| Functionality | 7 <p>Mailchimp offers a wide range of marketing tools that cover most needs of SMBs. This includes email and SMS marketing, social media management, multi-channel campaigns, a website builder, and segmentation and customization options. The platform also has some nifty AI features to enhance marketing efforts and provides decent analytics. However, at times, certain features feel slightly bare bones. For instance, there aren't many email templates, and for a full-suite email marketing platform, we would have liked to see more automation templates as well.</p> | 8 <p>Salesforce Marketing Editions is a powerful, highly customizable marketing tool with a strong focus on CRM and customer segmentation. It’s a heavyweight platform, packed with features, but leans more toward data-driven marketing than sleek design.</p><p><br></p><p>You get the essentials – marketing automation, email marketing, and deep CRM integration – but there are some notable gaps:</p><ul><li>No modern, visually polished email templates</li><li>No built-in landing page builder</li><li>No native SMS sending (SMS requires an integration)</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>If you need a marketing tool that’s tightly connected to Salesforce and built for segmentation, it delivers. But if design and ease of use matter most, you might find it lacking.</li></ul> |
| Ease of Use | 7 <p>Mailchimp is user-friendly, especially for beginners. It provides personalized onboarding and guides you through using the platform. There are plenty of tutorials and helpful prompts, like the "Help me design my email" button that opens an AI assistant, and suggestions like "Help me get started with contact tags." The platform offers many templates, and processes like importing contacts are easy to follow.</p><p>However, because of its many features and customization options—like testing up to eight versions of an email or using advanced dynamic content—there can still be a learning curve.</p> | 3 <p>Salesforce Marketing Editions is not particularly beginner friendly - we'd recommend it to those with previous Salesforce or CRM experience, simply because its marketing automation functions also rely heavily on the same interface.</p> |
| Look and feel | 8 <p>Mailchimp's interface is colorful, simple, and clean, with tasteful graphics. It is visually appealing and easy to navigate. Pages load quickly, usually within 1 second, providing a smooth user experience.</p> | 6 <p>While relatively straightforward to navigate, the interface does not deliver delight. This is mostly due to the fact that many buttons and fields feel crowded - unless you know your way around Salesforce software already, this may be hard to wrap your head around.</p> |
| Customisability | 7 <p>Mailchimp allows you to customize most client-facing elements, helping you create attractive marketing materials with its powerful editor and personalization features. You can build complex marketing automation workflows with conditional logic, branching, and triggers. Audience segmentation is flexible, including the ability to use custom events with code. The platform offers decent analytics and lets you create custom reports. However, it lacks some advanced customization options, like creating custom data objects.</p> | 9 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Salesforce Marketing Editions offers some of the best customisation options we've seen. Specifically, it offers: </span></p><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Analytics customisation, allowing you to see the key details for key customer segments </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Email customisation, based on customer behaviour and traits </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Flow customisation, allowing you to build complex and conditional flows. </span></li></ul> |
| Ease of Setup | 9 <p>There is plenty of guidance from Mailchimp to get your team up and running in no time (less than 15 minutes for basic setup).</p><p><br></p><p>However, given that Mailchimp also offers a wealth of customization options, advanced setup can still take up to a few weeks.</p> | 3 <p>Salesforce Marketing Editions offers a self-serve free trial, but setup takes time – expect at least 45 minutes just to get started.</p><p>Even basic tasks, like setting up automations or email campaigns, take more steps than most other marketing platforms, since there are more fields to fill out. Full customization and implementation can stretch to weeks or even months. And, just like with Salesforce CRM, you may need dedicated consultants or technical experts to handle data migration.</p> |
| Customer Support | 9 <p>Mailchimp provides excellent customer support, with live support available in the app and quick response times (within minutes when tested). There's AI support throughout the platform, such as when creating an email campaign. The help center is high-quality, offering comprehensive resources to assist users.</p> | 8 <p>Depending on your subscription level, different customer support channels are available.</p><p>Phone support is offered to most customers, and live chat is offered to limited segments of customers. Online support (i.e., via email) is always available.</p> |
| Integratability | 10 <p>Mailchimp integrates well with other tools, offering over 350 pre-built integrations with third-party applications like CRMs, e-commerce platforms, social media, and event management tools. It also provides an API for custom integrations.</p> | 5 <p>Salesforce Marketing Editions doesn’t quite live up to Salesforce’s reputation for integrations. While the broader platform connects well with other tools, Marketing Editions has more limitations. If you rely on multiple apps, it’s worth double-checking whether Salesforce Marketing Editions supports the integrations you need before committing.</p> |
| Ease of Migration | 8 <p>Mailchimp lets you easily export all your account-related data through the platform. For other information, you can access it via their API. </p> | 8 <p>Salesforce Marketing Editions offers solid export options – you can easily export contacts as CSV files, as you’d expect.</p><p>If you ever need to handle data portability requests for compliance reasons, Salesforce Marketing Editions provides a clear process for exporting all customer-related information, making it easier to stay on top of data protection requirements.</p> |
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