is too clunky.

Return on Investment

  • Zero return

A Trusted Partner

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Background: Tevera serves college programs in the helping professions with software and services for field placement, accreditation reporting, and assessment management. We've recently added a professional division that helps our student graduates find great jobs through our niche job board at tevera.pro.

Cience's Impact: Our sales process in higher ed is really locked in with very specific prospects at universities and colleges, but for our new professional division, we faced a huge challenge: we have tens of thousands of organizations that we need to reach but little to no information other than email addresses. Cience's team has appended our information with valuable organizational and contact information including decision makers for our specialized settings. The results are outstanding but more importantly, the team has been awesome to work with as they have learned what we are looking for and have consistently provided solutions that match our goals and budgets. I highly recommend Cience if you are looking for similar help and results.* (*Unless your organization competes with us in which case, find your own secret weapon!)

Pros

  • Collaboration and problem solving
  • Data appending and enhancement
  • Solution development in line with budget requirements

Cons

  • Operationally, none.
  • Their billing portal has been problematic and I hope they can fix some issues that take a little more time to remit payments (which we gladly make given their results).

Return on Investment

  • Has made our beta rollout a huge success.

Excellent telemarketing services for making a concept sale to a sophisticated buyer

Pros

  • Rapidly created marketing scripts based on the domain knowledge we provided.
  • Rapidly identified the key executives and ways to reach them in our target audience.
  • Provided well-spoken representatives who were able to get our message across.
  • Provided excellent weekly feedback on their 'hit-rate.'

Cons

  • None. They performed as well, or better than expected.

Return on Investment

  • ROI was in excess of 300%

Alternatives Considered

Call Box

CIENCE Data Reliable & Reasonably Priced

Pros

  • Account contact research
  • Account profile information
  • Recent and up-to-date information

Cons

  • My experience was great. I can't think of any way to improve.

Return on Investment

  • Reach new accounts
  • Reach accounts who exhibit activities that signal buyer intent
  • Reach new contacts within an account