Who Uses Mailchimp?
Cloud-based email marketing solution that helps businesses of all sizes design, automate and manage marketing campaigns across various email platforms, ad channels and more via a unified dashboard.
What Is Mailchimp?
Mailchimp's all-in-one Marketing Platform helps small businesses market smarter so you can grow faster. As the backbone for your customer relationships, they provide AI-powered, user-friendly tools anyone can use to be successful. Mailchimp puts your audience at the center so you can send marketing emails and automated messages, create targeted ad campaigns, build landing pages, send postcards, facilitate reporting and analytics, and sell online.
Mailchimp Details
Mailchimp
http://www.mailchimp.com
Founded 2001
Mailchimp Pricing Overview
Mailchimp has a free version and offers a free trial. Mailchimp paid version starts at US$9.99/month.
Starting Price
US$9.99/month
Free Version
Yes
Free Trial
Yes
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Mobile - iOS Native
Mobile - Android Native
Training
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Business Hours
Online
Mailchimp Features
All-in-One Marketing Software
- Behavior Analytics
- Dynamic Content
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- Lead Management
- Multi-Channel Marketing
CRM Software
- Calendar/Reminder System
- Document Storage
- Email Marketing
- Internal Chat Integration
- Lead Generation
- Lead Scoring
- Marketing Automation Integration
- Mobile Access
- Quotes/Proposals
- Segmentation
- Social Media Integration
- Task Management
- Territory Management
CRM for Small Businesses
- Business Card/Badge Scanning
- Calendar/Reminder System
- Document Storage
- Forecasting
- Lead Scoring
- Live Chat
- Marketing Automation Integration
- Quotes/Proposals
- Segmentation
- Social Media Integration
- Task Management
- Territory Management
Campaign Management Software
- Channel Management
- Contact Database
- Email Marketing
- Event Triggered Actions
- Lead Management
- Multi-Campaign
Email Marketing Software
- A/B Testing
- Auto-Responders
- CAN SPAM Compliance
- Customer Surveys
- Drip Campaigns
- Dynamic Content
- Event Triggered Email
- Image Library
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- List Management
- Mobile Optimized Emails
- Reporting/Analytics
- Subscriber Management
- Template Management
- WYSIWYG Email Editor
Email Tracking Software
- A/B Testing
- Audience Segmentation
- Campaign Management
- Event-Based Notifications
- Location Tracking
- Team Management
Landing Page Software
- A/B Testing
- Analytics
- Customizable Templates
- Drag & Drop
- Form Builder
- Real Time Editing
- Responsive
- SEO Management
Marketing Automation Software
- A/B Testing
- Analytics/ROI Tracking
- Customizable CTAs
- Drip Campaigns
- Dynamic Content
- Landing Pages/Web Forms
- Lead Scoring
- Sales Intelligence
- Search Marketing
- Segmentation
- Social Marketing
- Website Visitor Tracking
Retargeting Software
- A/B Testing
- Audience Targeting
- Behavioral Targeting
- Conversion Tracking
- Geo Targeting
- Mobile Retargeting
- Personalization
- Recommendation Engine
- Social Media Retageting
Social Media Management Tools
- Automated Publishing
- Brand Tracking
- Collaboration
- Content Management
- Customer Engagement
- Multi-Account Management
- Post Scheduling
- Reporting/Analytics
- Social Media Monitoring
Social Media Marketing Tools
- Analytics
- Automated Publishing
- Contact Management
- Content Management
- Conversion Tracking
- Customer Targeting
- Keyword Filtering
- Multi-Account Management
- Post Scheduling
Survey Software
- Custom Survey URLs
- Data Analysis Tools
- Email Marketing
- Mobile Survey
- Offline Response Collection
- Question Branching
- Question Library
- Site Intercept Survey
- Skip Logic
- Supports Audio / Images / Video
Mailchimp Alternatives
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Mailchimp Reviews
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Jeremiah P.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money4/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 24/01/2020
"My Go-to for email marketing"
Comments: Mailchimp has been my go-to for 5+ years and I see no reason to change that now. It's simple, easy-to-use, and affordable. I also care about who I work with. From what I can see as an outsider looking in, they have a great company culture. I once found a mistake in their API documentation and they sent me a free t-shirt! Most companies aren't willing to spend money just to say thanks, and I think that says something about the culture and character of the company.
Pros: Easy to setup: I've used Mailchimp in the launch of dozens of brands and digital products. Mailchimp is so easy to setup; I can literally have an account up and running, collecting email addresses within 20 minutes. Great free option: One of my favorite things about Mailchimp is the fact that you get up to 2,000 contacts for free. Having that as an option (particularly for new businesses) is absolutely critical in making sure you can measure ROI from the platform before you start investing a lot of money. Easy to use: Mailchimp's forms, email templates, list management, etc. is all so simple. In the rare case you can't do something you want via the Mailchimp admin, it can probably be done via the API. Mailchimp has also done an exceptional job of integrating with 3rd party platforms to make sure you can easily maximize your email collection. More than just email marketing: In the last few years Mailchimp has started offering additional features outside of email campaigns, like Facebook ads and card mailing services. I personally don't think they're as good as Mailchimp's email service, but I am sure they'll improve over time.
