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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cool Tabs

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Cool Tabs is a social media marketing platform that is designed to help users increase their online audience and get qualified leads by creating simple interactive content for apps, social networks, microsites, mobile devices and websites. Users have more than twenty different types of dynamics to choose from: Paths (Choose Your Own Adventure), Trivia, Personality Tests, Instant Win, sweepstakes, competitions, coupon codes, and more. Cool Tabs enables users to create interactive content…

    $49

    Per User per Month

    Meta Business Suite

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
    Pricing
    Cool TabsMeta Business Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Stone
    $49
    Per User per Month
    Gold
    $199
    Per User per Month
    Diamond
    $399
    Per User per Month
    Diamond with Unlimited Campaigns
    $499
    Per User per Month
    Diamond with Paths
    $499
    User per Month
    Diamond with Paths and Unlimited Campaigns
    $699
    User per Month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cool TabsMeta Business Suite
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cool TabsMeta Business Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Cool Tabs
    Chose Cool Tabs
    We have gone to Cool-Tabs after testing the Hootsuite monitoring. We were not entirely satisfied with the amount and type of information we obtained. With Cool-Tabs we trawled better on Twitter and Instagram hashtags and we can easily identify influencers.

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    Chose Cool Tabs
    It gives me better results in competitions.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    65%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    Cool TabsMeta Business Suite
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    6.6
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.510 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings6.810 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings6.312 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.212 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings6.310 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.1
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.4
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.614 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.212 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Twitter00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings8.812 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings8.413 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Cool Tabs and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.113 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cool TabsMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    7.3
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    6.7
    (17 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cool TabsMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cool Tabs
    In general, it works as some kind of manual on how the particular baseline of your social networks can be improved, and it provides the right assessment at the same time so that I can analyze my data based on my results. Also, they count on excellent technical assistance. Earlier it was hard to go search hashtags on my Instagram but after using this I can get more deep analytics, geotag research, and profile analytics to get great information about the keywords I want to know about. The pricing is great, as well as the support team which replies very quickly.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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    Pros
    Cool Tabs
    • It provides a wide range of settings options to your social media promotions.
    • Is easy to use for developing and managing promotions.
    • It offers an very complete tool to extract information about your promotions.
    • The support service is highly advisable: fast and adequate to satisfy users' needs.
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    • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
    • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
    • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
    • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
    • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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    Cons
    Cool Tabs
    • Interface is a bit difficult.
    • Management if the tool is not intuitive.
    • More filters for analyzing would be great specifically in the demographics region.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
    • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
    • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cool Tabs
    I have a good relationship with the customer service and I love to help them to promote their service.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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    Usability
    Cool Tabs
    Because it lacks customization options for its aesthetics. We did a specific adaptation for registering entries and participants, and it worked perfectly. It's a very comprehensive tool for launching viral campaigns for all types of businesses. We will continue working on campaigns in collaboration with Cool Tabs. Porque le falta capacidad de personalización de la estética.En su momento, hicimos una adaptación concreta para el registro de participaciones y participantes y sale todo genial. Es una herramienta muy completa para lanzar campañas virales para todo tipo de empresas. Seguiremos trabajando las campañas en colaboración con Cool Tabs.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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    Performance
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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    Support Rating
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cool Tabs
    Easypromos is one of the best tools you can use to run your contests. The application allows you to create contests for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.You can choose the objective of your campaign, whether it is to increase followers, improve your brand awareness, etc., and you can run various types of promotional initiatives, including giveaways, games, and quizzes.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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    Scalability
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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    Return on Investment
    Cool Tabs
    • Cool Tabs allows us to tweak our social media pages to suit the customers' interaction.
    • When the customer is engaged, they are more likely to share and or inquire about what we do.
    • Since we have been using this, we have had a 10% increase in customer engagement, which in return, helps us deliver quality information.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
    • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
    • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Page Performance DashboardScreenshot of Stats DashboardScreenshot of Instagram hashtag analysis: top potential contributorsScreenshot of Instagram hashtag analysis: words analysisScreenshot of Twitter Hashtag Analysis: Main StatsScreenshot of Campaign Stats Dashboard