Personalized email marketing, while keeping full control

If you’re managing email across multiple campuses, departments, or locations, you need a reliable email marketing platform that lets teams personalize campaigns while you maintain brand governance. Emma is the email marketing software built for distributed teams across all types of organizations. With smart automation, AI that respects your privacy, and centralized controls, you can scale personalized email campaigns without the complexity.

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By the numbers

Powerful capabilities. Proven results.

Emma combines decades of email expertise with intelligent automation to help brands connect, convert, and grow. From industry-leading deliverability to data-driven AI tools, every number tells a story of performance you can count on.

#1

rated email
services solutions

20+

years of campaign
data powering our AI tools

Millions

of emails
sent daily

99%+

email deliverability
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Built for distributed teams

Multi-location email marketing and multi-department email marketing require teams to communicate effectively while maintaining brand consistency. Emma is the distributed email marketing platform that makes this possible.

Coordinate email campaigns across every location

Emma provides centralized email marketing control for streamlined workflows. Create subaccounts for each department or location with their own contacts and campaigns, connected to your central dashboard. Share approved templates and brand assets from one place. Set up approval workflows so campaigns route through compliance and marketing before they send. Track performance across all accounts for unified visibility.

Product features

Build email campaigns that drive real results

Everything you need to succeed with email lives in Emma—from powerful features and seamless integrations to built-in brand controls—all supported by proven deliverability that helps you reach more inboxes and drive consistent revenue.

Email analytics

It’s easier to improve your emails when you clearly see what’s working. Emma’s analytics help turn campaign data into clear next steps.

Turn data into better emails

Emma’s email analytics drive data-backed decisions you can trust with:

  • Response Dashboard shows who opened, clicked, and converted to reveal engagement trends. 
  • Mailing Score simplifies campaign performance by combining metrics into a benchmark. 
  • Click Map visualizes where recipients engage.

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Built-in tools that act as a second set of eyes

Smart tools help you optimize campaigns and catch problems before you hit send.

Send campaigns with greater confidence

These smart features are built into the platform:

  • Smart Send: Analyze when subscribers typically engage, and automatically schedule delivery to each recipient’s optimal open window.
  • Smart Subject: Run A/B tests automatically. Send subject line variations to a small sample, identify the top performer, and send that winner to everyone else.
  • Smart Recommendations: Catch issues, missing alt text, broken links, or spam trigger words before emails go out.

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Email editor

Creating professional emails shouldn’t require coding expertise or a design team.

Design professional emails that stay on-brand

Emma’s email editor lets teams build campaigns quickly while protecting brand elements.

Intuitive drag-and-drop builder

Our drag-and-drop email editor is intuitive. Add text, images, buttons, and CTAs by dragging them into place. Lock templates to protect brand elements, like logos and fonts, so teams can customize messaging without breaking your visual identity.

Design for mobile and desktop simultaneously

Switch between desktop and mobile views in real time. Emma provides real-time preview and optimization, so you can adjust layouts, reorder content, or hide elements that don’t work on smaller screens to ensure your mobile-responsive email is optimized for how people read on phones.

Marketing automation

The best email marketing platforms combine personalization with automation to make every message personal, relevant, and timely.

Deliver personalized emails throughout the subscriber journey

Set up workflows that trigger based on subscriber actions, such as opening an email, clicking a link, or submitting a form. 

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List segmentation

Successful email marketing starts with sending the right message to the right audience.

Reach the right people with smarter segmentation

Emma’s powerful yet intuitive segment builder makes targeting easy. Create segments based on behavior, demographics, engagement history, or custom data—without complicated setup.

Universities can segment by program interest and enrollment status. Nonprofits can segment by donation frequency and event attendance. Franchises can segment by location and customer preferences. Hotels can segment by booking history and travel patterns. These dynamic segments update automatically.

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Brand controls

Organizations need email brand control tools that make compliance easier to manage.

Safeguard your brand while empowering teams

Brand control email marketing starts with template locking. Manage all your brand assets to ensure everyone uses current logos and approved images. Approval workflows route campaigns through the right reviewers. For institutions managing FedRAMP, FERPA, or HIPAA requirements, Emma’s brand controls provide necessary governance.

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Account and user permissions

Teams with tiered structures need permission systems that reflect how organizations actually work.

Manage permissions and account settings with ease 

Assign user roles that reflect your organization’s structure. Some users can draft campaigns but not send them. Others can approve content but not access subscriber data. Administrators manage settings and control access.

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Built for your ecosystem

Whether you’re connecting a CRM, student information system, or fundraising platform, Emma gives you the flexibility to work with existing tools.

Seamless tech stack connectivity

Emma offers multiple integration options with platforms, like Salesforce and Raiser’s Edge. Our open API lets you build custom connections, and we offer professional services to help you design tailored integrations.

Rave reviews

Hear from Emma customers

The thing I like most about Emma is how easy things are to manage. The UI is laid out in a way that makes it very straightforward to get what you need to do, done.

Trevor A.

Founder, Marketing and Advertising

We are much happier with it in comparison to our formal software Constant Contact – the customer service is just more responsive, and the interface is so easy to use that we are able to have interns use with little direction.

