Cience is a leading lead generation agency that was founded in June 2015. Since conception, they have helped over 2500 clients and have generated 10s of millions of leads.
If you’re thinking about partnering up with them, you might want to read this. In this article we will share 10 Cience reviews, along with some extra important info; Such as pricing, methods, and the pros and cons of hiring them.
We have also included an alternative agency, Salesbread.
This will hopefully help you decide on which lead generation service would be best for your company.
(Salesbread also offers free 15-minute strategy sessions. If you’re interested, hop on a call, and let’s see how we can help you.)
10 Cience Technologies Reviews
According to Clutch, Cience has a 4.4-star rating. According to other sources across the web, such as TrustPilot, they have a 2.2-star rating. To make this a fair review, we will include a mix of their good and bad reviews, and then discuss the pros and cons.
Cience Services
Cience offers various services; They have a “growth platform” as well as sales development services.
Their growth platform is pretty much a SaaS tool that consists of 3 tiers.
Business data
Which offers data (verified b2b business information), buyer intent data, caller ID, and event tracking.
Sales engagement
This includes chatbots, outbound sales engagement with built-in automation, scheduled automation for booking appointments, and DPS for real-time media bidding.
Sales AI
Cience has an AI model that is trained in your industry to write copy for social media and sales campaigns. They also have a conversational AI model that is trained to engage with prospects by responding to emails, LinkedIn outreach, social media, and chats.
Whereas their sales development services offer:
- Outbound SDRs
- Inbound SDRs
- Data solutions
Cience Pricing
Unfortunately, Cience doesn’t mention their pricing on their site. You will have to hop on a sales call, but according to various sources across the web you can expect to pay anywhere from around $4,200 to nearly $9,000 a month.
Cience Strategy
Cience offers an AI powered campaign strategy. They mention how they have various templates that work as the foundation for each campaign.
Cience offers an AI-powered campaign strategy. They mention how they have various templates that work as the foundation for each campaign.
Cience uses a mixture of LinkedIn lead generation, cold calling, and cold email outreach to reach your ideal prospects.
They also mention how they make use of pre-targeted ads to create brand awareness, as well as your own web traffic to create custom landing pages for your outbound campaigns.
A NOTE on Salesbread’s personalization method:
At Salesbread we believe in sending each and every prospect a well-written personalized message, based on research. We don’t use cookie-cutter templates or AI to write our copy.
We actually research each prospect on our list and write something very specific for that individual; because of this we are seeing, 45 % Connection request acceptance rates, a 19.98% reply rate to LinkedIn messages, and a 48.14% positive reply ratio (These replies were either meeting requests or qualified sales inquiries on their product or service.)
Cience Pros and Cons
The information mentioned here is based on client reviews across the web.
Pros
- Various lead generation options from inbound to outbound
- A full comprehensive SaaS growth platform that could streamline your lead generation process
- Some clients have praised Cience for the amount of leads booked in a month
- Great communication
Cons
- Not all clients were happy with Cience’s results; some companies complained that very few leads were generated and that the quality of the leads were not great.
- Cience can be pricey compared to other lead-generation agencies
- They use AI and templates in much of their outreach, which could lead to inferior results
- Some clients have mentioned that you should already have your own prospecting list and messaging available for the Cience team, as this streamlines their outbound lead generation process.
Salesbread, a Cience alternative
Salesbread is known as the “lead per day” agency. Our clients know that when they partner up with us, they can expect 1 qualified sales lead per day.
Salesbread is a boutique lead generation agency, where you actually work along with the founder, Jack Reamer, who has over a decade of experience in b2b lead generation.
We are a smaller agency that only takes on a few clients at a time, but this ensures that when you partner up with us, you are receiving the absolute best lead generation service.
Our strategy is likely going to be very apparent from the first strategy call; so much so that we offer a money-back guarantee in that first strategy session.
If that first session doesn’t give you confidence that you found the perfect lead generation partner for your business, we will immediately refund you in full for that strategy call.
We are confident enough to offer this no-risk guarantee after serving 500+ clients and consults for B2B companies. Salesbread has over 100 reviews which you can check out on our LinkedIn page.
As mentioned above you will be working along with the founder of Salesbread; someone who is a thought leader in the world of outbound lead generation.
Cience is a fine company, but just know that you will most likely have your campaigns handled by a junior sales agent.
At Salesbread you will be working with a 10-year veteran of the outbound lead gen space, who has already worked with companies like yours.