Cons:
In the last couple of years Mailchimp has made some changes to their pricing structure that I don't particularly love:
1) Pay as you go features have become more limited compared to their monthly plans.
2) Monthly rates have increased (although that's bound to happen at some point).
3) They now include some social platform contacts in your allotted contacts (i.e. you pay for them like they're email contacts).
As well, Mailchimp automatically increases your bill when you cross over your plan subscriber threshold. I'm not a huge fan of that, but I suppose I prefer it to them just disabling collection of new contacts.
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- Reviewed on 24/01/2020
Eranga M.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 24/07/2020
"Mailchimp Review"
Comments: According to my opinion, the overall experience with Mailchimp is great. If they can resolve above issue I think this application will more great.
Pros: In Mailchimp, they offer 2000 free mail sending capacity for beginners. It helps a lot who newly entire to the marketing carrier. Because of those, more people attracting to the Mailchimp and they continue with payments afterwards. And Mailchimp has the amazing inbuilt facility to design our customized email campaign template manually which other Softwares may not offer. That also attract people to use this application.
Cons: Mailchimp disables the import facility once they detected the high bounce rate from the audience. In that case, people cannot import more emails to the current audience without using manual email adding. Because of that, there is a trend that people show less continuing. So as a solution, if Mailchimp can add a mail verifier part first and add the good once to the audience I think it will help to the users and user may lead to continue without left.
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- Reviewed on 24/07/2020
Kenyon C.
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Overall Rating3/5
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Ease of Use3/5
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Features & Functionality2/5
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Customer Support3/5
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Value for Money5/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 25/11/2019
"Don't Sleep on the Monkey, its Bananas!!!"
Comments: We are able to reach more customers with less legwork We were also able to change how people view our company as a whole. Mail chimp makes our 5 to 10 person group seem like and Army.
Pros: Mail Chimp is very flexible and gives you a wide variety of easily customizable options. I use it for everything from Turkey Drives and fundraiser registrations to Album release contests. I hired 2 new people that have almost no graphic design experience and they were both able to learn the platform in a short time and implement what they knew in a real-world environment. Furthermore. The templates aren't cookie-cutter and are easily customizable. They update someone signs up for your product or offer. Its a low key way to get alot more customers and sell alot more products without texting 100 people1 at a time. in the end its definitely worth trying out
Cons: I wish Mail chimp had a desktop app that was downloadable and cloud-connected. I also wish that you could integrate it with other software like Google Drive or other Cloud-based services.
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- Reviewed on 25/11/2019
Feyisayo E.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 09/07/2020
"Mailchimp Makes Email Marketing Easy"
Comments: My experience has been generally great. I have not regrets using mailchimp
Pros: 1. I have been using Mailchimp for more than 3 years and I got glued to it the first time because of the free and cheap essential plan they offer. 2. Mailchimp is easy to us even for a newbies. I never needed to read up before I started using mailchimp 3. Trying to get the right template for every campaign can be tasking but that doesnt have to be so with mailchimp. There are more than enough templates to choose from for every campaign I sent. 4. I enjoyed the multiple integration feature in mailchimp. I can integrate it with almost any app online today.
Cons: The customer support should be improved on. A quick response to customer support ticket will make using mailchip easier. It is frustrating to wait in a long ticket queue to get response to an urgent client need.
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- Reviewed on 09/07/2020
Jonathan W.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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- Reviewed on 24/08/2020
"Robust feature set, but overly expensive for startups and developers"
Comments: Overall, Mailchimp is still one of the best mailing list providers out there. Its broad feature set and ease of use are an amazing help to a new company just getting started. If you're not looking for custom integration or transactional emails, this product is one of the best.
Pros: This is probably the easiest mailing list platform out there. It takes minutes to set up your account and get started sending emails to a list. For developers, the Mailchimp API is a dream. It's incredibly well documented and there are dozens of integrations already built in almost every platform and language to make integration into your software even easier. Contact management is simple with access to things like custom fields in a user's profile. Groups and segments are also easy to manage, though it can be confusing at first since there are multiple ways to segment an audience. There's also an option to do transactional emails through mandrill...but this actually turns out to be an issue when you look at the cost.
Cons: The cost of the product is its main issue. For starters, Mailchimp recently changed its cost structure to include unsubscribed customers as part of the total customers you pay for. That means for a small company with a low customer adoption rate, you either end up spending way more than you want for a small list, or you have to spend way too much time pruning your list constantly to save money. It's a huge waste of time and/or money. The second main issue, and actually the larger issue to me as a developer, is the cost of sending transactional emails. If you want to send your customers a password reset email or a account verification email (both very common in almost all applications) you have to have a paid account AND you have to pay for a chunk of transactional emails. It ends up costing a small company over $30/mth just to send password reset emails through Mailchimp. The cost makes more sense at scale, but this software seems built to get the small guys started. It's really a deal breaker for me.
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- Reviewed on 24/08/2020
