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Mailchimp streamlines business operations by connecting over 11M companies worldwide with customers, allowing sales, creating and launching effective marketing campaigns in a single platform.
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It has a pretty straightforward pricing plan with an awesome customer service solution. I can find this tool super helpful.
You are restricted to specific designs and formats only, which can be a little frustrating when your business doesn't match those categories.
I love the visual elements of mailchimp. It’s easy to navigate and simple and the training and help facilities are excellent if you’re not sure.
I don't like the merge tags functionality. Almost always it ends up not working and it looks awkward and embarrasses in front of your customers.
I love this platform for most cases and businesses. Easy to use and great features to improve results.
They have a really strange billing system that is designed in such a way that it sucks money out of you.
We are having an amazing experience with it and will suggest you as well, because they offer excellent paid plans with depend on your subscribers.
But there is a problem, when I wanted to link any picture or a sentence with a new window that is available online, I couldn't get where to I do.
Their invitation to review my mail setup and the advice that ensued was a really nice addition to already outstanding service.
I had repeated trouble properly segmenting my email list.
I am particularly impressed with how attentive their customer service team is as they deliver very quick and excellent help with all the inquiries I have ever submitted.
Nothing major just took a little bit of getting used to the autosave as I was used to saving everything I did manually in mailchimp. Not a software problem, just a person problem ;-P.
It is very easy to create nice newsletters, love the concept of choosing who you send it to.
A pretty handy tool really. Was using mailchimp but got annoyed with their lack of support and found automations complicated.
It's smart segments functionality is amazing, and the fact that we can set up automations based around detailed parameters is extremely exciting for our business as we move into the future.
I have not encountered any things I don't like yet.
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.
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