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Apollo.io

Score8.4 out of 10

242 Reviews and Ratings

What is Apollo.io?

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Top Performing Features

  • Filters and segmentation

    Allows users to filter contacts and segment leads to explore data and create lists.

    Category average: 8.2

  • List upload/download

    Lists can be easily and quickly uploaded or downloaded from the platform.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Load time/data access

    Provides fast and consistent access to lists and leads.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Alerts and reminders

    Sends sales teams alerts/reminders about key happenings, opportunities, and recommended actions to take with leads.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Append emails to records

    Allows users to selectively or automatically append email threads and attachments to leads/contact records.

    Category average: 7

  • Sales email templates

    Users can create and share templates for emailing leads. May also include template testing capabilities, or other analytics that will recommend a template for a particular lead.

    Category average: 6.8

Apollo is awesome.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apollo helps us to highly target certain industries and personas. It eliminates the need for constant follow-up with leads, as the sequencing function effectively sends out emails at regular intervals with different call-to-actions.

Pros

  • Sequencing
  • Creating lists for specific industries.
  • Finding company emails and titles that are always accurate.

Cons

  • Usability unless you are quite technically savvy it is challenging to navigate the amazing functionality.
  • Providing more granular industry niches.
  • Updating of personnel email addresses when they change jobs, or at least highlighting they have moved on by tracking their LinkedIn.

Return on Investment

  • saves us time on BDM activity.
  • Saves us time and effort on Marketing campaign creation and execution.
  • Able to measure results of outreach campaigns quickly.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

247 Cloud Hub

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)

One of the best tool for Lead prospecting Email Campaigns

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for lead prospecting and email campaigns. It helpes us in lead generation

Pros

  • Lead prospecting
  • Email campaign
  • Newsletters

Cons

  • UX can be improved
  • Experience can be faster. IT takes time to load some pages

Return on Investment

  • Lead generation
  • Networking
  • Thought leadership

Usability

Great Product. Saves on Lead Generation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Apollo.io for lead generation and sequence building. Apollo.io is able to create targeted lead lists based on a whole host of filters. We have been very pleased with the results so far and the platform is much more advanced than other outreach softwares we have used in the past.

Pros

  • Lead Generation
  • Sequence Building
  • Insights

Cons

  • Dial everyone feature is buggy
  • Settings can be confusing
  • AI features dont work the best

Return on Investment

  • Our email open rates have increased
  • Our outbound volume has increased
  • Lead generation time and effort has decreased per rep

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Outplay

Great prospecting Tool Saved lots of hours of my manual work

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I needed more customers, a more efficiente way to send cold emails and also a way to call them directly.

Pros

  • Prospecting, creating filters,
  • The AI tool works great

Cons

  • FInding more phone numbers, you have a lack of phone numbers or it's too expensive to find them with the other databases you guys provide

Usability

Alternatives Considered

JustCall and Ringover Business Phone System

Other Software Used

Vtiger, LinkedIn Sales Navigator

A big help from Apollo.io.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apollo.io to contact more potential CPAs and business appraisers to join our organization and help them satisfy their required CE credits. To broadcast our upcoming events, like conferences and webinars, to more people, and in a way, the company will have more members and eventually get them to do business with us.

Pros

  • To provide wide range of potential clients/ members.
  • To give a more detailed information on potential clients.
  • To provide much organize and systematic task to get things done.

Cons

  • To get additional feedback after task is done.
  • Additional details/ information after the call.
  • More information on how to get successful clients.

Return on Investment

  • It provides more opportunities to gather more clients.
  • It gives more results and better results in targeting our sales.
  • It is a more effective way to provide information to a large number of potential clients about the events/ projects the company is offering.

Usability

Other Software Used

Zoho Analytics, 3CX, Elevate by LinkedIn