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iContact
What Is iContact?
Unlimited sending. Phone, email, and chat support. iContact Email Marketing helps businesses of all stages and sizes get results. From the small business just getting started, to the professional marketers and agencies, to high-volume senders with 25k-500K+ subscribers, iContact offers a plan to meet every need. All customers get a Success Manager dedicated to getting you up and running quickly, unlimited access to award-winning technical support.
Who Uses iContact?
iContact is perfect for small businesses, entrepreneurs, marketers, agencies, & high-volume sender w/ 25k-500K subscribers. Nonprofits, EDUs, financial services, event mgrs, and many more love us!
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Reviews of iContact
iContact helps me be successful at my job
Pros:
iContact is a very user friendly product for anyone. My company sends thousands of emails a week and we are always very pleased with how easy it is to create an email and send it immediately. I also really enjoy the dashboard, it helps me keep track knowing what emails have been sent and what emails I have yet to send. i also appreciate that iContact technology can delete any duplicate people in a contact list. That saves me time from having to go through thousands of people making sure I don't have any duplicates. My customer support is also amazing. My iContact rep. is always so good about getting back to me when I have questions or concerns.
Cons:
Sometimes when I am creating a contact list in iContact, I have several excel sheets I need to upload to that one contact list...iContact doesn't let me select multiple excel sheets to upload at once, I have to do one at a time which takes a lot of extra time for me to do. I also wish I could delete more than one contact list at once. On the "upload contact" box, I want to be able to see the whole title of my contact list. Sometimes iContact cuts off my list title if it's too long, I would like to see the whole title...
iContact Response
7 years ago
Hi Lauren! We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback. Our support team loves helping companies like HireLive who make such a tremendous positive impact. As for the concerns you raised about list uploading, we are taking all product improvement comments very seriously and are working to continually improve our product. We currently do allow you to have 5 concurrent uploads at any given time, but you must start the uploads one at a time. And you are correct, we cannot upload multiple sheets from one excel file. We have noted this potential feature, along with multiple list deletion, and title expansion ¿ and we realize its importance. Thank you again and have a great day!
Good solid Email Marketing Product
Comments: We had great support from our account managers (3 of them over almost 15 years) and it met our email marketing needs very well.
Pros:
We were able to deploy this to over 200 offices around the country and recommended it to many of our international organizations. We could manage all those accounts from a central office and deploy centrally designed email templates to all our offices. We could easily segment data to target email marketing.
Cons:
The most challenging situation we encountered was we had to split our 200+ accounts into two separate enterprise level accounts, making us have to login to each one separately to locate and update certain things from our central office. I don't believe this is really an issue any longer with the product, but we encountered some issue early on they felt would be handled by splitting into two. It just made management of the whole account structure more challenging.
iContact Response
11 months ago
Thank you very much for the great review. We appreciate your works and having you as a customer!
J.Mwangi iContact Filled Insight
Pros:
iContact offers a lot of free email templates which allows me to create, customize and send high volume outbound marketing emails.
Cons:
iContact does not offer website builder capability but it has a robust backend integration feature.
I've used iContact for the last five years.
Pros:
iContact is a low cost solution for basic email marketing. You have access to a strategic advisor. My strategic advisor always provides thorough answers and/or solutions when requested. iContact offers automation with workflows that are easy and quick to build. The user interface is easy to understand.
Cons:
The response time to fix API issues can be slow. iContact does not offer a post unsubscribe survey. I'm not able to download user profile information when exporting email send statistics - this is important for me when I want to do a quick analysis on my data.
iContact Response
6 years ago
Thank you very much for being a long time iContact customer! We are happy to hear that you have been able to quickly and easily design automations with workflows using your iContact Pro account. We like this feature so much we plan to make it available to all iContact accounts. Thank you as well for your feedback, particularly about adding a post unsubscribe survey. This is being shared with our Product Management team so that it can be reviewed for possible updates in a future release.
Contacting Customers via Outbound Emails made Easy by iContact
Comments: Email marketing automation is what I yearn most from iContact.
Pros:
iContact makes it super easy for me to create and customize marketing emails for 24/7 via unlimited free templates.
Cons:
I do not have any aspect that I dislike on iContact.
