Marketing Tool Ratings
Features
20/20
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Benefits
19.5/20
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Ease of Use
10/10
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Customer Support
9/10
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Price
9.5/10
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Overall Grade:
97%

iContact allows you to create and manage unlimited lists and compose personalized HTML or text messages and newsletters using custom mail merge fields and a combination of sample templates. i Contact also has a WYSIWYG editor to make design easy. You can distribute your messages from any computer with an Internet connection and get 500kb of image hosting with your purchase.

You’re able to easily preview, send, schedule, archive, save, edit, and resend your messages at will. With T3-connected servers, you’ll be able to deliver to your entire list in minutes. You can even send to more than one list at once.

You can use the web sign-up forms included in iContact or design your own. Also, you can import individual subscribers or entire lists from external third party software, as well as automate the subscribe/unsubscribe process, putting the power in your subscribers’ hands and taking a load of unnecessary hassle off your shoulders. Your contact database is completely searchable and effortlessly updatable.

i Contact lets you generate complete list archives, subscriber reports, add/remove/sent stats, and activity reports. Moreover, you can automatically delete all duplicates, view all drafts and archives, and view the dates and addresses of each removal.
Features
Features

  • Unlimited email lists
  • Image hosting
  • Mail-merge personalization
  • Message scheduling
  • Forward-to-a-friend
  • SpamCheck
  • Assured CAN-SPAM compliance
  • Open and click through tracking
  • Bounce-back handling
  • Subscription management
  • WYSIWYG newsletter editor
  • List segmentation
  • Integrated survey creation
  • Multiple message autoresponders
  • Advanced analytics
  • Event management
  • RSS feeds
  • Public newsletter archive
  • Blogging
  • More than 25 email marketing articles
  • A 31-page email marketing Whitepaper

Benefits
Benefits

  • Enjoy 98-99% deliverability thanks to whitelist agreements with the major ISPs
  • Track performance on all your email blasts using real-time graphs and charts
  • Choose between over 300 professionally-designed email templates or use one of your own
  • Active member community with user forums and blogs
  • Easy-to-use marketing service
  • Manage an email campaign in three easy steps
  • The best and most comprehensive help options from the services reviewed
  • Publish your blog posts or newletters within the iContact community, and increase your potential viewers and subscribers
  • Live support is available over the phone, through email, and even over live chat

Format/ Requirements
Format/ Requirements

iContact is a web-based application that merely requires an internet connection to access and use to its fullest.

Ease of Use
Ease of Use

iContact makes it easy to set up, organize, and leverage your email lists with an intuitive icon-based interface.

Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback

"iContact helps enormously. Easy to use software with great benefits. Our email advertisements have increased sales 25% since we started using email marketing."
- Brian J. Esposito [CEO, Avenue You]


"I have used numerous mass email programs, services, and applications, and none of them ever provided the easy solution that i Contact does. I was pulling my hair out with the others. iContact is so stress-free. It does what it's supposed to do - make my job stress-free."
- Randy Jeter [Jeter Creative]

Customer Support
Customer Support

i Contact has one of the most impressive support centers around, with a searchable FAQ and knowledgebase, an active user forum and blog, and personalized assistance during extended business hours ET by toll-free telephone, email, and live web chat.

Free Trial
Free Trial

Sign up for a 15-day free trial of iContact before you decide to buy.

Price
Price

Purchase i Contact under the following plans:

  • 250 subscribers for $9.95 a month or $107.46 per year
  • 500 subscribers for $14 a month or $151.20 per year
  • 1,000 subscribers for $19 a month or $205.20 per year
  • 2,500 subscribers for $29 a month or $313.20 per year
  • 5,000 subscribers for $47 a month or $507.60 per year
  • 10,000 subscribers for $74 a month or $799.20 per year
  • 15,000 subscribers for $109 a month or $1,177.20 per year
  • 25,000 subscribers for $149 a month or $1,609.20 per year
  • 35,000 subscribers for $239 a month or $2,581.20 per year
  • 50,000 subscribers for $379 a month or $4,093.20 per year
  • 75,000 subscribers for $529 a month or $5,713.20 per year
  • 100,000 subscribers for $699 a month or $7,549.20 per year

Consider that amounts paid to iContact are nonrefundable, though members are free to cancel at any time.