Sales Prophet is an advanced sales and marketing automation platform built by an agency for agencies and b2b professionals. Gain unlimited access to 86 million b2b contact records, unlimited mailboxes, accounts, and users.
Hello Product Hunt!
We are excited to announce the launch of SalesProphet.io
After trying numerous sales and marketing automation platforms, we could never find exactly what we wanted, so we spent the past 2.5 years building what can be described as an app that sits right in between sales automation and marketing automation with an integrated database and email verification solution.
Key features include:
Database
86 million U.S.-based B2B Contacts with name, email, job title, company name, industry, sic codes, naics codes, company size, revenue, address, phone etc. We also have 19 million cell phones and 9 million records with personal emails tied to work emails. (29 million records have been verified).
You get unlimited use of our data. But we do suggest you verify the records. We are passing our cost to verify data to our customers, which is one-tenth of a cent (.001) per record.
Email Engine
We have a text-based email sequence engine with A/B/C test split capabilities.
We also added a drag-and-drop email builder for HTML email sequences.
We also give you the ability to turn open and click tracking on or off
We also integrate with all Email Service Providers (ESP) and have one-click integration with Gmail and Office365
We also added one-click integration with Mailgun, SparkPost, and SendGrid for those who want to send larger batches of email using sub-domains or regular domains.
We added auto remail to people who didn’t open the first email for both sequences, mass emails, newsletters, or lead nurturing campaigns.
Patent Pending Account-based email that’s awesome. The system allows you to send one email to multiple people at the same target account. We are seeing a 300-500% increase in response rates using this strategy.
Drag n Drop form builder for collecting leads and passing them into lead nurture campaigns.
Easy-to-use CRM and task management solution that can be integrated with Pipedrive, HubSpot or Salesforce.com
Sales Prophet is ideal for B2B professionals who need the ability to find more prospects who match their ideal customer profile without having to buy data. These people also need the ability to send more emails to generate enough leads to hit their revenue goals. Take it the next step further and use our drag-and-drop email builder to establish yourself as a helpful thought leader in your industry.
Sales Prophet’s agency plan is unlimited everything.
Think of us as GHL for outbound. Agencies can add as many accounts, mailboxes, and users as they like.
Our data cost us the same if we sell one contact a month vs. 500,000 contacts, So don’t buy data; use ours. Also, note we don’t have to scrape LinkedIn to find the data.
We are looking at adding a global database by the end of the year or Q1 2024 at the latest. That will take us to 700 million plus records with LinkedIn URLs and 300 million plus emails.
We really want your feedback to help us grow.
Product Hunt users can use discount code PH2023 and save 30% on all plans until the end of November.
Congrats for the launch!
You mentioned "After trying numerous sales and marketing automation platforms, we could never find exactly what we wanted". Could you elaborate a bit more about your journey?
We all accommodate to good enough solutions even if they have missing or frustrating features. So would be curious to hear what were the tipping point(s) for you and your team to decide building your own solution.
@julienergan I worked for ExactTarget in the early 2000's, then WebSideStory ran online marketing services for a couple of agencies in Kansas City, and that's when Eloqua recruited me to help them build a partner program to get agencies to use Eloqua on behalf of their clients. In 2009 I started two educational marketing events called the Integrated Marketing Summit and DemandCon. Companies like Eloqua, Acton, and Righton Interactive gave me free technology in exchange for sponsorship to my events. I also bartered with nearly every B2B data partner for over 60 million contact records over a few years. Once I gave up the event business (Just before COVID), I used my data to support clients' lead gen and demand gen efforts. Here is a short list of apps and data providers I used or tested. Wavo (Whitelabel sales automation app), LemList, Apollo, Snovio, Reply.io, Klenty, Autoklose, Mailshake, Outreach, Salespype, Sales Flare, Growbots to name a few and other marketing automation apps like Active Campaign, MakesBridge, Ontraport, Hubspot, Right On Interactive, DotDigital, GHL, VipeCloud, Marketing 360 and Vbout to name a few.
