Mailchimp vs Systeme.io: 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.

Petra: Hi, my name is Petra. I'm a personal trainer and health coach. And I give Systeme.io a rating of four out of five. For more reviews, please click below. Before using Systeme.io I was utilizing ClickFunnels and ActiveCampaign, which are two separate platforms. And I wouldn't necessarily say problem, but the thing with them was that they're very expensive for beginners. They are probably really great when you have an established business and turn over a greater amount, but for starters, it's a little bit of a complicated platform with a lot of options that are not really necessary for the beginner user. The main reason why I ended up choosing Systeme.io is the cost. It is a lot less expensive than ClickFunnels and ActiveCampaign that I had used before. A lot of my colleagues have switched to Systeme.io. I think also mainly for the reason of the less cost. So yeah, that's it. And everything is compiled in one program rather than having to utilize two different platforms. At first, when I started Systeme.io, it felt a little bit overwhelming, but the thing is, the company actually helped me migrate my information from ClickFunnels and ActiveCampaigns. So it was really pain-free to transfer all the information over. And one thing I really want to point out is the customer service at Systeme.io is excellent. I felt that I really was bugging my customer service representative with a lot of questions, and he was right there to answer any of my concerns in a super timely manner. So the transfer was quite pain-free. I would recommend for anybody to start Systeme.io or transferred from another company to start with the free version of it and take a good look around if that is what you really need and what you can utilize. I've noticed there are a few features that are not yet available on Systeme.io that I had before. It's probably just a matter of being used to those, and now I cannot utilize them, such as goals that I had in ClickFunnels before that, they are not available yet. Systeme.io is a new company up and running from what I understand, so they're really working hard to get up to and beyond what the regular standards are. So again, before you switch, I would definitely make sure, take advantage of the free version, take a good look around. And then see for yourself actually how easy it is to use it once you get into it.