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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.N/A

    Meta Business Suite

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
    Pricing
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteMeta Business Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteMeta Business Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteMeta Business Suite
    Considered Both Products
    CoSchedule
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    Meta Platforms Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    65%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteMeta Business Suite
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Meta Business Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Meta Business Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Content distribution10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Meta Business Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    4.7
    4 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings4.33 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings5.34 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    6.3
    6 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings6.36 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings5.24 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    5.3
    5 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings5.83 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings4.14 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    6.2
    4 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    6.3
    6 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings6.26 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    4.8
    5 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings4.75 Ratings
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    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Score9.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    5.3
    (98 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.2
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule is great for businesses or agencies who need an overview of all their marketing efforts, and who want to establish collaboration between multiple departments. The calendar view is one of the best we've worked with and makes it easy to see exactly what's happening. There is some slight clunkiness when it comes to admin-related tasks, and a few things aren't easy to find, but there's great support.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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    Pros
    CoSchedule
    • Best time to post is great at updating to when we get the most engagement by platform
    • Requeue tool to slate out additional posts for a given piece of content is a huge time saver
    • Aggregate analytics tool shows us a peek across our posts on a given platform that's actually easier to read than the platform itself
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
    • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
    • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
    • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
    • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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    Cons
    CoSchedule
    • The platform seems sluggish as of late, likely as a result of the robust amount of data we are entering and the number of filters we're creating.
    • Social media scheduling exists, but we do run into publishing errors more often then we'd like.
    • Task templates when updated are not retroactive, so when you create projects for an entire year and then change a template, you need to go back and change them manually.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
    • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
    • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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    Usability
    CoSchedule
    The interface is very intuitive, from setting up social profiles, to posting, to tags, to optimizing for best day/time to post. It's super easy to scan the aggregate analytics. The calendar is very easy to grok at a glance, and the more advanced functionality is intuitive to set up.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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    Reliability and Availability
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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    Performance
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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    Support Rating
    CoSchedule
    I didn't have to use their official support, but I can say that they put out a lot of content online to help users. Their YouTube page has quite an array of tutorial videos explaining how things work and how to get the most out of their tools. If you're struggling, before picking up a phone or blasting off an email, try searching for your problem on YouTube or their forums.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    CoSchedule
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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    Alternatives Considered
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule provides collaborative planning of projects. The calendar view is very well designed. Meetings and tasks can be scheduled and tracked easily. Whatever is being done, no matter how big the task/project is, it gives a bird-eye view of everything. Additionally, it also integrated very well with WordPress. Their customer service team is also very helpful.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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    Scalability
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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    Return on Investment
    CoSchedule
    • It has saved me about 1 hour per day to keep things organized from Asana to WordPress.
    • By not having a functioning Google Doc import feature, it costs me about 30 minutes for each blog post to copy paste all the content, images, etc.
    • By bundling too many features into their plans, many of which we don't use (e.g. social media scheduling), we lose a little ROI because we are not using the full feature set. We use and prefer Buffer for social media, so when CoSchedule raised their price $40+ per month on features we would not be using, that hurt.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
    • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
    • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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    ScreenShots

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of Calendar Organizer: Visualizes everything in real time, and shows every project on a unified calendar of record. Helps to keep stakeholders in the know and pivot quickly when priorities change.Screenshot of Content Organizer: Eliminates content bottlenecks from idea to promotion. Optimizes the editorial process, and centralizes publishing and promotion by connecting marketing tools.Screenshot of Work Organizer: Maximizes resources by implementing consistent, defined workflows to speed up production and identify how urgent changes impact proactively planned work.Screenshot of Asset Organizer: Catalogs and maintains control of brand assets with customized taxonomies to find, update, and share files. Folders and files can be shared with stakeholders to make sure work is up-to-date.Screenshot of Idea Board: Used to write down ideas, take in requests, and prioritize the projects that are up-next, before giving them a publish date and putting them on the calendar organizer.Screenshot of An AI-powered Marketing Intelligence Assistant that can be used to write first-draft copy, complete work faster, and generate new ideas.