Campaign Monitor by Marigold vs. Maxemail

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
Maxemail
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Maxemail is an email marketing solution built around features such as multivariate testing, ROI tracking, and split testing.N/A
Pricing
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldMaxemail
Editions & Modules
Lite
$9
per month
Essentials
$19
per month
Premier
$149
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldMaxemail
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldMaxemail
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
Maxemail
9.3
1 Ratings
13% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.09 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Dynamic content7.022 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
A/B testing7.022 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
List management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
10.0
1 Ratings
25% above category average
Maxemail
10.0
1 Ratings
25% above category average
Standard reports10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
7.4
4 Ratings
13% below category average
Maxemail
-
Ratings
Spam Testing7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldMaxemail
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(26 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldMaxemail
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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Emailcenter UK Limited
Maxemail is perfect for sending newsletters to customers, as well as triggered emails and lifecycle emails. It proves vast ability for you to use customer data to make rich personalisation, and gives excellent deliverability.
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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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Emailcenter UK Limited
  • Maxemail provides great customer service.
  • Maxemail has a very powerful platform with a lot of capabilities.
  • Maxemail does dynamic email building and personalisation very well and gives you tools to do incredible things.
  • Maxemail provides fantastic deliverability for our emails.
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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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Emailcenter UK Limited
  • Maxemail lacks a lot of the 'add-ons' companies like mailchimp and others provide - such as landing pages and Zapier integration - but they don't need these features really and the features they do have excel above and beyond other companies.
  • Maxemail user interface looks daunting and was hard to teach to some people.
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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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Emailcenter UK Limited
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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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Emailcenter UK Limited
Maxemail had the perfect blend of the features we needed with pricing that works for us and incredible customer service. They did not have pushy sales, just transparent quality.
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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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Emailcenter UK Limited
  • Maxemail was more experienced than our previous provider but the additional cost is small compared to the much higher quality.
  • Maxemail has given us flexbility to try a lot of things that have improved our email metrics.
  • Maxemail's customer service is quick and responsive so saves us time trying to get things done.
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