Benchmark Email vs. Drip Ecommerce CRM

Benchmark Email

Drip Ecommerce CRM

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Benchmark Email	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Benchmark is an email marketing platform on a global mission to help businesses everywhere ignite relationships with their customers, from the company of the same name in St.Louis, Missouri.	$13 per month
Drip Ecommerce CRM	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Drip is an ECRM–an Ecommerce CRM offering email marketing automation software specifically for B2C online retailers. The vendor’s value proposition is that with Drip's simple, user-friendly visual campaign builder, users can design email campaigns based on specific subscriber behavior—so they always send the right message, to the right person, at the right time. Drip starts at $41/mo (with email sending and every feature enabled).	$19 per month

Pricing

Benchmark Email

Drip Ecommerce CRM

Editions & Modules

Pro: Starting at $13
per month
Enterprise: Custom

Up to 500 people in account: $19
per month
550 - 2,000: $29
per month
2,001 - 5,000: $89
per month
5,001 - 8,000: $124
per month
8,001 - 15,000: $209
per month
15,001 - 22,500: $329
per month
22,501 - 27,500: $409
per month
27,501 - 35,000: $529
per month
35,001 - 50,000: $699
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Benchmark Email	Drip Ecommerce CRM
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Benchmark Email	Drip Ecommerce CRM
Considered Both Products	Benchmark Email Christopher Kasanda Sales Consultant Chose Benchmark Email In the past, I have used Getresponse. I found it very handy for Affiliate Marketing but not good enough for Corporate Marketing. I then incorporated Benchmark Email into my arsenal because it is good enough for both Affiliate Marketing and Corporate Marketing. With the upgrade … Incentivized Helpful? Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager Chose Benchmark Email We used the free trial of many competitors, such as Mailchimp, Constant Contact, etc. Basically, Benchmark Email provided the best value for the money. The fact that we could get some economy of scale on the extended contract as well as the introduction of split a/b testing … Incentivized Helpful? JC Jeya Chelliah CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Benchmark Email Mail Chimp. Vertical response Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Benchmark Email I stated this plenty of times in my previous responses but we moved to Benchmark from Mad Mimi. Mad Mimi's feature set is extremely basic and only suited for start-ups or very small businesses. Benchmark provides enough customization to take the next step in your email … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Colson Founder Chose Benchmark Email At the time of the decision, we anticipated a larger audience and a high potential cost of MailChimp. We also believed that Benchmark Email would be less complex and therefore quicker to implement and learn. Given the current needs and pricing, I believe MailChimp may be … Incentivized Helpful? Abigail Nwaocha PR & Social Media Specialist Chose Benchmark Email Of the free email marketing services I tried, Benchmark could only stack up against Zoho Campaigns and Moosend. as unfortunately, Mailchimp has better signup form customization options, SendinBlue's free plan offers advanced automation and MailerLite offers advanced … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Benchmark Email Benchmark is very good for sending business email for products and services and especially for sending white papers compared to the others. But it also depends on your requirements. Incentivized Helpful?	Drip Ecommerce CRM Jordan Comstock Digital Marketing Specialist Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM Again, this is dependent on the use case. If you are a small- to medium-sized business that doesn't have a sales team, this is likely a great product for you. It is also a good price compared to larger enterprise software. Other software I have used worked better for other … Incentivized Helpful? Charles Combs Head of Marketing Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM We decided to move away from Mailchimp when they announced the changes to their service plans. We cast a wide net and ended up boiling it down to Drip, Klaviyo, Omnisend, and Constant Contact. They all have a similar set of features, but Drip was willing to work with us on … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gehrman Agency Principal Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM MailChimp and Constant Contact are both excellent options based on your level of use and business goals. When comparing all three services we looked at integration ability, pricing, functionality, and customer service as our key decision factors. Each company has their pros & … Incentivized Helpful? Steve Palfreyman Founder Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM Compared to the heavyweight, Infusionsoft, Drip is incredibly powerful but much lighter weight. It's faster and easier to get a simple campaign up and running. The price is much more reasonable too. The only downside is the lack of drag and drop email builder that Infusionsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Conrad Magalis Marketing Manager Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM As discussed earlier on, Drip from Leadpages is much more customizable and affordable than the competition. My experience has been excellent with the product support team and the business in general. I'm also a Leadpages customer, for custom landing pages and site popups, … Incentivized Helpful? Ellen McDowell Founder Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM I selected Drip because of the integration with S2Member. When someone begins my membership program they are automatically added to my Drip campaign for members. Incentivized Helpful? Tsahi Levent-levi Founder Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM Drip seemed more powerful in what you can do with it. ConvertKit was considered simpler to get a handle of, but I wasn't aiming at simple, but rather at powerful and flexible. The pricing matched my current requirements at the time and the onboarding process was simple and easy … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Berman Founder and Growth Hacker at Big Red's Equipment Sales Chose Drip Ecommerce CRM Mailchimp does lists. Drip does automated segmentation. This is a game changer! Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Benchmark Email

