The ability to build a scalable and automatic email marketing touch cadence is fantastic. It's the best part of the platform. The 2nd best part is the ability to source leads at scale but more on that below. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Growbots' promise is fantastic. Unfortunately, their platform isn't ready for prime time.
Issues:
- Support - Growbots is not an intuitive platform. During and after onboarding we had minimal support and there was quite a lag in getting critical questions answered as support comes from Poland.
- Bugs - the system isn't fully baked. One example, their system showed that several prospects had clicked on a link with our email. One issue, the system also showed that these prospects had never been emailed.
- Lead Quality - our biggest issue with their platform is the leads themselves.
1. To start with, the system doesn't learn. If you email a prospect that is no longer with the company or the email bounces that contact doesn't update. The next user will have the same issue. Very frustrating given that approx 20% of the time you will have one of those 2 outcomes when you email through their system in bulk.
2. Issue #2 with the leads is the limited ability to filter them. If you are a b2b company like us, there is no way to separate companies within an industry that are a b2b play from a b2c play. This effectively blocks your ability to target that industry. Because of this, we quickly ran out of prospects.
3. With the rise of email automation marketing platforms response rates have dropped. We had built a 3 touch cadence that we used effectively 3 years ago. Unfortunately, each of those touches was performed manually making it too expensive to pursue. With automation, we thought that we had found the holy grail. Unfortunately, our response rates have been 1/3rd of what they were 3 years ago.
Conclusion - nice promise but too buggy and limited to achieve our goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SI found aetting up a client profile and email crusade is a breeze, and the point of interaction is instinctive. Its useful particularly while I'm beginning another effort crusade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The focusing on choices feel very restricted. I haven't had the option to refine my pursuits much past essential socioeconomics and industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Customer service is super responsive and follows up all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI and UX. Not very intuitive and they don't have a training video series or anything to help you through the learning curve. The blog posts are okay but something more robust for training would probably alleviate a lot of questions handed off to customer service.
More substantially is the cost - you get charged everytime you add a new email so it's not very scalable, especially if one email gets put on a black list and can't be used for a couple of weeks. We are going to look at incorporating Instantly so we can add as many emails as we want without paying $700+ a month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Relatively simple to get started creating campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This price is so much more than services like Appollo, Reach Hub, Seamless AI, and many more. No free trial, no real monthly options. The B2B database is also extremely limited and the results you get compared to all the other services (exact same campaigns) are night and day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Growbots is the best tool for email automation and gives you warm leads. This software is automated, which reduces your time searching contacts and sending emails one by one. You can run many campaigns at one time. The staff is outstanding and responsive. They are always available to help you out and answer queries in a short time. I have run two campaigns and am pretty happy with the overall performance and results. I recommend everyone to try this software if they want to scale their business to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This software is simply the best tool for email automation and includes Linkedin tasks. I have run two campaigns and am pretty happy with the overall performance and results.I recommended everyone to try this software if they want to scale your business to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Database is good and it's great to have prospects and email campaigns in the same platform - really simplifies our workflow. The 3-month onboarding and customer support have been invaluable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Analytics are not always precise, but that is a universal issue with automated tracking. The team has been working with us to give us better tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like how I am able to generate prospects and automate emails to them all in one place. That in addition to customizing each email even though it's automated. I also love the new search filter for investments/series. It helps us target companies more specifically. I love that they keep the bounce rate under 10% as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I wish I was able to filter by technologies that the companies I'm targeting use. As we're a data management tool, in order to target companies, we would need to know what kinds of BI tools they're using. Unfortunately, right now, you can only filter by front-end tools companies use, which doesn't really help us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What I like best is working with my account representative, Olga Nawratek. She is incredibly supportive, responsive, and knowledgeable. She readily answers all my questions. She is delightful to work with on my campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have not found anything in working with Growbots that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Growbots is robust- there are so many ways to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The downside of all the features is that it takes a while to use. There are still features I don't really understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ability to pull contacts and send marketing emails from one place, its convenient in that way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Although I like the ability to creat lists and send emails, I would like a better reporting function with flexibility and real-time dashboards that you don't have to run. I'm not too fond of the billing in that if you load your contacts, it costs the same as using their contacts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.