One of The Best Customer Experience Management Software for Solopreneurs and Small Businesses
August 24, 2021

One of The Best Customer Experience Management Software for Solopreneurs and Small Businesses

Sarah Martin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Small Business

Overall Satisfaction with ActiveCampaign

At Dignified Hedonist, ActiveCampaign is essential to our core customer experience processes. We rely on ActiveCampaign to properly welcome every new contact who opts to learn more about our business, to allow us to segment leads and deliver hyper personalized correspondence, and to build relationships. ActiveCampaign also plays nicely with other software that we use, so we're able to build up a comprehensive picture of our audience in order to better serve them in more relevant ways.
  • Build flexible automated campaigns on an intuitive whiteboard system
  • Provides many "recipes" - prebuilt automations - for common small business use cases
  • Detailed, short tutorials, an extensive knowledge base, and regular onboarding and training webinars
  • Extremely good customer support
  • Integrates with most best in class tools and software easily
  • Excellent customer segmentation abilities with tags
  • Robots can crack embedded ActiveCampaign forms - beware, be sure to activate captcha and other security features
  • It's unclear as to whether you can set default fonts and font sizes for emails; it's frustrating to have to reset this every time
  • ActiveCampaign could invest more time in design elements. Available fonts are limited, email styling is limited, visual design features are clunky and not intuitive.
  • 100% list growth through integration with lead capture software
  • New income generated through personalized email welcome sequence
  • Higher levels of engagement with our audience
  • Audience segmentation for greater relevance
We started out using Mailchimp, which worked well enough for the beginning stages of our business. However, it became clear that Mailchimp was limited, especially when it comes to building more sophisticated automated campaigns.

We evaluated GetResponse and MailerLite at the same time as ActiveCampaign, and ultimately chose ActiveCampaign because it had high level capabilities with tiered pricing based on list size - there was a plan that was a perfect fit for our stage of business.

Keap stacks up favorably in our view next to ActiveCampaign - Keap Max Classic has powerful automation capabilities. However, more power at Keap means more money right out the gate.

Ultimately, ActiveCampaign was a perfect balance of feature set and pricing that matched our current stage of growth.

Do you think ActiveCampaign delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with ActiveCampaign's feature set?

Yes

Did ActiveCampaign live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of ActiveCampaign go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy ActiveCampaign again?

Yes

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ActiveCampaign is an extraordinarily powerful tool for small businesses and it is designed to grow with you - entry level pricing with ActiveCampaign is just unbelievably affordable. As your list grows and your business grows, you can level up the feature set you get with ActiveCampaign, so it's never too soon to choose this software.

That said, if you are a solopreneur, don't feel confident learning automation software, and don't currently have the budget to hire someone to manage ActiveCampaign for you, you may not get what you want out of using this software. You still have to invest time into building and maintaining the systems you create in ActiveCampaign.

While it's completely possible to use ActiveCampaign without being a tech wizz, it's also worth knowing that you will be under utilizing this tool. And, that's ok! At first, you may just want to send attractive newsletters. But once you have some capital to invest, spend some getting an expert to work with you on your application. There is SO MUCH you are able to do with this tool.

ActiveCampaign Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG email editor
7
Dynamic content
10
Ability to test dynamic content
10
A/B testing
Not Rated
Mobile optimization
10
Email deliverability reporting
10
List management
9
Triggered drip sequences
10
Lead nurturing automation
10
Lead scoring and grading
Not Rated
Data quality management
10
Automated sales alerts and tasks
Not Rated
Event/webinar marketing
10
Social sharing and campaigns
9
Dashboards
10
Standard reports
10
Custom reports
10
API
10
Role-based workflow & approvals
10
Customizability
10
Integration with Salesforce.com
Not Rated
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Not Rated
Integration with SugarCRM
Not Rated