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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

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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.


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Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
Reno, NV
Twitter
@shortstacklab
7,149 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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10 employees on LinkedIn®

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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.
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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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Co-Founder and Director of Social Media
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

I've been using Shortstack for 6 years now, and I LOVE it. Not only is Shortstack easy to use, even for non developers like me, but their customer service team is ON IT. If I ever have a question, whether it be a dumb question about a widget or a very in-depth question about tracking codes from third-party sites, they have always been quick to get back to me. Even if they don't typically provide guidance for a certain feature (third party tracking) they gathered the whole team together until they found a solution for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Haven't found anything I dislike yet! I guess my only complaint is that the software improves pretty often, so just when I think I have it down, there's a new update I have to learn. But that's not a bad thing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

It's high-quality service at low cost. How can you go wrong with that? Shortstack is a MUST for small business and huge agencies alike! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We don't have an on-staff web developer, and with Shortstack, we don't need one! We're able to build giant campaigns for worldwide brands, where more than 300,000 people participate, all on our own. Shortstack makes us look good and keeps our social media fans engaged and excited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sr. Project Manager - Digital
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

By far and away the support staff at Shortstack is my favorite feature. Their responsiveness and ability to answer any questions that we throw at them is uncanny. The best in the biz! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

There's not much that I have found that I dislike about Shortstack. Just being honest! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When our high level developers are working on other projects, Shortstack is a great tool for our digital project manager to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BD
Social Media Coordinator
Consumer Goods
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

The ease of having any questions I had answered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

I did not find anything I disliked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We wanted to run an in house contest. The ease of using short stack allowed us to focus our time and efforts elsewhere and not worrying about set up and execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

I love the support and the ability to do so many great things with Facebook apps. There are great integrations, it is easy to set it up with a Facebook app and the Shortstack team are there to support you through every step of the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Nothing really. I found it a bit hard to work out at first, but the support was incredible and got me sorted straight away. Usually support will take days to get a problem resolved. Not at Shortstack. I had several questions, all in separate tickets and Ashley (support person) answered them all promptly, with screenshots and made the learning curve a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

Definitely give it a try and if you have any problems just contact support because they will definitely help you and make sure you get set up and working really quickly. I even considered paying someone to set it up but Shorstack support had me work it out before the other person had even contacted me! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

More leads and lead conversions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

Many widgets in a user friendly interface!

Lets you completly design your landing pages and contests, making them seriously original, not having to use any pre-established templates, and making it super easy (drag and drop!!!!) to design your own template.

Basically what Im saying is that it will let you go as far as your imagination, and basic intuitive computer skills will let you.

Of course if your outdated and cant even turn on the computer for any other than word or excel, maybe, and just maybe, you wont get it then...

I was having the hardest time finding an app that would let me run a facebook integrated music contest, and couldnt find one. This app is SOOOO friendly, I designed a photo contest, to do the works of the music contest, thats how versatile it is.

Plus, the staff are super friendly, always answering fast and friendly!

Do try, totally worth your buck! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

As it automatically does a verification for false voting, it alows either FB or IP adress, I wish it would alow the checking of both boxes, as it would make it so much more secure in only one vote per person contests. All else is GREAT!!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

Totally worth trying, at least get the free trial , and try the desgin software for your campaigns, that alone will make you fall for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Did a music contest for an electronic music festival, which ran ever so smoothly. Last year I ran it trough another site (not naming names) and it keep going offline, not registering votes, and many more issues. Luckily this year I ran into this FAB app, and had the sweatest experience, Worth every penny ;) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Creative Director
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

We enjoy the ability to look through the various pre-made templates, select the one that best fits the clients needs, and then make modifications to the CSS/interactions. It's both timesaving and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

It is very unfortunate that Shortstack doesn't support the ability to set a Google Map with interactive/clickable locations that would show possible locations for something. There is a workaround feature which is to take a screenshot of actual GoogleMaps, but that doesn't solve the issue for clients who want interactive engagement on their app. (Especially when the client is a global entity) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

If you're looking for a good solution to your Facebook campaign needs, this is a tool. Just make sure you study up on your CSS, or at least be willing to do some research. The customer service is extremely helpful so they are always willing to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are currently solving the issue of clients wanting quick solutions that look great while converting their social audience into new business. Shortstack provides a lot of functionality for our clients in a single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AH
Social Media Specialist
Food & Beverages
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

I love that Shortstack is very user friendly, while also allowing you to change the CSS to fully customize your app to your brand. If you are new to Shortstack, they offer many templates and ideas to choose from to begin customizing. This feature is important to us, as we constantly have interns working with the program that need to be able to quickly learn the features. If you get stuck on anything, Shortstack is just a call, email or instant message away for any questions you may have. They are timely in their response rate, and very friendly and helpful. They even have helpful videos built into the back side of the program to help you successfully build your campaign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

I don't dislike anything about Shortstack. I am 100% happy with the product and happy with the continued support and changes they have made to the program. This has helped our company reach new goals and provide us with rich content for all of our social platforms. I look forward to seeing what they come out with next! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

If you are looking to boost your page and grow your company, Shortstack has all the right tools to help you along the way. With everything from quizzes to photo contest, you get a wide variety of promotion material that will keep your fans engaged and happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We do most of our digital marketing and social media in house. Shortstack has given us the opportunity to make innovative promotions fast! To sum it up, Shortstack is everything you need. It's customization, affordable, user friendly, and effective! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Co-Host
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

After 4+ years as a loyal customer and with dozens of promotions deployed, count me as a Shortstack fan! I appreciate Shortstack's reliability and consistent platform innovation but most of all value the absolute commitment to customer and technical support and truly outstanding level of care provided. It goes above and beyond and that’s a rare thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

I don't think there's anything I could say that I "dislike". In the 4 years of using the product there have been times I'd wished there were certain tools or functionality that existed, but through consistent platform upgrades and new features all of those needs have been right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

I recommend Shortstack often and actually go out of my way to endorse them based on the quality of product and amazing customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The challenge is to build and deploy quality Facebook and web-based promotions in a time and cost effective manner. Using Shortstack we've been able to do that consistently and very affordably. We've seen very successful promotions that have been tremendously beneficial to email/data acquisition and in driving social engagement. With the ease of use of the platform we've been able to optimize promotions in real time and gain valuable insight from the integrated analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RS
Digital Strategist
Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about ShortStack?

Their customer support is phenomenal. If I have a question they answer it usually within 20 minutes! The questions can range from "what's the best type of campaign" or even them fixing my CSS/HTML issues! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

There are so many options for things you can do that it almost feels overwhelming. It's a tough line to walk, but they navigate it well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

Give their try a try - it's free and definitely worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work for a marketing agency. We use shortstack to run Facebook contests on behalf of our clients. Their superstar support team always answers my questions, fixes my campaigns, and makes me look better than I am when it comes to HTML and CSS. They're also always very nice and follow up within 20 minutes of my questions being asked! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ShortStack?

Shortstack creates professional social media contests and features. I used Shortstack for my client CATABUS for the previous three years in a Facebook photo contest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ShortStack?

Complex setup was difficult to navigate. I feel like someone who understands code would find it easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ShortStack:

If you're experienced in building campaigns give this a try. If you're new, the complex setup may be a turn off Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very professional campaign setup for my clients social media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.