Looking for a tool adjusted to your outbound strategy? Check out our comparison and see why Woodpecker is the best Mailshake alternative for cold emailing.
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While Mailshake offers features for various online channels, Woodpecker was designed specifically for cold emailing. This focus helped us develop features that optimize your cold outreach efforts.
Woodpecker allows you to maximize open rates using A/B testing, sending follow-ups in the same thread and adding manual tasks (“call John”, “text Anna”, etc.) in between campaigns.
Unlike Mailshake, Woodpecker has a number of features that maximize deliverability right from the start. Its built-in email verification and validation system prevents unnecessary bounces, so you don’t have to worry about your domain reputation.
Remember – cold emailing needs high deliverability and any tool that doesn’t focus on that will not deliver the results you expect.
Warming up emails is a very important process that helps you achieve top deliverability rates. Warm-up helps with this and is available for all Woodpecker users. It’s at least 5x cheaper than other warm-up tools.
Track your deliverability with Woodpecker and spot any issues before they happen so you can prevent them. No other cold email tool on the market allows you to do this.
With Mailshake, you have no idea if certain issues are preventing your mails from landing in recipient inboxes or not. Maybe they were delivered, maybe they weren’t…
Is that what you want to pay for?
With Woodpecker your deliverability is protected 24/7. Bounce Shield adjusts your sending frequency so you can be sure you won’t get blocked by your email provider for exceeding the sending limits.
You can rest easy knowing that Woodpecker is doing everything possible to make sure you connect with your prospects and start conversations that convert.
Woodpecker’s If-campaigns allow you to send diverse follow-ups triggered by your prospect’s behavior. With A/B tests, you may create up to 5 versions of an email and check which works best for your prospects.
Woodpecker performs the analytics for you by generating comprehensive performance reports after each campaign. With the data in place, you can easily optimize your efforts.
You can configure ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ paths for each campaign. Woodpecker will choose which one to follow depending on whether (or how many times) your prospect opened the email, replied to it or clicked on a link.
With the built-in A/B testing feature, you can experiment with your emails until you reach the best-performing copy and subject line. Create up to 5 different versions of your message (both opener and follow-ups) and put them to the test.
We prioritize easy integrations with the tools you already use.. You can integrate Woodpecker with all major CRMs, prospecting tools and other common sales software and easily analyze all your efforts.
Getting nice shiny toys for your marketing toolbox only makes sense if they all work together!
We give you 7 days to test all Woodpecker features except Warm-up & Recovery.
With our flexible pricing, you pay only for prospects stored and contacted within your account. Start from just $25 a month (based on annual rate) and add extra modules on demand as your business grows.
Mailshake offers fixed pricing with plans starting from $44 a month per seat (annual charging).
Bottom line – more features, more functionality and better results with Woodpecker.
More costs with Mailshake.
Brittany Joiner Causely.com
Marek Tyniec Marketing Specialist at Xfive
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| Automated emails | |||
| A/B tests | |||
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| Follow-ups in one thread | |||
| Built-in email validation | |||
| Timezone detection | |||
| Deliverability | |||
| Warm-up & Recovery (not available for Google accounts) | FREE | ||
| Bounce Shield | |||
| Deliverability Monitor | |||
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| HubSpot | |||
| Pipedrive | |||
| Close | |||
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| SendGrid | |||
| Mailgun | |||
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| Microsoft 365 | |||
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| Hunter | |||
| Bouncer | |||
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| PieSync | |||
| Zapier | |||
| LeadsBridge | |||
| Integromat | |||
| InvoiceBerry | |||
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No more unnecessary errors. Woodpecker notifies you about non-existing email addresses, duplicate contacts, and missing custom fields. Preview your messages before sending them and blacklist selected domains to avoid mistakes.
Woodpecker supports data-driven marketing. It tracks your open rates, click-through rates, reply rates, and bounce rates. Once a prospect responds, you may mark the reply according to its sentiment to know what impact you’re making.
Coordinate your team’s work and achieve better results. With Woodpecker, your teammates see all their clients’ campaigns in a single dashboard and turn them on/off with a single click. They may switch to another client without logging out.