AWeber vs. RD Station Marketing

RD Station Marketing

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWeber	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	AWeber is an email marketing and automation solution. It provides support for mobile-friendly HTML email newsletters, autoresponder campaigns, subscriber segmentation and management, RSS-to-email features, signup forms for websites or blogs, and more.	$15 per month Starting at
RD Station Marketing	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	RD Station Marketing is a marketing automation tool for SMEs in Latin America. With the software, companies can run marketing campaigns, nurture leads, and generate qualified commercial opportunities. Other features support social networks to email marketing, landing pages to pop-ups, with automation for the analysis of results.	$18 per month for up to 1,000 active contacts

Pricing

AWeber

RD Station Marketing

Editions & Modules

AWeber Lite: $15
per month Starting at
AWeber Plus: $30
per month Starting at
Done For You Email: $30
per month Starting at
Unlimited: $899
per month

Light: $18
per month for up to 1,000 active contacts
Basic: $112
per month for up to 5,000 active contacts
Pro: $269
per month for up to 5,000 active contacts

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWeber	RD Station Marketing
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

$79 one-time fee

$535 one-time fee For implementation of the Pro plan

Additional Details

AWeber offers usage-based pricing starting at $15/month. Plans scale based on the number of subscribers and features needed. Options include: Lite Plan – Core tools like email automation, landing pages, sign-up forms, and AI Writing Assistant. Plus Plan – Advanced features including split automation paths, behavioral triggers, analytics, A/B testing, ecommerce, and custom branding. Done For You – A fully built email marketing system (emails, landing pages, and automations) delivered in 7 days, with 30 days of unlimited edits. All plans include 24/7 support. 14-day free trial available.

