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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Campaign

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.N/A

    Elastic Email

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AElastic Email is an email delivery service for transactional emailing.

    $29

    per month for up to 2,500 contacts and 37,500 emails

    Sailthru

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/ASailthru is an email marketing and marketing automation solution. It supports email management, site personalization, mobile management, and both predictive and retention-focused analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe CampaignElastic EmailSailthru
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Inbox Plus
    $9
    per month per user
    Email API Starter
    $19
    per month for up to 50,000 emails
    Email Marketing Starter
    $29
    per month for up to 2,500 contacts and 37,500 emails
    Email API Pro
    $49
    per month for up to 50,000 emails
    Email Marketing Pro
    $49
    per month for up to 2,500 contacts and 37,500 emails
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe CampaignElastic EmailSailthru
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Adobe CampaignElastic EmailSailthru
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    Adobe
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    Zeta Global
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
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    Score5.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe CampaignElastic EmailSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (97 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Support Rating
    5.0
    (41 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe CampaignElastic EmailSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Multi-Channel Campaign Management: I have found Adobe Campaign to be excellent for managing campaigns across multiple channels, including email, mobile, social media, and web. Its centralized platform allows me to plan, execute, and track campaigns effectively, making it ideal for organizations with diverse marketing channels. For example, when I was running a campaign to promote a new product launch across email, SMS, and social media channels, Adobe Campaign provided me with the tools to orchestrate and track the campaign seamlessly. I could ensure consistent messaging and a cohesive customer experience across different channels.
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    Elastic Email
    Email Elastic is best suited in cases when we need to send bulk emails and campaigns. It provides features such as scheduling campaigns and automating fast delivery of emails; the trial version also provides many features that can be used by a new user. Email Elastic is less suited for small companies with a smaller number of clients or contacts.
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    Zeta Global
    Sailthu is perfectly suited, no matter what level of technical skill you have or support from an Engineering team. That said, it includes many advanced features which can only be fully utilized when integrated with custom webhooks and after receiving customer data sent via their APIs. There may be easier solutions out there for less technical users or for people wanting a simpler setup to begin with.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • It allows me to capture leads through various sources, such as website forms or landing pages.
    • It offers a centralized repository where I can securely store and manage customer data, encompassing contact information, preferences, transaction records, and additional relevant data.
    • It provides robust analytics and reporting capabilities.
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    Elastic Email
    • High Deliverability Rate Across Most Email Providers
    • Generous Free Plan for Those Just Getting Started
    • Fair, Competitive Pricing & Plans/Limits
    Incentivized
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    Zeta Global
    • Personalization - one of the most important things you can utilize when emailing people.
    • Segmentation - Sailthru makes it very easy to build an audience based off their criteria; there are so many different fields to choose from. We use this mostly for geo-targeting and engagement.
    • Analytics - post-campaign analytics are very easy to look at, customize your view, and download as a csv to share with your team and company.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Adobe Campaign does not have a high enough sales intelligence to let us know which landing page format would be the most optimal for the proper development of our mass marketing operations, which in the long run would also help with customer collection.
    • Does not directly track the number of people who enter our website, beyond sending them automated messages depending on whether they entered a certain section of the site. This problem is important, because it does not allow us to get complete tracking results in that area.
    • The platform does not do social media marketing extensively enough to let us create dynamic evaluations on the results of interactions that are obtained within social networks, which creates a huge margin of error in our analytical results messages, and so we have stopped applying social marketing.
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    Elastic Email
    • I wish they didn't have such a strict requirement regarding their "opt out" links in emails. I totally understand why they do this, but there are use cases, such as one to one personal emails between individuals, where this is annoying. However, it's something I'm willing to live with for the greater good.
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    Zeta Global
    • Giving more practical examples of technical setups, sometimes the only way to understand it is to see it.
    • Can't filter lists by date created or date modified, particularly needed when tracking down a specific list or looking to remove older lists.
