If you're looking for basic email marketing services at reasonable rates, Constant Contact is definitely one of the options to consider. Especially with their free 60-day trial with no credit card required. You have nothing to lose!

• Free 60-day trial.
• Online poll and survey creation.
• 97-percent deliverability rating.

In all honesty, we'd have liked the features from the account management section to be easier to navigate, but the tutorials and guide offered by the site do make up for it somewhat. What they don't make up for is the fact that Constant Contact does not include its survey tool with its emailing marketing plan – it's a separate product and you can only have access to one free trial.

Overall, we'd have liked to see more features included with Constant Contact, but if you're just looking for a program that will allow you to manage your email campaigns and track the emails you send, this might be a very good option. They earn 5.0 Stars!

If you're a big business needing to send a single monthly advertisement to 50,000+ subscribers, this might be a great service to try out. Otherwise there are more affordable, user-friendly, feature-rich email marketing services available.

• 30-day free trial.
• Free webinars.
• Online tour available.

Big-name companies use StreamSend, and we do understand why – to a point. The helpful webinars, dedicated IP address and integration with Google Analytics do have some appeal. For the average Joe, however, they just don't outweigh the cost – not to mention the lack of a user-friendly website or intuitive interface.

If you don't mind paying per email, by all means give StreamSend's free trial a run. If, however, you need an unlimited messaging, monthly subscription email marketing service, you need to look elsewhere. They earn 5.0 Stars!

Is Vertical Response the best email marketing service on the Web? Probably not. In fact, unless you only send one email a month to a list of 500 subscribers or less, it's probably not going to be a good option for your email marketing needs. If, however, you do fit into that criteria you'll find that Vertical Response offers you the same tool as the monthly-subscription sites for a little bit less.

• VR Gadget for Google.
• Advanced list management.
• Free 25-email trial.

The reason we ran into problems accepting the Vertical Response business model is because they charge per email sent. While the competitors charge less than $20 to send unlimited emails to a set number of contacts, Vertical Response makes you pay for each and every email sent.

How much do they make you pay? Take the number of emails you're sending and multiply it by the number of contacts on your list. Then multiply that number by the Vertical Response price. If you have a substantial list of contacts or send out multiple messages a month, this service is really going to cost you.

That being said, while we feel that Vertical Response definitely has its place in the email marketing world, it probably won't fill the needs of the majority of our readers. Vertical Response earns 5.0 Stars!

The Bronto logo reminded us of that cute little gas station dinosaur some of us are so familiar with, but it left us feeling the way today's gas prices tend to do – a bit sick to our stomachs with sticker shock.

• Free trial available.
• Conversion tracking.
• Three different editions to choose from.

First of all, Bronto doesn't offer a monthly payment option. It's an "all or nothing" thing. You pay the entire year up front and the cheapest plan starts out at just under a cool grand. Daddy Warbucks, we found your email marketing service for you. Everyone else? Well, the prices speak for themselves.

Add that to the fact that Bronto's service team went to salesmen boot camp and the free trial requires the call of a sales rep before you can even get signed up and Bronto quickly becomes our least favorite of the email marketing services we reviewed.

Are they totally worthless? No. If you're a professional marketing agency this company does have some solutions they can tailor to your needs. For the rest of us, we'll be going elsewhere. We give them 4.5 Stars!