You don’t have to wonder which strategy is going to work best, Salesbread has already been there and done that. We can help you get on the fast track to hitting your lead generation goals.
Salesbread’s strategy
Our strategy involves a 4 step strategy. It comprises of:
- Obsessive list building based on your current buyer’s data
- Ultra personalized outreach via LinkedIn and cold email
- Following up consistently with prospects and asking for a booked sales call
- AB testing and campaign optimization
List building
This is where we identify the hottest prospects to go after for your business. We go beyond basic list building and identify your ideal customer profile. This is based on who your current buying customers are.
We analyze this data and look for specific patterns between your current buyers.
The video below explains how we do this:
But basically, we will ask: What do all your current buying customers have in common?
- Are they all located in the same area? Florida? UK?
- Do they have similar company sizes? More than 100 employees or less than 10?
- Have they recently been funded?
- Do they all use social media marketing? And if so which platforms?
- Do they use the same CRM tools? Such as HubSpot, or Salesforce?
- Which specific industry are they in? If in healthcare, is it hospitals? Clinics? Psychiatry?
- Who is the decision maker? The CEO? Head of marketing?
Once we find the commonalities between your current buyers, it’s easier to build look-a-like lists of prospects who need what you’re selling.
We use various tools in this process and don’t solely rely on LinkedIn Sales Navigator. We make use of third-party data providers to help us find the freshest and most accurate data for your campaign.
Next, We Will Build A List Of Target People At These Accounts
We will then use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the right people at these companies to reach out to.
Just note that Sales Nav is notorious for inaccurate data. This is why it’s important to use this tool the right way, and why so many other agencies get it wrong when it comes to list building.
This article: Linkedin Sales Navigator Search Tips goes into more detail on how we do this.
We always make sure that our data is 100% accurate before our sales team even launches the campaign.
This ensures that you get high-quality leads.
Personalized copywriting based on research
We will create a series of message outlines for you to review.
We never complicate our messages, in fact, they are very straightforward.
But what sets us apart from many other sales development agencies out there, is that we personalize every single message for each person on the list.
We have a personalization expert who will research each prospect and write an intro sentence specifically for the individual.
Check out our CCQ method below:
Once the messages have been written, Jack will return to you after 24 hours with a team-approved message draft.
You will then check that the message is perfect and on-brand.
If you’re happy, the message will be ready for launch.
Follow up consistently with prospects and ask for a booked meeting
Our Sdrs then follow up in real time. We don’t use automation when responding to a prospect. We follow up every 3 days until we get a response.
Normally, we follow up between 3 and 6 times. If we don’t get a reply we will add the prospect to a cold email or SMS campaign.
Our follow-up messages include even more personalization and this ensures that we hook the prospect.
Lastly, we always ask for a booked meeting.
This CTA is low commitment.
For example:
- Are you available for a quick call?
- Send me your calendar link and I will schedule a quick 10-minute meeting
- Would this be worth a short call?
AB Testing
Lastly, we will optimize each campaign for maximum impact. This might mean running 2 different prospect lists and 2 different messaging campaigns and seeing which performs the best.
Salesbread Pricing
Salesbread offers a free 15-minute strategy call and then if you do decide to partner up with us, you can expect our services to cost less than half the price of a full-time SDR. Between 2-3k/month.
Salesbread Reviews
Interested in reading more? Have a look at our case studies and this article: The “1-Lead-Per-Day” LinkedIn Lead Generation Agency
Salesbread Pros and Cons
Pros
- Ultra-refined list building based on your current buyer’s data
- Personalized outreach based on research for each individual prospect (no AI spammy type messages)
- You get to work along with the founder of the company
- A boutique agency that only works with a few clients at a time
- A graduation call where we will teach you how to bring your lead gen in-house once our partnership ends
- Competitive pricing
- 1 guaranteed lead per day
- No locked-in contracts
Cons
- There is normally a 2-week wait list
- We don’t use cold calling as a channel for lead generation but rather focus on using LinkedIn and cold email.
Should You Hire Cience Technologies? Or choose a different agency?
Cience is a decent lead generation company with both good and bad reviews. Some companies found them pretty pricey with a low return on investment, whereas others had a favorable experience.
Why not hop on a consultation with both Cience and Salesbread and see which company resonates with you?
Just know that with Salesbread you can expect 1 qualified sales lead per day, and if we don’t blow you away, there is a money-back guarantee.