Not recommended: Not intuitive and full of problems
We use Playbooks together with Salesforce. The tool is cumbersome and not very intuitive to use. All my reps, not only the new ones, have …
InsideSales PlaybooksFormerly XANT Playbooks
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What is InsideSales Playbooks?
InsideSales Playbooks (formerly XANT Playbooks) aims to help SDRs and AEs quickly build closeable pipeline, by helping salespeople get a hold of more of the right people. InsideSales.com uses their A.I.-platform called Neuralytics to target likely buyers combined with their...
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InsideSales Playbooks (formerly XANT Playbooks) aims to help SDRs and AEs quickly build closeable pipeline, by helping salespeople get a hold of more of the right people. InsideSales.com uses their A.I.-platform called Neuralytics to target likely buyers combined with their cadence engine to help…
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What is InsideSales Playbooks?
InsideSales Playbooks (formerly XANT Playbooks) aims to help SDRs and AEs quickly build closeable pipeline, by helping salespeople get a hold of more of the right people. InsideSales.com uses their A.I.-platform called Neuralytics to target likely buyers combined with their cadence engine to help sales reps consistently engage all of their prospects in a personalized way.
Just like Waze from Google helps drivers get to their destination quickly based on the data from other drivers, Neuralytics uses the collective knowledge of the Insidesales.com user base to help build the sales pipeline quickly. For example, Neuralytics can reveal phone number or email address for a prospect is best, or the best time to call or email, based on the experience of others. Predictive Playbooks uses Neuralytics to gives sales reps an edge over their competition.
The Cadence engine works for small or large teams, global teams, and international calls. The product also conveniently syncs all activity data back to your CRM. Since sales reps only spend 18% of their time in CRM, it also works outside a CRM, wherever salespeople work.
InsideSales is an Aurea company, since the August 2021 acquisition.
InsideSales Playbooks Features
- Supported: LocalPresence
- Supported: Email Tracking
- Supported: Email Templates
- Supported: Browser Extension
- Supported: CRM Sync
- Supported: Rep Dashboard
- Supported: Reports
- Supported: VoicemailDrop
- Supported: Appointment Scheduling
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InsideSales Playbooks Integrations
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Owler
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Salesforce
- MS Outlook
InsideSales Playbooks Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global, North America, South America, Europe, Asia |
| Supported Languages | English |
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February 17, 2022
Not recommended: Not intuitive and full of problems
Score 1 out of 10
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We use Playbooks together with Salesforce. The tool is cumbersome and not very intuitive to use. All my reps, not only the new ones, have a lot of questions about how to use it and have developed a dislike. Yes, it automates a lot of steps, but it's very un user-friendly. On top of that, the software has a lot of issues that cause our connect call ratio to drop from 60-70% to 40-50%. It has never worked properly and support isn't able to do a lot it seems. Finally, the reporting section is not very helpful. We're still building a lot of our own reports in Salesforce. In sum: Stay away from this tool. I'm glad we will be switching to Outreach soon.
- Automate selection process of accounts
- Not much else really
- Downtime
- Userfriendliness
- Reporting
April 18, 2021
The XANT team provides amazing support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Playbooks by XANT to manage our Sales cadence. We were users of their former product, PowerDialer by Inside Sales.
- Provides multiple options for selecting and sorting opportunities using various filters.
- Enables a recommended flow for phone conversations and follow-up communications.
- Allows reps to control what they do and when. It has maximum flexibility.
- No suggestions at this time.
November 15, 2019
We love Playbooks --- we switched from Outreach
We use it for prospecting, and to connect with warm and cold leads.
- It organizes our rep's workflow.
- Allows visibility for our Leadership team.
- It provides intelligent insights to our reps about what they should be doing.
- Minimal outages, but it has happened in the past.
June 07, 2019
Insidesales.com Review
We have just implemented InsideSales Playbooks in the region for our Sales Development division. There is some error in activities, for the automatic email, they won’t even tell you it’s overdue.
- Connection with CRM.
- Automatic email.
- Clear steps.
