Sendblaster is the Swiss Army Knife of bulk email tools.
January 29, 2016
Sendblaster is the Swiss Army Knife of bulk email tools.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sendblaster
In the past, I have used Sendblaster to design, send, track, and manage, email marketing campaigns and also email communication to students and other stakeholders in higher education. Sendblaster is the best product I have used for these needs, even better than MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc. There are multiple reasons why Sendblaster is superior. (1) Sendblaster allows good/picky designers to design templates that look beautiful without limits, instead of being limited by the canned templates provided by other services/softwares. (2) Sendblaster does not force the use of footers that mention a bulk email service provider, force standardized "unsubscribe" verbiage, etc. This is very important in higher education and other settings where we *MUST* be able to contact people via email because we have a business relationship with them, and we cannot allow them to unsubscribe. ...but yet we still have the option to provide unsubscribe links when it's appropriate. (3) Sendblaster provides lots of options for sending, so you can use your organization's own SMTP servers, and lots of other sending scenarios/configurations. (4) Once you pay the affordable price for the Sendblaster software, there are no more costs. You don't have to pay ongoing subscription fees or per-message volume fees.
- Ultimate control over design of templates and messages. Sendblaster provides great templates, but you can also design your own from scratch, with total control.
- Lots of options for sending your outgoing messages, including your organization's SMTP server, a third party's SMTP server, "direct" sending from your desktop, and many more configuration options.
- Sendblaster is even easier than Microsoft Word for "merging" data into your outgoing messages.
- Once you pay the affordable price for the Sendblaster software, there are no more ongoing subscription fees or volume-based per-message charges.
- The user interface could be more polished. It's very easy to use, but the appearance of the user interface looks a little old fashioned for a desktop software. Of course recipients don't see that interface, so that is not very consequential.
- Customer service was greatly improved because of Sendblaster. We were able to design our communication exactly the way we wanted to improve communication effectiveness.
- Sendblaster helped our brand because email recipients have been very impressed by the polished visual appearance of our outgoing messages, consistent branding and use of logo, wordmark, and other identifiers, etc.
- We saved a lot of money with Sendblaster. Our organization can send unlimited messages, and the Sendblaster software we paid for places no limit on messages sent. So, since there are no ongoing subscription fees or volume fees after paying for the the software, we saved a lot. Other "software as a service" options would have cost a minimum of $50 per month, and potentially a lot more than that for high-volume email communication.
- GroupMail, MailChimp and Constant Contact
Sendblaster has all the features of these other alternatives, and its more flexible. Its a lot easier to develop custom messages/templates. There are a lot more sending configurations that are possible. There are no subscriptions fees with Sendblaster, unlike MailChimp and Constant Contact. I haven't found another solution that has all of the same features.