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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomreach

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Bloomreach personalizes the customer experience for brands around the world. Loomi AI, its agentic platform, understands customers in context — then tailors their experience in real time. Connected to applications at every touchpoint, Loomi AI brings personalization to life across email, web,…N/A

    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Bronto Marketing Platform was an email marketing solution from Oracle which was acquired from NetSuite in 2016. It was optimized for creating automated, yet personalized emails, and subscriber profile segments, analyzing click and visit behavior, and tracking geolocation. It has since been discontinued.N/A

    VerticalResponse

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVerticalResponse is an email campaign management software and services platform from Deluxe. In addition to providing email marketing tools, VerticalResponse offers fully managed email marketing services from campaign launch and management to reporting and analysis.

    $9

    per month

    Pricing
    BloomreachBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)VerticalResponse
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Basic
    $11.00
    per month
    Pro
    $16.00
    per month
    Pro Plus
    $196.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomreachBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)VerticalResponse
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.Request pricing at info@bronto.com.—
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    Community Pulse
    BloomreachBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)VerticalResponse
    Considered Multiple Products
    Bloomreach
    Chose Bloomreach
    Bloomreach is much much easier to use, it has quick loading times, user friendly interface and more features
    Incentivized
    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Chose Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    Bronto has much better suited personalized customer support. You work with your account manager who helps you get up and running, and then (optional) you can book time with a strategist that will go over your program goals and help you figure out what tasks to tackle first to …
    Incentivized
    VerticalResponse
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    133 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    116 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    BloomreachBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)VerticalResponse
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    8.3
    104 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    VerticalResponse
    9.9
    8 Ratings
    21% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.591 Ratings7.050 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Dynamic content8.7100 Ratings6.450 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.299 Ratings6.449 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Landing pages6.857 Ratings4.525 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    A/B testing8.9100 Ratings9.055 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.191 Ratings7.850 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.1101 Ratings9.458 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    List management8.086 Ratings7.456 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences7.876 Ratings8.448 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    7.6
    84 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation7.872 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.067 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management8.479 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks6.747 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution7.35 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    7.1
    77 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring6.871 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.554 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    7.4
    55 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns7.047 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.838 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    8.2
    103 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    0% below category average
    VerticalResponse
    10.0
    9 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Dashboards7.9103 Ratings7.857 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Standard reports8.499 Ratings7.856 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Custom reports8.499 Ratings7.143 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    8.1
    129 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    -
    Ratings
    API8.7123 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.681 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability8.892 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.113 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.613 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.510 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations7.666 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Bloomreach and Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and VerticalResponse
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    -
    Ratings
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    VerticalResponse
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    GetResponse
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BloomreachBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)VerticalResponse
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (192 ratings)
    8.1
    (60 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    7.6
    (22 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Bloomreach Customer Support
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (155 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomreachBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)VerticalResponse
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomreach
    They've just been a great partner to work with. They put forth 100% when bringing platforms to the merchant and were highly prepared and knowledgeable during the sales cycle and implementation, and remained very connected post-implementation to ensure client success with the platform. Their CEO is always eager to sit down, talk shop, and listen to clients' needs, and you can tell from his enthusiasm that he cares about making this company the best in class.
    Incentivized
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    If you're a mid-size to larger business and rely on regular email engagement from customers, then Bronto Marketing Platform could be a potentially great partner if not game-changer for how you've been doing email campaign management previously. Their automation tools and development interface is amicable. The amount of data that's collected and available from engagement with subscribers through their tools can be overwhelming. Still, if you enjoy digging into every kernel of possible user activity information, you'll love it.
    Incentivized
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    VerticalResponse
    For businesses requiring advanced email marketing features like sophisticated automation, in-depth analytics, and extensive customization, VerticalResponse might fall short due to its limited featuresVerticalResponse is ideal for small businesses or freelancers who need a simple, straightforward email marketing tool. Its ease of use and basic features make it suitable for those without extensive technical expertise in email marketing
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Bloomreach
    • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
    • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
    • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • It's easy to work with – it has seamless integration across all platforms, which helps when you're working with big clientele.
    • It's logically organized, which can't be said of all ESP's.
    • It has the LIVE CHAT support. A lot of email marketing clients simply don't have that. It's the little things!
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    VerticalResponse
    • I love the ease of list builder because we often times have a lot of data to import. It would be simply impossible without this tool, considering the amount of customer data we have for any one given email.
    • We really enjoy the ease of use of the HTML wizard as well. It helps even a novice be able to make a beautiful and attention grabbing email.
    • The dashboard is functional and easy to find when you need with a quick search.
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    Cons
    Bloomreach
    • Improve introduction to Bloomreach-specific terminology such as running aggregates. These are really powerful but can be difficult to understand
    • Introduce more options for report exporting - it would be good to be able to schedule reports to send to different email addresses
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • Segmenting- although there's a lot that can be done with segmenting audiences, there's a bit of a learning curve when it comes to setting up segments. Wish it was more intuitive.
    • Workflows- setting up automation workflows requires some practice and I've needed to consult a Bronto support person each time I set up a new workflow.
