Leanplum vs. Maropost Marketing Cloud vs. Mixpanel

Leanplum has been exciting for us to use. It's given us visibility into how our campaigns work, and most importantly, it's built with mobile apps and mobile delivery in mind. If you have a lot of content (blogs/emails) that needs to get delivered, and discrete customer segments, it's a good choice

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It's a perfect fit for medium to high volume email senders who want an easy-to-use email builder and marketing campaign planner.

Mixpanel is a versatile platform that integrates features to connect every work team and get the best out of them in productivity and results. Moreover, it will improve the flow of information and interaction between all your company staff; it will unify and help promote collaboration between the different work areas. Without a doubt, I highly recommend this software

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• The ability to send out a message to all of the users of our application at one time without an update to the store version, is one of the best features of Leanplum.
• Targeting specific users and being able to tailor a message just for them. No need to send out a message to all users if the message does not apply to all users.
• The meta data tracking of Leanplum is also very powerful for determining how and where to target the correct users for your upcoming applications or features.

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• Support: we were given a go to support person who is basically an account executive who oversaw our progress and was there to assist us with whatever we may need.
• Email open rates and testing abilities: Maropost supplies an array of different ways you can test to make sure you are getting the best opens and CTR's you can.

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• Mixpanel's ease of use is easily their best feature, allowing you to quickly create graphs with a few point and clicks. Their UI is also fairly snappy and well-designed.
• Tying together events with user attributes allows you to properly segment users into cohorts which can then be tracked individually. Proper segmentation is where most analytics solutions earn their keep.
• Live view is a nice perk that gives you a good feel for who's on your site and what they're doing at any single point in time. This can be further filtered to focus on particular events of interest.
• Mixpanel has flexible plans that work for smaller startups as well.
• Their documentation is top notch.

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• Variable sync issues on client
• Client integration seems easy but it's not very intuitive
• Multiple issues on iOS integration and SDK issues
• Cost is quite high

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• The Sales Department shouldn't promise the customer what support can't deliver on.
• They should also brush up on some ethics courses. It's appalling to me how they conduct business. Buyer beware.

• I didn't use the engagement features at all but it seems like they could have a better WYSIWYG editor for the emails for non-technical people using Mixpanel.
• The custom reports feature seems to be really powerful but I wish they had more resources/templates for creating custom reports. I don't code so it was really hard for me to use this feature...BUT the reports I was able to get help with, were really powerful.
• I wanted a dashboard area for all of my reports in one view. It seems like they were implementing this when I was moving jobs. If it's not available yet, they definitely need to add a master dashboard page for arranging saved reports.

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It's not an all encompassing solution like Google Analytics tries to be, but MixPanel offers much easier to use and understandable data insights. That's valuable when juggling many responsibilities as startup life demands, so a renewal would be easily justified.

Relativity easy to use. Once you get the hang of it, very easy to create dashboards for different use cases. I split my dashboards between customers or use cases

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Though relatively responsive, the responses were always utterly unhelpful and sometime not even relevant to the questions we asked. It quickly became apparent that it was outsourced copy/paste support.

There is no support at all for free-plan users. There used to be a good support but something changed. If everything had gone great we could've considered upgrading but it is so bad that we'll look for an alternative once we finish the current project. Given that the documentation is very poor, there are some aspects in which customer support could have helped a lot, but with no support, we are left with some needs unfulfilled.

Mixpanel has a great resource about their product, with videos on how to use it and real world examples from other companies on how they integrate Mixpanel into their business processes.

Mixpanel is a simple JS script installation. For adding events to track, its simply a matter of adding the code where you want it. Their API and documentation are easy to understand and use.

I felt that Leanplum had the best value & KPI/revenue reporting out of the competitors we tested. They also had very strong segmentation capabilities, which the client has utilized and found very useful. Overall, it was a big improvement operationally over Urban Airship, the client's previous push notification service provider.

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Maropost is most closely related to iContact in that it's main purpose is to send e-mail. iContact is less expensive, but it inbox deliverability and open rate are less than half that of Maropost's. Also, Maropost has more automated list management features, which makes it more efficient. Maropost is a far better e-mail service provider than Infusionsoft, but it can't replace Infusionsoft. Infusionsoft's marketing automation capabilities are leaps and bounds ahead of Maropost. In our organization, we use both of these software side by side. Infusionsoft manages all of our marketing automation and Maropost is used for any e-mail blasts to our list.

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Datanomix is an excellent tool, with similar characteristics; however, Mixpanel has been our preference for two main reasons: one, to have customization and to be able to adapt the interface and tools to our use, and two, to be able to count on reports that it automates the work of sales analysis and being able to evaluate progress.

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• Positive: 17% engagement increase as shown in this case study: https://www.leanplum.com/case-studies/push-notification-best-practices-pixowl/

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• It took a while for sales to reach what it is, but the move to Maropost Sales Cloud definitely spiked our return.

• User event data has helped us improve our product, which has increased subscriptions.
• Being able to send helpful messages to some users who drop off after certain events has helped us reduce our churn.
• We have been able to identify the Monthly super-active users, understand their usage of our product, which we use to conduct focus groups to help us shape the product.

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