PersistIQ Reviews

Our company, Sell-On, provides SALES-as-a-Service and we use PersistIQ across most of our customers as a cornerstone for our outbound sales email (and for some of our inbound Marketing as well). PersistIQ is easy to use, effective and reliable in delivering drip email and phone call sequences for our sales teams. The analytics are clear and the ability to A/B test different variants of messages allows us to tune what is resonating with our clients' customers. Customer support is awesome!

There's really not much to dislike. I've used SalesLoft, Outreach, Yesware Sequences and Hubspot sequences and PersistIQ is my go-to.

PersistIQ has a multi-tiered pricing model. Recommend that you start with basic and you will discover what features you still need to justify an upgrade to the next tier.

Often we use PersistIQ in combination with marketing automation, website tracking and social channel retargeting to achieve the brand awareness that leads to a healthy pipeline of warm leads. "Awareness" and brand trust are half the battle in a noisy marketplace and PersistIQ helps us overcome that challenge.

Entering into a business that is highly dependent upon email marketing, PersistIQ was an awesome find. There are a lot of moving pieces in email marketing and this app helps you organize your data, keep track of the customers, and does all of the heavy lifting for you to ensure that you are Can Spam compliant. I love the fact that I can get this set up, and then just leave it alone to do its thing.

Maybe a clearer summary page of what campaigns are active and when and how many emails from each campaign will be sent out that day.

We are just ramping up so have not had huge responses at this point but have high hopes. But the main problem solved for me is the automated process of sending the emails, blocking those that have opted out. Another huge kudos is on the interface for correcting emails with problems, it is a very intuitive interface and easy to resolve. Only wish is that for a large number of emails with similar problems, it would be great to have an "apply to all" feature.

The grid view is an incredibly simple way of using the system and organising for campaigns. Getting it setup was a breeze in comparison to other tools we've used for the same problem. We we're using it the next day. Whenever you get stuck support are really helpful, and always available. Campaigns also have the correct conditional logic allowing us to check whether someone has responded or not. The information you get on responses is really good, and much better than other tools we've used.

Would like to be able to get a company grid view so I can safely send emails to companies. This is the only real area the product falls down on. Whilst the grid is really useful for doing things quickly it does open up a lot of risk when trying to mass email different people and distinguish other people who within the organisation you've already contacted.

It's a really good tool if you want to write and use campaigns. Apart from that very useful and particular role it is pretty bare bones, although pairs well with Copper.

Writing campaigns has been brilliant. It's worked incredibly well at bringing in new business. We've built a couple of integrations that allow us to add contact using an internal system we've developed specifically for Persist. Sending follow up emails in Persist is super easy, and has replaced a lot of manual work.

PersistIQ allowed us to scale our sales operation, automating most of it and letting our salespeople having more time to just sell. The product gave us the possibility to customize our data structure for different niches and their needs. That way, we could also customize our communication accordingly, be more effective and keep track of it. This was really important for us, because we had specific custom fields on our database that we wanted to be able to handle within the tool and then be able to extract it afterwards. I love how easy it is for salespeople to track their email metrics and use it to improve their jobs. They are always developing new features and releasing great updates.

I cannot reinforce enough how their customer and product experience is really captivating, A+.

It might be a higher investment than local alternatives that support low volume / low customization projects for cold emails.

Automation of outbound marketing strategy.

- Simple, intuitive interface

- Great, responsive tech support

- Syncs with Salesforce like a dream

- Syncs with phone and email box like a dream

PersistIQ is a wonderfully lean software that makes sales outreach quick and easy. It is perfect for Salesforce users as it synchs up very easily to the platform so you can run capture data to within Salesforce. That's not to say that PersistIQ's platform doesn't have valuable reporting. It's wonderful to be able to see each campaign/step/sales person's performance. Likewise they have a great report for determining the best time to send an email to a customer.

Their Chrome Extension is great for prospecting. Being able to add a prospect to a campaign from any website is super helpful and nice. Their email finder piece is a bit subpar compared to tools like Skrapp and Hunter.io however.

