Rule the Social Media
Working hard to manage your social media profiles?
Running whole the day tweeting and posting updates? Wondering if there is some
way to manage it all in a single swipe? Relax, there are. Realizing the
importance of social media nowadays, each and every company makes and maintains
their profiles on various social media platforms. Making their job easier,
numerous software brains have come ahead with intelligent software helping social
media users to manage all their profiles from the same platform. Here are few
among them.
1.
HootSuite
Hootsuite
is the most popular social media management tool for people and businesses to
collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks. It helps in
managing unlimited social profiles, enhanced analytics, advanced message
scheduling, Google Analytics and Facebook insights integration.
To get access to the full
features of Hootsuite, you need to invest in a paid plan.
Works across: About 25
social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook,
Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest
Highlights:
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Update
multiple networks in one step
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Manage
multiple contributors
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Optimize
delivery
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Gather
intelligence by tracking mentions of your brand
·
Social
Analytics reports
·
Employee
advocacy
·
Automatic
content scheduling
Pricing
·
Free
plan includes up to 3 social media profiles
·
Professional-
Rs.630: 10 social profiles, real-time analytics, auto scheduling, social
sweepstakes, unlimited RSS integration
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Team –
Rs.2200: Professional features, up to 20 social profiles, customized analytic
view, bulk content scheduling, team assignments, one on one training, custom
branded URL
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Business-
Rs.6500: Team features, up to 50 social profiles, advanced analytics with data
exports, unlimited app integrations, unlimited social campaigns, 24X7 priority
support
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Enterprise-
Custom Pricing: business plan features and more far reaching facilities
2.
SproutSocial
SproutSocial is an all-in-one browser-based social
media management platform. It integrates
with ZenDesk, UserVoice, and Salesforce to allow you to manage all your
customer support, interactions, and relationships from a single dashboard.
Another advantage is the ability to discover
new people to connect with and systematically remove bad connections,
using the Discovery tools.
Works across: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and
LinkedIn
Highlights:
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Social
Media Dashboard
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Analyse
link performance
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View
Twitter follower demographics and contact details
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Get
engagement & influence scores
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Search
customers by location
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Discover
customers by interest
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Monitor
competitor activity
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Social
CRM tools including shared customer records
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Organize
Contacts
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Audience
engagement tools
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Social
media publishing
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Integrated
analytics
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Fully
Integrated Publishing Tools
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Sprout's
Viral Post
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Send Time
Optimization
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Centralized
Analytics & Reporting
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Unified
Smart Inbox
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Profile
reports and message-level analytics
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Customer
support features - tasks and Helpdesk integration
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Team
collaboration tools, live activity updates
Pricing
- Free
Trial available
- Deluxe
– $59 per user/month: Manage up to 10 profiles, 5 brand keywords,
smart inbox, scheduling, brand monitoring, and reports.
- Premium
– $99 per user/month: Everything in Deluxe, plus up to 20 social
media profiles. Also includes additional reporting and integration
features.
- Team
– $500/month: Everything in Premium, plus up to 30 social media
profiles and 5 users. Also includes additional team management features
and 24/7 support.
3.
CrowdBooster
While you
can use it as a scheduling tool to post updates, the real advantage
Crowdbooster comes in its ability to identify your most valuable and most
active fans and followers so that you can interact with them
directly. It also analyses the data in order to recommend ideal posting
times for both Facebook and Twitter.
Works across: Facebook and Twitter
Highlights
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Visual and
real-time performance metrics
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Alerts
and notifications
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Measure
and track audience growth
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Track
retweets, replies, likes, comments and more
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Drill-down
into each message
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Analyse
Facebook posts and Twitter Tweets
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Identify
biggest fans
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Schedule
Tweets and Facebook posts
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Optimal
time to schedule recommendations
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Download
data to .csv
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Manage
multiple social accounts
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Multiple
access permissions
Pricing
- Free
trial available
- Bronze
– $9/month: 1 Facebook page, 1 Twitter, 1 user with a limit of 50k
fans and followers. Includes audience growth, reach, and engagement
metrics, social media scheduler, email reports, and online support.
