ActiveCampaign vs AWeber: Which is a better fit?

Mike: My name is Mike. I'm a small business owner. I'm giving ActiveCampaign a three out of five stars today. Before using ActiveCampaign, I had been doing things pretty manually in terms of sending out email blasts and sort of just general marketing stuff. I had tried a couple of different other companies as well actually after using ActiveCampaign. I tried a couple different ones. I used another one called GetResponse. While I liked using ActiveCampaign better than GetResponse, I did run into some issues trying to incorporate ActiveCampaign into our workflow, but I was able to do the basic job of email marketing and trying to keep track of a flow in terms of emailing prospective clients as well as current clients. Originally, I chose ActiveCampaign because it came recommended from a few different people and for good reason. The program can do a whole lot of different things. It certainly works well if you're looking for a really in-depth platform that you can create content to blast out to your contacts and prospective clients. For me, it was a little bit too in depth almost where it was more than what we needed, so I ended up not using it in the long run. But definitely that was kind of the main reason that I started using it and unfortunately just never really got the hang of it. So I wouldn't say that ActiveCampaign is the easiest program to get started with, to be honest. It does require some back knowledge. I'm not a marketing expert. My partner who is more adept with it also had just some issues sort of getting the whole thing going. It's pretty easy to get a basic template going and to get a funnel going and all that stuff. It is fairly simple, but we did run into some issues and unfortunately the help in terms of the customer service wasn't the best, so we never were really fully able to right the ship. So after using it for almost a year plus, we worked out of using ActiveCampaign. So unfortunately, I wouldn't say the easiest program to get going. If you're an expert, I'm sure that it's a lot easier, but I guess I wouldn't say for beginner users, not the easiest. So if you're thinking about using ActiveCampaign, I would definitely just recommend doing some research on the platform itself just to sort of get acquainted with it and to understand all the in-depth features that it can do, which are definitely plentiful. If you're an expert or advanced user in email marketing and content creation, email templates, you're probably going to have a pretty good time with it. The funnel system is very in depth and very good. If you're a beginner or just sort of looking to get started, I would probably shy away from using something like this unfortunately. It is worth your time to check out. It's definitely a good platform overall. It didn't work for me personally, but that doesn't mean that it won't work for others. So yeah, I mean, if you're watching this, you're probably doing a good amount of due diligence. It's worth spending a little bit of time checking it out. It may fit like a glove for certain businesses and certain types of marketing techniques, but for me, it didn't end up working out unfortunately.

Moses: Hi, my name is Moses. I'm a digital marketer. So I give AWeber a rating of three out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Before I was using AWeber I was using ActiveCampaign. Why ActiveCampaign wasn't working for me was because of the cost, and as much as it was user friendly, the cost racks up really, really quickly, which is why I made the change to AWeber. So the reason I chose AWeber was because it was a friend who recommended me. I look at the interface, it was quite easy to use as well, easy translatable from ActiveCampaign, which led me to making that choice of using AWeber as the next best tool I had for email marketing. So getting started with AWeber was really easy. There was some tutorials that was helping me to get it set up, but it was just like any other email automation platform. So it was really intuitive to use and there wasn't really much of a hassle or any technological barrier for me to start using it. So for anyone who's considering getting AWeber, my advice to you is to just get onto the free trial before actually making a purchase because effectively some people might not actually like the interface in terms of how AWeber is currently structured. It's a bit more of a old school interface, which why definitely get the free trial before jumping in to a paid subscription and to really understand the platform before getting into the paid subscription as well.