Over 9 Best tools to help you Manage your Social Media Networks

Social media networks like Facebook, & Instagram , (X) Twitter etc. have a great potential of bringing a large traffic to your website or blog. There are tools that can help you to efficiently manage the social media to take advantage of the big traffic generated by these networks. Social media marketing and Management encompasses various tasks that you have to undertake and perform on a regular basis. Social media management tools helps you achieve this in an effective and easy way.

9 Tools to help you with Social Media Marketing

These tools help you automate most of the social media management tasks: you can post your articles, images or videos, schedule tweets and messages. They also provide you with a detailed reporting and analysis system. In this article we look at some of the best tools you can utilize to manage your social media networks. 

SocialBu

With SocialBu you simplify every aspect of managing your social accounts from creating and scheduling posts to reporting and performance analysis.

This tool helps you reduce the time you would spend managing your social media accounts. SocialBu works with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Sproutsocial

Sproutsocial provides a platform to help you manage your social media accounts on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. With the use of Sproutsocial you can post and schedule messages, manage teams and social channels, assignments and tasks. It has a single stream inbox so that you can monitor your messages from a central place.

Hootsuite

This is one of the leading social media management tools.  Hootsuite provides you with a well equipped dashboard to efficiently measure and manage your various social media networks and profiles. It provides you with the capability to track conversations as well as monitor the results of your social media campaigns from a single place. You can schedule your tweets and messages, monitor brand mentions as well as get an analysis on the traffic.

Buzzbundle

This tool provides one of the most powerful social media management platform. Buzzbundle provides a single workplace to manage all your social profiles. You can schedule posts, messages or announcements.

Tweetdeck

This is one of the highly rated social networks management tool. It is available as a desktop and web solution. It can be used on Chrome browsers, Windows and Mac powered desktops. Tweetdeck helps you provide flexibility and insight to your social media activities. It helps you arrange feeds, and has filters so that you can focus on what is important to you. You can schedule your tweets, and be up-to date with alerts from fresh Tweets.

Buzzstream

This tool makes blogger outreach easy and effective. With Buzzstream you can do various task such an influencer research, accomplish relationship management, do list building, manage outreach, carry out project management and task management.

Buffer

Buffer lets you add articles, videos and images that you want to share on social media networks while it does the rest for you automatically by sharing them throughout the day. You can manage your multiple accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+. It also offers a detailed analytics and insights on every post you put out through your social media networks. Buffer is available as browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox etc. There are also native apps for mobile devices.

Socialoomph

This tool has many useful features to enable you schedule tweets, retweets, auto-follow, Send Direct Messages, Inbox clean up etc. Socialoomph is available as a free trial and as paid option.

Audiense

This was initially socialbro.  Audiense has features that helps you to engage, target and manage audience on Twitter. It comes with tools for browsing your community, enables you to identify major influencers, track engagement, helps you to determine what is the most appropriate time to tweet. You can also generate a report and do analysis of the tasks performed.

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Sendible 

This tool enables you to engage with your customers, measure the results as well as monitor your brand across various social media sites. This is done from a single workplace. You are able to schedule messages and can run and manage varied marketing campaigns too. Sendible enables you to do brand monitoring, generate leads, do sentiment analysis and you can build brand awareness. You can also access powerful analytics and tracking tools.

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187 responses to “Over 9 Best tools to help you Manage your Social Media Networks”

  1. This is some great info. I had only heard of Hootsuite before. You broke things down really well!

    1. Thanks for the positive feedback.

  2. I’ve tested several different social media tools and Hootsuite is definitely my favorite. I’ve found it offers the best social media management for me, but there is certainly a tool out there for everyone. I’ll be tweeting and pinning this post! Greetings from the Inspire Me Monday linky!

    1. Hi, yes Hootsuite is one the best tool for social media management with its amazing features that make your work easier. Sproutsocial and Buffer are too some of my favorites. Thanks for visiting.

  3. Very comprehensive post as usual, John! This really comes in handy! I’m still (stupidly) posting manually or using the inbuilt schedulers (except for Pinterest – I use Tailwind) but thinking of getting a tool to manage my social accounts, so thanks for the detailed and useful tips!

    1. Hey Lucrezia, thanks for visiting again. Yes, these tools helps you save time and also makes it easy to manage several accounts with ease though you have to do the engagement manually, these helps build a relationship with your followers.

