Use These Tools to Automate Your Social Media

Social media has done wonders for many businesses.

It’s helped them grow, allowed business owners to network and meet other like-minded individuals, expanded their knowledge and more.

One thing’s for sure, though – it’s time consuming, and even more so if the social media campaign is super successful.

Make the Effort to be Successful

That leaves you with three options – hire someone to run your social media platforms, invest countless hours of your own time on your platforms or throw in the towel altogether.

Fortunately, thanks to tools that help automate your social media networks, you now have a fourth option – invest in tools to organize your social media tasks to save you both time and money.

According to the article “3 Great tools to automate your social media”, there are tools available to save you time and get your social media platforms running efficiently. Because, let’s face it, business owners are busy enough as it is and social media is usually viewed as just another thing to do at the end of the day.

The article states that the best tools to organize your social media include:

Hootsuite – This vehicle is a social media management system that houses all of your platforms on one page, known as a dashboard. You can easily send one message across multiple platforms with the single click of a button, versus having to go to each individual platform and post what you want to say. You also get free weekly email reports showing how many clicks you’re getting per day, what your most popular links are and more.
Post Planner – Post Planner is a system designed for Facebook only. With Facebook being the number one social media platform, if you’re going to pick just one platform, pick this one. Post Planner suggests pre-written statuses based on specific key words you choose, allows you to schedule out statuses and even alerts you of the best times to post them. As an additional bonus, you can try the program for free before signing up.
Social Oomph – Social Oomph is similar to Hootsuite but with a few added features. It saves all of your posts in an archive so you can reuse them or tweak them and post them again. There is both a free version and a professional version that allows you extra Twitter accounts. If you’re on the fence, give the free version a try and see if it’s something you would use.

Other Options Available

Of course, there are gobs of other tools out there for getting your social media accounts in order.

You can use Google Docs to plan when you’ll post and organize all of your projects and goals.

Use SproutSocial to see snapshots of how your social media accounts compare amongst your competitors.

Argyle Social will help you schedule out your day and keep track of all your content.

With social media platforms and marketing campaigns, no matter which tool you decide to use, it’s best to start slow.

Don’t try and grow your pages in a week, but instead work towards putting out great, shareable content.

Followers and growth will naturally happen if you’re always releasing worthy content that people want to read.

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