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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

    Yesware

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AYesware, from Vendasta since the October 2022 acquisition, is a service for salespeople that helps them close deals faster. An email service tracks email, templates responses and syncs to CRM.

    $19

    per month

    Pricing
    MailerLiteYesware
    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
    Pro
    $19
    per month
    Premium
    $45
    per month
    Enterprise
    $85
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MailerLiteYesware
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAdditional 30% discount available to Non-profit organizations. Up to a 10% for paying yearly.Annual plans save up to 23%.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    MailerLiteYesware
    Considered Both Products
    Mailerlite
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    Vendasta
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    79 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    78 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    79 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    71 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    MailerLiteYesware
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of MailerLite and Yesware
    Feature
    MailerLite
    8.9
    88 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Yesware
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor9.577 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content9.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content7.863 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing8.854 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.569 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.377 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management9.376 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences9.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of MailerLite and Yesware
    Feature
    MailerLite
    7.0
    76 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Yesware
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.976 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of MailerLite and Yesware
    Feature
    MailerLite
    9.5
    69 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Yesware
    -
    Ratings
    Email Previews9.569 Ratings00 Ratings
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    MailerLiteYesware
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Mailtrack
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MailerLiteYesware
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (93 ratings)
    9.0
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (30 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MailerLiteYesware
    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.
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    Vendasta
    It works for my company and my problems. If you need a Sales CRM you can go for higher-end products that will give you what Yesware gives along with other stuff. Wherein we had specific problems we wanted to solve. -We needed a solution for a smaller team within our bigger sales team. -We needed a solution to be easy to use point and click and did not require any setup. -We needed to have a better solution to YAMM.
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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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    Vendasta
    • Tracking open rates, link click rates, and reply rates. This allows us to compare different templates in order to see which allows for the most interactions and meetings set directly from email engagement.
    • Seeing exactly when someone opens an email and whether it is in their normal location. Also if they are opening on a mobile device versus a computer to be able to organize the set up of the email in a more beneficial way.
    • Being able to save Templates for Mail Merges to avoid the duplication of effort that other mass email systems utilize.
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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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    Vendasta
    • The ability to unwrap iframe embeds on email (e.g. if I send a Vimeo link over email, have that video thumbnail show and link out to a video)
    • Removing recipients from a campaign. If my ruleset is to remove a contact from a sequence after he/she replies, sometimes a person will reply from another email and Yesware doesn't recognize it. (e.g. if I add jeff@amazon.com to my campaign and jeff.bezos@amazon.com replies to my thread, Yesware will still send an email to jeff@amazon.com unless he is manually removed)
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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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    Vendasta
    I like the product, but due to the limitations I don't love it. I'm curious to revisit other options, particularly in lieu of Yesware's recent price increases (although I'm on a legacy plan). Some of my challenges to be browser related (I'm on an older computer) -- I'll have to see how things go when I receive my new computer. If the glitches (especially with regard to tracking accuracy and send later feature) go away, I'd be much more inclined to renew
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    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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    Vendasta
    Yesware is easy to setup and get connected in existing systems. We were able to get started sending the day we puchased our subscription because of the addon for Gmail and easy connection to our CRM. It's also very easy to use in the day to day, kicking off campaigns and seeing their status to as about as easy as it gets. I have not concerns about usability
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    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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    Vendasta
    Because it deserves this rating. The features and functionality provided are great. Our Sales team is very satisfied with this software as it integrates very well with our other software like Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Yesware provides great follow up with customers, which is essential for sales. Meeting scheduling is also flawless.
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    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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    Vendasta
    All of these tools do what Yesware does, and more; but Yesware does the follow-up email portion best, in my experience. It is reasonably priced and is regularly adding new functionality to make it a sticky license for us to have. Yesware does not have predictive analytics or a particularly strong dialer solution, but it does provide team-wide and template efficacy tracking, and a basic dialer.
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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.
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    Vendasta
    • I think net positive ROI from generating meetings that lead to closed deals. Ultimately very difficult to quantify the ROI since it is essentially automating a lot of the manual prospecting done by BDRs/AEs - so ROI is likely higher than just that quantifiable number around deals closed.
    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

    Yesware Screenshots

    Screenshot of CampaignsScreenshot of Email Templates