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    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

    Salesforce Sales Engagement

    Score4.4 out of 10
    N/AS alesforce Sales Engagement, formerly Einstein High Velocity Sales, is a cloud-based sales engagement platform that uses artificial intelligence capabilities to increase sales productivity.N/A
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    InsideSales PlaybooksSalesforce Sales Engagement
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    33%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    InsideSales PlaybooksSalesforce Sales Engagement
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.3
    (127 ratings)
    4.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    3.2
    (101 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    InsideSales PlaybooksSalesforce Sales Engagement
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aurea
    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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    Salesforce
    HVS should be well suited for automated email responses and cadences. However, we have been unable to get it to work as we would like it to. The cadence builder is robust, but can be a bit complicated. It's not as easy to set up a cadence, as we would like. The program isn't well suited for mass marketing emails, but more for SDR emails.
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    Pros
    Aurea
    • 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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    Salesforce
    • Allows you to move to different cadences and cadence steps without refreshing the screen or clicking to a new screen
    • Fairly simple to send a one-off email to a single prospect
    • Pretty easy to update contact information b/c it's directly integrated with Salesforce
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    Cons
    Aurea
    • 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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    Salesforce
    • We haven't found anything in High Velocity Sales that we don't like. To reach out to prospects the company may use an all-in-one platform. The ability to organize, call, email, and follow up on leads is a game-changer for sales representatives.
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    Usability
    Aurea
    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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    Salesforce
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Salesforce
    We've had to return to ZoomInfo Engage, since High Velocity Sales hasn't worked out for us. HVS should be well suited for automated email responses and cadences. However, we have been unable to get it to work as we would like it to. Engage is not a great program either, but the simpleness has made it more effective for our current use case.
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    Return on Investment
    Aurea
    • 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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    Salesforce
    • It's been negative in that I have to spend at least 20 times longer creating a cadence than I would with any other sales outreach tool.
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    InsideSales Playbooks Screenshots

    Screenshot of Playbooks DashboardScreenshot of Editing a RecordScreenshot of Creating an EmailScreenshot of Adding NotesScreenshot of Scheduling a CallScreenshot of Viewing Task List