Gist is a unified marketing, sales, and support platform. It includes live chat, a help desk, knowledge base, email marketing, marketing automation, opt-in forms, and more.
$29
per month
Intuit Mailchimp
Score8.4 out of 10
N/A
Mailchimp is an email marketing and marketing automation platform. Beyond just tracking how campaigns perform, Mailchimp takes it a step further by analyzing data from over half a billion emails to show why campaigns perform, driving informed decisions.
Ghostwriter and Web Designer in Professional Services at Writing Momentum (Publishing, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Gist is slightly slower than ActiveCampaign but MUCH easier to use than Mailchimp. Overall, you can't beat the bang for the buck you get with Gist. And its messenger bot is the best I've used, it works on not only our main site but also our subdomains, kicking the competition …
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founder in Marketing at THYSK (Cosmetics, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
You can do everything you can with AC or Mailchimp (minus dynamic cart recovery for ecom) at a fraction of the cost, and you can do MORE -- better integration with FB ads than Mailchimp, more powerful workflows, unified inboxes, live chat and chatbot, etc. It's just a more …
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Owner in Sales at Triera (Insurance, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Mailchimp has more to offer and is easier to use, and is more self-explanatory, especially if you start with the free version. You don't get support with Mailchimp if you use the free plan.
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Founder at Shayla Monique (Fine Art, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
I preferred Gist over Mailchimp because Gist allows me to automatically tag customers based on actions they've performed on the website, while Mailchimp requires me to do this type of tagging manually.
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Verified User
Chose Gist
I started out looking at simple marketing automation platforms such as Mailchimp, then moved to an advanced package from HubSpot (trial) to see if it was right for me. The latter turned out to be very expensive, although it is a great platform.
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Assistant Director of Business Operations in Professional Services at ABC123 Agency (Design, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Mailchimp is great but did not offer the chat feature. ActiveCampaign's price point was too high. LiveChat was cool but did not offer the all-in-one platform that Gist gives. I think Gist will catch up to ActiveCampaign in about another year. Mailchimp is just on another level …
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Founder | Growth Engineer in Corporate at Stars & Catz (Education Management, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Gist combines the core of Intercom, Mailchimp and AWeber and the power of the combination extends the use cases by a large degree. On top of these, the knowledgebase feature and bot combine to great effect.
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Verified User
Chose Gist
The look is much cleaner and there are more options. Also, we got a very good price to use the tool. We were using Mailchimp for free and switched to Gist when we took the next level and got more professional. We are very happy with this decision and will keep working with it.
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Office Support Manager in Sales at AD Patterns Institute of Pattern Making (Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
When we first started our business, we were looking for a tool to communicate with our website visitors and users. We first used Mailchimp as it was free. But then we heard about Gist and for a very nominal charge, it offered so much more like live chat, email marketing, lead …
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Verified User
Chose Gist
Gist has way more features than Mailchimp and I found the pricing model much better.
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Founder at Peacock Virtual Events (Events Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Gist is a much more robust software with a variety of marketing tools in its arsenal. Things like website tracking is also extremely robust and it has many more features.
The ease of setup is also more enjoyable and intuitive in Gist so the overall result is that you can learn …
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Founder & CEO at pixl.my (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
I have a lifetime deal with Gist so I may be a bit biased, but Gist is quite easy to use and has a free tier so it's worth a serious look compared to the other players on the market. Personal preference does play a big role in your final decision, as feature-wise, Gist has most …
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Senior Marketing Executive in Marketing at IVG (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees)
Chose Gist
Gist has a lot of tools that all email marketing tools generally have such as workflows, forms, drip campaigns, and general email broadcasting, the difference is Gist always goes one step further to make their tools better, it's these little things that made as choose Gist.
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Co-founder in Corporate at Spark Chart (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
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Gist combines all our previous products into one application and adds many more features that would require more apps. Gist is excellent and a no-brainer all-in-one application when compared to having to manage multiple applications at higher cost. The support from the whole …
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Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Gist has so many tools in one package it is hard to compare. If you need chat, email, remarketing, automated marketing, live view of your site, knowledge-base, bots, scheduler, and more, then it will take multiple tools. Gist is great because you get to install one tool on your …
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Multipurpose Utility Tool in Sales at Honestly Essential (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
While Gist may not win a head-to-head against any of these products in their specific sphere of operation, it competes well and has the added benefit everything else being built-in. This enables powerful and fast automation with minimal setup time and tinkering around to ensure …
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Founder | Digital Marketer in Marketing at Webixor (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
It is more customizable and brings new features not available in other software. Gist is also a new start-up with a new vision and their customer service is just superb. We choose Gist because of the variety of features at an affordable price, tested it, and saw a return on …
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Career Mapping Navigator | Teacher of Self Education | Online Course Creator in Marketing at 3-Steps for Getting Interviews Without a Resume (E-Learning, 1-10 employees)
Chose Gist
Selected Gist for their lifetime offer and automations. As an early adopter I'm really glad I made that choice.
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Owner in Marketing at LaunchGo, LLC (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Chose Intuit Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a great introductory email marketing system that offers more than just email marketing. If you're looking for more of a well rounded system that you can use for your website, basic ads, and email marketing, Mailchimp is a great platform that offers a little of …
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If your marketing model is selling products, services, or SAAS where you are doing inbound marketing and your website will do most of the lead generation and conversion, this is a great product. From live chat, support, event tracking, and automation, you could almost put your entire business on autopilot. If your marketing model is mostly outreach to cold leads and conversion, this software currently does not have any type of sales stages or task generation. I would still use Gist for website inbound but use another software for outreach and cold leads then when they become a lead put them into Gist for marketing automation.
