Benchmark Email

Benchmark Email

Benchmark
Mailchimp

Mailchimp

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About

We know time is your most precious resource. You shouldn't have to waste it fussing with complicated email platforms. Benchmark Email makes the tools you need simple, so you can get back to building relationships, accelerating your business and raising the bar. More efficiently leverage your most valuable marketing assets: your growing audience. Try out Benchmark for free to discover how simple effective email marketing can be. Benchmark has a suite of tools designed to keep up with your drive, including contact management. Take full advantage of Benchmark’s capabilities by upgrading to Pro and see just how much using the right tools can impact your company’s growth. Emails are mobile responsive, easily branded, and ready to delight subscribers in the inbox. Build your subscriber list with forms, pop-ups and landing pages. Easily add contacts to Benchmark Email from your favorite platforms. Connect with more subscribers every month to grow sales.

About

Mailchimp is a marketing automation platform boasting 11 million users worldwide to personalize every email and SMS for every customer using AI-powered insights and content creation tools. With a 99% delivery rate and over 300 integrations, Mailchimp helps businesses connect with their customers, foster repeat business, and build lasting brand loyalty while fitting into their existing workflows. Businesses including TEDTalks, Shutterstock, Boston Market, Nikon India use Mailchimp to drive revenue through emails. Founded in 2001 and based in Atlanta with offices in Brooklyn, Oakland, Vancouver, London, Seattle, and Santa Monica. In 2021 Mailchimp was acquired by Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. Since then, the company has released 100+ new features to help its customers. Mailchimp Transactional adds API-first email and SMS delivery with 99.99% uptime and sub-second speed.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Companies that need a powerful email marketing platform

Audience

Businesses of all sizes that want cloud-based email marketing, transactional email, and SMS — all in one platform.

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$9.95 per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

$9.99 per month
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 3.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.5 / 5
ease 4.7 / 5
features 4.5 / 5
design 4.6 / 5
support 4.4 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Benchmark Email is the smartest way to do email marketing. I like that it is easy to use and it contains beautiful templates to create stunning emails for our clients. It lets me customize every aspect of the email for it to look the way we want it to and it has smart technology to always make sure that our emails will have a high open rate and keep our clients interested in the content we put out. This software has multiple tools that enhance our marketing workflow and it automates our process with features that can be configured to immediately communicate with our clients once they sign up to our newsletter. This keeps our customers engaged and it ensures that our next newsletters will actually be delivered to the email address provided. Benchmark offers a complete automated marketing cycle that helps improve our relationship with customers as we can better control the content that we create and the timeline this content is sent, increasing our leads and upgrading our customer experience. I also like the vast variety of color palettes that it offers for our emails and how we can customize our own palette to make it look more special, and its technology, along with the built-in photo editor, allows us to study our campaigns and know which mock-ups will gain more attention according to their testing that most of the time tends to be very accurate and it adjusts to our past projects and past data to help us improve our marketing strategies in the future. Besides, Benchmark has many good tools for our small business and it has a high contact limit that adjusted to our needs when we first signed up, providing a great and affordable plan that offers most important features that lets me study and analyze our customers’ behavior in regards to our campaigns and how they interact with them. I like that I can customize our reports between live engagement, hourly open rates, device variability, and click rates, as it helps me understand more the type of public that we have and how different they are from each other, and what we can do for every type of customer to keep and improve their engagement rates, and to effectively turn a lead into an actual customer of our products.

Cons

  • Benchmark Email currently doesn’t offer the email whitelabeling option for the plan that we use, which means that sometimes our emails get sent to spam folders because it cannot be fully verified that the newsletters/campaigns belong to our business, or sometimes they end up in the promotions folder for Gmail, which is also an issue as we end up with lower open rates when this happens. This sometimes causes issues for us as we don’t know which emails or which campaigns will end up not being successful, which is my main issue with this software as it doesn’t provide a stable service and deliverability that we can fully rely on for our email marketing projects. Additionally, we have had issues regarding the looks of our emails in the mobile version, even though we have edited our content to make it fit for mobile, it will sometimes happen that it won’t save and it causes issues on the final result; we have brought up this issue with the customer support and I truly hope that they are working to fix this and improve their formatting issues on any device. Also, the lack of a mobile app that helps me send our newsletters more efficiently is a big concern for me and I hope that it will become available soon.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I have used Mailchimp for many years. When we launched our platform for camp ground and outdoor adventure parks a few years back I defaulted to using Mailchimp because of my experience with their platform. It has matured a lot over the years but it still remains very easy to use with drag and drop email templates, sequences, and has much stronger contact management capabilities than when I first started with the tool.
  • Mailchimp is easy to set up and add contacts to. The AI and automated templates provided are helpful. Suggestions given about sentences and titles are very useful.
  • Mailchimp is extremely intuitive and easy to use and we've never had a major issue. The email builder is so easy to use and does everything you'd hope it would.
  • Simple to format and send large group emails/updates. Including a branding kit for Church logos and fonts would be great and bulk deletion of uploads would be helpful.
  • I don’t like much right now about Mailchimp. We have tried to contact you via chat and online without a response at all about why not we cannot add photographs to our emails anymore. We used to be able to use that feature.

