2012 Wrap Up: Top 10 Social Media Tools

2012

If you’re so fond of contents and interaction, social media may be your giant treasure trove of fun excitements. These are where your pictures and messages are kept. Evidently, they must be well-managed. If you’re too stuffed in administering content in all your accounts in online networking sites, maybe you have not met social media management tools.

How do you avoid the clutter? In this article, we will share the top 10 tools that have emerged this year. You can use the following to get better view of your profiles, contents, friends, followers and everything else in social media.

Top 10 Social Media Management Tools

Hootsuite

Hootsuite

Having disorganized Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts? No sweat. Hootsuite keeps multiple accounts manageable by putting them all into one dashboard. Via Hootsuite, you can not only view your connections in different platforms. You can also post messages and even automatically publish or schedule them. Hootsuite interface is very cute and user-friendly.

Hootsuite is best used for tools to monitor Twitter activities. It can check all mentions, retweets in real time and those tweets saved as draft. There’s also quick summary statistics, analytics and a weekly custom report that allow you to monitor your social media marketing operation. Specifically, Hootsuite reveals which region, referrer and link has garnered the most number of clicks in your tweets.

Use Hootsuite

Buffer

Hate posting the same content in all your social media accounts? With Buffer, your problem is solved. This application helps you update and post content at the same time in one click! Content ranges from text-based articles, images, videos, and the list goes on. At one glance, you can see the number of Facebook shares, likes and Twitter retweets your posts get.

This can be a great time-saver or life-saver for you if you’re too busy handling many other important things in your day-to-day business operations.

Use Buffer

Crowdbooster

Crowdbooster

Crowdbooster is another tool that improves your social media marketing strategy. Streamlining activities, it is a smart app which suggests the best time and the best topic to post. Like Hootsuite, it creates automatic and scheduled updates on both Facebook and Twitter.

Additionally, it tracks your new fans and followers and gives you some statistics on the number of times your post has been shared and re-tweeted.

Use Crowdbooster

Socialbakers

Like a pulse constantly beats throughout social media, SocialBaker measures and maximizes your digital engagement in networking sites. It creates competitive analyses between your standards, engagement rates, fan growth against other influences. As its slogan states, SocialBaker prepares the “recipe for social marketing success” for you.

Use Socialbakers

MarketMeSuite

MarketMeSuite

Marketmesuite gives you no excuse to not get social leads. If you have a local business, this tool’s geo-targeting feature is suggested for you to locate where foot traffic is the highest. You can also read topics that are mostly talked about in and out of your social network.

What’s required of you next is to engage with these leads and convert them to customers. As such, you get to manager your brand and market your business.

Use MarketMeSuite

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a wonderful tool to keep lively conversations with your network ongoing at all times. Filtering tasks, it neatly gives you integrated engagement of your network largely in Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Use Sprout Social

PageLever

PageLever

If you’re not contented with the amount of metrics and data you get from Facebook Insights, explore Pagelever for vaster social media analytics with great detail. The information you take home will be very valuable for your branding and further improvement of your business page in Facebook.

Pagelever though comes with a price but is affordable at that. After using this tool, you will recognize that Facebook Insights provide you with incomplete information

Use PageLever

uberVU

You just don’t want to give out content every so often without getting the feedback you deserve. How do you know whether or not your followers and viewers exactly like them? If you want to be successful in social media marketing, uberVU is the right tool for your use.

It makes you understand your customers and target leads by showing topics they mostly converse in. It suggests related contents as gained from Facebook and Twitter insights that would better catch the attention of your market. Through the uberVU dashboard, you will have access to analytics and reporting, workflow, engagement and other monitoring details.

Use uberVU

Wildfire

Wildfire

Want to know how to make your followers more loyal? Wildfire is a revolutionary application that aids you in growing your target audiences across many digital channels. It specially is joined with Google, making it more seem appealing for the best social promotion and advertising software out there.

Its marketing suite showcases robust mobile and desktop page management, messaging and sophisticated real-time analytics in one complete platform. With Wildfire, you can have your marketing efforts done more effectively and optimized while monetizing your audiences.

Use Wildfire

SocialMiner

As you might have guessed from the name, Social Miner mines out for tweets and messages in social media and brings them to your table. This is help you proactively respond to customers and prospects in various social networking sites.

You can also sort through which ones are not so significant so you can move your way forward to better results.

Use SocialMiner

Conclusion

Without a doubt, your participation in social media can bring you to greater heights. If used for personal purpose, social media management tools serve to help you cope up with all updates of your groups and pages. If used for marketing or business strategies, they empower you to expand your market and grasp what customers want. As well, they monitor and track your analytics which prove the success of your campaigns.

Written by Jeff Foster. Edited by Rahul Chowdhury.
Jeff Foster is the internet marketing manager of WebBizIdeas. His main focus is building and marketing quality content. Over the past 8 years he worked with clients to develop marketing strategies.
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2 Responses to “2012 Wrap Up: Top 10 Social Media Tools”
  1. Candice Michelle says:

    Love this! So many tools to help with productivity. Thanks for sharing this one!

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