    • Bronto Pop-up manager- we use this feature, not sure how common it is among Bronto clients, but there is overall some improvement needed with this tool. There is limited capability to update the look and feel of the pop-up manager, and we've run into some conflicts with other pop-ups on our website interfering with the Bronto pop-up.
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    VerticalResponse
    • The type face is small. Not sure if this is to avoid overwhelming the reader, but I could see this being an issue with vision-impaired people or people who don't see small print well.
    • Sometimes I find it takes multiple clicks to make one simple change. I wish there was a search field at the top of the screen that allowed me to jump directly to a client's entry to update it there.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomreach
    We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
    Incentivized
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Never really had any issues that caused out-of-the-ordinary frustration levels. Of course, you'll have days where the learning curve of using a tool gets challenging. Still, I don't remember ever really coming across an obstacle or roadblock while using the tool because of a feature or function it just couldn't do successfully or at all. Customer support was always available as needed, and it was generally easy to find answers to questions when they arose.
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    VerticalResponse
    Product is easy for both technical and non-technical people to use. A cost effective solution for sending out large number of messages. We can manage unsubscribes by individual accounts, so we can have multiple multiple accounts combined to maximize our buying power on credits. Effective API for sending/receiving data makes tool a valuable asset.
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    Usability
    Bloomreach
    In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Usability is great. Very intuitive drag-and-drip metaphor for building automations. And the UI is very user-centric. It constantly prompts you with suggestions and next steps such that you hardly have to refer to the (excellent) documentation.
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    VerticalResponse
    I truly love this product. We are moving to an all-in-one system next year and my greatest fear in doing so is how much I will miss this platform. Although we are excited for things ahead, I will always keep Vertical Response in my back pocket incase I don't love the new platform as much
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bloomreach
    The platform is generally reliable - major outages are rare and most day-to-day campaign operations run without interruption. Where it dips: occasional slowdowns in the analytics dashboard during peak loads, and sometimes scenario executions get delayed without clear explanation. The real-time event processing is mostly solids. Overall uptime is strong - it is not something that keeps me up at night, but it is not flawless either.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    I never experienced any downtime.
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    VerticalResponse
    Never had an issue with uptime
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    Performance
    Bloomreach
    Performance in Bloomreach Content is quite good but you need to be ready. Your implementation should follow all the good practices (avoid crazy patterns) and the environment setup should be the right one. With all that, Bloomreach's performance is quite solid. Our usage makes use of complex queries and most of them are really quick. Only when you need something really complex and you aggregate queries that should be separated you would get slower results (but then again, that is not a good practice for any platform).
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No issues.
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    VerticalResponse
    No issues
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    Support Rating
    Bloomreach
    The project team consistently delivers excellent collaboration and is always available whenever assistance is needed. Their responsiveness and commitment make working together smooth and efficient. Bloomreach support, which is included for free in the platform, can also be quite useful, especially for quick clarifications. However, the quality and speed of their responses can sometimes vary, depending on the issue.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    They used to be good, but they've evolved into a monolithic bureaucratic nightmare after the Netsuite / Oracle acquisition. Can't talk to anyone that actually knows the system and support tickets seem to go days or weeks without responses and resolution.
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    VerticalResponse
    At Vertical Response the help desk associates are courteous, knowledgeable and helpful. You can tell they enjoy what they do. And clearly, they are well trained because most times, the first point of contact is able to resolve any issue you may have. There have been very few times where an associate has needed to get back to me or escalate me to a supervisor
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    In-Person Training
    Bloomreach
    The Training was awesome
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
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    VerticalResponse
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Bloomreach
    very informative and patient
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    They have lots of videos on list importing / segmentation / report customization etc. when you sign on they give a link to online tutorials and documentation which is very helpful. They have very helpful PDFs on how to import / set up platform
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    VerticalResponse
    Basic functions and online help...we used what was needed, at the time, and will continue to explore other online trainings as our functional needs expand
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    Implementation Rating
    Bloomreach
    All the deployments were done on time
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Easy to set up.
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    VerticalResponse
    Salesforce integration never worked right. We had to abandon.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomreach
    Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Bronto hits the sweet spot for us. It is most similar to the Salesforce family of products. Salesforce however can feel cluttered and configuration and setup can be time consuming and confusing. Bronto is much more streamlined and also has features built in that may require additional purchases in the Salesforce world. Adobe Campaign is a very powerful solution and can do many things hard to achieve in Bronto. However, Campaign is much more of a developer tool where Bronto is easy to learn and use right out of the box.
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    VerticalResponse
    In addition to using Vertical Response personally I also manage email marketing for clients that already use Mailchimp, Robly and Constant Contact. While most of these platforms all offer similar features I choose Vertical Response first if the client does not have a platform in place. Typically I am also teaching the client how to use this tool and the Vertical Response visual interface is very easy for me to teach a client how to navigate and create their own campaigns.
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    Scalability
    Bloomreach
    there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
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    VerticalResponse
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    Return on Investment
    Bloomreach
    • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
    • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
    • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
    • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
    • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    • Offering great reporting for tracking everything. I can see what emails are working (I track on a monthly basis) and what people are clicking.
    • A/B split testing lets us try different things. Try this and that.
    • Creating lists and segments of subscribers lets us look at who is the best performing contacts. Really get 'into the data' and understand what is working and what is not.
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    VerticalResponse
    • We were able to blast out promotions our company was having to customers which created an increase in business.
    • By blasting out any service issues, it keeps our customers informed so that they are not wondering what is going on.
    • Allows us to store unsubscribed emails so that we are not constantly pestering people who do not want to be emailed.
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    ScreenShots

    Bloomreach Screenshots

    Screenshot of Funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of Retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of Web layers with A/B testing.Screenshot of The drag and drop campaign editor.Screenshot of The WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templates.Screenshot of The CRM with 360° customer behaviour history.