Marigold Engage vs. SessionM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Marigold Engage
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Marigold Engage (replacing the former Selligent Marketing Cloud) is an omnichannel marketing cloud platform. The technology provides actionable insights that help companies to deliver more personalized and valuable consumer engagements, resulting in compelling experiences across all channels. Marigold Engage combines universal data integration, AI-driven automation, and omnichannel execution, so marketing teams can run extensive campaigns with ease.N/A
SessionM
Score 10.0 out of 10
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SessionM is a customer engagement platform that combines customer data management, loyalty program and offer management, and cross-channel campaign management (SMS, email, push, and in-app messages).N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Marigold EngageSessionM
Considered Both Products
Marigold Engage
Chose Marigold Engage
Selligent has more flexibility than other ESPs, and complex features, such as segmentation and content blocking, are much more intuitive with Selligent than WhatCounts, Yesmail, MailChimp, Constant Contact, or Teradata.
Chose Marigold Engage
We did not evaluate other products exactly. We upgraded from an inferior production to StrongMail based on demos and other people's reviews.
SessionM
Chose SessionM
SessionM was light years ahead of Fishbowl, in the data science tendency assumptions that are built into the system, plus they don't offer an app for your brand to use. You'd have to employ a 3rd vendor to manage that. It's also important to note that SessionM sees ALL guests …
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User Testimonials
Marigold EngageSessionM
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need the reporting and analytics on the data associated to your email sends then StrongMail is the way to go. All the data is available in the message studio interface down to how specific ISPs are responding in real-time. Additionally the log files are robust to where if you need to mine the files to further parse the information it is both possible and easy based on the structure and classification of the data, i.e. success logs are separate from failure logs, deferrals that either end up succeeding or failing are separate from each other and also separate from straight successes.
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SessionM is ideal for enterprise restaurants, brands, and organizations to build and drive loyal behaviors via technology platforms. They've built their system via robust APIs integrations, but are now diving into a white label app system that allows smaller brands (100 units+) to utilize their incredible technology in their own brand, as opposed to just bigger players. They're the best at what they do.
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Pros
  • StrongMail does open and click tracking very well. The detailed level of data they provide is exceptional.
  • StrongMail does failure data and bounce codes extremely well. The granularity of the information is invaluable to our business and used by us every day.
  • StrongMail's Message Studio EAS is a widely user friendly platform for technical and non-technical users alike.
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  • Using data science to determine guest tendencies and actions: their system is incredibly smart and tracks historical actions to guess/estimate future actions, and creating programs to influence those actions.
  • Integrated communication platforms to speak to all of our guests within various tactics—email, push notifications, text messages, in-app messages, etc.
  • Loyalty management & CRM: creating and managing a program that runs consistently across the system.
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Cons
  • Better data integration
  • Friendlier user interface
  • Easier guides and instructions
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  • Some improvement could be made on their integrations process with all platforms (olo, monkey media, etc.).
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Alternatives Considered
Selligent has more flexibility than other ESPs, and complex features, such as segmentation and content blocking, are much more intuitive with Selligent than WhatCounts, Yesmail, MailChimp, Constant Contact, or Teradata.
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SessionM was light years ahead of Fishbowl, in the data science tendency assumptions that are built into the system, plus they don't offer an app for your brand to use. You'd have to employ a 3rd vendor to manage that. It's also important to note that SessionM sees ALL guests and POS content in the system, not just loyalty identified transactions.
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Return on Investment
  • Increased employee efficiency due to content blocking
  • Lower rate of errors/apology emails due to technical errors
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  • Our work with SessionM has been so incredibly impactful to our brand loyal guests, and the value they bring to our brand. For example, our loyal guests are worth $100+ more than our non-loyalty guests.
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