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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Meta Business Suite

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AFormerly 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

    Mixpanel

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data. With self-serve product analytics solution, teams can analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Mixpanel serves over 26,000 companies from different industries around the world, including Expedia, Uber, Ancestry, DocuSign, and Lemonade. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has offices in New York,…

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    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    per month
    Growth
    $17
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Mixpanel uses MTU (Monthly Tracked User) pricing, which is designed to scale with your company. MTUs are roughly equivalent to the number of unique visitors on your product and each user is counted once per month, even if they use multiple devices. If Events based pricing makes more sense for your business, reach out to us and we can work with you!
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    Community Pulse
    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    Considered Both Products
    Meta Platforms Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Mixpanel
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    65%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    6.6
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Mixpanel
    -
    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis6.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage6.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    7.4
    15 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Mixpanel
    -
    Ratings
    Content planning and scheduling8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization7.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management6.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    7.1
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Mixpanel
    -
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    Automated routing and prioritization7.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions7.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    7.4
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Mixpanel
    -
    Ratings
    Lead generation7.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing7.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Mixpanel
    -
    Ratings
    Twitter8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook8.812 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram8.413 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Mixpanel
    -
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    Campaign success analytics8.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis7.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Meta Business Suite and Mixpanel
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Mixpanel
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access8.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    Small Businesses
    Sendible
    Score7.1 out of 10
    PostHog
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Heap
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (108 ratings)
    9.0
    (50 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    1.0
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Meta Business SuiteMixpanel
    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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    Mixpanel
    As a worker in the sales area, I see closely how complex it can be to evaluate the commercial funnel and Mixpanel has been an indispensable guide to prioritize above all what customers expect to receive from our company, and thus be able to determine the main service we offer. Without a doubt, Mixpanel has special functions to be the one that guides the route and marks the objectives much more clearly.
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    Pros
    Meta Platforms Inc
    • 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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    Mixpanel
    • Mixpanel is a daily use application for everyone in my organization; it helps us have a better flow of information and interaction between work teams.
    • The user interface of this platform is simple and has a wide variety of functions and resources to help us work in the most organized way, have better team coordination, and keep efficiency high.
    • I love that it is so easy to program our calendar to our liking, so we can prioritize our activities and know what is pending, and the best thing is that I can update the calendar if necessary.
    • The chat function is great to improve the interaction between colleagues and share work schedules and any information with third parties.
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    Cons
    Meta Platforms Inc
    • 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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    Mixpanel
    • Mixpanel requires an explicit setting of events from your app. This means you need to be very thoughtful in the design of your events because missing one means you aren't collecting any data from it. Inserting it into the process later on then brings challenges in tracking when certain events came online.
    • A tool like Mixpanel comes packed with features that sometimes are harder to discover. It's very easy to get sucked into one part of its toolset and not be aware of other tools which may be very useful.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
    It's not an all encompassing solution like Google Analytics tries to be, but MixPanel offers much easier to use and understandable data insights. That's valuable when juggling many responsibilities as startup life demands, so a renewal would be easily justified.
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    Usability
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
    Relativity easy to use. Once you get the hang of it, very easy to create dashboards for different use cases. I split my dashboards between customers or use cases
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    Reliability and Availability
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
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    Performance
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
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    Support Rating
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
    We have only ever had to use their support once, when we were setting up the account, but their responses were prompt and the solutions were well documented. The people who solved our issues were helpful, even to non-tech people.
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    Online Training
    Meta Platforms Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Mixpanel
    Mixpanel has a great resource about their product, with videos on how to use it and real world examples from other companies on how they integrate Mixpanel into their business processes.
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    Implementation Rating
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
    Again, somewhat annoying to be charged based on data points when many other analytics providers have one flat fee. Implementation was good, but I might have tracked a few more detailed points if I had the option.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
    • There was not really any other competitors for this specific use case that had a chance
    • We used Google Analytics for some things but obviously, GA is anonymous data so not useful for product teams with users
    • Other solutions out there seemed to be too expensive and this was the most recommended
    • Heap seemed to be the best OTHER option but didn't take the time to evaluate
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    Scalability
    Meta Platforms Inc
    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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    Mixpanel
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Meta Platforms Inc
    • 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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    Mixpanel
    • We've been able to increase the funnel conversions of one of our new product funnels from a 1% conversion rate to a 5% conversion rate.
    • We've been able to increase the CTR on another of our main product pages from ~3% to ~10% (so far)
    • We've been able to segment out how users from different traffic sources behave, allowing us to eliminate thousands of dollars of wasteful spending on advertising campaigns that weren't working.
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    Screenshot of Mixpanel's Insights report enables you to see how often users perform meaningful actions, monitor growth of key user cohorts, like power users, and slice and dice trends by any attribute.Screenshot of Mixpanel's powerful Flows report enables you to identify top user paths to see where people get stuck, and discover actions users take before, after, or between key events.Screenshot of Mixpanel's Retention report helps you understand how often users return and visualize feature stickiness. You can also slice and dice retention data to identify user groups that retain best and to find out what causes churn.