Cool Tabs vs. Tailwind

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
Tailwind
Score 5.4 out of 10
N/A
Tailwind is a social media marketing solution built specifically for Pinterest marketing. It provides features such as scheduled pins, analytics, and scalable Pinterest activity.
$14.99
per month
Pricing
Cool TabsTailwind
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
Free
$0
billed annually
Pro
$24.99
per month 1 user and profile
Advanced
$49.99
per month 2 users and profiles
Max
$99.99
per month 5 users and 3 profiles
Tailwind Communities
$119.88
billed annually
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cool TabsTailwind
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cool TabsTailwind
Features
Cool TabsTailwind
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
9.2
4 Ratings
19% above category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
3.8
12 Ratings
72% below category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings4.712 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings3.19 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings3.112 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings4.210 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
4.5
10 Ratings
57% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings4.25 Ratings
Bulk actions00 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
7.4
8 Ratings
4% below category average
Lead generation00 Ratings5.07 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
3.3
12 Ratings
87% below category average
Facebook00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings3.68 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings5.212 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
6.9
10 Ratings
11% below category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings4.29 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Tailwind
3.0
8 Ratings
90% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings1.07 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings5.17 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cool TabsTailwind
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(15 ratings)
4.4
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(2 ratings)
4.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cool TabsTailwind
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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Tailwind
Tailwind can schedule your Pinteret pins, but it's an expensive platform to do this, and given it seems to miss many, it does not even do this well. Further, they continue to get you to reconnect, so it is cumbersome and poorly designed. We used it only because our vendors wanted it, but it's been a total waste of money given how poorly designed it is, how buggy it is and how useless the other so-called services they provide are. Go somewhere else as there are way better solutions as we have now found.
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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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Tailwind
  • The extension for Chrome and Safari has been EXTREMELY helpful. Through research and continuing education, we frequently see information we'd like to share with our audience and the extension has made this so easy.
  • The SmartLoop feature is great for times when we get busy and may not have the time to add new things to our queue. I know even if I had zero time to devote to social media that day, I was still active and getting information to our candidates.
  • Interface is extremely user friendly. A lot of time these programs that are supposed to help us and bring ease to our workload are so complicated and intense that they cause more stress than they relieve. This is not true with Tailwind. Tailwind is easy to use and truly does take a load of stress off us as an organization.
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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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Tailwind
  • When you add a link to your post and add the caption, it goes to the first line and not where I had the cursor. I do not want the link to be the first thing people read.
  • The Tailwind Create is fun and helpful but still hard to use.
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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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Tailwind
No answers on this topic
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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Tailwind
Tailwind is great when it focuses on it's core functionality. However, in my opinion, Tailwind isn't great at listening to their customers and instead likes to add features that are not beneficial and tend to "break" the other features that ultimately sell it's product. In my opinion, it has lost ROI over time and was much better 3-4 years ago.
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Support Rating
Cool Tabs
No answers on this topic
Tailwind
I have received wonderful support from Tailwind. Recently when I was on their new Tailwind Create and was looking at their site photos, I had a question and I received an answer in less than 24 hours. They have also been receptive to comments and ideas to make the product better and they used some of the ideas as well giving us a discount for the help.
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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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Tailwind
When I was looking for a solution for Instagram, neither Buffer nor Hootsuite were offering the ability to post directly to Instagram. That may have changed recently, but in my opinion, Tailwind is a much more user-friendly, less (unnecessarily) complex solution for Instagram management. I don't need a ton of in-depth analytics; I just need to be able to be efficient, consistent and engaging in my posts. Tailwind allows me to do that without getting bogged down in all the bells and whistles on Hootsuite or Buffer.
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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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Tailwind
  • Definitely an ROI - We have increased our clicks on our website due to traffic from Pinterest, primarily from our Smart Loop.
  • We have increased Pinterest following due to our intensive use of Smart Loop, which has led to #1 (increased website traffic).
  • Organization and time management has been a massive advantage of utilizing Tailwind. Because I can set Smart Loop and not worry about it, I can dedicate my time to other areas of the business.
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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