The influence of social media on modern business is ever increasing.
But social media often comes with challenges, such as managing multiple accounts.
It is also difficult to keep up with the rigorous task of putting out relevant content that is unique and engaging.
The success of a brand or company on social media depends on effective management.Click To TweetThere is no question that this responsibility can be time-consuming.
However, the presence of social media management tools allows you to automate some of your social media tasks. In doing so, you can properly manage your account in less time.
Here are some of the social media management tools you need to consider, especially if you are on a tight budget.
Hootsuite
HootSuite is an online management dashboard that helps you manage more than one social media account.
The free version permits three different social media accounts, while the paid version allows unlimited accounts, plus some other extra benefits.
With HootSuite, you can execute a campaign from one web-based platform across multiple social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Starting with the free package is a good option. It can solve most of your social media marketing needs as a small business.
SocialOomph
SocialOomph was originally designed solely for use on Twitter and was formerly known as TweetLater.
The company eventually modified its features to accommodate other social networks and changed its name to SocialOomph.
The free version of SocialOomph limits your activities to Twitter and provides the following:
- Tweet scheduling
- Keyword tracking
- Drafts
- URL shortener
- Mentions/re-tweets monitoring
- DM inbox and Twitter purging
- 5 Twitter accounts (maximum)
- Pre-defined channels (Twitter)
- Private Tweet interests channels
You can manage up to five Twitter accounts, and you can send up to 12 tweets per hour.
You also get a 7-day trial of the professional features without any termination of your free plan after your trial elapses.
While free users can send up to 12 tweets per hour, professionals get unlimited tweets.
Free users don’t get the rotation or recurring options, which means their main benefit is that they can schedule messages for future posting.
Buffer
Buffer makes post scheduling awesome and makes your posts consistent.
You can queue several posts and publish them at a later date.
Also, you can set more than one buffering pattern to guide how often you want your updates to come out at a certain time of the week.
Buffer’s distinct feature is the ability to schedule and manage posts unique to each account. The free version offers:
- 1 social account per platform
- 1 user login
- 10 scheduled post per profile
- Support for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, and Instagram
- Link shortening and tracking
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for managing Twitter accounts.
This platform is completely free, and it does a perfect job of helping you manage and organize as many Twitter accounts as you want.
With TweetDeck, you can:
- Interact with your Twitter list
- Track your mentions
- See who followed you
- Track your direct messages (DM)
- Create custom searches
- Keep up with interactions
- Keep up with your activity
- Use the mobile app
- Manage unlimited number of accounts
- Keep up with trends
Everypost
Everypost allows you to curate, customize, schedule, and publish across multiple social media accounts at once.
It supports popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Dropbox.
One of the unique features of Everypost is that it allows you to customize your posts for each social page before publishing.
So you can customize your content to suit the social platform on which you want to publish. Everypost does not presently have any form of social analytics, but plans to offer this feature in a later version.
The free version allows:
- 1 user login
- Scheduling up to 10 posts
- Content customization
- Content curation
MavSocial
MavSocial functions like most social media management tools. It saves time and allows you to post on various social media platform from one interface.
Most of its best features are restricted to the paid packages.
But its free package allows:
- 1 user login
- 2 social profiles (Facebook and Twitter)
- 10 posts per network daily
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Followerwonk
Followerwonk, formerly known as SEOmoz, is a Twitter analytics tool. The free version unlocks most of the best benefits.
With the free version you can:
- Search Twitter bios
- Compare Twitter users
- Analyze followers/follows
- Overlay your social graph
Micheal Durodola
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It’s hard to cope up with different social networking accounts these days.
It’s 2018 and still the piece of information provided serves great in managing the social life and such a timesaver. I have given a try on all of these tools but I gotta say I love using Everypost.
Thanks much..
Thank you for sharing, Now I am using Everypost to publish my posts to social networking sites. The free version have got pretty cool features.
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Thank you so much for sharing this post, as we were manage all social media accounts individually but hope now through one of above given tolls we can manage all accounts from one place, will be try shortly.
Thanks Again
i tried hootsuit and buffer . they were great tools . I suggest u to try them . thank you for writing this post . big like !
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You gave a very clear and useful information on this Social Media Management tools.
looking for more articles from you.
Thank you so much.
Hello Randy, Social media is a good platform for brand awareness.I am glad you find the post helpful. wish you best of luck
Hey Micheal. All the sites you’ve mentioned in post are really good. It is really considerable social media management tools.
Thanks a lot.
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This is very helpful. The use of social media in business is ever increasing and without doubt on has to at one point manage several social media accounts.
Thanks for the post.
Really given social media tools are very helpful to increase your traffic as well as ranking on search engine.
This is a very helpful article about social media managing tools. Thanks a lot for sharing this article with us.
This post is great i have also tried few things above and hope to get a great result from them too. Also can you please suggest me a good social plugin for my spiritual blog. mY BLOG .It is a spiritual blog currently i am using sumo but it is limited .
Also thanks for this great article.
I am using TweetDeck and its the best for Twitter. Looking for the same tool for Facebook, Pinterest and Google Plus. If you can suggest any. Thanks in advance.
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Hello Badshah, I just suggested some social media management tool. You just need to go through it and look for the one that suits your marketing plan.
Thanks you for sharing this! With social media in bloom its so important to stay on top of WHICH Social media sites to be involved with! When I started my wig business I sent over 400 wigs to the USA… branding was pretty difficult and I spent all my time on MySpace! TOTAL waste of time. Ah but Ces’t la vie… I really messed that up. Now I know better!
@GivernyIt I am glad you find the post interesting.it’s good you have an online marketing strategy before you start. It will save you time. Not all social network site will be perfect your strategy.
Hey, thanks for sharing such an important information..!
I will definitely try these steps..!
I’ve used keyword tracking before and I got a great result from.
It’s my pleasure. You can try them, o am sure you will get good result from it
Thank Michael, It’s an awesome article. This is very helpful for me, I’m going to find social media manager.
The pleasure is mine Rama, I am glad you took time to read the post and commenting
Yes I agree with you that the influence of social media on modern business is ever increasing.Thanks for the Tools you shared with us.
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After long time i got this appropriate information , nice and great stuff .
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Hello mansi, thank you for sharing your thought. I am glad you find the other social media tool helpful…best of luck
Thank you for giving me 7 social networking tools that i am looking for now.
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Very good, thank you so much !
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@SlideFactory. I’m glad to hear that you find the information on social media tool useful. Hope you make best use of it.
Hi micheal
Thanx for sharing this article
I have found New Social media Management tools from your article which is really help me to manage social account
Hootsuite and Buffer are awesome. I use them in several times. Other 5 , I will try them. Thank you for this informational Article.
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