TheLaughingWolf

Business Development Manager

WR Officer

Politicker

Valued Contributor

I was today years old

When I found out that Seamless.ai is a prohibited tool to be using on Navigator.

Tried to use it today and it just said :"Upgrade error. Not yet support for changing primary key"

After a year of using Seamless to effortlessly find the contact info for my prospects I can no longer use it on LinkedIn.

Can I go to Seamless and enter stuff in manually and search, sure I can. Can I still go to a company's website to then use the browser plugin. You betcha.

But that is going to take up too much time for this lazy SOB. lol Who am I kidding, I will still be using Seamless to find digits and emails.

Until something better comes along that is.

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CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I'm not shocked. LinkedIn has been moving towards this.

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

LinkedIn HATES tools that scrape and/or abuse API, which is essentially what seamless (and other tools) do.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

I mentioned it to my LI CSM and she kinda smirked. Now I know why 🙃

TheLaughingWolf

WR Officer

Business Development Manager

Yeah. All good things must come to an end I guess.

fuzzy

Notable Contributor

CMO (Chief Meme Officer)

LinkedIn is going to basically replace ZoomInfo. You’re going to see a HUGE push for Dynamics in the future. Microsoft is making incredibly smart-for-them moves. We handed them the best prospect data platform on the planet.

SaaSguy

Tycoon

Account Executive

Microsoft is coming for Salesforce - they are swapping to cloud only for Dynamics 365 CRM/ERP and this will be a huge move.

fuzzy

Notable Contributor

CMO (Chief Meme Officer)

Watch them bundle in a killer deal with O365. Make it irresistible.

Rallier

Politicker

SDR Manager and Consultant

Seamless is absolute garbage. Zoominfo is miles better

youngsmoky

Celebrated Contributor

Senior Account Executive

We used ZoomInfo but now we're on SalesIntel. Much more accurate and responsive.

bandabanda

Tycoon

Senior AE Mid Market

@youngsmoky good to know! Will look at SalesIntel.

dwightyouignorantsale

Politicker

Account Executive

agreed x1000

TheLaughingWolf

WR Officer

Business Development Manager

Just had a demo with zoominfo today. $51.5K a year for what we were looking at. Unfortunately I don't think our company will be footing the bill for that.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Uh, you’re joking, right? Data test ran by their team revealed that is incorrect. I had an 83% match in Seamless and a 61% match on the same 5k contacts in ZI.

Rallier

Politicker

SDR Manager and Consultant

No. I’ve used both. Seamless claimed they had data matches for my contacts, but then I’d go to reach out and the emails would bounce or the phone number was wrong. We switched to Zoominfo and all of those problems went away

desperado

Politicker

Head of Sales

+1 to that, guess it depends on who you're selling to in terms of data quality for some contacts. When I demoed seamless it was trash compared to ZI. Also, Brandon is a huge douche.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Sound like something a ZoomInfo rep would say.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Their whole team is, but we went from a 12% bounce rate to a 3% bounce rate in the switch.

Rallier

Politicker

SDR Manager and Consultant

I don’t work for Zoominfo and never have. I just hated my experience with Seamless so much

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Zoom is also many many times more expensive...

0PercentCloseRate

Politicker

Oh boy

I love ZoomInfo. Too bad the data is generally two years out of date at least.

I especially love throwing them under the bus when someone asks "how did you find my number"

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

When did this happen. I never used it but my company is evaluating it with some reps. Hence curious.

TheLaughingWolf

WR Officer

Business Development Manager

No idea. But the LinkedIn customer support agent I talked to said they were a prohibited tool. I've been using seamless with Navigator for almost a year now. Came as quite the shock to be honest

FormerStartupJobHopper

Tycoon

Huh, I used it for about a year as an absolute power user doing exactly what you're describing until about a year ago

Annonny

Big Shot

Account Executive

What a shame....I know that rocketreach has been pretty good they let you have a few days to do the trial , and i am considering buying it! There are also several other tools out there. I use a few different things that are all free..gives you the emails, and then also another search engine that give the numbers....and a lot of other personal info lol!

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

LinkedIn has been pushing to capitalize their revenue stream. I imagine more of this is on its way

Upper_Class_SaaS

Politicker

Account Executive

BOOOO

whatbeclosing

Member

Account Executive

Seamless really need to fix the UI of how one searches…especially with this change… it’s very poor for searching individual contacts.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

This is shitty but definitely good to know.

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