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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

    Sendblaster

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASendBlaster is the eponymous lean, list management / newsletter-centric email marketing software from the Italian company founded in 2006, basically for creating newsletters in a WYSIWYG editor and sending them out to the multitudes, with tools facilitating this: programmable tags, personalization, link checking, embedded image support, file importing, templates, and help from partner Mailstyler (free) for newsletter optimization and styling. Bulk mailing is managed for free with Sendblaster…N/A
    Pricing
    DirectLyncSendblaster
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $20.00
    Month
    Essential
    $99.00
    Month
    Pro
    $249.00
    Month
    Premium
    $599.00
    Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DirectLyncSendblaster
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DirectLyncSendblaster
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of DirectLync and Sendblaster
    Feature
    DirectLync
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sendblaster
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Email deliverability reporting8.01 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    List management9.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
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    Feature
    DirectLync
    -
    Ratings
    Sendblaster
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DirectLyncSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DirectLyncSendblaster
    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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    Sendblaster
    Sendblaster is a great tool for any environment. It's particularly good in organizations that do not have a full featured CRM that manages bulk email marketing and communication. Even if an organization has a great CRM, Sendblaster is still great for those marketing or communication campaigns that go out to recipients who are not already in the CRM, custom groups, bulk sending that you want to keep separate from your other CRM(s), etc.
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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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    Sendblaster
    • Rendering HTML source code
    • Managing mailing lists
    • You can control the speed of email broadcasts
    • Ease of importing lists
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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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    Sendblaster
    • The user interface could be more polished. It's very easy to use, but the appearance of the user interface looks a little old fashioned for a desktop software. Of course recipients don't see that interface, so that is not very consequential.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DirectLync
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    Sendblaster
    Doesn't apply.
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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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    Sendblaster
    • Customer service was greatly improved because of Sendblaster. We were able to design our communication exactly the way we wanted to improve communication effectiveness.
    • Sendblaster helped our brand because email recipients have been very impressed by the polished visual appearance of our outgoing messages, consistent branding and use of logo, wordmark, and other identifiers, etc.
    • We saved a lot of money with Sendblaster. Our organization can send unlimited messages, and the Sendblaster software we paid for places no limit on messages sent. So, since there are no ongoing subscription fees or volume fees after paying for the the software, we saved a lot. Other "software as a service" options would have cost a minimum of $50 per month, and potentially a lot more than that for high-volume email communication.
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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