LeadGrabber Pro vs. Owler

LeadGrabber Pro is an effective tool for prospecting for B2B organizations that have a need to prospect a large pool of potential prospects. Within a year period under one license, you are able to find up to 100.000 prospects using Linkedin. This is helpful for organizations who would like to contact many prospects within a year.

LeadGrabber Pro might be less relevant for businesses who are more focused on B2C sales or B2B organization that very niche and don't have a large pool of prospects they need to contact.

Owler is best used as a supplemental asset, as it allows you to get very granular on specific prospects. I believe its limitations lie in the fact that while you can see the competitive companies, it's difficult to get any prospecting information out of them ie., contacts, without going for the highest level plan.

Incentivized

• Walk-away functionality: just click on the "Grab" button, and a list is automatically built for you
• Appends email addresses to contacts -- via automated LinkedIn and Google searches
• Verifies email addresses, and provides a rating on the accuracy / deliverability of each email address

• Great industry info.
• Really good industry- or company-specific rss feed.
• Love the funding/merger/acquisition alerts that we get on companies and portfolios that we follow. Often even more timely than Crunchbase since it's based on press releases rather than Crunchbase's data team reaching out to VCs to get their portfolio updates.
• Pretty good firmographic data on companies (# of employees, ann. revenue, website, c-suite members, etc.).
• We get all these great benefits for free!

Incentivized

• The Auto-Split function is not perfect ... for splitting large searches into smaller jobs.
• Occasionally I encounter something trivial that does not work, but eGrabber Tech Support is very responsive, and they issue a patch, within a day or two of my complaint.

• The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
• Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
• There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
• It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
• They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information

Incentivized

Only being 1 month in, I will have to wait longer before knowing what kind of ROI and results I will have at the years end.

Not really an applicable question as this is a free service, but if they charged $100 / year (GageIn's price) I would still license the service.

The software is extremely easy to use and does exactly what it was intended for - effortlessly source contacts in bulk.

I think it's well designed but always room for improvement. Maybe more customization in layout or information presented. Maybe even a layout that allows comparison and ranking of companies in a similar industry or vertical, or company size, and geography

Incentivized

I have yet to see the platform down or running slowly, but there have been multiple instances recently (Q2 2015) when the user links to a news story and Owler gives an Oops message. Users simply click on the story a second time and the story is displayed. This is a nuisance bug. I also have a sense that the system is not processing alerts as quickly as before, but I haven't tracked this closely, so I could be wrong about it.

The news precision, which is the most important feature for me, is very accurate. They have editors review the news to ensure it is properly tagged by company and event type.

The support team responds super fast and don't quit until the issue is resolved, you can't ask for more!

Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.

It was very easy!

Focus on setting up companies that have limited news coverage first. Public companies are well covered and it is easy to track them. Furthermore, the surfeit of news around public companies can crowd out smaller companies with less news. It is smaller companies where you are most likely to see a benefit in their tracking of news, blogs, press releases, and videos.

I would recommend using LeadGrabber Pro in combination with LinkedIn and/or ZoomInfo as it is meant to be used with them. The tool allows you to effortlessly source thousands of new contacts each week and to do so in bulk. LeadGrabber Pro removes almost all of the manual labor of sourcing contacts and is an invaluable resource for any sales team. At the current price point, it is much more cost-effective than purchasing lists or building customized lists through a 3rd party and also much more accurate.

Apollo is more of a complete system for things like sequences, tracking sales, meetings, recording meetings. It has a very strong search capability for individual contacts that can be broken down in many ways. Like job status, titles, geogrpahy. It also gives insights into technology in use and intent

Incentivized

• We've been running LeadGrabber Pro for nearly one year. The initial investment in the program was around $3,000 and we've invested about $7,000 into an employee managing this program for us. So the total investment on our end has been around $10,000 in the program. Within the first year, we've closed $129,000 in sales, which is an 1190% increase in our investment. We also have about $200,000 in pipeline value of potential opportunities that could close in the next year. LeadGrabber Pro has definitely been a positive revenue generator for us and will continue using the service this upcoming year.

• Owler has enabled those in my organization to demonstrate their knowledge on companies to clients without spending too much time working to procure information from various sources.
• Owler contributes to a more comprehensive analysis of companies when making investment decisions.
• Owler can be frustrating to use and inefficient as a result of a lack of robust data quality measures.

Incentivized