Mailchimp vs Sociamonials: 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.

Koen V.: Hi, my name is Koen. I work as an entrepreneur within the health and fitness industry, and I gave a four-star rating for Sociamonials. I'm actually using an app called Sociality at the moment, over Sociamonials, because I found their way of planning and content just a little bit more convenient and straightforward than it actually is within Sociamonials. I bought them both on a lifetime deal and I had them actually working alongside within my business at the same time, but eventually I took the decision to work most of my content, actually, within Sociality. So the reason why I chose Sociamonials was because I was subscribed to the app [inaudible 00:00:43], I was always getting their updates and I heard a lot of people having very good feedback about Sociamonials. I was back then just in the early days of my business and I was looking for a more cost efficient solution to plan in my content. And Sociamonials picked up as one of the main players that can provide me that solution in a very cost efficient way. So I bought the lifetime deal, was very happy with using it in the beginning. So yeah, that was why I initially bought it. And one thing that I really love about it is their viral giveaway part of it. So I use it for campaigns, that's what I still use within Sociamonials, because I think that's where they're really good at. And yeah, that's one of the features that I really love using. Onboarding is really a breeze. There's nothing difficult about it. It's just setting up, linking your social profiles to it and you're basically good to go. So it's something that really, everyone can do. So if anyone's on the fence of looking for a all in one solution to plan in their content and create viral giveaways and run different campaigns, I would really recommend to check out Sociamonials as well, especially if you are very much focused on the Instagram and Facebook platform that really provide an all-in-one solution for that and that's what I really like. And especially because it can save you so much money on the long-term and even already in a short term, if you look at comparing companies and competitors of Sociamonials, they can easily go for 10, 15, 20 Euros or more a month. So with a good deal like this, you can save up a lot of money. And that's also for me, really one of the most important reasons why I actually started with social medias in the first place.