Benchmark Email

Benchmark Email

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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
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

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
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$9.95 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$9.99 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

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
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

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

Categories

Email Marketing Features

A/B Testing
Artificial Intelligence
Auto-Responders
CAN SPAM Compliance
Customer Surveys
Drip Campaigns
Dynamic Content
Event Triggered Email
Image Library
Landing Pages/Web Forms
Mailing List Management
Mobile Optimized Emails
Reporting/Analytics
Subscriber Management
Template Management
WYSIWYG Email Editor

Email Marketing Features

A/B Testing
Artificial Intelligence
Auto-Responders
CAN SPAM Compliance
Customer Surveys
Drip Campaigns
Dynamic Content
Event Triggered Email
Image Library
Landing Pages/Web Forms
Mailing List Management
Mobile Optimized Emails
Reporting/Analytics
Subscriber Management
Template Management
WYSIWYG Email Editor

CRM Features

Calendar/Reminder System
Call Logging
Document Storage
Email Marketing
Internal Chat Integration
Lead Scoring
Marketing Automation Integration
Mobile Access
Quotes / Proposals
Segmentation
Social Media Integration
Task Management
Territory Management

Campaign Management Features

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

Domain Name Registrars Features

DNS Service
Domain Parking
Domain Privacy
Email Hosting
Extended Expiration Protection
SSL Certificates
Web Hosting
Website Builder

Email Template Design Features

A/B Testing
Code From Scratch
Drag & Drop Editing
Image Library
Import HTML Code
Mobile-Friendly / Responsive
Potential Issue Identification
Premade Templates
Proofing
Reporting / Analytics
Text Editor
Theme Editor

Email Tracking Features

A/B Testing
Audience Segmentation
Campaign Management
Event-Based Notifications
Location Tracking
Team Management

Landing Page Features

A/B Testing
Analytics
Drag & Drop
Form Creation
Real Time Editing
Responsive
SEO Management
Templates

Marketing Automation Features

A/B Testing
Analytics / ROI Tracking
Artificial Intelligence
Content / Blogging Platform
Customizable CTAs
Drip Campaigns
Dynamic Content
Landing Pages / Web Forms
Lead Scoring
Sales Intelligence
Search Marketing
Segmentation
Social Marketing
Website Visitor Tracking

Retargeting Features

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

SMS Marketing Features

2-Way Messaging
Artificial Intelligence
Contact Management
Mass Texting
Message Personalization
MMS
Mobile Coupons
Mobile Keywords
Polls / Voting
Reporting/Analytics
Scheduled Messaging
Shortcodes
Text-to-Win

Social Media Management Features

Automated Publishing
Brand Tracking
Content Management
Customer Engagement
Multi-Account Management
Multi-User Collaboration
Post Scheduling
Reporting/Analytics
Social Media Monitoring

Social Media Marketing Features

Analytics
Automated Publishing
Contact Management
Content Management
Conversion Tracking
Customer Targeting
Keyword Filtering
Multi-Account Management
Post Scheduling

Website Builder Features

Auto Update
Content Import / Export
Drag & Drop
Invoices
Landing Pages / Web Forms
Newsletter Management
Online Booking
Online Store Builder
Pre-built Templates
Real Time Editing
SEO
Survey Builder
White Label

eCommerce Features

Catalog Management
Channel Management
CRM
Customer Accounts
Data Security
Email Marketing
Inventory Management
Kitting
Loyalty Program
Mobile Access
Multi-Store Management
Order Management
Product Configurator
Promotions Management
Returns Management
Reviews Management
SEO Management
Shopping Cart
Templates

eCommerce Marketing Features

AB Testing
Abandoned Cart Email
Analytics / ROI Tracking
Customer Data Profiles
Dynamic Content
Email Marketing
Email Personalization
Facebook Ads
Google Ads
Product Recommendations
Push Notifications
Retargeting
Search Marketing
Segmentation
Signup Forms & Popups
SMS Marketing
Social Marketing
Triggered Emails
Website Visitor Tracking

Integrations

APIANT
Agolix by Assessment Generator
Axis LMS
Facebook
Flow XO
Gleam
HubSpot Marketing Hub
LiveChat
Ninja Popups
Pipedrive
Popup Maker
Slack
StarfishETL
Stripe
SurveyMethods
SurveyMonkey
TOPOL.io
Workers by Delos
X (Twitter)
YesInsights

Integrations

APIANT
Agolix by Assessment Generator
Axis LMS
Facebook
Flow XO
Gleam
HubSpot Marketing Hub
LiveChat
Ninja Popups
Pipedrive
Popup Maker
Slack
StarfishETL
Stripe
SurveyMethods
SurveyMonkey
TOPOL.io
Workers by Delos
X (Twitter)
YesInsights
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