EngageBay vs. Insightly

I would absolutely recommend EngageBay to any customer looking to switch from Marketo or Salesforce that wanted a cheaper solution while still highly effective. Those platforms require hands-on integration consultants and full-time employees that know how to handle those CRMs. This CRM is easy to use for any beginner marketer.

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For what we use it for and the ease of use I am happy to recommend Insightly however I can appreciate that others may have more complex feature requirements than I use. As such I would mainly only recommend it to people who I feel would use it in a similar capacity to me.

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• Lead / customer tracking
• Automated emails
• Automations

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• Customization. Although there are some limitations, the world is almost your oyster with Insightly's customizations.
• Simplicity. I appreciate when policy screens are not loaded with too much going on. Insightly looks clean.
• Support. Their help center and the Insightly team is amazing.

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• Landing pages
• Livechat feature
• Lead/customer integration

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• The Inquiry feature is missing some functionality, so it is not as useful as the Request feature
• The Actual Close Date does not autofill when a Request record is closed and marked as Lost/Abandoned
• The customizable objects and fields are very useful but the System Settings interface could be more user-friendly

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Insightly offers a great product; it's the right fit for our company at this time. We were, however, considering moving to Contactually due to their cost effective automation features. However, they lacked the project management capabilities of Insightly. As our company grows, we would love to stay with Insightly - and if they can nail the automation and add the ability to customize a little bit more, it would be the perfect solution for us. For a larger company with a more involved sales team, you might find the metrics/reporting to be a bit basic. Insightly offers great customer service even to free customers

EngageBay's incredibly easy to use. I was able to pick up the CRM and start using right away with little issues. Anyone with basic CRM knowledge should be able to get started on EngageBay easy. Their customer service team also makes onboarding very easy and will work with you on any issue.

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Some items are not easily accessible as an admin, and the number of available resources is outdated (video from 2017). For basic tasks such as updating prospects or contacts, it is fine. However, when you change the screen size, the system becomes less responsive, with tables often being difficult to read.

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The provider is 100% available, with no downtime, maintenance, or unexpected outages. We have been able to perform solid continuous services for 12 months without any interruptions. We have backups as well, unlike the in-house backup that they keep on their end. I believe they have a very good redundancy and backup infrastructure in case they get any outages.

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Pages normally load quickly, but every now and then, as entering updates to fields, it take a while to update. Sometimes even after refreshing the screen, we have to exit and go back in to get the fields or queries to update.

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Their support team is incredibly response, with a livechat option anytime during business hours. I was able to work with them on a variet of issues and they were extremely hands-on. The same reps are always there and friendly and ready to work with. There isn't a CRM that has better customer service.

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We have used Insightly for almost 2 years now. We have always been able to get in touch with support for a variety of reasons and they have never disappointed us. The support staff have always been very understanding. They have assisted with answers to our questions and have provided great tech support. We would highly recommend them.

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Well, we didn’t get the chance to do this in-person training but rather one-on-one online training with HR in-house. There were PowerPoints to discuss as well as video instructions on how to use the app, so it was okay. We were able to play around with it during the training or onboarding session.

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I've used Insightly's online training &/ or learned as I went. I've found the blogs and online written material helpful. I've also attended a few webinars, which can be useful if you use a J-I-T approach so as not to overwhelm you (or your staff) with functionality that you are using just yet. The fact that it's all available on their website and you can learn at your own pace is invaluable

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Salesforce and Marketo are the strongest CRM products out there in the space. The drawback they have is that they are immensely expensive and complex to set-up / use. Salesforce is extremely complex, especially when using in conjunction with Pardot. EngageBay is simple, easy to use, and easy to build from. And their customer service is far more responsive than those platforms.

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Insightly actually have many different fields and customization options for data management. Other programs do not have the ability to organize data in this way. It is easy to manage customer contact information, phone call and email tracking, company management and many other data fields. Microsoft and Google do not provide equivalent programs or services. Insightly customer service is quick to respond and address issues. It just takes quite a few emails in order to properly specify an issue or request

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(+) Being able to download my LinkedIn connections was a huge benefit. (+) I use the task function to stay on top of my follow-up activity which is another positive feature. (+) The sorting capabilities also help me pinpoint the contacts that I need to stay on top of. (-) When I add a new lead from an existing organization, I would like the organization's information to automatically populate the fields like address, website, description. I enter all that information manually. (-) My mass mailing experience has been tedious due to the email function being interrupted and crashing due to bad email addresses in some of my records. (-) Many of my leads do not have current email addresses. I wish Insightly offered a tool to help find email addresses. I spend too much time researching to find email addresses.

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• Improved lead management and helped build lead data by 4-5x in size
• Helped improve investor base with 100-150% growth in investors by year 1
• Generated dozens of calendar invites to call potential investors in first year

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• For negative impact, the time setting up the various data fields and making sure the data was right and how it showed was not easy.
• Having the integrations available has saved all of us time jumping from platform to platform. Definitely assisted with focus and probably scrubbed at least one meeting.
• For the few issues we had setting up and customizing the tool, the ease of adoption across all the departments has been truly spectacular and beyond expectations.
• Hoping the team will make it more plug and play for future rollouts and work on the mobile app and then this platform would be 100!

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