InsideSales.com / XANT PowerDialer for Salesforce (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Works extremely well for an SDR/BDR team whose main focus is outreach through phone calls. Less appropriate for organizations looking for email cadence or a Salesforce add-on to work within Salesforce.
Outbound dialing is where it excels. It's especially good with larger teams of reps. Organizing through campaigns and seek lists is very powerful once you understand how to use it. There is definitely a learning curve with seek lists (I've spent tons of time on the phone with their support staff) but once you understand it the possibilities are endless. You can sort which leads show up by a variety of filters. Even with a list of 10,000+ leads and 5 reps calling on it, you can ensure no leads show up in two reps lists, the reps are calling specific territories, and even skipping leads that are likely on their lunch break! One my of favorite tricks with seek lists and only calling people with titles like Director/VP/C-Level before 8:30am or after 5pm their time, when those people are more willing to pick up the phone. They also appreciate a sales rep who is putting in the extra time to call during those blocks.
Creates competition between teammates, I have used several outreach tools and this one provides the best interaction with a points system to give that competitive edge to outreach
Accurately tracks metrics, near realtime tracking of your own and team's metric attainment on a day-to-day basis
Integrates with Salesforce, having click to dial and a widget embedded in Salesforce made using this tool very easy
I like that it is simple, functional and I can rely on it to help me get my work done everyday. My job became much harder without InsideSales.com. The new CRM I am using has confusing features and too much going on sometimes. There are so many fields and functions that I find unnecessary--what sucks is when I look at my screen at all these empty fields, it makes me feel incomplete. With InsideSales.com, I knew what to put in every box and why it would be important. I could put it in once and whether it was my manager, case admin or data analyst or me, we all knew where to find it. With our new system, I find myself having to do more input and data entry for other people to benefit--no longer a "one shot, one kill" deal.
The cost of ConnectLeader far outweighed the benefits in our specific case and didn't have most of the functions of Frontspin. Salesforce's and HubSpot's dialer aren't power dialers so you can't load a list and go. That is a HUGE benefit of FrontSpin.
[PowerDialer for Salesforce, from XANT (formerly InsideSales.com) is] cost effective and can use it without any training that saves lot of time. It helps to connect more [clients] and getting more business. We can easily track inbound and outbound calling. We can check leads to call. Support team is also there for us to help.
