Blueshift vs. Cheetah Digital vs. Lytics

Blueshift is a great AI-based platform for travel companies that would like to retarget users as the platform is able to look at last searched dates, location, and hotel/ room type.

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Cheetah Messaging is great tool for marketers in order to manage different campaigns. Various aspects of the tool such as personalization, reporting & analytics, bulk user management, segmentation help the marketers a lot with their day to day work. Cheetah Messaging would be less appropriate for user having bulk databases.

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If you're struggling to reach a target audience in a touchpoint other than email/print, Lytics is for your business. If your website doesn't have much web traffic, Lytics is NOT for you. It doesn't help with external acquisitions, only with retaining customers who are already on your site.

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• Recommendation
• Segment, event, and recurring campaigns offer a wide range of possibilities to smartly email people
• Use of AI to build predictive scoring

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• They offer a best-in-class view of the customer email experience - through all levels of a customer journey.
• Our account team has taken the time to dedicate to our brand and understand our goals and objectives. They tailor recommendations to what is best for our unique customer experience.
• The CheetahMail platform is user-friendly and is continuously going through enhancements to improve the experience.

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• Easy to use segmentation tool
• Clients love to see their audience build live!
• Easy to activate an audience wherever it needs to go

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• Campaign management features like drag and drop, copying elements - general ease of use improvements to the UX
• Ability to move customers easily from one campaign to another with one click

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• The organization of CheetahMail could at times be better, as you create more and more mailings, they just pile up in a long list. It would be useful to be able to create folders to store specific mailings in. (ex. editorial, newsletters, marketing, etc.)

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• Customization: users are limited to pre-made designs.
• Design: we have the same issue here; it would be great if users could upload designs from Creative Cloud.
• Integration: it can be confusing to pair with other applications.

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We're not in the mood to start this process over at this time. A lot of hard work went into it.

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As I have begun exploring competitors, I've come to realize that every competitor offers so much more functionality and integration than CheetahMail does. When we first signed our contract, CheetahMail was much more innovative and at the forefront of email. Since being bought out by Experian, we've seen a huge decline in service and innovation. They have laid off much of their staff and moved their account representatives to Costa Rica. They also heavily rely on on third parties which you will have to pay large amounts of money for while other Email Service Providers have integrated new technologies into their platform. You will get more for your money going to a different email service such as Responsys, Silverpop, Listrak and the like,

CheetahMail has a high learning curve to master and requires a lot of backend work with tech teams to set up. Navigation is not the best and everything that should be automated is still extremely manual.

I've been very satisfied with the support given by Cheetah, they are always asking and looking for areas where they can help you improve upon your business. They are very knowledgeable and are able to quickly find any answer you are looking for.

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Blueshift's capability with events and segmentation is unmatched - with other CDPs, we have not been able to replicate the ability to create an event based on customer behavior that encapsulates a payload of information regarding that particular action.

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To be honest, all ESPs at a core level offer the same features to manage an email program effectively. The true decision making then is based on what their specialty service(s) may be. ExactTarget is a wonderful UI and integrations across many channels, but it is quite expensive and really for large enterprise organizations. Yesmail does have a great creative-services department. Strongmail, although good, does not offer any significant difference in the market, but price is slightly less so aren't bad solutions. DREAM is probably the "middle" between a Cheetahmail and ExactTarget from a UI look-and-feel and functionality perspective, and their data access is quite good. Cheetahmail was selected in the end because it offered more than a smaller ESP for functionality for larger enterprises, but was still within a cost range that was affordable for my company. (In fairness, there was also an existing relationship with Experian on non-email data services which also made extending the relationship make sense.)

We evaluated 5-8 CDP's and picked Lytics[.]

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• Better ROI with more precise targeting
• More adapted to pressure
• Long to put in place however so it's taking time so we've potentially lost potential customers

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• Web-based customers have gone up.
• Though the customers have gone up, we don't see a significant increase in our policies sold.
• Communicating with CheetahMail is also fair when having to debug problems, which is good but there are a bunch of problems with some emails that lead to communication in the first place.

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• Allowed us to come off more expensive tools.

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