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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ReachMail

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AReachMail focuses on assisting email marketers in achieving delivery success, and present their services a a guide in the ever-changing world of marketing and transactional email. ReachMail includes tools like optimized time-of-day sending, integrated list hygiene and expert support.

    $9

    per month

    Sendblaster

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASendBlaster is the eponymous lean, list management / newsletter-centric email marketing software from the Italian company founded in 2006, basically for creating newsletters in a WYSIWYG editor and sending them out to the multitudes, with tools facilitating this: programmable tags, personalization, link checking, embedded image support, file importing, templates, and help from partner Mailstyler (free) for newsletter optimization and styling. Bulk mailing is managed for free with Sendblaster…N/A
    Pricing
    ReachMailSendblaster
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $9.00
    per month
    Prro
    $29.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ReachMailSendblaster
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    ReachMailSendblaster
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of ReachMail and Sendblaster
    Feature
    ReachMail
    9.2
    9 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sendblaster
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor9.07 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Dynamic content10.06 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content10.06 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Landing pages5.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    A/B testing10.05 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.05 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting10.08 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    List management10.09 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of ReachMail and Sendblaster
    Feature
    ReachMail
    9.7
    9 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Sendblaster
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Dashboards10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports9.09 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of ReachMail and Sendblaster
    Feature
    ReachMail
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Sendblaster
    -
    Ratings
    URL Validation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Link Tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Image Validation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inbox Display10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Accessibility Tools10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Spam Testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Previews10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    ReachMailSendblaster
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Everest (Return Path + 250ok)
    Score10 out of 10
    Everest (Return Path + 250ok)
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emma by Marigold
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Emma by Marigold
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ReachMailSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ReachMailSendblaster
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ReachMail, Inc
    The free Reachmail account (which I have used for several small organizations) is a good tool where there are limited or zero email marketing dollars, a contact audience of up to 5,000 subscribers, and a max of 15,000 monthly emails. The pricing levels are really reasonable for volume requirements, including custom plans for infrequent mailings. If there are constraints (time and/or design experience) that require a large choice of ready-made contemporary templates without graphic or font modifications, then this probably isn't a good email marketing tool.
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    Sendblaster
    Sendblaster is a great tool for any environment. It's particularly good in organizations that do not have a full featured CRM that manages bulk email marketing and communication. Even if an organization has a great CRM, Sendblaster is still great for those marketing or communication campaigns that go out to recipients who are not already in the CRM, custom groups, bulk sending that you want to keep separate from your other CRM(s), etc.
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    Pros
    ReachMail, Inc
    • I have a $10 account, but customer support treat me like a princess. They even added a feature to one page to remedy a problem I was having with that page. They care about their customers.
    • ReachMail Features (or at least, these are the ones I know they have): WYSIWYG Email Editor, Template Management, Mobile Optimized Emails, Dynamic Content, Subscribe/Unsubscribe, Mailing List Management, Drip Campaigns, Auto-Responders, Image Library, A/B Testing, Customer Surveys, CAN SPAM Compliance, Reporting/Analytics.
    • These folks know what they’re doing. I can’t speak highly enough about ReachMail.
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    Sendblaster
    • Rendering HTML source code
    • Managing mailing lists
    • You can control the speed of email broadcasts
    • Ease of importing lists
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    Cons
    ReachMail, Inc
    • There are no batch report downloads. When I have multiple variations and waves in a campaign, I have to download reports individually. I'd like for a way to download one report of all sends during a certain time period, or given another set of parameters.
    • It would save a lot of time if we had the ability to upload multiple images or assets at once.
    • There's only a two-level "tree" of organization of lists and suppression lists. It would be great if we had the abililty to nest lists into better categories, rather than having to scroll through one giant list of suppressions or deployment lists. Something like a 2015 folder, then inside that a Business Unit folder, then inside that, a Campaign folder, etc. This would make things much easier to find.
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    Sendblaster
    • The user interface could be more polished. It's very easy to use, but the appearance of the user interface looks a little old fashioned for a desktop software. Of course recipients don't see that interface, so that is not very consequential.
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    Usability
    ReachMail, Inc
    Their team is knowledgable and willing to help offer insight and support to build out the right campaigns to fit our business needs and goals
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    Sendblaster
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    Alternatives Considered
    ReachMail, Inc
    In my opinion, ReachMail is a good competitor to Mailchimp, probably has more features though and analytics to help organize information. There are also a lot more third party integrations that have helped us compared to other apps that we've tried before, but ReachMail has been the most useful, for me personally and my team
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    Sendblaster
    Doesn't apply.
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    Return on Investment
    ReachMail, Inc
    • None. I signed up for a pay account so only had to spend a dollar for the first month. Even that was a waste as I simply can't send emails out with their forced unsubscribe header. If it was the typical CAN-SPAM footer it would be fine, but it just looks awful.
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    Sendblaster
    • Customer service was greatly improved because of Sendblaster. We were able to design our communication exactly the way we wanted to improve communication effectiveness.
    • Sendblaster helped our brand because email recipients have been very impressed by the polished visual appearance of our outgoing messages, consistent branding and use of logo, wordmark, and other identifiers, etc.
    • We saved a lot of money with Sendblaster. Our organization can send unlimited messages, and the Sendblaster software we paid for places no limit on messages sent. So, since there are no ongoing subscription fees or volume fees after paying for the the software, we saved a lot. Other "software as a service" options would have cost a minimum of $50 per month, and potentially a lot more than that for high-volume email communication.
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