Monica S.

Marketing, Marketing and Advertising

Emma enables us to design email campaigns that consistently reflect our organization’s brand, while also making it simple to switch between different templates tailored to various audiences. The insight dashboards provide valuable analytics, and the builder itself is both intuitive and user-friendly.

Katie M.

Marketing Manager

The best thing about Emma is that it is one of the most influential platforms for marketing and comes with great features. You cannot resist its impeccable ability to boost sales through the best email transactions.

James C.

Digital Marketing Manager

The thing I like most about Emma is how easy things are to manage. The UI is laid out in a way that makes it very straightforward to get what you need to do, done.

Trevor A.

Founder, Marketing and Advertising

We are much happier with it in comparison to our formal software Constant Contact – the customer service is just more responsive, and the interface is so easy to use that we are able to have interns use with little direction.

Monica S.

Marketing, Marketing and Advertising

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Explore resources

Better emails start with the right resources

Discover guides, tips, and proven strategies to help you create emails that connect and convert. Whether you’re refining your design, improving deliverability, or dialing in your timing, these resources are here to help you get more from every send.

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Email marketing FAQs

Discover the answers to common questions we get about email marketing.

Emma works with organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries, from higher education, nonprofits, and franchises to travel, hospitality, and sports & fitness. Whether you’re sending your first campaign or managing email at scale, Emma’s flexible platform and brand controls are built to support teams with complex needs and growing audiences.

Successful email marketing starts with sending the right message to the right audience at the right time. That means building permission-based lists, segmenting your audience, and personalizing your content.

Consistent branding, mobile-friendly design, and clear calls to action also make a big impact. With Emma, you can put these best practices into action using built-in tools for automation, testing, and performance insights, so every campaign performs better than the last.

Emma’s pricing is tailored to your organization’s needs, including your audience size, feature requirements, and level of support. This ensures you get the right tools and flexibility to grow without paying for what you don’t need. We believe in transparent pricing and our plans can be viewed on our pricing page.

To get a personalized quote, connect with our team, we’ll help you find the best fit for your goals.

Yes—Emma is designed to be powerful without being complicated. Our intuitive drag-and-drop editor, pre-built templates, and guided workflows make it easy to create professional emails quickly. At the same time, advanced features like automation, segmentation, and integrations are there when you need them. Plus, our support team is always ready to help you get the most out of every campaign.

Think of it this way: would you rather receive a message that feels like it was written just for you, or one that could’ve been sent to anyone? Your subscribers feel the same way.

When your emails reflect what someone cares about—products they’ve browsed or where they are in their relationship with your organization—they’re far more likely to take action.  

Personalization involves more than adding someone’s first name in the subject line. The best approach to email personalization let’s you do three things: segment your audience based on real behavior, tailor content to match their interests, and time messages correctly. Emma makes personalization doable with dynamic segments that update automatically, workflows that respond when subscribers take (or don’t take) certain actions, and integrations that pull in your CRM data.

You’ve probably experienced this: someone signs up for your list, and by the time your team sends the welcome email, that new contact’s initial excitement has faded. Automation helps eliminate that time gap, keeping momentum going. Instead of waiting for manual follow-ups, automated workflows respond instantly. 

This timing matters because you’re reaching people when their interest is highest. Beyond the numbers, automation gives your team breathing room. Once built, workflows run independently. 

Connect automations with your existing tools so that workflows can trigger based on actions outside the inbox, like form submissions or purchases.

Some subscribers open emails on their phones first. If your email requires pinching, zooming, or sideways scrolling, they’ll probably abandon your message. Mobile-friendly design removes that friction. Single-column layouts, readable text, buttons big enough to tap—these details make the difference. Emma’s editor lets you see your email marketing campaign on mobile and desktop at the same time, so you can adjust as you build.

The most effective campaigns start with a clear goal and a specific audience. Rather than sending the same message to everyone, successful campaigns speak to segments based on where people are in their relationship to your organization, or what actions they’ve taken.

In email campaigns, consistent branding, compelling subject lines, and mobile-friendly design are all important. But relevance matters most. Does this email give your recipient something they actually need right now?

Emma helps you bring these pieces together:

  • Segmentation informs your automation.
  • Analytics show you what’s working. 
  • Integrations bring in data from your CRM and other tools your team uses.

When your platform supports the full cycle—planning, sending, and measuring—you get better with each campaign.

Email is impactful across industries, but it’s especially valuable for organizations that are managing multiple locations, teams, or audiences with different needs.

Just to name a few: Higher education teams reach prospective students, current students, alumni, and donors. Nonprofits build donor relationships and coordinate campaigns across chapters. Franchises like fitness studios maintain brand consistency while letting locations personalize for their communities.

What these organizations have in common is that they need platforms built for their reality—tiered account structures, approval workflows, and integrations with specialized systems. Emma is built for these environments, giving you the governance you need without slowing teams down.

See Emma in action

If you’re juggling multiple departments or locations, Emma gives you the governance tools and flexibility to work quickly while staying on brand.

Schedule a demo to learn more today.