Mautic

Mautic is well suited for users who do not require a lot of maintenance on the technical areas and have only the general requirements of the email marketing sector. In case the users have more precise requirements and are more focussed on the quality and a proper quantitative analysis, Mautic would not be an ideal choice. In other words for small companies Mautic would be an idea choice where the budget is a constraint and the extent of use is low but in cases where budget is not really a constraint against the performance and quality, Mautic would not be an ideal choice.

Mautic (open source) is a good start into marketing automation for companies with people who have some technical understanding or know people who have it. There are a lot of commercial alternatives out there that combine even some more functionality into one tool. But that's feature overkill nobody needs from the very beginning. The value of marketing automation campaigns is in the content and the campaigns. The tool is only supporting the magic. So buying an expensive tool with all the bells and whistles you might need in the future eats up the budget you need for creating content and marketing campaigns in the beginning. By the time you might build up a lot of knowledge to stay with Mautic (open source) for long time or if you feel some pain with missing features or bugs, you may still decide again later.

Mautic is well suited if you or your organization has the following: Large contact lists, need for mass email marketing, and drip campaigns. Also needed are your own infrastructure, and a tech-savvy person in your company in order to set up and maintain the Mautic installation. The cost savings using a tool such as Mautic, especially when connected to Amazon SES is un-surpassed.

Mautic is well suited for companies that are ready to scale their email marketing to the next level. We were using Mailchimp but found that it did not meet all of our needs. While it was okay at email marketing, the features for landing pages, tagging and dynamic interactions were limited. I would not recommend Mautic for someone who is just starting out though. It can be very intimidating. Unless you have someone who is well versed in email marketing automation, I would not recommend using it.

Mautic is a great tool, especially for rookies starting to use an automation tool. It has been very helpful in landing us great prospects that become clients. Once you get the hang of it, there is nothing Mautic cannot do. Great for massive mailing, campaign builder is really easy, and the forms construction is bliss. We would recommend Mautic all the way.

It's bred from an open source product and is a nice little automation engine. The interface is clean and easy to use, but it definitely doesn't have the bells and whistles of a full-featured Marketing Automation platform like Marketo, Eloqua or Pardot. It's easy to stand up and run with a 1 person team. If you're looking to do simple web tracking, forms and landing pages, and email automation, it's a solid tool. If you like the idea of quickly being able to add focus items to your website it is also a great tool. Keep in mind it's new, and there will be bugs and issues here and there, but Mautic's support team was always very responsive and quick. I would consider both Mautic and Act-On to be "break-in" marketing automation tools, and Mautic stacks up. Not ready for prime time, but will definitely be an upgrade from simple email automation!

Mautic is particularly well suited for smaller companies who need a full-featured marketing automation suite at a reasonable cost. Commercial options are prohibitively expensive for small companies and agencies. Mautic takes a little work to get up and running, but once you have it configured, you're good to go.

If you need the support or onboarding training that a commercial platform provides, Mautic may not be the best choice.