About Constant Contact
Constant Contact is a commercial email marketing service aimed at small businesses, nonprofits and local organizations. Users build newsletters and promotional emails from templates, manage subscriber lists and send campaigns through a web interface.
Beyond email, the tool offers event management and online surveys, which let organizations promote events, collect registrations and gather feedback from the same contact list. It also provides reporting on opens and clicks, plus basic automation and social posting. Constant Contact is a hosted service and is positioned as approachable for people without a marketing technology background.
Key features
- Email templates and drag-and-drop design
- Subscriber list management
- Event promotion and registration
- Online surveys and polls
- Reporting on opens and clicks
Good fit for
- →Small business newsletters
- →Promoting events and collecting RSVPs
- Tags
- email-marketing
- newsletters
- small-business
- events
- surveys
- list-management
- campaigns
Constant Contact: questions and answers
- What is Constant Contact used for?
- Constant Contact is an email campaign tool for small businesses, with templates, list management and event and survey features. It is a good fit for small business newsletters, and promoting events and collecting RSVPs.
- How much does Constant Contact cost?
- Constant Contact is a paid product with no free plan.
- Is Constant Contact open source?
- No. Constant Contact is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Constant Contact include Listmonk, Mautic and phpList.
- What are some alternatives to Constant Contact?
- Constant Contact competes with Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor and AWeber. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Constant Contact alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Constant Contact
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Listmonk
Email Marketing
High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 24k
Mautic
Email Marketing
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
OSSvs HubSpot★ 11k
phpList
Email Marketing
Fully functional Open Source email marketing manager for creating, sending, integrating, a
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 874
BillionMail
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BillionMail gives you open-source MailServer, NewsLetter, Email Marketing — fully self-ho
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 16k
Notifuse
Email Marketing
Open-source, self-hosted newsletter, email marketing and transactional email platform. Vis
OSSvs Mailchimp★ 2.2k
Mailtrain
Email Marketing
Self hosted newsletter app
GPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 5.8k
SaaS alternatives to Constant Contact
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Mailchimp
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Mailchimp is an email and SMS marketing platform with automations, templates, AI tools, audience management and reporting for small and mid-size businesses.
SaaS
Campaign Monitor
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Email design and sending platform for marketers and agencies
SaaS
AWeber
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Email marketing and newsletter tool with automation and landing pages
SaaS
Brevo
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Email, SMS and marketing automation platform formerly known as Sendinblue
SaaS
GetResponse
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Email marketing platform with automation, webinars and landing pages
SaaS
MailerLite
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Email newsletter and automation tool with a drag-and-drop editor
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