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ConvertKit is a great fit for both eCommerce businesses and creators. Its clean interface makes for an enjoyable experience, and it’s feature rich. It includes features like opt-in forms, landing pages, email workflows, tagging systems, data management and list segmentation, personalization, automation, and a lot more. ConvertKit also comes with helpful integrations with other platforms creators are accustomed to like WooCommerce, PayPal, Stripe, and WordPress.

For example, it’s helped a full-time farmer to automate her email process, while still keeping the authenticity of her business. With ConvertKit, she managed to grow her email program by 25% year-on-year. What’s more, one of the emails in her sequence generates up to $2,500 in sales per week.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Comprehensive forms
• ? Flexible list management
• ? Analytics and templates a bit basic

Key Features:

• Landing pages and forms
• An audience management system to streamline segmentation
• Great deliverability
• Prebuilt automation templates
• Integration with third-party eCommerce tools

Pricing: ConvertKit offers a free plan for up to 1,000 subscribers. Paid plans start at $9 per month.

Best for: Small to midsize businesses

Apart from a standalone Service Bay product (covering activities such as live chat, helpdesk reports, tickets, and more), EngageBay offers three products:

1. Marketing Bay
2. CRM & Sales Bay
3. All-in-One Suite

Email marketing is included in both the Marketing Bay and the All-in-One Suite, although CRM email integration is part of the CRM & Sales Bay. Their email marketing system includes rich text formatting, a landing page builder, email marketing templates, free email automation, and more.

If you opt for the All-in-one Suite, you just might be able to replace other tools currently in your MarTech stack. That’s what one of their clients, A+ Test Prep and Tutoring, managed to do. Not only did EngageBay replace six different standalone tools, but they also accelerated their growth. Applicant conversions increased by six times!

Pros and Cons:

• ? A responsive customer support team
• ? Interactive emails are easy to design
• ? Limited landing page templates

Key Features:

• Marketing automation
• Email marketing
• Email sequences
• Landing pages
• Web forms
• SMS marketing
• Inbound marketing
• Site messaging
• Push notifications
• Contact segmentation
• Email templates
• Bulk SMS marketing

Pricing: EngageBay is free for up to 250 contacts. Pricing for their All-in-One Suite starts at $12.74 per user per month.

Best for: Small and large companies

GetResponse is one of our favorite email marketing platforms and it’s widely used by marketers across industries. It includes email automation, email templates, segmentation, and personalization. There’s also a neat Auto Funnel feature that provides a ready-made marketing funnel for email marketing campaigns. Altogether, GetResponse packs a set of powerful features geared toward brand growth. From A/B testing to a comprehensive analytics tool that tracks email campaign performance.

It’s their A/B testing feature and detailed email analytics that have helped Submission Technology, a lead generation agency, to increase engagement. They carefully segmented their contact list to identify the most active members. Then, using GetResponse’s click reports they uncovered which content delivered the best results and created their future content based on these findings. The results — an open rate of 31.14% and click-through rate of 7.31%.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Advanced automation features
• ? Great list management
• ? Poor deliverability rates

Key Features:

• Autoresponders to send welcome emails, followups, educational series, and nurture leads automatically
• One-click integration to run powerful retargeting campaigns using Facebook Pixel
• Website visitor tracking
• An AI email and campaign generator
• Signup forms and popups

Pricing: After a free 30-day trial, pricing starts at $19 per month.

Best for: Businesses of all sizes

AWeber is a great email marketing platform for teams, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. It includes a drag-and-drop email editor, templates, automation and workflows, A/B testing, segmentation, autoresponders, and tons of integrations. Like others on our list, AWeber offers a landing page builder. It’s clean with drag-and-drop functionality, making it easy to use for anyone who needs to quickly build and deploy a landing page along with an email campaign.

As for the type of results you can expect, AWeber has helped content creators to increase their number of subscribers by anything between 75% and 300%. For example, when a US-based photographer used AWeber’s sign-up forms, which he added along with lead magnets to his website, his newsletter subscribers grew by 300%. Plus, it took him only about 10 minutes to set up.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Loads of templates and integrations
• ? Intuitive drag-and-drop editor
• ? Automations are basic

Key Features:

• An easy-to-use, drag-and-drop builder
• Prebuilt autoresponders
• A/B split testing
• Advanced message analytics

Pricing: AWeber is free for up to 500 subscribers. Pricing starts at $14.99 per month.

