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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mad Mimi

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMad Mimi is an email marketing solution targeted at SMBs, designed to be intuitive and straightforward. It was acquired by GoDaddy in August 2014 to expand their small business support offerings.

    $10

    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
    Pricing
    Mad MimiSailthru
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $10.00
    per month
    Pro
    $42.00
    per month
    Silver
    $199.00
    per month
    Gold
    $1049.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Mad MimiSailthru
    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
    Mad MimiSailthru
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Mad Mimi and Sailthru
    Feature
    Mad Mimi
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Sailthru
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor9.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Mad Mimi and Sailthru
    Feature
    Mad Mimi
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Sailthru
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Mad Mimi and Sailthru
    Feature
    Mad Mimi
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Sailthru
    -
    Ratings
    Link Tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Mad MimiSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (13 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Mad MimiSailthru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoDaddy
    Mad Mimi is perfect for scheduling remainder emails. For instance, if you need to remind a client about a pending order next week, you can schedule the remainder email today and it will be sent exactly the date and time you want it to even if you are out of office. If you need to contact thousands of people at a time, Mad Mimi can be used to send the emails all at once to all of them, especially for marketing purposes and newsletter purposes.
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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
    GoDaddy
    • I've been on the free plan for years and it has suited me very well. It's reliable and has all the core features I need at the moment. Considering how all the online tools can add up, this is right for my business.
    • Mad Mimi has a super-simple interface, and it's drag and drop, so I don't have to spend a lot of time designing each email. Although you can customize with your logo and colors.
    • There are several free add-ons, which allow for a limited amount of automation. I would recommend taking advantage of the RSS feed, webform, and drip campaign features.
    • You can segment your list into as many groups as you like, which makes for more effective email marketing.
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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.
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    Cons
    GoDaddy
    • The ease on adding links, such as unsubscribe links, is not as easy as it is with other email service providers. Creating simple tags that take the place of a link could help a lot, especially for those not as familiar with HTML.
    • Perhaps a way of archiving old emails, or hiding them from the past emails area. It can look a bit cluttered, and can be confusing in some circumstances.
    • Providing some learning material, or at least a more thorough overview of email marketing, and the user interface would be of great use to beginners.
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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
    GoDaddy
    Pretty simple, I know I'm getting what I pay for and a little more. Although simple and easy for the new user; a more seasoned marketer can still get the most from MadMimi. Especially if the primary purpose is to generate strong brand loyalty with effective communication that integrates your various outlets: MadMimi makes it easy for your customer to pick-up what the business owner wants to relay.
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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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    Usability
    GoDaddy
    I find it very easy to use just like my colleagues too. The learning curve is straight forward.
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    Zeta Global
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    Support Rating
    GoDaddy
    My issues are usually quickly resolved and their support staffs are very knowledgeable on the software generally
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    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
    GoDaddy
    Constant Contact is the Goliath of the industry and to us, it was unnecessarily complex and expensive. We chose Mad Mimi, after looking at several other new offerings and we've been extremely satisfied with our choice of Mad Mimi.
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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.
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    Return on Investment
    GoDaddy
    • I've spent 3 years creating blog posts, and it is only now encompassing the breath that allows me to draw upon this pieces as a reusable resource, but now this is happening.
    • I preferred the Mad Mimi platform to Mail Chimp, and I suspect it continues to offer advantages. I felt Mad Mimi did themselves a disservice by failing to support their free subscriber service to the same extent that Mail Chimp does. When one's mail list gets sufficiently large, then it does pay to pay them, but not in the context I was using it.
    • It seems that Mad Mimi is targeting direct marketing purposes, as this is a use where ROI is more easily measured.
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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.
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