Campaign Monitor by Marigold vs. SendPulse

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
SendPulse
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
SendPulse is an integrated messaging platform providing user communication that includes emails, SMS, web push, SMTP, and user management.. This solution includes 15,000 free emails with up to 2,500 subscribers per month.N/A
Pricing
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldSendPulse
Editions & Modules
Lite
$9
per month
Essentials
$19
per month
Premier
$149
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldSendPulse
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing starts from $9 a month and depends on the number of messages sent.
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Community Pulse
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldSendPulse
Considered Both Products
Campaign Monitor by Marigold

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SendPulse
Chose SendPulse
For SendPulse's price point, I consider their competition to be the likes of Mailchimp, ConstantContact, etc. While SendPulse rates roughly average across the board in all areas, for businesses looking for the cheapest option (which comes with a lack of features/quality), Consta…
Top Pros
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Features
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldSendPulse
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
8.0
24 Ratings
1% below category average
SendPulse
6.5
11 Ratings
22% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.09 Ratings5.011 Ratings
Dynamic content7.022 Ratings4.011 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.01 Ratings8.09 Ratings
A/B testing7.022 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.01 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.011 Ratings
List management00 Ratings6.011 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.09 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
SendPulse
8.2
11 Ratings
6% above category average
Standard reports10.01 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.58 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
SendPulse
-
Ratings
Spam Testing7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldSendPulse
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(26 ratings)
5.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Campaign Monitor by MarigoldSendPulse
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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SendPulse Ltd.
SendPulse is great if you want to connect with your list on a more personal basis, and making sure that your email reaches your subscriber when it is best for him/her. You can also use the SMS function (though I haven't used it yet). Let's say you have clients and want to send a message to them automatically on their birthday, SendPulse allows you to do that. It allows you to add in specific fields that are relevant to you, in order to customise your messaging as much as you want and need.
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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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SendPulse Ltd.
  • One of the best features of this software is its user interface. I found it very intuitive.
  • It has sms feature also which is a great add-on to this software.
  • It has live chat support feature. And I find it very helpful when i find any technical problem.
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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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SendPulse Ltd.
  • I like its Drag and Drop function to design e-mailers but it lacks in some functionalities. Foe example when I write two different contents in a same box I need a line to show separation between my contents in the same box but this feature is unavailable in SendPulse.
  • They should include more fonts. Every product or service needs different kind of fonts to make a right impact on customers. With limited option of fonts it restricts user's creativity.
  • It is good to have templates to give users some idea for designing campaigns but here SendPluse has nothing much to offer. They have very limited number of templates.
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Likelihood to Renew
Marigold
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SendPulse Ltd.
Because I love how easy and intuitive SendPulse is.
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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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SendPulse Ltd.
I find that overall SendPulse is very intuitive to use and the support is there to help you out in case you don't find how to do what you wish to do. The drag and drop functionalities make it easy to create the newsletters you want. Every field is explained and small tutorials are included to show you how to create a new template, newsletter, etc. which makes it very easy to use.
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Support Rating
Marigold
No answers on this topic
SendPulse Ltd.
Every time I contacted the support team with a question or a problem, they were very fast in replying and helping me out solve it. Usually latest within 10 minutes I would receive a first answer, and the problem would get solved on the same day.
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Implementation Rating
Marigold
No answers on this topic
SendPulse Ltd.
When implementing SendPulse, it is a good idea to have a transition phase where you still use both systems, in case anything goes wrong.
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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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SendPulse Ltd.
For SendPulse's price point, I consider their competition to be the likes of Mailchimp, ConstantContact, etc. While SendPulse rates roughly average across the board in all areas, for businesses looking for the cheapest option (which comes with a lack of features/quality), ConstantContact beats them. For quality/features/value, I'd say Mailchimp is the best option for small businesses.
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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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SendPulse Ltd.
  • Tapping NRI clients with this software helps me in generating good revenue in last financial year.
  • I grow my NRI database by 60 in last year. And this software played a major role in doing so.
  • It made brand building very easy among my clients.
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