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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Mautic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AMautic Community Edition is an open source cross-channel campaign management software solution designed to enable users to build email, nurture campaigns, personalize messages, execute A/B tests, and measure results. The open source edition is community supported. Support is available for Acquia Campaign Studio, which is based on Mautic technology acquired by Acquia in May 2019. Acquia Campaign Studio is available on the

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    Pricing
    Emma by MarigoldMautic
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $500
    per year per user
    Mautic Marketing Automation
    $0
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emma by MarigoldMautic
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Emma by MarigoldMautic
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    Marigold
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    Acquia
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    80%
    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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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Emma by MarigoldMautic
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Emma by Marigold and Mautic (open source)
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    9.1
    31 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Mautic (open source)
    8.6
    9 Ratings
    10% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor8.024 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.025 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content9.024 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    A/B testing9.024 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.029 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.031 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    List management10.031 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.021 Ratings8.68 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings9.57 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Emma by Marigold and Mautic (open source)
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    10.0
    31 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Mautic (open source)
    8.9
    9 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Dashboards10.030 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    Standard reports9.931 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    Custom reports10.019 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Emma by Marigold and Mautic (open source)
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Mautic (open source)
    8.4
    9 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Emma by Marigold and Mautic (open source)
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Mautic (open source)
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Emma by Marigold and Mautic (open source)
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Mautic (open source)
    7.5
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Emma by Marigold and Mautic (open source)
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    -
    Ratings
    Mautic (open source)
    6.0
    9 Ratings
    24% below category average
    API00 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings4.65 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Emma by MarigoldMautic
    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 MarigoldMautic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Emma by MarigoldMautic
    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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    Acquia
    Mautic is not Salesforce or Dynamics of course; it is hard to install, still buggy and you have to know what you're doing if you want to use it. But that is your admission fee to an always free system that does essentially all the same things as the pricey alternatives, does it effectively and gives you total control. Mautic was acquired by Acquia, the company behind Drupal, and has been making substantial upgrades since that seem to be accelerating. The system has an active user community, active development and will only get better, making it an excellent choice to grow with and build your own systems around and never be dependent on third parties
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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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    Acquia
    • Marketing email organization
    • Email tracking
    • Email automation
    • Contact management
    • Open rates
    • Delivery rates
    • A/B testing
    • Email sending
    • Unsubscribe management
    • SMTP management
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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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    Acquia
    • Setting up the email templates has required hiring a professional. The templates that are provided are not fully responsive.
    • More responsive form templates are needed.
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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
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    Acquia
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Acquia
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Acquia
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Acquia
    Infusionsoft, at the time I tested it, had a crazy editor--very unintuitive and not very clean. Mautic (open source) makes it much easier to build up campaigns. Besides that, it didn't provide what we needed to justify the lack of possibility to self-host it and the requirement to pay for it.
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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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    Acquia
    • We made our ROI back within a year.
    • Fulfills our needs and our client's needs, our clients love it.
    • I would just add more templates to the email construction selection, other than that, it is just perfect.
    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.