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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

    SmarterQueue

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASmarterQueue is an intelligent social media scheduling tool that aims to empower marketers, content creators, and entrepreneurs with the technology and capabilities they need to grow their businesses and careers. The vendor states it: Sparks conversations that fuel growth. Helps users reclaim time and regain freedom while posting more consistently and driving revenue. Is a social media scheduling platform for every use case. Personal Brands…N/A
    Pricing
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    Considered Both Products
    Meta Platforms Inc
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    SmarterQueue
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    65%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Features
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Meta Business Suite and SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    6.6
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    SmarterQueue
    -
    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 SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    7.3
    15 Ratings
    11% below category average
    SmarterQueue
    -
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    Content planning and scheduling8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization7.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management6.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Meta Business Suite and SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    7.1
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    SmarterQueue
    -
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    Automated routing and prioritization7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions7.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Meta Business Suite and SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    7.4
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SmarterQueue
    -
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    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 SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SmarterQueue
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    Twitter8.63 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 SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SmarterQueue
    -
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    Campaign success analytics8.215 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 SmarterQueue
    Feature
    Meta Business Suite
    8.0
    13 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SmarterQueue
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    Small Businesses
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    PromoRepublic
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (108 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Meta Business SuiteSmarterQueue
    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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    SmarterQueue
    It's a great platform that can easily schedule posts, and create evergreen posting by creating queues with different categories of posts. SmarterQueue allows you to create a range of content categories (tips, updates, quotes, images, videos, promotions, stories, case studies, etc) and choose where to post the various categories of content so you don't blast all your channels with the same content (have content specific channels). The interface is very clean, easy to use, and simple to navigate through, and has an AI assistant to help you create content and content variations. What I like the most creating an evergreen queue to which I can simply keep adding new content to and the posting is taken of.
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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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    SmarterQueue
    • Queueing of posts to create evergreen content
    • Setting up different categories of posts
    • AI-assisted generating content and content variations
    • Searching competition
    • Post on Google My Business
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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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    SmarterQueue
    • AI-content generation can be improved
    • Sometimes slow to load up queue and unresponsive
    • Have more flexible plan to choose exactly the number of channels we want and only pay for what we use
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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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    SmarterQueue
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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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    SmarterQueue
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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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    SmarterQueue
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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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    SmarterQueue
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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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    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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    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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    SmarterQueue
    SmarterQueue is more comprehensive, has more features for cheaper subscriptions, and more flexible price plans to suit your business needs, whether you want to scale down or scale up. The user-friendly interface enabled a very quick learning curve for myself and for my virtual assistant. Better UI design and layout, clean, simple, intuitive to use and navigate through, and does the job well.
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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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    SmarterQueue
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    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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    SmarterQueue
    • Save time managing social media channels
    • Everything is accessible in one place
    • It is easy to delegate social media posting and content creation to a virtual assistant
    • Good value for money for a social media management platform
    • Posting on Google My Business
    • Finding content ideas
    • Leverage generative AI with the AI assistant to accelerate content creation
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of INteractive calendar view of scheduled social media postsScreenshot of Social media post editor including category, evergreen recycling, post to multiple platforms, and a preview.Screenshot of Content discovery and curation to easily find and share contentScreenshot of View your schedule at a glance and get quick content previewsScreenshot of Get detailed post analytics and actionable insights to replicate successScreenshot of Get detailed post analytics and actionable insights to replicate success