Email Marketing
Compare Email Marketing Services
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 Constant Contact |
 Vertical Response |
 iContact |
 MailChimp |
 StreamSend |
 Benchmark Email |
 MyNewsletterBuilder |
 Campaigner |
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Free trial
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60 days |
30 days |
15 days |
30 days |
30 days |
30 days |
30 days |
30 days |
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Monthly fee
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Starts at $15 for 500 contacts |
Starts at $10 for 500 contacts |
Pay as you go plan starts at $15 for 1000 emails (the price goes down the more emails you purchase) |
Starts at $9.95 for 250 contacts |
Starts at $10 for 500 contacts |
there is also a free plan available for low-volume senders |
Starts at $19.90 for 2,000 emails |
Starts at 9.95 for 600 emails a month |
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Pricing based number of emails or number of contacts
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Contacts |
Contacts or emails |
Contacts |
Contacts |
Emails |
Emails |
Contacts or emails |
Contacts |
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Pros
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Proactive and expert sales staff |
import tools that enable you to import contacts directly from Outlook (and other applications) without having to save your contact list in a different format |
Offers free service to nonprofits |
25 MB of free image hosting |
Exceptionally stylish user interface |
blogging and RSS capabilities |
Very entertaining web site and user interface |
integrates with Google Analytics |
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Cons
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Integration with Google Analytics is very limited |
Your ””From”” email address always has their domain named appended to it unless you pay for a ””branded”” domain |
Doesn’t integrate with Google Analytics |
No phone support |
no free spam checker |
no surveys |
No surveys |
only 14 templates available |
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Number of customers
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250,000 |
51,000 |
47,000 |
15,000 |
thousands |
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SPAM test
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No, but you can pay $39 for their ””Inbox Inspector: |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Number of templates
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300+ |
200+ templates, plus 75,000 stock images (clip art) |
300+ |
4 basic templates plus 200+ headers |
14 |
150+ |
50+ |
450+ |
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Integrates with Google analytics
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In a limited way |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Custom demographic fields
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Constant Contact | Vertical Response | iContact | MailChimp | StreamSend | Benchmark Email | MyNewsletterBuilder | Campaigner |
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Customizable templates
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Survey emails
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Autoresponders
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Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (they are called ””triggers”” in StreamSend) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports Unicode
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes, but you need to contact the support team to enable it. |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
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Emails branded with vendor's logo
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Yes, but you can work with customer support to have them removed if you have a paid account. |
Yes, but you can work with support to remove it. There is an approval process associated with this. |
Yes. You can have the logo removed for an additional cost. |
Emails are branded during free trial and for users of the free plan. You can remove them yourself when you have a paid plan. |
No |
Yes but you can work with them to remove their logo at no cost. |
You can work with their customer support team to remove it for free and create a ””non-branded”” footer. They will also create custom footers for you for an additional fee. |
You can have their logo removed for a one-time fee via their sales department. |
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Image hosting
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5 free images |
premium hosting available for an additional cost |
25 MB |
500 KB |
Unlimited |
It’s recommended that you don’t store more than 10 MB |
500 KB |
One image and one banner per email (though whether you’re allowed to upload your own images depends on the template you are using) |
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Send from your own domain
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Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Email replies go directly to you
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Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Prepay discount
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10% for 6 months prepaid |
15% for 12 months prepaid |
10% for 6 months prepaid |
15% for 12 months prepaid |
Yes |
No |
10% discount for 12 months prepaid |
15% for 12 months prepaid |
Constant Contact | Vertical Response | iContact | MailChimp | StreamSend | Benchmark Email | MyNewsletterBuilder | Campaigner |
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Support hours
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6am-6pm Mon-Fri PT |
6am-5pm Mon-Fri PT |
5am-5pm Mon-Fri PT |
6am-2pm Mon-Fri PT |
8am-5pm Mon-Fri PT |
5am-4pm Mon-Fri PT |
4am-7pm Mon-Thu, 4am-6pm Fri PT |
24/7 |
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Support methods
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Phone, email, live chat |
Phone, email, live chat |
Phone, email, live chat |
Email, live chat |
Phone, web trouble tickets |
Phone, email, live chat |
Phone, email, live chat, instant messaging |
Phone, email, live chat with sales |
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Online help and educational resources
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FAQs, documentation, tutorials, webinars, newsletter, articles, live seminars around the United States |
FAQs, documentation, podcasts, weekly demos, articles and reports, blog, case studies |
FAQs, documentation, tutorials, webinars, blog, Best Practices whitepaper and articles |
Tutorials, documentation, webinars, blog |
FAQs, documentation, tutorials |
webinars |
FAQs, documentation, tutorials, articles |
FAQs, documentation, demos/tutorials, articles |
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Online community available
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No, although there is integration with parent company JBA Network’s ByRegion Community Network. |
Yes |
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