Best for: Beginner to advanced marketers

ActiveCampaign is an affordable email marketing platform, making it great for small marketing teams and creators. It includes all the features you’d expect like automation, segmentation, triggered emails, email funnels, autoresponders, A/B testing, and scheduling. It also includes more advanced features like conditional content, geotracking, managed deliverability, and multi-user editing. For example, geotracking shows you where your subscribers are from, and you also get managed deliverability, and multi-user editing (update multiple fields in an email with subscriber information).

For example, it has helped Alclair, a manufacturer of in-ear monitors, to drown out the noise and speak to their target audience directly at the right time and place. Their previous email marketing tool lacked the ability to personalize communication, but with ActiveCampaign they could use tagging, segmentation, and conditional content blocks to reach their contacts at the best time. These features, along with its intuitive automations, contributed to a two-digit increase for both lead conversions and the click-through rate.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Great email deliverability
• ? Good selection of integrations
• ? Advanced features come with a learning curve

Key Features:

• Segmentation and dynamic content
• Built-in landing page builder
• A drag-and-drop email designer
• Over 150 email templates
• Site, link and event tracking
• Automation and campaign reports

Pricing: Pricing starts at $39 per month.

Best for: eCommerce brands

Drip is one of the more advanced email marketing platforms on our list and is the perfect option for eCommerce businesses because of its seamless integration with eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento. You can use eCommerce CRM data to create personalized marketing, segmenting your email list based on any number of criteria like clicks, purchase history, email opens, and more.

Drip also integrates SMS marketing, elevating it into a sphere few email marketing platforms play. Text messages can be sent for a range of engagements, from abandoned cart reminders to promotional deals.

Realizing that the growing eCommerce market means you have to find a way to stand out, Y-Verge, a digital marketing agency, turned to Drip. By using personalized buying journeys and creating better customer experiences, they could stay top of mind. Drip also helped them to cut down on manual work and at least 80% is now streamlined.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Powerful automations
• ? Loads of integrations
• ? A/B testing is challenging
• ? Reporting is a bit confusing

Key Features:

• SMS automation to drive engagement with buyers
• Segmentation and reporting on email campaigns
• A/B testing
• Dynamic product blocks

Pricing: After a free 14-day trial, pricing starts at $39 per month for up to 2,500 subscribers.

Best for: Beginners and small businesses

MailerLite is a strong competitor in the creators and small-medium business bracket. It includes the basics you need for successful email marketing like surveys, automation, popups, and landing pages. MailerLite also integrates with dozens of eCommerce platforms and marketing tools you’re probably already using.

At a glance, it appears to be one of the more understated platforms, and this is largely due to its clean design. But that’s also what makes it powerful. Everything about the platform is geared towards growth, from eCommerce campaign functionality to automation, segmentation, promotional pop-ups, and the ability to create landing pages.

For example, it has helped The Mental Health Update, a weekly newsletter, to improve its own list health. Both deliverability and engagement rates increased significantly after signing up for MailerLite and the newsletter landing page is now also converting at 40+%.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Powerful automations
• ? Loads of integrations
• ? A/B testing is challenging
• ? Reporting is a bit confusing

Key Features:

• A website builder and landing page builder for quick web asset builds
• Pop-ups and embedded forms
• Advanced marketing workflows
• Three different types of editors and an AI email generator
• A free image library

Pricing: MailerLite is free for up to 1,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month. For the ability to send unlimited monthly emails, pricing starts at $10 per month.

Best for: Entrepreneurs and medium-sized businesses

Keap is technically a customer relationship management service, but it has robust email marketing, automation, and sales tools, earning it a spot on our list of the best email marketing platforms. It includes automation and workflows, templates for emails, quotes, invoices, and proposals, and it integrates with your other favorite business tools and apps. The true power of this platform is its automation and CRM. These help you turn current customers into repeat customers, and they are easy to navigate. Keap also integrates with your other favorite business tools and apps, making it a smart move for small eCommerce brands with a growing MarTech stack.