PersistIQ also has a great customer support team. I hardly ever have issues with the platform, but when I do, I receive a fix usually within the day.

The platform is still fairly new, and the email templates lack some functionality with attachments/formatting features. But it isn't anything 5 minutes of thinking can't get around.

I've briefly used their research tool. It's good, but not great. It draws most of it's data from Lead411 (which isn't that great of a source to begin with).

Significantly cheaper and easier than all of the other sales acceleration platforms out there. It is always being improved, and the improvement team is very thoughtful in their improvements. There is no fat to this software.

- Sales follow up

- Sales Acceleration

- Activity logs

It is focused on the launch of advertising projects to capture the attention of users of possible brands. It's great to work with PersisIQ from the comfort of your home and you can edit the project and save it in your personal mailbox. It also has a feature that distinguishes it from others. They do not use emails like gmail, yahoo and hotmail to guarantee the technical support of the company that uses it.

You can only design from the page without having remote access from another design platform to edit banner or other files. It is not available for operating systems such as android and apple. If so, it is used more frequently from where one is.

It is a very easy to use tool ideal to follow up on the emails sent and the opportune answers. You have to take the time to analyze many statistics of information that sometimes do not make sense. PersisIQ is responsible for doing it for you.

We have solved the communications and statistics of data reporting on the progress of projects that have been created. With this tool we have the incidence index for any assigned activity. In this way we can innovate in the study of better campaigns to serve the user.

PersistIQ has all of the features our company needed to automate both our inbound responses and our outbound campaigns. PersistIQ easily integrates with our CRM (Copper) and has sufficient options for customization to make it work like we want it to. It's also great that it's not overly-complicated; it fulfills its purpose well.

I wish there were a few smarter features. In other words, it doesn't have a feature to catch when a [first name] is filled in as [unknown] and the system does not flag or pick these up.

Make sure you can connect it to your CRM.

It allows my sales team to focus only on leads that are genuinely qualified and interested, making the operation more efficient.

The best thing about PersistIQ is how polished the platform is. Not only does it let us create personalized cold e-mails, but also help us with mass do-not-contact domain import (thing stopping us from using LemList), and an overall incredibly polished user experience

The only thing is the price, Persist is definitely the premium option on the market, going for aroudn 80$ where something more feature-light typically costs around 30-40$

I think it is important to evaluate, if you need Persist. If you are a small scale organisation, I would strongly recommend the other alternatives

We are solving the problem of outbound marketing, it has made the days of our salesmen a lot easier and helped us focus on client meetings.

PersistIQ's email sequence builder is extremely easy to use. Creating and personalizing email outreach is very easy, and making edits is extremely easy too. Furthermore, PersistIQ makes it very easy to view high level and prospect-specific results from its campaigns.

The biggest area that I would like to see more of from PersistIQ is the "Best Practices" section and other tips, either through the knowledge center or a YouTube page with tips.

PersistIQ is an excellent tool for your sales automation.

PersistIQ has helped us save an incredible amount of time with our sales campaigns. We can easily engage with a large audience of leads. PersistIQ is an essential tool for these efforts.

I like the natural way the process of sending emails is done. It is very clear in terms of how you create the templates, how you send the emails and how to you see the reports.

I really liked the great and easy way of adding someone to a campaign from different apps. For example, it was easy to add it from Gmail.

I liked the email tracking, although sometimes it seemed to get confused and sent all the notifications at one time.

I dislike that the integration with Copper does not work correctly when integrating fields that are numbers.

I also dislike that the emails campaing cannot have an option to add a variable such as a colleague's email.

I did not like the way the reports are shown. It was difficult to made insightful analysis as it was very selective. I had to rearrange all the campaigns and leads in order to really know what was the effectiveness of the campaigns and templates.

I did not like the strictness of the integration with Copper. It was not possible to share lead in all possible ways from Copper.

I thinks it is very good to lead generation and engaging the leads into potential customers.

Contacting potential clients. A very natural way of have different personal campaigns and mixing them with phone calling campaigns.

I like how it manages my all my day to day business development campaigns, in an extremely organised manor.

