Email Marketing Tools

 

Email continues to be one of the most efficient and effective ways for small businesses to reach out to their potential customers. If it is just about sending a few emails, this can be managed with a regular email service, but email marketing campaigns generally involve sending emails to a long list of clients. This is not only difficult to execute but is also rendered ineffective as many emails are filtered out as spam.

 

There are many email marketing tools which help you overcome the usual challenges and also let you design beautiful emails. What’s more, these also allow you to track the effectiveness and success of your efforts. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the seven most prominent marketing tools available on the market.

 

1)  iContact

 

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iContact helps you catch the attention of your audience by customizing your email. The tool allows you to choose from amongst a host of elegant templates. The drag-and-drop message creation tool helps you create custom messages with utmost ease. You need not bother yourself to log into your social media account to publish these. iContact does this automatically. You also get the intelligence on who all from your contact list opened or clicked the emails and which of your contacts choose to unsubscribe.

 

If you choose to use iContact, the service costs you $14 a month. A free trial is also available.

 

2)  GetResponse

 

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GetResponse comes with a powerful tracking feature which helps you segment subscribers, track site conversions and follow-up with more message. The email editor allows you to add pictures in your email, so that you can catch the reader’s attention. It also allows you to preview the email copy and see how it would look to your potential clients.

 

It comes at $15 a month. You can opt for a 30-day free trial to get clarity about its benefits.

 

3)  Constant Contact

 

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This is one of the most popularly used email marketing tools primarily because of a very customer friendly technical support it offers. It has a higher price tag than most of the other comparable tools. The powerful customization features helps you even customize the various templates that you may choose for your email campaign. It offers a 60-day free trial and costs about $15 per month.

 

4)  Benchmark Email

 

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This one offers a host of features which include customizable email templates, ensured email delivery, and dedicated email servers for those clients who have volume. It also offers social media integration, contact list management and a facility to run a mobile email marketing campaign too. It comes with a 30-day free trial, and multiple pricing options tailored to the needs of various clients.

 

5)  AWeber Communications

 

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Design great looking email campaigns by choosing from over 600 ready to use email templates. With its RSS to email tool, you can even share your blog posts as newsletter. With auto-responder options, you can choose to send an automated reply to various messages you may receive from your clients. It does not offer a free trial, but allows you a steep discount for the first month as you need to pay just $1 instead of $19 per month which is the regular price.

 

6)  Mail Chimp

 

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It is a popular and powerful email marketing tool that helps you schedule delivery of your emails as per the time-zone of your customer. You can plan campaigns that sends out emails to just a particular segment of your customer as per selected criteria. With its geolocation feature, you can choose to select an invitation for an event to only those customers who are around or near a particular zip code. It offers 12,000 emails to 2000 contacts per month, forever free. Premium plan starts at $10.

 

7)  Vertical Response

 

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Get a head start for your email marketing campaign by choosing from over 700 customizable templates. The powerful editor helps you design your emails in minutes. It also offers sign up forms which you can add to your website and grow your contacts list. It will also automatically take care of posting your email campaigns on Twitter and Facebook. Offers a free trial and comes with a variable pricing option under which you pay only as much as you use (number of emails sent).

 

If you have worked on any of these tools, share your experience with us in the comment box. Also, please mention if you know of more such powerful email tools that can be of benefit for small businesses. We will appreciate your contribution to make this list more useful for our readers.

 

About Author:

Boni Satani is an online marketing professional working Australia’s leading 1300 & 1800 Number service provider – Zintel Communications. Zintel empowers small and large businesses improve their customer experience through toll free numbers.

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