Dotdigital vs GetResponse: Which is a better fit?

Sean D.: Hey, I'm Sean. I'm a marketing coordinator. I give Dotdigital a four out of five, and for more reviews like this, you can click below. Prior to using Dotdigital, my team was just using Salesforce and spreadsheets. It was not really ideal as there was a lot of disconnect between processes, and we just needed an all-inclusive solution. Dotdigital, we chose that just because it kind of gave us a platform to put all of our processes that were asynchronous together into one cohesive piece. It really helped us streamline everything we were doing and it really helped keep my team organized. Getting started with Dotdigital is actually one of the easier processes that I've ever done on a team taking on a new software. Dotdigital provides a really awesome set of courses on their site, and you can even get certifications through their website to help you learn what you need to do in your role. If you're thinking about taking Dotdigital, I would say, go ahead, reach out to a representative, see if they can give you a little demonstration. On top of that, you can look into any of the documentation and video demos they have on their site. It was really useful in getting to know the product before we actually made any decisions.

Rebecca: Hi, my name's Rebecca. I'm the owner of Becca Finance and I give GetResponse a five. I actually moved to GetResponse from MailChimp and I did that because MailChimp just didn't have the ease of use. There was a lot of clicking around I had to do to figure out how to use it. And then when I did set up my first and second campaigns with them, I immediately got email saying that everything I'd done was wrong for whatever reason. So it was super confusing to figure out how to use in the first place and then how to use it correctly, more importantly than all. GetResponse is different in that it's completely user-friendly, you can get to it right away. And right away when you sign up you get AI powered newsletter and a landing page among other things, which makes it so to start your business pretty immediately. You can go ahead and use those while you figure out how you want to present yourself differently, if at all. And when you go to set up your campaigns, one, they're super easy. Each of the steps is listed simply and right when you go to see what your campaigns are, it's really easy to see which ones you have, what day of the process they're in, and some simple analytics, you can see an open rate and a click rate all right on the same page. So a lot of the main reason actually, that I signed up for GetResponse was the ease of use. I didn't have to go somewhere and figure out how to set it up. All I had to really think about was what I wanted my email to say, all of them actually. And even if I had a hard time with that, writing it out per se, they have AI powered stuff so that I could set up the emails quickly and easily and just adjust what the AI had set up or written for me. And it was nice to see because I could see my different campaigns and see what analytics were, simple ones. I could see the open rate, the click rate, where I was in the process. And a really good one. How many emails had actually been sent? So did it send to all of my contacts? Was it able to send to all of them or half of them or just a few? I could see all that right on one page before needing to delve in to see further if I needed to. GetResponse was super easy to get started. Right when I signed up, I got 30 days. You get 30 days for free to test it out, which for a brand new business is fantastic. And right when you sign up you get AI powered different items. The highlights for me were a landing page and a newsletter, which I could just use, maybe tweak a little bit, maybe change into my brand colors and send out or set up just immediately, which was wonderful. I definitely think anyone thinking of getting GetResponse is going to be completely blown away just by how simple it is to use the fact that you do get it for free for 30 days. And when you do upgrade, because you will, because you're going to say, "Heck yeah, I'm doing this more than 30 days." You're going to find that the pricing is really great, because even if, let's say you don't have 50,000 people on your email list to start, you don't want to pay those prices still, right? So they've got different tiers where let's say, you've only got a thousand people signed up to your email list, well great, you can pay a much lower price that matches that thousand email list per situation. As opposed to 50,000, which could be a hundred dollars a month. So it's really great for a new business for sure.