It has, for example, helped SimpleGrowth, a lawncare business, also to enjoy the growth they help their customers to unlock. However, with business growth came more work and the founder of SimpleGrowth simply couldn’t keep up with all the business processes that he handled manually. With Keap, he refined and automated outdated systems, used automation to close holes in the sales funnel, and customized his communication to different stages of the customer lifecycle. Not only did he get back his life, but also enjoyed a year-on-year growth of about 40%.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Custom reporting and visualization
• ? Good lead nurturing and list management
• ? It’s more expensive
• ? Setting up integrations not as intuitive

Key Features:

• Advanced marketing and sales automation, customizable campaigns, and app integration to power growth
• Revenue reports and analytics
• Modern and branded landing pages
• A customizable dashboard

Pricing: After a free 14-day trial, pricing starts at $159 per month.

Best for: Beginners and small businesses

Constant Contact helps you create email marketing campaigns like a pro. It includes a smart email editor that makes it easy to customize and design great-looking emails that stand out on every device. Other features that make it a catch for smaller brands and non-profits include automation, social marketing for lead generation, and the ability to build websites and landing pages. Constant Contact also has specialized email marketing for eCommerce tools to help your online store grow. You can upload contact lists from Excel, Outlook, Salesforce or wherever you store your contacts.

It has helped their clients to grow their email lists by hundreds, if not thousands. With a bigger email list, they could also increase their sales as was the case for Lady Black Tie. The online fashion store saw a significant increase in sales and expanded to a global audience. The analytics tools, drag-and-drop editor, A/B testing and customer service in particular helped Lady Black Tie to get dressed for success.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Easy to use
• ? Good deliverability
• ? Some email templates are outdated
• ? The customer support can be better

Key Features:

• A smart email editor to design professional and aesthetically pleasing emails
• Website and landing page builder
• Social marketing for posting ads, scheduling content and tracking performance
• Customer list management
• Website signup forms

Pricing: Constant Contact offers a free 14-day trial. Pricing is available upon request.

Best for: Small, medium, and large businesses

Mailchimp is one of the most established email marketing platforms out there. It’s particularly well-suited for beginners and startups and offers tools like email automation, data segmentation, templates, personalization, A/B testing, lead capture forms, and integration with CRMs.

While it started as a purely email-focused solution, the platform offers much more today. You can build a free website, buy a domain, create paid ads and landing pages, publish social media posts, and send printed postcards to any destination in the world.

It’s Mailchimp’s segmentation feature that has helped Earl of East, a lifestyle brand, to share value-added content with their audience. With this approach, they could create a higher than average return rate, evidence that their authentic content is appreciated.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Detailed reporting tools
• ? Intuitive email editor
• ? Plans can get expensive

Key Features:

• Predictive insights about your contacts so you can personalize your marketing
• Personalized customer journeys using conditional logic and branching points
• A/B testing to identify high-converting messages
• Website and landing page builder

Pricing: Mailchimp offers a free plan for up to 500 subscribers. Paid plans start $13 per month for up to 500 contacts and 5,000 monthly email sends.

Best for: Small to midsize businesses

SendX by SendWorks is one of the cheaper email marketing software solutions, making it a great option for smaller businesses. You can use it to send campaigns, grow your list, and automate a number of your marketing tasks.

Features like its drag-and-drop editor and huge email template library make it easy to get started. Then, once you’re ready to improve your email marketing strategy, you use its analytics, A/B testing and heatmaps.

Not only does its intuitive tools mean that you’ll get set up quickly, but you also won’t have to wait too long before you see real results. For example, an eCommerce sporting brand managed to increase their qualified leads by 250% in 60 days with the help of SendX’s tagging and segmentation features.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Affordable pricing
• ? Easy to manage subscriber lists
• ? Customer support can be better

Key Features:

• A/B testing
• A deliverability booster
• Email web forms, popups, and landing pages
• Drip campaigns

Pricing: Pricing starts at $7.49 per month for up to 1,000 subscribers and unlimited emails.

Best for: Large businesses

SendPulse is a multi-channel email and messenger marketing platform built for sending emails, SMS, and creating chatbots for Facebook and Telegram. It may seem like a mouthful, but together, these features can help brands drive strong and more engaging brand experiences for buyers.

SendPulse lets you send different types of messages separately or combine them with Automation 360. It includes a suite of email marketing tools, helping you to collect users’ contact information, create responsive templates, and set up automated flows.

