Meta Business Manager vs. Tailwind

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Meta Business Manager
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Meta Business Manager (formerly Facebook Business Manager, or Pages Manager) is a mobile app that supports management of up to 50 Facebook pages from a smart phone or tablet, allowing social media managers to see activity, post updates, and respond immediately to customers.N/A
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
Meta Business ManagerTailwind
Editions & Modules
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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
Meta Business ManagerTailwind
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Meta Business ManagerTailwind
Considered Both Products
Meta Business Manager
Chose Meta Business Manager
Facebook Pages Manager is a lot more mobile-friendly in general if you're offering up stats at a meeting, talking to your CEO, or just curious to see how your post is performing over your lunch hour. It's also a lot more convenient when you're handling an above average level of …
Tailwind

No answer on this topic

Features
Meta Business ManagerTailwind
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
5.9
45 Ratings
25% below category average
Tailwind
9.2
4 Ratings
19% above category average
Boolean keyword searches5.628 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam4.435 Ratings8.93 Ratings
Sentiment analysis6.030 Ratings8.94 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.433 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
7.0
61 Ratings
14% below category average
Tailwind
3.7
12 Ratings
74% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.861 Ratings4.712 Ratings
Audience targeting7.858 Ratings3.19 Ratings
Content optimization6.856 Ratings3.112 Ratings
Workflow management5.846 Ratings4.110 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
7.2
53 Ratings
12% below category average
Tailwind
4.5
10 Ratings
57% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization7.343 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Customer interaction histories7.648 Ratings4.15 Ratings
Bulk actions6.835 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
7.7
58 Ratings
0% above category average
Tailwind
7.4
8 Ratings
4% below category average
Lead generation7.649 Ratings5.07 Ratings
Content marketing7.753 Ratings4.78 Ratings
Paid media management7.950 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.654 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
6.3
61 Ratings
28% below category average
Tailwind
3.3
12 Ratings
87% below category average
Twitter6.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook8.260 Ratings1.01 Ratings
LinkedIn5.813 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+5.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.846 Ratings3.68 Ratings
Pinterest3.38 Ratings5.212 Ratings
YouTube7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
6.9
59 Ratings
11% below category average
Tailwind
6.9
10 Ratings
11% below category average
Campaign success analytics7.658 Ratings4.19 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.354 Ratings7.08 Ratings
Competitor analysis5.837 Ratings9.76 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Manager
7.8
60 Ratings
2% below category average
Tailwind
3.0
8 Ratings
90% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.557 Ratings1.07 Ratings
Mobile access8.257 Ratings5.17 Ratings
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User Ratings
Meta Business ManagerTailwind
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(61 ratings)
4.3
(13 ratings)
Usability
6.2
(27 ratings)
4.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
6.1
(14 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Meta Business ManagerTailwind
Likelihood to Recommend
Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Manger is well suited for large/medium and small organisations with single or multiple stake holders and products. It works very efficiently. Cases where app events are defined for android and iOS, it work wonders for campaign measurement and campaign level targeting. Meta Business Manager is very appropriate for running financial, educational, real estate, e-commerce related ads. Meta Business Manager is not appropriate if you have are into enterprise sales.
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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
Meta Platforms Inc
  • Helps drive more efficient CPCs and CPMs than other social channels
  • Targets users outside of working hours
  • Helps grow Retargeting pools to use on other channels
  • Meta Business Manager's AI does a great job in identifying our ICP based off intent signals
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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
Meta Platforms Inc
  • You have to look in multiple places for a full range of analytics
  • The way it handles ad spend can be unpredictable, so if you're on a budget, you have to make sure you're really watching your ad spend
  • For as much as Meta Business Manager pushes stories, reels, etc., the editing tools for this kind of content are limited or nonexistent.
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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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Usability
Meta Platforms Inc
The UI is easy and intuitive for any beginner, but it also has a lot of depth for more advanced users. There have been very few cases where I could not do something I wanted to do regarding media buying. However, there are big limitations regarding account management, admin settings, and user appeals.
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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
Meta Platforms Inc
Facebook is notoriously difficult to access for help and FBM is no exception. Only the chat feature will get someone in touch with you and then there is very limited help. The most they do is send links from their 'help section' without really offering much help at all. Business owners and directors need a person on the phone that can understand the problem and help fix it, not 'helpful links that have already been tried.
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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
Meta Platforms Inc
Facebook is a well-known platform that has to be utilized. It allows us to reach so many new customers and potential patients for our clients. As well as allows us to interact with them consistently and keep them informed or advertise to a new niche of people. The best part about Facebook Business Manager is its usability and reach!
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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
Meta Platforms Inc
  • Pro: It gives me a central place to manage my Page.
  • Pro: There are a lot of options to take advantage of, like Ads, available, which I hope to use more in the future.
  • Pro: The pixel has allowed me to connect Facebook data with my website, and has been a good referral source.
  • Con: There is so much I don't use because it is so complicated. I know I could get more use of it, but it's not going to happen anytime soon, and probably without help.
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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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