Let’s start off with a disclaimer: focusing on one platform is a strategic decision on our part. Just like the hundreds of consultancies servicing Salesforce, and only Salesforce, we’re married to ActiveCampaign. With over 150,000 businesses using the platform there is plenty of work to do.
Here is a review of ActiveCampaign and why it works well for us and our clients:
Granular customer data
The breadth and quality if data determines how effective you are with segmentation and personalisation. You can do this multiple ways with ActiveCampaign.
- Custom fields for contacts and accounts
- Lists, segments and tags
- Behavioral targeting
- Relational data
Enterprise-grade personalisation
An important feature you won’t typically find at this price point is dynamic content, where you display content blocks based on customer data. This is particularly useful for CTAs.
- Personalisation
- Conditional content
- Personalise web pages
Marketing AND sales automation
The automation builder has an extensive set of options to set conditions, delays, update data and trigger communications. Including ones to automate pipeline ‘Deals’: change stage, update deal information, change ownership, status, and more.
- One of the best automation builders
- Automate pipeline activities
- Integrates with many third party apps
- High level automation maps
Pipelines, pipelines & more pipelines
Create them in the ‘Deals’ section and use them for any process, no just Sales. A pipeline is affectively a Kanban board, so easy to use even for the tech-averse.
- Use for sales, support, onboarding, outreach, etc..
- Automate pipeline activities
- Communicate from individual Deals
- Add custom fields
Supports multiple brands & users
You can associate multiple domains to your ActiveCampaign account and have extensive control to what users can access. Again, this is a feature you would only expect to be offered by platforms costing much more.
- Use one account for multiple brands
- Track multiple domains
- Set granular access to 'Groups' of users
Build a ecosystem around ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign has invested heavily in extending their platform’s capability via third party apps. If a particular integration does not exist there is always Zapier to ‘bridge’ the platforms.
- Integrate with over 850 apps
- Solid Zapier integration for many more
- 'Deep Data' integrations with eCoomerce apps
Pricing
Compare pricing with the likes of HubSpot and Salesforce. ActiveCampaign offers a similar set of features but at a considerably lower price.
- Pricing starts at USD $9 / month
- The Enterprise tier starts at USD $229 / month
- Ease of use = cost saving
See for yourself!
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