It separates each campaign into appropriate steps and tracks the day delays to manage an effective campaign with no effort from us as users. They auto generate the email script to be sent and the email address that it will be sent to. It also auto generates in the next stage of the campaign; call stage, the number you need to call and the company name and professional you will be calling.

It frequently has a different email in the email address box to the auto generated company name in the script of the email. It also doesn't consider the weekends, so if you have a 3 day delay from the first stage of the campaign to the second, it will do this over the weekend which negatively effects the times on your campaign. It does have a pause feature on the campaigns, yet it still processes to the next stage over the weekend too so no way i can see so far to stop it.

Also when calling companies there is a notes section for each company, i assume for didn't answer, switchboard doesn't put me through etc. however the notes do not save from stage to stage. very very frustrating.

I would highly recommend it to other users who are certainly doing a lot of high volume work. It definatly isnt quantity over quality. however it is shown in the price, as its done price per user its rather expensive compared to many other formats.

The business problems are campaign management and mass data distribution through emails and calls. It is extremely beneficial as the layout and campaign managment features are very easy to use and extremely effective.

Out of the box to fully deployed in less than 1 hour. Simple UI and easy to follow logic. Building, testing and deploying campaigns is straight forward as is the Salesforce integration.

Its not really a dislike - the reality is this is intended to be a simple and easy to use tool. A such, there are some features you would hope for, which are not currently a part of the offering. That said, the Persist team are great at taking onboard new ideas.

IF you do not need an all singing, all dancing features set, then Persist is totally the way to go.

Lead generation, lead nurturing and sales enablement.

User friendly interface - generally easy to learn

Templates - useful for tracking KPI's and repeating campaigns

Reporting section for Campaigns - helpful for understanding campaign performance

Variables - useful for personalization

Very little reporting from the campaigns page (would be helpful to see bounce/open rates)

You cannot select all emails that are due and schedule them for a particular time.

Sending windows - unclear rules attached, hard to know how to or how to not override the rules.

Would be helpful to know overall bounce, open, reply rates by domain.

Would be helpful to have the "default" filter for templates, campaigns, etc. to be "everyone" so that you are always seeing everyone's work at first, and you can filter by person later.

There is no way to automatically create an A/B test. You have to manually create a different variant.

Persist is not compatible with emails that have visual components. There should be a way to input a template into persist in the way that newsletter software lets you do.

The biggest problem we are solving, and therefore benefit we are achieving, is that we can reach a large volume of people in a systematic way. The other problem we are solving is that we can make changes to prospects in PersistIQ that are reflected in our Salesforce CRM.

A ton of helpful and well-thought features for a great value!

I wish the lead generation database was more robust. Also, would have loved to be able to pair it with my CRM system (I use Streak).

Take a look around and you'll realize that there's no other product out there offering so much value for such a good price. I tested many other tools and ended up with PIQ. I have also referred it to many friends and they all love it.

Automated email campaign for business development. Finding the best time window to send email. Automated reports on pipeline. Templates with customizable snippets and many other nice features.

It's intuitive, responsive and fun to use. We take great care to write smart, useful and intelligent notes to people who care passionately about our work. We know that our emails are appreciated and we frequently receive good feedback about them.

Concerned that the accuracy of the event feed (opens in real time) may not be as accurate as possible, but its great knowing who's engaging with your correspondence.

We are constantly looking to engage media gatekeepers with news of smart, game changing books. Each media contact is a real person, a person with whom we've cultivated real life relationships over decades. "Pay and spray" mass emails don't work for us as we custom stitch all our campaigns, and match each book to the media outlet we think we'll care about it. PersistIQ helps us with all that custom stitching. We love it.

PersistIQ is just easy to digest, easy to deploy, easy to use. I've used so many other email automation tools out there that are just plain headaches - what good is automation to your sales team if you constantly have to go under the hood to make sure everything is actually working? PersistIQ does everything I need it to cleanly and elegantly, without over-the-top pork features and gimmicks.