The platform has helped marketers and email experts to create and launch an email marketing campaign from scratch for one of the biggest Ukrainian charitable foundations, KOLO. In just over six months, the campaign already raised more than $38 million. The first email alone already raised thousands of dollars. What’s more, nearly half of their subscribers opened each email.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Intuitive user interface
• ? Affordable pricing
• ? Limited templates

Key Features:

• A drag-and-drop editor to create responsive emails without any HTML knowledge
• Trigger emails to nurture leads in every stage of your sales funnel
• A form builder
• SMS and web push notifications for lead generation
• Built-in landing page creator
• Built-in CRM

Pricing: SendPulse is free for up to 15,000 monthly emails to 500 subscribers. Pricing starts at $5.20 per month.

Best for: Marketing teams

Freshmarketer is a full-featured marketing automation solution for your business that includes email marketing. It has tools for you to engage and convert your audience from subscribers into paying customers with email campaigns, so you can provide relevant information at the right time and deliver integrated campaigns that improve conversions.

Admittingly, this is a CRM first, but that’s what makes it a powerful platform. Its CRM functionality helps brands gather in-depth customer insights, making marketing campaigns all the more stronger. Automation also powers lead generation and nurturing, and can send invoices or help generate recurring revenue via email reminders to subscribers.

All in all, it’s a tool that marketers can look at more closely. For example, it has helped GoTo Marketers, a full-service marketing agency, to improve the conversion rate of their clients. Using Freshmarketer’s heatmaps, they can improve the information architecture which, in some cases, translates to an increase of nearly 15% for contact form submissions.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Easy to set up
• ? Intuitive A/B testing
• ? Automated email responses can be better

Key Features:

• An easy-to-use, drag-and-drop editor
• A vast collection of templates
• Automate welcome emails, invoices, reminders, and more
• Personalization and segmentation

Pricing: Freshmarketer offers a free 21-day trial. Pricing is available upon request.

Best for: Small businesses

Bitrix24 aims to replace many services and apps with a single ecosystem for your business to work in. Its tools cover communications, tasks and projects, CRM, contact center, and website. Bitrix24’s email platform comes with webforms, SMS and instant messaging marketing, and Facebook, Instagram and Google paid advertising functionality.

Yes, this makes Bitrix24 sound like a large and clunky tool, but it’s far from it. It has a relatively easy-to-navigate interface, and with features like a built-in CRM, creating powerful email marketing campaigns is a goal well within reach.

For over 8 years, mobilblitz, led by CEOs Jörg Geißler and René Ulrich, has used Bitrix24 to connect their 40 branches. This versatile platform has streamlined internal communication, customer interactions via social media, project management, employee training, and file storage, enhancing efficiency and collaboration across the company.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Easy to use
• ? Navigation not as intuitive

Key Features:

• Google Ads remarketing capabilities
• Loads of integrations
• Landing pages
• Web forms
• Flexible access rights
• Triggered emails, email sequences
• List segmentation

Pricing: Bitrix24 offers a limited free plan and free 15-day trial. Plans start at $49 per month.

Best for: Businesses of all sizes

User.com is a single workspace providing you with easy-to-use, yet very robust, tools for marketing, sales, management, and support teams. Marketing teams can use it to upgrade their brand’s communication across channels, planning various paths for multiple customer segments and let automation take over the job. User.com offers personalized and tailored emails, sending the right email to the right receiver at the right moment.

For example, LG Electronics Poland, used User.com for GDPR compliance, crucial for a global brand like them. User.com exceeded their expectations and even in their early campaigns they already saw double the results anticipated.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Easy to set up and use
• ? Loads of features
• ? Customer service can be better
• ? Reporting a bit basic

Key Features:

• Defined snippet tags to make your message more specific to the person
• Unified subscriber data for smarter campaigns
• Easy-to-use reports and data exportation
• Analytics
• A drag-and-drop editor

Pricing: Pricing is available upon request.

Best for: Businesses of all sizes using Mac

Direct Mail for Mac enables you to create and send great-looking email newsletters. You can use it to compose, grow, track, send, collaborate, and automate your emails. Whether your emails are newsletters, announcements, or promotions, Direct Mail is confident you will find the perfect template, and you can customize up to 18 fields. It includes a built-in image editor, a Design Test feature to see pixel-perfect screenshots of your message rendered in over 50+ email clients and live previews that update as you type.

When Xio needed an efficient way to reach their client base with custom emails, they discovered an app that surpassed all expectations. Its simplicity and short learning curve allowed them to quickly create and send attractive, personalized emails. The straightforwardness and effectiveness of the app have made it an indispensable tool for their business, earning Xio’s high recommendation.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Easy to use
• ? Email lists can be improved

Key Features:

• Autoresponders that are highly customizable and easy to use
• Reports on campaign performance
• A gallery with various types of templates
• Personalization and dynamic content
• Polls and surveys
• Professional typography
• Sign-up forms
• Loads of integrations

Pricing: Direct Mail for Mac is free for up to 150 monthly emails. Plans start at $15 per month.

