7 Powerful Social Media Management & Scheduling Platforms
We all know how vital it is to have a presence on social media, both for businesses and for people wishing to be recognized as influencers. However, it can be challenging to maintain an active social presence without it taking over a sizeable percentage of your time and attention. However, with a social media scheduling tool, you can operate your social account and your business, more efficiently! These schedulers provide you with more time to create and even deliver more content to your audience.
In this blog post, we are outlining five of the better known social media posting/scheduling tools!
HOOTSUITE
Hootsuite supports a wide range of platforms, including personal accounts, business pages, and allows you to schedule posts to publish at your preferred time in the future. Depending on the plan you choose, you can post to a wide range of social accounts. You can both create posts yourself for future (or indeed current) publishing, or you can select existing posts to post in the future.
It offers a free plan which limits you to scheduling 30 messages across three social profiles.The $30 / month Professional plan is more usable, allowing you unlimited scheduling across 10 social profiles. At this level, you can set up bulk scheduling as well. There is also a $129 / month Professional plan and a $599 Business plan, each adding additional features.
2. LOOMLY
Loomly is a powerful social media management platform with a clean, intuitive interface. It offers four pricing tiers after a 15-day no credit card trial. They range from a $20/month Base plan for those with 10 or fewer social accounts up to the $228/month Premium Plan, allowing up to 26 users and 60 social accounts.
A special feature is that if you create paid posts for Facebook, you can customize your audience and set a budget for your campaign, all from within Loomly. However a major benefit of Loomly is its interaction screen, where you can manage comments, messages, and track social handle mentions!
3. SENDIBLE
Sendible allows you to plan, schedule and publish posts, images, and videos to multiple social networks simultaneously using their powerful platform. You can schedule social media posts, images and videos individually or in bulk as far in advance as you need! It even allows you to set your best-performing content on repeat to keep your social media profiles active.
You can connect to just about any social network, as well as post directly to your WordPress, Medium and even Tumblr! It helps you upload videos to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. A special feature is a tie-in with Canva to help you design better-performing visual content!
It calls itself as “The #1 Social Media Management Tool for Agencies”. It offers a $199 Medium Plan – “For Growing Agencies”, a $29 Micro plan for solopreneurs and a $99/month Small plan for small businesses.
4. AGORAPULSE
With Agorapulse, publish, engage, listen, report, and collaborate with your social networks. It supports Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google +, and YouTube can post to all of your social accounts with a queue or schedule ensuring your content is delivered at the best times.
It provides an affordable social media management tool for teams and agencies. It offers four plans from $39 per month aimed at Solos, though to a $239 Enterprise plan. The main difference between each option is the number of social profiles and users catered for, although there are also differences relating to data retention and ad comment monitoring.
5. PROMO REPUBLIC
Promo Republic is a full-scale social media management platform. You enter all your posts and visuals in one social media publishing calendar, scheduled in advance and posted automatically to multiple social media. They integrate with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
It has a range of plans catering from the Solo plan for personal use through to the Advanced Plan, for large businesses and agencies.
But they actually offer more than just scheduling posts. You have access to a 100,000 post ideas library and graphics editing tools; not to mention the other features expected of social media management and planning software, such as analytics, reporting, smart posting!
6. EVERYPOST
Everypost can be used for sharing visual content across Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr. You can publish to both personal profiles and company pages on iOS and Android devices. It helps you to mix your post types, to ensure you post a balanced mix of industry news, trending topics, and promotional content. Additionally, it provides you with multiple feeds to assist with content curation.
Everypost has a range of plans, from a “Pay with a Tweet” Personal Plan, up to a $99.99 / month Team plan, depending on your business needs.
7. CREATOR STUDIO
Creator Studio is a valuable tool that is a one-stop shop for marketers, creators, and other users of Facebook and/or Instagram. You can use it to publish content, analyze how your content is performing, and enhance your online marketing strategy.
You can even schedule your Instagram posts and IGTV videos up to six months in advance — a feature that marketers are going gaga over.
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While we have only provided overviews of 7 platforms, there are well over 20 pretty established companies doing just this! We suggest doing research and taking advantage of these free trials! Good Luck!