Constant Contact Email Marketing Solutions Review
By Farhan Kamal • Jun 27th, 2008 • Category: Software Reviews
Name: Constant Contact
Website: http://www.constantcontact.com
Type: Hosted Email Marketing Solution and Services
Ease of Use:
Very easy to use and figure out with intuitive navigation and flow.
Email templates:
More than 300 email marketing templates to choose from. You can also use your own HTML code by simply pasting it. Very simple for people with average technical skills.
Customer support:
Excellent support with quick email response time
Spam tolerance:
Very low tolerance. If your list has spam addresses or even if a large proportion of your legitimate list complain and report your email as spam, you account will be abandoned. You will then be required to call and change settings, or edit your list to be reinstated. However if complains still exists, your account will be permanently shut down.
Price:
Plans start from $15 for a list up to 500 email addresses to $149 for a list of 25,000 email addresses. For even larger lists, custom pricing options are available.
Newsletter Sending Option:
Available – pricing starts from $15 to $150 depending upon the list size. When bought along with the email sending service, a 50% discount is available.
Survey Option:
Available
Online Polls:
option available to conduct online polls through the email list.
Knowledge base:
Full scale knowledge base with articles on how to use the system, frequently asked questions and general articles about email marketing.
Free Trial:
60 days
E-mail Deliverability:
A very good email deliverability rate due to the no-spam policy of constant contact. Some people report almost 97% delivery rate.
Key Features of the System:
- tracking of opened and unopened emails
- auto-spam checking
- step-by-step email sending wizard
- option to send a personalized email
- forward to friend option
- permission reminder
- spell check in 12 languages
- email scheduling
- bounce and permission management
- Do-not-email list
- image hosting option
Read more about the features here
StepFront Recommendation: Highly Recommended.
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