Flodesk is the email marketing platform that looks like it was designed by someone who actually enjoys aesthetic Pinterest boards. While Mailchimp’s editor feels like a utility bill and ActiveCampaign’s dashboard resembles a flight control panel, Flodesk’s templates are genuinely stunning — the kind of emails that make subscribers think you hired a designer. For … Read more
ActiveCampaign is the email marketing platform you graduate to when simpler tools start feeling too basic. If MailerLite is a reliable sedan and Kit is a sleek van for creators, ActiveCampaign is a heavy-duty industrial excavator — built to move massive amounts of data, automate complex sales cycles, and sit at the center of your … Read more
MailerLite is the email marketing platform that does the one thing most competitors refuse to do: it gives you real features at an honest price. While Mailchimp charges you for contacts who unsubscribed in 2022 and Kit asks $33/month for 1,000 subscribers, MailerLite starts at $10/month for the same list size — with unlimited emails, … Read more
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is the email marketing platform built from the ground up for creators — not big businesses, not e-commerce stores, not enterprise marketing teams. If you’re a blogger, podcaster, course creator, author, YouTuber, or newsletter writer who makes money by growing an audience around content, Kit was designed for the way you work. … Read more
Mailchimp is the most recognized name in email marketing. It’s also become one of the most talked-about platforms for all the wrong reasons. The tool that once gave away 2,000 free contacts and became the default choice for every startup has spent the years since its 2021 Intuit acquisition in a systematic “de-generous-ing” of its … Read more
If you’ve spent five minutes in the creator economy recently, you’ve heard about Beehiiv. It’s the platform built by the team behind Morning Brew’s infrastructure, and it’s positioned itself as the anti-Substack — a tool made for creators who want to truly own their audience and keep more of their revenue. The pitch sounds great … Read more
Here’s a question that will save you hours of research and probably a few headaches: Are you a creator, or are you running a business? Because Kit (the platform formerly known as ConvertKit) and Mailchimp were built for two very different people. Pick the wrong one and you’ll either be paying for features you’ll never … Read more
Email marketing in 2026 has a dark side. Most platforms operate on a “Success Tax” model: the more people actually want to hear from you, the more the platform punishes your wallet. We dug into the top providers to find the real story. We looked for the “hidden ghosts” (charges for inactive subscribers), the “AI … Read more