Difficult to answer...so far PersistIQ is a homerun. I wish you could get a bit deeper with the template organization as it can get a bit messy if you're running multiple campaigns for multiple product lines that live under different brand mastheads.

Before PersistIQ, our team had issues with keeping a dialogue going with some of our clients. We travel internationally to a lot of trade shows, and this presents a follow-up/on-boarding challenge once the dust settles. PersistIQ gives me the ability to add prospects to active campaigns on the fly, without having to play the guessing game of seeing whether person x got email y.

The product itself has a lot of great features that have saved me a lot of time (templates, sending windows, auto send, etc.) but I think the greatest feature they have is their customer success team. Always answering my questions at all times of the day (think 11PM at night!). Definitely would recommend PersistIQ to anyone looking for a way to optimize their outbound strategy.

It can be quite laggy once you get things running i.e tons of imported leads, lots of templates, etc. I find this to be especially true when I click into a scheduled email to customize it. I also wish they had a better way to embed images into templates with universal formatting (desktop and mobile). I've been getting some funky replies back with massive images.

Take the leap of faith and give them a shot. They have pretty much everything you can ask for.

Scaling our outbound outreach. Simplifies a lot of the manual processes we'd have to do otherwise. Gives us more than we need.

For the value it brings our company, PersistIQ is super affordable. It also gives me the flexibility to run a centralized outbound sales strategy to scale our customer acquisition quickly and on my own (w/o SDRs, sales reps, etc). It's an awesome option for small teams or teams who are sending a total of ~30,000 or less emails per month. Founders are YC alum and have that "make something people love" mentality.

Would be great if PersistIQ could support our outbound emails when we're at >30k emails per month. Right now there's a significant amount of manual work I do to send an email campaign (planning, goal-setting, turning campaigns off and on) which is fine now but may get too cumbersome at scale. I suspect at >30k emails per month we may need to move on to more robust software (but hopefully not!)

Direct outbound email is our best-performing acquisition strategy. Couldn't make that happen without PersistQI.

Demand Gen is huge, but in many ways they dont have the unique insight or the ability and need to personalize their message that a rep who works an account day in and day has.

Persist bridges that gap. It gives the power of a marketing lead gen tool in terms of scheduling and reaching out to a lot of people at once, with the flexibility to create personal and impactful messaging.

It would be great if we could imbed videos or integrate with something like a Vidyard or other video platform to make our messaging even more substantial.

dig into your process. are your reps struggling to get the message out? is demand gen a great start but their processes are not personal enough? then Persist is probably something to consider.

We are a small team, and demand gen is huge for us. There is that gap between broad strokes lead generation and typing out individual emails. We can schedule emails, schedule them with calls in line, and manage entire lead lifecycles while simultaneously tracking all of this in our CRM. Persist is a force multiplier for reps who want to cast a wide net while at the same time creating a personalized message that resonates with prospects.

Getting your message out into the world used to take a ton of time, compiling lists, keeping track of who got what, then scheduling the messaging. When I first logged into Persist IQ it was easy to use, then after a quick tutorial I immediately saw the power and was able to automate my prospecting efforts leaving me more time to work on deals, and more deals at that thanks to Persist.

I love how its integrated to salesforce.com as well so there is no back and forth, both systems talk to each other.

Some of the more finer details are not so obvious and there is no help for them. For example how to put entire companies on hold or stop or answering questions like if the bounced emails are excluded from the next phase of the messaging.

I used to have to manage many lists about who I should target with which message and track who got what. All that data management is done with Persist so easily I spend more time on the leads I am able to generate with it.

1. makes prospecting and hunting very easy, consistent, fast

2. easy interface any one can grasp quickly

3. integrates with mine/major CRM's which helps save activity history fast/easily

4. easy to upload lists from other sources

1. didn't have it at my previous fortune sales orgs

Hunting is easily procrastinated by sales people. This tool takes out the laziness/anxiety some sales people may have around prospecting/hunting while also being able to increase productivity in prospecting/hunting beyond what any other tool i've used. being well versed in mail merges this is much much faster/better too

Able to organize multi-step campaigns and keep track of where each lead sites in the pipeline. UI is well architected -- I am rarely worried about losing my work when entering data or making updates in the app.

