PersistIQ

We had hoped they would assist us in identifying leads for our training software used onboard vessels and in maritime academies. In our experience, they failed in so many ways including not undestanding who our cusotmers are, have the ability to schedule potential client meetings in a relevant time zone. We learned after 4 months some of the emails they sent were respsonded to, but that information was not passed onto us.

• We spent $9,000 with them kover 6 months that yielded 3 leads of which one was already our cusotmer. 95% of the leads they sent us were not even in our target industry.

Salesforce CMS

PersistIQ/Wishpond approached us, offering to supply a monthly set of guaranteed qualified leads. Their process was to identify people who matched our target audience (Regenerative Medicine practitioners), and have their sales team handle outreach and appointment setting. The pricing is higher than some other providers, but would have been viable if they delivered leads as promised.

Sadly, after 4 months of bungling, they provided multiple lists that were totally unusable. Aside from a sprinkling of regen practitioners, we were given real estate brokers, VA lenders, housing developments, hospitals, breast augmentation clinics, abortion providers, and lots of elder care facilities.

It became very clear that their "process" was to use software to scrape LinkedIn for leads. Scrape, dump, and send to me without any form if QC. And then they acted surprised when I rejected the list.

By the 3rd month they just dropped out of contact ... but kept billing.

I'm hopeful of a refund, considering they delivered absolutely nothing for 4 months ... but now they are silent again and not responding.

• The ROI is incredibly negative - we paid, they delivered nothing.
• ROI is made even worse because we had to pay for extra CRM and Google Workspace seats for their sales people - who never did any outreach, never used the licenses.
• This was a significant investment for our small agency, and the money lost has hampered our other marketing efforts.

Xero, Pipedrive, Accelo, Twist: Team Messaging, Slack

• PersistIQ has saved a substantial amount of time by automations
• PersistIQ has helped to set up appropriate steps for outreach
• PersistIQ has helped with gaining quality leads

ClickUp, ActiveCampaign, Zoom

• It helps me get a lot of emails out efficiently.
• It's saved me a lot of time.
• There are times that I feel it's not as good as competitors.

Outreach

HubSpot CRM, UberConference, ZoomInfo

• Much more quantity of leads
• Less time spent manually reaching out via email
• Great reporting and stats I can share to upper management

SalesLoft, Adaptive Insights, C-Insight