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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Muck Rack

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AMuck Rack is a public relations offering from Sawhorse Media.

    $5,000

    per year

    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
    Muck RackSocial Mention
    Editions & Modules
    Muck Rack
    5,000
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Muck RackSocial 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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    Community Pulse
    Muck RackSocial Mention
    Considered Both Products
    Muck Rack
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    Social Mention
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    63%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Meltwater
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Muck RackSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.6
    (15 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Muck RackSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Muck Rack
    Muck Rack has been well suited for me when reporting and providing value add and ROI reporting to clients who are investing in publications. Not only has it been great creating media lists, drafting, sending out, and tracking pitches, but the ability to track coverage and export a report that showcases the reach, impact, and media value has been so beneficial for me. So, if you are working with clients in an external communications capacity, then the Muck Rack tools are very flexible and can fit your needs very well.
    Incentivized
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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
    Muck Rack
    • Muck Rack offers a robust and highly targeted media research tool that allows you to build a customized media list to launch a media relations campaign.
    • Muck Rack's customer support team is quite good and is very responsive.
    • Muck Rack's sales team does a great job of explaining how their solution will effectively address the needs of the organization.
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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
    Muck Rack
    • Creating coverage reports is time-consuming and it is difficult to filter out unrelated coverage with the Boolean operator-driven functionality
    • Muck Rack does not integrate with our other monitoring and reporting tools, so for sharing reports everything needs to be manually exported and added to our reporting software.
    • Muck Rack does not include broadcast coverage monitoring in its normal package, and the functionality of the added broadcast tool is limited compared to other coverage monitoring tools.
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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
    Muck Rack
    It's the best tool we've found for this type of product. It is not 100% critical to our daily responsibilities, but as a corporate tool made available to us, it is something we leverage on a weekly basis.
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    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
    Muck Rack
    Little training was required to leverage the tool. It is a very intuitive platform. The only troublesome aspect of the tool has been the email integration features, but that may be more of a security/IT issue with our corporate requirements than a Much Rack problem. Overall, it is a tool that anyone can leverage without much effort.
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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
    Muck Rack
    I'm sure it's fine. I have never used their customer support, not even when a list does not save. I just figured there isn't much they can do since it was a search. They do have live chat to get answers quickly but most of the time I'm working on lists after hours (since it's a lot of admin and I can do it front of the TV) and no one is available.
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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Muck Rack
    I was not involved with the implementation.
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    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
    Muck Rack
    Cision Media Contact Database. Honestly, it has been a long time since I used it, but I do remember being unhappy with the service. I thought its UI/UE was clunky at the time, but I didn't complain because I had free access to it.
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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
    Muck Rack
    • It's hard to measure ROI but I can say this: I have discovered and build relationships with media I may have had a hard time locating before. MuckRack has probably increased my efficiency by 50 percent and doubled my effectiveness.
    • I haven't looked a media databases in about 2 years but it is a much more cost effective media database than the big, traditional ones that everyone else has.
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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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