Mailchimp
DealThe best-known email marketing platform — campaigns, automations, and a marketing CRM for small business.

Drag-and-drop email builder with extensive templates
Customer Journeys: multi-step, branching automations
Segmentation, tags, and predictive audience analytics
Landing pages, signup forms, and marketing CRM
AI-assisted copy, subject lines, and send-time optimization
- Small-business newsletters and promotional campaigns
- E-commerce automation: welcome, abandoned cart, win-back
- Centralizing customer data for segmented sends
- Quick landing pages and forms for list growth
- 1Sign up free and import or grow your contact list
- 2Design a campaign with the drag-and-drop builder
- 3Set up automated journeys for onboarding or carts
- 4Track opens, clicks, and revenue per campaign
Is Mailchimp free?
Yes, for small lists: the free plan covers up to 500 contacts and 1,000 sends/month with basic features. Paid plans start around $13/month and scale by contact count.
Is Mailchimp good for e-commerce?
It's solid for general e-commerce email with Shopify/WooCommerce integrations and cart automations, though stores wanting deep behavioral flows often graduate to Klaviyo.
Why do people switch away from Mailchimp?
Mostly price-at-scale and automation limits: contact-based billing grows quickly, and power users hit ceilings in segmentation and flow logic that specialist platforms exceed.
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