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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mail250

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AMail250 is an e-mail marketing delivery platform.

    $20

    per month

    Sendblaster

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASendBlaster is the eponymous lean, list management / newsletter-centric email marketing software from the Italian company founded in 2006, basically for creating newsletters in a WYSIWYG editor and sending them out to the multitudes, with tools facilitating this: programmable tags, personalization, link checking, embedded image support, file importing, templates, and help from partner Mailstyler (free) for newsletter optimization and styling. Bulk mailing is managed for free with Sendblaster…N/A
    Pricing
    Mail250Sendblaster
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $20
    month
    Plus
    $30
    month
    Plus Pro
    $50
    month
    Dedicated
    $150
    month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Mail250Sendblaster
    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
    Mail250Sendblaster
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Mail250 and Sendblaster
    Feature
    Mail250
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Sendblaster
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor5.01 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting8.01 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    List management6.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Mail250 and Sendblaster
    Feature
    Mail250
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Sendblaster
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Mail250 and Sendblaster
    Feature
    Mail250
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Sendblaster
    -
    Ratings
    Link Tracking5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Mail250Sendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Mail250Sendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Mail250
    I don't think it's well-suited for anyone. In my opinion, the low cost is not worth the extremely poor deliverability.
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    Sendblaster
    Sendblaster is a great tool for any environment. It's particularly good in organizations that do not have a full featured CRM that manages bulk email marketing and communication. Even if an organization has a great CRM, Sendblaster is still great for those marketing or communication campaigns that go out to recipients who are not already in the CRM, custom groups, bulk sending that you want to keep separate from your other CRM(s), etc.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Mail250
    • Affordable
    • Relatively easy to use
    • Support was fine
    • Has some attractive features like email verification
    Read full review
    Sendblaster
    • Rendering HTML source code
    • Managing mailing lists
    • You can control the speed of email broadcasts
    • Ease of importing lists
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Mail250
    • In my experience, deliverability is terrible
    • UI feels old and limited
    • Did not follow up to refund request
    • Due to my poor overall experience, I'm very doubtful in the reliability of their features like email verification
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    Sendblaster
    • The user interface could be more polished. It's very easy to use, but the appearance of the user interface looks a little old fashioned for a desktop software. Of course recipients don't see that interface, so that is not very consequential.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Mail250
    I picked Mail250 because they seem designed for sending 1-time bulk mail for an affordable price.
    Open rates for MailerLite, GetResponse,
    ConvertKit, and SendPulse were all over 50%. Sender.net was extremely low at under 10%. Mail250 was around 10%, but also had an extremely high bounce rate of 10%.
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    Sendblaster
    Doesn't apply.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Mail250
    • Unable to use it due to poor deliverability
    Read full review
    Sendblaster
    • Customer service was greatly improved because of Sendblaster. We were able to design our communication exactly the way we wanted to improve communication effectiveness.
    • Sendblaster helped our brand because email recipients have been very impressed by the polished visual appearance of our outgoing messages, consistent branding and use of logo, wordmark, and other identifiers, etc.
    • We saved a lot of money with Sendblaster. Our organization can send unlimited messages, and the Sendblaster software we paid for places no limit on messages sent. So, since there are no ongoing subscription fees or volume fees after paying for the the software, we saved a lot. Other "software as a service" options would have cost a minimum of $50 per month, and potentially a lot more than that for high-volume email communication.
    Incentivized
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