Comparison of the Best Email Marketing Software Options
Here is a Google spreadsheet of the top email marketing software options, along with their pricing and a comparison of their features. To view the full list, proceed to this spreadsheet:
These software options vary a lot in their functionality. Here’s my take on the top alternatives and the main reasons that you’d need email marketing software:
Autoresponders
An autoresponder is an automatic email follow-up sequence where customers subscribe and receive an automated sequence of emails. Aweber and GetResponse are the two most popular options. Other multi-function software such as Mailchimp and CleverReach also have this feature.
Email newsletters
Most of the options do have email newsletter software built in, including templates so that you can easily create nicely designed HTML newsletters. Mailchimp, Constant Contact, iContact, Benchmark are the most popular choices for email newsletter software.
Email delivery
Some services focus on email delivery. They tend to be a lot cheaper per email sent and have less functionality than software that is marketed as “Email newsletter software”. Popular alternatives are SendGrid, Postmark and Critsend.
Automated emails to customer segments
Many of these email services have the ability to send emails to a segment of your list. Intercom is based around this concept of segmenting your email list automatically and sending emails to certain segments. For example you can target users who have not visited your site for the past five days. Some other options are Bronto or Customer.io
Social media marketing integrations
Many of the options allow you to integrate with Facebook, Twitter etc so that you can easily send a message via email and automatically post the message on Facebook for example.
Other features of email marketing software
There are a bunch of other features that you might be looking for, including: Analytics, exporting or importing email list, customizable sign-up forms, a/b split tests and integrations with other software.
You can view the full spreadsheet in the link below. If there is any software we missed, just let us know so we can edit the sheet.
https://docs.google.com/a/staff.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArG719HDHqXmdHloOVFKdTZiYmtLeUZrd2VDNGNNWXc#gid=0
Prepared By:
Rob Rawson is a co-founder of Staff.com, a global recruitment platform where you can access very talented staff at affordable rates. They also have a technology called Time Doctor which is software to improve productivity and help keep track and know what your team is working on, even when working from home.
Rob resides in Sydney, Australia but can also be found in major cities around the globe, like Paris, Kiev or San Francisco.
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Email marketing is too simple if you have a bundle of email marketing softwares. From this post, I found many useful and simple softwares that I would love to use for my client projects. Thanks for making my life simple dude. Cheers!
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This is a great article to get insight into email marketing services. On the other hand I’d prefer sort of update for 2015. Prices had changed, the market is wider. There’s a lot smaller companies who can offer similar services but for half price. I personally use https://www.ultramail24.com/ with their basic $9.95 monthly service and I’m completely satisfied.
Thanks Rob for this great stuff. Such a huge email marketing software you have mention in this post. If you are looking some other awesome email marketing tools, then visit this post: http://enterprisemonkey.com.au/10-best-email-marketing-applications-for-small-businesses/
Aweber is probably one of the best options however I prefer free options since I am not looking for a large volume.
If you have a blog or need to send emails to your rss subscriber its free using Google feedburner. Just need to setup your feed using Google feedburner.
This is nice way to get free email, and you can focus on sending more targeted email from bulk email software like mailchimp and aweber since your volume may get reduced for regular newsletter emails.
http://www.fromdev.com/2015/01/bulk-email-software.html
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Hi Rob,
Thanks for the list! Can you recommend a self-hosted solution? We are concerned about protecting customer data.
Thank you!
Hi,
You can try Active Campaign, they have an On-Site Edition which you can install on your own server.
Hi Rob,
I’m interested to know what you are using at staff.com – time doctor seems to be using the intercom platform.
Thanks
Yes we are using Intercom for Staff.com and Time Doctor. I also use Aweber and Getresponse for some other websites.
Hi Rob,
I am in a bit of a rush, so haven’t looked through all of it.
Have you done any research on Rapidmailer
or on
the useability, functionality of ‘self-hosted scripts’?
Some I have heard of are
By-pass Publisher
Interspire
Arpreach
Parabots AR system
and/or SMTP.com
Thanks
Greg
Hi Greg,
We haven’t tried the ones you have mentioned, only those we personally added on the sheet. But you are welcome though to add those you mentioned, so others checking the list can try for themselves. Thanks
Thank you for this list!!! Very useful.
Best,
Rebecca
Another great piece of software for sending newsletters directly from the local computer is NewsTurbo (http://www.newsturbo.com)
I use SimplyCast.com free 2,000 contacts package. You can send unlimited emails.
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Please let me know why do you think that or if you have any problems with your account. Thank you.
I used to use mailchimp but I’ve found pwsend.it to be much cheaper. Personally I prefer their system aswell – their editor just seems more intuitive.
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Hello,
can you send me your account name? So I can solve these problems. Thank you.
SmartEmail24.com is a FRAUD. They have a McAfee Secured label on their site but they’re not part of McAfee’s program. They also state that they’ve been in business since 2010 (check their copyright 2010-2013 in the footer) yet the domain was registered only last year 2013… Be aware. It sounded too good to be true.
Nice Post. I have compiled a nice list with reviews of 9 best email marketing software, along with a table containing parameter wise scores. I think the readers here can benefit. Do check out the article at http://www.thepracticalmarketer.com/bestemailmarketingsoftware/
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I actually saw the link to edit the Google doc and included our information. Thanks!
Infusionsoft would also be a good company to use in your comparison document. If you would like more information about the platform, feel free to reach out and I can help answer your questions.
Here is our website: http://www.infusionsoft.com/
Thanks!
Email marketing is the best method of marketing in terms of returns. The only catch is that some services are
charging the earth and have too many rules. I usually rent or buy lists and Aweber and similar services require double opt in.
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I’m using SmartEmail24.com, for $10 USD offers all functions I need.