Bluecore vs. Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bluecore
Score 8.2 out of 10
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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
Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
The 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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsRequest pricing at info@bronto.com.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Bluecore

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Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
Chose Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
Eloqua is more for B2B and big groups. The user management function is obviously more advanced in Eloqua. However, when looking into the email itself, it’s quite limited and old fashioned.
Chose Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
Not nearly as sophisticated for targeted email tactics
Chose Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
One of the things that has lead to large increase in engagement is Recommendations Premium. Our previous platform did not allow for such nuanced targeting. Now with Bronto we are able to have each customer see a unique list of products similar to the ones that they have …
Top Pros
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bluecore
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Ratings
Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
7.4
58 Ratings
10% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.050 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings6.450 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.449 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings4.525 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings9.055 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.850 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.458 Ratings
List management00 Ratings7.456 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.448 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bluecore
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Ratings
Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
7.6
57 Ratings
3% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.857 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.856 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.143 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 10
VerticalResponse
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Score 9.2 out of 10
VerticalResponse
VerticalResponse
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Score 9.2 out of 10
Emma by Marigold
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
BluecoreBronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(2 ratings)
8.1
(60 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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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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.
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Pros
Bluecore
  • Triggered emails
  • Audience segmentation
  • Integration with Facebook and Adwords
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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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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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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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Likelihood to Renew
Bluecore
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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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Usability
Bluecore
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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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Reliability and Availability
Bluecore
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The Bronto Marketing Platform
I never experienced any downtime.
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Performance
Bluecore
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The Bronto Marketing Platform
No issues.
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Support Rating
Bluecore
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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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Online Training
Bluecore
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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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Implementation Rating
Bluecore
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The Bronto Marketing Platform
Easy to set up.
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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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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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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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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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