PersistIQ Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 1.6 out of 10

Score

1.6 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

User-friendly Interface: Many users have praised the user interface of the tool, stating that it is good, with a simple and clean design that is easy to navigate. They appreciate its ease of use and accessibility to users of all levels of expertise. Some reviewers even mentioned that the UI is constantly improving, indicating regular updates with enhancements.

Efficient Task Performance: The fast and responsive interface has been highly appreciated by users as it allows for quick and efficient task performance. Users have found it easy to manage and scale the tool to accommodate more users, making it convenient for their needs. Additionally, the nice stats and reporting features provide valuable insights for improved decision-making.

Convenient Campaign Management: Several users have liked the ability to manage multiple campaigns targeted at different markets through a single user account. This feature makes campaign management convenient and efficient. Users also find it simple to import contacts and navigate data pages for email campaigns, allowing them to easily understand campaign performance.

Reviews

13 Reviews

Promised the world, delivered absolutely nothing for 4 months

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

July 19, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Sales pitch (watch out)
Email scripts (these were pretty good - I'm sad that after 4 months they still never got to be put to use)

Cons

Quality control is awful
Insisting on automated data gathering with no human review
Continuing to bill clients even when they are not communicating and not delivering

Likelihood to Recommend

Probably ok if you really don't care who you are sending your outreach to.

Really bad for anyone who cares about sending a specific message to a specific audience.

Probably not great for clients who enjoy reliable communication, quality results, or actually receiving what you're paying for.

Ryan Freeman

President in Corporate at Strider (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Great tool for automated outreach campaigns!

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

June 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Persist IQ is used by our Sales Team for cold outreaches to potential clients. We have used it for different campaigns. Some being based by geography, other based by practice areas. This has allowed us to automate multiple steps within these campaigns and save a substantial amount of time for each of our sales leads.

Pros

Good user interface
Easily readable reports
Quick automation setup

Cons

Hard to open different sections in different tabs
Can be difficult to see the overview of steps
Not a great ability to edit each step that does not involve an email

Likelihood to Recommend

PersistIQ is a great tool for outreach to multiple different individuals in automated campaigns. It has the ability to set up multiple steps that involve automated emails. You can also add in steps like phone calls or social media outreach, however, these steps are not linked to the different systems (ex. - Zoom, LinkedIn, Facebooks, Slack).

Maren Hudson

Sales Operations Lead in Sales at Consultwebs.com (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A good tool for the price, but too simple and specific for me.

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

May 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using PersistIQ inside the Sales & MKT Organization to do our outreach campaigns to leads. PersistIQ is used together with other tools (LinkedIn Premium, Skrapp, and others) as the email personalization and sending automation tool for prospecting to generate awareness and lead generation. The value we expect to extract is to manage the email workflow in a smoother way without losing personalization.

Pros

Email workflow automation
Email results reports
Basic data personalization

Cons

Managing the whole flow
Usability
Email validation

Likelihood to Recommend

As I mentioned before, the tool covers the process of creating, personalizing, and sending email cadences to prospects. This can be a good tool for companies that sell to mid and small-sized companies and that have a really large volume of leads to prospect with a low to medium level of personalization. It won't work that well for enterprise sales companies, who need more personalization, work with less leads, and might need to use more channels other than emails.

Verified User

Director in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Fantastic tool for early-stage outbound efforts

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 22, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PersistIQ was used mostly with the SDR team, AE team, and marketing enablement team to automate sales and outreach sequences. It had an extremely simply interface and worked well for us as an early stage startup. There were enough contact options and customization to meet our needs. Would recommend for a sales team starting out.

Pros

Extremely simple interface and controls.
A/B testing is easy to setup and track results.

Cons

Could use a lot more granularity.
Ran into glitches on a monthly basis which required quick support.

Likelihood to Recommend

It would really depend on the size and stage of the business. For an early stage startup (i.e. pre-Series B) it's perfect and has all you need to start your outbound sales efforts. For anything larger than 100 employees or later than Series A, I would recommend a more robust tool like Outreach or SalesLoft.

Verified User

Contributor in Sales (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Good for basic needs and the budget conscious

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

September 26, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use PersistIQ for email outreach. I use email to try and reach many people, and Persist IQ allows me to send many emails using templates.

Pros

Very simple design
Fast and responsive interface
Easy to learn

Cons

It's not the most feature rich
Can't send images, attachments
Can't do different pathings for emails

Likelihood to Recommend

For me, it's fairly inexpensive and easy to use. I don't use it with a team, and for my own needs, it fits the bill.

There are definitely better platforms out there I think, but Persist IQ has a price that I'm more willing to pay since I pay out of pocket for it.

