Is Kanbox the best alternative to Dripify?
Let's compare Dripify and Kanbox
Dripify is a marketing automation platform that allows users to create, schedule, and execute automated LinkedIn campaigns.
Dripify operates solely in the cloud; the platform does not use a LinkedIn extension. Its key features are:
- Retrieve leads from a Sales Navigator/LinkedIn search
- Create LinkedIn campaigns (profile visits, following a member, connection requests, message sending)
- An integrated inbox allows you to view and manage LinkedIn messages
- A dashboard provides statistics on campaign performance and team metrics
The positive aspects of Dripify
- Its team dashboard, which provides an overview of the performance statistics of each team member.
- Its campaign creation tool, which is flexible and easy to use.
Things we like less about Dripify
- Dripify works only in the cloud, and its LinkedIn authentication system is sometimes faulty. On several accounts, we couldn't connect Dripify to LinkedIn, making the tool unusable.
- The lead management tool is very limited. It allows importing only from a Sales Navigator or LinkedIn search and doesn't allow re-filtering the list afterward, which is constraining considering that around 20% of Sales Navigator search results do not match the initial search criteria.
- The Smart Inbox doesn't do much! It's just an external LinkedIn messaging system that doesn't add any value: no classification system, limited bulk actions...
Dripify vs. Kanbox Comparison, Point by Point
Lead Management
With Dripify, the lead management system is quite limited. You need to provide the URL of a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search when creating a campaign, and that's it. The system will pull leads from this search as the campaign progresses: whether the lead is already in your contacts or does not meet your search criteria, it doesn't matter; you have no control.
Kanbox offers a much more advanced and efficient lead management system. With Kanbox, you can prepare your lists ahead of your campaigns. You can import more varied lists compared to Dripify: not only LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches, but also lists of contributors to a publication or participants at a LinkedIn event.
Once you have retrieved your lists, you have access to advanced filters to clean these lists:
- Match / Not Match
- Duplicated / Not duplicated in other lists
- Added / Not added to an Inbox or Pipeline of my team
- Is a Connection / Is not a Connection
- Enriched Email Address: Is provided / Is not provided / Contains / Not contains
- Scraped Email Address: Is provided / Is not provided / Contains / Not contains
- Phone number: Is provided / Is not provided
- Is Open Profile / Is not Open Profile
- Is Open to Work / Is not Open to Work
- Is Premium / Is not Premium
- Language: Contains / Not contains
- Job title: Contains / Not contains
- Number of connection: More than / Less Than
- Skills: Contains / Not contains
- Years in Job: More than / Less Than
- Years in Company: More than / Less Than
- Headline: Contains / Not contains
- Location: Contains / Not contains
- Company name: Contains / Not contains
- Company employees count: More than / Less Than
- Company founded since: More than / Less Than
- Company industry: Contains / Not contains
You can thus refine your lists and segment them to share within your team.
The Smart Inbox
Dripify's messaging system has very little to offer. It brings almost nothing more than LinkedIn's messaging. It is supposed to allow you to stay within the tool to reply to messages, but it doesn't really improve efficiency.
Kanbox likely has the most efficient messaging system among all automation tools. This messaging system is designed to streamline message management. It's much more than a simple messaging tool; it enables you to organize your work with features like labels for sorting messages and bulk action tools to handle messages. It's also fully integrated into the tool. You can open a conversation with a member and interact with them directly from the campaign progress boards (the pipelines).
Campaign Monitoring and the Use of Pipelines
Most automation tools, including Dripify, are like black boxes: you create a campaign, launch it, and then wait for responses without really knowing what's happening behind the scenes.
Kanbox takes a completely different approach. What could be better than a Kanban board for tracking workflow progress? Each Kanbox campaign is linked to a pipeline where each column represents a campaign step, and each card on the board represents a campaign member. This gives a complete view of the campaign's progress at a glance. You can see directly in the "Replied" column the list of members who have responded to a campaign message, indicating that manual intervention is needed to continue interactions. Even better, you can extend the workflow by defining your own steps to keep the process moving. If you want to add a phone call step or a meeting request after a message, just add a column and move members from one column to the next manually.
