The Best Campaign Builder You'll Ever Use
May 16, 2018
The Best Campaign Builder You'll Ever Use
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
ONTRAPORT
Overall Satisfaction with ONTRAPORT
We use ONTRAPORT in just about every department of our business. It's our contact management software, it's where we build most of our sales/landing pages for our offerings, it's how we manage email campaigns, it's how we manage registrations to our retreats and events. It does a great job at the majority of those things.
- ONTRAPORT is stellar for building campaigns. Their visual editor is somehow completely user-friendly and insanely powerful. The ability to so easily set up a chain of dozens of events, conditions, and outcomes is a huge asset. It's easy to segment users based on things they've bought, sequences they've opted into, etc., and send them down automated funnels.
- ONTRAPORT's page builder is great for basic-to-intermediate level sales/landing pages. It's certainly not perfect, but it does allow pretty much anyone to build a nice, clean, mobile-responsive landing page.
- ONTRAPORT's contact management is extremely powerful. If you can think of a way you'd like to tag, organize, manage, segment, or otherwise manipulate contact data, Ontraport almost certainly has it built right in.
- The page builder is... quirky at best, and sometimes outright frustrating. Blocks will often behave unpredictably, and there are a handful of pretty obnoxious bugs you eventually just learn to work around (for instance, after uploading and selecting an image to insert into a block, you need to move your cursor and hit "Save" on that block. In between your current cursor position and the Save button, there are a handful of stock placeholder images. On its route to the Save button, your cursor of course hovers across these images momentarily. This causes them to autofill into the block in the same split second you hit 'Save,' which means you now have a stock image in your block and you're forced to go all the way back to your image library and start again).
- I'm not in a position to have hard numbers about ONTRAPORT's financial impact on our business, but I work with it enough to know it's been massively helpful in achieving our goals. For one, it's helped us manage our email list and segment them appropriate to our needs.
- Despite its quirks, the page builder has greatly helped some of our employees with little to no web dev background build clean, professional-looking landing pages on a short learning curve.
ONTRAPORT's email builder easily outstrips that of GetResponse. Overall, ONTRAPORT's UI, capabilities, editors, and overall user experience are just clearly superior to those of GetResponse. GetResponse appears to be quickly becoming outdated in such a fast-moving market. We have experienced slightly better deliverability on our emails with GetResponse, but not significantly enough to outweigh the wealth of other powerful features offered by ONTRAPORT.