Mixmax vs Emma by Marigold: Which is a better fit?

Dave: Hi, my name is Dave and I'm a director of a design agency. And today I'll be reviewing Mixmax, which I give four out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click on the link below. Before Mixmax, I was using a variety of tools to achieve what Mixmax can do in one tool. For example, Mixmax has a option where you can very quickly share calendar links and it even embeds them in the email. Before, it was sort of a long process of trading emails with someone trying to lock in at a time to have a meeting with them. So Mixmax definitely sped up that process. What I love about Mixmax is that it's sort of a Swiss Army knife of tools. It has a lot of different features far as keeping in contact with someone. So you can send them email invites with a calendar. So you can schedule meetings. You can have emails sent out at later times. You can do email campaigns. You can even insert polls and surveys. So it's just a really great tool if you're just trying to streamline and simplify a lot of your emailing process. Getting started with Mixmax is really easy. I think I was pretty much up and running within 10 minutes. It's very quick. And once you're inside the dashboard, it's very intuitive. You can set up email templates, all the kind of things. And it's very easy to work with. And if you are someone that works with Gmail, their integration is very simple to add. And just it has a little sidebar. It's very easy to access. Really love working with it. For anyone considering Mixmax, I would check out one of the plans. I think right now they have two to three plans that you can pick from and just test it out. Test it out for a month. See if you like it. If you work in Gmail, it really has a lot of features. So just give it a shot. See if it works for you.

Jordan B.: Hi, I'm Jordan, vice president. And I give Emma a three out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click below. We were using Constant Contact before for our email client management and for marketing efforts, and then we switched over to Emma at that point. We chose Emma because it was referred to us by a marketing company that we were tied in with. And they had had some success with utilizing Emma in the past. And there were a couple of features that they recommended us utilize that Constant Contact just didn't have. Getting started with Emma was okay. It was a simple-ish process. You really need to have a little bit more advanced knowledge of how to work in the email marketing space, as well as maybe some coding background for just implementing it off the ground. I think the best piece of advice I'd give somebody just getting started with Emma is just make sure you know if you're an advanced user or not. If you're just trying to do some simple marketing messages, you may want to go with one of the other programs, like Constant Contact, out of the marketplace. Otherwise, if you need to be able to do a little bit more with your marketing messaging and get in the nuts and bolts of it, then you can retool and do everything you need to do with Emma.