Cons

  • You do have to pay based on total contacts so even as people unsubscribe you can end up paying for people you can't market to. But you also can't remove them from your list as you need to be able to track their unsubscribe data in case it is questioned in the future.
  • Slightly more suited to American consumers. But easy to adapt for NZ.
  • Some of the audience management functions could be a bit easier to use, especially when you have duplicates who have an incorrect email address and a correct one--it would be great to flag those.
  • If it had a convert to print format feature, I would be hooked! To be able to generate printed church Bulletins from the weekly email would be amazing!!!
  • I don’t like your lack of response. We have tried to reach you via chat and an email.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Benchmark
Founded: 2004
United States
www.benchmarkemail.com

Company Information

Intuit Mailchimp
Founded: 2001
United States
www.mailchimp.com

Alternatives

Mailchimp

Mailchimp

Intuit Mailchimp

Alternatives

Categories

Email APIs Supported
Email Marketing Supported
Email Newsletter Supported

Categories

Email Marketing Features

A/B Testing Supported
Artificial Intelligence Not Supported
Auto-Responders Supported
CAN SPAM Compliance Supported
Customer Surveys Supported
Drip Campaigns Supported
Dynamic Content Supported
Event Triggered Email Supported
Image Library Supported
Landing Pages/Web Forms Supported
Mailing List Management Supported
Mobile Optimized Emails Supported
Reporting/Analytics Supported
Subscriber Management Not Supported
Template Management Supported
WYSIWYG Email Editor Supported

Email Marketing Features

A/B Testing Supported
Artificial Intelligence Not Supported
Auto-Responders Supported
CAN SPAM Compliance Supported
Customer Surveys Supported
Drip Campaigns Supported
Dynamic Content Supported
Event Triggered Email Supported
Image Library Supported
Landing Pages/Web Forms Supported
Mailing List Management Supported
Mobile Optimized Emails Supported
Reporting/Analytics Supported
Subscriber Management Supported
Template Management Supported
WYSIWYG Email Editor Supported

CRM Features

Calendar/Reminder System Not Supported
Call Logging Not Supported
Document Storage Not Supported
Email Marketing Supported
Internal Chat Integration Not Supported
Lead Scoring Not Supported
Marketing Automation Integration Supported
Mobile Access Not Supported
Quotes / Proposals Not Supported
Segmentation Supported
Social Media Integration Supported
Task Management Not Supported
Territory Management Not Supported

Campaign Management Features

Channel Management Supported
Contact Database Supported
Email Marketing Supported
Event Triggered Actions Supported
Lead Management Supported
Multi-Campaign Supported

Domain Name Registrars Features

DNS Service Not Supported
Domain Parking Supported
Domain Privacy Supported
Email Hosting Not Supported
Extended Expiration Protection Not Supported
SSL Certificates Not Supported
Web Hosting Not Supported
Website Builder Supported

Email Template Design Features

A/B Testing Not Supported
Code From Scratch Not Supported
Drag & Drop Editing Supported
Image Library Not Supported
Import HTML Code Not Supported
Mobile-Friendly / Responsive Not Supported
Potential Issue Identification Not Supported
Premade Templates Not Supported
Proofing Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Not Supported
Text Editor Not Supported
Theme Editor Not Supported

Email Tracking Features

A/B Testing Supported
Audience Segmentation Supported
Campaign Management Supported
Event-Based Notifications Supported
Location Tracking Supported
Team Management Not Supported

Landing Page Features

A/B Testing Supported
Analytics Supported
Drag & Drop Supported
Form Creation Supported
Real Time Editing Supported
Responsive Supported
SEO Management Not Supported
Templates Supported

