Mailchimp vs X Pro: Which is a better fit?

Duncan: My name's Duncan. I'm the community editor with Pullman's Weekly News and Advertiser series. Our company's a news company with an employment size of 14, and I would give MailChimp a user rating of five out of five. Our company uses MailChimp on a day-to-day basis to reach more readers and an audience digitally. Obviously, the newspaper business as a print business has declined significantly in the past years. It's essential for us to communicate to our readers through digital means, and as such, MailChimp proves an excellent provider. The reasons I personally like MailChimp is it's very easy to use. You can have a drag and drop system for placing the templates in emails. You can select photographs to go with news stories very, very quickly. There's no need to download any complicated software. The platform of MailChimp contains all of the necessary infrastructure. I simply upload the database of our readers, and these readers receive the email through MailChimp servers. Some of the cons of MailChimp are its cost. Obviously, the more users you have, the larger the subscriber list, the larger the cost incrementally. It would also be nice to be able to send videos of a longer duration through MailChimp. I'm sure that would be achieved at some point, but that's one of the requests I would make.

Stephen C.: My name's Stephen. I'm a business growth consultant. I give TweetDeck five out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click below. For multiple avenues to listen and monitor several conversations at once, keywords, key phrases, individual mentions, it's superior. I would be doing you a service if I turned the phone to my TweetDeck as we speak. At high point, I think I was monitoring properly 30 plus conversations, and right now three or four. And I've stayed true to TweetDeck while a lot of my peer group went to Hootsuite. I just find the simplicity appealing to me. It's a great place to be. Its simplicity. Like I said, also, its real time engagement, the interaction, the searchability, the functionality, the quick integration with the Twitter homepage. For example, you click on somebody's profile on TweetDeck, you can open up immediately in Twitter. I think that's great. The only thing they might improve is pop-outs, but right now, that's it. Yeah. The way it integrates in real time with Twitter, plain and simple. I'd like to see profiles maybe pop up in a bubble without opening necessarily to Twitter so that you can stay within TweetDeck. That would be optimum for me. But that's because things are slow. If things were rapid, if I had 30 or more conversations, that wouldn't necessarily be a premium, except to say if they did that and allowed the pop-up to also capture the comment I was clicking on so that I could invariably go back and respond later, that would be optimum. I wouldn't wish that upon their team of coders, but it would be optimum.