Campaign Monitor by Marigold vs. Elastic Email

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
Score 7.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Campaign Monitor by Marigold enables users to create, send, and optimize email marketing campaigns.
$11
per month
Elastic Email
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Email is an email delivery service for transactional emailing.
$18
per month
Pricing
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldElastic Email
Editions & Modules
Lite
$9
per month
Essentials
$19
per month
Premier
$149
per month
Marketing
$18
per month
Marketing Pro
$60
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldElastic Email
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldElastic Email
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
8.0
24 Ratings
2% below category average
Elastic Email
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing7.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Elastic Email
-
Ratings
Standard reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
7.4
4 Ratings
14% below category average
Elastic Email
-
Ratings
Spam Testing7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldElastic Email
Small Businesses
Mad Mimi
Mad Mimi
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
VerticalResponse
VerticalResponse
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Emma by Marigold
Emma by Marigold
Score 8.6 out of 10

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User Ratings
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldElastic Email
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(26 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldElastic Email
Likelihood to Recommend
Marigold
Campaign Monitor is undoubtedly one of the best software for managing email marketing campaigns; it is a robust platform and can be adapted to any company. If you are not a developer and don't know any code, it has many pre-made templates to use. I highly recommend Campaign Monitor; it is perfect, does what needs to be done, and is very easy to use.
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Elastic Email
Email Elastic is best suited in cases when we need to send bulk emails and campaigns. It provides features such as scheduling campaigns and automating fast delivery of emails; the trial version also provides many features that can be used by a new user. Email Elastic is less suited for small companies with a smaller number of clients or contacts.
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Pros
Marigold
  • Campaign Monitor’s support is great. They have a great help page built out to help answer all your questions, and if you do have a question or issue that needs extra support, their support team responds within a couple hours to help resolve the issue.
  • The email builder is very clean and easy to use. It makes A/B testing, personalization, and dynamic content easy to implement.
  • I appreciate the insights reporting that Campaign Monitor provides. We use that regularly for our quarterly reporting to track list growth, as well as campaign performance from a high level.
  • The automation is very straight forward and has truly transformed our marketing. The learning curve is pretty low, so my entire team knows how to use it to create and edit automated email journeys.
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Elastic Email
  • High Deliverability Rate Across Most Email Providers
  • Generous Free Plan for Those Just Getting Started
  • Fair, Competitive Pricing & Plans/Limits
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Cons
Marigold
  • Managing different subscriptions requires some thinking and setup with custom fields/lists/segments. It's not really 'out of the box' to set up.
  • The WYSIWYG editor is pretty locked down, which makes it idiot-proof, but would be great to have a little more control over padding, line height, kerning, etc.
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Elastic Email
  • I wish they didn't have such a strict requirement regarding their "opt out" links in emails. I totally understand why they do this, but there are use cases, such as one to one personal emails between individuals, where this is annoying. However, it's something I'm willing to live with for the greater good.
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Usability
Marigold
The templates, while useful, are very locked down, This makes it very usable from a novice's standpoint, but also very inflexible from a designer's standpoint. Creating several version of the email campaign and using A/B testing was a powerful and easy-to-use feature, and the system also provides the option of automating the sending of emails once an A/B testing criteria is reached
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Elastic Email
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Support Rating
Marigold
No answers on this topic
Elastic Email
I have not had any issues with Elastic Email that have required reaching out to support, so I can't speak to the quality of their customer support. The help documents were well written and presented, though, and I would imagine that anyone with issues would receive satisfactory assistance in a timely manner.
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Alternatives Considered
Marigold
The ability to track the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns in real-time is what makes Campaign Monitor interesting to use. All the vital features that we need to run professionally designed email campaigns that look wonderful on any device so that we boost our business are included in this platform.
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Elastic Email
Email elastic is a cost-effective, fast, and reliable platform for sending bulk emails and promoting campaigns, it provides good features even for the new user, while Blaze Verify pricing is a bit high, and a new user would not be able to access all the features. Hence clearly, Elastic email leads the position when compared to Blaze Verify.
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Return on Investment
Marigold
  • Because it's easy to use, we can design and send out newsletters easily and quickly, spending little time.
  • It's a great tool for aggregating all of the things our organization is up to and making sure people are aware of them.
  • Sometimes I wonder how many emails are sent to the Spam folder, but there are great tools to see how many opens you get.
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Elastic Email
  • With a very modest outlay, we achieve features and functions that cost larger companies a lot of money.
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