I bought a lifetime subscription.
I bought a lifetime subscription with Zagomail because my list was growing and I couldn't afford the monthly amounts of most email marketing sites. I was skeptical... and a little nervous, but here's what I found:
The pros:
It's very powerful. It does as much as Mailchimp and Mailerlite, for the most part. Aside from missing the ability to give a file through a link (which is something I'd like), I'm thrilled with all it does.
Individual lists. I found Mailchimp seemed to be limited in its ability to split everything up into lists (Mailerlite, I believe does it just fine), but Zagomail does this naturally. This works great for me since I'm an author with two different types of books (children's books and YA/Adult books). The lists were huge for me.
The HTML editor. It's definitely a little trickier to work with than Mailchimp, but about the same as Mailerlite, but it's really great! I love it and the more I use it and get familiar with it, the easier it is!
Forms and Automations. This is just amazing. I'm thrilled with the way it flows and more.
Sending of the emails. I probably would have put this in the "cons" category when I first sent my email out (actually briefly considered cancelling my purchase over this one), but it's turned out, I think, to be a great process! So, they approve your first email because they don't want to be supporting spam (that I get), and this took a few days, which annoyed me, but then when it went out, I was frustrated because no one seemed to be opening my emails or receiving them. It looks like when they send it out they send it out in packets or groups of emails (20-50 at a time... I'm guessing). This made for a slow launch for that first email, but resulted in a higher open rate than anything I'd sent through mailerlite and mailchimp! Pretty cool!
Help desk. Their help desk is typically really easy to get a hold of, and that's been great!
Cons:
Setup. I do find a lot of the initial setup to be a bit confusing and more complicated than I would like, but I've found the customer support to be quick and helpful. For instance, validating my site and email was quite tricky (my site's through Bluehost). I also found the landing pages to be a bit tricky to get them working, but then I combined them with the embedded forms option and I like the process a LOT!
3 February 2024
Unprompted review