Social media is one of the most effective ways for you and your business to get more traffic and generate new leads. Having the right social media management tools and a presence on all the major networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn is a necessity these days for any business. But what kind of marketing software, dashboards and publishing tools are the social media manager gurus actually using to juggle these multiple accounts?
1 Hootsuite
HootSuite is the most popular social media management tool for people and businesses to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks like Facebook and Twitter from one web-based dashboard. Hootsuite has become an essential tool for managing social media, tracking conversations and measuring campaign results via the web or mobile devices. Hootsuite offers a free, pro and enterprise solution for managing unlimited social profiles, enhanced analytics, advanced message scheduling, Google Analytics and Facebook insights integration.
2 Buffer
Buffer is a smart and easy way to schedule content across social media. Think of Buffer like a virtual queue you can use to fill with content and then stagger posting times throughout the day. This lets you keep to a consistent social media schedule all week long without worrying about micro-managing the delivery times. The Bufferapp also provides analytics about the engagement and reach of your posts.
3 IFTTT
IFTTT is a powerful Internet automation site that can save you a lot of time managing social media and other tasks through recipes. You can essentially connect any major network or channel together to automate sharing on sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more based on any action you desire. Like sending out a tweet automatically every time you publish a new blog post or getting an email when your favorite magazine has something new to say. Plus best of all, it works well with Buffer and Hootsuite and just enhances those tools even further and is a must use for any serious social media professional.
4 SocialOomph
SocialOomph is a neat web tool that provides a host of free and paid productivity enhancements for social media. You can do a lot with the site which includes functions for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plurk and your blog. There are a ton of useful Twitter features like scheduling tweets, tracking keyword, viewing mentions and retweets, DM inbox cleanup, auto-follow and auto-DM features for new followers. Social Oomph will auto-follow any new follower of yours on Twitter if you like, which could save you a ton of time if you normally like to reciprocate follows. Social Oomph is so effective at increasing social media productivity that I use the site every day but haven’t had any reason to actually log in there since last year!
5 TweetDeck
Tweetdeck is a web and desktop solution to monitor and manage your Twitter feeds with powerful filters to focus on what matters. You can also schedule tweets and stay up to date with notification alerts for new tweets. Tweetdeck, who was purchased by Twitter, is available for Chrome browsers, as well as Windows and Mac desktops. Recently they closed down their mobile apps to re-shift focus on the web and desktop platforms.
6 Tweepi
Tweepi is a unique management tool for Twitter that lets you flush unfollowers, cleanup inactives, reciprocate following and follow interesting new tweeps! The pro version allows you to do bulk follow/unfollow actions of up to 200 users at a time making it a pretty powerful tool for Twitter management.
7 SocialFlow
Social Flow is an interesting business solution to watch real-time conversation on social media in order to predict the best times for publishing content to capture peak attention from target audiences. Some major publishers use Social Flow which includes National Geographic, Mashable, The Economist and The Washington Post to name a few. Social Flow offers a full suite of services that looks to expand audience engagement and increase revenue per customer. In addition to its Cadence and Crescendo precision products, SocialFlow conducts an analysis of social signals to help identify where marketers should spend money on Promoted Tweets, Promoted Posts and Sponsored Stories, extending the reach and engagement for Twitter and Facebook paid strategies.
8 SproutSocial
Sproutsocial is a powerful management and engagement platform for social business. Sprout Social offers a single stream inbox designed to help you never miss a message, and tools to seamlessly post, colloborate and schedule messages to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. The platform also has monitoring tools and rich analytics to help you visualize important metrics.
9 SocialBro
SocialBro helps businesses learn how to better target and engage with their audience on Twitter. It provides tools to browse your community and identify key influencers, determine when the best time to tweet is, track engagement and analyze your competitors. Socialbro analyzes the timelines of your followers to generate a report showing you when the optimal time to tweet is that would reach the maximum amount of followers for more retweets and replies.
10 CrowdBooster
Crowdbooster offers a set of no-nonsense social media analytics with suggestions and resources to boost your online engagement. The platform provides at-a-glance analytics, recommendations for engagement and timing, audience insights and content scheduling to optimize delivery.
