Top 10 Social Media Tools

There are many social media tools and most people do not know the best to use. Some people do not even know the best of all the features available. Today, I’ll be treating a list of 10 social management tools I believe are great for both beginners and experts. The following are my top 10 social media management tools:

1 Hootsuite

This platform was created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. It takes the form of a dashboard. it also supports social media integration for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the likes. Hootsuite also has robust content features like organization, scheduling, content creation, etc

It should be noted that, it does not offer the ability to find influencers. It does not have a social box. You have to manually engage with each follower.

2 eClincher

eClincher is a cloud-based social media management tool that helps businesses manage social-media accounts and marketing activities. eClincher lets users manage social-media profiles in one place for brand awareness, publishing, engagement, content creation and social selling. eClincer’s post publishing and scheduling tool lets users create and manage drafts, queue content and auto-post. Content management and creation tools let users create and share images and animated gifs, and a free image library is included. Users can monitor and engage with live social feeds and custom search feeds. The inbox displays messages, comments, notifications and new followers across various social channels.

3 Buffer

This application was designed by a group of European experts in San Francisco, most notably Joel Gascoigne and Leo Widrich. Gascoigne is currently the CEO of Buffer

Buffer is a software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in social networks, by providing the means for a user to schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Linkedin, as well as analyze their results and engage with their community. Buffer is also the name of the company that creates this software.

 There are various default time slots in the application, which are based on the times during the day when social media users are most active online. The Buffer application is compatible with three different platforms:

Browser: Google Chrome, Safari and Mozilla Firefox.

Mobile:  iOS systems and Android phones.

Newsreader: Flipboard and Zite

4 Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management and optimization platform for brands and agencies of all sizes. It is just similar to Hootsuite. It combines varieties of tools. It has the social box, unlike the Hootsuite. It doesn’t have an influence search feature. It supports Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.  it gives one a single hub for social media publishing, analytics and engagement across all social profiles. It is not free.

5 Tweet Deck

This tool is a dashboard for the management of Twitter accounts. It allows users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It consists of a series of customizable columns, which can be set up to display the user’s Twitter timelines, mentions, direct messages, lists, trends, hashtags, etc. it also allow users to monitor multiple accounts  simultaneously.

6 Sendible

This is a social media management tool that helps agencies and companies to boost their productivity on social media.

The platform is dedicated to monitoring, analytics, and audience engagement which can be equally useful to small, medium, and large businesses from all industries. It comes with wide range of features that comes with excellent usability. It is similar to the service offered by Hootsuite, but with a few key differences.

7 Social Pilots       

This is social media management tool that helps to manage all major social media accounts and improve efficiency on the platform with automated post scheduling and many other unique features. It helps to schedule posts to social media networks like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. it is very good for social media professionals and digital marketers

8 Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics service on the web. Google Analytics provides an SDK that allows gathering usage data from IOS and Android Apps known as Google Analytics for Mobile Apps. It is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google analytics is used to track the website activity of the users such as session duration, pages per session, bounce rate etc. along with the information on the source of the traffic

Google Analytics analysis can identify poorly performing pages with techniques such as funnel visualization, where visitors, how long they stayed on the website and their geographical position. It also provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation

9 Zoho Social

Zoho Social is a social media management tool that helps businesses and agencies grow their presence on social media. It helps to manage multiple profiles, research relevant keywords, work with team members and of course schedule posts from one dashboard, the beautiful thing about this is that, there a lot of free plans so one can experiment and find the platform that works best for ones social strategy.

10 MeetEdgar

MeetEdgar is a social media management tool that optimizes social traffic. It is designed to help brands perform the tasks of a content manager without needing to hire one. It is ideal for companies that create evergreen content; the app complements their content marketing strategies.

MeetEdgar connect to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and through a web plug-in, it can be accessed from any mobile device. You can schedule content re-sharing and watch your traffic and engagement. By continuously sharing your evergreen content you double your traffic and increase audience engagement. It can be accessed with any mobile.  

All social media tools have good features. If you want to have the best of all the tools that has all the features to boost engagement and, grow business, the above listed tools are the best I approve.