Top 10 Tools That Will Take Your Social Media Marketing to The Next Level
Social media marketing continues to be one
of the most cost-effective online marketing strategies. Unlike paid
advertising, it’s possible to grow your visibility and build awareness about
your brand without directly paying for it.
These social media tools will help you to
find more content to share, schedule your posts efficiently, measure and
analyze the effectiveness of your campaigns, and use those insights to improve
your campaigns.
1. Buffer
Buffer is one of the most recognized tools in the industry.
With it, you can schedule any types of posts across any platform you want, even
specifying patterns of posts, such as “every day” or “weekdays.” You can also
use Buffer to follow up on your posts, evaluating which ones were most
effective, and why they were effective.
2. Sprout Social
Sprout Social is an all-in-one social media marketing tool
to help managers better control their efforts. It features multi-level access,
allowing directorial control, and access from lower-level team members to
better coordinate and delegate tasks. It comes with full post scheduling
capabilities, a detailed analytics platform, and even a social listening
platform to better understand how your demographics use your platforms of
choice.
3. MeetEdgar
MeetEdgar is a social media scheduling tool that allows you
to recycle old posts. All you have to do is organize your posts by category,
schedule your content by category, and then Edgar will automatically go through
and post your content from each category. Once it’s gone through all of your
scheduled posts, it will start recycling the older updates.
4. Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a simple but powerful tool for the average
social media marketer. With a free version and relatively inexpensive paid
options, you can use Hootsuite to schedule posts in advance on a number of
different social platforms and measure analytics to understand how your content
is performing.
5. IFTTT
IFTTT
is an acronym that stands for “if this, then that”. With it, you can combine
different tools together to create individual “recipes,” or sets of
instructions. For example, you can set it up to send a tweet every time you
make a new Instagram post. It’s a bit tricky to get used to at first, but you
can use other recipes to simply plug and play. Best of all, it’s completely
free to use.
6. SocialOomph
When you first look at SocialOomph, it may
seem simpler than some of the other apps on this list, but its functionality
makes it a keeper. With SocialOomph, you can bulk upload a mass of different
updates all at once. For example, you can list a number of blog posts in a text
file and upload them to be randomly distributed at certain time-based intervals
on the platforms of your choice. Here, you’ll also have access to intuitive
follower analysis features and tools to help you improve your audience
engagement.
7. BuzzSumo
BuzzSumo is one of the best tools we’ve found for
discovering new, fresh, or popular content on the web. With it, you can plug in
a topic or a selection of keywords and find a breakdown of some of the most
popular trending posts in those categories, as well as a list of influencers
who are sharing that content. This is an excellent way to learn new ideas for
your content
marketing and social media campaigns, as well as to identify influencers in
your industry who can help you grow your following, visibility, and reputation.
8. Feedly
Feedly is best known as a content discovery tool, like
BuzzSumo, but it works a bit differently. Feedly is a content aggregator, and
you can use it to collect content from any number of different areas, combining
your ideal reading material into a single feed that you can peruse at your
leisure. It won’t offer the same in-depth metrics that BuzzSumo does, but it
will give you ample reading material, so you never run out of things to post
about on your social profiles.
9. Oktopost
Oktopost is a social media management tool specifically
designed for B2B companies. It allows you to schedule your content, measure its
effectiveness, curate
content to share and listen to the social conversations that are important
for your business. It even helps you to manage large social media teams.
10. Tagboard
Tagboard is a social listening tool. All you have to do is
plug in a term, topic, or hashtag, and you’ll see how that topic has been
discussed in the social sphere. It’s an advanced way to monitor things like
brand and product mentions, but it’s also a useful tool to generate new ideas
on what to post and how to engage your audience (especially as trends develop).
These 10 social media marketing tools will help you take your social media results to the next level.
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