David Willette

Business Development in Sales at Real Vision (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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PeristIQ Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 15, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use PeristIQ to manage all of my outbound cold email marketing campaigns for both of my companies. It's an amazing platform. Once a campaign is created, all you have to do is add more emails/prospects to the campaign and PersistIQ automatically manages every step of the campaign. Even when someone replies to an email from a campaign it marks them as engaged so they don't receive the next step of the email campaign.

Pros

Integrates well with tools that work with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to scrap lead emails.
Makes it easy to manage large-scale cold email campaigns with 3+ steps.
When a prospect replies to an email, it doesn't send them any of the automated emails which allow me to follow-up with those warm leads correctly.

Cons

A more extensive how-to guide for first-time users would be beneficial.

Likelihood to Recommend

PersistIQ works best for anyone in the B2B space. It works amazingly well with tools like GetProspect which scrap advanced, targeted searches on LinkedIn to get verified emails of decision-makers. I really enjoy using PersistIQ to manage all of my B2B cold email campaigns. Overall, it is a very effective B2B email marketing platform.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Professional Services (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

PersistIQ just works

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PersistIQ is used by the sales department at my company. The primary purpose it serves is outbound emailing prospects at scale.

Pros

Simple and clean UI
Great filtering
Easy outbound automation
Telling me which leads have interacted with my emails

Cons

They should incorporate smarter reminders that tell me when I should focus on certain leads who are interacting with my emails frequently
They don’t have OOO email rescheduling

Likelihood to Recommend

PersistIQ is particularly well suited if you want to reach many prospects at scale. Import contacts or do lead generation within the system, then create templates and send customized emails at scale to potentially thousands of leads. Reporting is robust as well.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Sales (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

PersistIQ great for smaller teams on lean budget

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 26, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used to drive top funnel leads through outbound email.

It addresses automated outreach at scale driving positive ROI.

Pros

Intuitive clean UI that is easy to figure out.
Can manage multiple campaigns targeted at different markets through a single user.
Simple contact import and data management.
Straight forward analytics.

Cons

Still capped by Google deliverability limits.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for cost effective lead gen that doesn't take much manual time.

Patrick Woloveck

Founder in Sales at Knowledge Base Capital (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

PersistIQ for Persistent Marketers and Salespeople

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 21, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our team uses PersistIQ to build and track outbound email campaigns. One of the primary use cases is for B2B outbound email. The ease of use, and the simplicity in building multi-touchpoint campaigns makes it one of our favorite tools in our marketing stack. Our sales people also use Persist IQ for re-engagement campaigns and other outbound emailing.

Pros

The ability to build multiple templates and use them in various campaigns is useful, especially for tracking open and reply rates across different segments.
It's very easy to integrate prospect fields into templates and to add custom prospect fields.
The fact that PersistIQ runs through my email provider (GMAIL) makes it easy to respond to interested parties.

Cons

There are some issues with downloading reports. That is, some information is only available in-product and you cannot export these things.
Creating dynamic replies or steps in Persist isn't currently available.
Sometimes the Persist system doesn't catch errors in unfilled prospect fields. One must be check and be careful not to send these types of emails.

Likelihood to Recommend

PersistIQ is well suited for outbound marketing. It's great for setting up sales and marketing campaigns to new and prospective clients. The fact that PersistIQ emails are basic (they look like normal personal emails) and easy to personalize, makes the whole process feel more genuine than, say, Mailchimp.

PersistIQ won't replace a bulk emailing tool or CRM. It serves a different purpose than, for example, Marketo or Mailchimp, two products we also use.

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Persist(ence)IQ

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used PersistIq for reaching out to prospects "cold". Mainly used by sales and marketing team where I worked. Solved the problem of bringing quality and qualified leads, and help generate a conversation while minimizing the time spent to generate the lead. Definitely cut down on outreach time spent to new prospects.

Pros

Great looking interface and easy to use
Easy to manage and scale the tool to more people
Nice stats and reporting features

Cons

I'd like the stats to be able to go deeper past visuals. Really get into the data
More tool integrations into our existing toolset
Customer service is great, but take a bit while to get back to you

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a list of prospects you want to cold email and generate some warm conversations from, its a great tool. You can A/B test your subject lines, and the stats behind everything are visible so you can tweak your messaging. I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a list of people to outreach to.

Shaun Houshmand

Automation Strategy in Sales at Resolve Systems (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Promised the world, delivered absolutely nothing for 4 months

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

July 19, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Sales pitch (watch out)
Email scripts (these were pretty good - I'm sad that after 4 months they still never got to be put to use)

Cons

Quality control is awful
Insisting on automated data gathering with no human review
Continuing to bill clients even when they are not communicating and not delivering

Likelihood to Recommend

Probably ok if you really don't care who you are sending your outreach to.

Really bad for anyone who cares about sending a specific message to a specific audience.

Probably not great for clients who enjoy reliable communication, quality results, or actually receiving what you're paying for.

Ryan Freeman

President in Corporate at Strider (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

View profile