Social media can be so frustrating because you don’t have enough time to complete all the tasks. It can also be quite repetitive. So why don’t you automate the repetitive tasks?
The social media tools are maturing and getting more useful and there is more automation that is available. Here are 5 time-saving social media automation tools:
1. Hootsuite
With more than 10 million active users Hootsuite is currently the number one ranked social media automation platform. This tool has been pegged as “one of the best tools out there for managing your social media presence” by the Wall Street Journal. Perhaps the biggest benefit of using Hootsuite is that you can get started using this app for free.
Key Features:
- Connect to 35 of your social media accounts.
- Integrates with RSS feeds and your blog.
- Monitor conversations and mentions of your business from your dashboard.
- Integrate and manage your Hootsuite account from your WordPress blog.
2. Aweber
Aweber is an email marketing tool with some essential automation tasks built in. When someone signs up to your email list you can set up one or a series of automated e-mails that goes to your new subscriber. You can pre-build all your email templates and have them all ready to go. This automation is an essential component of email marketing.
3. Bufferapp
With the Bufferapp, you can easily pre-schedule content and post to your active social media channels. When you want to catch up on your blog posts read them using Feebly and then share them out on Buffer. The buffer will take any posts that you have scheduled and place them in a queue and send them out based on the next time slots that you have preconfigured.
Key Features:
- Supports multiple Twitter, Facebook and Linked In profiles
- Download and use Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari browser extensions to share content right from the web to your social profiles.
4. Social Oomph
It is an additional free social media automation tool that you can use to manage and streamline your social media marketing efforts. Social Oomph has been around since 2008 and is a powerhouse social marketing app that you should definitely check out.
Key Features:
- Free management of up to 5 Twitter accounts; unlimited use of Facebook and LinkedIn accounts
- Auto-follow back feature included
- View re-tweets & mentions from your dash-boar.
5. Twitterfeed
It allows you to “feed your blog to Twitter” and other social media platforms. I wouldn’t necessarily consider this application a social media marketing one, but it definitely helps automate the task of sharing your content and best of all it’s absolutely FREE to use.
Key Features:
- Feeds content from your blog to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
- You can add content from other RSS feeds to your social media channels.