11 ArgyleSocial
Argyle social is social media management tool for savvy B2B marketing. It allows you to merge social data with sales and marketing numbers to identify and engage with more prospects, qualify and quantify better leads and build stronger relationships with social media actions.
12 DashBurst
The latest edition to our favorite social media management tools list is more than just a tool, it’s our very own new social network for content creators! DashBurst is a new multimedia web experience, social network, dashboard and blogging platform. You can explore and share a variety of different content including text, photos, video, audio, articles, infographics, docs, the web and any other media with just one simple Burst! You can also schedule and queue unlimited Bursts for later and watch them automatically get published to your DashBurst and other social media channels simultaneously, saving you time so that you can continue creating or just relax. On top of all that, you can create Boards to curate and showcase interesting content like your own works, must-read articles or anything you else you love too!
Social Media Management Tool Conclusion
For years I’ve been using Hootsuite as a social media dashboard and monitoring platform and Buffer in conjunction with IFTTT as scheduling and content curation tools. But I thought it would be cooler if you could do most of these things in just one place, and make it all social, so I built DashBurst as a content sharing platform and social media management tool. You’re all invited to check it out here and I would love to know what you think about it in the comments below!
So what’s your favorite social media management tool?
These are all great tool thanks for sharing. I have used Hootsuite and Bufferapp and both have upsides but downsides too. Lately I tried Reachpod and think it’s combining both apps in a simpler fashion. Worth adding to your list. http://www.reachpod.com
Hi Murat,
Can you help me?
Do you use these programs for your own business or do you mange others businesses? Michael – info@kosheen.com.au
You have came up with nice list. Thanks for sharing. All the tools have its very own advantages and disadvantages. I have found a tool called Plumlytics and I would like you to take a look at http://plumlytics.com/
Hi Piyush, Can you help me? Do you use these programs for your own business or do you mange others businesses? Michael – info@kosheen.com.au
Great list you got in there!
Here is one I work for http://socialdraft.com what makes us different is we Appify Social Media. So if you need Twitter + Facebook we app that.
Hootsuite, Buffer and IFTTT love the functionality and gets the job done…
Hi Vivien,
Can you help me? Do you use these programs for your own business or do you mange others businesses? Michael – info@kosheen.com.au
Great information….
I also suggest to check out – ZuPush.com (Social Media Management Service on Monthly Subscription).They will manage your entire social media, end-to-end, everything.
Disclaimer : I work there.
Excellent List…
I would like to add an info about the new analytical tool in the market, Social clout.com, which includes monitoring, listening, engagement workflow, social media analytics and social media lead generation. If possible, I would ask you and the users in need of the social media analytical tool to try out the te tool on http://www.socialclout.com , and give yor precious feedback.
This tool would be great asset to the marketing teams of small business because of its features and competitive pricing.
We use Hootsuite, Argyle, Rignite and Mr. Social http://www.mrsocial.me (not on the list) in our company and the combination works very well
Hi Daniel,informative article.I am a social media enthusiast and use Sociota to manage my accounts.Apart from above mentioned tools,Sociota is a user friendly platform to handle facebook profiles,pages and twitter handles.Its additional features help to share maximum information on a regular basis and keep me in regular contact with my new and existing followers.Reports generated by Sociota also help to analyse those fields where one lacks behind and helps to scout the barriers in your social reach.It has really worked to furbished my social profile.Its free trial must be checked out.
can i get the link to your site.??? I would like to try it … also send me some links to the list of features you have … this sounds great so would like to try it once??
Its http://sociota.net/ Thanks for reply.
Hi Daniel, thanks for the useful article. We used Hootsuite but didn’t find it user friendly. Now we’re trying Reachpod. So far it looks nice really. What is your opinion? Did you try it?
Hi Sema. Even I wasn’t satisfied with Hootsuite. Along with unhandy interface, it’s also costly. I prefer Sociota .It has convenient interface along with new and advantageous features and has smoothly managed all my social media accounts. You can find it at http://sociota.net/
I’m in social media marketing and we use Mavsocial because it optimizes video and has free stock photos. I agree with you on hootsuite- maybe it will improve in the future
Can we add Komfo, our difference is, we also have the FB ad manager on board 🙂
http://www.komfo.com