Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM vs. Landingi

SharpSpring is great for creating and tracking campaigns that span multiple channels. With the Salesforce integration, we are able to keep our Sales team focused inside Salesforce without them needing to learn a new tool. Our Marketing team uses SharpSpring to nurture leads before handing them off to the Sales team. Though the features are available, SharpSpring would not be suitable for social media management or blogs; our third-party tools do a better job at that.

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Landingi is extremely powerful if you need to build quick, beautiful, high-converting landing pages for social media campaigns or PPC/paid traffic campaigns. Pages built with it won't likely be great SEO-wise, so I wouldn't count on ranking these landing pages for organic traffic from the search engines, but if you drive traffic by any other means and don't currently send your visitors to well-designed landing pages, you're likely missing out on a lot of leads and sales--and Landingi makes is very easy to create these landing pages quickly.

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• Their Emailers are very easy to construct and user-friendly. It takes your Newsletter and sales emails to the next level, especially with the action groups and trigger functionalities.
• The life of the lead functionality allows you to see when leads get warmer, so you know when to send them what. Helps improve conversions.

• We can build quick Landing Pages
• We can integrate with the many third party email apps like Mailchimp, Drip, ActiveCampaing and many more
• We also easily can manage leads by integrating with CRMs like PipeDrive, HubSpot.

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• The landing page builder is a bit hard to use. Doesn’t have much flexibility.
• Sometimes confusing between types of workflows to use. Opportunity versus visual.
• If you imported contacts that weren’t formatted correctly. It is hard to delete a bull amount. Need to type DELETE for each one manually. No bull options to make changes.

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• Responsive layout is very clunky at times. Moving an element around may require serious adjustment in different screen sizes.
• I'd love the option to simply copy and paste a whole section, for times when I have two similar pages and want to add a new section to both.
• I'd like to see lead information in the email, instead of having to log in to see the lead.

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It delivers everything it promised and more. SharpSpring is marketing automation transformed. Easy to use, affordable and well supported. Many of our clients will become dependent on the information SharpSpring provides for their marketing initiatives and we are confident they will be there for the long run. When some of the over-funded 'big names' flame out, SharpSpring will be the clear choice for small business users.

This rating is coming from an administrative perspective. With so many features, workflows, dashboards, and more, there is certainly a lot going on, and even the most savvy software user can get a little overwhelmed when trying to decide how to best implement and utilize the platform to its full potential. That being said, the SharpSpring platform is well-implemented and well-organized, with most solutions being fairly intuitive, once you have a grasp of the software. It is fairly easy to learn, but difficult to master. Just like any powerful platform, however, the complexity is worth it, and once you are comfortable navigating and problem solving within SharpSpring, it becomes a great marketing and sales tool which can do virtually anything you need it to.

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The support is great which really helps overcome challenges if you become stuck and the training videos are great too. Same-day replies are great and I even got some help with some CSS code on the chat. Not many organizations would do this or even respond.

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I haven't ever reached out to Landingi support, so I really don't know what their support is like. I just didn't want to give them a lower score since I don't know how good or bad it is. They've created a great product and I haven't had any bugs or issues, and have been able to figure out how to utilize the features I'm interested in by messing around with the interface or looking at their blog posts/updates.

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Simply that we recommend a thorough training process where you take the time to really learn the system and the features so that you can take full advantage and maximize your results. Don't skimp on the training as the more you understand, the easier it will be to implement. A sk a lot of questions and test everything until you know it well.

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Constant Contact doesn't stand up against Klaviyo, so we're permanently migrating our lists and customer profiles over to Klaviyo. Constant Contact is an excellent choice for solopreneurs, brick-and-mortar, and businesses that are more heavily focused on face-to-face human interaction. However, companies - or individuals - primarily market and/or sell online, especially Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, and Yotpo, which seem to be more robust solutions.

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I've never used a kind-for-kind alternative. Leadpages is generally the market leader, has way more features, and comes in at a much higher price point. Wix is for building rudimentary websites, and offers no integrations outside of their own ecosystem. However, in general, if you need to create anything more than just simple landing pages, I'd recommend Thrive Architect. It's also a front-end builder, but it's for an entire Wordpress site. Again though, it's apples and oranges when it comes to comparing Landingi. I selected Landingi because I was able to obtain it for a one-time price. At the end of the day, I would recommend it as long as they get their spam issues resolved.

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• Streamlined Processes - sales and marketing are now all in the same place.
• Reduced Number of Platforms/Tools - CRM/lead management, email, automation, landing pages, forms, etc are all in the same place rather than using multiple tools.
• Time-saving - sales pipeline is very easy to use for sales. For marketing, we have dozens of workflows that eliminate much of our manual processes from the past.
• Return on Investment - We're more focused on moving the building the business than ever before because SharpSpring has simplified so many of our business operations and we're seeing massive results!
• Lead generation - Up SIGNIFICANTLY (between 3x & 4x) since setting up SharpSpring.

• We save an estimates 12 hours a month on landing page creation.
• ROI was realized within the first month of using Landingi.
• We are able to offer marketing services to a wider range of niches due to the speed of our landing page creation process.

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