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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Crowdbooster (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACrowdbooster was a tool to measure the success of Twitter and Facebook posts, with visualizations to track retweets, and track potential impressions created, likes, comments, and how many shares a Facebook post has received. Crowdbooster is no longer available.

    $9

    per month

    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System

    Score8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System (formerly SambaSaaS) is cloud marketing software that includes tools that let users automate search engine optimization (SEO), schedule social media marketing posts across LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, manage business reputation across 100+ directories by responding to reviews, as well as create and send email newsletters. It also enables users to publish content; broadcast press releases; track inbound phone and form leads; monitor Google Ads…

    $99

    per month per installation

    Pricing
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Call tracking & Dynamic Number Insertion
    $5
    per local number
    Standard monthly license
    $109
    per domain
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$299 per installation
    Additional Details—You can take advantage of many SeoSamba's Marketing Operating System (MOS) features regardless of your website platform. However, MOS offers even more functionalities when your website is also powered by WordPress, SeoToaster CMS, SeoToaster E-commerce or SeoToaster Ultimate CRM. SeoSamba offers migration package with or without look & feel re-design, but always including a comprehensive search engine optimization process that is implemented on your behalf. What's unique about it? SeoSamba benchmarks your existing search ranking positions, and offers a 60 days post-release improvement guarantee. Migration packages costs vary usually between $1500 and $2500 range or most small businesses clients.
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    Features
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Dynamic content00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    9.1
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Feature
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    Ratings
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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    Crowdbooster (discontinued)SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Small Businesses
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    1-Social
    Score5.1 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)SeoSamba Marketing Operating System
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Before recommending Crowdbooster, I'd want to know what goals they hope to accomplish with the software. Then I would want them to specifically identify what types of metrics would be most useful to their program. If they specifically need to report out on how many people in a certain location they reached, this isn't the right fit. If they are using other tools, there may be duplication. However, if they are currently using more budget-friendly solutions or just getting started with a new program, Crowdbooster is a perfect fit. It will help you to grow your program and is flexible enough to accommodate your needs.
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    SeoSamba
    I highly recommend SambaSaaS to businesses managing multiple websites and social media accounts. I also recommend it for entrepreneurs who need to manage international branches and international clients
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Timed social media posts - Crowdbooster provides the opportunity to schedule social media posts allowing you to work on other important social media tasks.
    • Simply beautiful tracking - There are millions of ways to measure social media impact. Crowdbooster offers the most important and relevant measurements in simplified charts..
    • Great UI - Crappy UI = crappy experience. Crowdbooster's UI is easy to navigate. It won't take months to learn where all the buttons are.
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    SeoSamba
    • Automates multisite SEO, so we can stay focused on great content that attracts the right audience for our two entirely different strategic business units.
    • Eliminates the surprises we used to get with other plugins when Wordpress makes unannounced changes that crash other plugins.
    • Agile, easy to use, and saves hours of time and creative resources
    • Automates metric capture: site analytics, keyword/phrase capture, search engine page results etc...in an online dashboard (and it's free).
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • The ranked order of twitter followers and the number of "tweet impressions" did not help that much. Those "tweet impressions" were not really an estimate of how many people were actually reading my tweet. It was simply a sum of followers of the person retweeting a tweet and the sum of all followers from a subsequent retweet of the initial retweet. All this told me was the best case scenario I could expect if ALL followers of a person that retweeted saw my tweet. This is not a true measure of "twitter footprint" – since the “signal to noise” ratio in Twitter is very low.
    • There was no system in place to track "clicked links" for links embedded in tweets and/or facebook wall posts. Hootsuite did a good job of this – but only for twitter.
    • The list of recommended times to tweet were always "on the hour" (i.e. 10 a.m, 1 p.m.). Never were the times ever at "half past the hour" etc. An independent study that I did on my own using Google Analytics (and campaign links using google's URL builder) helped me determine that my optimal "Tweet time" during the week is 3:30 p.m. ET. More importantly, the recommended times seemed to be roughly the same on the weekends - which I find strange given that social media behavior does change on the weekends.
    • Occasionally, in my facebook ranked table of "loyal fans", I would see people in there that had not "liked" or "commented" on a post for months at a stretch and the "look back" period of the table was only around 7 days or so. Hence, I occasionally had to question the accuracy of that table.
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    SeoSamba
    • It has a lot of features. So, it's kind of difficult to get started and to learn every feature in the software. However, once you get used to SambaSaaS, it's fairly easy to navigate.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Simple to use and a great value for what it offers. It has a simple but clean interface and it provides fantastic historical data you can use to measure your efforts online. By using a tool like Crowdbooster, you can see what is working with your audience and what isn't. From there, you can start tweaking your strategies
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    SeoSamba
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    I found it fairly intuitive and easy to use. The information is laid out cleanly, and the most important information appears at a glance on the home page. However, I have worked with other users who had a hard time switching between platforms and identifying where other information was buried. It's not always clear that something is a clickable button! The option to export results is also a bit buried, and not integrated with the date range option.
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    SeoSamba
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    I do not think it is as supported as it once was when it first arrived on the social media scene. It is an older platform whose main functionality may have already ran its course.
    Incentivized
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    SeoSamba
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    If you can demo a free trial, that is definitely the best way to see if this will fit your program's specific needs.
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    SeoSamba
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    It is a platform that is singularly focused. It does not have a lot of the additions that come stock with other platforms such as robust reporting or deeper insights past schedule times. It is also a stand-alone platform and a lot of its primary functionality can be found in more encompassing platforms.
    Incentivized
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    SeoSamba
    Prior to SeoSamba we were making manual changes. Then we started researching several possible other plugins but the reviews all said the same - that if WP made significant enough changes those plugins would become ineffective. SeoSamba's ability to automate optimization and keep up with/stay ahead of those changes was the deciding factor for us.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Increased efficiency. I am able to generate useful snapshot reports in seconds. Particularly useful when you need answers fast (such as on a phone call).
    • Peace of mind. I am able to compare the data in Crowdbooster to what is exported from Facebook and Twitter.
    • Quicker, simpler evaluation of results. I am able to more easily compare impressions with engagement data to see what is working, and what should change. Particularly useful in day-to-day analysis.
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    SeoSamba
    • It helped me automate my email marketing campaigns, so that I could generate more leads for my business.
    Incentivized
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    SeoSamba Marketing Operating System Screenshots

    Screenshot of User dashboard. Top screen.Screenshot of Social media marketing calendar monthly viewScreenshot of Content curation for social mediaScreenshot of Social media marketing publishingScreenshot of Automated search rankings positions reportScreenshot of Search Rankings Keywords data