- Errors in the notifications.
- Option to send on weekdays only.
- Alert for a past due task.
June 04, 2019
Inside Sales Playbook Review
Playbooks is being used by the entire sales organization. It assists with the organization of leads, call/touch cadences, and navigation through your book of business.
- It let's you know exactly where you are in the sales process.
- It allows you to quickly send out emails so you can get through a large number of leads efficiently.
- Organizes merchant contact information so you know exactly which phone number to call next and which number has already been contacted.
- I feel my computer has overall slowed down since downloading Playbooks.
- Sometimes I would rather just keep calling instead of sending an email. Not every lead has the same cadence.
- Requires additional clicks and loading which can be kind of annoying.
April 30, 2019
InsideSales.com is a great tool
We use InsideSales.com Predictive Playbooks within the SDR organization of our company. It is used to track daily activities of the SDR teams.
- Organization - The ability to enroll prospects into plays allows for a more organized approach as calls are being made throughout the day.
- Creating Plays - The ability to create a multi-cadenced play is extremely helpful with keeping on task and knowing how many touches you have had with each prospect.
- Gamability - The idea that you can see what your peers have "earned" for points creates a new style of competition.
- Importing from Salesforce, I find that Canadian contacts need to be double verified, it will add the contact to the Play but needs a second click into the edit screen to import the contact details.
- Notifications tab is useful but could use more details around links clicked.
April 12, 2019
Game Changer
Playbooks is being used by the Sales department to keep track of cadence and make it easier to keep track of accounts that come into our pipeline. It is an amazing tool that makes it easy to go through a full cadence with all accounts. With Playbooks, you can see exactly what accounts you have to call or email on each day. It is truly a game changer. The only thing I wish it could do is to make it so I don't have to go back to the dashboard and select my emails to continue getting my email tasks done.
- Keeps track of what part of the cadence you are at with each account.
- Lists every account that you have to email or call that day.
- Is able to schedule calls and put them on your calendar.
- Would like to be able to navigate from one list by simply clicking the next task instead of it taking me to newly assigned
- Would love it if we could use it to keep track of accounts where we have already reached a decision maker.
- Make it so that when there is a call scheduled it will make it more visible, sometimes the notifications are easy to miss.
April 05, 2019
Playbooks Review
Playbooks right now, as far as I know, is used in our department but may be used in even more. It helps with logging our calls and making sure we stay on top of our tasks including calls, voicemails, and emails. It also segments each decision maker by time zone—that helps determine good/bad times to call.
- They make our pipeline of calls easy to manage with steps and tasks.
- They let us know what timezone a merchant is in.
- They make it easy to click to dial.
- It crashes almost once every two weeks it seems.
- Sometimes our leads do not refresh or we get old leads.
- It lags and struggles to log calls sometimes.
March 20, 2019
Inside Sales Review
It is being used across the sales department. It helps with staying on tasks and with the organization of the sales day. It has been helping up stay on and task and know what we need to do throughout our day. There have been some bugs here and there but it is pretty sleek and easy to use for the most part.
- Organization
- Speed of the system could improve.
March 19, 2019
Playbooks 101
We are using Playbooks as a cadence account management tool. This allows representatives in my position to monitor and manage the accounts they need to be calling. It helps each employee to make sure they are staying on top of their accounts and utilizing the sales model we are supposed to follow.
- Keeps track of accounts
- Allows prioritization of accounts
- Enables Filtering dependent on progress
- Sending emails on one chain
- Allowing emails to be sent while on calls
- Changing interface for phone numbers
March 19, 2019
Super user-friendly
We are using PlayBooks to help organize cadence within our prospecting accounts. These are accounts where we have not been in contact with the decision maker, so we are using this tool to get in contact with them.
- It helps to organize cadence and make sure that new accounts do not fall through the cracks if you were unable to reach someone on the first attempt.
- It is fast moving and helps me to make more dials and activity through the day, ultimately equaling to more sales.
- If you have an account with more than one phone number and are wanting to call them all, it can be a bit of a hassle as you have to add the activity in before moving to make another call. The reporting can get messy as it is not a simple step.
