Ad Sales Genius Reviews

"Big Help"

Comments: Overall, the ability to hang onto clients, reminders, notes, tasks, etc is tremendous. Also, we are able to identify and customize our own products for our accounts, print or digital. Another huge advantage. Love Ad Sales!

Pros: I love that reps can see where we are at all times with the customers; past and present.

Cons: I would like to be able to link our site in emails. I want to make it as effortless as possible to check us out and buy an ad. Plus, it feels very clunky when we are advertising cutting edge advantages of advertising with us. Ability to put images on the email would be nice as well. look up information on the client while writing an email to them. Currently, if I am typing up an email and need to check a name or an additional email, I need to save what I typed somewhere else or reopen adsales in a new window.

"Game changer for publishers ... but wait, there's more"

Comments: We needed a solution that production, sales, accounting sales would not only use, but LOVE. Their training was perfect. Always very responsive to issues we have. And the best part, as awesome as we think it is, it just keeps getting better. I feel like once every few months there's a new feature added.

Pros: Very intuitive.
Plays well with other services.
Mobile experience is on point!
We love the ease of building complex contracts.
Email contracts with DocuSign and payments build in.
Reporting is amazing.
ASG makes this fun again.
Subscription module is also amazing.

Cons: The email composer isn't perfect.
Can't merge first names in mass emails.

"ASG Review"

Comments: It has been enjoyable. Not difficult to use and it's productive.

Pros: It's easy to use. Has an intuitive logic to it. It's flexible and easy to make changes. I've been adding contacts and love the avatar feature, how it so easily links to my photo file or directly to a website.
ASG understands the realities and intricacies of the advertising sales process--from prospecting, goal setting, data info, communication and production. The training videos are a good reference source to review a function.

Cons: The questions that are linked to the training videos should be more in sync with the content of videos. Sometimes the questions didn't effectively cover the subject matter.

"Productivity"

Comments: Overall, if your bottom line is to create efficiency and increase productivity, ASG does the job.

Pros: What I find most valuable in ASG is in its ability to quickly pull up a contact and call them directly from the program (I use ASG via smartphone), and once call is completed, automatically log that call with whatever notes I want to add. It’s definitely increased my ability to reach and create more clients.

Cons: Unfortunately, the email end of things are quite as efficient. I don’t think there’s a way to click an email address in ASG and have it generate an email in an outside email app/program. You can only send emails within the app, and the email function built into the app is just doesn’t work as well as a program like gmail or outlook.

"Ad Sales Genius improving over time"

Comments: We are looking forward to trying the production module, and we appreciate the fact that the software is improving and changing for the better on a weekly basis. The new tech support people are very responsive.

Pros: We needed a system that allowed us to sync our Quickbooks invoices with sales orders, as our previous double entry was resulting in errors and time spent double checking. Ad Sales Genius seems to work very well with Quickbooks - a few glitches in the beginning and trouble displaying correct history, but now it is working better. It also allows you to set up payment plans and store credit cards, which is a great time saver. The sales reps love the Docusign integration and the reminders function.

Cons: We had a hard time onboarding, both with our previous data from Magazine Manager and AdSystem, as well as with training our reps. We had a lot of frustration with technical support. Now that we are over those hurdles, the sales reps are really liking it - but it took a good 6 months. Don't make this switch during a busy sales cycle!

"Publisher"

Comments: positive and easy to use

Pros: Ease of use for all departmental personnel

Cons: It's not clear exactly how it syncs with Quickbooks, which is key to our billing operation. Difficult to get a person on the phone for support (excellent communication via email, however).

"Ad Sales Genius"

Comments: This CRM system if great. I believe that the company has worked hard to implement things that we have requested which is super helpful and their support team responds very quikly.

Pros: I like how bright the dashboard is. I think that there are many ways to set up reminders and log information that is vital for your team and yourself when you work with money and clients

Cons: I still don't think the flat plan has been properly fixed, I believe there is a lot of potential for this with the business I work in.

"Love Ad Sales Genius!"

Pros: In my career I have encountered complicated sales software that was so layered I spent more time entering information then prospecting and selling. Ad Sales Genius makes it easy for me to concentrate on what I am best at...selling.

Cons: I am very happy with the software all and all.

"Great team, great product"

Comments: The overall process has been great. The team involved are all really helpful and knowledgeable and nothing seems to be too much trouble for them.
They are very receptive to feedback & requests for development and certain things can be updated very quickly. Even though we are a long way away I feel fully supported.
The software itself has given me so much better visibility of where things are up to and how the team are doing.

Pros: It has already solved the majority of the problems you come across when publishing any kind of magazine or even digital / exhibition space advertising. The process is made very straightforward & takes away the need to have to think about what to do next.

Cons: We are based in the UK which has presented some issues with certain functionality that is not yet available here. We have needed to amend some of our processes around what the system currently does/doesn't do.
Ideally I'd like a little more flexibility around reporting.

"Best publishing software"

Comments: Best tech support I've ever experienced. Very user friendly and the team is always accommodating to suggestions on new features or improvements.