At the end of the day, I wanted something easy to use that had a built-in database and email verification integration and gave me more control over how my meals were being sent.
I had settled on using Apollo for data, but it had a 15% bounce rate, so I would download the data, verify the data in emailoversight, and upload the data into the app of the week.
The apps we relied on most were Reply.io and Growbots after giving up on Wavo.
For mass email, we used Ongage because I could integrate multiple SMTPs into the platform, so if I burned an email account, we would send email out of another warmed-up email domain and smtp.
I joined a data coop two years ago where members share each other's data as well as the exhaust data. This exhaust data will help verify the catchall and unknown email records being used since you can't verify those records without actually sending an email to them. Thats when I decided to build SalesProphet. I give users the ability to use my data and verify it in the same app, which saves a ton of time and doesn't require LinkedIn scrapping. I also created a direct integration with Gmail, O365 as well as Mailgun, Sparkpost, and Sendgrid.
The security audit took nearly 3 months to go through.
Then I added a drag-and-drop email builder in addition to the text email engine. That way, we can send both sales emails in text format and HTML email for demand gen.
Lastly, we have been experimenting with what we call account-based email. That's where you designate top targets in our DB and create a separate list of the company and everyone who is typically involved in the buying process. So you can pick who you want to email at your target account and copy as many personas as you like while also referencing them in the same email.
I had been doing this manually using VA's but it took too long to assemble these manual emails. I tried to buy a solution to this problem, but it didn't exist, so I built that into the app as well.
We also added a form builder and easy-to-use CRM and task manager. We didn't go too deep on the CRM but it will work just fine for smaller companies. My thought is we don't want to be a CRM so we integrated with HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce (for now).
I hope this gives more context to our journey. Please don't get me wrong about the other apps. A lot of the apps I mentioned we really liked but no matter what I used seemed to be missing something so I have to use multiple apps and or services. Some apps did auto remails to nonopeners, some had better sending options, non of the sales automation apps had email or form builders or data or email verification, etc etc.
@shawn_elledge this is was such an interesting read.
Thanks a lot for sharing your journey with this level of details.
Did not get you wrong about the other apps. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. And there are so many specific individual needs, so that’s why it what interesting to read your own story.
Wondering about the analytics part, you built it yourself ?
@julienergan Thanks Julien,
Actually, my CTO and developers built the analytics and reporting engine.
To be fully transparent, I think we can spend more time on analytics.
The problem Im finding is thanks to Apple MailPrivacy Protection and spam software, we are seeing a lot of false positives So I find the accuracy in reporting across all platforms poor, and there is nothing anyone can do.
For example, Ongage gives users the ability to exclude Apple proxies. So you can exclude email open and clicks because anyone who has an email connected to their Apple iPhone app will automatically show as an open when that email was never opened. I personally have 5 email accounts connected to my iPhone. This problem gets worse when you take into account marketing automation programs or lead nurture programs when you set up a rule to send someone down one path vs another based on behavior like open or click.
So if you include Apple proxies you are going to over-report. If you exclude Apple proxies, you are under-reporting. Its a nightmare.
We do report on opens and clicks etc and give users the ability to turn off open and click tracking for better deliverability.
We also look at who we suspect opens, clicks and replies and report on their titles, companies, industry, and company size to give you a sense of who is responding best to your campaigns.
So fo example, you might see you are having more success with companies with 51-250 employees in these industries and these job titles.
So the idea would be to cast a wider net with your campaigns, see who is responding best, then focus there moving forward. At the same time, you can turn tracking on to see what subject lines and messages are working best, then turn tracking off.
@jaketital Good Jake. I have a small team, so marketing is my top priority right now. The tough part is trying to ramp up marketing while also managing my client's marketing campaigns for my other company Sales Lead Automaton.
@shawn_elledge I'm heavily involved on the partnership side. let's see if there's a way we can create some win wins especially with the contacts you have access too.
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