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    Emma by Marigold

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AEmma by Marigold is an email marketing solution. Its key features include mobile-ready design templates, email automation, audience segmentation, and dynamic content. The software includes integration with third-party CRM solutions, ecommerce platforms, and social networks.

    $500

    per year per user

    Klaviyo

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AKlaviyo is a marketing automation platform that helps businesses to centralize and use every piece of their customer data. With Klaviyo, businesses can combine customer data with more than 350 native integrations to automate personalized email and SMS communications that make customers feel seen. From mom-and-pop shops to established companies, Klaviyo states businesses like Dermalogica, Living Proof, Solo Stove, Citizen Watches, and more than 143,000 other paying users leverage their platform…

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    Emma by MarigoldKlaviyo
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $500
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emma by MarigoldKlaviyo
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Paid plans start at $20/month and include: 251 - 500 contacts 5,000 monthly email sends 150 SMS/MMS sending credits Applicable SMS carrier fees Mobile push notifications (free beta) Email and chat support Additional contacts, email and text sending credits, and service plans available to meet the needs of any size business. View all of our pricing and estimate your total cost of ownership at klaviyo.com/pricing
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Marigold
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    Klaviyo
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    95%
    Would buy again
    115 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    107 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    117 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    104 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    105 Answers
    Features
    Emma by MarigoldKlaviyo
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Emma by Marigold and Klaviyo
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    9.1
    31 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Klaviyo
    8.4
    134 Ratings
    8% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.024 Ratings8.4120 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.025 Ratings8.2126 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content9.024 Ratings7.6118 Ratings
    A/B testing9.024 Ratings8.3120 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.029 Ratings8.6129 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.031 Ratings8.7132 Ratings
    List management10.031 Ratings8.6132 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.021 Ratings8.8118 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Emma by Marigold and Klaviyo
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    10.0
    31 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Klaviyo
    7.8
    129 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Dashboards10.030 Ratings8.1129 Ratings
    Standard reports9.931 Ratings7.7125 Ratings
    Custom reports10.019 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Emma by Marigold and Klaviyo
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Klaviyo
    7.6
    103 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.298 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings7.150 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings7.860 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.253 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Emma by Marigold and Klaviyo
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Klaviyo
    8.2
    47 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings8.247 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Emma by Marigold and Klaviyo
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Klaviyo
    8.1
    107 Ratings
    6% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.4100 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.255 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.374 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings8.320 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.150 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Litmus from Validity
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Emma by MarigoldKlaviyo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    8.4
    (134 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Emma by MarigoldKlaviyo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Marigold
    Using Emma for weekly templated email use with minimal changes is awesome. If you want you can create a master and make minor graphic edits quickly and easily from your smartphone. Any edit is possible as long as the artwork is on the online server. Only time I hit a bump in the road is when I was asked to change the style sheet and did not know that the pricing plan I was on did not include this feature. Client had to wait to send new format until Emma performed the requested changes.
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    Klaviyo
    Klaviyo is a leader in the space, but I might recommend it to a colleague for its price point. There are other options that are more affordable and provide most of the tools Klaviyo offers. I also think it can be complicated to use for a new user.
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    Pros
    Marigold
    • Enterprise-level email marketing with multi-level account structure allowing for multiple users at different levels to send campaigns
    • Easy-to-use WYSIWYG email template editors to create dynamic emails with enhanced personalization through merge-fields
    • A large API index that connects to many different platforms and the ability to work with Emma support to create new connections to new platforms as needed
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    Klaviyo
    • Klaviyo's template builder is very intuitive yet straightforward enough that an inexperienced user can catch on quickly.
    • Their flow builder is also quite intuitive and allows us to build intricate, highly targeted flows.
    • I appreciate their built-in compliance warnings & checks as they apply to opt-out methods, SMS compliance, and overall deliverability.
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    Cons
    Marigold
    • Their customer service leaves something to be desired. We ran into an issue with one of our campaigns, and we decided to reach out to support, but they didn't get back with us until 3 hours later! Time is money!!
    • We don't like that their photo editing capabilities are limited, you can only choose small, medium or large photos with no way to resize to exact dimensions. Makes emails a bit of a pain
    • The upgraded premium tools are buggy and leave something to be desired as well – it's a shame.
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    Klaviyo
