Closely vs. Salesloft

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Closely
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Closely is a LinkedIn automation tool used to grow a network on autopilot, bring a new perspective to a LinkedIn network, personalize campaigns with a data export tool, find new B2B sales opportunities through conversations, and send personalised messages on a large scale. Closely helps users find new leads in a click and bring, send a personalized message to all leads and to boost B2B sales. Another feature of Closely is that it can be used…
$49
per month 500 Lead Finder Credits monthly
Salesloft
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform uses AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.N/A
Pricing
CloselySalesloft
Editions & Modules
Personal
$49
per month 500 Lead Finder Credits monthly
Growth
$83
per month 5000 Lead Finder Credits monthly
Pro
$166
per month Unlimited Lead Finder Credits
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloselySalesloft
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Closely
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Salesloft
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Ratings
Lead nurturing automation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
CloselySalesloft
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
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7.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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8.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloselySalesloft
Likelihood to Recommend
Closing rates increase up to 25% when using Closely’s automated outreach platform. Closely gives you the ability to reach out to the exact people who are interested in your offer. You can set up the entire campaign, and then Closely will take over everything else. You can choose your message and deliver it using email or text. Sometimes the interface can be a little slow. I would suggest doing some testing before committing to this tool. Closely saves time, which is important to me. I have been using it for about a month now, and I have noticed that my close rate has increased by 25%. I am able to focus on building my list instead of doing the tedious task of emailing people.
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I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.
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Pros
  • I have not had any issues with LinkedIn filters.
  • The inbox feature is like a mini-CRM.
  • Closely now has a chrome extension adding more functionality.
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  • Sequence's and AB Testing
  • Live Tracking Data and Insights into email performance
  • In house analytics to monitor not only the performance of campaigns but also specific users/reps using the platform
  • integrates well with the rest of our tech stack (apollo + salesforce)
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Cons
  • Automated Birthday messages
  • Automated congratulations of milestones
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  • The inbound dialer. I don't particularly like having to open a second window just for inbound calls. Especially if I forget to close it during a meeting and get interrupted.
  • The texting interface. I can have emails templated, to fill fields pulled from the lead profile, like name, company, positions, etc. I would like the same functionality for texting, especially since I send as many texts as I do emails. Even being able to save snippets or templates would be nice.
  • On the note of texting, having a dedicated tab in the People view for text messages would do a lot to let me catch up on other people's conversations with the lead, instead of having to find them on the main Activity tab.
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Likelihood to Renew
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SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.
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Usability
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Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.
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Reliability and Availability
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The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.
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Performance
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Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce
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Support Rating
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The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.
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Online Training
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We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.
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Implementation Rating
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must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
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Alternatives Considered
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Salesloft Rhythm (BDR/SDR home screen) provides a landing page where all the prioritized work is queued for immediate execution. The UX is clean and the only other elements is a stream of activity indicating prospects interacting with content (e.g. clicking a link in an email). My experience with other tools was that their "home" pages had a dozen icons and it was confusion for someone new to the platform to figure out where to go to work on the next item.
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Scalability
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The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams
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Return on Investment
  • 25% increase on close rate
  • Additional social channel to nurture leads
  • Countless hours saved
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  • Seen a 200% increase in productivity from our SDR team.
  • We now have robust data about when the best times to call are and can focus our power hours around those.
  • We now have an audit history around our emails sent and can dive in and make small changes to templates and snippets to continuously increase our open and click rates.
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