Cool Tabs vs. ShortStack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cool Tabs
Score 9.7 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
ShortStack
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
ShortStack is a landing page creation and contesting solution built around features such as social marketing campaigns, robust third-party integrations, and custom design services.
$99
per month
Pricing
Cool TabsShortStack
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
BUSINESS
$99
per month
AGENCY
$249
per month
BRAND
$499
per month
ENTERPRISE
Contact Sales
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cool TabsShortStack
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Cool TabsShortStack
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(14 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cool TabsShortStack
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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Pancake Laboratories Inc. (Shortstack)
I love ShortStack's customer support. For the most part, they are available immediately through chat and respond to email inquiries within a very reasonable timeframe. As a longtime customer, they have accommodated my needs. Their platform is set up for all users - whether you are not very tech-savvy or an IT person, you can find ways to utilize your skills.
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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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Pancake Laboratories Inc. (Shortstack)
  • Easily select Facebook Comment Content entries
  • Create custom contest landing pages with ease
  • Customer support team is very friendly and helps out
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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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Pancake Laboratories Inc. (Shortstack)
  • No API integration for email collection in real-time to major ESPs such as Responsys.
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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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Pancake Laboratories Inc. (Shortstack)
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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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Pancake Laboratories Inc. (Shortstack)
They’re similar, but not the same type of product. Both offer great flexibility for a business.
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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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Pancake Laboratories Inc. (Shortstack)
  • Fan engagement increase
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ScreenShots

Cool Tabs Screenshots

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