With Kanbox, it’s totally different. We’ve chosen to combine automations and Sales pipelines (Kanban boards) natively integrated with LinkedIn. All your outreach workflow is visual. And, at a glance, you get a crystal clear view of what’s going on. In one of the columns of your pipeline, you know who has answered your cold messages, you get a clear TODO list of your actions, really easy and convenient to follow up!
Comprehensive Analysis of Dripify and Kanbox
 |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Export Sales Navigator Search | ||
| Export Linkedin Search | ||
| Export Linkedin profile | ||
| Export List of Linkedin profil Urls | ||
| Export contributors of Linkedin Post | ||
| Export attendees of Linkedin events | ||
| Export members of Linkedin groups | ||
| Avoid duplicates | ||
| Check if a user scraped from a Sales Navigator search matches the search filters | ||
| Data cleaning : clean user and company names | ||
| Refine scraped lists with advanced filters | ||
| Email finder | ||
| Email verifier |
CRM Pipline
Dripify does not provide CRM Pipelines to track and facilitate action-taking during and after a prospecting campaign.
| | |
|---|---|---|
| Natively integrated LinkedIn CRM Pipelines | ||
| Automated CRM Pipelines | ||
| Columns bulk actions | ||
| Sales Pipeline templates | ||
| Recuiters Pipeline templates |
Inbox & Chat
| | |
|---|---|---|
| Labels | ||
| Templates Messages and custom variables | ||
| Scheduled messages | May 2024 | |
| Bulk actions (invite, message, archive) | ||
| Organize conversations | ||
| Organize connections | ||
| Add notes to a user | ||
| Full-screen Chat | ||
| UX | Gmail like, full screen, very efficient | Less ergonomic tabular interface |
Outreach
| | |
|---|---|---|
| Automations | ||
| Automated sequences - visit profiles | ||
| Automated sequences - Send invitations | ||
| Automated sequences - Send messages and follow-up | ||
| Automated sequences - Follow user | ||
| CRM Pipelines | ||
| Automated sequences - AB test messages | May 2024 | |
| Automated CRM Pipelines | ||
| Campaigns analytics | ||
| Team Campaigns analytics | ||
| Email outreach |
Pricing
| | |
|---|---|---|
| Automations and Inbox | 50 Eur. / month | 56 Eur. / month |
| Team management | Fully included | 76 Eur. / month |
| Lead Manager | Fully included | |
| CRM Pipeline | Fully included | |
| Email Credits | 15 Eur. / 1000 credits | |
| Live chat support (with humans) | Included | Included |
Conclusion: Why Choose Kanbox as an Alternative to Dripify?
Dripify and Kanbox both cater to professionals and freelancers, small teams, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and SMEs looking to automate simple tasks on LinkedIn, such as lead generation, follow-ups, and message sending. While Dripify is known for its simplicity, Kanbox stands out for its great ease of use while offering advanced and highly practical features. Its intuitive interface and rapid learning curve enable users to get started quickly, even with functionalities like Kanban boards (CRM Pipelines), which allow for visual organization of their acquisition campaigns.
Why you should make the switch from Dripify to Kanbox?
Here are some additional reasons clients have given for choosing Kanbox over Dripify:
More Affordable
Kanbox subscriptions are less expensive, and the team management feature is included in the subscription! This means your costs are reduced even further when you work as a team.
Much More convenient to prepare your lists of leads
Importing leads, browning your lists, refining your searches, segmenting your lists between teammates, you can do all that within Kanbox. With Dripify, you cannot.
Follow the progress of your campaign at a glance!
Do you want to know what's happening while your campaign is running? Do you want a clear view of what needs your attention or which messages require a response? With Kanbox and its Kanban pipelines, you can keep track of everything effortlessly and manage your campaigns with ease.