Best for: Entrepreneurs

Emercury is a strong contender in the small-to-medium bracket. It’s packed with a host of features that push it north of the spectrum. It offers an easy-to-use HTML editor and a drag-and-drop template editor to personalize messages, forms and an autoresponder. Automation is available in the form of Emercury’s Journey Builder, a tool that helps you nurture leads using triggers. Emercury also enables you to sync your data with over 2,000 sales and marketing tools, teamwork apps, forms, customer support platforms, social media, and more.

When Kirk W., Director of Operations in Investment Management, needed reliable email deliverability and expert guidance, he chose Emercury. Their seasoned experts not only enhanced engagement and deliverability but also offered proactive solutions to protect his IP reputation. Emercury’s email automation and personalized support transformed Kirk’s approach to email marketing, ensuring stability and efficiency in his operations.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Highly customizable features
• ? User-friendly interface
• ? Steep learning curve
• ?Limited reporting

Key Features:

• Automated lead nurture campaigns
• A/B testing
• Email tracking and analytics
• Six months reporting retention
• Advanced segmentation
• A dynamic HTML and template editor
• Delivery optimization tools

Pricing: A limited free plan for up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 monthly emails. Pricing starts at $227 per month.

Best for: Small to midsize businesses

With HubSpot, you don’t need any design skills to create personalized, professional-looking emails. One of its most attractive features is that as it’s also powered by HubSpot’s CRM, you have access to accurate customer data that you can use to customize your emails. To customize your emails further, you can also turn to its marketplace where you’ll find templates that are proven to convert. You can then use its drag-and-drop editor to change the layout and elements like calls to action.

Its intuitiveness has helped a brand like DoorDash that knows only too well about the importance of delivery times to shorten the period needed to create email campaigns by three days. That’s like being told your parcel will be delivered to your door within five days only to receive it on the second day. The team at DoorDash praised HubSpot’s email automation features. Previously all their email campaigns were one-off, but now about 80% of their emails exist within workflows.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Personalized email sequences
• ? Comprehensive set of features
• ?Plans can get expensive quickly

Key Features:

• A/B testing to create the best email messaging
• A drag-and-drop template editor
• An analytics dashboard
• Email sequences
• Smart send times
• Customizable reports

Pricing: HubSpot offers a number of free tools to get you started and a number of paid products. Pricing starts at $18 per month.

Best for: Small businesses

Moosend is a great solution for smaller businesses. It’s also one of the better choices if you want to implement personalization. With it, you can segment your email lists based on different customer behavior. This way, your emails will be very relevant to your subscribers which will help you to stand out.

It can also be useful if you want to grow your email list as it offers custom sign-up forms. Once you have a substantial list, you can take advantage of its email marketing automation features and create workflows so that your emails are sent at the optimal time.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Intuitive drag-and-drop functionality
• ? Good value for money
• ? Software bugs have been reported from time to time

Key Features:

• A/B testing to measure engagement
• Data analytics to track unsubscribes, opens, clicks, social shares, etc.
• More than 40 free responsive templates
• Prebuilt automation templates
• Tracking
• Real-time reporting and analytics

Pricing: After a free 30-day trial, pricing starts at $9 per month for up to 500 subscribers and unlimited emails.

Best for: Small to midsize businesses

Two things that stand out about Campaign Monitor are its beautiful email marketing templates and customer service. With its email builder, you can customize elements like color schemes and fonts to ensure brand consistency. You can also get access to millions of free photos via Unsplash to let your emails stand out even further.

It’s also a great choice if segmentation is key to your email marketing strategy. You use the customer data that you’ve already collected to create hyper-targeted segments and personalized emails.

Used by businesses across various industries, it’s Campaign Monitor’s attention to esthetics that stand out. This has made it easier for Drake Hotel Properties to create email newsletters that are trendy and exclusive. Not too exclusive, though… Thanks to the platform, they could increase subscribers by over 60%.

