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Integrating your email marketing platform with your CRM is a marketing game-changer. Nutshell’s Email marketing stands above Mailchimp for its:
Mailchimp is an email marketing platform that’s been around since 2001 and offers automation, email templates, reporting, and other features.
Nutshell’s Email marketing tool is an integrated feature of Nutshell, the all-in-one CRM designed to help businesses close more deals. Email marketing connects seamlessly to your CRM data to help you connect with customers at every stage of the funnel.
Nutshell’s Email marketing includes essential features like:
Whether you’re an email marketing newbie or a professional, Mailchimp is likely on your radar. But Mailchimp comes without sales integration, imposes audience limits, and has sneaky overage costs and strict seat limitations.
Nutshell’s Email marketing is the best Mailchimp alternative that offers a one-stop shop for your customer relationship management, sales, and email marketing operations. Nutshell’s Email marketing provides:
Take a look at these email marketing platforms side by side to see for yourself why Nutshell’s Email marketing comes out on top.
Nutshell, we realize that getting your entire marketing team onto your email marketing platform is essential for optimizing your efforts and improving collaboration. But with Mailchimp, every plan except Premium includes strict seat limits. Plus, your marketing and sales contacts remain separated—which can cause headaches for your team and slash your marketing effectiveness.
While Mailchimp imposes a user limit, Nutshell’s Email marketing is included in the Nutshell Marketing Foundation plan, which comes free with every Nutshell Sales subscription. So you can give everyone in your CRM access to the marketing data and tools that will improve decision-making and show you the big picture of how your sales and marketing efforts work together.
Want to send a welcome series to your new customers, follow up with webinar attendees, and reach out to clients you’re hoping to upsell? Mailchimp makes you pay for a higher plan if you want to create more marketing audiences.
We won’t stop you at one, three, or five audiences like Mailchimp—add as many audiences as you want to make sure you’re sending the right messages to the right people. And because Email marketing is built into Nutshell CRM, it’s easy to use filters and tags to create laser-focused audiences out of your CRM contacts.
Features like email drip campaigns, advanced audience segmentation, an AI writing assistant, custom-coded templates and comparative reports are essential tools in a marketer’s toolkit—and give your team tools for streamlining your workflows. But Mailchimp reserves some of these features for customers on higher tiers.
Unlike Mailchimp customers, all Nutshell’s Email marketing customers have access to these essential marketing features—whether you’re paying for 100 contacts or 1 million. Essential features like drip campaigns, comparative reporting, and advanced audience segmentation help you optimize your email campaigns, while Nutshell’s AI writing assistant help your team save time and accomplish more.
The Marketing Foundation plan gets your team essential email marketing features, so you can start sending professional, branded email broadcasts, newsletters, and drip sequences to your CRM contacts, tracking campaign engagement, and giving your whole team insight into how your email campaigns are helping move the needle and strengthen relationships.
And since the Marketing Foundation plan is included for free with every Nutshell Sales subscription, paying for your CRM automatically unlocks these marketing features that put your company on the path to understanding and reaching your contacts better.
The Nutshell Marketing Foundation plan includes essential marketing features, like:
The Marketing Foundation plan also gets you a suite of additional marketing features to support and optimize your marketing efforts, including:
By upgrading to the Marketing Pro plan, you also get this email marketing feature:
Plus these additional marketing capabilities:
Nutshell’s Email marketing vs the 4 tiers of Mailchimp (updated April 2025)
Nutshell’s Email marketing is part of the Nutshell Marketing Foundation plan, available for free with every Nutshell Sales subscription, which starts at just $13 per user per month. Upgrade to Marketing Pro for $49 per month to get additional features like email A/B testing, SMS campaigns, advanced marketing reporting, and more.
Some Email marketing features are only available on the Marketing Pro plan. We’ll highlight those features in the table below.
Nutshell’s Email marketing is available on the Marketing Foundation plan, which comes free with every Nutshell Sales subscription. Mailchimp has 4 plans to filter through.
Email marketing is included in the Marketing Foundation plan, which comes with every Nutshell Sales subscription at no extra cost. Pricing for contacts may apply.