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Mailchimp is fairly easy to onboard, even for those who would consider themselves less technologically inclined. It can be as simple as plug-and-play for simpler campaigns or scale up as needed. It also makes it easy to build, send out for internal review and feedback, and track all the needed changes.
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Customer service via a unified inbox so you dont have to separately monitor your twitter, Facebook or IG account for consumer communication there. Gist unified all into one inbox, better than anyone else I've seen in the market. They archive all communications and tie them back to a single user so you get unified customer history / data.
Marketing segmentation and automation: they track user history and behavior across the site and have super detailed segmenting capability, on par with ActiveCampaign's, but better I'd say. Better UI for the marketing admin person, and more unified data than in AC.
Live chat and chatbot. Usually it's either one or the other but with Gist you can do both seamlessly.
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Mailchimp allows you to manage your mailing list really well. You can subscribe people, unsubscribe people manage the mailing list directly into segments, and what not.
Mailchimp has features where you can create campaigns based on your mailing lists and send out newsletters to your subscribers based on a multitude of parameters that you can setup. Such as send email daily, weekly, monthly and they also have event based mails that you can send out.
Mailchimp also has a feature where you can design your emails. The look and aesthetics are very important when sending emails to your subscribers and all those needs are addressed here.
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Plan limits can be confusing. For example, there is a monthly charge for support and a monthly charge for "growth," plus there's a separate charge depending on how many contacts and seats you have. Perhaps this is normal in the industry, but it can make it a little challenging to understand the bill every month.
The vast amount of features means development will never be as fast as you'd like it to be (even though they release updates all the time). This may not actually be a valid concern, and it certainly isn't unique to Gist (who doesn't have a wishlist they're waiting on their favorite SaaS to get to?), but I do believe the likelihood of being stuck without your desired feature being developed goes up a lot as the product gets bigger and bigger.
Email deliverability has been less than perfect in the past, but it has improved drastically in the last year.
Gist is a quite reliable service with a lot of added values. We don't need to pay for different Saas for these important features. If I had an issue the team was super responsive and helpful, that is essential for every business. The email delivery is great, so virtually no email has landed into spam folder
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We've had Mailchimp for about ten years, I want to say. I started with the company about four years ago, and I don't see us ever diverting to another source. It's easy for us to use, and we have all our clients already built into the database. I imagine we'll use them for as long as we have the company.
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It’s pretty simple, but it does a lot so there are more complicated features which depend on an individuals ability for software implementation. I am not an IT expert and I’ve managed to implement everything myself, others that are more tech-minded may find everything easier.
It is easy, but some things you need to learn from their resources. Mailchimp is one of the most popular email marketing platforms because it combines email marketing, automation, audience management, and analytics into a single tool that's easy to use and scale. Simple solutions and drag-and-drop edits make it easy.
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I have, in the 4+ years that I've used Mailchimp, never seen an issue that restricted the use of their software/tools. I don't know of a single time when they're system crashed or went down. I could be wrong, but I honestly haven't experienced any issues with outages, errors or unplanned downtime
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I haven't noticed any slow speeds from Mailchimp or their tools. I think the landing pages load quickly and look nice. The email reports and editing operates smoothly and doesn't take time to load. Additionally, when I use Mailchimp in conjunction with Zapier + Hubspot I don't notice any drag between any of these tools
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Fantastic support. Ask a question, get an answer within 24 hours every time. And sometimes within a few minutes. They've always come through for me, helpful and, even when it's an issue on my end, they point me in the right direction.
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Website tools were easy to use and understand so a novice can easily meet or exceed their client's expectations! Loved that we were able to totally customize so that the e-mail we created conveyed our client's overall messaging consistent with their branding! Client love that we can provide turnkey services to support their sales and marketing teams!
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It's pretty easy to get up and running! There's a slight learning curve on a few things, but once you find where everything is located, you can import your list and send your first email. It really makes our clients feel great to see how quickly they can get that first email out.
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Gist combines all our previous products into one application and adds many more features that would require more apps. Gist is excellent and a no-brainer all-in-one application when compared to having to manage multiple applications at higher cost. The support from the whole Gist team has been extremely responsive.
I used Intuit Mailchimp, and I would say other software I used is equally good and competes with Intuit Mailchimp. Well, Intuit Mailchimp's reporting is better, and ActiveCampaign has more affordable pricing, so in the end, it all comes to what you need. What we needed was available in cheaper price in other software as well. But I would definitely say Intuit Mailchimp has its own advantages too.
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Mailchimp over the years I've used it has grown in leaps and bounds. They have added so many additional features than were previously available. They are truly an all-in-one marketing platform now. If you're a small operation and just want to add email to your marketing efforts, they're there for you. If you're a larger operation and want to start sending postcard advertisements, they can do that. If you'd good with that and want to kick up your marketing by going social, you can do that on their platform. They are truly able to be as small as you need, but also get quite large in whatever it is you'd like to do through their system.
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They are perfect for me as a someone who needs a lot of bang for the buck. The chat messenger device on my website alone has brought me new prospects that I did not have to spend money recruiting.
I am able to save hours of time with the automated emails that are GDPR compliant.
I don't have to pay for a designer to have excellent looking emails either.
One of my retail web store clients was sending out email specials and notices about once a month. After clicking the send button, we would watch Google Analytics and the current site users would light up immediately. Often, the current site visitors would pop up to 20, 30 or more after the email was sent. On a normal day, seeing 1 or 2 online users would be OK.
Pretty much in all cases, we could see an uptick in positive activity after sending out a Intuit Mailchimp email to a list.
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