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    Cheetah Digital

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ADesigned for high-volume, cross-channel campaigns, Cheetah Digital is used by marketers to deliver highly personalized, contextual communications across various channels including email, SMS, push, mobile wallet, direct mail, and social.N/A

    Postal

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AFounded in 2020 in San Luis Obispo, California, Postal is a Global Offline Engagement Platform that serves over 600 B2B customers like Yelp, Cisco Meraki, Seismic, and Fivetran. Postal helps customers to create meaningful and impactful human connections with prospects, partners, customers, and employees.N/A
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    Cheetah DigitalPostal
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    Cheetah DigitalPostal
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cheetah DigitalPostal
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    Zeta Global
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    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Cheetah DigitalPostal
    Small Businesses
    Listrak
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Sailthru
    Score5.3 out of 10
    PFL Direct Mail Platform
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Listrak
    Score10 out of 10
    PFL Direct Mail Platform
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cheetah DigitalPostal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    1.1
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
    3.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cheetah DigitalPostal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Zeta Global
    I think CheetahMail, being one of the main ESPs in the market, is a quality choice. However, I would suggest that it's really only valuable for a bit larger of an organization, generally having staff of 100+ and revenues in tens of millions -- this is mainly to justify the amount of investment required, so may be cost-prohibitive to some. You also need to make sure that you understand the entire "level of support" you will gain through your specific contract.... the key is understanding what types of resources are within your organization (who's doing the coding? who comes up with the next campaign? What's the overall strategy?) Depending on these questions and resources, may help determine your final needs from a services point of view. CheetahMail can provide a wealth of various services specific to needs (and changes over time as your business changes), but a clear understanding of what you have before you bring them on will really help getting up and running quickly. Also be sure to truly understand the costs for the initial integrations, setups, IP senders, etc.
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    Postal
    If you are a small or growing team that understands experiential, ABM, and gift marketing strategies and how to leverage them, Postal.io gives you everything you need with moderate CSM coverage, without the white glove price tags of similar solutions like Sendoso.
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    Pros
    Zeta Global
    • Internal management - This is a great web-based tool that allows our users to see what emails go to whom.
    • Organization - Many layers of organization for templates since there are many types of remarketing emails that we send out.
    • Historical Records - CheetahMail sends us the raw text files of all email actions so we can upload them to our database.
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    Postal
    • Integrates with sales engagement, marketing automation, and CRM platforms
    • Provides tracking and reporting on spending and channel effectiveness
    • Offers an extensive marketplace of various items for any budget
    • Comes with unlimited seats and sends
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    Cons
    Zeta Global
    • The organization of CheetahMail could at times be better, as you create more and more mailings, they just pile up in a long list. It would be useful to be able to create folders to store specific mailings in. (ex. editorial, newsletters, marketing, etc.)
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    Postal
    • Navigation -Took time to find custom hyper links.
    • Finding items - Can be hard to find where items are on platform.
    • Layout could be better.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Zeta Global
    As I have begun exploring competitors, I've come to realize that every competitor offers so much more functionality and integration than CheetahMail does. When we first signed our contract, CheetahMail was much more innovative and at the forefront of email. Since being bought out by Experian, we've seen a huge decline in service and innovation. They have laid off much of their staff and moved their account representatives to Costa Rica. They also heavily rely on on third parties which you will have to pay large amounts of money for while other Email Service Providers have integrated new technologies into their platform. You will get more for your money going to a different email service such as Responsys, Silverpop, Listrak and the like,
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    Postal
    We get so much value out of the platform that I can't find any legitimate or logical reason why we wouldn't renew. Their team has been a pleasure to work with.
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    Usability
    Zeta Global
    CheetahMail has a high learning curve to master and requires a lot of backend work with tech teams to set up. Navigation is not the best and everything that should be automated is still extremely manual.
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    Postal
    I love the tool, and my team relies on it heavily. We just completed our quarterly review and were able to track every single dollar spent
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    Support Rating
    Zeta Global
    I've been very satisfied with the support given by Cheetah, they are always asking and looking for areas where they can help you improve upon your business. They are very knowledgeable and are able to quickly find any answer you are looking for.
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    Postal
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    Alternatives Considered
    Zeta Global
    I believe Cheetah DMS is a bit more complete and a lot more complex to use than Mailchimp. Mailchimp was born as a mail marketing service while Cheetah has always worked across the whole online advertising spectrum making it a better solution for clients that need a certain level of service and sophistication.
    Incentivized
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    Postal
    Postal.io was a more budget-friendly option than the alternatives I considered. We knew our gifting budget wouldn't be huge so we were willing to go with something less established in order to make sure we had as much budget left over as possible. We also like the flexibility with Postal.io that we could add almost anything to their marketplace if we could find it available online.
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    Return on Investment
    Zeta Global
    • Our efficiency has decreased with CheetaMail actually. Too many service calls to find out why something isn't working as expected, account setup questions, issues with PiP, takes too long to get a simple form built, customer service response time, etc...
    • Reporting is not very streamlined. This has caused us to take our reporting offline and use a method with better visibility.
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    Postal
    • Increased Productivity: It has taken a huge headache out of keeping and maintaining what swag is on hand has saved a LOT of company time
    • easier to reach out to potential clients
    Incentivized
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