Cool Tabs vs. Social Mention

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cool Tabs
Score 8.5 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
Social Mention
Score 1.0 out of 10
N/A
Social Mention is a free tool which is a kind of Google search for the social web. It provides basic search and alerts across a very broad variety of social channels.N/A
Pricing
Cool TabsSocial Mention
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cool TabsSocial Mention
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cool TabsSocial Mention
Considered Both Products
Cool Tabs
Chose Cool Tabs
At the time, we made 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.

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Chose Cool Tabs
Although both of them are great at their own levels, I like Cools Tabs more because it is very easy to use and very simple. I use it all the time to check up on the standard of my work and it has never let me down. Also their support team is very cooperative.
Chose 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 …
Chose Cool Tabs
MailChimp had more features with email, but we already had an email service provider. It helped us lower the cost greatly. With companies that don't have an ESP, maybe MailChimp would work out, but if there already is one, I don't think there is a need. Also, conversation …
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.

Chose Cool Tabs
We selected Cool Tabs because of the flexible interface and the settings options that it offers for social media promotions, but most importantly we have realised that its strength is also the fantastic support service.
Chose Cool Tabs
It allows you to purchase the application for a single use, and you do not need to pay per month. It is ideal if you do promotions during different months.
Chose Cool Tabs
Cool Tabs offers better customer service.
Chose Cool Tabs
Some friends recommended Cool Tabs to me, so I have not tried other similar products.
Social Mention
Chose Social Mention
This is the first one I try. Doesn't work at all.
Chose Social Mention
Social Mention stacks up against these as Social Mention is more reliable for data than others. it provides really nice statistics of reach, influence, sentiment and helps find brand's influences. It is quick and offers a great snapshot of the volume of your Tweets & Twitter …
Chose Social Mention
Hootsuite is very slow as compare to Social Mention, and has less features and updates. Social mention helps you track Tweets and comments quickly. There is good support from the Mention team, and a simple interface that is easy to use. We like the Social Sentiment Analysis of …
Chose Social Mention
Topsy can help users to analyze and search tweets. It is only twitter based whereas Social Mention is based on a lot of social media panels. Users can look for videos, pictures, status, tweets using Social Mention. Social Mention offers a lot more options than Topsy like …
Chose Social Mention
I've also used GroupHigh to evaluate blogs - I like this tool because it gives me exact numbers on impressions and Twitter and Facebook followers. I can also search keywords on this database and search by location to pull blogs with the content and level of …
Chose Social Mention
Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.
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User Ratings
Cool TabsSocial Mention
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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1.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
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Usability
7.3
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cool TabsSocial Mention
Likelihood to Recommend
At the time, we made 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. 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. This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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If you are curious about what someone is saying about your brand, this tool helps you to know how your brand is performing on all social media sites. Also seeing the previous results you can predict future performance. This data helps a lot in the future planning. This tool doesn't give perfect results though. Also, it can indicate your sentiments of mentions if they are angry, or happy.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Find sentiment of online buzz for your product/service/brand
  • Monitor many different online websites that are talking about your brand all in one place
  • Find keywords that are being used by consumers when they think of you
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Cons
  • It would be nice to be able to filter Instagram reports by country, geographical area or by language.
  • It would be nice to be able to monitor posts on Facebook
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  • Filtering - better filtering of unrelated brand info. i.e. we are only interested in @accav items from the US - not from overseas
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Likelihood to Renew
I have a good relationship with the customer service and I love to help them to promote their service.
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I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away
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Usability
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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While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.
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Implementation Rating
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It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.
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Alternatives Considered
Although both of them are great at their own levels, I like Cools Tabs more because it is very easy to use and very simple. I use it all the time to check up on the standard of my work and it has never let me down. Also their support team is very cooperative.
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Social Mention stacks up against these as Social Mention is more reliable for data than others. it provides really nice statistics of reach, influence, sentiment and helps find brand's influences. It is quick and offers a great snapshot of the volume of your Tweets & Twitter presence. Supports a lot of social media sites like Facebook, Google+ etc.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).
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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