  4. I had only heard of a couple of these, I didn’t know there were so many out there! And the one I use isn’t even on the list! I use Recur Post. It probably doesn’t do a lot of the stuff the others do, especially since I have the free version, but free is all I can afford at the moment! It has saved me a lot of time, though, which is what I was looking for! Thank you for sharing these, it’s something to keep in mind for the future!

    1. Hi Cherryl, thanks very much for the insightful comments on this post. It is always good to shop around for the best tools before settling for one. Reading articles like this gives you arrange of tools to select from.

  5. Social media can take a lot of time. Tools to cut it down are really important.

    1. Hi Peter, yes tools helps you make some tasks easy to manage saving you a lot of time but it is also advisable to take time to engage your audience physically therefore finding the balance between automation and being active by yourself leads to better results.

  6. Thank you for posting this. Sharing posts on social media can be time consuming and I have been looking for ways to manage my time more effectively.

    1. Hello John, exactly true, tools makes it easy to schedule and post even at times when you are doing other tasks. You can also be able to monitor how you content is performing, in terms of engagement. This enable you to make improvements where necessary.

  7. This is where I struggle. Social media is so hard to keep up with. Thanks for sharing.

    1. Hi Poeksel, am grateful for your visit. You are welcomed again.

  8. I hadn’t heard of any of these before reading this post. Thanks for the informative read ?

  9. Extremely helpful list and while I am familiar with some of them like Hootsuite, Buffer and Tweetdeck, I haven’t given the others a try. Maybe I should. Are the others all paid platforms?

    1. Hi thanks for visiting. Yes, all this are paid though the likes of Hootsuite and sproutSocial have a free trial period.

  10. I hadn’t heard of any of these other than Hootsuite. I think I will go and take a look at some that may help. Do you have one that you think works best ?

    1. Sproutsocial is also a reliable social media automation tool besides this, I also like Hootsuite, and Buffer.

  11. This is a great list and it’s very helpful to me. It looks like you have a lot of great info on your site! I’m going to save this to my pin board and I’m subscribing!

    1. Thanks very much for the positive feedback. Most welcomed.

  12. Didin’t know about BuzzBundle, BuzzStream and Audiense. Checked out all three sites, seem easy to use. Have tried Hootsuite, Tweetdeck and Buffer before.

    1. Hi, it is always good to try a number of these services and see what works well for you. Thanks for visiting.

  13. I really want to get buffer but I haven’t had the chance to really sit down with it yet! Great post 🙂

    1. Hi, you can start now, and see how it can help you best manage your social media tasks.

  14. What do you think of Smarter Queue? I like that one very much.

    1. I haven’t tried it, I may consider it but in future.

  15. Didin’t know buzzbundle yet! Thanks for the list!

    1. Hi Sophie, appreciated.

  16. I really like your article but here I want to add my knowledge and experience in social media management I use Social Champ it has very impressive feature more interesting is recycling post which helps me in gaining more generic traffic I recommend you to try it !

    1. Thanks for the additional Tip. Welcome.

  17. Great suggestions. I’ll definitely be trying these.

  18. Great informative article! I have used a lot of these, but not BuzzBundle. Will need to check it out ! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  19. After reading this, it’s like I’m doing it all wrong! Very informative and helpful thank you! x

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    Great list of tools. I find I spend a lot of time managing social media.

    1. Yeah, these tools make work easier, as you can schedule your posts at any time you think is appropriate.

  21. This are the best best tools indeed. Thanks for sharing

  22. Thank you for these tips! Its useful to know!

  23. very good article about important tools .. well done john

    1. Thanks for visiting.

  24. Many of these are new to me! Thanks!

  25. Great tips! Thank you sooooo much

    1. Hi, am grateful for your visit. Welcome.

  26. Didn’t know about most of them.. All I have to do is to choose the one I want. Very insightful post. Thumb up.

  27. Thanks for sharing, I hadn’t even heard of most of these!

  28. interesting post! i used hootsuite

  29. Thanks for that. I am looking for these kinds of websites where i can manage my social media.

  30. You always give your reader something new to learn John. Thank you.

    1. Hi Crisly thanks very much for being a loyal reader. Most welcomed.

  31. Very useful informations! Thank you for sharing! Great post! 🙂

  32. Great tips as always! Buffer and Hootsuite are definitely really good tools!

    1. Hi, thanks for dropping by again. Most welcomed.

  33. Great for when you simply don’t have the time to post!

    1. Yes, these tools are good for saving time and enabling you to focus on other things.

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