Cool Tabs vs. Smash Balloon

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cool Tabs
Score 9.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Cool Tabs is a social media marketing platform that is designed to help users increase their online audience and get qualified leads by creating simple interactive content for apps, social networks, microsites, mobile devices and websites. Users have more than twenty different types of dynamics to choose from: Paths (Choose Your Own Adventure), Trivia, Personality Tests, Instant Win, sweepstakes, competitions, coupon codes, and more. Cool Tabs enables users to create interactive content…
$49
Per User per Month
Smash Balloon
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Smash Balloon is a plugin used to add social media content to WordPress, with the goal of displacing social media plugins that are complicated to set up, slow down the website site, aren’t customizable , or break anytime the platform makes a change. Smash Balloon plugins are designed to integrate seamlessly into Wordpress websites, where they help to display social media content that is unique to the business. The solution currently boasts over 1.6 million users.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Stone
$49
Per User per Month
Gold
$199
Per User per Month
Diamond
$399
Per User per Month
Diamond with Unlimited Campaigns
$499
Per User per Month
Diamond with Paths
$499
User per Month
Diamond with Paths and Unlimited Campaigns
$699
User per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cool TabsSmash Balloon
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
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Likelihood to Renew
8.0
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Usability
7.3
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
If your business is huge on Instagram and you have a big following and post daily, You will get detailed insight into the traffic. I don't think that Cool Tabs is perfect, but it automatically will give you feedback on KPI for your social media pages. If you want deeper details, you may have to upgrade.
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Pros
  • Cool Tabs is well suitable for handling social handles and hashtags.
  • They have an excellent customer service experience that is always available to help and to improve the product.
  • Cool Tabs provides a detailed resource for collecting information for your products, in order to create an excellent and satisfactory experience for my work.
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Cons
  • It would be nice to be able to filter Instagram reports by country, geographical area or by language.
  • It would be nice to be able to monitor posts on Facebook
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Likelihood to Renew
I have a good relationship with the customer service and I love to help them to promote their service.
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Alternatives Considered
Although both of them are great at their own levels, I like Cools Tabs more because it is very easy to use and very simple. I use it all the time to check up on the standard of my work and it has never let me down. Also their support team is very cooperative.
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Return on Investment
  • We have used it for Facebook and Instagram applications for the same campaign with the same cost, so it improves or ROI.
  • It has improved our engagement rate and has attracted 202 Facebook pagelikes, so it has its impact on the ROI overall.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Page Performance DashboardScreenshot of Stats DashboardScreenshot of Instagram hashtag analysis: top potential contributorsScreenshot of Instagram hashtag analysis: words analysisScreenshot of Twitter Hashtag Analysis: Main StatsScreenshot of Campaign Stats Dashboard