Pros and Cons:

• ?Great reporting and analytics
• ? Reliable performance
• ? Email lists can be improved
• ? Integrations can be better

Key Features:

• Link Review tool that will automatically search your email for hyperlinks that might be broken or outdated
• A visual journey designer to create more timely emails
• A full analytics suite and actionable insights
• Seamless integration with hundreds of third-party apps
• Sign-up forms

Pricing: Pricing starts at $11 per month.

Best for: Businesses of all sizes

SendGrid offers unique solutions for every stage of your brand’s growth, making it a great platform for businesses of all sizes. Trusted by more than 80,000 brands, including names like Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify, they offer a wide range of email marketing features that include design, automation, testing, and statistics.

To help you get started, you can browse their library with responsive templates (or import existing ones). Once you’ve found a template that you like, you can refine the design to align with your branding with drag-and-drop tools (but you’re also free to start completely from scratch). 

In addition to simplifying the email design process, it also makes engaging with your contacts much easier. You can use automated, recurring emails and segment your subscriber list to send more personal messages.

And, to make sure that all your emails are flawless, it also includes integrated email testing and inbox render tests. So, you can rest assured knowing that spammy content was eliminated and any broken links or buttons were fixed before sending your emails, while the inbox render tests will show you how your message will display in various inboxes.

SendGrid has transformed how eBay approaches email marketing. Before SendGrid, eBay resorted to “batch-and-blast” emails. However, with SendGrid, they could increase the standard and incorporate personalization to include up-to-the-minute offers. Thanks to SendGrid’s deliverability, it has also become much easier for eBay to grow their email program.

Pros and Cons:

• ?Powerful features
• ? Good for high-volume sending
• ? Lack of billing transparency
• ? Slow customer service

Key Features:

• Pre-built email templates
• Built-in calls to action
• Automation triggers
• Sign-up forms
• Email testing and statistics

Pricing: It offers a free plan for up to 100 daily emails. Pricing starts at $15 per month for up to 7,000 contacts and 15,000 monthly emails.

Best for: Large businesses

Included in Salesforce’s list of products is an email marketing platform named Email Studio. It can help you with different phases of the email marketing process like targeting your audience, creating the actual message, and automating your messages.

Before you build your email, you can use its drag-and-drop segmentation tools to refine your list of subscribers and intelligence to identify content that will resonate to boost conversions. Once your list has been optimized, you can turn your attention to building high-converting emails. You can use customizable templates that were created by professionals to create emails that will engage subscribers along every stage of their journey. 

The last piece of the puzzle is to send the emails at the right time. To help you with this, it lets you create a delivery schedule which also helps to reduce the workload of your marketing team. All in all, it might not be as feature-rich as some of the other tools, but if you’re already a Salesforce user it might make more sense to use their email marketing solutions instead of adding another third-party tool to your arsenal.

Salesforce, for example, has helped a global car manufacturer like Ford to make their communication more proactive, which is no mean feat. Now, customers can receive real-time updates about their vehicle including personalized banners, eliminating the number of phone calls.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Customizable features
• ? Convenient dashboard
• ? Reporting limited
• ? Expensive for smaller businesses

Key Features:

• Drag-and-drop segmentation tools
• Templates
• A/B testing
• Tracking

Pricing: Pricing starts at about $1,400 per month.

Best for: Businesses of all sizes

If you’re searching for a simple tool that can help you to send personalized messages at scale, you can check out Benchmark. Whether you want to create an automated welcome series or follow up with potential customers who’ve abandoned their shopping carts, it can help you to reduce manual work while at the same time helping you to drive more revenue. 

Included in its list of features are dozens of free responsive HTML email templates for every occasion, landing pages and forms to grow your subscriber list, and various tools to test the performance of your campaigns.

One feature that deserves special mention is its Inbox Checker. This feature is powered by Litmus and lets you preview your email in various environments before you send it to rule out and fix any possible issues with rendering.

It’s the multiple lists feature that’s the owner and CEO of Rice General’s favorite feature. They have over 1,000 on their email list, helping them to respond better to their customers’ unique needs.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Great A/B testing 
• ? Easy to use
• ? Limited integrations
• ? Deliverability not that great

Key Features:

• Drag-and-drop builder and HTML editor
• 50+ pre-built email templates
• A/B testing
• An AI writing tool
• Photo editing via its email editor

Pricing: It offers a free plan for up to 500 contacts and 3,500 monthly emails. For the ability to send more emails, pricing starts at $13 per month.

