Astonish Email vs. Campaign Monitor by Marigold

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astonish Email
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Astonish Email is the eponymous flagship product for cloud-based email marketing from a small UK company incorporated in 2013. Exclusively for small businesses, it features newsletter generating and sending via a simple email builder and editor, tracks receiver responses, allows followers to connect via social networks, and some automation (opt-out) and personalization as well. Copy and pasting contacts and mobile-accessible emails are both touted as being easily managed. This lean program is…N/A
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
Score 7.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Campaign Monitor by Marigold enables users to create, send, and optimize email marketing campaigns.
$11
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Lite
$9
per month
Essentials
$19
per month
Premier
$149
per month
Offerings
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Astonish EmailCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
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Astonish Email
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Ratings
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
8.0
24 Ratings
1% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
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Astonish Email
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Campaign Monitor by Marigold
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Standard reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
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Astonish Email
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Ratings
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
7.4
4 Ratings
14% below category average
Spam Testing00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
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User Ratings
Astonish EmailCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.0
(26 ratings)
Usability
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10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Astonish Email
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Marigold
Campaign Monitor is undoubtedly one of the best software for managing email marketing campaigns; it is a robust platform and can be adapted to any company. If you are not a developer and don't know any code, it has many pre-made templates to use. I highly recommend Campaign Monitor; it is perfect, does what needs to be done, and is very easy to use.
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Pros
Astonish Email
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Marigold
  • Campaign Monitor’s support is great. They have a great help page built out to help answer all your questions, and if you do have a question or issue that needs extra support, their support team responds within a couple hours to help resolve the issue.
  • The email builder is very clean and easy to use. It makes A/B testing, personalization, and dynamic content easy to implement.
  • I appreciate the insights reporting that Campaign Monitor provides. We use that regularly for our quarterly reporting to track list growth, as well as campaign performance from a high level.
  • The automation is very straight forward and has truly transformed our marketing. The learning curve is pretty low, so my entire team knows how to use it to create and edit automated email journeys.
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Cons
Astonish Email
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Marigold
  • Managing different subscriptions requires some thinking and setup with custom fields/lists/segments. It's not really 'out of the box' to set up.
  • The WYSIWYG editor is pretty locked down, which makes it idiot-proof, but would be great to have a little more control over padding, line height, kerning, etc.
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Usability
Astonish Email
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Marigold
The templates, while useful, are very locked down, This makes it very usable from a novice's standpoint, but also very inflexible from a designer's standpoint. Creating several version of the email campaign and using A/B testing was a powerful and easy-to-use feature, and the system also provides the option of automating the sending of emails once an A/B testing criteria is reached
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Marigold
The ability to track the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns in real-time is what makes Campaign Monitor interesting to use. All the vital features that we need to run professionally designed email campaigns that look wonderful on any device so that we boost our business are included in this platform.
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Return on Investment
Astonish Email
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Marigold
  • Because it's easy to use, we can design and send out newsletters easily and quickly, spending little time.
  • It's a great tool for aggregating all of the things our organization is up to and making sure people are aware of them.
  • Sometimes I wonder how many emails are sent to the Spam folder, but there are great tools to see how many opens you get.
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