- You are unable to send emails while on the phone, you have to wait until you hang up to compose an email.
- There is no undo button on emails. Since adding this tool, I have sent a few emails with "unknown" in the name fields and have not had a quick way to recall them.
March 19, 2019
InsideSales Predictive Playbooks Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Groupon has recently implemented Playbooks into our day to day sales process as a part our Inside Sales teams in Phoenix & Chicago. Currently we use it for multiple things. We use it as a form of contact to communicate with our accounts, to build our cadence, stay organized, and overall, to help maintain organization within our job. We manage a book of over 300+ accounts and with a program like this we are able to stay on top of them by taking the right steps into building a relationship with our merchants. Playbooks has allowed to us to create a 10 day cadence where we have ongoing communication with the attempt of featuring them on our site. I believe implementing this program into our day to day job can only result in generating successful results.
- Having a pre-set a 10 day cadence where we know what is expected on each of those days throughout the prospecting period. Whether that be a call, email, or even both.
- Being able to insert our own personal templates into the email portion of it all to allows us to be more personable.
- Being able to import accounts easily.
- Being able to go back into editing a task that has been done, such as an email, and being able to bump that same thread could be helpful.
- Being aware of new accounts.
- Not having to insert a note each time we are skipping a step.
March 18, 2019
Playbooks is great!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Playbooks has been implemented across all sales divisions at Groupon. It is addressing the issue of tracking your own cadence and allowing for a more structured way to make dials and prospect accounts.
- Playbooks automates a cadence to make calls.
- Playbooks allows you to send emails quickly with no copy and pasting.
- Playbooks will remind you when you need to be making a call
- Playbooks could have a more seemless look.
- Playbooks could sync with other applications a bit better.
March 18, 2019
Playbooks has greatly helped my productivity as a rep!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At Groupon we are using Predictive Playbooks as a way to keep track of our accounts in the form of a cadence. It is being used by the entire Sales Department at Groupon. The reason for adopting this software was so that reps can keep track of all of their accounts and give ourselves the best chance possible at talking to Decision Makers and then closing.
- Reminding reps each day what accounts they need to call.
- Showing reps exactly where they are in their cadence with accounts to make sure they are on their A game whenever they go into a call.
- Sets up the process for later steps such as Presenting and getting to know as much about a business as possible.
- I wish it had the ability to automatically link to the account we are working when we pull it up in Salesforce instead of having to click View.
- I wish that Playbooks could also help with our cadence for further processes such as the needs assessment and presentation.
- I wish we could create our own "Play" with what works best for us.
We have just implemented Playbooks at Groupon in order to improve our cadence for cold calling. So far it has been an amazing tool for streamlining the sales process. I find that now I am able to get double the amount of work done in one day now with the platform and am definitely going to continue integrating it more into my work life.
- It helps me organize my sales pipeline and helps with prioritizing accounts.
- It helps me stick to my call cadence throughout the week and keeps me from feeling overwhelmed.
- It has an amazing interface that is incredibly easy to adjust to.
- They could be better with allowing for more ad-hoc emailing and calling.
- It seems a little rigid, especially when it comes to note-taking and changing emails.
March 16, 2019
New Day, New System
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It works fantastic! I was missing calls and emails in my cadence before using Playbooks. It is useful to keep everyone on track and be more organized.
- Easy to use.
- Less time to do the same process, it's a huge time saver.
- Very easy to see what is needed to be completed.
- It has a nice look.
- No auto-populating.
- Opens slowly at times.
March 15, 2019
user friendly excellent for cadence
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
[It's being used] across our sales organization. We use it as a power dialer, for emails, and to help build cadence to set the appointment. Often we can forget the next step or follow ups and this prompts us so we can hopefully get the appointment.
- Cadence - to set the appointment
- Oorganization- track accounts that you haven't touched
- Prompts- sometimes it is easy to forget a step and this prompts us
- Speed could be a bit faster.
- The inside sales popup could be smaller. It takes up a good portion of screen.
