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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Text-Em-All

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Text-Em-All, headquartered in Frisco, delivers personalized, informational, emergency mass text messages and phone calls, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000.

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    Zoho Campaigns

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AZoho Campaigns is an email marketing and social networking campaigning tool for smaller companies that helps create, send, and track effective email campaigns. It features list management and segmentation, A/B Testing, tracking and reporting, automation, and mobile campaign management.

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    Pricing
    Text-Em-AllZoho Campaigns
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $0
    Credits
    $0.05
    per credit
    Monthly
    $19
    per month
    Forever Free
    $0
    Standard Plan
    $3 for 500 contacts
    per month
    Professional Plan
    $4.5 for 500 contacts
    per month
    Pay as you go
    $14 for 500 contacts
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Text-Em-AllZoho Campaigns
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsText-Em-All offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to different user needs. The monthly plan starts at $19, with pricing based on group size, making it ideal for consistent senders who reach the same group(s) each month as often as needed. Plans provide access to the full range of Text-Em-All features, to ensure a comprehensive messaging experience. Additionally, the platform offers credits, or pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs ranging from 5¢ to 9¢ per credit, suitable for users with occasional or high-volume messaging needs. To help potential customers evaluate the service, Text-Em-All offers a free account so users can evaluate and try the service with 25 free credits.—
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    Community Pulse
    Text-Em-AllZoho Campaigns
    Considered Both Products
    Text-Em-All
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    Zoho
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    216 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    197 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    213 Answers
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    172 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    184 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Text-Em-AllZoho Campaigns
    Emergency Notification System
    Comparison of Emergency Notification System features of Text-Em-All and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Text-Em-All
    8.2
    26 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Zoho Campaigns
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    Ratings
    Mass Notification8.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Delivery8.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization and Templates8.123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Geo-Targeting9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Language Support7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Emergency Contacts Database8.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Two-Way Communication7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notification Reporting and Analytics7.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with External Systems7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Notifications7.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Text-Em-All and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Campaigns
    9.3
    26 Ratings
    15% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.825 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings9.818 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings9.822 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings5.024 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.826 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.925 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.820 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Text-Em-All and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Campaigns
    9.8
    26 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.825 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Text-Em-All and Zoho Campaigns
    Feature
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Campaigns
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings4.94 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Text-Em-AllZoho Campaigns
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (215 ratings)
    9.8
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (113 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Text-Em-AllZoho Campaigns
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Text-Em-All
    We have found them to be very good for immediate communication of a brief message to a large number of people at once. Thus, it works perfectly for a neighborhood association. It may not be suitable for longer messages or situations with excessive notifications.
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    Zoho
    It is well suited in scenarios:
    1. Well-defined static list with proper info.
    2. Not building email templates from scratch
    3. Litmus testing involved
    4. Easy to use simple automation journeys involved
    Not well-suited scenarios:
    1. Complex Customer journeys
    2. Dynamic content involved
    3. Integration with other products other than the ZOHO suite
    4. Testing API limits
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    Pros
    Text-Em-All
    • Scheduled delivery: works as it should every time and is SUPER convenient.
    • Mass contact upload: I was able to pull a report to excel and it loaded PERFECTLY to ‘Contacts’
    • Feedback: if anyone doesn’t get the message, I will know almost immediately.
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    Zoho
    • The best thing about this software is its integration with G-suite.
    • It's user interface is so easy that any user can learn it quickly. And it is very easy to operate.
    • It helps users to engage subscribers via various social media platforms.
    • It allows users to compare various email campaigns.
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    Cons
    Text-Em-All
    • My initial concern was regarding the "opt out" feature. I work with the senior population, and many of whom are not that tech-savvy. I have a couple of residents who had unintentionally opted out of messages thinking it was an individual message they were skipping. I would suggest that there be a clarifying question when a user chooses to opt out; it should default to opting out of a single message and survey the user to see if they would like to opt out of receiving additional messages. My residents were wondering why they were missing information and why I hadn't informed them of important dates and events.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho should start by throwing this tool in the trash and then recreate it from scratch. There are so many flaws I would be here all year trying to list them all. Start by the fact that creating templates is an absolute nightmare. You'll find over and over again that something that should be easily executed can't be done. It is NOT a plug and play program. Everything is trial and error.
