SharpSpring is my marketing automation platform of choice.
Overall Satisfaction with SharpSpring
SharpSpring is my go to system for managing all my business relationships, sales enablement, opportunity management, lead scoring, campaign ROI tracking and more. I have helped over 300 companies implement various marketing automation and CRM solutions since 2008 when I became an Infusionsoft customer and then, partner.
The primary reason I sought a new solution was I outgrew what I was using and wanted to explode my email and contact list, email volume, without blowing through my budget. SharpSpring empowers me to do this with amazing ease, considering my extensive experience using systems like SharpSpring.
Please choose any software like this wisely. Include your entire team, key players, in the decision and selection process. These systems are only as effective as they are implemented. Plan on hiring and paying a proven professional with at least 10,000 hours experience doing this kind of work. Unless you also make your own paperclips, don't be in the marketing automation, email and content marketing business on top of what you do best now. While there are a growing number of viable marketing automation solutions on the market now, your decision to invest in true sales enablement and marketing automation is the difference between getting what you want in your business and staying where you are, or worse, like getting left behind by your competition because someone like is driving their SharpSpring marketing automation and sales enablement bus.
Pros
- Killer ROI tracking at the campaign level.
- Exceptional email deliverability and reporting at workflow, email level.
- Powerful sales enablement tool, light CRM, easily integrated with all top CRM solutions.
- SharpSpring doesn't try to be all things to all people. They do what they do best, email marketing, automation, lead scoring, opportunity and sales pipeline management, etc.
- Great support for partners.
- Partner centric is good for the customer because SharpSpring doesn't let "anybody" sell this kind of software like many of their competitors.
Cons
- List management could be improved.
- Their new landing page builder is going to be awesome. (Just announced!)
- They dramatically improved their focus on support for partners which helps us serve customers better, more affordably.
- My contact and email list exploded using SharpSpring.
- My email engagement improved by at least 30%, almost immediately.
- My email marketing has never worked better before. SharpSpring has made a huge difference in sales, ROI.
There is no comparison between SharpSpring and Infusionsoft. In full disclosure interest, I was an Infusionsoft customer and then a consultant and partner. I sold Infusionsoft rarely, but helped hundreds of companies get better results with it between 2008 and May of 2016 when we agreed to end our business relationship.
SharpSpring does not try to be all things to all people. You will not be sold SharpSpring in a seminar. SharpSpring is partner centric meaning they focus their business model on choosing, training and supporting real marketing and software professionals, experts like me, to sell and implement this software.
Never buy this kind of software without proper consideration and by including your key players, users of the system, in the selection process. Then plan on investing in real coaching and training for the long haul. Unless you think sales and marketing is a one time event. And if so, no software on the planet can help you. (Just being honest. That's what I am paid to do when teaching, coaching and training any of these systems.)
You have to take the long view with any of these solutions. Infusionsoft tries to be all things to all people including ecommerce, CRM, campaign building, reporting, email marketing, etc. It's a decent system for many companies when chosen and implemented correctly, which hardly ever happens because of the abhorrent sales practices - "Double your sales with our software when you buy it today in our seminar and we sell you training that won't work."
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Using SharpSpring
- Sales enablement, driving sales, revenue.
- Aligns sales, marketing to ROI tracking.
- Keeps team disciplined and focused.
- Social selling to drive sales results.
- Lead scoring to improve time management.
- Sales pipeline management and tracking is killer when set up correctly.
- Expanded landing page use.
- Integrate with new CRM in another year or so, if needed.
- Better analytics and ROI tracking for our campaigns and those of our clients.
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