Because email campaigns are routed through your inbox, and not a separate mail server, can run into problems with deliverability/volume limits when trying to run a large campaign. UI is solid, but the app is complex and can sometimes still be confusing.

We're using Persist to drive our outbound marketing campaigns. It's been a game changer for us as we do prospecting and keep track of our leads.

I use PersisitIQ to create templates about my products that I can then use in automated campaigns or send to an individual. It is a great way to keep in touch with clients--efficient and easy to set up. You also receive good data about who is opening your emails. Support from the company is excellent--questions are answered promptly!

I feel that the sending window scheduling is a bit confusing.

PersistIQ is an excellent, easy to use application that makes staying in touch with your clients so much easier. I love that it integrates with my CRM and gmail. Client support is excellent!

Creating a system of touches for clients.

PS: I tried to upload a screen shot of my account and it not work.

- Simple interface

- Easy-to-use step by step instructions

- Dependable and reliable (didn't encounter many bugs or issues with the tool)

- Stats are easy to navigate and can also be exported

- Integration to our back-end system using custom API

- Potential integration with other tools can be made stronger

- Interface hasn't really changed for a while (but this could be an advantage as well).

Communicating with a lot of sales leads in an organized and automated ways without spending tons of time manually emailing and reminding to follow up.

Clean product thats intuitive and simple. Strong team. Great customer service.

Reporting for positive replies is one ask but no one in the market actually offer this that I know of.

In a crowded market where platforms to send automated sales emails is almost a commodity the team at PersistIQ is what separates them in my opinion. I've worked with them since they've started out and can say not only is their customer service team top notch but they are constantly innovating and adding features which is my opinion is the sign of a strong tech company. They are also great at responding in a timely fashion to questions.

Scalable way to build top funnel leads in a cost effective manner.

Intuitive and powerful. Speeds up our workflow and sales process.

Nothing so far. I'd love to see more tips on email best practices and similar content but that's probably down the road.

Once you try the software out it'll speak for itself, but the customer service is also outstanding. We scheduled a call with a rep to ask a few questions and it ended up being the CEO because he just wanted to stay connected to his customers (and showed us tons of cool/easy functionality and shortcuts).

As a lean sales team with huge volumes of outbound email communication, Persist has automated our workflow and made us significantly more efficient as a team. Conversion rates are strong and it helps us stay connected through longer-term nurture campaigns so no one falls through the cracks.

PersistIQ syncs with Salesforce very quickly! When I put a new lead or contact into Salesforce, it only take a few minutes to pull it into PersistIQ.

My only complaint is that every now and then the keyboard tab function doesn't work to toggle from text boxes, and I have to click over with the mouse.

Do it!

I have used many such tools over the years, and PersistIQ has been the best by far. For running highly customized micro campaigns against multiple lists that continually need to be updated, this platform is excellent. Quickly customize each email in a campaign, save customizations on each contact for quick use next time, and share knowledge and successes across the whole sales team. PersistIQ is a must have!

I like how simple it is to use and it may seem daunting at first when you have multiple email campaigns assigned to a particular user. However, with very little training, I learned how to navigate the system in a flash and enjoy using PersistIQ on a daily basis. The idea of managing campaigns and having call reminders for prospects I need to reach out to is a very nice thing to have within one platform.

I wouldn't log this as a dislike, but more so a nice to have in the future. It would be very nice to learn how to use direct-to-dial functionality. However, we use a different tool when making calls, so not a big deal.

Email Campaigns

A structured step by step process for every user and a consistent reminder of when to email or call prospects.

I am able to run multiple campaigns automatically, so I can focus on new prospect engagement.

Persist is great. It allows me to set up campaigns to reach prospects and keep up a consistent cadence. I'm able to stay top of mind which is critical.

I didn't like how if you view the email, it'll count towards the total open count.

Great product!

Scaling the outreach is a problem we've solved with Persist. One of the benefits is the ability to maintain a reasonable cadence; I'm reaching out to prospects at the appropriate time I should be.

