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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MessageGears

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMessageGears is a hybrid email marketing service built around deliverability, actionable customer data, and audience segmentation and targeting.N/A

    ReachMail

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AReachMail focuses on assisting email marketers in achieving delivery success, and present their services a a guide in the ever-changing world of marketing and transactional email. ReachMail includes tools like optimized time-of-day sending, integrated list hygiene and expert support.

    $9

    per month

    Pricing
    MessageGearsReachMail
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $9.00
    per month
    Prro
    $29.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MessageGearsReachMail
    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
    MessageGearsReachMail
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of MessageGears and ReachMail
    Feature
    MessageGears
    3.3
    3 Ratings
    83% below category average
    ReachMail
    9.2
    9 Ratings
    14% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor1.52 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Dynamic content3.83 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content2.23 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    A/B testing2.73 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting3.83 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    List management2.13 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences2.23 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of MessageGears and ReachMail
    Feature
    MessageGears
    1.1
    3 Ratings
    150% below category average
    ReachMail
    9.7
    9 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Dashboards1.13 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Standard reports1.13 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Custom reports1.03 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of MessageGears and ReachMail
    Feature
    MessageGears
    3.7
    3 Ratings
    75% below category average
    ReachMail
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    URL Validation1.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Link Tracking2.83 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Image Validation7.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Inbox Display7.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check6.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing1.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Previews1.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    MessageGearsReachMail
    Small Businesses
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Validity Engage
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Validity Engage
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MessageGearsReachMail
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MessageGearsReachMail
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MessageGears
    MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.
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    ReachMail, Inc
    The free Reachmail account (which I have used for several small organizations) is a good tool where there are limited or zero email marketing dollars, a contact audience of up to 5,000 subscribers, and a max of 15,000 monthly emails. The pricing levels are really reasonable for volume requirements, including custom plans for infrequent mailings. If there are constraints (time and/or design experience) that require a large choice of ready-made contemporary templates without graphic or font modifications, then this probably isn't a good email marketing tool.
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    Pros
    MessageGears
    • The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.
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    ReachMail, Inc
    • I have a $10 account, but customer support treat me like a princess. They even added a feature to one page to remedy a problem I was having with that page. They care about their customers.
    • ReachMail Features (or at least, these are the ones I know they have): WYSIWYG Email Editor, Template Management, Mobile Optimized Emails, Dynamic Content, Subscribe/Unsubscribe, Mailing List Management, Drip Campaigns, Auto-Responders, Image Library, A/B Testing, Customer Surveys, CAN SPAM Compliance, Reporting/Analytics.
    • These folks know what they’re doing. I can’t speak highly enough about ReachMail.
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    Cons
    MessageGears
    • Multivariate testing
    • WYSIWYG email builder
    • SQL audience error report
    • Native reporting
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    ReachMail, Inc
    • There are no batch report downloads. When I have multiple variations and waves in a campaign, I have to download reports individually. I'd like for a way to download one report of all sends during a certain time period, or given another set of parameters.
    • It would save a lot of time if we had the ability to upload multiple images or assets at once.
    • There's only a two-level "tree" of organization of lists and suppression lists. It would be great if we had the abililty to nest lists into better categories, rather than having to scroll through one giant list of suppressions or deployment lists. Something like a 2015 folder, then inside that a Business Unit folder, then inside that, a Campaign folder, etc. This would make things much easier to find.
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    Usability
    MessageGears
    Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality
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    ReachMail, Inc
    Their team is knowledgable and willing to help offer insight and support to build out the right campaigns to fit our business needs and goals
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    Support Rating
    MessageGears
    MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.
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    ReachMail, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    MessageGears
    MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.
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    ReachMail, Inc
    In my opinion, ReachMail is a good competitor to Mailchimp, probably has more features though and analytics to help organize information. There are also a lot more third party integrations that have helped us compared to other apps that we've tried before, but ReachMail has been the most useful, for me personally and my team
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    Return on Investment
    MessageGears
    • Sending more email!
    • Onboarding handoff was a little rough
    • Great control on who we are sending to
    • Dynamic content is very easy!
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    ReachMail, Inc
    • None. I signed up for a pay account so only had to spend a dollar for the first month. Even that was a waste as I simply can't send emails out with their forced unsubscribe header. If it was the typical CAN-SPAM footer it would be fine, but it just looks awful.
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