How many logins your email marketing provider allows for in the plan. Three seats are included automatically on the Marketing Foundation plan, and 10 on the Marketing Pro plan.
Some email providers will impose a limit of how many contacts you can have in your plan—Nutshell doesn’t.
Audiences are essential to any email marketing strategy. The more audiences you have the better your ability to segment your lists of contacts to get the right message to the right person. If you have a diverse customer/contact list, anything under 5 is worrisome.
Nutshell’s Email marketing is in the same platform as our world-famous CRM, so you can see how your email marketing turns into real business opportunities. And an integration (and another invoice) isn’t needed!
Since Nutshell’s pricing is based on your total number of contacts, you can always calculate what your monthly costs are going to be. Mailchimp has multiple levels of overages for all except their free plan.
Most email marketing providers will have a limit on how many emails you can send through the platform over a month. For Nutshell, you can send 8 times as many emails than you have contacts. 500 contacts would mean a limit of 4,000 emails/month.
All Email marketing customers can trigger automated multi-email drip sequences based on whatever criteria you choose.
Validates outbound email with DMARC, SPF, DKIM and other technologies to ensure they reach your audience.
These are important to know more about the people your sending emails to. With Nutshell being a CRM, you’re all set to use your customer data in Email marketing!
You can use Tags to quickly group contacts together to create an Audience. An example would be if you wanted to reach out to everyone who attended a specific trade show. Add the tag “August 2023 Trade Show” and you can easily find every contact with that tag right in Nutshell.
If you’re not a designer or not comfortable with code, you need this feature from an email marketing platform.
Use a pre-built template and swap in your company’s branding.
Feel comfortable coding your email and you like exact specifications? Then you want this feature.
Some email providers will force you to add their logo to your emails unless you are over a certain monthly spend—not Nutshell’s Email marketing tool.
The ability to harness the power of AI to help you write your email content.
The Nutshell Landing Pages add-on empowers your team to create custom landing pages to engage visitors and generate conversions. Plus, Landing Pages syncs with Nutshell Forms and Nutshell Scheduler, so you can seamlessly collect visitor information, schedule meetings, and access all that data from your CRM.
Easily set up custom domains in Nutshell to improve email deliverability and enhance brand recognition.
Most email marketing providers will offer reporting on deliverability, open rate, click rate and click tracking. Nutshell can also notify a specific team member in your CRM if a certain link is clicked!
These allow you to compare statistics from the same campaign over time. For Nutshell, we offer this type of reporting for your Newsletters.
The Marketing Pro plan offers A/B testing, where you can test email subject lines, preview text, content, and design—plus control how Nutshell tests the success of your campaigns.
Not only does Email marketing offer click-tracking, but you can even get notified when someone clicks on the link, giving you up-to-the-minute insight into subscriber engagement.
With the Marketing Pro plan, you can see individual recipients who clicked the links you’ve added to your marketing emails, so you can better gauge your audience’s interest.
Allows you to choose a later time or date to send out a marketing email.
Support articles and videos to help you set yourself up.
Create a ticket through a support email.
Speak to a real human during business hours: Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm EST.
Nutshell does offer free scheduled phone support to any customer on our Sales Enterprise tier.
Integrating your email marketing tool with your CRM unlocks even better marketing results. With all your CRM data at your fingertips, you can analyze your customers’ preferences, create email marketing audiences, and automate campaigns to reach your customers.
You can also track email engagement like opens, clicks, and conversions, giving you insight you can use to make a sale.
Finally, integrating your CRM with your email marketing platform allows you to segment your contacts based on factors like how long they’ve been a customer, purchase history, and demographics to send highly targeted emails that drive conversions.
When it comes to sending well-crafted, persuasive messages to your contacts at the right time to turn subscribers into sales, Nutshell’s Email marketing is the email marketing tool your team needs.
With all-in-one email marketing and CRM functionality, unlimited marketing audiences, essential features like email drip sequences and click notifications on every plan, and inclusion on every Nutshell Sales plan, Nutshell’s Email marketing can help your business level up its outreach and drive higher revenue.
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