KickFire vs. TechTarget Priority Engine

I've only used KickFire in sales but it's great

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TechTarget would notify us when prospects looked us up by name or specifically researched areas where our product would prove beneficial. It did a great job gauging legitimate interest from the prospect and gave an idea of a timeline as well so that we could understand their urgency.

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• Validating HQ location and HQ phone number
• Finding direct phone lines and emails for prospects
• Filter
• Drilling down to specific departments and the contacts within each

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• Contact Info is pretty good. I've occasionally found better data than I can get from our chosen lead solution.
• I don't know of another alternative source, but TechTarget provides data on content that people are researching.
• TechTarget provides current tech stack for companies that I'm researching.

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• KickFire doesn't filter the de-anonymized website visit results much for accuracy. Public IP indexes are far from perfect. Companies change their IPs all the time. Other solutions check each website visit against several indexes and only deliver de-anonymized visits to the client when they are able to reach a certain confidence level in the company identification. KickFire instead does less filtering and lets the client handle it on their own. The downside is that there are more false positives. In our experience, there were a few companies that started showing that they were visiting our site several times a day, visiting just about every page. Later we realized that the company was an ISP/VPN provider (one of the largest in the UK) and that the visitors were actually probably from a number of other companies--they were just using the VPN. Again, this is a con because it gives more work to you in the end. On the other hand, the approach that other solutions take means you miss out on significant website activity because it didn't reach a certain confidence score.

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• The site loads kind of slowly. It seems like it takes a while for all of the information to populate on the screen.
• I would like to be able to make calls directly from TechTarget Priority Engine.
• Give real time notification when a prospect is on our site.

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We've been happy customers of VisiStat for many years. I've used the service at multiple companies and you can't beat it.

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It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.

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Usability is great, we would love to see how strong the intent is for every keywords

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We've never had any outages in the 7+ years using the system.

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The system is very responsive, and when there are times in which data is loading, the VisiStat system provides humorous loading messages.

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They are very good at solving cases that I bring to them. I'd like to see more proactive support to make sure we are getting the full value out of the solution.

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I'm just a business user of TechTarget so I really haven't had the chance to gauge what the support is from a customer standpoint. Given that we recently rolled it out and everyone is utilizing it daily I would assume that their support is strong enough for us to continues to use it.

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The tutorials are very good and they explain how to get started using the system. The online webinars are very good for advancing your knowledge of the product.

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Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.

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I covered this pretty extensively in the cons. The key differentiator here is that KickFire serves up almost all the data (or so it seems) to the end client. The client then has to do their own work on interpreting it. This is good because it means we don't miss out on any website activities, but it's bad because we get a lot of false positives. 6sense uses the confidence score approach I mentioned in the Cons section, which means the match rates of the data we get are much higher. Our experience with Clearbit comes from other tools that are built on it (Bombora, Drift, etc.), and it has not been great. We've seen many more inaccuracies with Clearbit.

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TechTargets Priority Engine's interface and customizable features were easier to use and better organized than ZoomInfo's. I like the custom alerts that TechTarget provided, and I'm not sure ZoomInfo had the same feature. I would get email alerts any time a target customer read a white paper or downloaded a brochure, which made my timing for prospecting much easier. I do believe ZoomInfo's company directories are more robust and wide-spread

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We've gone from a few thousand unique visitors per month to nearly 200,000 unique visitors. VisiStat doesn't miss a beat.

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• KickFire turned our next-to-useless website visit numbers into actionable insights for our marketing and sales teams.
• KickFire shaped our new strategy for our account-based marketing and sales model.

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• I personally did not see a return on investment, but I believe others in the organization are having success with the platform
• On a positive note, the insights into search behaviors and interest trends is great.
• I recommend they develop better training for first time users specific to a variety of use cases

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