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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pulsar CORE

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APulsar is a social media monitoring platform offering social listening, owned channels analytics, and social CRM. Customers use Pulsar for brand tracking and campaign measurement. The platform includes 4 tools: TRAC: Social media listening across topics, audiences and content diffusion. CORE: Owned channels analytics to measure your content performance and audience growth. FLOW: Social customer relationship management and social media publishing. TEAM: Analyse your internal social networks…

    $1,200

    150,000 mentions

    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
    Pulsar CORESmarterQueue
    Editions & Modules
    TRAC (starter package)
    $1,200
    150,000 mentions
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    Pricing Offerings
    Pulsar CORESmarterQueue
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices listed are on a 'starting from' basis. All TRAC packages have unlimited user log-ins, unlimited search queries and are charged on the amount of mentions pulled in. Bespoke packages are available.—
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    User Ratings
    Pulsar CORESmarterQueue
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    Usability
    7.0
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    Support Rating
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Pulsar CORESmarterQueue
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pulsar
    I think that Pulsar is a good tool for brands or agencies who have a set list of competitors or subbrands that they are looking to do a monthly/weekly comparison of engagement metrics. When you have the brand account inputted, the data is shown in a visually tangible way and easy to comprehend.
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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
    Pulsar
    • Track engagements over time
    • Easy to use interface
    • Modern and updated display
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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
    Pulsar
    • Unfortunately, when exporting data it is often hard to read in an easy format.
    • I've used other tools where you can get historical data once you put into the tool but Pulsar cannot do that.
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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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    Usability
    Pulsar
    Pulsar is not a complex tool by any means. The interface is updated and comprehensive, and I've used multiple tools in the past where the interface was very outdated and exporting data was often a difficult process since it was not well organized. The tool works well in visualizing complex data.
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    SmarterQueue
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    Support Rating
    Pulsar
    I have not had to reach out to Pulsar support before but my coworkers have and said the support was good.
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    SmarterQueue
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    Alternatives Considered
    Pulsar
    I think that Pulsar is one of the more updated platforms that I have used and the metrics exported/shown in the dashboard are accurate. I think that some tools report inaccurate metrics gathered from social media platforms due to the new APIs, something that often causes confusion and lack of clarity.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Pulsar
    • Input into our algorithm for brand strength and stature
    • Quick engagement tracking
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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

    Pulsar CORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of The activity dashboard gives you a thorough snapshot of all the key numbers in your datasetScreenshot of Pulsar TRAC advanced location detection gives you up to 100% geo-localised data by city, country and GPS coordinatesScreenshot of The Network map visualizes the engagement patterns within your audience and identifies the most influential usersScreenshot of Slice and dice the data with contextual, behavioural and content filtersScreenshot of See the bigger picture. Pulsar CORE gives you integrated brand-level metrics across all owned channels, so you can measure the total reach and engagement you're getting.

    SmarterQueue Screenshots

    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