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Community Pulse
	AWeber	RD Station Marketing
Considered Both Products	AWeber Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber AWeber just needs to improve landing page features and ready-made templates. Incentivized Helpful? Christian Karasiewicz Owner Chose AWeber AWeber made it easy to get started. They were priced competitively, but we felt they had better customer support, which is especially important when you are just setting up an email list for the first time, and want to ensure you have the workflow correct. They also took the … Incentivized Helpful? LE Laurel Elders Founder Chose AWeber Their customer service outshines the rest! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber We often use Canva to design our content and then export it as an image to upload into Aweber, as Aweber designs and limitations are too much of a hindrance to our needs. Canva is a brilliant tool for marketing and saves you a lot of time being able to adapt or change an … Incentivized Helpful? CK coll kirk Head of Media Chose AWeber AWeber is exact in between of Eloqua and Mailchimp. It has more options and functionality then Mail chimp, but it is lighter (not as coding heavy) than Eloqua. This is a good fit if you are in the walk phase of your email strategy and have a database under 2MM Incentivized Helpful? Mukesh K. Singhmar Cofounder & CEO Chose AWeber If you are evaluating an email marketing or email broadcast software that is easy to use, at a reasonable price and does the makes sure the emails get delivered in the inboxes and not in the spam folders and has all the necessary reporting functionality then try AWeber. … Incentivized Helpful? NB Nancy Boyd President and CEO Chose AWeber AWeber costs more but delivers better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber We switched to AWeber from Mailchimp because the system seemed better suited for our industry, even though it is more expensive. We may go back to Mailchimp now that they have added so many features. Constant Contact is too expensive for the value that we would receive. Incentivized Helpful? Jackie Bassett CEO Chose AWeber We could have used the tracking systems that come with each marketing campaign software we use (or get asked to use) but we wanted the best automated permissions management system we could find. They have the experience, the technology, and the great support we are always able … Incentivized Helpful? Suzanne Glorie Owner Chose AWeber Mailchimp all of a sudden came up with all of these restrictions. I found that they did not communicate that well with their existing users. I have used Act-On at one of my customer's businesses. This is really an enterprise marketing automation tool and is not suited for … Incentivized Helpful? Ibrahim Campos IT Network Manager Chose AWeber AWeber has more capacity than Mailchimp, so it depends a lot on the need of the company. You must take into account the cost of the two. Another detail is that Mailchimp can be really tedious to configure the automation of emails. Without a doubt, AWeber has more advanced … Incentivized Helpful? Ruby Javaid Chief Designer Chose AWeber I found Constant Contact's dashboard and email editor clunky and annoying to use. It's been several years so perhaps they have improved and updated it. MailChimp is pretty comparable, and it just depends on your needs as to which is more appropriate. I do feel that MailChimp's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber MailChimp is a great "starter" email service, especially for consumer businesses. AWeber offers a bit more power and sophistication, especially for B2B companies, while still being easy to use and price competitive. Constant Contact had seemed to lag in features for a while … Incentivized Helpful? Haley Fox President & CEO Chose AWeber Drip is definitely for the advanced marketing team, it is not user friendly and very confusing for anyone that doesn't know how to set up a funnel. However, for anyone that does it is amazing. Incentivized Helpful? Mohammed Anzil Founder and Chief Editor Chose AWeber The reason we [opted for] AWeber over others is for its email delivery rates. AWeber is great for freelancers, large enterprises, mid-zize business, etc. A 14% discount is available if you pay quarterly and more if you pay annually. AWeber is priced roughly in the middle of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber My organization used AWeber for about a year and has since moved to the HubSpot CRM. This was for a variety of reasons, but in terms of email marketing in particular, AWeber is still a very strong contender. If I were to start my own business, I would absolutely go back to … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Gatto VP of Marketing & International Business Development Chose AWeber AWeber is more robust, and for professional marketers because it has so many features like tagging, and moving people to different lists based on triggers. Its analytics features are important for marketing managers. AWeber's deliverability is better than MailChimp or Constant … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber It did its job and it did it well. AWeber had all of the features of the competitors, but AWeber was the easiest to use of the bunch. The other software had too many bells and whistles and caused confusion among my team when we worked on different mailings and campaigns. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber It is easier of a solution to work with when compared to other alternatives such as Sendinblue or MailChimp. Ultimately what I valued is the deliverability and quality to be able to deliver our emails. If you are seeking a more robust enterprise-level solution I would then … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Steen, M.A. Virtual Assistant Chose AWeber It is less expensive than Constant Contact but more expensive than MailChimp. We ended up recently switching to Kajabi because it integrates landing pages. Constant Contact and MailChimp both have easier user interfaces and better design options. Incentivized Helpful? Gene Sower Internet Marketing Agency Chose AWeber Compared to Constant Contact, I find Aweber very easy to use. Setting up an autoresponder sequence is very straightforward, at least for us because we've used it for so long. Constant Contact is a very difficult and hard to use service. We hate it and knock it every chance … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Dungan Owner Chose AWeber I have also used Constant Contact, MailChimp, and Lead Master. I think that Aweber is superior to these other applications in it's ability to "get down to business" so to speak. By this I mean that the interface is less about cartoony graphics and done-for-you simplicity. … Incentivized Helpful? Vilhelm Kruse Innovation Coach Chose AWeber If you send out less than 2000 emails monthly then Mailchimp is a free alternative. It's hard to argue with free although I am not sure how much the free mailchimp version includes in terms of automation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWeber For small businesses Mailchimp's free plan and more robust feature set is likely a better fit, unless they have prior familiarity with the Aweber platform. Klaviyo and Listrak are better suited for Ecommerce businesses. Incentivized Helpful? Andy Ryan Video Marketing Strategist \| Speaker \| Consultant Chose AWeber At the time we used it , AWeber offered features that MailChimp (free version) wasn't offering. We used AWeber instead of Infusionsoft because of the price. We have since switched from AWeber to ActiveCampaign for our email marketing. We liked how ActiveCampaign worked. It was … Incentivized Helpful?	RD Station Marketing No answer on this topic