Before choosing PersistIQ, we demo'ed other competition products and appreciate that PersistIQ was both less expensive and less noisy than other products. It has a very simple interface, yet it still has all the functions we required for an outbound emailing tool.

Regarding dislikes, nothing comes to mind yet.

We use PersistIQ for both our outbound sales and marketing needs. It's really helped us maximize our efficiency when sending outbound emails, while also verifying that the emails are free of bugs with its built-in bug detection software. We'd highly recommend it!

I like that the program keeps the sales person on a timeline. You can set instructions for when the emails / calls should be done which is great. Reminders keep you on track.

I dislike the fact that a lot of the features are confusing. There is an extreme lack of communication / help from the Persist team as well. When you chat or email them, you usually get an "away" message or a "be back in 3 hours". In sales, you can't wait that long to get an answer. There needs to be 24/7 help.

Good tool if you're doing small blasts / trying to keep on a schedule. Bad tool if you actually need support and help.

Prospecting and follow up. Being persistent with how you cold call and email are definitely the benefits. Not giving up on a prospect just because you haven't heard once.

For the cost, PersistIQ is a great option for small teams with simple sales/marketing initiatives. It is an incredibly simple platform, great for small teams with few needs. Works well for a simple SaaS sale.

Reporting was confusing, and layout/design options were sorely limited. When trying to pull together marketing efforts with landing pages that would track with google analytics, we had several problems with persist hyperlinks.

This is a simple sales outreach platform. It lacks the design/formatting capabilities to handle marketing and landing pages really well. That said, it was very helpful for maintaining an updated lead database and target list.

The goal was to generate leads within a target market using a "spray and pray" technique. PersistIQ allowed our team to hit volume goals, and was helpful as we sought to ramp up outreach and quickly onboard new employees. Persist was a great option initially, but as our product grew, and needs for more deliverables and content during the sales efforts grew as well, persist was not well equipped to handle that.

I love how easy it is to create templates and campaigns and to track responses from leads in each. I also love how well integrated Persist is with Gmail. The ability to quickly use templates inside an email window is fantastic. Also, integration with Salesforce is excellent.

At times I've found that Persist campaigns will send they are not supposed to, even when the auto-send option is not chosen.

We are using PersistIQ primarily for email campaign management. I've found that I am able to send a ton of emails very quickly and easily. Persist also helps to keep lead responses in order, which is extremely helpful when re-prospecting accounts.

Ease of use & flexibility is very good. Lightweight tool that generates us business when fed sufficient'y good data.

Needs lots of emails for best results which would apply to this or any other tool. We also examined Quickmail before going with this tool.

You need lots of accurate emails to get the most from this / other tools. This tool is brilliant once you have that data which is hard to clean and get right. Any tool like this will need a lot of time to master and ensure it's working well for your specific business.

Generate more leads. Has generated 1% sales conversion rate from emails sent

I absolutely LOVE persist! It's been so much easier to manage mass email blasts without having to worry about following up. I really like the fact that people are automatically removed from campaigns if they reply and that you can have so many campaigns setup/running at once.

Haven't really encountered much I don't like. Sometimes adding thousands of prospects at once takes some time, but that is understandable. The fact that you can upload an excel full of prospects is wonderful!

I can say that persist has 100% made my life easier, more efficient, and a better sales person. Persist saves me so much time !!

Our team thoroughly enjoyed how easy it was to manage campaigns. The metrics and data tracking enhanced the quality of outreach we were able to conduct

There were no negative features of this platform for our organization.

PersistIQ has allowed our team to effectively track campaign metrics. Moreover, we are now able to send out mass outreach emails much more efficiently, collectively saving hours per each campaign per person.

A/B testing is sufficient to get meaningful data from your tests, unlike some other platforms. PersistIQ is made with a salesperson in mind - it's easy to personalize each email, stay on top of complicated sequences of calls and emails, and reach a large enough volume of leads to be successful. For cold email there are other comparable systems but nothing I have found that is truly better.

There is no analytic feature native to the platform for tracking how many emails turn into conversations. So there's not much I dislike about the platform itself; I just want more functionality.

