
How Businesses Can Invest in Email Marketing
Email marketing is an affordable, effective tool for organizations to reach a target market.

Email marketing is an affordable, effective tool for organizations to reach a target market.

The email marketing platform decision for small businesses in 2022 segments into roughly six options \u2014 Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Klaviyo, ConvertKit, Beehiiv, and HubSpot \u2014 each with a different fit for a different business type.

Mailchimp serves 400,000 businesses and was acquired by Intuit in 2021 for $12B. The 2026 operating model: single master audience, automation-first revenue, privacy-aware measurement, source-specific welcome sequences, and the configuration choices that produce wasted spend.

Most small businesses get email wrong on the first decision — they wait. Send first, build the list while sending. Email contacts age fast; small engaged lists beat large stale ones on every metric that matters.