Best for: Smaller businesses

Zoho Campaigns offers a suite of cloud-based solutions at competitive prices. Marketers can easily create emails in minutes using pre-designed templates, embed sign-up forms on a landing page, and automate information tracking.

Zoho Campaigns uses dynamic and customizable templates to help send personalized messages, while A/B testing keeps you informed on which design, subject line and style work best for your specific audience. You won’t waste time preparing effective emails because the software has all the features to make email marketing as efficient as possible.

Another key advantage of Zoho Campaigns is its interoperability; you can create workflows using a third-party CRM such as Zoho CRM to monitor the campaigns closely. While the user interface isn’t as clean or seamless as other software tools like MailChimp, Zoho Campaigns is a viable and affordable option with all the crucial email marketing features you need.

It’s the affordability that has motivated Oryx Doors and Windows, one of Zoho’s users, to switch from HubSpot. Combine that with its templates and overall ease of use and Zoho Campaigns has become their go-to email marketing platform. For another client, SMD Technologies, that upgraded from Microsoft Word templates and Excel sheets, the move proved equally cost-effective, helping them to reach more than double the number of recipients.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Easy to use
• ? Cheap plans
• ? A/B testing can be better
• ? Clunky interface

Key Features:

• Drag-and-drop segmentation tools
• A/B testing
• Analytics reports
• Customizable email templates
• Seamless integration with third-party apps
• Send-time optimization

Pricing: It offers a free plan for up to 2,000 contacts and 6,000 monthly emails. For the ability to send unlimited emails, pricing starts at $4 per month.

Best for: Marketing teams

Litmus is another solid option as it delivers an all-in-one solution in a single platform. Litmus provides email personalization and collaboration so marketers can get the highest ROI for their campaigns. This software program includes strong capabilities, such as pre-send campaign development, A/B testing, and AI-content recommendations via the proprietary Litmus Personalize.

Regardless of your team members’ existing email knowledge, Litmus is a low-code software that even non-technical members can use effectively. Each email is on-brand, guaranteed error-free, and aligns with optimizing goals for opens and conversions.

The software solves content challenges for weekly campaigns—they work with Kickdynamic to provide content recommendations that can be optimized to keep customer engagement. Marketers can conduct testing, collaborate on large volumes of emails, segment according to campaigns, and scale these personalized messages according to a brand’s contact size.

Litmus has worked with different industries, from U.S. banks to advertising agencies and eCommerce. For example, it has helped Epsilon, a global ad and marketing tech company, to save more than 1,000 hours per month. Now they can test their emails within in a matter of seconds across more than 100 apps and devices.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Email testing
• ? Easy to use
• ? Plans are expensive (and free trial is short)

Key Features:

• Pre-designed templates
• Email building collaboration
• A/B testing
• ROI analytics
• Integration with Google Drive and Slack
• A design library to centralize brand assets

Pricing: After a free seven-day trial, pricing starts at $99 per month.

Best for: Businesses of all sizes

Robly is an email service provider that leverages proprietary technologies to boost email marketing engagement and conversion. The software has been a staple across industries, including non-profits, educational institutions, charities, and others.

What makes Robly a great choice is the AI technology. It is the only email marketing software that offers RoblyID, a unique way to grow your email leads ten times over the usual. RoblyID analyzes website traffic and then adds contact records automatically to your email list. It is CAN-SPAM compliant, which means it aligns with information protection policies.

Aside from RoblyID, the software has more open-generating features, namely OpenGen, RoblyAI, and RoblyENGAGE. These technologies help time your emails when subscribers are most likely to open them, automatically conduct retargeting, and protect sender status by segmenting and suppressing unengaged contacts. Your emails will not bombard contacts unnecessarily.

It is a comprehensive platform, but the software is harder to master compared to others. While the learning curve is a little higher, once your marketing team surpasses that stage, it will be a valuable tool to keep the campaigns automated and more likely to boost ROI.

That’s what Relectric Supply Company experienced. Leveraging Robly’s AI features, the company generated an incremental of over $22,000 of net profit on their very first campaign.

Pros and Cons:

• ? Competitive pricing
• ? AI functionality
• ? Customer support can be better
• ? Low email deliverability 

Key Features:

• Proprietary AI open-generating features
• Pre-designed, mobile-responsive templates
• Real-time traffic monitoring
• A/B testing
• Analytics
• Contact segmentation

Pricing: Pricing starts at $19 per month for up to 500 contacts and unlimited emails.