Picking out an email service is a giant pain in the butt.
I get asked “What email service should I use?” all the time.
Started noticing every time I got asked that question, I would ask them a series of questions back. Then filter that through my memory of what each email service is good at and what they suck at and give an answer.
Figured making a handy little tool that didn’t require my brain and people relying on my bad memory would be a good idea.
So - the crew at http://videofruit.com made http://whatemailserviceshouldius....
A few little things…
1. It’s primarily built for info product style businesses. We plan to update it in the coming months to handle SaaS and eCom businesses a little better
2. All of the recommendations are built off of this review series I wrote earlier this year
http://videofruit.com/blog/email...
3. There are 5 primary recommended ESPs (Active Campaign, Infusionsoft, Mailchimp, ConvertKit and Drip). There are 100s of other ESPs but these are a) the ones used most by our customers b) the best ones IMO c) the ones that I have personally and exhaustively reviewed.
4. If you’re wondering, “Why didn’t he include [insert any other ESP here] in the tool?” the answer is probably that I haven’t personally had time to review it myself and don’t want to recommend a tool that is unvetted.
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Hope this helps you guys!
If you have any cool ideas on how to make the app better, please let me know in the comments below.
@harris_bryan really cool stuff. Congrats on the launch! This comes at such a great time because I'm trying to switch from MailChimp and I'm kinda lost. Really looking forward to those eCom recommendations!
@harris_bryan - Why is InfusionSoft recommended based on "live promos" when it's scheduled broadcasts don't use live updated contact segmentation? If I schedule a promo email to go out in the morning it won't include overnight changes to tag suppression (i.e. won't suppress customers that bought after I scheduled the email). This means I have to manually send OR create a complex campaign just to have live suppression... not sure why it would be recommended for live promos.
@harris_bryan Congrats Bryan, as a user I like this kind of approach to save me the hassle of the benchmark process. Did you consider a language criteria (as Mailchimp is only available in English)? Also, what about users who prefer a desktop app (usable offline) or to deal with their email marketing directly in their WordPress instead of using a separate tool?
That leads me to recommend 2 different solutions with very different approaches: https://www.mailify.com and a new newsletter plugin for WordPress you'll love: https://www.jackmail.com
(I guess a disclaimer isn't needed 😊 )
I was quite excited by this until i got to the end and it appeared that i had to signup. I was VERY close to just closing the browser, but I opted to click the "no thanks, I don't want them" link and it then gave me my recommendation anyway.
I would recommend making it clearer that you don't need to give your email address in order to get the recommendation.
Other than that I thought this was a useful, fun tool. Well done!
@angus_halen@harris_bryan Agreed with this. It's a great tool, but I found the lack of transparency a bit annoying. Except for this, very well designed - thanks for building it!
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