Bluecore vs. DirectLync

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bluecore
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Following $6 million in series A funding from FirstMark Capital and others in 2013, the rapidly growing company along with its rapidly and broadly adopted product known as TriggerMail became Bluecore. But its function is as it was before the rebrand: an ecommerce focused trigger marketing product that uses email to retarget vacillating or distracted customers and grow online sales. Essential to Bluecore is customer behavior, assimilated in an automated fashion across disparate sources. Once…N/A
DirectLync
Score 9.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
DirectLync is an all-in-one marketing platform that is designed to help small businesses achieve their sales and marketing goals. The platform brings together contact management, email marketing, social media management, and website CMS into one platform. It provides integrated reporting for all channels saving marketers hours a week in time spent collecting and analyzing data from different sources. Integrated reporting easily enables marketers to get a comprehensive view of their campaigns.…
$20
Month
Pricing
BluecoreDirectLync
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$20.00
Month
Essential
$99.00
Month
Pro
$249.00
Month
Premium
$599.00
Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BluecoreDirectLync
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BluecoreDirectLync
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Features
BluecoreDirectLync
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bluecore
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Ratings
DirectLync
8.5
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
List management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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BluecoreDirectLync
Small Businesses
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Score 9.1 out of 10
Kentico Xperience
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Score 7.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 7.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
BluecoreDirectLync
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BluecoreDirectLync
Likelihood to Recommend
Bluecore
Bluecore is fantastic for building and sending email campaigns. They're also spectacular at providing insight on where your subscribers actively are vs predictive behavior. This is particularly helpful in sending the right message at the right time to the right person, all with product recommendations. I don't think they would be particularly appropriate for building something in SMS (we've found a lot of success with Attentive) and I don't think Bluecore helps much with social media analytics
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DirectLync
Girls PACT receives regular compliments on its website! The audience for our website is potential donors. DirectLync nailed it! The design is clean, modern, professional, user friendly, intuitive and really represents our brand. They gave us some great coaching and guidance as we were creating and preparing content. It was a really fun project!
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Pros
Bluecore
  • Triggered emails
  • Audience segmentation
  • Integration with Facebook and Adwords
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DirectLync
  • DirectLync is knowledgeable in their field, which saves us time (and money).
  • They have a creative team onsite to answer questions promptly.
  • Regularly updating products and services to better serve its customers.
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Cons
Bluecore
  • Embedded functionality for social media live preview
  • Heat maps don't always show up
  • More flexibility in navigation bar, can get uneven in proportion
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DirectLync
  • Girls PACT is located in Los Angeles. Newsletters are scheduled for PST, yet distributed on EST. It’s an odd glitch and may be a user error.
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Alternatives Considered
Bluecore
Bluecore impressed us from the start because of their focus on the email. I got the sense from SmarterHQ that they viewed themselves more as a segmentation tool. While also very useful, Bluecore made it easier to close the circle and take that segmented list all the way through creative process to the actual send, with a consciousness of how we secure the conversion. Since becoming a customer, Bluecore has continued to blow me away with their innovation and professionalism, leaving no doubt that we made the right choice.
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DirectLync
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Return on Investment
Bluecore
  • We've seen increased ROI through product personalization purchasing
  • We've been able to individualize our campaigns based on highest category affinity
  • We've seen engagement with our automated campaigns to help figure out exactly what blocks to include in these messages.
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DirectLync
  • DirectLync has saved our marketing budget thousands of dollars! They have been so generous supporting the marketing needs of Girls PACT, a nonprofit organization.
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