iContact Review  

iContact Review- Facts, Company Profile, Product Description, Benefits, Drawbacks, Customer Comments and Personal Review  

Facts & Company Profile 

iContact ® is an email marketing and survey service company.  Ryan P. M. Allis is the CEO and the company is based out of Durham, North Carolina.  They have almost 50,000 customers and promotes its service options through the website, icontact.com.

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Product Description 

iContact ® offers an email marketing and survey application service.  This helps customers track email newsletters, surveys and more.  They offer a number of services including automated subscription management which allows people to unsubscribe through no effort on your part, bounce back handling automatically handles bounced messages, forward to a friend allows you to get new subscribers by automatically allowing current subscribers to add other subscribers to the list, and list segmentation allows you to send different messages to different subscribers. 

Beyond those features, you are given more than 300 message templates to choose from, a WYSIWYG editor, Mail-merge personalization, survey tools and a multi message autoresponder. 

i Contact’s price system is scaled based on the number of contacts beginning at $9.95 for up to 205 contacts all the way up to 100,000 contacts at $699.00.   

Benefits 

• Automated subscription management is a nice touch in helping reduce work for customers. 
• Scalable pricing based on the number of contacts with good pricing that functions very well for larger email groups. 

Drawbacks 

• Some competitors provide more information in terms of tracking and data that can be gathered. 

Customer Comments 

Here, are some snippets of comments made by actual customers of this service: 

“I use iContact and find it excellent.”  Actual User Miva Merchant Forum 

“iContact has an autoresponder…iContact is more economically priced!”  Actual User Virtual Assistant Forum 

“…iContact is more suited for email blasts…Constant Contact is more suited for tracking your emails…”  Actual User Choose What Forum 

“They are very fast to disable your account… And yes, the list was super-duper awesomely clean… So beware of iContact, they will pull the ban button quickly and you'll lose money if you pre-pay… In all fairness… I was very happy with iContact's deliverability, stats and backend system.”  Actual User Sitepoint Forum 

Personal Review 

i Contact ® provides a solid service that many customers have found to be very helpful to their business.  A number of people will look at this service and also look at other top services like Constant Contact.  We personally prefer Constant Contact more than iContact ®, but recognize that opinions vary on this issue.  If you would like to visit the iContact ® website, you can do so at this link: www.icontact.com. 

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