Marketing Automation Features

A/B Testing Supported
Analytics / ROI Tracking Supported
Artificial Intelligence Supported
Content / Blogging Platform Not Supported
Customizable CTAs Supported
Drip Campaigns Supported
Dynamic Content Supported
Landing Pages / Web Forms Supported
Lead Scoring Not Supported
Sales Intelligence Supported
Search Marketing Not Supported
Segmentation Supported
Social Marketing Supported
Website Visitor Tracking Not Supported

Retargeting Features

A/B Testing Supported
Audience Targeting Supported
Behavioral Targeting Supported
Conversion Tracking Supported
Geo Targeting Supported
Mobile Retargeting Supported
Personalization Supported
Recommendation Engine Supported
Social Media Retargeting Supported

SMS Marketing Features

2-Way Messaging Not Supported
Artificial Intelligence Supported
Contact Management Not Supported
Mass Texting Not Supported
Message Personalization Not Supported
MMS Not Supported
Mobile Coupons Not Supported
Mobile Keywords Not Supported
Polls / Voting Not Supported
Reporting/Analytics Not Supported
Scheduled Messaging Supported
Shortcodes Supported
Text-to-Win Not Supported

Social Media Management Features

Automated Publishing Supported
Brand Tracking Supported
Content Management Supported
Customer Engagement Supported
Multi-Account Management Not Supported
Multi-User Collaboration Not Supported
Post Scheduling Supported
Reporting/Analytics Supported
Social Media Monitoring Not Supported

Social Media Marketing Features

Analytics Supported
Automated Publishing Not Supported
Contact Management Supported
Content Management Supported
Conversion Tracking Not Supported
Customer Targeting Supported
Keyword Filtering Not Supported
Multi-Account Management Supported
Post Scheduling Supported

Website Builder Features

Auto Update Not Supported
Content Import / Export Not Supported
Drag & Drop Supported
Invoices Not Supported
Landing Pages / Web Forms Supported
Newsletter Management Supported
Online Booking Not Supported
Online Store Builder Not Supported
Pre-built Templates Supported
Real Time Editing Supported
SEO Supported
Survey Builder Not Supported
White Label Not Supported

eCommerce Features

Catalog Management Not Supported
Channel Management Not Supported
CRM Not Supported
Customer Accounts Supported
Data Security Not Supported
Email Marketing Supported
Inventory Management Not Supported
Kitting Not Supported
Loyalty Program Not Supported
Mobile Access Not Supported
Multi-Store Management Not Supported
Order Management Supported
Product Configurator Not Supported
Promotions Management Not Supported
Returns Management Not Supported
Reviews Management Not Supported
SEO Management Not Supported
Shopping Cart Not Supported
Templates Not Supported

eCommerce Marketing Features

AB Testing Supported
Abandoned Cart Email Supported
Analytics / ROI Tracking Supported
Customer Data Profiles Not Supported
Dynamic Content Supported
Email Marketing Supported
Email Personalization Supported
Facebook Ads Not Supported
Google Ads Not Supported
Product Recommendations Not Supported
Push Notifications Not Supported
Retargeting Not Supported
Search Marketing Not Supported
Segmentation Supported
Signup Forms & Popups Supported
SMS Marketing Supported
Social Marketing Not Supported
Triggered Emails Not Supported
Website Visitor Tracking Not Supported

Integrations

APIANT Supported
Axis LMS Supported
Convert Pro Supported
ConvertPlus Supported
Freshdesk Supported
Gleam Supported
Groove Supported
HubSpot Marketing Hub Supported
Integrately Supported
Peaka Supported
QuickEmailVerification Supported
RegFox Supported
Replug Supported
Salesforce Supported
SurveyMethods Supported
SurveyMonkey Supported
SurveyMonkey Enterprise Supported
TOPOL.io Supported
UpViral Supported
YesInsights Supported

Integrations

APIANT Supported
Axis LMS Supported
Convert Pro Supported
ConvertPlus Supported
Freshdesk Supported
Gleam Supported
Groove Supported
HubSpot Marketing Hub Supported
Integrately Supported
Peaka Supported
QuickEmailVerification Supported
RegFox Supported
Replug Supported
Salesforce Supported
SurveyMethods Supported
SurveyMonkey Supported
SurveyMonkey Enterprise Supported
TOPOL.io Supported
UpViral Supported
YesInsights Supported
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