The Business Web - How We Use the Web for Business » Email Marketing http://www.business-web.com Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Constant Contact vs Intellicontact – Email Marketing Pricing Comparison http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/constant-contact-vs-intellicontact-email-marketing-pricing-comparison/ http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/constant-contact-vs-intellicontact-email-marketing-pricing-comparison/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:26:08 +0000 X-Man http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/constant-contact-vs-intellicontact-email-marketing-pricing-comparison/ I just wanted to post the pricing info to compare the 2 email marketing vendors.

Here is the IntelliContact Pricing info from their website:

Plan Contacts Monthly Annual
Clever 500 $9.95 $107.46
Sharp 1,000 $14.00 $151.20
Intelligent 2,500 $29.00 $313.20
Smart 5,000 $47.00 $507.60
Wise 10,000 $74.00 $799.20
Bright 15,000 $109.00 $1,177.20
Brilliant 25,000 $149.00 $1,609.20
Master 35,000 $219.00 $2,365.20
Advanced 50,000 $299.00 $3,229.20
Expert 75,000 $439.00 $4,741.20
Genius 100,000 $579.00 $6,253.20

Here is the Constant Contact Pricing info from their website:

 Contacts – Monthly Cost
50 – Free
500 – $15
2,500 – $30
5,000 – $50
10,000 – $75
25,000 – $150
25,000+ – not published

If I strictly just look at it from a pricing standpoint, Constant Contact is much cheaper since you can send unlimited number of emails while IntelliContact will allow you to send up to 6 times your subscriber limit. We are looking at a solution to support about 10,000 names.

Constant Contact vs IntelliContact
                       $75 vs $74

We are only expected to send out our newsletter four times a month but the 6 times your subscriber limit from IntelliContact is a bit annoying. We’ll have to find out from Intellicontact on what the cost is to go above 6 times. If anyone else out there knows of other solutions we should at, please provide us with your recommendations.

]]> http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/constant-contact-vs-intellicontact-email-marketing-pricing-comparison/feed/ 2 Trying out Constant Contact for email marketing http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/trying-out-constant-contact-for-email-marketing/ http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/trying-out-constant-contact-for-email-marketing/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:31:36 +0000 X-Man http://www.business-web.com/2007/04/01/trying-out-constant-contact-for-email-marketing/ We are currently testing out ConstantContact right now. One of my customers uses them as well so they actually come highly recommended. They have a free version for those that want to play with it. What we care the most about is the usability of the system and also from a pricing standpoint is it going to break bank as the number of subscribers grow.

 I am not an email marketing expert but the UI was simple enough where I could start adding contacts and creating a sign-up form pretty quickly . One thing that I don’t like about it is that I cannot seem to create a 1 step newsletter sign up process. For some reason Constant Contact forces this 2 step process where someone has to enter his/her email first and then pick a newsletter that they would like to subscribe to and there is no option to change this into 1 step process. We will be testing out IntelliContact next and we’ll report back what we find. We have shortlisted about 5 vendors that offer trials and hopefully we’ll decide on a vendor by end of next week.

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Update 4/1/07: We are looking for a solution that is inexpensive and good fit for our small but growing business. Here is a tip for folks looking for software or hosted service for your business. If your company is a small business and you visit a vendor website but can’t immediately find pricing info, this most likely mean the product they offer is too expensive. Move on and don’t bother trying to contact them.

Also, we realized that the original vendor list we put together for email marketing had a lot of vendors that really shouldn’t be on there (too expensive, focus on serving larger enterprises, or meant for higher volume and more sophisticated needs) so we are revising our list.

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