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    iContact Pro Select

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AiContact Pro Select (formerly Outmarket) includes email marketing, landing pages, social media management, press outreach, and analytics. The software was originally Vocus Marketing Suite, and then was known as Outmarket. It was acquired by Cision

    $300

    per month

    Sailthru

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/ASailthru is an email marketing and marketing automation solution. It supports email management, site personalization, mobile management, and both predictive and retention-focused analytics.N/A
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    iContact Pro SelectSailthru
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $300
    per month
    Plus
    $600
    per month
    Pro
    $1,000
    per month
    Enterprise
    $2,500
    per month
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    iContact Pro SelectSailthru
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    iContact Pro SelectSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    iContact Pro SelectSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    iContact
    If you use PRWeb already and are looking for a tool that integrates well with that program and offers additional functionality with email and social media then Vocus is great. If you don't use PRWeb or prefer an email tool with more functionality and ease of use, Vocus is not the best choice.
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    Zeta Global
    Sailthu is perfectly suited, no matter what level of technical skill you have or support from an Engineering team. That said, it includes many advanced features which can only be fully utilized when integrated with custom webhooks and after receiving customer data sent via their APIs. There may be easier solutions out there for less technical users or for people wanting a simpler setup to begin with.
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    Pros
    iContact
    • Social Media Listening e.g.: Recommendations, Identify influencers for a selected topic, based on actual influence, or number of reposts and/or references, rather than the number of followers.
    • Campaign Management - Landing Page and Web Form Templates
    • Email Marketing -Delivery Tracking and Spam Analysis
    Incentivized
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    Zeta Global
    • Personalization - one of the most important things you can utilize when emailing people.
    • Segmentation - Sailthru makes it very easy to build an audience based off their criteria; there are so many different fields to choose from. We use this mostly for geo-targeting and engagement.
    • Analytics - post-campaign analytics are very easy to look at, customize your view, and download as a csv to share with your team and company.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    iContact
    • Vocus can do a better job communicating with us. The representative made promises to us that I have not seen be fulfilled such as getting us national media hits through connections that he had.
    Incentivized
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    Zeta Global
    • Giving more practical examples of technical setups, sometimes the only way to understand it is to see it.
    • Can't filter lists by date created or date modified, particularly needed when tracking down a specific list or looking to remove older lists.
    • Can't set up automated data dumps to an email address, has to be sent via API.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    iContact
    Now that we have had the opportunity to try an enterprise wide marketing solution, I think we should look at other tools and programs that have greater flexibility and ease of use. If the tool does not happen to have PR Web then so be it. We may not see the cost savings with PR announcements but if the other tools have increased email functionality then we can part with more money on the PR side like we have in the past
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    Zeta Global
    The biggest factor is that even after two months of trying to go through their credit processes and getting the right consideration for the real damages we had with the tool not being able to send campaigns for days, their sales staff is still not willing to work with us on it, making us do the switch away from them right now. We got extremely disappointed by trying to work with them through those issues.
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    Support Rating
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    Zeta Global
    Their account management / sales staff doesn't seem to be taking the problems you experience very seriously - it took us 3 months and nudge emails to them every 2 weeks to ask for status updates (plus 6 different conversations with different people) to get a (very small credit) for a major issue, which in two months prohibited us from sending campaign emails for 2-3 days at a time.
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    Alternatives Considered
    iContact
    I've used MailChimp before to generate emails and found Vocus to be a better option because it is an overall suite providing the tools to create customizable emails as well as many other features including press releases, social media etc. Vocus is an all-in-one platform for marketing which makes things more efficient for the user by being able to handle all marketing through one outlet.
    Incentivized
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    Zeta Global
    Sailthru provided a powerful, easy-to-use platform that was able to adjust to the needs we had at Dotdash. It was able to support the simple campaigns where we would send static creative to all recipients and the complex dynamic campaigns where we were customizing content. The scale and flexibility really made it a great platform for us to use.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    iContact
    • Much more targeted email marketing. Spam analysis helped improve our overall email performance.
    • Increased customer engagement through social media listening.
    • Scheduled emails increased email open and click-through rates by 120%!
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    Zeta Global
    • Sailthru has helped us build a welcome series that's much more effective than anything we had before.
    • It's much easier to analyze transactional campaigns than our previous ESP.
    • We're better able to run A/B tests and learn from the results -- all of which improves our email strategy.
    Incentivized
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