ShortySMS vs. Zoho Campaigns

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ShortySMS
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Standing out in a sea of marketing messages is about as difficult as getting celebrities to notice one on nstagram. (Caption: “Loved your concert, @IamCardiB! I was the one twerking!”) And with more competition than ever before to grow a brand, choosing the right marketing channel has never been harder—or more important. ShortySMS is presented as a way to cut through the noise and communicate with the audience.N/A
Zoho Campaigns
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Zoho Campaigns is an email marketing and social networking campaigning tool for smaller companies that helps create, send, and track effective email campaigns. It features list management and segmentation, A/B Testing, tracking and reporting, automation, and mobile campaign management.
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Forever Free
$0
Standard Plan
$3 for 500 contacts
per month
Professional Plan
$4.5 for 500 contacts
per month
Pay as you go
$14 for 500 contacts
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Zoho Campaigns
Chose Zoho Campaigns
I used to administrate our audiences in Zoho CRM, but then I just keep working with Campaigns since we developed our own CRM. I selected Campaigns because it was a very easy platform to use, good performance and analytics.
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Zoho Campaigns is much more user friendly, and support is also more helpful. I don't use Google Surveys any longer.
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Zoho Campaigns is lower in cost than ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign definitely was much powerful and easier to use, but Zoho Campaigns works for us.
Chose Zoho Campaigns
We didn’t like the pricing of Maropost and we have found Zoho best when it comes to pricing and the other reason to move from Maropost to Zoho was the leaders that were less as compared to that offered by Zoho Campaigns. Moreover, Zoho has created much ease in our work. It is …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
  1. WYSIWYG Editor
  2. Real-time analytics
  3. campaign management & optimization
Chose Zoho Campaigns
While we still believe that Mailchimp has more options for expansion at this point, Zoho Campaigns works better for us so we don't have to leave the Zoho suite of programs so much. Since our main e-mail is through Zoho Mail, the integration of both products is integral.
Chose Zoho Campaigns
We decided to try Zoho Campaigns in lieu of previous applications being used. For the most part, the setup was similar and straightforward but the nuances in the UX and difficulty finding features made it feel harder than it had to be. Overall we still prefer other CRM …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
Zoho Campaigns is not for beginners to email marketing, but it’s an excellent choice for those who want to send out a lot of emails with few restrictions and great reporting. It’s a no-brainer if you’re already a Zoho user, as Campaigns is included in Zoho One subscriptions and …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
The main reason we picked Zoho Campaigns was that we needed to use Zoho Books. QB Desktop, Online and Xero all didn't support the features we needed so we went with Zoho Books. It was the best decision we made. We now get Zoho CRM, Campaigns, Inventory, and 20+ other major …
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It's about the automatons and the integration power.
Chose Zoho Campaigns
If you are on a budget or already using Zoho's other products such as CRM, Zoho Campaigns is a good choice to get you up and running with email campaigns. Mailchimp is also affordable and has a lot more capability and customization of the templates and landing pages, but does …
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Zoho is not just the one application but actually is a suite of interconnected applications so I can use my Campaign and incorporate it into another application. I also have a little more flexibility with Zoho Campaigns like creating something in a different format then just …
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I have not chosen Zoho Campaigns over any other solution, I use all of them for different business scenarios and various client initiatives. I use smaller campaigns under 5k subscribers and use the other solutions for larger campaigns.
