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    rasa.io

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/Arasa.io uses Artificial Intelligence to automate the creating, curating, and sending process of an email newsletter. The rasa.io AI hand-picks the most relevant articles so no two emails are the same, as that the rasa.io newsletter evolves to send curated content specific to each individual person's interests. With topical insights on what customers are actually interested in gathered from the AI, it can be used to inform an organization’s own content strategy.

    $190

    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
    rasa.ioSendblaster
    Editions & Modules
    Plus
    $190
    per month per user
    Pro
    $490
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    rasa.ioSendblaster
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe prices listed are based on the Annual plans. There is a contact limit dependent on the plan selected, with the option to purchase additional contacts.—
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    Features
    rasa.ioSendblaster
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of rasa.io and Sendblaster
    Feature
    rasa.io
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Sendblaster
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Dynamic content10.02 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.02 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.62 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of rasa.io and Sendblaster
    Feature
    rasa.io
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Sendblaster
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    rasa.ioSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    rasa.ioSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    rasa.io
    For a small business wanting a way to send an affordable, weekly e-newsletter, rasa.io can't be beaten.
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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.
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    Pros
    rasa.io
    • Automatically curates content for each news letter
    • Scrapes our weekly blog and adds the articles to the weekly newsletter
    • Automatically takes new contacts from our CRM and adds them to the distribution list
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    Sendblaster
    • Rendering HTML source code
    • Managing mailing lists
    • You can control the speed of email broadcasts
    • Ease of importing lists
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    Cons
    rasa.io
    • Cannot be edited easily from a tablet or mobile device. Desktop is needed
    • You have to be very precise when toggling articles or you'll hyperlink to another page
    • Would like to see more robust integration with Keap - specifically the ability to work with contact tags to add or remove recipients from the distribution list
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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.
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    Sendblaster
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    Return on Investment
    rasa.io
    • We get comments weekly about how much recipients like the newsletter
    • There's no solid way to accurately calculate ROI but we've noticed an uptick in the number of long-term nurture prospects that have become clients. All receive the rasa newsletter.
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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.
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    Screenshot of newsletter customization, that can be used to to fit branding using email templates.Screenshot of the interface to boost, select, and send articles to readers.Screenshot of rasa.io analytics.Screenshot of multiple newsletter management.