Drip Ecommerce CRM

Email & Online Marketing

Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
	Benchmark Email 9.5 Ratings 18% above category average	Drip Ecommerce CRM 8.4 Ratings 5% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor	7.80 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Dynamic content	10.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content	9.30 Ratings	5.10 Ratings
Landing pages	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
A/B testing	10.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Mobile optimization	10.00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
List management	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences	8.20 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Benchmark Email 8.3 Ratings 8% above category average	Drip Ecommerce CRM 6.9 Ratings 11% below category average
Dashboards	7.60 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Standard reports	10.00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Custom reports	7.20 Ratings	5.00 Ratings

Pre-Send Testing

Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
	Benchmark Email 10.0 Ratings 22% above category average	Drip Ecommerce CRM - Ratings
Inbox Display	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Email Previews	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Benchmark Email	Drip Ecommerce CRM
Small Businesses	Vbout Score 9.9 out of 10	Vbout Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	VerticalResponse Score 10.0 out of 10	VerticalResponse Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Emma by Marigold Score 9.4 out of 10	Emma by Marigold Score 9.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Benchmark Email	Drip Ecommerce CRM
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	9.4 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Benchmark Email	Drip Ecommerce CRM
Likelihood to Recommend	Their free option has no time limit and accepts an email list of 2,000 contacts. That's generous considering that some similar software have free trials limited to a month or less and will allow only about 1,000 contact lists, if not less. With that 2,000 contact space available for free on Benchmark email, I can gather 2,000 leads or buyers into my email program without paying. Thus, Benchmark Email is suited for profitability, especially for a start-up business. Christopher Kasanda Sales Consultant Read full review	Drip is my top recommendation for most people who have an existing business and audience and want to move beyond basic email broadcast and drip campaigns and start building out more personalized sequences. I don't recommend the tool for people starting out, or for anyone that isn't bringing in solid profit every month as there are cheaper tools out there to get started with. Incentivized Steve Palfreyman Founder Read full review
Pros	They have the option to incorporate email automation. HTML is available if you want to use your own templates. They give you the ability to edit some HTML on their drag and drop version. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I think the workflows from Drip are particularly well done. It is easy to see how someone might work their way through my system. It is easy to set up the campaigns as Drip walks you through each step. Drip shows you how many people have been on your website and how your forms are performing well. Incentivized Ellen McDowell Founder Read full review
Cons	Glitchy editor - powerful drag and drop features, but precise formatting can have issues. Stagnant platform - few notable features or fixes over the past two years. Delivery Success - anecdotal customer reports suggest high percent of emails are diverted by spam filters. Incentivized Tim Colson Founder Read full review	Pricing is a bit on the higher side but well worth it so long as you're using it Direct integration with Salesmate vs going through Zapier Incentivized Matthew Gehrman Agency Principal Read full review
Alternatives Considered	At the time of the decision, we anticipated a larger audience and a high potential cost of MailChimp. We also believed that Benchmark Email would be less complex and therefore quicker to implement and learn. Given the current needs and pricing, I believe MailChimp may be competitive and provide a more refined UI Incentivized Tim Colson Founder Read full review	We decided to move away from Mailchimp when they announced the changes to their service plans. We cast a wide net and ended up boiling it down to Drip, Klaviyo, Omnisend, and Constant Contact. They all have a similar set of features, but Drip was willing to work with us on price instead of simply referring us to their tiered plans. Even though they don't have a direct integration with our e-commerce platform it was obvious they were willing to help us make the connection via their API. Incentivized Charles Combs Head of Marketing Read full review
Return on Investment	We were able to reduce recurring costs by 20% per year by buying an extended contract plan. Benchmark is more robust than our previous software, and we've been able to increase newsletter sales by about 10% per year. We were able to introduce split a/b testing into our newsletter mix, as it's a native feature of Benchmark. Incentivized Blake Baron Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager Read full review	We've seen a 45 percent increase in customer survey completions, due to automated reminders and campaigns. We've seen a 10 percent increase in customer traffic on our website. We've seen a 300 percent increase in online credit applications on our website and form conversions. Incentivized Conrad Magalis Marketing Manager Read full review
ScreenShots	Benchmark Email Screenshots	Drip Ecommerce CRM Screenshots