Blueshift empowers brands to engage customers on a 1:1 level by turning data into actionable insights across channels. It combines a customer data platform, AI-based decision-making, and a cross-channel marketing hub so brands can deliver personalized, real-time experiences.
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Marigold Engage by Sailthru
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Marigold Engage by Sailthru is an email marketing and marketing automation solution. It supports email management, site personalization, mobile management, and both predictive and retention-focused analytics.
Blueshift is a great AI-based platform for travel companies that would like to retarget users as the platform is able to look at last searched dates, location, and hotel/ room type.
Sailthru is well suited for any company that is working with a large email subscriber list and needs to send campaigns on a daily basis. It is probably less appropriate for anyone with a small list, or an e-commerce brand. I think there are better ESPs out there for e-commerce brands.
Personalized content based on user behavior and content consumption.
Campaign workflow is very simple and allows for a large number of campaigns to be set up and managed in a short period of time.
Sailthru has a great customer service team. Our account support with Sailthru was top-notch and is a testament to the culture there at the company.
Sailthru focuses on email marketing. With all of the other "cloud" solutions out there trying to be everything to everyone, they lose focus on the importance of sending the email. This is where Sailthru shines.
Lists are easy to create, but difficult to locate (can't sort by most recent created, etc.). They are always listed in alphabetical order.
In order to improve their speed to market with features, they had a lot of tech debt to work through in the relatively recent past. This generally seems to have been corrected and their parent company appears to really be investing in their success.
Their automated campaign feature is due for an upgrade. This is on their roadmap and they have been open about its need to provide more robust functionality.
The biggest factor is that even after two months of trying to go through their credit processes and getting the right consideration for the real damages we had with the tool not being able to send campaigns for days, their sales staff is still not willing to work with us on it, making us do the switch away from them right now. We got extremely disappointed by trying to work with them through those issues.
Their account management / sales staff doesn't seem to be taking the problems you experience very seriously - it took us 3 months and nudge emails to them every 2 weeks to ask for status updates (plus 6 different conversations with different people) to get a (very small credit) for a major issue, which in two months prohibited us from sending campaign emails for 2-3 days at a time.
Blueshift's capability with events and segmentation is unmatched - with other CDPs, we have not been able to replicate the ability to create an event based on customer behavior that encapsulates a payload of information regarding that particular action.
Nothing offers the customization and control for power users like Sailthru. Other options we have used have been simply as backups in case of Sailthru outages during critical moments. We chose Sailthru at the beginning of our growth from sending email natively. We haven't had a need to switch although we have briefly evaluated the cost/benefit of switching to other providers. Unfortunately, the switching cost is usually to high as we are tightly integrated.