Pros: This software is incredibly easy to use with no extra bloat that comes with other services. This software is specific to publishing so it works extremely well for us.

Cons: I have no complaints about this software. The only (slight) downside is that I have a wish list of features that are still being developed. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, as the team is constantly working to make the software better at the direction of the users.

"Ad Sales Genius - It's genius!"

Comments: The support team at ad sales genius is great to work with. They take suggestions and requests seriously and promptly make changes or suggestions when asked.

Pros: I love that everything I neeed from leads to layout it all conveniently in one place!

Cons: It takes time to get used to navigating the software. I find it difficult to teach a new rep the most effective way to use the system.

"Ad Sales Genius Review"

Pros: User friendly to enter leads, notes, status, and create a contract. I appreciate how this platform allows every team member access to view the status of any client at any time. It is easy to pick up where someone left off and it is simple to teach others how to user this software.

Cons: I sometimes find it difficult to add a new product or special into the system and add to an insertion order. And a back button feature on the software would be a good addition. Other than that, I am very happy using Ad Sales Genius.

"Love how easy it is to use."

Comments: Overall I have been very happy while using this product.

Pros: What I like most is the ease of using this product. From updating contact information to emailing and keeping a record of what you sent and what was said, Ad Sales Genius has helped me better manage my time and who and when I contact them.

Cons: Sometimes the software doesn't record every email I send.

"ASG for ME!"

Comments: I am enjoying it, because I have everything in one spot. I was the first one to really get to try this out where we are working, and I am able to do so much with this, and it just has been so helpful!

Pros: I enjoy the software, it has so many features that work well for me. It helps keep my leads in order, reminds me to call on people, the contracts are easy to send to customers, you have pagination there, your artists can send you edits, and it just keeps everything in one place! From your lead all the way to the sale, the product, and the invoice!

Cons: It was a challenge to pick up, and I am still not familiar with all, but the tutorials are helpful, and the customer service team is very quick with issues or questions. So really no con :)!

"Peace of Mind with ASG"

Comments: Ad trafficking is streamlined and easier to manage.

Pros: When used properly, everything is laid out in an easy-to-use interface

Cons: Some workflow is tedious and being able to do batch actions would be extremely useful.

"Makes Life Easy"

Comments: Good!

Pros: I love the ease of contract creation as well as editing account info.

Cons: Takes some time to learn and reporting is not always easy to figure out

"Ad Sales Genius / Quirk's Media"

Comments: Great

Pros: Easy Use, Great Tracking and Task Managment
User Friendly

Cons: Email Integration
Togggling
Customer Service

"Good Product"

Comments: Helpful for invoicing and tracking commissions and sales year-over-year.

Pros: Easy to use. Helpful in getting our sales team, accounting and finance, invoicing etc. on the same page.

Cons: Wish it had a better CRM that integrated with GMail.

"Time saving tool"

Comments: I was slightly intimidated at first but the videos were so easy to use and understand. I got up to speed fairly quickly.

Pros: I love the ASG Production features. Once I place it I can forget about it! I can see what's due, what's late, what's missing. The filtering features are invaluable to me.

Cons: Getting the sales team on board. Actually that's not a problem with the software but getting the team to use all the features can be a challenge. We've also had a problem with the email feature, but I just haven't had enough time to figure it out.

"User Friendly and Efficient."

Comments: Processes involving client interactions have been streamlined and having a fully accessible database to go to has become invaluable.

Pros: I think the best feature this software offers is the ability to house all of your contacts and interactions. It goes a step further and allows you to correspond directly from the site and save all of your contracts for review/safekeeping. Each process is easy to understand and the available customer service is great. Very helpful and efficient.

Cons: Nothing honestly. The software works great for what I use it for.

"Best CRM I have used"

Pros: The integration it has with my email account.

Cons: Sometimes it is hard to navigate. The back button never gets you back to the page you were on.

"Easy overall"

Pros: I use the accounting portion, which is easy to create invoices and see what's billable from the sales team.

Cons: I wish that when you clicked the back button it didn't take you back to the very beginning.

"Report Format"

Comments: The only functionality I needed assistance with was learning how to create a path to the reports I needed.
Once I learned this, all other functions were easy to determine.

Pros: I received comments from clients that I share our advertising reports with that this is the most beautiful report format they have seen.

Cons: No ability to download a report into a PDF format.

"Great CRM!"

Comments: It's a good software, and the consistent updates are reassuring that bugs and issues are fixed in a timely manner.

Pros: It has a great user interface for our ad team, and for our clients. I can easily gather the information needed to make reports and forecast our performance.

Cons: Occasionally clicking through all of the windows from client to client can be a bit daunting, but once you get a rhythm at finding what you are looking for it's solid.

"Love that we switched"

Comments: This new system has streamlined our invoicing which was one huge issue with our old system.

Pros: We switched from our old platform 2 years ago and could not be happier. The system is so user friendly and the customer service far exceeds any other CRM I have used.

Cons: Nothing. I love that they have an option to suggest improvements and I think that is so great to have a company that cares what its clients think. I do wish that when invoices are paid the receipt showed what actually paid for that invoice. MM had that and it was so helpful.