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What do you like best about ShortStack?

After 6 years of using custom built tools that were expensive and needed a lot of maintenance we decided to switch to Shortstack. So easy to use, affordable and have never had any issues!awes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Nothing - I think it’s a great tool and have never had any issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Social media giveaways and short forms on web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ShortStack Overview

What is ShortStack?

Build viral contests, giveaways, quizzes, polls, and other interactive digital content. Pick from 150+ fully customizeable templates. Launch campaigns that explode engagement and leads. Try it for free! Customize your content the way you want. No restrictions. - Easily customize, rearrange, or completely remodel any template - Create unique user experiences with granular settings and controls - Collect valuable data with highly customizable smart forms Quickly launch interactive contests with one of our 150+ templates. - Templates include instant win, scratch-and-win, spin-the-wheel, quizzes, puzzles, and more - Gather UGC from followers with a hashtag or comment-to-enter contest - Embed content on your website, publish as standalone landing pages, or pop-ups Run unlimited campaigns for all your projects under one roof with ShortStack. - Organize campaigns by project, division, client – any way you want - Get hassle-free control over entry collection, moderation, and winner selection - Seamlessly analyze campaign data and schedule comprehensive follow-ups with leads

ShortStack Details
Languages Supported
German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
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Product Description

Create Facebook apps and build engaging social media marketing campaigns contests, promotions, and much more.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

ShortStack offers gorgeous, professionally designed and completely customizable templates at a fraction of the cost of our competitors.

Whether you’re a business whose projects require team collaboration or an agency that manages multiple brands, ShortStack works. Features like tagging, and the ability to assign roles for specific campaigns, help your whole team work efficiently.

Choose a template based on what you want to do -- for example, run a contest or sweepstakes, host a quiz or collect responses to a survey. Even free users can use ShortStack templates.

Embed your campaigns on your website, publish them on Facebook, or both!

With ShortStack, you can brand your URL, your campaign, your autoresponders, etc. Your customers and clients never need to know you’re using a third-party tool.

Comprehensive analytics show you who is entering your campaigns, where they’re based, and what kind of device they’re on. In real time.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
Reno, NV
Twitter
@shortstacklab
7,309 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
10 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent ShortStack Reviews

Brent S.
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Brent S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Flexable, Fun and Effective"
Easy to use. Several templates to choose from. Immediate real time leads sent directly to your client.
Cassie G.
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Cassie G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Overall good, east to manage contests and winners"
The contests were easy to build and manage, forms were easy in their WYSIWYG and embedded onto our site super easily!
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Delmar S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Engaging persons through one link"
What I like best about this application is that if you want an engaging link in your Instagram bio, then this is the application to have as it crea...
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ShortStack Media

ShortStack Demo - Build customizable contests, sweepstakes and instant win games
All the tools you need to create unique landing pages and quizzes, run social contests, choose winners, send emails and analyze results.
ShortStack Demo - Run hashtag and comment to enter contests
An Instagram hashtag contest is the simplest way to gather user-generated content (UGC), increase brand awareness, recruit brand ambassadors and reach a new audience. Plus, comment to enter contests on Instagram and Facebook allow you to easily engage your audience.
ShortStack Demo - Captivate new audiences and re-engage existing customers with games
Use our quiz, scratch and win, fortune wheel, puzzles, spin the reels and additional templates to entertain your visitors while collecting valuable data.
ShortStack Demo - Embed everywhere
It’s easy to embed your campaigns on your website and publish as standalone landing pages.
ShortStack Demo - Take complete brand control of your campaign from start to finish
Customize the appearance of your landing page to match your brand. You can modify the layout and add your own images and text. Plus, with a white label plan, ShortStack branding is completely removed from the landing pages you create. That means no ShortStack branded footer, no ShortStack badge i...
ShortStack Demo - Real-time analytics
Your real-time analytics dashboard delivers the insights needed to fine-tune your landing pages, contests, and forms.
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4.5 out of 5

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Brent S.
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

Easy to use. Several templates to choose from. Immediate real time leads sent directly to your client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Honestly, nothing. It's awesome and was a cornerstone of our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

auotomation and speed to market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cassie G.
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

The contests were easy to build and manage, forms were easy in their WYSIWYG and embedded onto our site super easily! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Not super feature-rich. Difficult to divorce from their system and get my data . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