    • The reporting SUCKS bad. It gives you basics, but if you want any real insights... I have to export all my data into my own spreadsheets to compare results from multiple campaigns.
    • Customer service is B.A.D. You'll spend HOURS upon HOURS with a tech support team that knows less than you. The only time anything gets accomplished is when you work with a programmer. BUT, you'll seriously waste 1-2 hours explaining a problem to someone who is only taking notes. You'll get so frustrated when they try to show you how they think it works and you respond with... "I know how this works because I have used it for a year - the problem is that it stopped working the way it always did before. They will argue with you. You will respond accordingly. They will close tickets without resolution. Speaking of tickets, you'll never get one. They say they will take care of it and a week later you will follow-up and no one will have any idea what is going on. You'll start from scratch and be even more frustrated. You will learn to "fix" it on your own or deal with it, broken.
    • After two years, I'm still not sure if my emails even make it to an inbox. When asked, you'll be told that you need to write better subject lines. I call bull****. Don't rely on this product to deliver your email. And don't question Zoho, as it will always be your fault.
    • You can't use this tool to send to ANY group email addresses. You can't even override the system. I have a lot of clients that use info@xxx.com or sales@xxx.com, etc. and I have to send them personal emails since this will not allow them to be sent. They say it is to protect them from getting blacklisted. I call bull**** again.
    • The templates offered by the system are crap - unless you only send holiday emails. Not a large selection of just generic templates. You'll be pulling your hair out trying to use their builder to create your own. In the end, you'll end up sending emails with nothing "pretty" about them.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Text-Em-All
    Text-Em-All is a great way to get messages to our associates versus posting on a memo board and hoping they see it. Very efficient. I would recommend this great tool to companies big or small as a form of business related communications. The only thing I would change is the ability to use more characters in the messages. And it would be a plus if you can translate to different languages in the app.
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    Zoho
    Because I am a single user organization and the subscription is free for up to 3 users.
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    Usability
    Text-Em-All
    It's fantastic. In general, it's a 10. But I give it a 7 because of the way I know it can improve. I save my workers' names in lists...and I have only the first and last name fields to classify them. I grade my workers based on their experiences and based on their jobs; so I use the last name field to group them. This could be easier by you adding another field.
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    Zoho
    Zoho Campaigns is a powerful email sending tool. Zoho Campaigns is highly user-friendly and intuitive software. Complex email marketing tasks are simplified by Zoho Campaigns. Best part of Zoho Campaigns is that when you upload the email addresses it verifies that emails are valid or not. I have never seen this feature except in Zoho Campaigns.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Text-Em-All
    The availability of the text em all is amazing specially when we needed the most to spread out the word on an event that was happening.
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    Zoho
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    Performance
    Text-Em-All
    I love the performance it provided us. Also, want to clarify that the time it takes to send out a mass text is amazing
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Text-Em-All
    There have been few times over the last 18 years that I have had to make changes to our billing or deal with particular tech questions and I have never had any issues with their response time or ability to be helpful once the issues were communicated
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    Zoho
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    Implementation Rating
    Text-Em-All
    This was the best way we were able to reach out to everyone we wanted to, being that there were some not tech-sabi elderly people. This was a better way for them to be able to get the information they needed.
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    Zoho
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    Alternatives Considered
    Text-Em-All
    Our last provider was costly for what we needed. We need the ability to text, and that's it. The sense was challenging to navigate; I had to sign a one-year contract and pay thousands upfront. Text-em-all has been the best thing.
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    Zoho
    Zoho Campaigns is not for beginners to email marketing, but it’s an excellent choice for those who want to send out a lot of emails with few restrictions and great reporting. It’s a no-brainer if you’re already a Zoho user, as Campaigns is included in Zoho One subscriptions and integrates nicely with other Zoho apps.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Text-Em-All
    Seems like a fair price for the product
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Text-Em-All
    We have never had a problem being able to use Text em all when we needed it
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    Zoho
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    Return on Investment
    Text-Em-All
    • We definitely have a higher response rate when we contact applicants via text message; it seems to be the thing people check more often than email now.
    • It saves us a lot of time wasted before with "phone tag" when employees are unable to immediately to take a call.
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    Zoho
    • It allows us to communicate with all our customers or lists together or individually, and to track how successful our campaigns are.
    • Customer Service is a target area of why we use Zoho Campaigns, and it meets our needs greatly.
    • To date we have not really measured the ROI or impact that Zoho Campaigns has on our marketing efforts but with this product it certainly has the means to do such.
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    ScreenShots

    Text-Em-All Screenshots

    Screenshot of broadcast creation.Screenshot of the interface to add contacts.Screenshot of where to broadcast results.Screenshot of broadcast details.Screenshot of the contact management interface.Screenshot of two-way conversations.

    Zoho Campaigns Screenshots

    Screenshot of Template editorScreenshot of Real-time analyticsScreenshot of List managementScreenshot of Send time optimizationScreenshot of Automation—WorkflowsScreenshot of Dashboard