Adobe Journey Optimizer vs. ReachMail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Journey Optimizer
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Journey Optimizer is a customer engagement solution, enabling brands to orchestrate and deliver personalized customer engagement across all channels — including email, web, app, mobile, and more — in the moments that matter to customers.N/A
ReachMail
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
ReachMail focuses on assisting email marketers in achieving delivery success, and present their services a a guide in the ever-changing world of marketing and transactional email. ReachMail includes tools like optimized time-of-day sending, integrated list hygiene and expert support.
$9
per month
Pricing
Adobe Journey OptimizerReachMail
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$9.00
per month
Prro
$29.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Journey OptimizerReachMail
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Adobe Journey OptimizerReachMail
Features
Adobe Journey OptimizerReachMail
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Journey Optimizer
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Ratings
ReachMail
9.2
9 Ratings
14% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
List management00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Journey Optimizer
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Ratings
ReachMail
9.7
9 Ratings
23% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Journey Optimizer
-
Ratings
ReachMail
9.8
1 Ratings
19% above category average
URL Validation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Link Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Image Validation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Inbox Display00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Spam Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Journey OptimizerReachMail
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(15 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Usability
7.2
(16 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Journey OptimizerReachMail
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Journey Optimizer is really good for tracking journeys. It can tell you exactly where users are clicking, which pages they are visiting, and even link to physical location visits. It’s not well-suited for open-ended journeys where the user can take multiple paths to success. In such scenarios, it does not visualize or track the journey very well.
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ReachMail, Inc
The free Reachmail account (which I have used for several small organizations) is a good tool where there are limited or zero email marketing dollars, a contact audience of up to 5,000 subscribers, and a max of 15,000 monthly emails. The pricing levels are really reasonable for volume requirements, including custom plans for infrequent mailings. If there are constraints (time and/or design experience) that require a large choice of ready-made contemporary templates without graphic or font modifications, then this probably isn't a good email marketing tool.
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Pros
Adobe
  • API based response and ability to invoke the results need via API.
  • Business friendly management of offer priority , the rule assignments.
  • Data Collection from interactions and ability to utilize them without much latency.
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ReachMail, Inc
  • I have a $10 account, but customer support treat me like a princess. They even added a feature to one page to remedy a problem I was having with that page. They care about their customers.
  • ReachMail Features (or at least, these are the ones I know they have): WYSIWYG Email Editor, Template Management, Mobile Optimized Emails, Dynamic Content, Subscribe/Unsubscribe, Mailing List Management, Drip Campaigns, Auto-Responders, Image Library, A/B Testing, Customer Surveys, CAN SPAM Compliance, Reporting/Analytics.
  • These folks know what they’re doing. I can’t speak highly enough about ReachMail.
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Cons
Adobe
  • The email building experience could be better when integrating AEM content fragments.
  • Not great at organizing content in each area. Could make better use of metadata to limit the content the end user has to wade through.
  • Content life cycle management could be more robust.
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ReachMail, Inc
  • There are no batch report downloads. When I have multiple variations and waves in a campaign, I have to download reports individually. I'd like for a way to download one report of all sends during a certain time period, or given another set of parameters.
  • It would save a lot of time if we had the ability to upload multiple images or assets at once.
  • There's only a two-level "tree" of organization of lists and suppression lists. It would be great if we had the abililty to nest lists into better categories, rather than having to scroll through one giant list of suppressions or deployment lists. Something like a 2015 folder, then inside that a Business Unit folder, then inside that, a Campaign folder, etc. This would make things much easier to find.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
It has been working very well, and actually it is a reliable tool for audience segmentation and everything that needs to be done for a campaign to deploy correctly
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ReachMail, Inc
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Usability
Adobe
AJO certainly requires a firm understanding of how Adobe expects data to be architected. AJO should not be an organizations first experience with an Adobe product. We benefited from ~18 months of experience with RTCDP prior to bringing on AJO. Engageable profiles, data storage, profile usage limits, all factor in when using an omnichannel solution. Marketers must be careful to bring in only the data required for business use cases, and continually evaluate these needs in the face of a changing marketing ecosystem.
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ReachMail, Inc
Their team is knowledgable and willing to help offer insight and support to build out the right campaigns to fit our business needs and goals
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Reliability and Availability
Adobe
I do not rate it perfect because there are times that is not perfectly realiable, and it stops working when you need it the most, especially because the audiences take so long to evaluate and 2 times a dat to do them quickly is really not enough
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ReachMail, Inc
No answers on this topic
Performance
Adobe
I really think this is something that can be improved, especially the querrys, sometimes it takes too long for them to run
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ReachMail, Inc
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Support Rating
Adobe
Sometimes when the manager connects to a support representative, even though the response is very immediate, they are not always able to provide a solution and we end up resolving the issue other ways
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ReachMail, Inc
No answers on this topic
In-Person Training
Adobe
It didnpt possess anything new from the online version of it, in fact, there were less
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ReachMail, Inc
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Online Training
Adobe
I give it this rating of 5 because the truth is I started the training with the pages in Adobe and is far more complete and has more explanations that the online training and you can revisit it as many times as you want to, the online non live version is better
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ReachMail, Inc
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Implementation Rating
Adobe
The only thing I wanted to mention is that when going into the email edition, when adding labels, I was able to copy and paste the labels before, and now it has changed and I am no longer able to do it without editing the label itself
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ReachMail, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Adobe Journey Optimizer takes the lead because it integrates the functionality of several disparate systems, such as Adobe Marketo Engage (content creation/campaign operations) and Adobe Analytics (data, reporting, trends, predictions), to provide a comprehensive approach to campaign coordination and delivery, through reporting and informing our future campaign strategy. All of the products we use are valuable in different contexts. Adobe Journey Optimizer is a true silver bullet for delivering the most engaging, targeted marketing & communications campaigns!
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ReachMail, Inc
In my opinion, ReachMail is a good competitor to Mailchimp, probably has more features though and analytics to help organize information. There are also a lot more third party integrations that have helped us compared to other apps that we've tried before, but ReachMail has been the most useful, for me personally and my team
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
I didnpt help purchase
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ReachMail, Inc
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Scalability
Adobe
This is very functional, is has been great to work with pleople from different areas and being able to show them how adobe journey optimizer works for the team
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ReachMail, Inc
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Professional Services
Adobe
very professional
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ReachMail, Inc
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Multichannel onboarding journey improving the engagement of freshmen in the business, resulting in a decrease in the dropout rate.
  • Separate business of anticipation of receivables from suppliers that used to be manual and now I have connected this entire operation via the S3 connector, less manual work and significant gains in conversions and payments
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ReachMail, Inc
  • None. I signed up for a pay account so only had to spend a dollar for the first month. Even that was a waste as I simply can't send emails out with their forced unsubscribe header. If it was the typical CAN-SPAM footer it would be fine, but it just looks awful.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Journey Optimizer Screenshots

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