AWeber vs. Marigold Engage by Sailthru

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWeber
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
AWeber is an email marketing and automation solution. It provides support for mobile-friendly HTML email newsletters, autoresponder campaigns, subscriber segmentation and management, RSS-to-email features, signup forms for websites or blogs, and more.
$0
Up to 500 subscribers & 3,000 email sends per month
Marigold Engage by Sailthru
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Marigold Engage by Sailthru 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
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Editions & Modules
AWeber Free
$0
Up to 500 subscribers & 3,000 email sends per month
AWeber Lite
$14.99
per month
AWeber Plus
$29.99
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAWeber offers a free plan up to 500 subscribers and 3,000 email sends per month. Pricing for the Plus Plan is determined based on the total number of subscribers in your account. Pricing starts as low as $29.99/month (or $20/month if billed annually).
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
AWeber
7.6
31 Ratings
7% below category average
Marigold Engage by Sailthru
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Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor8.630 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages5.94 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization6.926 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting7.831 Ratings00 Ratings
List management7.931 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.727 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
AWeber
8.3
31 Ratings
6% above category average
Marigold Engage by Sailthru
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Dashboards8.727 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.626 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
AWeber
7.7
3 Ratings
10% below category average
Marigold Engage by Sailthru
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URL Validation7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Link Tracking8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Image Validation7.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Inbox Display7.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Spam Testing7.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Previews8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(37 ratings)
7.7
(21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.8
(6 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(3 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
AWeber
AWeber is an excellent email marketing solution for small to mid-sized businesses, especially those that are just starting with email marketing campaigns. AWeber is also good for bloggers. But it's not perfect for an affiliate marketer who wants to make a landing page on AWeber. Businesses that require advanced segmentation options may need to consider other email marketing platforms.
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Marigold
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
AWeber
  • List building: AWeber makes it easy to grow opt-in subscribers through customizable signup forms as well an integration with tools like Sumo and Hustle Pro.
  • List segmentation: with a little more information about each subscriber, it's easy to create custom segmented lists based on different criteria.
  • Deliverability: AWeber enforces opt-in rules to keep spammers out of its system and improve deliverability rates for reputable users. We rarely have issues with our messages from AWeber being routed to spam folders.
  • Double opt-in: AWeber makes it easy to set up double opt-in to make extra certain you have a high-quality mailing list.
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Marigold
  • 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
AWeber
  • Aweber would be even better if it had the ability to host landing pages. I have to use a tool like landingpages.net to do this if I don't want to create the landing pages as part of my client's website. If I manage their site, it isn't a problem, but it keeps me from using Aweber for clients who manage their own sites or dont' have one.
  • Aweber would greatly benefit from a more robust reseller program. Firms like mine have multiple clients and, with each client needing an individual Aweber account, it would be nice to have access to margin so that we could resell the services.
  • Along the lines of a reseller program, it would be great of Aweber allowed resellers to white label the interface and administrate multiple accounts from one agency account.
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Marigold
  • 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
AWeber
AWeber is easy and intuitive for me use. I really like the simplicity and the structure of the work flow as it saves me time. AWeber also integrates with all the other programs, systems and gateways that I use on a daily basis (WordPress, Paypal, LeadPages, Facebook and more) and if I have any questions or have trouble the AWeber customer service technicians are very helpful.
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Marigold
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
AWeber
See previous answers ... the design / customization interface could be more intuitive and elegant .. for example, for me it has been difficult to easily figure out how to place pictures / images to the right, left or center of text.
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Marigold
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Support Rating
AWeber
I have always received prompt phone or live chat support that has resolved my issues on the first call in a competent, knowledgeable and friendly manner. By contrast MailChimp offers no live chat or phone support; they only offer email support and the response time for MailChimp is slow by comparison to AWeber.
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Marigold
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
AWeber
We often use Canva to design our content and then export it as an image to upload into Aweber, as Aweber designs and limitations are too much of a hindrance to our needs. Canva is a brilliant tool for marketing and saves you a lot of time being able to adapt or change an existing template you create.
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Marigold
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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Return on Investment
AWeber
  • Aweber delivers my email fast and reliably, never had a problem tech support could not handle (by the way, their support is great!)
  • Since I have been with Aweber for so many years, I have an unlimited plan for a very affordable rate
  • Aweber may not be a sexy as some of the new kids on the block, but it is a solid offering you should consider when choosing an autoresponder
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Marigold
  • 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.
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ScreenShots

AWeber Screenshots

Screenshot of Email marketing tools to run email marketing programs.Screenshot of Can automatically deliver a sequence of messages to new subscribers with autoresponders.Screenshot of The Canva direct integration feature can be used to create emails.Screenshot of Professional email newsletters can be created and sent in a matter of minutes with a drag-and-drop editor.Screenshot of Responsive landing pages.Screenshot of Sign up forms to build lists.