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    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

    MailUp

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMailUp is the eponymous email & SMS platform from the Italian company that was founded in 2002 that now has a modest but respectable presence across the western world with a diverse customer base (Yamaha, Amnesty International, Korean Air, etc.). Mailup's platform combines email marketing, with transactional email and SMS features, and offers SMTP relay and plugins for ecommerce, CRM and CMS systems. Their unusual pricing scheme is tiered just on subscribers but on volume of sends and that…N/A
    Pricing
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)MailUp
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    Pricing Offerings
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)MailUp
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsRequest pricing at info@bronto.com.
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    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)MailUp
    Considered Both Products
    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Chose Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    They have a strong Magento integration, which is a great thing for B2C Magento e-commerce business. Also, they have all the automation features, which allows you to automatize the sendings depending on your strategy, but Bronto charges additional for each new features.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)MailUp
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and MailUp
    Feature
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    9% below category average
    MailUp
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor7.050 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Dynamic content6.450 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content6.449 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Landing pages4.525 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing9.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.850 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.458 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management7.456 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.448 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued) and MailUp
    Feature
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    2% below category average
    MailUp
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    Ratings
    Dashboards7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.856 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.143 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)MailUp
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (60 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Bronto Marketing Platform (discontinued)MailUp
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    MailUp
    Great for marketing teams looking to quickly deploy emails without the need for HTML coding.
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    Pros
    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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    MailUp
    • Email marketing creation
    • Email design
    • HTML template creation
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    Cons
    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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    MailUp
    • Alt tag styling within the editor
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    MailUp
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    Usability
    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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    MailUp
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    Reliability and Availability
    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    I never experienced any downtime.
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    MailUp
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    Performance
    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    No issues.
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    MailUp
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    Support Rating
    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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    MailUp
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    Online Training
    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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    MailUp
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    Implementation Rating
    The Bronto Marketing Platform
    Easy to set up.
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    MailUp
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    MailUp
    Mailup has hands down the best editor for creating responsive emails, I've tried almost everything out there and this is the best, I recommend this to colleagues all the time!
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    Return on Investment
    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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    MailUp
    • Faster email development
    • More team members able to contribute to the email development process
    • Better templates
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    ScreenShots

    MailUp Screenshots

    Screenshot of Manage lists. With MailUp, you can manage mailing lists, groups and sending profiles, automatically eliminating duplicate addresses and handling users who cancel their subscription. The procedure is guided, quick and safe. The utmost simplicity, with no need to install additional software. Not bad, right?Screenshot of he winning variable, with mathematical certainty
With A/B testing, discover, prior to mailing, what your recipients prefer to read, by automatically testing several versions of the same text, measuring its effectiveness on a select group. Opening results improve by up to 30% and, for each version, you have more statistical information. Mailing after mailing, you can only do better!Screenshot of Creating emails for mobile devices is easy
Free your creativity and create emails and newsletters that have great visual impact, optimised for mobile devices. While you concentrate on the content of your campaign, MailUp takes care of the rest with the aid of an intelligent editor and plenty of cutting-edge functions. Not bad, right?Screenshot of Countless ways to create your messages.

There's not only BEE with which create messages. You can start with HTML documents, RSS/Atom, URL or choose from hundreds of graphic models. Starting with an empty email? The convenient WYSIWYG editor helps you put your messages together with just a few clicks. It's all up to you!Screenshot of .and you can do the same with unsubscribe lists.

Automatic management of unsubscribe lists allows you to activate the UNSUBSCRIBE button directly in the email client interface. The unsubscribers list also shows a list of users who performed this action, which may be edited and exported. This function also allows you to make up random groups of users, specifying the number of subscribers. This makes it easier to manage random sampling and A/B testing.Product screenshot