SharpSpring is a great Addition to a Marketing Effort: Highly Recommended
November 02, 2020

SharpSpring is a great Addition to a Marketing Effort: Highly Recommended

Kurt Hoffmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SharpSpring

Our digital marketing agency uses SharpSpring mainly as core part of our marketing services to clients but also internally for marketing our agency. It is used daily by our team as part of our monthly marketing work on behalf of clients and in our own marketing efforts. We serve a range of clients about 50% in healthcare, but the other half a range of industries from manufacturing to music promotion.

The biggest benefit of SharpSpring is having visibility into the leads we generate. In the past we could see impressions and clicks and website visits from our campaigns. Now we are seeing the actual leads and being able to follow activity after the initial contact. The added visibility has been an absolute game changer in the value we can provide our clients.

We've even had instances where clients claimed they were not getting leads from our campaigns and once SharpSpring was installed, not only could we now provide reports of leads we were generating, but we caught a hole in their customer service where leads we were providing were not getting responses from scheduling staff. So we not only provided reports of the leads we generated, but helped close a gap in a serious customer service issue that was happening.
  • Ability to ID and track campaign leads.
  • Insights on website visitors.
  • Automation of marketing actions.
  • Email customization could use some improvements - 90% there though.
  • Setting up some functions is not intuitive - their support helps get through these, but should be improved.
  • The social media area doesn't have much value to me. I don't use that part at all. I'd like them to improve on this.
  • Being able to see the leads we are bringing in dramatically improves our ability to be effective on behalf of our clients.
  • This same feature is critical to showing our value to our clients.
  • SharpSpring helps our clients see exactly who we our bringing them and the value of those leads and the return on their marketing investment.
I currently use SharpSpring and HubSpot at about a 90%/10% mix on our projects. I do like certain functionality in HubSpot but overall just prefer SharpSpring's depth of valuable functionality at the price point we are at. The price point makes it a fairly easy sell based on the return and value we are able to demonstrate for most clients.

Do you think Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM's feature set?

Yes

Did Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM again?

Yes

SharpSpring is very powerful to use and once you've gotten up to speed, it's pretty easy to maneuver around. I took off 1 point as there are some areas that could be more user friendly and intuitive. I also am surprised some basic things like the email editor have some limitations that I would not expect at this level, but overall it's pretty solid. Could just benefit from getting it more in line with other email editors.
SharpSpring Support is fantastic. Great onboarding, great ongoing support. They always reply quickly and with solid info to get us back on track and moving forward. Their great support has been a big part of our success with the program: both getting on board and up to speed, helping us quickly get around obstacles, and making sure we're getting the most out of the solution.
The top functionality to me is being able to easily tie leads to a campaign to gauge and manage our effectiveness and to report this to the client. In the past we could see impressions and clicks and website visits from our online ad campaigns. Now we are seeing the actual leads and being able to follow activity after the initial contact. The added visibility has been an absolute game changer in the value we can provide our clients.

Having this in the same platform as the CRM and email marketing makes a really powerful combo.

Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
8
Dynamic content
8
Ability to test dynamic content
8
Landing pages
9
A/B testing
9
Mobile optimization
9
Email deliverability reporting
10
List management
10
Triggered drip sequences
10
Lead nurturing automation
10
Lead scoring and grading
10
Data quality management
10
Automated sales alerts and tasks
10
Calendaring
Not Rated
Event/webinar marketing
Not Rated
Social sharing and campaigns
Not Rated
Social profile integration
Not Rated
Dashboards
10
Standard reports
10
Custom reports
10
API
10
Role-based workflow & approvals
Not Rated
Customizability
9
Integration with Salesforce.com
10
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Not Rated
Integration with SugarCRM
Not Rated