Hootsuite The Must Have Tool For Social Marketing

Managing your social media profiles may not be easy. Tracking the analytics through each and every page is even harder. Collaborating on them as a team may be near impossible. This is where Hootsuite comes in, Hootsuite is a tool that allows you to collaborate on many social media profiles such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Plus, Wordpress, and Mixi. However, the app directory allows you to add many more social media streams. Streams are basically the feeds of your social media profiles and it allows you to see whats going on with them. What is being posted and shared with you and to receive important updates relating to them.

These streams are invaluable to monitoring your social media profiles however you are not able to post to them through the dashboard. You will need to go to the website and post to it directly. However, adding all your social media profiles here will allow you to have easy access monitoring to them to get all the updates in one easy to see location.

Auto Scheduling. Being one of the biggest names in social media management Hootsuite has an auto scheduling tool that will publish your post at the most optimal time according to their information and their algorithms. They even have a blog where you can get a lot of information about what and when you should be working on posting your updates and even how many!

There is a free model that is heavily limited and doesn't come with the analytics that you will probably need, but it is good for a starting business. Then you can upgrade to the higher plans that will unlock a lot of the analytics increase the amount of social media profiles, and allow team management so you can collaborate with your team on when to send out posts.

If you are a small blogger trying to get your name out there, use Hootsuite to manage your social media profiles and as you continue to grow considering unlocking the pro plan to give you control of more social media profiles.