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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

    Yesmail360i

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AYes Lifecycle Marketing (formerly Yesmail) offers Yesmail360i as a cross-channel marketing campaign management and marketing analytics solution to enhance CRM information richness and improve email marketing (and other channel) effectiveness. Emphasizing a move away from the company's former focus on email, Yesmail360i offers display and social media campaign management capabilities and integration with advanced market and competitive intelligence, as well as customer demographic and…N/A
    Pricing
    MessageGearsYesmail360i
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MessageGearsYesmail360i
    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
    MessageGearsYesmail360i
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of MessageGears and Yesmail360i
    Feature
    MessageGears
    3.3
    3 Ratings
    83% below category average
    Yesmail360i
    9.9
    5 Ratings
    21% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor1.52 Ratings9.95 Ratings
    Dynamic content3.83 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content2.23 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    A/B testing2.73 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Mobile optimization8.01 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting3.83 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    List management2.13 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences2.23 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of MessageGears and Yesmail360i
    Feature
    MessageGears
    1.1
    3 Ratings
    149% below category average
    Yesmail360i
    9.9
    4 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Dashboards1.13 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Standard reports1.13 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Custom reports1.03 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of MessageGears and Yesmail360i
    Feature
    MessageGears
    3.7
    3 Ratings
    75% below category average
    Yesmail360i
    -
    Ratings
    URL Validation1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Tracking2.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Image Validation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbox Display7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spam Testing1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    MessageGearsYesmail360i
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MessageGearsYesmail360i
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MessageGearsYesmail360i
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    For all outbound messaging, YesMail is perfect. For Social Media management, or for customer service management, where customers or subscribers need a place to "talk back" to your organization, YesMail might not be the best platform.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    MessageGears
    • The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.
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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    • Large Enterprise email campaigns for Fortune 500 clients.
    • Account managers are very easy to work with and contact. I usually can get a response within a few hours to solve an issue.
    • Software is very easy to use and ramp up time was short.
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    Cons
    MessageGears
    • Multivariate testing
    • WYSIWYG email builder
    • SQL audience error report
    • Native reporting
    Incentivized
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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    • The ramp up time for new users is pretty poor. Since it is not an intuitive interface non tech savvy users have a hard time getting the most out of it
    • A lot of common functionality has to be built in... Which costs extra
    • Support isn't the best, they do respond but not at the speed I would like.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MessageGears
    No answers on this topic
    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    I do not have the buying decision to renew/change providers, but do have the ability to provide my feedback to those who do. Yesmail has a lot of kinks that need to be worked out. But, for those that just need to deploy emails, and house subscriptions, this is a decent platform to do so. Companies with more advanced campaign targeting/analysis needs should explore other service providers.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    Overall it is easy to use but there's several different portals you must log into instead of having everything at your disposal in one place (reporting, emails, extracting data, etc).
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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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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    Very easy to get a hold of an actual person and quick responses.
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    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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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    We currently use MailChimp for automation campaigns. While there are limitations with MailChimp segmentation, it was much faster to get set up. We still use Yesmail for the bulk of our sending, and could probably do all the same things we do with MailChimp but it would just take a bit longer to get it set up
    Incentivized
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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!
    Incentivized
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    Yes Lifecycle Marketing
    • We spend quite a bit of time troubleshooting, so it has had a negative impact on employee efficiency. When there is an issue we have to give them step by step examples of what went wrong so they can re-create it. 8 times out of 10, they can't recreate the issue.
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