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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DirectLync

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    DirectLync is an all-in-one marketing platform that is designed to help small businesses achieve their sales and marketing goals. The platform brings together contact management, email marketing, social media management, and website CMS into one platform. It provides integrated reporting for all channels saving marketers hours a week in time spent collecting and analyzing data from different sources. Integrated reporting easily enables marketers to get a comprehensive view of their campaigns.…

    $20

    Month

    dotMailer

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $150

    per month

    Pricing
    DirectLyncdotMailer
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $20.00
    Month
    Essential
    $99.00
    Month
    Pro
    $249.00
    Month
    Premium
    $599.00
    Month
    Growth
    $150.00
    per month
    Professional
    $500.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DirectLyncdotMailer
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DirectLyncdotMailer
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of DirectLync and dotMailer
    Feature
    DirectLync
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    dotMailer
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Email deliverability reporting8.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    List management9.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DirectLyncdotMailer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DirectLyncdotMailer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DirectLync
    Girls PACT receives regular compliments on its website! The audience for our website is potential donors. DirectLync nailed it! The design is clean, modern, professional, user friendly, intuitive and really represents our brand. They gave us some great coaching and guidance as we were creating and preparing content. It was a really fun project!
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    dotMailer
    Well suited for a company with a larger marketing budget as this is a costly program compared to the other ESPs. If your use case is not eCommerce, you would probably be better off with a standard ESP like Drip.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    DirectLync
    • DirectLync is knowledgeable in their field, which saves us time (and money).
    • They have a creative team onsite to answer questions promptly.
    • Regularly updating products and services to better serve its customers.
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    dotMailer
    • Easy Editor - no HTML required. It's very easy to drag and drop your elements, customizing the campaign according to your needs.
    • Reports- the reports are robust, showing you your open rates, browsers used, who clicked what, etc. It is easy to section out this information and deliver it to the appropriate stakeholders.
    • Templates - building your own template library makes creating and sending campaigns and quick and easy experience. In a global company like ours, it also enables consistency across the brand locations throughout the world.
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    Cons
    DirectLync
    • Girls PACT is located in Los Angeles. Newsletters are scheduled for PST, yet distributed on EST. It’s an odd glitch and may be a user error.
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    dotMailer
    • Integration is overly complex.
    • Cannot progressively profile from anything other than an email address.
    • Too expensive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DirectLync
    No answers on this topic
    dotMailer
    Since this is used on a global scale and it is preferable to all of our brands, I cannot see us switching to a different provider. We have built years worth of contacts and templates within our current system, which saves our marketing team a lot of time when putting together future campaigns. All of them are mobile optimized which makes it even easier to work with
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    DirectLync
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    dotMailer
    DotMailer is built for eCommerce. Drip, ActiveCampaign, and Infusionsoft are not eCommerce platforms out of the box, though they can be tailored to that use case. DotMailer is especially geared toward retail businesses.
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    Return on Investment
    DirectLync
    • DirectLync has saved our marketing budget thousands of dollars! They have been so generous supporting the marketing needs of Girls PACT, a nonprofit organization.
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    dotMailer
    • Better customer service
    • Increased brand awareness
    • Increased brand engagement
    • Streamlined processes
    • Regular communication with customers
    • Increased audience/reach
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    Screenshot of Home DashboardScreenshot of Email EditorScreenshot of List SegmentationScreenshot of Social media channel reportScreenshot of Scheduled postScreenshot of Marketing Calendar