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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cool Tabs

    Score9.6 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

    Sprout Social

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives…

    $249

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Cool TabsSprout Social
    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
    Standard
    $199 annual / $249 monthly
    per user/per month
    Professional
    $299 annual / $399 monthly
    per user/per month
    Advanced
    $399 annual / $499 monthly
    per user/per month
    Free Trial
    Free
    for 30 days
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cool TabsSprout Social
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cool TabsSprout Social
    Considered Both Products
    Cool Tabs
    No answer on this topic
    Sprout Social
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    71 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    76 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    62 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    64 Answers
    Features
    Cool TabsSprout Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    7.6
    87 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings7.465 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.176 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.156 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings8.765 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.5
    110 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings9.5110 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings7.687 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings8.396 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.796 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.0
    100 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.962 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.088 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings8.185 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    7.2
    78 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.257 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings8.474 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.6
    110 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Twitter00 Ratings9.098 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings9.2109 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings7.636 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings9.199 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings8.633 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.8
    111 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.9103 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.6100 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.889 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Cool Tabs and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Cool Tabs
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    7.8
    104 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings7.999 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings7.892 Ratings
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    Cool TabsSprout Social
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    PromoRepublic
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cool TabsSprout Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (14 ratings)
    8.7
    (168 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.5
    (65 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.1
    (38 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (23 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cool TabsSprout Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cool Tabs
    In general, it works as some kind of manual on how the particular baseline of your social networks can be improved, and it provides the right assessment at the same time so that I can analyze my data based on my results. Also, they count on excellent technical assistance. Earlier it was hard to go search hashtags on my Instagram but after using this I can get more deep analytics, geotag research, and profile analytics to get great information about the keywords I want to know about. The pricing is great, as well as the support team which replies very quickly.
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    Sprout Social
    IMO it's best for an organization that has a lot of different people working on social media. They could be in different departments or just different members of the same team responsible for different types of posts (corporate, e-commerce, branding, etc.). I don't think it's as vital for a one-person team working solely within the Meta platform, for instance, especially if they're less concerned with detailed analytics.
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    Pros
    Cool Tabs
    • It provides a wide range of settings options to your social media promotions.
    • Is easy to use for developing and managing promotions.
    • It offers an very complete tool to extract information about your promotions.
    • The support service is highly advisable: fast and adequate to satisfy users' needs.
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    Sprout Social
    • For each account, customize posts for each platform, and schedule them to go live simultaneously.
    • Employee Advocacy via Sprout Social has integrated AI assistance for captions. Usually I would generate one suggested caption for employees to use/stem from when re-sharing to their socials. But now, EA message ideas display in random orders to better promote the full range of content.
    • Sprout Social has made the option to gamify the sharing concept quite easily with Employee Advocacy. Using the Leaderboard feature, employees can earn points in Employee Advocacy. Customized point values ensure you know how to climb the Leaderboard and start some friendly competition.
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    Cons
    Cool Tabs
    • Interface is a bit difficult.
    • Management if the tool is not intuitive.
    • More filters for analyzing would be great specifically in the demographics region.
    Incentivized
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    Sprout Social
    • Social media platforms don't always play nice with Sprout so it will always be a challenge to get all integrations to work properly.
    • Sprout Social is a growing organization and they are acquiring new technologies, which can be good. However, they often spend time in meetings upselling new services. I like to learn about enhancements and opportunities but prefer to focus on my investments first.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cool Tabs
    I have a good relationship with the customer service and I love to help them to promote their service.
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    Sprout Social
    I like Sprout for our needs and I like that it is easy to use. We want something better than HootSuite but don't need a high-level fancy program. The only think I don't like is customer service (except for chat).
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Sprout Social's ease of use and navigation throughout the technology are relatively easy to figure out and teach. We also had a representative thoroughly walk us through the features and functionality to set us up for success in using the platform. I didn’t give it a ten because there were times when the navigation didn’t make sense, but once you figured out the quirks, it didn’t cause any trouble.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Uptime was OK, but given the fact that we are in Europe, there were some specific problems: They tended to take the system down for maintenance during the night in the US, which was during our workday. This was definitely problematic and hard to explain to our clients.
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    Performance
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
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    Support Rating
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Sprout Social's customer support is extremely responsive. They're also always looking for suggestions on how they can make the product better and will actually take your ideas to their team to see if they're worth implementing. I've never had an issue that couldn't be resolved by them in a timely manner.
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    Online Training
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Their training is good, but the promotion of it is even better. I don't need or have the time for training, but I was always happy to know it was there. They did a great job sending updates out and making me aware when there was a new feature that I may want training for. As for the training I never used it, so I can't comment on that
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    Implementation Rating
    Cool Tabs
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Make sure you do it all the way. Do not break it into phases. Pour yourself a coffee, start it in the morning and you'll be done before you finish that coffee.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cool Tabs
    Easypromos is one of the best tools you can use to run your contests. The application allows you to create contests for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.You can choose the objective of your campaign, whether it is to increase followers, improve your brand awareness, etc., and you can run various types of promotional initiatives, including giveaways, games, and quizzes.
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    Sprout Social
    We are constantly exploring our options and looking for the most cutting-edge products that suit our needs as a business. Sprout ticked the boxes for what we needed when it was time for a change. Both are powerful tools, and you can only see by doing.
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    Return on Investment
    Cool Tabs
    • Cool Tabs allows us to tweak our social media pages to suit the customers' interaction.
    • When the customer is engaged, they are more likely to share and or inquire about what we do.
    • Since we have been using this, we have had a 10% increase in customer engagement, which in return, helps us deliver quality information.
    Incentivized
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    Sprout Social
    • One positive impact has been a huge time saver for our team. Where we once had multiple systems and delays from producing content to approval to publishing, now everything is seamless.
    • Another positive impact is streamlining the onboarding process for new team members. Sprout Social is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy to study even for someone completely new to social media.
    • One negative impact has been the time it takes to wade through irrelevant social listening posts. The filtering is not effective enough to eliminate the noise.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Cool Tabs Screenshots

    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

    Sprout Social Screenshots

    Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.