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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

    SwiftERM

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    SwiftERM is an ecommerce plugin that typically delivers an additional 10% to turnover. According to the vendor, it is totally automatic; requiring no human input, no hours of time and effort every month, and no staff cost. It uses each consumer’s historic purchases and impressions captured from each visit to your site; then identifies which products that consumer is most likely to buy next; populates a style-sheet and sends them a unique email – no two are ever the same. It also triggers on…N/A
    Pricing
    Emma by MarigoldSwiftERM
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $500
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emma by MarigoldSwiftERM
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrice is dictated by size of database.
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    Features
    Emma by MarigoldSwiftERM
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Emma by Marigold and SwiftERM
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    9.1
    31 Ratings
    12% above category average
    SwiftERM
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Emma by Marigold and SwiftERM
    Feature
    Emma by Marigold
    10.0
    31 Ratings
    26% above category average
    SwiftERM
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Dashboards10.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports9.931 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Custom reports10.019 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Emma by MarigoldSwiftERM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Emma by MarigoldSwiftERM
    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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    SwiftERM Limited
    SwiftERM only works on specific ecommerce platforms including Magento, Shopify, Woo Commerce, and OpenCart. It is intended for regular communication with consumers who visit that retailers site more often. so it works well for food and drink, fashion and pet food etc. People selling beds or something which you buy less frequently would get lower returns.
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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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    SwiftERM Limited
    • Automatic email marketing
    • Predictive analytics
    • Publicises our Trustpilot product ratings
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SwiftERM Limited
    • Introduce an SMS version
    • Making the reporting system more idiotproof
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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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    SwiftERM Limited
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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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    SwiftERM Limited
    It is the only system we have able to find in the world that is 100% automatic. There is an element of automation in many email products, but these always require some input, if only setting the distribution time. No other analyses down to individual consumer level. No other system in the world is authorized to send Trustpilot product ratings in outbound emails. This really is superb.
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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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    SwiftERM Limited
    Setting up is a simple plugin. I did my own in three minutes including the registration. As it is automatic, there is no need for training or paying for users, etc. In six years we have never needed any support, but I know there is a team of developers there if that day ever arrives.
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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
    Incentivized
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    SwiftERM Limited
    Mailchimp, DotMailer, Emarsys. But none of these does exactly what SwiftERM does, leaving us in a situation where we now run both SwiftERM and Mailchimp.
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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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    SwiftERM Limited
    • Our initial ROI was over 4,000%
    • It has freed up many days each month spent segmenting audiences.
    • Our customer churn has been reversed.
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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.

    SwiftERM Screenshots

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