Meta Business Suite

Overview
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Meta Business Suite
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Formerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
Pricing
Meta Business Suite
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Meta Business Suite
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Meta Business Suite
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Meta Business Suite is super easy, and it's also free compared to Hootsuite. Hootsuite, in comparison, can manage a wider variety of platforms, but Meta crushes it for any of its native platforms that you add to the account. If you have Instagram or Facebook, you must have Meta …
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Unified dashboard, centralised inbox, trust in Meta audience targeting is much better than other tools
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I think Meta Business Suite is the. Most comprehensive tool for managing and maintaining your presence in Facebook and instagram
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Meta Business Suite has been much better, more effective, user friendly, and successful in helping us manage our business marketing though social media sites. Meta Business Suite helps manage multiple social media platforms and our marketing campaigns on them. Meta Business …
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In my opinion the Google products give me a better result that I am looking for - which is what - but more of my customers need to be reached on the Meta Business Suite platforms, and that is where I need to be. We have to be where our customers are, not just the feedback that …
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Meta Business Suite is a good paid media option that offers several features for building ad campaigns, which other paid media channels lack. The usability is generally good, but it probably isn't quite as intuitive as Google, as a comparison. LinkedIn is behind all of these …
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There is literally no alternative to Meta Business Suite when it comes to adding Facebook and Instagram admins and access.
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I think Meta Business Suite is a great option especially for a smaller non-profit business like ours. I like that on a base level it is much more cost effective, whereas a platform like Hootsuite and SocialPilot cost a high monthly fee. I do with Meta Business Suite would …
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Hootsuite is effective for scheduling posts across multiple social media feeds. Hootsuite offers Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Google Business Profile integration, and you can use Google Analytics with it, but it no longer offers a free plan.
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The backend platform of Meta Business Suite is a little more confusing and less configueable than other platforms. There is a little less intuitive navigation and certain tools are buried deep/nested in places that are not straightforward. Effective and efficient customer …
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In my opinion, all three platforms are much better - with the exception of their customer service (excluding HubSpot) - I think LinkedIn and Google are just as poor in this area.
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Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its …
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I believe since YouTube started with shorts, TikTok with their incentives for small businesses, and also Snapchat with their incentives for small businesses, it was time for Facebook/Meta to step up to the plate. Around late 2020/early 2021, Facebook/Meta offered small-business …
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Facebook stacks up against them in terms of its service. I choose Facebook for Business since I use it for business for almost more than a year now and I need to say this it is the most best possible business tool definitely a must-have for all the businesses type.
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While we have tried to utilize other platforms for managing social media in the past, we have found that managing each social channel in its own platform is especially helpful. We want the content to be unique and it helps ensure that. You are generally presented with more …
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Facebook for Business is free and linked in premium is a paid version for linked in. If you’re a startup Facebook is an excellent starting point. If you rely on networking or followers this one does an excellent job. Facebook integrates personal and business accounts so you’re …
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I believe that Twitter Ads and Facebook for Business fill a very similar marketing space. Most of the users are browsing for recreational reasons and advertisements are mostly seen as an annoyance. It's very crucial to provide an add that is not just relevant to the user, but …
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Facebook for Business has the best self-serve interface. It copied the capabilities and structure of Google and then surpassed it. They are the pioneers in the industry and the first to become compliant with iOS14.5, CCPA, GDPR and any other new regulations. We've found it hard …
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There's nothing else like native Facebook Business Manager. Some 3rd party tools perform certain tasks more efficiently, but they aren't free.
Chose Meta Business Suite
Facebook for Business offers its unique platform, user reach, targeting and interest classifications that most other platforms fail to offer. It's ads management, with analytics, insights, etc. makes it offer three-sixty degree solutions, such as being a one-stop-shop for …
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I have used HubSpot for creating forms to acquire leads. Now that Facebook lets me create forms right in their new Lead Ads, I can not only capture data, but I can also capture the leads' information. Currently that is the only tool that I have used or considered as an …
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Facebook for Business has the best ad platform. Creative options, control, data sharing, etc. Hands down the best.
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We have a listing on Google Business where people can find us easily online, but Facebook makes it so much easier to interact directly with customers. Google Business is invaluable for one-off internet searches where people are looking either for us or for what we offer, but …
Features
Meta Business Suite
Listening/monitoring
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Meta Business Suite
6.4
14 Ratings
17% below category average
Boolean keyword searches6.59 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam6.111 Ratings
Sentiment analysis6.711 Ratings
Broad channel coverage6.313 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Suite
7.1
16 Ratings
13% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.716 Ratings
Audience targeting7.616 Ratings
Content optimization6.813 Ratings
Workflow management6.311 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Suite
6.8
13 Ratings
17% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization6.99 Ratings
Customer interaction histories6.612 Ratings
Bulk actions6.811 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Suite
7.3
16 Ratings
5% below category average
Lead generation7.315 Ratings
Content marketing7.014 Ratings
Paid media management7.715 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.113 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Suite
8.0
14 Ratings
4% below category average
Twitter8.34 Ratings
Facebook8.613 Ratings
LinkedIn7.65 Ratings
Google+7.55 Ratings
Instagram8.314 Ratings
Pinterest8.25 Ratings
YouTube7.35 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
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Meta Business Suite
7.8
16 Ratings
1% above category average
Campaign success analytics7.916 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.716 Ratings
Competitor analysis7.710 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Meta Business Suite
7.4
14 Ratings
7% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.514 Ratings
Mobile access7.313 Ratings
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User Ratings
Meta Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
(109 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(17 ratings)
Performance
3.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Meta Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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Pros
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  • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
  • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
  • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
  • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
  • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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Cons
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  • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
  • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
  • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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Usability
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Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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Reliability and Availability
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I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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Performance
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There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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Support Rating
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I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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Implementation Rating
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Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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Alternatives Considered
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Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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Scalability
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This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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Return on Investment
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  • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
  • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
  • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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