Best Social Media Tools

Social Champ is a social media scheduling platform for businesses and marketers looking to take their online presence to the next level. Through a number of helpful features, Social Champ gives businesses boosted social media marketing, bringing together all their social networks to integrate them with hundreds of business applications. Social Champ also provides some unique features which other don't, such as the Evergreen feature (which allows you to recycle content), Autopost RSS, Team feature and so on.

Post Planner allows users to do exactly what the tool is entitled - schedule viral photos, trending articles and proven status ideas to a number of social media profiles to drastically increase engagement. The purpose of the tools is simply to help campaigns reach more people and increase engagement without having to spending tons of time analyzing data and identifying the best content. They specialize in Facebook and have a blog that teaches business or campaign managers how to improve their social media strategy. 

Sprout Social was founded in 2010 and is currently headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. They provide social media management tools for medium to larger businesses and agencies. They have partnerships and relationships with Google Plus, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Feedly, Bitly, Zendesk and Uservoice.

Sprout Social is a privately held company that is backed by venture funds of NEA and Lightbank. Their company has hundreds of employees and over 15,000 customers. They were recently recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the “Best Places to Work 2014”. They also received a “Social Media Monitoring Implementation Award” in 2014 by Wommy. 

Hootsuite was founded in 2008 and is currently headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Their CEO and founder is Ryan Holmes and they currently have over 10 million (and growing) users around the world. They claim to be the world’s most widely used social relationship platform.

Meet Edgar is a tool that allows users to schedule social posts in a unique way. Rather than publish updates once and then never referencing them again, Edgar will carefully catalogue posts in a library that builds up over time. These updated are even categorized to assist in creating and publishing on a schedule. Edgar will essentially publish the content you want at the exact moment you want. It eliminates the need for manual scheduling. 

MavSocial was founded in 2012 and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California. They also offices in India, Hong Kong. They are a social media management system that is easy to use, affordable, yet as functionable as most of their competitors. Although they do offer a free plan that is great for individuals, their primary focus is on helping businesses thrive in the social media world. MavSocial’s name is a combination of the words “maven,” meaning a trusted expert, and “social,” since they specialize in communication across all social media networks.

Their founder and current CEO is Matthew Holden, who was previously with Oracle Corporation and SAP. Some of their larger clients are Unilever, International Business Machine (IBM), and Pond’s. 

Social Aider is a social media scheduling tool that allows businesses to schedule their posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and Instagram simultaneously. Additionally, through Social Aider, companies can link unlimited social media accounts (& pages for FB & LinekdIn) for no extra charge. In comparison to its competitors, Social Aider claims some incredible rates: the smallest plan sells for $4.99 with 300 posts per month. It 

Agorapulse was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France. They also have a location in San Francisco, California. Agorapulse provides consumers with an easy way to manage their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, all in one place. You can run contests, quizzes, and promotions with any of their fairly priced plans. Their plans also include comprehensive reporting tools to measure everything.

Agorapulse has worked with clients such as Volkswagen, PlayStation, Pepsi, Yahoo!, McDonalds, Nivea, and more. 

Social Oomph helps boost social media productivity by eliminating manual time-consuming processes. Users and marketers can easily schedule updates, identify quality follows, and even monitor social media activity. The Social Oomph platform integrates with a number of platforms and has helped thousands of users save time on their social media campaign management. 

Tweepi is a tools designed to help marketers make sense of, manage, and even expand their Twitter reach. There are already thousands of users taking advantage of what Tweepi has to offer. Social media mangers can follow, unfollow, and force-unfollow Twitter accounts quickly and all through one dashboard. The service was launched in 2009 and continues to have a huge impact in the Twitter landscape.