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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    .NET

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's .Net is an open source, freeware application infrastructure.N/A

    Tailwind

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ATailwind 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

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    Pricing
    .NETTailwind
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    .NETTailwind
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    .NETTailwind
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Tailwind
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    .NETTailwind
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    9.2
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    4.7
    12 Ratings
    54% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings5.912 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings3.89 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings3.812 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings5.210 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    5.7
    10 Ratings
    35% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings5.98 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings5.25 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings5.98 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings5.98 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    4.0
    12 Ratings
    70% below category average
    Facebook00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings4.58 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings6.612 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings5.29 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of .NET and Tailwind
    Feature
    .NET
    -
    Ratings
    Tailwind
    3.0
    8 Ratings
    90% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings5.17 Ratings
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    .NETTailwind
    Small Businesses
    ASP.NET
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ASP.NET
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ASP.NET
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    .NETTailwind
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (27 ratings)
    5.9
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    .NETTailwind
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    .NET is well suited for any general purpose solution to a business problem, though if we are talking strictly the framework version - you have to be more or less tied to Microsoft Windows to run it. If this isn't a problem, then it will be able to address and solve any programming project you have.
    Incentivized
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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
    Microsoft
    • Visual Studio is one of the best IDEs and .NET is the best framework to use with Visual Studio.
    • There is a large network of support for the .NET framework.
    • The .NET framework encompasses a very large area of the programming stack.
    • The .NET framework is flexible and can be used for desktop applications or web development.
    Incentivized
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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
    Microsoft
    • .NET is heavily Microsoft Windows oriented, and while .NET core tried to resolve that with MacOS and Linux support, .NET Core is still waiting for wider adoption.
    • While free for small projects, additional features for big projects can be a little expensive.
    • Can be resource-heavy upon deployment. We continuously have our more senior staff optimize the code of our junior developers for performance. Other languages are a little bit more forgiving in comparison.
    Incentivized
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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
    Microsoft
    The full .NET Framework is an amazing thing and is very robust. We have used it to create console apps, Windows apps, and online apps. When coupled with Visual Studio, development, testing, building, and deploying our applications has become 100 times easier as compared to doing those things manually before. The automation of this process has helped us push out changes to our applications faster to adapt to the ever-changing business requirements.
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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
    Microsoft
    You don't often need to reach out to Microsoft for .NET support. If you do, there are forums and websites that have active Microsoft support folks where you can provide feedback or get help. Microsoft support in general is quite good as well, but not cheap. The best support is from the community like StackOverflow.
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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
    Microsoft
    The .NET platform has a much longer and broader history than Laravel, so we chose to go with it as the support will be far superior. Additionally, Laravel is tied to PHP, while you can use multiple different languages in .NET. The additional flexibility that .NET provides in the range of types of applications you can build with it sealed the deal.
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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
    Microsoft
    • There are few factors we needed for our custom development. Below are each of them. We were able to get a satisfactory outcome for each of these factors which made .NET platform a very good choice in developing enterprise applications.
    • Reusability of codes- Microsoft has given many re-usable codes and components in the framework to help developers do their job effortlessly. With the help of default features, developers can create end-to-end solutions and make the business operations more efficient. As codes and components are reusable, .NET reduces development time and if applications take less time to develop, they cost cheaper and you get faster return on investment.
    • Easy to maintain- Development cost is one time, but maintenance cost is incurring. .NET apps are easily maintainable, thanks to the configuration settings that can be modified without any need to rewrite the code.
    • Deployment is hassle free- Deploying software is always challenging and the most common problem developers face in this process is the existence of multiple DLLs. It’s hard to make sure that all DLLs will co-exist in the same machine. .NET framework solves this problem by allowing different versions of the same DLL to exist side-by-side on the same machine.
    • Security- .NET is one of the most secure web and application development frameworks available in the market. As it’s made by Microsoft, you can be absolutely sure about the security measurements. Hackers can never steal valuable data from your website or apps.
    • Cross platform friendly- What if you had developed an app for desktop and laptop computers and now after seeing the growth of mobile apps in the market, you want it in mobile version as well? You can easily develop an app that runs on the desktop and PDA without any issue. As you can re-use the codes and utilize the same development environment, your job becomes a lot simpler.
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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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