Take a look at the other platforms out there - Outreach, SalesLoft, and Nova come to mind.

I use this to send cold emails, which generates almost 100% of new business for my firm. It's been extremely successful. Granted, we are small - but we've closed so much business that we've had to stop selling for nearly 6 months now and focus on hiring.

How user friendly it is. With our email campaign in place all we need to do is add more contacts and Persist takes care of the rest! It is helpful to see the open and bounces rates too.

Nothing that I can think of. Honestly, Persist has been more effective then running digital and adwords combined.

It manages our prospect database as well as easy follow up through email campaigns.

The setup for email campaigns is very intuitive and once it is set up, it is easy to reload with more emails and just let it churn.

Would like to see a one screen schedule showing numbers of emails that are scheduled for each campaign.

We are using PersistIQ to get clients for our law firm. It is a great tool for reaching out and tracking success.

This app helps me do my job every day. The features are designed well to be used by BDR/SDR teams to efficiently do lots of outreach.

It would be nice to have some features like "skip all" and a few others I've recommended but forget at the moment.

We use it to send lots of emails to potential customers. We've brought in lots of new business opps because of Persist!

- It's so easy to use and takes little to no time to train new reps

- Salesforce integration is simple and saves a ton of time

- Custom fields help you maintain personalization at scale

It can occasionally be buggy but Katie on support is fantastic and their dev team moves really quickly. Can't ask for much than that!

PersistIQ streamlines our trial outreach and outbound messaging. The platform replaces mundane tasks that would need to be completed manually in Salesforce (creating events or tasks and all the maintenance that goes with it)

Running a business doesn't always leave time to consistently communicate with prospects, especially with the ones that do not respond to every message. PersistIQ makes it easy to automate the entire workflow and lets us focus on selling. Customer support responds quickly and genuinely does their best to always be helpful.

Setting everything up takes a bit of time and effort, especially the advanced features. That said, spending time on creating the best sequel of emails to increase the conversion rates and doing A/B testing can pay off when it comes to the results.

Automating the outbound sales campaigns with PersistIQ saves us quite a bit of time.

It's simplicity. It does everything well in what he do. I love the overview, you just find your way easily and there is nothing complicated with the interface. Really love it. They are also updating the product quite often and their new feature, like a the no-send list, is incredibly useful.

I must say it's a but pricy compare to some other. It's about it, I've tested few other solution and Persist come on top.

IF you are ready to put some money in, you'll have a great product in your hand

Generating lead at fast pace, I can manage my cold-email campaign and then use a CRM to monitor my leads.

PersistIQ allows so much flexibility with their email marketing program. We are able to almost set it and forget it after doing the initial leg work.

It still generates some Out of Office replys as finished campaigns, but this has gotten a lot better recently.

Thee easiest way to learn how to use PersistIQ is simply to fool around with it and keep trying. If you need any help their customer service always gets right back to you.

I am able to do one to many email targeting, while setting it up ahead of time, and following people down a funnel. Very east.

The ability to send/track mass e-mails within Persist

Email tracking is SOMETIMES glitchy. What I mean by this is the fact that sometimes it shows an e-mail was opened when it really wasn't. I am not sure why and I've had a person actually tell me from PersistIQ "sorry, sometimes it's glitchy."

If you're looking for something simple, use PersistIq.

I am able to load up prospects via my own research.. I can then input them into PersistIq and set up follow-up emails in a timely manner for those who don't respond.

To me, this is beneficial as I can't track all my follow-ups manually. PersistIQ allows this process to be automated and in a sense, qualifies my leads for me!

I've used most the email automation tools on the market and PersistIQ is the best IMO. It has a clean, intuitive interface that's easy to learn and use. They haven't complicated it with tons of useless features, and the core features like bounce detection, reply detection, OOO detection really work.

But the thing I love most is that it's not riddled with bugs like ToutApp, which we tried to use for about 6 months...I say try because with Tout you spend more time dealing with bugs and crashes than you do sending emails. Tout is definitely the worst option on the market...it's really horrible.

