CustomShow.com vs. Yesware

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CustomShow.com
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
CustomShow is a B2B sales presentation platform that enables marketing teams to manage and control content while letting sales teams customize and present on multiple platforms. Combining a Slide Editor, Presentation Library and Online and Offline presenting options, CustomShow is designed to streamline workflows and gives teams the tools to build and deliver presentations.N/A
Yesware
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Yesware, from Vendasta since the October 2022 acquisition, is a service for salespeople that helps them close deals faster. An email service tracks email, templates responses and syncs to CRM.
$19
per month
Pricing
CustomShow.comYesware
Editions & Modules
CustomShow
$0
Per User per Month
Pro
$19
per month
Premium
$45
per month
Enterprise
$85
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CustomShow.comYesware
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAnnual plans save up to 23%.
More Pricing Information
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CustomShow.comYesware
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User Ratings
CustomShow.comYesware
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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8.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CustomShow.comYesware
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for larger organizations. It cannot be used by single individuals like people who use Prezi or Powerpoint. If you are a large organization and looking to save on productivity, time, and improve branding across marketing and sales pitches, this software is absolutely amazing. I would highly recommend anyone heading up a company with 25 employees or more consider the software.
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Yesware has had the best deliverability of all the email senders I've used (beating Mixmax, Apollo, GMass). Yesware is perfect for sales teams sending outbound. It's not well suited for sending marketing campaigns/newsletters. It's great for startups/SMBs/early mid-market companies on the Premium team for sales teams <10. I haven't experienced the enterprise option, but for small teams it's hard to beat.
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Pros
  • It allows you collaborate and share across your organization.
  • It integrates video seamlessly into any presentation you create.
  • It have an incredible slide library management component that stores everything in the cloud for the users.
  • Used by major fortune 100 companies, it allows for organizations to present their best and look their best.
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  • Personalization- Yesware does a great job at allowing you to customize and edit emails in a way that allows you to send a mass amount, but still have them feel like you spent a lot of time personalizing each one. Allows you to move faster and more efficient.
  • Tracking and reporting- the tracking and reporting is very detailed, clear and concise. Allowing you to gain insight into how well your emails are doing in terms of open rates, clicks and reply's. This is extremely helpful for testing out different subject lines and email copy to find out what emails are the most successful and why.
  • It is all around easy to use- does not require much training on the tool, if at all. Easy to navigate and set up through Salesforce. Any member of your team can use it to their advantage and hit the ground running very quickly.
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Cons
  • I think the analytics piece could be improved a little more.
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  • We don't use Yesware's dialer tool because it doesn't measure up to the quality or speed of their competitors
  • Yesware has kept on a legacy tool, 'MailMerge' which is essentially duplicative to the main tool 'Campaigns', but has one neat feature that allows us to 'CC' another recipient, which is useful we want to reach out to two people at the same account
  • Yesware makes sure that users don't add the same prospect to multiple email/call campaigns, but it does not offer that safety measure across users, so theoretically, two sales/marketing reps can be reaching out to the same person
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Likelihood to Renew
Because it provides a great user experience, it makes my organization look good in front of pitches, and the software is great from a collaboration perspective. Plus, I like the fact that i can use video incredible well with all of my presentations. It has minor challenges and takes time to figure out, but once you do the sky is the limit.
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I like the product, but due to the limitations I don't love it. I'm curious to revisit other options, particularly in lieu of Yesware's recent price increases (although I'm on a legacy plan). Some of my challenges to be browser related (I'm on an older computer) -- I'll have to see how things go when I receive my new computer. If the glitches (especially with regard to tracking accuracy and send later feature) go away, I'd be much more inclined to renew
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Pretty good overall, but again it needs some tweaks to ensure user frustration is kept to a minimum. This would go back to the autosave feature I mentioned which would immediately be a value add but not something that should need a user to move into a paid tier.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Because it deserves this rating. The features and functionality provided are great. Our Sales team is very satisfied with this software as it integrates very well with our other software like Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Yesware provides great follow up with customers, which is essential for sales. Meeting scheduling is also flawless.
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Alternatives Considered
I think they are all stacking up against each other. Powerpoint is a free alternative. But I think CustomShow doesn't focus on better looking powerpoint slides....it focuses on better looking presentations period. Because of that, CustomShow is really in a different category of business presentation software and up there with Clearslide.
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WE were looking for a sophisticated tool to solve our outbound efforts and one name keep popping up. Outreach. We tried to set up meetings with them but they discovered us over an email and told us that someone from my org tried to look for their solution however it is not best suited. I replied, that I would still like to look at their tool to understand if this could solve our newly created team for outbound but they decided not to move onto a demo as not having Salesforce kinda was a deal-breaker for them. Hence, we decided to stick to Yesware as we thought it solved our problem, and outreach maybe just looks for Enterprise level customers.
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Return on Investment
  • It has had a positive ROI in that the level of productivity in creating presentations has grown.
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  • I think net positive ROI from generating meetings that lead to closed deals. Ultimately very difficult to quantify the ROI since it is essentially automating a lot of the manual prospecting done by BDRs/AEs - so ROI is likely higher than just that quantifiable number around deals closed.
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ScreenShots

CustomShow.com Screenshots

Screenshot of Slide Library - drag-and-drop to build custom presentationsScreenshot of Slide Editor - Build branded slides with seamless video integrationScreenshot of Desktop Viewer - Present seamless online or offlineScreenshot of Viewing Metrics - Get detailed slide-by-slide viewing metrics

Yesware Screenshots

Screenshot of CampaignsScreenshot of Email Templates