    • Can't set up automated data dumps to an email address, has to be sent via API.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    Once you go for Neolane you are a bit stuck with it, so we will most likely stay with Neolane. Cost of investment and training are the main factors at work here. We havesimply have invested too much in the product to stop using it after 2 years. That said, my score of 8 does not imply that the product is worthy of getting an 8 but reflects our willingness to renew. Given that upgrading to a new version will cost again a substantial sum, we most likely will keep using the current version we are on which is 6X.
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    Elastic Email
    No answers on this topic
    Zeta Global
    The biggest factor is that even after two months of trying to go through their credit processes and getting the right consideration for the real damages we had with the tool not being able to send campaigns for days, their sales staff is still not willing to work with us on it, making us do the switch away from them right now. We got extremely disappointed by trying to work with them through those issues.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Thanks to this tool we are taking more internal control of the creation and deployment of campaigns with less dependency on an ESP. We can pre-program marketing publications, being able to concentrate on the target audience. It helps me manage email campaigns with real-time tracking.
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    Elastic Email
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    Zeta Global
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
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    Elastic Email
    No answers on this topic
    Zeta Global
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    Although there is a lot of material available on the internet to answer questions, I still feel a lack of commitment and delay in the responses of the support, but as a whole, it leaves nothing to be desired. I believe that, in the great majority, companies sin in the desired support, but we cannot generalize. But this one, in particular, has a wide range of specialists and well-qualified management, but I believe that it is not so bad.
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    Elastic Email
    I have not had any issues with Elastic Email that have required reaching out to support, so I can't speak to the quality of their customer support. The help documents were well written and presented, though, and I would imagine that anyone with issues would receive satisfactory assistance in a timely manner.
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    Zeta Global
    Their account management / sales staff doesn't seem to be taking the problems you experience very seriously - it took us 3 months and nudge emails to them every 2 weeks to ask for status updates (plus 6 different conversations with different people) to get a (very small credit) for a major issue, which in two months prohibited us from sending campaign emails for 2-3 days at a time.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    As we tried to centralise the marketing automation platform within the enterprise, Adobe Campaign can plug into several instances of Salesforce.com for lead management queues. All other marketing automation platforms can only plug into one instance of Salesforce.com. Adobe Campaign was also able to handle the complexity and challenges of our enterprise data which are a result of years of legacy, mergers and acquisitions and data aggregation.
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    Elastic Email
    Email elastic is a cost-effective, fast, and reliable platform for sending bulk emails and promoting campaigns, it provides good features even for the new user, while Blaze Verify pricing is a bit high, and a new user would not be able to access all the features. Hence clearly, Elastic email leads the position when compared to Blaze Verify.
    Incentivized
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    Zeta Global
    Sailthru provided a powerful, easy-to-use platform that was able to adjust to the needs we had at Dotdash. It was able to support the simple campaigns where we would send static creative to all recipients and the complex dynamic campaigns where we were customizing content. The scale and flexibility really made it a great platform for us to use.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    Not everything was great at all times. It was handled accordingly, pricing was reasonable for what was purchased. It was the best value on the market at the time of purchase.
    Incentivized
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    Elastic Email
    No answers on this topic
    Zeta Global
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Talking about profits can be subjective if you don't take into account the periodic variations between net and gross profit margins, but fortunately with Adobe Campaign, it is easy to notice these differences quickly.
    • Results have always seemed relative to us, as they vary greatly depending on how much is invested.
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    Elastic Email
    • With a very modest outlay, we achieve features and functions that cost larger companies a lot of money.
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    Zeta Global
    • Sailthru has helped us build a welcome series that's much more effective than anything we had before.
    • It's much easier to analyze transactional campaigns than our previous ESP.
    • We're better able to run A/B tests and learn from the results -- all of which improves our email strategy.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Elastic Email Screenshots

    Screenshot of The drag-and-drop Email Designer.Screenshot of The email marketing campaign interface with precise segments. Users can build personalized experiences with this email marketing tool.Screenshot of Where to create unlimited sign-up forms or pop-ups with our form creator.Screenshot of Where to track email delivery in real time to respond to any issues immediately. Follow along with detailed data as the emails arrive in recipients' inboxes.Screenshot of An example of a created product page. These can match any brand, process secure payments via Stripe, and deliver content directly to fans.