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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MailerLite

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    MailerLite is an email marketing platform for small businesses, creators, and ecommerce brands, used to automate the customer journey and grow a customer list. Pricing starts at $12/month. MailerLite enables users to: Grow and engage their audience - Build newsletters, forms, pop-ups, landing pages, and even full websites with a Drag and drop builder that offers total creative control over designs. 150 customizable templates are available to get…

    $12

    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
    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    per month 2 users
    Comfort
    $12
    per month 3 users
    Power
    $25
    per month Unlimited users
    Enterprise
    Custom pricing
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAdditional 30% discount available to Non-profit organizations. Up to a 10% for paying yearly.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Considered Both Products
    Mailerlite
    Chose MailerLite
    Mailerlite had the best listing and building tool amongst all other Email marketing platforms we tried.
    Incentivized
    Sendblaster
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    79 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    78 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    79 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    71 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of MailerLite and Sendblaster
    Feature
    MailerLite
    8.9
    88 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Sendblaster
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor9.577 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.169 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.763 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Landing pages8.666 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    A/B testing8.854 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.569 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.377 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    List management9.276 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of MailerLite and Sendblaster
    Feature
    MailerLite
    7.0
    76 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Sendblaster
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Dashboards6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.976 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of MailerLite and Sendblaster
    Feature
    MailerLite
    9.5
    69 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sendblaster
    -
    Ratings
    Email Previews9.569 Ratings00 Ratings
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    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Small Businesses
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (93 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MailerLiteSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Mailerlite
    I didn't have much luck when testing other similar tools and since we tested with free plan, we couldn't commit to something else if we couldn't get basic stuff fixed. That's when we switched to MailerLite, and their support was great and super helpful all the way (during our free plan, especially). Plus, they're super budget-friendly for startups, so I highly recommend.
    Incentivized
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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
    Mailerlite
    • Offers a user-friendly interface, making it simple to create beautiful forms, group subscribers, and automate emails.
    • Includes email automation workflows in their free plan - the only provider I know of that doesn't charge you after one month or hit you with "transaction fees".
    • Excellent video tutorial library so you can learn email marketing as a beginner without feeling overwhelmed.
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    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
    Mailerlite
    • EVERYONE should be allowed to at least use the AI bot chat feature. This doesn't take a person and is such basic customer service that it should be offered at all levels.
    • It would be nice if MailerLite worked better with AddEvent icons
    • When emailing support it took days to get a response (after an agent escalated the issue). Some concerns are more urgent and email support shouldn't mean bad support.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Mailerlite
    Mailerlite is awesome and it does everything I need and then some. They're always innovating and adding new features, and their team is flippin' amazing. Can't see myself ever switching. They may not have everything, but looking at how well their team works, they'll get there for sure and I'm willing to wait.
    Incentivized
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    Sendblaster
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Mailerlite
    I find it very easy to use, intuitive with a clean interface and drag and drop functionality where that adds value. It's quite configurable for our brand and the template and duplication options are very useful as we reuse a lot of content.
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    Sendblaster
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Mailerlite
    Whenever I contact Support, either via email or through online chat, I always get a speedy response that gives me the answer I need. The AI Agent on the online chat is excellent and has helped me so much on numerous occasions.
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    Sendblaster
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Mailerlite
    MailerLite has similar features to the tools mentioned above. The main advantage is that it is very complete in its free version. This is ideal for those who are starting out and want to try a complete email marketing platform.
    Incentivized
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    Sendblaster
    Doesn't apply.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Mailerlite
    • Gives us the ability to track the popularity of content in our email as well as who has read the content.
    • The customizable layout gives us the opportunity to be creative and have our culture shine through our company communication.
    • The ability to see who has un-subscribed helps our HR department to see who isn't receiving important company information so we can ask them to re-subscribe.
    • Helps our company to be more transparent and communicate more effectively.
    Incentivized
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    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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    ScreenShots

    MailerLite Screenshots

    Screenshot of reports, that can include unsubscribe count, spam complaints, bounces, link activity and other metrics that are critical to measuring success.Screenshot of automations for every subscriber journeyScreenshot of the MailerLite landing page builderScreenshot of an example newsletterScreenshot of some of the over 150 templates availableScreenshot of where to find MailerLite's integrations