    • Needs more visible critical notifications as we once exceeded our monthly email limit right during the Black Friday campaign. The notification was not visible enough for us to catch it on time, as a result, some emails scheduled to be sent over the weekend were never sent
    • Better library of dynamic values available for use inside emails
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Marigold
    Emma has been a great tool for our marketing. It's easy to use and I've had no issues in the almost two years we've been with them. It's really been a great way for us to stay connected with customers that takes no time to setup and send
    Incentivized
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    Klaviyo
    Klaviyo is simply a great solution for e-com email marketing & customer relationship management:
    1. User journey visibility: We can see our clients' customers on their individual user journeys (open email, site visits) to better understand and accommodate your customers.
    2. Flow automation: Creating automated emails that follow up with new leads, those who abandoned carts, purchased.
    3. Email design: So easy to use, and more friendly than some other visual builders that we've used.
    4. Metrics visibility: We can see our clients' metrics very easily and adjust efforts accordingly.
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    Usability
    Marigold
    While every WYSIWYG software will experience glitches, Emma handles them well. Keep in mind they rarely happen, but they do, it can be of annoyance. Regardless, Emma allows my organization to create seamless email campaigns using fresh data. Emma makes coming up with strategic decisions very easy. The list segmentation that Emma feature allows us to easily manage a large list without issues. Overall, Emma is extremely usable with nearly no learning curve!
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    Klaviyo
    The only reason why I did not give it a 10/10 is that it cannot distinguish purchases that came through subscription recharges instead of purchases that were driven directly by email sends. Other than that, the automation qualities, design features, and segmentation options make this an incredible email platform, and I am very happy with it
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Marigold
    I hate that to get support I have to submit a question to a public forum and wait for a response. I just want the ability for a quick live chat to answer my simple help questions quickly or at the very least submit a ticket via email and get a status update.
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    Klaviyo
    Their support is always quick and we have recurring meetings with our advisor. they were great when we first started at walking us through the platform and helping us understand how to do the overall setup. They also have a wide variety of articles that cover must issues in a very clear manner that will get you out of a predicament really fast.
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    Implementation Rating
    Marigold
    No answers on this topic
    Klaviyo
    Don't cut corners, do it right the first time, if you take your time to build everything the way you want it then it will run itself. The platform will help you increase revenue as long as you use the tools it provides. Don't be scared to ask questions, the support team will help you get to the next level
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    Alternatives Considered
    Marigold
    At the time we made the decision to move to Emma, my organization was using both MailChimp and Constant Contact. Emma's drag-and-drop template editor surpassed both, and even editing the pre-made template HTML in Emma was easier. List management was much smoother than the clunky Constant Contact and MailChimp lists we had. From a design perspective, we chose Emma for its ease of use in creating templates and modifying existing ones, as well as the ability to push out branded templates and brand assets through its master admin/subaccount capabilities. Emma's analytics and reporting were much less frustrating to navigate and understand, such that, rather than spending all of our time trying to make sense of the metrics from a campaign (which we were definitely doing), we were attracted to being able to report easily and then move on to determining how to make real improvements
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    Klaviyo
    Klaviyo's ability to really tackle the entire marketing contact ecosystem on one platform is what really won us over. The price for everything was competitive, not necessarily the cheapest but competitive, and the ability to see that data flow from every interaction was what was crucial to us. Additionally, Klaviyo is the core of our B2C business. We were not focused on anything other than how we interact with customers directly, and Klaviyo was a direct win for us. The one negative is Klaviyo's ability to work with our B2B side of our business, because it doesn't integrate with platforms like HubSpot. That is a massive downside, but the upside justified the investment.
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    Return on Investment
    Marigold
    • Stores using the platform have seen good deliverability stats. Open rates and click-through rates are high with the templates that Emma creates. We still face the challenge of getting more users on the platform.
    • User satisfaction is high for our users who are regularly using the platform.
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    Klaviyo
    • Klaviyo brought our email channel to the top performing channel over Paid Ads several times (according to G Analytics), before Klaviyo Paid Ads were always top and the email channel struggled to even stay in 2nd place.
    • Klaviyo did cost quite a bit more than our old email platform but the ROI was much higher so it paid for itself.
    • Klaviyo implemented tools that allowed us to have a higher customer satisfaction with things like letting customers choose to receive less emails instead of unsubscribing.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Emma by Marigold Screenshots

    Screenshot of dynamic content used to send unique, personalized content to each subscriber based on the data stored about them from a single email.Screenshot of the editor's drag & drop layouts and inline text editing, that help to keep the creative process fast and flexible.Screenshot of a display of account activity, email performance and recent mailings in one place right after login.Screenshot of insights on the go using Metric, the included iPhone and Android app.Screenshot of response results that give insights into what's working and provide next steps.Screenshot of customizable, mobile-optimized templates to show off a brand and content in the template gallery.

    Klaviyo Screenshots

    Screenshot of Web forms to grow contact listsScreenshot of Personalized recommendations that resonateScreenshot of Smarter targeting. Deeper personalization.Screenshot of Display of how performance stacks up against peers