SalesLoft looks for partners that help “activate the authentic seller in everyone,” boost their productivity, and help customers scale their business.  Vendors should be adjacent to Sales Engagement, filling the gaps of functionality in the platform.  

Partners pledge to serve joint customers first, invest in the success of integrations through co-marketing, and “support our developer community, thus enabling innovation,” said VP of Product Strategy Sean Kester.

Kester noted that the partner ecosystem provides a strategic market advantage as it “creates a moat in the ecosystem supplanting us as the dominant #1 player.”  It also “significantly enhances customer LTV (lifetime value) due to the sticky nature of usage” and “drives customer acquisition through the roof, and CAC (customer acquisition cost) down due to leads driven from partners.”

The SalesLoft ecosystem has grown to 54 partners with a million “integration actions executed” over the past six months.  Nearly 2,700 teams have one or two integrations with 800 having implemented three and 500 having four or more integrations.

Kester discussed the partner ecosystem at SalesLoft’s recent #Rainmaker19 conference.

The top partner integrations are LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Sendoso, Showpad, and Vidyard.  VP of Product Strategy Sean Kester called Sales Navigator “by far the most popular integration we have.”  The SNAP integration supports four cadence steps: Account and Lead (contact) research, introductions, connection request, and InMail (Salesforce is an investor in SalesLoft).

Sendoso provides a direct mail service.  Integrated cadence steps allow sales reps to send direct mail, company swag, handwritten notes, eGifts, and Amazon items.

Showpad is integrated with the sales reps’ workflow.  Within SalesLoft, users can easily add content to their email campaigns, and gauge their prospects’ level of interest.  Showpad also provides context-specific content recommendations.

Vidyard GoVideo helps sales reps “easily create polished and personal videos for your prospects using Vidyard GoVideo webcam and screen recorder,” said Kester.  Sales reps can “boost response rates and humanize sales outreach by adding video to your sales emails in SalesLoft.

SalesLoft includes a freemium version and has supported 175,000 platform videos.

New partners include

• Sales Content: Costello (Playbooks), OneMob (Video), VidGrid (1:1 Video), Outgrow (Interactive Content), Nova.ai (Messaging Hooks)
• Sales Coaching: Outgrow, Fusion Funnel
• Sales Intelligence: SalesIntel.io (Contacts), RingLead (Lead Enrichment), Buzzboard (SMB Profiles)
• Compliance: DataGrail (GDPR)
• Integration: Fireflies, PieSync, AppBuddy (SFDC Tools), Azuqua, Tray.io
• Analytics: Triblio (ABM, Intent)
• Video Conferencing: GoToMeeting; Zoom; JoinMe; WebEx
• Email: Inbox Ignite (Email Reputation Score), Makesbridge (Mass Email / MAP)
• Outbound Services: ConnectandSell

SalesLoft announced several partnerships that are in their development pipeline including LeanData, Drift, Ramble Chat, and Seismic.

LeanData provides Lead-to-Account assignments with automated cadences by persona and customized conditions.  Sales Operations defines the lead assignment and routing rules which are displayed as a flow diagram with Send to SalesLoft Cadence steps.  Duplicate checking will prevent a second cadence from being kicked off.

Drift and Ramble Chat are joining Intercom as chat partners.  “Ramble empowers sales engagement customers with a unique ability to extend chat directly through their platform,” said Kester.  “Ramble creates an additional channel of communication for their customer interactions.”

Ramble Chat performs a reverse IP lookup that identifies the account and logs it to Salesforce or SalesLoft, providing a form of first-party intent intelligence.  Both inbound (anonymous) and outbound (Cadence driven) chat are supported with outbound chat connected to the originating sales rep.

“We are excited for our partnership with SalesLoft.  Ramble’s unique architecture enables us to deploy chat within third-party applications, like SalesLoft, which changes how sales leaders utilize chat for pipeline contribution.  We not only make chat ‘outbound’ and ‘inbound,’ but we give companies the ability to extend chat anywhere online as a means of instant connection and sales acceleration.  Moving beyond ‘omnichannel’ and towards ‘omnipresence.’  The full breadth our chat technology can be deployed organically, directly from SalesLoft, which provides a more seamless client experience and new channels for Sales Engagement.”

Ramble CEO Justin McDonald

Seismic offers an enterprise-grade content management system which recommends the next-best action for content.  The platform employs analytics to recommend which content is most likely to resonate with a prospect based on buying stage, vertical, etc.

DataGrail provides a GDPR and CCPA compliance tool which “enforces on-demand access and deletion of a requester’s personal data across all first and third-party/external business systems.”  DataGrail also centralizes customer email preferences.  Other features include the “detection of non-consented or high-risk contacts, including geographic fingerprinting and migration for consented to non-consented purposes” and alerts if a deleted contact is being recreated in a sales or marketing platform.

Current apps are displayed on SalesLoft’s App Directory which helps admins see how integrations work, understand their use cases, and co-market the integration.  A developer’ portal is in development.

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Prior articles on SalesLoft Rainmaker 2019:

• SalesLoft CEO Kyle Porter Keynote
• SalesLoft Product Announcements