Features

AWeber

RD Station Marketing

Email & Online Marketing

Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
	AWeber 7.7 Ratings 3% below category average	RD Station Marketing - Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dynamic content	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Landing pages	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
A/B testing	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile optimization	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
List management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	AWeber 8.6 Ratings 11% above category average	RD Station Marketing - Ratings
Dashboards	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Standard reports	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Custom reports	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

Pre-Send Testing

Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
	AWeber 7.6 Ratings 5% below category average	RD Station Marketing - Ratings
URL Validation	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Link Tracking	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Image Validation	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Inbox Display	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Spam Testing	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Email Previews	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWeber	RD Station Marketing
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User Ratings
	AWeber	RD Station Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWeber	RD Station Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend	AWeber is an excellent email marketing solution for small to mid-sized businesses, especially those that are just starting with email marketing campaigns. AWeber is also good for bloggers. But it's not perfect for an affiliate marketer who wants to make a landing page on AWeber. Businesses that require advanced segmentation options may need to consider other email marketing platforms. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Aweber's email deliverability is among the best in the industry. I have used other email services and Aweber is superior in deliverability. It is easy to setup an autoresponder sequence, a series of time delayed emails delivered over a period of time. This makes it super easy to follow up with leads and customers. Aweber's blog broadcast features makes it easy to notify subscribers of new content on your blog. It can be setup to broadcast when ever you make a new post or summarize posts on a periodic basis. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Double opt-in requirements. While I understand the rationale for double opt-in, I wish Aweber did not require double opt-in when importing email addresses from the client's existing client database as I feel we end up losing a good number of people who are existing customers and have given the business permission to email them but who either don't notice or don't take the extra step to confirm their subscription to the Aweber list. The user interface when designing and setting up html newsletters is not as clearcut and obvious as Constant Contact; it takes more time to get the newsletters to "look right" using Aweber's existing templates. I wish Aweber made it easier to embed a video message simply by inserting the video link or embed code into the email body. The process it seems to require (the last time I tried) was to create a screenshot of the video or insert the video thumbnail image and then link to the video in the right column link section .. it's a 2 step process and would be nice if it were a one click process. Not a deal breaker but I just feel like it could be faster and more efficient to embed video messages in an email. Incentivized Yvonne Herbst Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	AWeber is easy and intuitive for me use. I really like the simplicity and the structure of the work flow as it saves me time. AWeber also integrates with all the other programs, systems and gateways that I use on a daily basis (WordPress, Paypal, LeadPages, Facebook and more) and if I have any questions or have trouble the AWeber customer service technicians are very helpful. Nichol Skaggs Virtual Assistant and Online Business Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	See previous answers ... the design / customization interface could be more intuitive and elegant .. for example, for me it has been difficult to easily figure out how to place pictures / images to the right, left or center of text. Incentivized Yvonne Herbst Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I have always received prompt phone or live chat support that has resolved my issues on the first call in a competent, knowledgeable and friendly manner. By contrast MailChimp offers no live chat or phone support; they only offer email support and the response time for MailChimp is slow by comparison to AWeber. Incentivized Yvonne Herbst Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	MailChimp is a great "starter" email service, especially for consumer businesses. AWeber offers a bit more power and sophistication, especially for B2B companies, while still being easy to use and price competitive. Constant Contact had seemed to lag in features for a while though it has now largely caught up. However, it's got a more complex pricing model and is less attractive for users who send multiple messages per month to a smaller list. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Aweber has been a great way to introduce clients to the process of online marketing and publishing. Many of them have never used the web or email to truly nurture their customer relationships. The combination of dependable features and low price make Aweber a good "toe in the water" of internet marketing. Aweber has helped my clients raise awareness of their products and services through targeted email campaigns and regular publishing. It's a great way to deliver coupons and special offers directly to a customer's inbox. Awber has helped me teach my clients that a collection of names and email addresses is only worthwhile if you use it to communicate what matters to your customers. Many businesses collect contact information at live events or through other means, but rarely do they actually do anything with it. By using Aweber to reach out to their customer base, they are able to see through the analytics how valuable that conversation can be. Incentivized Greg Dungan Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
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