March 15, 2019
Organized Book of Accounts
Groupon is using Playbooks to make our work quicker and more efficient. We needed a way to take the busy work out of our day-to-day so we could focus on the bigger picture of sales, and Playbooks is the key to that. Playbooks has changed our daily tasks for the better.
- Playbooks has helped me complete tasks more efficiently than before by scheduling them for me and reminding me of them quicker.
- Playbooks has made emailing faster by automatically filling in templates.
- Playbooks has eliminated having to have a ton of tabs of accounts open at once.
- I wish Playbooks saved the comments I made when dispositioning calls so I didn't have to always type "DM not in" or "left message w/ GK".
- I wish Playbooks opened our salesforce view a little quicker when going through accounts.
- I wish calling multiple numbers on one account was a little smoother.
March 15, 2019
Playbooks helped us automate prescribed cadences to our Sales org and increase efficiency/productivity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use the tool across our entire BDR organization to eliminate the admin/guesswork around prospecting their accounts.
- Manages prescribed cadences FOR reps
- Proactively notifies reps when phone numbers/email addresses are non-working
- Fully integrates with Salesforce
- Speed of loading could improve
- Some issues with stability
- Admin management leaves something to be desired in-terms of the UI
March 15, 2019
Playbooks: Helping organization and
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using it to stick to our sales process so we can contact our prospects within a certain cadence of phone calls and emails. This is also across the entire company.
- Helps me stay organized on the accounts I have
- Keeps me accountable on what accounts to contact
- Allows me to operate within one database instead of maneuvering between others
- Does not show the contact name of the person I'm contacting
- Hard to log texts
- Does not upload newly assigned [accounts]
March 15, 2019
Play with Playbooks!
Playbooks has changed my organization of my cadence and I love it! It automatically keeps track of my next steps for me and helps me work more seamlessly and efficiently. This in turn aligns with my goal to make more money in a smarter, not harder way!
- Great support in office on launch
- No weird glitches happened during launch
- Created a way for sales reps to do less admin work and concentrate on sales
- A quick search for answers button would be good
March 15, 2019
Easiest tool to use, your grandma could do it!
We are using this across our whole office, and so far we just implemented it and so far there has not been a lot of problems! Just the basic getting to learn the tool, and making sure it makes sense to us! It is just a little confusing to make our old prospecting list be where it needs to be for the new prospecting list it sorts it out in.
- It is super easy to use, and it really does organize your entire day, making it easy to do and access your entire day!
- Getting ahead and staying on top of accounts!
- You get to see what time zone they are in and if the number is not in service or if it is disconnected.
- The emails could be a little easier to use.
- When you first start the tool, it is very confusing to what accounts you are currently prospecting and which ones should not be included.
- [Have] the phone numbers all listed by which ones to call, instead of adding a call
March 15, 2019
Great Tools so you Catch the Big and Little Fish.
Playbooks helps us to establish a comprehensive contact cadence when engaging new prospects. With our large volume of prospects it helps us to efficiently contact them and not lose high value accounts.
- Gives a clear next step, such as an email versus a call to a potential client.
- It helps to track productivity and maintain a high level of engagement.
- Convenient tools are found all in one central location.
- The refresh and load rate is a bit slow.
- Predictive text is missing from some redundant activities.
- Updating information for prospect can be a bit slow to refresh to the account as well.
March 15, 2019
Predictive Playbooks makes the next steps in the sales process flow more predictively.
I believe it is only being used in our Sales Department.
- Alerts me to when I make an error.
- Streamlines the sales data entry process.
- Allows me to send emails that sync to my database.
- I would like misspelled words to show up in red so I can correct them.
The Predictive Playbooks is part of the prospecting process to reach business owners and persons who make the marketing decisions for small to large organization.
- Easily provides a way to call and email businesses without overthinking the process.
- Pulls pertinent information from the Salesforce platform for ease of access.
- Saves email templates on the same interface.
- The use of this tool initially slows down the sales process but it improves with time.
- Alphabetical and numerical template organization is not currently available.