Mautic (open source) vs. WiseStamp

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

I still receive emails from people with a simple "sent from iPhone or sent from iPad" with little to no signature built-in. While I know not everyone is adept or even interested in changing mobile/tablet settings, WiseStamp makes it easy to have a more official-looking signature, in my opinion. Just because you reply to me via a smartphone or tablet, I expect the same level of professionalism. Plus, I don't need to know what device you use to reply or initiate an email, as poor spelling or grammar are essential. Including a photo, especially with many transactions being one in which you never see the person face-to-face, adds a more human element that is really missing. Studies show that ads including a photo of a person will get greater views. I think the same goes for email signature files. My goal is that regardless if I email someone from my laptop, smartphone, or tablet, they should not know as their transactional experience with me should appear to be precisely the same.

Incentivized

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

• Very user-friendly. Loved the simplicity and quick ability to set up.
• Had lots of themes / designs to choose from and had offered the ability to link social accounts for the most popular current socials.
• Extremely affordable already, but we also had a promo code which made it even cheaper.

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.

Incentivized

• In my opinion, animations are glitchy
• Forced to use built-in templates or pay extra to have them simply copy a signature you create elsewhere. No options to actually build out a signature template to your own specifications.
• I think it is over priced
• Doesn't work with "New Outlook" and only certain versions of Classic Outlook.

I love it... Wouldn't use anything else

Incentivized

It is pretty easy to use but the initial setup takes awhile to get right - some of the templates that you can use do not always work for what I had in mind - but overall and once through the initial phase it is super easy to use.

Incentivized

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.

I actually haven't tried the above, but this form wouldn't let me advance without answering. I built my own signature in Gmail. It would have been fine except embedding video is really tough. I was willing to sacrifice being able to showcase books in order to show my TEDx talk link.

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.

Incentivized

• I have increased my calendar bookings from outreach emails by more than 200%
• It makes it easier for people to schedule time with me when multiple people are involved as they can see my availability by clicking the link.
• I have had customers that have not used me for a period of time book time out of the blue by going back to one of my old emails and seeing the scheduling link there
• I use the banner tool whenever there is a promotion or to promote some of my sponsor brands to my clients without them even realising they are getting "adverts"

Incentivized