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Lauris: Omnisend wins 80% of competitive sales cases against Mailchimp
“Mailchimp, which is our direct competitor as well, but if we compete against Mailchimp, in 80% of cases we win against them, because we know that we drive way better value for those who sell online.”
Berry: ConvertKit is far ahead of Mailchimp's eight-year growth curve
“When I look at the curve that I'm on with ConvertKit, and if, and the curve that MailChimp did, if we were to overlay those two, ConvertKit is far ahead. Like if we put the start date of the two of them, ConvertKit is far ahead on that curve than MailChimp was…”
Pinckaers: 85% of SaaS app building is generic shared infrastructure
“So if you take one app, like a MailChimp to send email or and task management, I would say, 85% of what you have to do to build this app is generic. Generic. Like you need a mobile interface, interface. You need to have a front end with drag and drop stuff the…”
Berman: Founders should clone existing software rather than create original ideas
“I wish I knew how easy it was to just clone a business that already existed and just do that. Like I would never come up with an original idea. If it was up to me, I would just be like, all right, what are people paying for it now? Let me, a MailChimp. All rig…”
Fletcher: Convertri abandoning Mailchimp for ActiveCampaign over 'bullshit'
“We're so sick of MailChimp. We cannot deal with that bullshit anymore. So we're moving to ActiveCampaign.”
ConvertKit's first eight years of revenue grew faster than Mailchimp's
“When I look at the curve that I'm on with ConvertKit, and if, and the curve that MailChimp did, if we were to overlay those two, ConvertKit is far ahead. Like if we put the start date of the two of them, ConvertKit is far ahead on that curve than MailChimp was…”
MailChimp repeatedly shut down Fooda's account over sending thresholds
“MailChimp would just shut down their account really nearly left and right because they would exceed the threshold.”
ConvertKit will not sell early, targeting a decade of further compounding
“We're eight years in and like selling and being done now is just way too early. And so it's really like, if I want to build a MailChimp level company or a Stripe level company or something like that, then it's like, great show up for another decade.”
Duke: Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign leave casual bloggers and creators underserved
“And especially for some of the very marketing-heavy tools like ActiveCampaign, like MailChimp, these are designed for folks who are sending out, you know, e-commerce blasts to potentially tens of thousands of users, and that's a very important vertical to hand…”
Psarras: 90% to 95% of Moosend customers import existing email lists
“A hundred percent the first. I would say 95% the first... At the end of the day 90%, 95% of our customers import lists from Some place, some tool.”
Psarras: Moosend plans are on average 40% cheaper than Mailchimp
“Well, 40%, on average, every plan that we have is 40% cheaper than Meltium.”
MailChimp refused private IP addresses for high-volume senders like Fooda
“But for someone like Fuda, MailChimp could not and will not provide them private IP addresses, and we do.”
Lorang: Major SaaS platforms lack intelligent contact management layers
“All the SaaS applications focus on something else as the core transaction, right? MailChimp focuses on sending emails. Salesforce focuses on sort of opportunities. NetSuite focuses on financial general ledger, and contacts are sort of like, oh, we have to have…”
Lauris: Omnisend Grew Domain Authority to 88 Across 14,400 Referring Websites
“Currently we do have almost 200,000 links that refer to omniscient domain. Our main website, our blog it comes from 14.4 thousand unique websites, including like PayPal, Hubspot, Mailchimp is even quoting us. Google in the articles is quoting us. I mean, those…”
MailUp Group acquired Acumbamail and its 45,000 Spanish-market users
“Now we have acquired Akumba Mail, which is a sort of Spanish MailChimp for the low touch market. And they have 45,000 users right now, mostly in the Spanish markets.”
30% of BEE Pro customers deliver campaigns via MailChimp
“With B-Pro, 30% of our clients are delivering through MailChimp and others through other solutions like Marketo, Adobe, Salesforce, or many other solutions.”
Carson: Treehouse enterprise clients include Nike, Mailchimp, InVision, and Chegg
“MailChimp already is looking for a second class of talent. So these are some of our clients already MailChimp, Envision, Nike, Acquia, Chegg, Mindbody”
Hexton: Zapier and MailChimp combinations are too fragile for mid-market companies
“We're built from the ground up to sit on top of that, like, raw, rich event stream that segment sends. So you're not really It's just less cobbled together, and if you're a serious mid-market plus company you know, you want robustness, you want to be able to s…”
Lemieux: Attentive.ly raised too little money to withstand platform API changes
“One of them is we raised too little money. And when we had a, you know, six month period where MailChimp changed their API and Facebook completely where you're at their API and full content, like every tool that we used that sucked up all our dev resources, an…”
Collin: MailChimp expanded from one team to ten on Front
“So as an example, MailChimp started to use the product when we launched two years ago with our partnerships team that had a partnerships at address with lots of incoming inquiries. And today they have 10 different teams using the product, and that's mainly how…”