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Mailchimp
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All-in-one email and SMS marketing platform with automations, templates, audience tools, and analytics, aimed at SMBs and ecommerce.
10M visits/mo
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Smartlead
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A cold-email platform for sales teams offering unlimited mailboxes, automated warm-up, lead verification, and deliverability infrastructure.
1.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: Forever Free
Startup: $99/user/mo
Most Popular: $225/user/mo
Enterprise: Custom
No public pricing
Free trial available
Base: $39/month (2,000 contacts, 6,000 sends, 2,000 verified emails)
Pro: $94/month (30,000 contacts, 90,000 sends, 30,000 verified emails)
Smart: $174/month (150,000 sends, 50,000 verified emails)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦AI-driven research on ICPs, target companies, and decision-makers
- ✦Automated lead pre-qualification
- ✦Personalized email creation
- ✦Integration with popular sales and marketing tools
- ✦AI workers that self-train every 4 weeks
- ✦Email campaign creation and templates
- ✦SMS marketing
- ✦Marketing automations and customer journeys
- ✦AI-assisted content creation tools
- ✦Audience management and segmentation
- ✦Reporting and analytics
- ✦300+ integrations
- ✦Unlimited mailbox connections with automatic warm-up
- ✦Dedicated sending infrastructure to protect sender reputation
- ✦Built-in email verification and 3x-verified lead sourcing
- ✦Unified inbox to manage replies across the whole pipeline
- ✦Deliverability monitoring with real-time bounce and spam tracking
- ✦APIs and automation for scaling outbound campaigns
Use cases
- →Increasing open rates, click rates, and reply rates for outbound emails
- →Reducing time spent on sales tools
- →Automating outbound sales and generating a consistent deal flow
- →Sending newsletters and promotions
- →Automating ecommerce marketing flows
- →Managing and segmenting subscriber audiences
- →Generating and qualifying leads
- →Running large-scale cold email campaigns across many mailboxes
- →Building and verifying outbound prospect lists
- →Protecting domain reputation while sending high volumes of email
- →Consolidating replies from multiple sequences into one inbox
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