Overall Satisfaction with Groove
Problems: Communications with a large book of business. Segmentation of communications. Addressing multiple contacts in cc or bcc lines. Scope of Use Case: Communicating product updates, new products, and/or account data with various segments of a large international book of business and to multiple contacts that support account decisions.
- Dynamic email campaigns that allow for multiple pathways forward depending on actions taken by the recipient.
- Integration with Gainsight allows mass email campaign mapping to individual account timelines by creating a flow. Bcc column with the Gainsight timeline email in a CVS file.
- Link tracking to understand customer engagement.
- Integration with Salesforce that allows for account updates within Gmail.
- Formatting is off whenever copying and pasting from another rich text module into the Groove template module.
- I wish the 4 meeting types links were available from the dashboard without having to access settings to retrieve those links. Minor nuisance.
- Flow.bcc for mapping flows to individual account timelines in Gainsight.
- Multiple pathways depending on customer actions to first email in a flow.
- Ability to update accounts in Salesforce (and Gainsight) from Gmail using the Groove plug-in.
- Reduced toil in communicating broad updates to large book of business
- Low input way to spark conversation that could begin very valuable threads to build upon with customers
- Time saved scheduling by using the meeting types and linking in flows and email signature
None of these tools brought together the complete set of tools, integrations, and features that Groove has. Many of the above covered a piece or two of a complete workflow and so increased toil just navigating between products and manually logging data.
Do you think Groove, a Clari company delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Groove, a Clari company's feature set?
Yes
Did Groove, a Clari company live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Groove, a Clari company go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Groove, a Clari company again?
Yes
Using Groove
350 - Those who use Groove at Nearpod are primarily in Sales or Customer Success. These include our Sales Development, Expansion, Renewal, Customer Success, Pilot, and other such teams.
12 - Sales Operations, Business Systems, and Operations teams support this implementation.
- Scheduling meetings with new and existing clients
- Tracking communications with new and existing clients
- Updating prospect and expanding opportunities in CRM via Gmail plug-in
- Tracking groove flow emails to individual account profiles in CRM by placing the Gainsight inbound email address into a flow.bcc column in the CVS uploaded when adding contacts into a flow.
- I can't say but look forward to seeing how we continue to implement Groove.
Evaluating Groove and Competitors
Not Sure
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Product features include its seamless integration with many other tools we were already using including Google Drive (Gmail), Salesforce, and Gainsight.
I would not.
Groove Implementation
- Implemented in-house
- We have a constant flow of questions regarding implementation but are equipped with a very capable team of internal experts.
Groove Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
I am not aware, but again Nearpod has a team that is very knowledgeable in our Groove implementation and who are highly responsive to internal requests for support with the product.
I believe the Groove team prepared Nearpod internal teams to be internal experts in the product such that our individual team members can rely heavily on these internal teams rather than going to Groove. This is very useful.
Using Groove
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using | Lots to learn |
- Flows
- Templates
- Meetings