Handling tons of Emails everyday from people beyond our familiar group of contacts is pretty daunting. Many a times you would have to scourge the internet for the profile of the unknown person and was making Emails more unproductive, to what they already were. For power users of Gmail, aware of this situation, many of them got accustomed to a social CRM widget that went by the name ‘Rapportive’.
Rapportive was one great social CRM tool for Gmail that did the ‘background check’ of people for you and presented their profiles at different networks as a sidebar widget on Gmail.
Many things changed since its revamping in 2014 by LinkedIn. As with every major Tech acquisition, LinkedIn had to make this tool more aligned to its mission as compared to providing value to the end user. It discontinued two of its features, ‘Raplets’ (which was the best part of Rapportive) and ‘Notes’. Raplets were opt-in widgets that allowed users to add more details to the tool that pulled user information from different sources like GitHub, Klout, Quora, Tumblr and more, in addition to their Twitter and Facebook profiles. Raplets was the key feature pulling all the strings for Rapportive and LinkedIn discontinued it.
7 Best Rapportive Alternatives
The best thing about the Tech disruption right now is that you wouldn’t have to lose your mind when some of your favorite tools get discontinued. ‘There’s an alternative to that‘, and here we will be taking a look at some of the best Rapportive alternative to make Emailing fun again.
Factors to consider:
Download Chrome Extension
Vibe App makes sure that no information is left out – The person’s about description, Organizations, Favorite topics, websites and uploaded photos. In addition to Google Chrome, Vibe app also provides plugin for Mozilla Firefox and works even outside your Gmail Inbox (Outlook, Yahoo or even a custom email). All you need is an Email address to draw out a lot of information about any contact and learn more about them to establish meaningful relationships.
Download Chrome Extension; Download Firefox Extension
Registering for a Connect6 account is required to get started on people discovery. You must know that the developers behind Connect6 were the ones who founded LiveOffice, which was acquired by Symantec in 2012.
