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    Groove, a Clari company

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/AGroove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A

    InsideSales Playbooks

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AInsideSales Playbooks (formerly XANT Playbooks) aims to help SDRs and AEs quickly build closeable pipeline, by helping salespeople get a hold of more of the right people. InsideSales.com uses their A.I.-platform called Neuralytics to target likely buyers combined with their cadence engine to help sales reps consistently engage all of their prospects in a personalized way. Just like Waze from Google helps drivers get to their destination quickly based on the data from other drivers,…N/A
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    Groove, a Clari companyInsideSales Playbooks
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Chose Groove, a Clari company
    10 to 1. The difference is night and day. It's not just that Playbooks was riddled with bugs and the tool would just be unusable VERY often, but it just wasn't a very user-friendly tool, to begin with. It was the first experience I had with a tool like that, and I just remember …
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    Chose Groove, a Clari company
    No communication between the legacy products, Xant and Yesware, so having a unified tool to look at my activity and tie pieces of an account together under a unified dashboard makes my life much easier. In addition to that, my connection on OmniDialer is much more reliable than …
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    Chose Groove, a Clari company
    Groove is the best sales enablement tool I've ever used. The email campaigns, scheduling, and automated features are the most impactful for my role as an enterprise strategic account executive role.
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    Groove blows Xant out of the water. Xant was clunky, glitchy, and constantly disconnected my phone. I was contacting Xant support on a weekly basis. While the support was great, the tool could have been better. Groove never glitches, my phone has only disconnected once and it …
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    Chose Groove, a Clari company
    When evaluating these products, we ultimately went with Groove for a few reasons. All of the products were very similar in the functionality department, so that wasn't a big factor. The biggest factor was the price. Groove was drastically lower than any of the other products …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Groove, a Clari companyInsideSales Playbooks
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    5.0
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    Availability
    9.1
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    Performance
    9.1
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    4.5
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    4.7
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Groove, a Clari companyInsideSales Playbooks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Groove, a Clari Company
    • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
    • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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    It is well suited for any sales department, to try to get ahold of the person you are trying to get ahold of. Playbooks has increased the number of decision makers that I can get ahold of on a day to day basis. This tool would probably be less suited for people that do not have calls to make outside of the company.
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    Pros
    Groove, a Clari Company
    • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
    • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
    • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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    • Playbooks does a great job of letting reps know when phone numbers are not a working number.
    • Playbooks does a great job being able to be tailored to your specific organization or business.
    • Playbooks does a great job of having a very friendly user experience.
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    Cons
    Groove, a Clari Company
    • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
    • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
    • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
    • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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    • The ability to filter specific plays or pieces of information so that it's more user-friendly for the overall organization. Essentially, more room to customize the organization of accounts and how you're working them.
    • The initial onboarding process of accounts results in high levels of tasks - the ability to break these down in an easier way to help with time management would be helpful.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Groove, a Clari Company
    I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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    Usability
    Groove, a Clari Company
    Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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    It only took a day to get comfortable with Playbooks. The ease of use and overall usability is fantastic in the sense that it's pretty straightforward once you get enough repetitions in the tool. I also like all of the videos and resources available if support is needed
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    Reliability and Availability
    Groove, a Clari Company
    Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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    Performance
    Groove, a Clari Company
    Everything is good
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    Support Rating
    Groove, a Clari Company
    My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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    In-Person Training
    Groove, a Clari Company
    It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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    Online Training
    Groove, a Clari Company
    Easy to use
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    Implementation Rating
    Groove, a Clari Company
    At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
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    Aurea
    The Insidesales Playbooks is by far more intuitive and organized than other programs I have used in the past. Unfortunately I have not had experience with other products that are available out there. I would hope we will see more improvements from the ISDC tool as we all use it more and provide feedback
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    Scalability
    Groove, a Clari Company
    Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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    Return on Investment
    Groove, a Clari Company
    • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
    • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
    • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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    • 100's of hours back in our week due to Salesforce Integration!
    • We have more clients answering the phone due to creative caller ID solutions.
    • We can standardize our messaging by partnering with Marketing to help build plays and auto-enroll certain contacts based on messaging.
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