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InsideSales Overview

What is InsideSales?

Accelerate your company’s revenue with Playbooks from InsideSales, the smartest sales engagement platform. With Playbooks, sales professionals increase productivity, optimize customer interactions, and connect to the right buyers. Playbooks goes beyond a traditional sales auto dialer or sequencer. It doesn’t just help your team do more, it helps them do more of the right things. Reps are provided with additional contacts and recommendations of who, when, and how to reach out—making their efforts more effective. Leadership is provided with valuable insight into their remote sales team to see what’s working and what isn’t.

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Product Description

Playbooks is an AI-powered cadence-based sales application designed to allow for strategic sales teams to grow pipeline.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Playbooks is the only sale engagement platform that draws from 27B revenue interactions and 183M buyer profiles to identify who, when, and how to engage to close more deals. Reps get recommended other contacts in the buyer committee and contacts that are not already included in their CRM.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
Austin, TX
Twitter
@InsideSales_PB
20,407 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
20 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
(866) 549-0301

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"Avoid InsideSales at all costs!"
Nothing now. I used to love their Playbooks software. Although, since the buyout from Aurea, their customer service has gone down the drain. Suppor...
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"this tool made my life so much easier"
the task function. I love that I can upload a lead and it tells me when I have to call them. Much of my day used to be spent figuring out who to ca...
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InsideSales Media

InsideSales Demo - Create Repeatable Plays
Plays are engagement activities arranged in a sequence for any channel (phone, email, social, SMS, video) with action alerts, templates, guides, and tracking to optimize your team's efforts.
InsideSales Demo - Easy Templates
Streamline your sales activities and cut down on errors with templates that the whole team can use. Templates are also helpful in keeping messaging consistent between reps.
InsideSales Demo - Prioritized Tasks
Team members work through task lists powered by data from collective insights. Prioritized tasks keep reps focused on the activities that will have the greatest impact on their sales metrics.
InsideSales Demo - Leverage Contact Insights
Utilize data from social platforms and news articles to ensure that your team is sending impactful messages. Plus, receive notifications when prospects open, click, download, or forward your email.
InsideSales Demo - Smart Calling System
Call the right person at the right time utilizing our Real Data powered by collective insights. Plus, use local presence to call from local area codes.
InsideSales Demo - Send Texts
Send texts through Playbooks. The text will store in your CRM automatically as an activity.
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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about InsideSales?

the task function. I love that I can upload a lead and it tells me when I have to call them. Much of my day used to be spent figuring out who to call. Now I can just call call call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

there should be a calendar tool where you can select when to start a person in a play and move around tasks based on your workload. If I add 20 people day 1 then 20 people day 2 the 30 people day 3. the overlapping tasks sometimes make it so there are 70 on the same day. It would be nice If I could select some to move out, or start later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

time management, productivity, organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about InsideSales?

Nothing - required to place characters in this box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

Sadly, this tool went downhill dramatically after the buy-out from Aurea. They laid off all of the employees and brought in people who could not support customers. I used this tool daily, and the functionality compared to all of the other competitors we reviewed when leaving InsideSales was laughable. Please. do not move forward with this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Inside sales is trying to make selling easier and automating workflows. they are not succeeding at this considering the regularity with which the tool goes down and becomes unusable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
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What do you like best about InsideSales?

Nothing now. typing this to fill in space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

Lack of relevant responses from support services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

The CEO of Aurea left because he knew the problems were pretty deep. I emailed him, my email bounced, and now he's working somewhere else that has a chance. Now they've got Meshach in London, England driving the ship. Lots of marketing on the front end and very polished but doesn't seem like they know where to go from here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about InsideSales?

It was simple to start using. That's the extent of my positive experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

Xant/InsideSales seems like it will sync easily with Salesforce and eliminate inefficiencies but after months of trying to use the workflows and sync with Salesforce, I experienced nothing but issues. Calls dropping, syncing with incorrect accounts, and not writing back were all issues that were ongoing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was supposed to eliminate inefficiencies but caused more trouble than it was worth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about InsideSales?

Nothing now. I used to love their Playbooks software. Although, since the buyout from Aurea, their customer service has gone down the drain. Support became non-existent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

Lack of transparency for support and updates. Support tickets remain open for days. There is constant unexpected downtime with no resolution for days without identification of the root cause. Support documents are out of date, and they don't ever get updated. After Aurea bought InsideSales, they gutted the staff, brought on independent contractors who could not provide any support, and then raised all the prices for their services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

IVR system for making calls and closing sales. Doesn't seem to be working as expected anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kyle B.
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What do you like best about InsideSales?

The automated campaigns are great for BDRs, but aren't the best for AEs who need a more personalized approach for handling their pipeline. I did like how you could call right out of salesforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

It was. a big hard to use and wasn't the best for Account Executives. It would be good to use soley for BDR campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Inside sales helped us automate a lot of our BDR campaigns. Saved us lots of time not having to email out of outlook and not have to dial outside of salesforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wendell B.
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What do you like best about InsideSales?

Playbooks is an awesome tool to help me tackle my book of business strategically and accurately while giving me a great view of my customers in a way to only help me win! Easy to use and easy to follow the steps allows me to set my day up with ease and meet my companies metrics and KPI's. This tool makes me a better Salesperson. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

At this point the positives outweigh the negatives but the one thing I would like to see is the ability to send one email to multiple people which is not something Playbooks can do just yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InsideSales:

This is an all in one tool to help you win and be a better sales person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems I am solving is my daily call blocks and tasks are now easier to run with the confidence that I can complete these on a daily basis. and the benefits I see with that is having more time to really dig into my customers accounts with a better knowledge of what their pains are and how I can solve them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about InsideSales?

The automated selection of accounts is useful. That's where it stops, unfortunately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

It has a very unintuitive interface. For example: It's not clear when a bot is active (messaging), buttons and actions are in unexpected or hidden places and navigating the tool is hard for reps. Our company (100+ reps) has needed much support and it always took a lot of time for problems to get solved. We currently have an issue that changes our phonenumbers' country codes so that it looks like we're calling from another country. This is killing to our connection rate, so we're working outside the tool for two weeks already(!) We've worked with it for over a year and, finally, upper management has decided to stop using it. A sigh of relief was audible throughout our salesforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem we're solving is that we're stopping usage and switching to Outreach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about InsideSales?

The ability to contact leads in real-time with their deep integration with Salesforce Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

I wish they were still offering their Powerdialer product, it was amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prospecting leads in real-time. Speed-to-lead to increase conversions and sales Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UI
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What do you like best about InsideSales?

User Interface and ease of finding information on latest news updates. Provides insight on sales analtyics with historical trending of data. Configuration of snapshots can be done by end user without the need of IT support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InsideSales?

Release guidelines and training. There are good amount of updates being released regularly without proper documentation and release notes. It will be really nice to have release notes shared to user community before the release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InsideSales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Marketing insights and Latest updates from the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.