emfluence Marketing Platform vs. Sendblaster

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
emfluence Marketing Platform
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
The emfluence Marketing Platform is a marketing automation platform featuring drag-and-drop email editors and automated campaign builders, simple social media scheduling, manageable landing pages, workflow management, analytics, website tracking, surveys, and modals. The platform works for B2B and B2C marketers, marketing agencies, and CRM providers. The product supports CRM integrations and an open API for custom integrations. emfluence offers digital marketing consulting…
$1,000
per month
Sendblaster
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
SendBlaster 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
emfluence Marketing PlatformSendblaster
Editions & Modules
Up to 30,000 Active Emails
$1,000
per month
Up to 150,000 Active Emails
$2,000
per month
Up to 500,000 Active Emails
$4,100
per month
More than 1,000,000 Active Emails
Custom
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
emfluence Marketing PlatformSendblaster
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$3,100 one-time fee per installationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe emfluence Marketing Platform offers month-to-month pricing that’s based on the number of contacts added, with no restrictions on how many emails are sent each month or by which features are used.
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emfluence Marketing PlatformSendblaster
Features
emfluence Marketing PlatformSendblaster
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
emfluence Marketing Platform
8.4
6 Ratings
10% above category average
Sendblaster
8.6
2 Ratings
7% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor9.16 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Dynamic content8.66 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.26 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Landing pages8.24 Ratings10.01 Ratings
A/B testing8.25 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization7.75 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting9.16 Ratings9.52 Ratings
List management8.26 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
emfluence Marketing Platform
8.1
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Sendblaster
-
Ratings
Lead nurturing automation9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
emfluence Marketing Platform
8.4
3 Ratings
12% above category average
Sendblaster
-
Ratings
Calendaring8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
emfluence Marketing Platform
8.4
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Sendblaster
-
Ratings
Social sharing and campaigns8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
emfluence Marketing Platform
6.7
6 Ratings
9% below category average
Sendblaster
8.0
1 Ratings
4% above category average
Dashboards9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.26 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Custom reports3.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
emfluence Marketing Platform
8.2
5 Ratings
9% above category average
Sendblaster
-
Ratings
API8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
emfluence Marketing PlatformSendblaster
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(6 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
emfluence Marketing PlatformSendblaster
Likelihood to Recommend
emfluence Digital Marketing
The reporting feature is not as detailed as we require for our documentation, so we have to organize the results into charts and graphs. For every other component of our social media and digital marketing, emfluence checks all of the boxes.
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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
emfluence Digital Marketing
  • Custom landing pages to dive deeper into campaigns and track results
  • Responsive customer service with any problems we come by
  • A/B testing
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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
emfluence Digital Marketing
  • I do have issues sometimes when making a website popup. I specify certain measurements of my popup yet when it shows up on my website, the graphic doesn't adjust and I have a bunch of white space. But that could also be my website.
  • When adding a new contact into the contact section, once you hit save, the contact information stays on the screen instead of an empty contact profile so you can immediately add the next person.
  • Sometimes when I update a template, The unsubscribe link will link to my email address instead of the person the email is being sent to.
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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
emfluence Digital Marketing
They were the only company that could solve our specific problems. When we looked at larger companies like Constant Contact, they weren't as capable at handling our specific needs for a reasonable price. Some companies need to charge us programming hours. Bigger companies couldn't help our issue. emfluence is more flexible.
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Sendblaster
Doesn't apply.
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Return on Investment
emfluence Digital Marketing
  • It's allowed for us to generate more traffic to our client's websites.
  • It's allowed for us to generate more leads from email marketing through emfluence.
  • Visual click maps, more customized dashboard and email templates, and a deeper dive in data would help further business objectives.
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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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ScreenShots

emfluence Marketing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of search perimeters and contact characteristics using the Dynamic Marketing Group Query Builder.Screenshot of Google Analytics, used to measure the success of email and social media alongside spikes in website traffic. Granular reports can be scheduled for an overview of surveys, landing pages, forms, social posts, emails, and list growth.Screenshot of the drag-and-drop Workflow Canvas visual interface used to create automated marketing campaigns, plus send contacts from a single group into branches based on email views, clicks, or custom queries.Screenshot of the interface to build branching into automated workflows based on opens, clicks, or custom decisions (based on custom or out-of-the-box contact fields, dates, and more).Screenshot of a schedule with a month's worth of social media and email, built using the drag and drop marketing calendar.Screenshot of custom email templates, which can be reused or rebuilt with a drag and drop editor.