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EngageBay CRM
What Is EngageBay CRM?
Design and send beautiful and engaging emails and run email marketing campaigns at the click of a button. Improve your conversions substantially, by using our web forms. Create amazing landing pages using a simple drag and drop designer. Nurture your audience with email marketing automation. Improve your business efficiency by automating routine tasks. Engage your social media audience like a pro. Keep all your sales and marketing materials in one place, accessible to your team from any device.
Who Uses EngageBay CRM?
Small to medium size businesses that require affordable, all in one sales and marketing software to acquire, engage, nurture and convert visitors to customers.
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Reviews of EngageBay CRM
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Great CRM, You must consider when looking for a CRM!
Comments: EngageBay has exceeded my expectations. This program is truly starting to get my business going. I enjoyed my sales guy and everything he told me has been true, yes that's a first. The Customer Service people are great, they are there all the time and have really helped me along. The price was much less than the competition, and if you get the All-in-One set up, they do not nickel and dime you for more modules as its all in that package. I give EbgageBay 100% for all they are doing.
Pros:
Without a doubt what I like the most is the customer service and all the help I receive. I am not a IT expert and hooking up apps and making SMS, automation and setting up my needs is not something I know a lot about. The Customer Service has been amazing and quite frankly beats the competition I have worked with. I found most companies to be all talk when it comes to helping, but EngageBay has helped me every step of the way, by chat and on the phone when I need extra help.The product is full of tools, I am using the "All In One" version and it does everything I need at half the price as the competition. It amazes me how many choices there are and how much I can do.I find this program will also grow great as our company grows. It's more than we need today, but it won't be next year and for the price, it would be silly to go anyplace else.
Cons:
For me the thing I dislike the most about any program is learning how to use it. But like I said the support is great.There is not a lot I do not like about EngageBay, I am a very happy Customer. If I had to pick something, I would like to see a larger EngageBay University with many more in-depth and beginner videos. I am told this is coming, so that will be great!
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Great, Value for Money Solution for a B2B
Comments: We were looking for a solution that would suit a B2B and were comparing various options against the features of Pardot and Hubspot. EngageBay came out as the most cost-effective solution that gave us most of the features but at a much more reasonable cost. We are happy with the choice of EngageBay for our business. Not only is it good value, but it is easy to use and the support is better than their competitors (including some of the market leaders which I have experienced first hand).
Pros:
It does everything we need at a much more reasonable cost than than the market-leading marketing platforms and CRMs. Also, the interface is much easier to use and far more intuitive than some of the market leaders, eg. SalesForce/Pardot. The support team are responsive and will answer any questions which is helpful particularly in the set up phase. We are based in Australia, so sometimes there is a time lag but it has not caused us any issues to date.
Cons:
There are a few missing features which would seem to be obvious, eg. not being able to sort on every column of data or only having the client's first name listed in some places when having both names would be more helpful or not having the ability to insert an email link into their templates. However, these can be worked around.
Absolutely horrible!!
Comments:
I've setup a "Sequence" with 3 emails to be sent before holding my Webinar and thought everything was ok and went on.
Just to come back on the day of the Webinar to see that nothing was sent and every contact was hard bounced. Yes every single one of them.
Furthermore I couldn't send any email broadcasts to the contacts either. So mainly I was left with leads for my Webinar which I couldn't even use, were it up to Engagebay.
The support team's solution? Purchase credits to "verify the contacts" to be able to use them.
So besides making me lose my time, not delivering the emails and rendering all my contacts useless they want me to purchase something for it to actually work??
Absolutely disgusting and shameful business practices!
They then tell me that the problem is not on their end and insist that every contact has an invalid email address.
With another similar service I sent the emails with ease. Out of all the contacts, only 4 bounced.
Engagebay has set me back a lot with this.
Avoid at all costs!
Pros:
At first I liked what it offered for the free plan (things that other similar services didn't offer for free).
Cons:
It doesn't work at all and the support team asks you to purchase credits for it to work.
EngageBay Response
3 years ago
Hi there, sorry to know about your experience with EngageBay. Just to bring to your notice, a hard bounce happens only when the email address is invalid. It looks like that is the case here. If the email address is invalid, there is nothing we can do from our end to avoid a hard bounce. To prevent such cases, we recommend all our users to verify all the emails they have on the list. Please note that we do not provide email verifier service ourselves and hence recommend other 3rd party solutions. Seems like the other service you used has a built in validation service and hence the bounces were limited. I would recommend you to send an email to [email protected] including the registered email address for your account and we can check what may have caused the bounces, though we are certain that it was due to the emails being invalid, we could always cross check.
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Comments: I've used this platform for about 6 months now. Once I got passed the warmup process there have been no limits. I highly recommend it.
Pros:
I like the platform overall. I went in just expecting an email platform but have gotten so much more out of it. The landing pages and ability to bring in my own coding into their platform has saved lots of time for me. Their customer service is top notch and responsive.
Cons:
It's not the BEST platform out there. And it's priced that way. No knock against it at all. The best platforms out there cost a fortune. This is the best bang for your buck you'll get anywhere bar none. If money is no object go someplace else. Pound for pound eEngagebay is the real deal.
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The best CRM I've ever used
Comments: I have been able to do everything i need plus more in engagebay and the guys on the helps desk are awesome
Pros:
I like pretty much everything about engagebay
Cons:
i cannot put my similar automations into folders. i cannot search automations in the search bar Automations do not allow date finder however there is a work around for this so its not too much of a problem
