Compare iContact и Mailblast

Benefits:

iContact is easy to use in most cases. There are tons of different templates and creating your own email template is a breeze. If you get one of th... Read more

iContact is easy to use in most cases. There are tons of different templates and creating your own email template is a breeze. If you get one of the Pro plans they'll even help you make templates for future use, so that's great, too. There are plenty of ways to upload data and keep track of that data. In fact I tend to use iContact to export my data for use on other platforms because it keeps everything so nicely. My point of sale doesn't even allow the breadth of exports and options that iContact does, so it's more than just an email platform to me. Automation is visually very simple and means that I know I'm reaching my audience at the correct times. I no longer have to manually send each email, and with the automation there are tons of options to segment in addition. This means I'm not sending frivolous emails, so that keeps our open rate high.

Drawbacks:

I have three businesses that have to be kept separate and my only big complaint is that I can't copy automation plans or other things back and fort... Read more

I have three businesses that have to be kept separate and my only big complaint is that I can't copy automation plans or other things back and forth between them. So a lot of time is wasted redoing certain campaigns between the locations. I also think the social connectivity needs to be updated. Twitter for one is outdated and the actual website allows much more text to be posted than in-app. They're several updates behind on Twitter.

Summary:

I get the ability to reach my customers and turn them into return customers week after week and year after year.

Benefits:

When I want to send out an email, I go into my list of prior emails, make changes, and send. It's very easy. It has all of the functionality we nee... Read more

When I want to send out an email, I go into my list of prior emails, make changes, and send. It's very easy. It has all of the functionality we need for sending out bulk emails.

Drawbacks:

The editor is a bit clunky. It does take a bit of time to create a new email format. Sometimes it doesn't behave like it is supposed to. But once y... Read more

The editor is a bit clunky. It does take a bit of time to create a new email format. Sometimes it doesn't behave like it is supposed to. But once you save that new format you can use it over and over.

Summary:

We've had to contact support a couple of times and they have been helpful. The level we purchased isn't a comprehensive marketing solution. But we ... Read more

We've had to contact support a couple of times and they have been helpful. The level we purchased isn't a comprehensive marketing solution. But we came back to it after having trouble with ClickDimensions, it actually works better.

Benefits:

iContact is a low cost solution for basic email marketing. You have access to a strategic advisor. My strategic advisor always provides thorough an... Read more

iContact is a low cost solution for basic email marketing. You have access to a strategic advisor. My strategic advisor always provides thorough answers and/or solutions when requested. iContact offers automation with workflows that are easy and quick to build. The user interface is easy to understand.

Drawbacks:

The response time to fix API issues can be slow. iContact does not offer a post unsubscribe survey. I'm not able to download user profile informat... Read more

The response time to fix API issues can be slow. iContact does not offer a post unsubscribe survey. I'm not able to download user profile information when exporting email send statistics - this is important for me when I want to do a quick analysis on my data.

Summary:

Benefits:

The new templates are super easy to use and make for very easy team collaboration, even when members of a team are very inexperienced with iContact.

Drawbacks:

iContact doesn't have the name recognition that Constant Contact has or even Wordpress to some extent. Thus, I do run into problems trying to convi... Read more

iContact doesn't have the name recognition that Constant Contact has or even Wordpress to some extent. Thus, I do run into problems trying to convince others that iContact works just as well (and in some cases, better) than those others.

Summary:

iContact wasn't the best email campaign manager when I fist started using it several years ago, but it has since developed into a great program tha... Read more

iContact wasn't the best email campaign manager when I fist started using it several years ago, but it has since developed into a great program that is equal to its competitors in every feature that I utilize.

Benefits:

Mailblast has a clean interface, that is easy to navigate yet has a good selection of options and customizations. Imported ~70k subscribers without... Read more

Mailblast has a clean interface, that is easy to navigate yet has a good selection of options and customizations. Imported ~70k subscribers without issue, handles duplicate entries automatically. The drag and drop template builder is nice, and has features that other platforms such as Constant Contact does not have (responsive columns, paragraph line height, etc). Have not ran into a single bug or issue as of yet.

Drawbacks:

Have yet to run into a con as of yet, however it would be nice to have additional features suc as geolocation targetting, and A/B testing.

Summary:

Affordable mass email marketing

Benefits:

The free trial offers 1000 subscribers with unlimited emails. They use Amazon SES. They have Stripe as a payment method. Can be integrated with Za... Read more

The free trial offers 1000 subscribers with unlimited emails. They use Amazon SES. They have Stripe as a payment method. Can be integrated with Zapier. Has an automation feature.

Drawbacks:

Only 2000 emails per day other than that it's 0.10 per 1000 emails. The monthly prices are expensive compared to several other services like Mailer... Read more

Only 2000 emails per day other than that it's 0.10 per 1000 emails. The monthly prices are expensive compared to several other services like Mailer Lite or Omni Send. Segmentation is lacking.

Summary:

It's expensive compared to other mailers. The interface is very simple, too simple. Segmentation is a big problem. The only thing I like is the aut... Read more

It's expensive compared to other mailers. The interface is very simple, too simple. Segmentation is a big problem. The only thing I like is the automation option. If you have a very small list, it can work for you, but if you have tens of thousands of subscribers, there are more suited mailers with much less cost to serve your needs.

Benefits:

As mentioned before, I like technology, I'm the type of guy that likes to try anything that inspires challenge. Not just a challenge. A challenge t... Read more

As mentioned before, I like technology, I'm the type of guy that likes to try anything that inspires challenge. Not just a challenge. A challenge that call out the ming-braing to take serious action on the upcoming information. To make ones job easy should be the goal of any business man.

Drawbacks:

Once again, I sued Mailblast enough to say that so far is the worst marketing app I have used so far. To summarize, they kill any good perspective... Read more

Once again, I sued Mailblast enough to say that so far is the worst marketing app I have used so far. To summarize, they kill any good perspectives on such apps.

Summary:

No so good very complicated and time wasting, sorry guys, just been honest here!

Benefits:

Customer support is the best. It is really easy to use. When I had any problems, or any small feature requests they are responded in hours and solu... Read more

Customer support is the best. It is really easy to use. When I had any problems, or any small feature requests they are responded in hours and solutions are provided in a just few days even for new features.

Drawbacks:

Summary:

It really helped us for our daily and weekly newsletters.