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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    InboundWriter

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AInboundWriter is a relatively focused content marketing tool containing predictive analytics, suggestions, and authoring guidelines for content optimization. InboundWriter has been backed by about $2.5 million in venture capital since its inception in 2011.N/A

    Social Mention

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ASocial 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
    InboundWriterSocial Mention
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    InboundWriterSocial Mention
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    InboundWriterSocial Mention
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of InboundWriter and Social Mention
    Feature
    InboundWriter
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of InboundWriter and Social Mention
    Feature
    InboundWriter
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of InboundWriter and Social Mention
    Feature
    InboundWriter
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analytics8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    InboundWriterSocial Mention
    Small Businesses
    Contently
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Social Suite by Reputation.com
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    InboundWriterSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    InboundWriterSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    InboundWriter
    I think most users have found that InboundWriter is every bit worth what you pay for it. At a freemium model, it's affordable and helpful in analyzing your posts for SEO direction. It is particularly well suited for getting focused terms on specific topics, and less on more general terms.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.
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    Pros
    InboundWriter
    • Very easy to use and follow direction.
    • The price is right for this freemium Wordpress plugin.
    • Helps discover what content and keywords are popular around your subject matter.
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    Social Mention
    • Can predict future response from today's number.
    • Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
    • Has a very well managed dashboard of results.
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    Cons
    InboundWriter
    • Sometimes tough to decide what direction to follow without keyword stuffing your content.
    • Colleagues have complained about the Document Score being unreliable at times.
    • It's only as good as the information you put into it and lacks the ability to give you more high level though leadership terms/topics.
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    Social Mention
    • Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
    • Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
    • Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    InboundWriter
    No answers on this topic
    Social Mention
    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
    InboundWriter
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    Social Mention
    While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.
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    Support Rating
    InboundWriter
    The InboundWriter support is certainly sufficient for the type of troubleshooting you may encounter when using the tool. There are chats and forums available with best practices or knowledge share. For bigger issues, even WordPress can serve as a support system for getting to the answer quickly. Luckily, you're more likely to find that it is a very intuitive tool that is easy to use.
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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    InboundWriter
    No answers on this topic
    Social Mention
    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
    InboundWriter
    While Yoast is also very useful as a free WordPress plugin that helps up your SEO game, where it stops at just providing direction for your meta data, like titles and descriptions, InboundWriter takes your search engine reach a bit further and helps you create relevant content for your industry that targets the right keywords and topics.
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    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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    Return on Investment
    InboundWriter
    • InboundWriter has helped us craft more SEO-driven content and balance our keyword usage.
    • InboundWriter has also helped us hone in on the specific topics we should be covering for our industry.
    • Overall, it has helped us achieve our goals of creating pillar content and driving more organic traffic.
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    Social Mention
    • 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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