SharpSpring Reviews

I would say this is the only choice for agencies, especially for smaller agencies or agencies working with smaller companies. SharpSpring is a platform; it is not a marketing university. So this is for marketing professionals who are going to keep up with best practices and teach themselves how to get the most out of it. This is not for busy founders who want their hand held on how to implement it and how to apply it to their company. This is also great for smaller marketing budgets and/or marketing skeptics who want or need a more gradual rollout of marketing automation features and services.

If you want to create simple flows and are a small business I think there are less expensive tools that get the same things done. SharpSpring is a bit harder to learn but does offer a bit more functionalities. So if you are a bit larger sized company and have long flows with lots of bit's and but's SharpSpring is a good tool for you.

I speak mostly from a B2B perspective, and that's where I see its value. If you are building long-term business relationships, and you are engaging your prospects online through your website and email messaging (in addition to personal 121 outreach), SharpSpring is a crucial asset to making this go smoothly. I have successfully implemented it an asset recovery company that wants to engage and connect with financial institutions, as just one example. Looking also to deploy for a local coffee company that is re-branding and provides commercial services. If your business is more B2C, and more transaction-focused with little personal engagement, in my opinion, SharpSpring may not be the best choice.

I haven't come across any scenarios where it isn't applicable. It is priced in a way that makes using some or all its features affordable. I use it for generating new customers across a wide variety of businesses in the most efficient and effective way. It’s a tool to make you smarter and more successful. It represents the best of Salesforce, Hubspot, Leadlander, Campaign Monitor, Social platforms, Google analytics, Post-it Notes and everything else, with a simple, easy to use interface that I call marketing magic. For less than a car payment, it has cleaned up my desk, made me better organized and put me in the driver’s seat of new business.

SharpSpring is very user friendly and the integrations with Google have been amazing. It's best suited for applications which include both CRM and marketing automation. We are currently only using it for CRM but that's not a fault of the tool it's on us.

Getting a quick and full overview of your client's data and metrics. The reporting is particularly great as the set up is very easy. I just love the user journey tracker. I can really get into the prospects mindset through tracking where he/she is following my brand. Building landing pages to improve your user journey is a must now and SharpSpring have mastered it

SharpSpring is great for building out the whole lead generation path. From initial lead to nurturing, to closing the deal. We also are now finding the email campaigns a great way to share our blog posts, monthly newsletter and build one-to-one emails to convert leads to sales. If you're only looking for a CRM system without all the marketing automation, email, dynamic pages, etc, then SharpSpring is probably not for you. But why just have a basic CRM in the first place??

Great for agencies who provide smart marketing to its clients. Not great for a person looking for a 'fast fix'. You have to commit to it.

The system offers all functionality needed for SME marketing automation. It is pretty straightforward in use; support and documentation are very helpful. The system is flexible which makes it easy to combine and connect with other systems. Great value for money.

It is very well suited to small-medium companies and agencies that it is designed for. That said, I have not used Pardot or Hubspot which are traditionally used by bigger companies and SharpSpring may well be a contender. You also need to be aware that if you are using it for yourself, then you need to have a good stream of content ready to go.

If you own a small business and need to automate marketing tasks or integrate all of your marketing activities SharpSpring is a great platform. The same is true if you are an agency and want to help your clients develop leads and track the ROI on leads and conversions, SharpSring will give your agency a distinct advantage over agencies not using marketing automation.

Tracking and monitoring website activity. Converting visitors to leads through dynamic forms. Advanced marketing automation with the visual workflow builder. Dynamic lists based on e.g. lead scoring.

It's not for everyone - depending on the scale of business, number, of leads and clients - ideally you would need to be managing contacts and leads in the 100s (leads) and 1000s for contacts. That said we use the system with small numbers when a client has a large sale value and a long sale cycle, e.g. construction projects.

Really suited for all sales and marketing teams looking to really focus on identifying their well-qualified lists and improving engagement with prospects. It works well when you are dealing with one particular person rather than a group of people so having a key contact you can assign all notes and reminders as essential to get the most out of your use.

I am absolutely certain to recommend this to clients looking to layer automated marketing over
current platforms and integrate sales and marketing into one streamlined workflow.

SharpSpring has powerful inbound marketing capabilities and services such as email campaigns, landing pages, CRM, sales management. It also has an Integrated CRM and intuitive dashboard to streamline tracking and reporting. It's well suited for smaller companies and has amazing features that previously could only fit an enterprise-level budget.

SharpSpring is great and cost-effective. Using the CRM as a digital agency has saved us so much stress, hassle and time that the price could be double what it is and we would still see the value immensely.

I think the pricing model is great and very easy for any sized company to use :)

SharpSpring allows you to customise many different options. It's extremely powerful and is brilliant value for money compared to products such as Hubspot. The support has been excellent and the SharpSpring team are constantly releasing new features and seem very approachable with new ideas and questions. Being so powerful and customisable means there is a steep learning curve in setting up SharpSpring. Running it is simple enough but for an entrepreneur or person in a role where marketing is only one part of their function, the learning curve could definitely be too steep if you don't have help setting it up and getting it going.

SharpSpring is particularly well suited to plugging the holes of a traditional marketing or recruiting program with automation. I use SharpSpring to collect data from recruiting ads posted on Facebook, Indeed, Craig's List, and elsewhere. Before SharpSpring, my clients wanted to use Facebook ads to promote openings in their companies, but they weren't seeing much success. The ads would run to a landing page where the person would be asked to complete a large and intimidating application that would place him or her in the client's applicant tracking system.

People would click the ad, but leave the landing page when they saw the complexity of the application. I was able to craft a different ad that ran to a landing page containing just some information and a SharpSpring form requesting a name and an email address. Soon people began filling out the form because it was easier. Their contact information was collected in SharpSpring and the proper HR representative was alerted via email. The applicant received a call back very quickly and, after a short conversation with a real human being was more willing to complete the online application.

As a result, one of my clients was able to hire 48 people in less than 90 days.

SharpSpring is an affordable choice for companies with really large lists who want to follow the 'crawl-walk-run' method of building out their marketing automation without having to outgrow a provider too quickly. It has a lot of capabilities, so I would recommend to any company that is evaluating it to be sure to understand the full benefits and full power of what they have when they use SharpSpring. It is a great tool for companies who recognize that they would be best served by having better Sales Team & Marketing Team collaboration.

SharpSpring is suitable for anyone who needs to automate digital marketing activities.

Sharpspring is well suited for agencies that want to manage their clients all from one place and it's good for dumping multiple different per user per month platforms to pay one fixed price.

We think that best SharpSpring use is for marketing agencies. They can add so much value to their clients' business in terms of costs, investments, and results.

By the way, even if you're a digital agency or an SMB with a few leads, it will cost you less than what you 'll probably pay for other solutions.

Sharpspring suits smaller businesses brilliantly when compared to the more enterprise solutions like Hubspot, Marketo etc. I am a big believer in a serviced agency model; most smaller businesses need a lot of help understanding what the tool can do and support ongoing to maximise its use and this is Sharpspring's philosophy too. To max out the benefit of using Sharpspring, your business needs to be lead driven and I would say generating minimum of 5-10 leads per day. You probably have a longer sales cycle too.

In the 20% of situations where I perhaps wouldn't use Sharpspring would be a where a business has a strong customer service requirement with multiple internal teams involved, particularly those converting from free to paid trial as I've seen other solutions which can handle this in a better way.