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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Goolara Symphonie

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AGoolara Symphonie is an email marketing platform available through both on-premise and hosted deployment. It includes features such as visual editing, a one-stop dashboard, and customizable transactional messages.N/A

    MessageGears

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMessageGears is a hybrid email marketing service built around deliverability, actionable customer data, and audience segmentation and targeting.N/A
    Pricing
    Goolara SymphonieMessageGears
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Goolara SymphonieMessageGears
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Goolara SymphonieMessageGears
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Goolara Symphonie and MessageGears
    Feature
    Goolara Symphonie
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    MessageGears
    3.3
    3 Ratings
    84% below category average
    Dynamic content8.01 Ratings3.83 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.01 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    Landing pages7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing10.01 Ratings2.73 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.01 Ratings3.83 Ratings
    List management9.01 Ratings2.13 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.01 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings1.52 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Goolara Symphonie and MessageGears
    Feature
    Goolara Symphonie
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    MessageGears
    1.1
    3 Ratings
    149% below category average
    Dashboards10.01 Ratings1.13 Ratings
    Standard reports8.01 Ratings1.13 Ratings
    Custom reports7.01 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Goolara Symphonie and MessageGears
    Feature
    Goolara Symphonie
    -
    Ratings
    MessageGears
    3.7
    3 Ratings
    75% below category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings2.83 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Goolara SymphonieMessageGears
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Goolara SymphonieMessageGears
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Goolara LLC
    Goolara comes with awesome features like A/B Splits, Dynamic Content, Triggered Email and more. The highlight is that Goolara provides all these enterprise-level email marketing features within an affordable price range. Goolara works well in data control like archiving, custom tables, dashboard controls and segmentation. There is another notable feature is "Fix After Sending". If you make a mistake while sending the email, Goolara will let you fix it even after you have started sending.
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    MessageGears
    MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.
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    Pros
    Goolara LLC
    • Advanced Email Features
    • Calendar Dashboard
    • Awesome Visual editor
    • Triggered Email
    • Dynamic Content
    • Transactional Email
    Incentivized
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    MessageGears
    • The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.
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    Cons
    Goolara LLC
    • Need more Flexible Plans
    • Should add a Demo Page on the home page
    • More templates are always welcome
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    MessageGears
    • Multivariate testing
    • WYSIWYG email builder
    • SQL audience error report
    • Native reporting
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    Usability
    Goolara LLC
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    MessageGears
    Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality
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    Support Rating
    Goolara LLC
    No answers on this topic
    MessageGears
    MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Goolara LLC
    We tried both MailChimp and SendPulse. SendPulse should improve the autocomplete fields and it comes with fewer templates. MailChimp lacks in more integration with other programs and software. Once you create a template on MailChimp, it seems difficult to edit. Goolara works perfectly with auto-responders, has an advanced bounce tracking system, mailing frequency limits, and more. I'm sure you won't regret once you are ready to set with Goolara.
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    MessageGears
    MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.
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    Return on Investment
    Goolara LLC
    • All in One Email tool. We won't need another tool for the same functionalities.
    • Powerful built-in visual editors help us to work in the same place without navigation to other pages.
    • Calendar Dashboard lets us see all future work at a glance.
    Incentivized
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    MessageGears
    • Sending more email!
    • Onboarding handoff was a little rough
    • Great control on who we are sending to
    • Dynamic content is very easy!
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