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Zoho Campaigns is a clumsy attempt to further bring your customer management under the Zoho umbrella. Contact management and CRM integration need a lot of work. Master style definitions, custom templates, and deliverability statistics would be good improvements. On the other …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
We chose Zoho Campaigns because we already use their suite of applications, and the UI/UX is quite the same. Zoho Campaigns is a quite excellent and powerful app for campaign management, but other products are more developed technically and visually. But Zoho Campaigns gets the …
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Zoho Campaigns is much less user-friendly than the other options I've tried. It doesn't seem to have great integrations with other systems either. For example, the forms they give you slow down websites and look terrible. Ultimately, the only time I've gone with Zoho Campaigns …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
Zoho Campaigns is honestly the worst email sender in the world. Anyone considering it should stay away. We have opted-in customers who are begging for emails from us and while we were using Zoho Campaigns (we are still moving away currently) no customer has received even one …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
Its easy setup and user interface made it one of our primary tool for sending newsletters and email campaigns. I don't always need to supervise my team on this tool. My team is well versed with the process involves in creating email campaigns on this tool. And the kind of …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
I've used MailChimp before, which is a great tool (I might prefer it in many situations), but for our needs in our organization, we went with Zoho Campaigns. This decision was made because of the painless integration with Zoho CRM, which we already use and love. This was the …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
In my experience, I liked Mailchimp a lot because of the many features it has. In comparison with Zoho Campaigns, I feel that it is superior but what I find most helpful, and the main reason why I use Zoho Campaign, is that the applications I use can be integrated and I can see …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
Campaigns came with Zoho CRM, so that's the ONLY reason I use this product. I can't justify paying for MailChimp when I have a free product. BUT, if I paid for this I would have switched a long time ago. In fact, I would have never picked it because it doesn't even compare …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
We already use Zoho CRM so it made sense to use Zoho Campaigns to make importing from the CRM easier. MailChimp and Zoho both have an editor for editing HTML directly, so there was no clear advantage there. Mailchimp was slightly more expensive than Zoho Campaigns (by about …
Chose Zoho Campaigns
Mailchimp is great, and probably a bit more intuitive, but the seamless integration with Zoho CRM won it over for us with Zoho Campaigns. That and the ability to choose from two different pricing structures. Another thing to mention, the saved template feature, which is a basic …
Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
ShortySMS
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Ratings
Zoho Campaigns
4.7
Ratings
51% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
List management00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ShortySMS
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Zoho Campaigns
5.3
Ratings
37% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
ShortySMS
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Ratings
Zoho Campaigns
3.7
Ratings
73% below category average
URL Validation00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Link Tracking00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Image Validation00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Inbox Display00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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6.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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It is well suited in scenarios:
  1. Well-defined static list with proper info.
  2. Not building email templates from scratch
  3. Litmus testing involved
  4. Easy to use simple automation journeys involved
Not well-suited scenarios:
  1. Complex Customer journeys
  2. Dynamic content involved
  3. Integration with other products other than the ZOHO suite
  4. Testing API limits
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Pros
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  • I use it because it is a "free" program that "comes with" our CRM tool. I don't find this to be a useful tool at all. It is a major pain to use and I don't recommend it to anyone who does "real" email marketing. I've been doing email marketing for 18 years and I have never used a worse program than this one. Seriously - take my advice and use MailChimp. The marketing automation that Zoho claims this feature has, is awful. After using it for almost two years, I dread every time I have to create a new email.
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Cons
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  • The social campaigns section we have not used much, probably because it only works with Twitter and Facebook, and we are more active on Google+ and LinkedIn.
  • The templates are nice, but I have seen other services with better pre-built templates.
  • To segment lists can be a bit hard to configure initially, however exporting lists from our CRM is simple.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Because I am a single user organization and the subscription is free for up to 3 users.
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Alternatives Considered
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Zoho Campaigns is not for beginners to email marketing, but it’s an excellent choice for those who want to send out a lot of emails with few restrictions and great reporting. It’s a no-brainer if you’re already a Zoho user, as Campaigns is included in Zoho One subscriptions and integrates nicely with other Zoho apps.
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Return on Investment
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  • Initially it helped me a lot in growing my subscriber list. This is one of the major RoI i got from this tool.
  • Its newsletters help us to retain our customer base by providing them regular news on real estate trends.
  • It has a great impact on creating brand image of our social media platforms.
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