Not much to dislike, just a few recommendations for improvements.

-It would be nice to be able to group email templates into folders, instead of just having a long list of all templates.

-It's kind of hard to search for leads in the campaign screen and lead screen. A universal search tool that can be accessed from any page would be helpful. Also, the current search tools don't always work well...sometimes it's hard to find the person I'm looking for.

-The activity feed on the lead show view doesn't show emails and other activity. It would be nice to see all activity here.

- The lead page has a status of open and engaged, and the campaign page has four or five more / different statuses. This is confusing. In the lead index view I'd like to see the current campaign and current campaign status as the first two columns next to name. Right now these aren't even shown in this view.

-In the lead show view I'd like to see the current campaign and current campaign status....right now it just shows the campaign, not the status.

-A chrome extension that allowed me to click a button in gmail and automatically be taken to the associated contact record in Persist would be great. It would eliminate having to constantly manually search for people in Persist IQ.

Do it.

Email and sales automation.

Functionality works as expected, good support, good value for money!

The only problem with PersisitIQ that I've come across so far is the inability to select multiple rows when filtering through a list of prospects. This is mildly annoying and I'm sure the team will have a fix for it shortly.

I'm trying to solve the problem of outbound email drip campaigns. It solves the problem very well! I think they're even moving into lead generation so it will be an all in one platform shortly - exciting stuff.

Nothing. There is nothing good in my experience with this tool or team that I can say that I like.

I hope I have enough characters for this.

There is an extreme lack of communication/help from the Persist team as well. When you chat or email them, you usually get an "away" message or a "be back in 3 hours". In sales, you can't wait that long to get an answer. There needs to be 24/7 help.

Speaking to their support team is like pulling teeth. I had to ask the same question 5 times to get an answer.....which still made no sense.

The CEO does not care about the people using his "solution" all he cares about is money. He had complained that he was wasting time and money trying to "help" us. He did not care to make things right. Once the contract is signed and you encounter issues, they ignore you!

On top of the unprofessional and unhelpful customer service, this company and CEO provides, the platform is not user-friendly or as robust as they claim.

They sold to us saying that the SFDC integration was seamless, which it wasn't and they didn't even confirm that we had the correct version to do so.

Campaigns are such a struggle to use. Our people would schedule campaigns and then it would not send at the time schedule to send. It doesn't consider the weekends, so if you have a 3-day delay from the first stage of the campaign to the second, it will do this over the weekend which negatively effects the times on your campaign. It does have a pause feature on the campaigns, yet it still processes to the next stage over the weekend too so no way I can see so far to stop it.

Huge problems with deliverability/volume limits when trying to run a large campaign.

Incorrect tracking -- If you open an email in the outbox, it will notify you saying that the recipient had opened it. In the platform, bounced emails track as if they were opened as well. Just to name a few.

You cannot add images to templates without pulling your hair out.

No calendar functionality, what so ever.

UI is terrible and you need to click and click and click to get what you need.

Leave and go try Outreach, their customer service is above and beyond and you will never feel less. The platform has so much more to offer as well!

This should be asking me what business problems are being caused because of PersistIQ.

Persist helps us leverage our small team to do more with less. It performs beautifully and is easy for me and my reps to use. It gives us just the right amount of actionable metrics and data without getting overwhelmed. It's a great tool and the most valuable sales tool we use. I can't say enough good things about it.

I've had no issues with Persist. I do wish Salesforce setup could be made easier but I know SF is a beast to integrate with.

I always recommend PersistIQ when asked by others what I use and would recommend. I think the product strikes the perfect balance between checking all the boxes for what features you need while not being overly complex. We use Salesforce integration and it works perfectly. The team at Persist knows their customer and has built the exact product for that customer.

We need an efficient way to reach out to prospects and deliver a series of messages targeted to their role and title. No one picks up the phone these days so a multi-touch email sequence sent at the right time zones for our prospects is the answer. Building templates and campaigns to do testing is simple but we get the biggest benefit from automating our outreach so my team can spend more time finding quality contacts to reach out to and not spending time on the outreach itself.