Likelihood to Recommend For low volume non-profits, Benchmark Email provides a respectable free service. Ease of use is high and customization of the email is good. The discount for 501(c)(3) organizations and fully free use for non-profits that help children is commendable. Although the GUI editor is flexible and easy to learn, it does have some issues with certain detailed formatting concerns, like properly showing the newlines between paragraphs. Image/photo processing and presentation is similarly both easy to use, but frustrating due to some capability gaps and quirks, like specifying image sizes and display on hi-resolution devices. Overall, Benchmark Email provides a good service that is easy to learn to expand your communication reach; however, the ROI and satisfaction may not be as high if paying fees comparable to other offerings.
Read full review In my opinion, for content sites such as blogs and magazines, Moosend is highly recommended. For ecommerce sites, not recommended as SMS marketing feature not added with Moosend.
Read full review Pros 2,000 contact list space available with no time limit to those who can't upgrade. The AB Testing feature helps to improve the performance of your emails by experimenting with different content and send times to determine what works best. Thus great emailing objectives are easier to achieve. There is a feature where website and email engagement trigger an automatic email series. For example, the automatic flow of a subscriber from a leads list to a customer list upon making a purchase is awesome. Read full review Moosend is the best application to trace the business development and to create ideas through email marketing This tool is helpful in the atomization of developments on a certain level It promotes business opportunities in the market with innovation and ideas Read full review Cons List maintenance -- navigating multiple lists is a cumbersome activity. Analytics about user engagement could be better. It's not super robust, especially if you're used to Google Analytics. Customer support is kind of slow to get back to us. Read full review If you have more than 1000 subscribers you will be required to upgrade to the Pro plan. Free plan users have limited customer support. Read full review Alternatives Considered I stated this plenty of times in my previous responses but we moved to Benchmark from
Mad Mimi .
Mad Mimi 's feature set is extremely basic and only suited for start-ups or very small businesses. Benchmark provides enough customization to take the next step in your email marketing program. It's also fairly affordable
Read full review Moosend is known as more of an industry standard than
BuzzStream (which is a more budget tool), and it shows.
BuzzStream has clearly cut corners in areas of usability and general UI, where Moosend, on the other hand, seems to have done it right from the beginning. Moosend is so much less clunky than the other tools we evaluated.
Read full review Return on Investment If we think particularly on the ROI then benchmark email gives you a definite amount of ROI. But it takes time, you will see the results after a six month span of time. Because sending an email itself is a slow and steady process to follow. Read full review Moosend is quite affordable (500,000 emails for $500), so it's easy to see an ROI. It only takes a few recipients converting to make a campaign worth the spend. Read full review ScreenShots Benchmark Email Screenshots