Campaign Monitor vs HubSpot

Founded in 2004 by Ben Richardson, based in Nashville. Belongs to CM Group, along with other marketing software companies like Sailthru and LiveClicker.

HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah in 2006. Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The email editor is WYSIWYG and the platform provides users with a great choice of templates and an automated email builder for your brand — no coding or design skills are required. Campaign analytics come in the form of digestible graphs that are easy to interpret for junior marketers.

The software may seem complex and even overwhelming. However, newcomers get service demos and tutorials for a smooth start. Overall, the interface is user-friendly and approachable.

Marketing agencies, small organizations, publishers

Medium to big e-commerce companies that want an integrated software package with marketing, CRM, customer service, and website hosting all in one.

No free plan, free trial only.

The free trial only allows sending test campaigns to 5 people or less, importing contact lists, and creating customer journeys without sending them

A free plan for 2,000 email sends per month. Available email templates and features are limited. No customer support, only the access to HubSpot Community.

Dynamic, depends on the contact list size and the tariff type:

• Basic: $9–$299/month
• Unlimited: $30–$699/month
• Premier: $158–$989/month

All tariffs are limited to 50000 contacts.

Billed monthly:

• Starter: $20 for up to 1,000 marketing contacts
• Professional: $890 for up to 2,000 marketing contacts (the starting price is $3,890 with a mandatory paid onboarding)
• Enterprise: $3,600 for up to 10,000 marketing contacts (the starting price is $6,000 with a mandatory paid onboarding)

Other pricing features:

• Users are only billed for their “marketing” contacts (actively in use) and can have many more inactive contacts
• Even if a user cancels the subscriptions, they will be billed for the rest of their commitment period duration

An in-app Digital Assistant tool. Support agents around the world are available in the following hours:

• America: Mon to Fri 6 am to 5 pm PST/PDT
• Australia and Asia: Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm AEST/AEDT
• Europe: Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm BST/GMT

Limited support (unspecified working hours) is available on weekends and during holidays. Support phone numbers are only available for Premier users.

Aside from online support, Campaign Monitor offers:

• Video tutorials for newbies and experienced users
• A 30-minute Getting Started course
• Email Academy — an email marketing course
• Resources for developers
• The in-app Help Center with documentation

• Service demo for new users
• Technical support is available on paid plans only
• Access to the HubSpot Community on the Free plan
• Chat and email support on all paid plans
• Phone support only on Professional and Enterprise plans
• Mandatory paid assisted onboarding on Professional and Enterprise plans
• Advanced and Premier additional onboarding options
• Customer training
• Various courses with certifications
• HubSpot user groups

• Supports SMS notifications
• Advanced segmentation — available for Premier users
• Link Review — checks for broken links
• Free email template builder
• Campaign analytics
• CAN-SPAM compliance checker
• Integrations with CRM systems and more

• Email automation
• Dynamic list segmentation based on various criteria
• Email reputation reporting and tracking
• Custom reporting dashboards
• Integrations with popular services
• Drag-and-drop email builder and pre-made templates
• Landing pages
• Live chat with website visitors
• A CRM app for iOS and Android

108 free mobile-friendly templates available without signing up, templates sorted by email types from announcements to transactional.

If you don’t like templates, you can build emails from scratch using blocks in the email builder.

Recently launched their own stock with free images.

Campaign Monitor also has an automated custom template builder where you fill in the questionnaire and get a bunch of email templates with the logo of your business and custom design.

15+ email templates
Only 5 email templates on the free plan

Templates for:

• Welcome messages
• Sales
• Newsletter
• Event invitations
• Announcements
• Ebook emails

• Data for marketing: Salesforce, WordPress, Shopify +
• List growth: Intercom, OptinMonster, Unbounce +
• CRM: Raiser’s Edge NXT, Lexer, Qgiv +
• Advertising: AdRoll, Facebook Lead Ads, Rungopher+

More than 100 integrations are available for CRM, list management, surveys, and more

1,495 integrations including WordPress, Zapier, Canva, Facebook, Salesforce, Shopify, Stripe, and more.

• A web app accessible from phones

• No mobile app

• Website
• A mobile app for iOS and Android to manage the CRM
• Chrome extension for Gmail or G Suite
• Office 365 add-in and desktop add-in for Office 365

• No installable solution.

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The drag-and-drop interface for creating automated email sequences that includes:

• Triggers — subscribers’ actions that start or continue the sequenc
• Yes/No rules for personalization
• Timers — for example, you can send emails 3 or more days after a certain subscriber’s action or the previous email in the sequence

The sequence is visualized like an activity diagram where every element is customizable.

Many pre-built automations (called workflows) triggered by:

• Contacts
• Companies
• Deals
• Tickets (for support purposes)
• Quotes
• Conversations
• Feedback submissions

• Good WYSIWYG email editor interface
• Easy and simple email automation
• Easy-to-understand campaign reports with good infographics

• An all-in-one solution for e-commerce businesses: email marketing, CRM, CMS, and more
• 1,482 integrations
• Thorough onboarding and courses
• A strong global community
• Ability to store many contacts for free

• No live chat support + no 24/7 support
• All of the tariffs are limited to 50000 contacts
• No functional free trial you can actually use for work
• Contact importing is difficult when matching custom fields
• Split testing only allows 2 email versions
• No landing page builder

• Steep prices
• Complicated feature system may cause additional spendings
• Overwhelming amount of functions
• Support isn’t accessible enough
• Email templates aren’t sophisticated