Vidyard
Vidyard Prospector is an AI-powered outbound sales prospecting tool designed specifically for B2B sales representatives. It enables users t...
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What is Vidyard?
Vidyard Prospector is an AI-powered outbound sales prospecting tool designed specifically for B2B sales representatives, sales teams, startups, and business leaders who want to automate personalized outbound prospecting. The tool uses artificial intelligence to generate hyper-personalized prospecting messages and automate email delivery, helping users connect with more high-quality leads while saving significant time on manual lead research and outreach activities.
Key features include AI-powered lead discovery that searches billions of professional profiles in a third-party database updated monthly, AI-generated email creation that crafts personalized outreach emails for each lead based on your product description and value proposition, and automated email follow-ups that send follow-up messages to leads who don't respond to initial outreach. The tool also offers advanced lead targeting by location, company size, job role and title, customizable email scheduling preferences including send days and frequency, embedded personalized video messages, personal calendar link embedding, automatic Bcc to CRM, and the ability to remove Vidyard branding from emails.
Additional features include manual lead entry and enrichment, bulk lead list uploading, Outlook integration for sending emails, automated Sales Plays, and enhanced CRM integration available in the Pro plan. Users can regenerate email content to ensure the best prospecting messages and set specific email preferences including vacation mode. The tool is built to help sales reps identify and reach more new leads using AI-generated personalized outreach emails, automatically finding high-quality leads to build pipeline and booking meetings.
Vidyard Prospector is ideal for sales reps who want to eliminate overhead involved with personalizing outreach, entrepreneurs and founders looking to unlock new revenue opportunities without wasting time on repetitive research tasks, and go-to-market teams that need to scale trust at every stage of the customer journey. The tool addresses the fact that 72% of sellers' time is wasted on non-selling activities and helps teams achieve a 50% increase in sales leads when using AI.
Vidyard pricing
Pricing model: Free
Vidyard Prospector offers Free and Pro versions. The Free tier includes AI-powered lead discovery, AI-generated email creation, automated email follow-ups, customizable email scheduling preferences, embedded personalized video messages, embedded personal calendar link, automatic Bcc to CRM, manual lead entry and enrichment, and bulk lead list uploading. The Pro plan at $80/month (billed yearly) adds remove Vidyard branding from emails, send with Outlook integration, automated Sales Plays, and enhanced CRM integration. The Pro plan also includes manual lead enrichment using the third-party database. Pricing is sales-led and directs prospects to a sales contact form rather than self-serve checkout.
Vidyard pros
- AI-powered lead discovery searches billions of professional profiles
- Automatically generates hyper-personalized outreach emails for each lead
- Automated email follow-ups for leads who don't respond
- Advanced targeting by location, company size, job role and title
- Database updated monthly to ensure lead quality
- Saves time on manual lead research and outreach
- Embed personalized video messages in emails
- Embed personal calendar link for easy meeting booking
- Automatic Bcc to CRM for seamless tracking
- Remove Vidyard branding from emails for professional appearance
- Manual lead entry and enrichment capabilities
- Bulk lead list uploading for large campaigns
- Send emails directly through Outlook integration
- Automated Sales Plays for streamlined outreach
- Customizable email scheduling including send days and frequency
- Regenerate email content to optimize prospecting messages
- Vacation mode to pause emails when needed
- Set specific send frequency preferences
- Find decision-makers using detailed role and sub-role targeting
- Filter by locale or company size for best leads
Vidyard cons
- Requires third-party AI provider for email generation
- Uses third-party database not owned by Vidyard
- Pro features require additional payment beyond free tier
- No self-serve checkout - routes to sales contact form
- Free trial not explicitly available without request
- Email personalization depends on user-provided product description
- Database updates monthly so not real-time data
- Pro plan features like Outlook integration not in free tier
- Enhanced CRM integration only in Pro plan
- Automated Sales Plays only available in Pro tier
Frequently asked questions about Vidyard
What is an outbound sales prospecting tool?
An outbound sales prospecting tool is a type of software or platform that sales teams use to identify and manage leads. Many outbound sales prospecting tools also help manage parts of the communication process, such as sending initial contact emails, follow-ups, and scheduling meetings. Outbound sales prospecting tools are essential in today's sales environment because they help sales teams more effectively and efficiently target and engage with potential customers.
What is an AI sales prospecting tool?
An AI sales prospecting tool uses artificial intelligence technology to streamline and improve the process of identifying and reaching out to potential leads. Just like an outbound sales prospecting tool helps sales teams identify and manage leads, an AI sales prospecting tool helps sellers identify, manage and communicate with prospects. AI prospecting tools use AI algorithms to analyze large sets of data, helping sales teams efficiently find and target individuals or companies most likely to be interested in their products or services. With Vidyard's AI prospecting tool, you can find and target leads plus automate the creation of email content to reach out to these leads at scale.
What are the benefits of using Vidyard Prospector?
Vidyard Prospector is an AI-powered outbound sales prospecting tool built to help save time while connecting with high-quality leads interested in your product or service. Prospector helps sellers identify and reach more new leads using AI-generated personalized outreach emails. With advanced lead targeting by location, company size, job role and title, Vidyard Prospector automatically finds high-quality leads to build your pipeline. Using information you provide about your product, service, or company, Vidyard Prospector generates hyper-personalized outreach emails, contacts identified leads, schedules follow-ups, and books meetings. With less time spent on manual lead outreach, you can focus on managing high-value sales activities instead.
How does Vidyard Prospector discover leads?
Based on your territory settings, Vidyard Prospector searches a third-party database of billions of professional profiles. This database is updated monthly to help ensure lead quality. This database is also used to enrich contact information for any leads you manually add to Prospector, but this enrichment feature is available for Prospector Pro users only.
How does Vidyard Prospector generate personalized prospecting emails?
You provide a description of your product and value proposition. Prospector uses this data, along with any lead information it discovers and additional feedback you provide (such as instructions you include when regenerating an email), to create an optimized AI prompt based on their learnings and AI best practices. They then send that prompt to a third-party AI provider to generate your email.
What features are included in the Free Prospector plan?
The Free Prospector plan includes AI-powered lead discovery, AI-generated email creation, automated email follow-ups, customizable email scheduling preferences, embedded personalized video messages, embedded personal calendar link, automatic Bcc to CRM, manual lead entry and enrichment, and bulk lead list uploading.
What features are added in the Prospector Pro plan?
The Prospector Pro plan at $80/month (billed yearly) adds the ability to remove Vidyard branding from emails, Send with Outlook integration, Automated Sales Plays, and Enhanced CRM integration. Pro users also get manual lead enrichment using the third-party database.
Can I target decision-makers specifically?
Yes, Vidyard Prospector allows you to reach decision-makers using detailed targeting, including by job, role, and sub-role. You can also filter by locale or company size to find the best leads for your territory.
How often is the lead database updated?
The third-party database of billions of professional profiles used by Vidyard Prospector is updated monthly to help ensure lead quality.
Can I pause emails when I'm on vacation?
Yes, you can set specific email preferences including vacation mode, which allows you to pause email sending when you're not available. You also can customize send days and send frequency preferences.