GMass

Pros: Gmass has some amazing features, such as:

1) Easy to program and control auto follow ups. These follow ups go out based on lack of response from receiver and you can set date intervals for sending.

2) GMass links up with google sheets for easy access to emails lists. You can build a list within google sheets and then transfer contact information, and email scripts unique to each contact. It appears to each contact that you are sending the email just to them, but in actuality you are sending emails with one click.

3) Very few errors and well managed. I've only seen a few emails go out that were obviously not synced up correctly. Anytime this happens it's obviously not good, but its very infrequent.

Cons: GMass is almost 100% perfect at what it does, but here are a few drawbacks:

1) it takes a while to become familiar with the controls and layout as it's not super intuitive. The learning curve can be overwhelming for newbies

2) It tried to organize emails and drafts into folders to reduce clutter on gmail, but if you have GMass installed you will have a cluttered inbox. Hard to avoid unfortunately.

Pros: It lets you send personalized emails (mail merged from contact lists in Google Sheets) via Gmail, up to 2000 contacts/day for trusted G Suite users. Gmail has much higher deliverability than email marketing platforms, which translates into higher open rates.

A lesser known useful feature of Gmass: you can also set up and send a drip nurturing email sequence to prospects and automatically stop it for any prospect based on their behavior (opened a link, replied to the email, etc.). This essentially works the same way as more expensive outreach automation tools, only there is a deeper learning curve with Gmass because you have to set up everything via its interface directly inside Gmail.

Cons: It would be helpful to have the most up-to-date email open, click, unsubscribe and bounce metrics integrated with the Google Sheets of contacts the email was sent to. Instead of receiving email updates with these metrics.

Pros: Ease of use! This software is super easy to set up and begin using for anyone of any tech experience level. I love that it connects with Google Sheets so seamlessly

Cons: The only thing bad about the product, at least for me, is that everyone is finding out about it ;-) It was once my little secret - haha!

Pros: I love the ability to build upon it's platform, the ease of integrating it into GMail and what my business was currently doing and expanding too! GMass has become an essential function of our marketing tools and it's ability to easily connect to our databases that we manage through Drive.

Cons: I have yet to find anything that would discourage me from utilizing GMass. Issues I have run into have been resolved in reasonable amounts of time given the support chain. If you are not the type of person to "DIY" an issue i.e. read and troubleshoot from blog posts, and want to integrate this software; then I would only suggest to be aware support will only come in email form or from reading through others experiences! It's abilities to take the "sending & scheduling & follow-up" into more an automatic flow is also a great tool!

Overall: Has allowed my business to grow since it's inception. Has changed the dynamics of our abilities to mass communicate!

Pros: I can automate my emails with ease, it allows me to save so much time sending out emails to lists of candidates and basically automate the entire process.

Cons: The UX takes a lot of getting used to and there is a learning curve. Other than that I really have no gripes with the software.

Overall: Automating my emails to the point where I actually freed up a good chunk of my time.

Pros: The fact that I can use it with my gmail account so the deliverability rates are extremely high and reliable.

Cons: I honestly don't have any complaints. They even updated it so you can't accidently send out bulk emails to separate accounts

Overall: I got the benefit of extremely helping with my email marketing thus leading me to be in contact with thousands of local businesses

Pros: I love being able to enter my lead criteria (e.g.: marketing VPs, NYC area, pharma industry, 10-50 employees, etc.) and then rest assured knowing those are the leads I'm getting. Gmass allows you to enter each of them into customized drip campaigns with full control.

Cons: The only downside is the number of leads you can capture per day, but this is a LinkedIn API issue, not a Gmass issue. On average I've been able to extract about 600-800 leads per 24 hours. I guess I shouldn't be complaining.

Pros: It lives in Gmail which makes it very convenient to use at the time you need it.

Also, I love the basic features included in the software such as reporting, auto follow-up for no replies. I'm most impressed by the simplicity of the software. It's got exactly what you need it without the bells and whistles.