Good platform, consider if you need data extracts or how you will manage that. Overall good tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making a custom UI for a contest and managing the winners in a non-biased, click of a button way is super helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shelley F.
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

I love how easy and quick you can set up a very professional looking site that allows you to collect important data and re-market to those who enter. There is a bit of a learning curve on all the widgets, but once you figure them out it makes developing your entry site a snap. ShortStack has allowed us to collect entries, survey questions and encourage social media engagement with our brand, resulting in increased awareness and new consumer acquisition opportunities. The ShortStack field points feature makes it easy to award extra entries. With this feature, you choose which fields entrants will receive extra entries for filling out and how many points those fields are worth. When choosing a winner, these extra entries can be applied to increase the chances of winning for those who earned them. Plus, our Earn Extra Points Giveaway template is an easy way to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

I honestly have not had any big issues or dislikes with ShortStack other than maybe it starts to get a bit pricy when you have to move up plan levels to the Brand Plan (once you exceed over 50,000 entries) but you do have the option to pause the account while not in use and you can also download and clear the number of entries in order to downgrade levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

If you run any kind of sweepstakes or contests online, this should be your go to software! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gathering soft leads, Brand Awareness, Social Media Engagement (User Generated Content), Re-Marketing Database and opportunity to offer direct purchase promotional offers to help increase sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

What I like best about this application is that if you want an engaging link in your Instagram bio, then this is the application to have as it creates social contests amongst customers and views of one's page which is good for engagement. The features you can use depend on the kind of contests you wish to launch, this means there is a wide variety of features with the application. Aside from using the link on one's Instagram bio, you can also embed the contest landing page on your website to maiximize visibility and generate more entries this means the link is able to use everywhere including in WhatsApp messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

What I dislike about this application is that it takes a while to get set up before one can use the link, it requires one to have a lot of tech knowledge in order to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

I recommend this application simply because it helps to keep customers engaged which is a really good thing to do because once they are engaged they will want to stay with a certain brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem that this application is solving is that of allowing companies, small business owners, and even regular persons the chance to always engage persons on social media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

Customer service is A+, and the range of customization is fantastic!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

No dislikes. This is a great program and if you have questions, they are always ready to help! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Short stack helps our organization get more traffic to our social and websites and also has so many more features we are excited to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

It's easy to use and fairly simply to customize which makes the entire expierence pretty pleasant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

I wish it was a little less expensive as far as a license goes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

If you need a contest platform for data collection then look no further! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building our customer database through contesting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

It's incredibly easy to use and integrates seamlessly with mailchimp and websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

There is a bit of a learning curve and the customizable options could be expanded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Shortstack for internal contests for our Fortune 500 company of around 300 people. It was a great way to streamline raffles, weekly incentive contests and fundraisers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Randy M.
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

Ease of use, customer service, lots of customization and options, very affordable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

I've only ever received one package of great ShortStack swag from their customer service department, love my green ShortStack t-shirt. Seriously though I can't think of anyting I really dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

Try their free trial and speak with their customer service through the online chat if you have any questions, options are almost limitless with ShortStack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better workflow, shorter development time, better integrity, ease of use, creative design. etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

It truly is definitely very simple to established up a contest or landing site rapidly, with simple to switch templates plus the new topic customization. You could insert your very own codes and scripts to provide you with more characteristics as opposed to the wide range you'll find currently.

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What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Information: retrieval and exportation are rather confined to your tiny amount of applications, as well as the deficiency of an API implies that there is certainly no workaround. My organization utilizes electronic mail and CRM resources which are not supported by Shortstack so all knowledge retrieval needs to be a handbook, which just isn't wonderful if we would like to call entrants ASAP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

If you are desirous to discover how competitions and contests can do the job on your organization and you've got only obtained a little spending plan, then Shortstack is amazing! Commit a while earning your themes and web page templates in case you are intending to operate several comparable strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

We started off carrying out competitions eighteen months back whenever we bought Shortstack, and it really is proved to get a useful strategy of direct technology, purchasing alone numerous situations above. It can be permitted us to increase our prospective buyer's databases and achieve shoppers we would not normally have gotten before. It can be also aided us to assemble user-generated information, providing us with much more written content for subsequent advertising and marketing strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

We are new to the platform but have been so impressed with their quick, customized customer service. Very responsive and so helpful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

There's definitely a learning curve but that's par for the course when you're using something with a high level of capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ShortStack solving and how is that benefiting you?

lead generation, nice design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.