Marigold Engage vs. Mautic (open source)

Message Studio/Selligent is great for reliably sending high volumes of both manual and automated email. The intuitive user interface promotes fast turnaround times. Aside from some data integration issues, it's the best email service provider I've used for sending large volumes of email.

Incentivized

Mautic is not Salesforce or Dynamics of course; it is hard to install, still buggy and you have to know what you're doing if you want to use it. But that is your admission fee to an always free system that does essentially all the same things as the pricey alternatives, does it effectively and gives you total control. Mautic was acquired by Acquia, the company behind Drupal, and has been making substantial upgrades since that seem to be accelerating. The system has an active user community, active development and will only get better, making it an excellent choice to grow with and build your own systems around and never be dependent on third parties

• StrongMail does open and click tracking very well. The detailed level of data they provide is exceptional.
• StrongMail does failure data and bounce codes extremely well. The granularity of the information is invaluable to our business and used by us every day.
• StrongMail's Message Studio EAS is a widely user friendly platform for technical and non-technical users alike.

Incentivized

• Marketing email organization
• Email tracking
• Email automation
• Contact management
• Open rates
• Delivery rates
• A/B testing
• Email sending
• Unsubscribe management
• SMTP management

• Better data integration
• Friendlier user interface
• Easier guides and instructions

Incentivized

• Setting up the email templates has required hiring a professional. The templates that are provided are not fully responsive.
• More responsive form templates are needed.

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We did not evaluate other products exactly. We upgraded from an inferior production to StrongMail based on demos and other people's reviews.

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Infusionsoft, at the time I tested it, had a crazy editor--very unintuitive and not very clean. Mautic (open source) makes it much easier to build up campaigns. Besides that, it didn't provide what we needed to justify the lack of possibility to self-host it and the requirement to pay for it.

• Increased employee efficiency due to content blocking
• Lower rate of errors/apology emails due to technical errors

Incentivized

• We made our ROI back within a year.
• Fulfills our needs and our client's needs, our clients love it.
• I would just add more templates to the email construction selection, other than that, it is just perfect.

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