The integration with Google Drive's spreadsheet is also seamless and I haven't seen it in other similar products.

Cons: I didn't like the automatic Gmass signature in the email at the time.

I've started using different mass mailing software so I'm not sure if that's still present.

Overall: I've used to outreach to potential customers.

Pros: It allows me to automate email camapigns to potential candidates or clients with ease. I can do it straight from my company gmail account.

Cons: It has a large learning curve to it. But they have a convenient blog section that covers most of the functions of the system.

Pros: I love the ease of use, the fact that it's integrated into gmail, and that it helps automate work I used to have to do manually.

Cons: I wish it had a feature to autoscale the number of sends each day, whereas today I have to manually go in and edit the number.

Pros: I can reliably set it and forget it. Once the automated follow ups and schedule are set, it works like a charm. The sendgrid setup is easy and quick as well, which is helpful.

Cons: I don't like the inaccuracy of the open tracking, which is a known issue with iphone users. I don't like the price as a monthly fee, when I don't necessarily use it often enough for that. I don't like that sometimes my images have to be re-added if the draft has been sitting too long, and (at least last time I checked, this wasn't addressed in the FAQ)

Overall: extremely easy to create automated follow ups or just simply schedule an email to send at another time.

Pros: I love that GMass syncs with Google Sheets and allows for for easy, automatic follow-ups. It does its job of keeping messages personal and customized without allowing the group to know that it's part of a group. Most of all, the plug-in works.

Cons: It's not the most elegantly designed plug-in; it's hard to remember, when you use it occasionally, how to insert conditional items (ie spintax notation);

Overall: it allows me to reach customers and prospects quickly and efficiently while still maintaining a personal connection in each email.

Pros: No affiliate links in the footer of the mail telling everyone that I'm spying whether they're opening the mail or not!

Cons: I'm a one-person freelancer using the features very minimally. It gets the job done for me pretty well.

Overall: I can track opens and clicks of the mails I send. It tracks everytime the user opens the mail. This is valuable because if I notice someone opening the mail repeatedly I can reckon that they're highly interested in the contents of the mail. This is valuable for proposal mails.

Pros: I love Gmass, especially for quick mail merges that only go to a few people. It's as easy as putting email addresses into the "to:" field and hitting the Gmass button.

Cons: No cons, other than I wish I could get a lifetime subscription. Seriously, it's very easy to use and saves me a lot of time each time I have to send the same message to multiple people.

Overall: Easy and quick mail merges.

Pros: It's very competitive on price and starts out free with 50 emails per day! This is more than enough to find out if it is useful and to start building a personalised mailing list. It is also very simple to get started and by using spreadsheets becomes very powerful.

Cons: Nothing with the product but by using your main gmail / gSuite powered email you do run the risk of being restricted to spam if you aren't careful. Also be prepared to deal with failed messages when cleaning up your email lists.

Overall: Excellent tool to clean up mailing lists by offering a personalised message to recipients.

Pros: This cool add on integrates directly to your gmail, so all campaigns can be launched from your browser, no external SFs needed. Support for GSheets and personalization makes this a very powerful tool.

Cons: With free version you can send only 50 emails a day, but if you go with a premium it extends to up to 2000!

Pros: It works very well and is easy to setup and use.

Cons: For my purposes, I did not need to receive so many email follow ups

Overall: For every project I work on, I ultimately need to send a mass email out to a group of people. Each one needs to have personalized information. For several years, I have been doing this by hand as I did not know of a mail merge add on. I was very happy when I found GMass as it saved me a bunch of time! So glad I found this great tool to help me compose and send these very important emails.

Pros: If you want to get an email marketing software running fast without any hassle, this is it. Look no further.

Cons: Resolving the issues of why a marketing email cannot be sent out, is a huge headache e.g. is it an invalid link? I believe I have fixed all invalid links but why the error still exist?

Overall: zero learning curve.