Before choosing Mailchimp, we looked at a few other options, including

• Constant Contact which in 2012 only did a free account up to 100 fans
• Campaign Monitor which only had a free demo; and
• Aweber which was paid-for from the start.

We chose Mailchimp not only on features, but the capacity to have up to 12000 email per month to 2000 subscribers on the free account too. It's great for a business starting out.

This choice was driven by integration requirements requiring no technical assistance and involved migrating from another solution so no.

• Constant Contact
• Vertical Response
• Predictive Response -- as soon as they launch their RSS campaign feature, we'll seriously consider switching

No other options were evaluated.

We have not considered switching but as I mentioned we do occasionally use ConstantContact for clients. Every time we do we feel validated that MailChimp is the way to go!

Sure, from stand alone bulk email systems through the more commercial products like Constant Contact and Vertical Response. Each has their pros and I recommend all three, but I tend to recommend and use MailChimp more due to the ease of use for the client. When it's so easy for anyone in the office to use it makes managing and running campaigns that much easier.

I spoke with other authors who use Aweber programs and found out they were paying for elements that MailChimp already offered for free. I did not evaluate it personally and I have only ever sent out campaigns with MailChimp.

We also looked at Constant Contact.

Before choosing this product, we evaluated other options, but I don’t remember which ones.

We looked at the full spectrum from small to big solutions and decided MailChimp was perfect for our needs at this stage as a startup.

No, this product (Mailchimp) was the best option we found.

INInbox, SendinBlue.

We also looked at Campaign Monitor.

No. And it was not the case, after discovering what Mailchimp can do and how it does it.

Constant Contact is the only one I remember discussing.

No other options were looked at.

We did not evaluate other options.

I have tried Yesware and Smartnote.