- Silver
– $49/month: 10 social media accounts, 8 users, and unlimited fans
and followers. Everything in the Bronze package, plus management for
multiple users and priority email support.––
- Gold
–$119/month: 30 social media accounts, 30 users, unlimited fans and
followers. Everything in the Silver package, plus a dedicated account
manager.
4.
Buffer
If you’re looking for software that is
easy to navigate, looks simple, and can make your team more efficient,
then Buffer is
definitely your key to managing social media. It offers the option of automatic
posting and determines the right posting times for your brand, based on the
engagement of your audience. The Buffer app also
provides analytics about the engagement and the reach of your posts.
It also
offers a number of extensions through Chrome, Firefox and Safari that make
sharing what you find on the web that much easier. Buffer also includes an
image editor that allows users to created perfect sizes and formats for each
social platform.
Works across: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and
LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest
Highlights
·
Connect
RSS feeds to your Buffer
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Detailed
Social Analytics
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Add up to
100 posts and tweets
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Multiple
Social Networks
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Sharing
across 10 Social Profiles
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Over 50
Apps and Extras
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Buffer
profiles colleague management
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Share All
Media Formats
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Business
and agency plans
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Analytics
& Insights
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Aggregated
stats, comparison and more
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Native
apps for iPhone and Android
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Team
collaboration with admin rights
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High
security with 2-Step Login
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Custom
Scheduling
·
Standard
Buffering
Pricing
All
Buffer plans are 50% off for non-profits
·
Free
trial is available
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Individual
– Free for ever: Includes 1 social account per platform and 10 schedules posts
per profile.
·
Awesome –
$10/month: Includes 10 social accounts and 100 scheduled posts per profile.
·
Small –
$99/month: Includes 25 social accounts, 5 additional team members, 2000
scheduled posts per profile.
·
Medium –
$199/month: Includes 50 social accounts, 10 additional team members, and 2000
scheduled posts per profile.
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Large –
$399/month: Includes 150 social accounts, 25 additional team members and 2000
scheduled posts per profile.
5. IFTTT
IFTTT stands for “If this then that”. It
can also automate sharing new blog posts to social, tweet Instagram posts as
native Twitter photos, share Instagram posts to a Facebook page and much more. 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.
Works across:
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, blog and more
Highlights
·
Syndicate
data via social channels
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Create
corresponding triggers to actions
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Connect
online applications
·
300+
application integrations
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IOS,
Android, Google Play
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Allows
auto-backups
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Establish
user channels
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Manage
triggers
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Coordinate
actions
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Create
ingredients
·
Generate
recipes
·
Polling
periods
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121
channels available
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Build
elaborate mediums
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Customize
on the go
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Desktop
portal available
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Ongoing
app integrations
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Free to
download
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YouTube
tutorials available
·
Twitter
support
Pricing
·
Partner-
$199 per month, billed annually. Publish a service; make Applets and embed them
in your app andwebsite, Access in-depth analytics, Unlimitted users.
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Partner
Plus- $499 per month, billed annually. Works with their team to explore custom
options for your brand.
It helps you manage paid, owned,
and earned social media campaigns in one place. Social Flow recommends specific
posts, pins, or tweets for you to promote. You can use keywords and
segmentation to analyze these campaigns.
Works across:
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google +
Highlights
- Analyze
real-time conversational data
- Maximize
clicks, Retweets, mentions and follower growth
- Automatic,
audience-targeted delivery of social messages
- Predictive
analytics and proprietary language technology
- Promote
Messages and Tweets
- Processes
over 1 TB of data each day
- Ads
API partner
- Real-time
analytics and a resonance predictor
- Intelligent
publishing and purchasing
- Single
message reporting
- Discover
best interaction times with your target audience
- Google
analytics docking
- Live
monitoring of trending information
- Custom
reporting and custom content streams
- Optimize
delivery and evaluate messages in real time
- Promoted
Tweet recommendation
- Maximize
clicks, Retweets, mentions and follower growth
- High-performance
technology and scientific data analysis
Pricing
Socialflow
has not provided pricing information and public pricing information is
unavailable.