3 Tools To Boost Your Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing isn’t a a walk in the park when you don’t know where to start. Even the best SMM experts within the industry will tell you: tools, tools and more tools are necessary to both stay sane and to see results.
The biggest challenge for most is putting themselves in the shoes of the consumers they are looking to target. What demographics should I be targeting? What hashtags should I use? What content should I be posting? These are 3 of 100’s of questions that any social media marketing analyst will contemplate. Add to this dilemma the issue of trends and habits constantly changing and you may feel social media marketing is too big a mountain to overcome.
Have faith!
Whilst we would always advise newcomers to outsource their social media marketing to us for at least the initial setup, it can of course be learned like anything else. We would estimate that it can take up to 6 years to become an advanced social media manager through self learning depending on the student. With that being said we have seen many ‘amateurs’ showing promising skills after as little as 12 months working in the role with the right guidance.
If you feel you need some more time to learn or you simply cannot fit it into your busy schedule, then head over to our social marketing packages and get started with an industry expert today.
If you are ready but need some help, then check out our top 3 must have tools for any social media marketer as recommended by our own in-house specialists.
Hootsuite Insights
Who are Hootsuite?
Founded in 2008 by Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite are widely regarding as the number one social media management, marketing and interaction tool for businesses. Boasting over 16 million users Worldwide, Hootsuite has continued to grow year on year providing social media management via an easy to use graphical interface whilst still offering powerful features.
What is Hootsuite Insights?
Hootsuite Insights is an extremely powerful all-in-one tool for business social media account management. Insights provides analytics and real time information for all the major social networks and social media interactions.
How can Hootsuite Insights help me?
Hootsuite Insights can greatly help any individual, small business or fortune 500 company. With Insights you can combine social media analytics, social media listening and extremely powerful social media monitoring to reach your goal of social media greatness.
While using Hootsuite Insights you will find real-time insights allowing you to track national/global trends, current customers, potential customers and niche influencers all conveniently at your fingertips. It will even allow you filter this data by platform, location and demographic to allow you to drill deeper and engage directly from your stream to your target demographic.
Our Rating: 9.7/10
Crowdbabble.com
Who are Crowdbabble?
Founded by Abbas Alidina, Crowdbabble is a collective team who came together to provide social media analytics that also aims to pinpoint social media trend drives and performance. Since it’s conception, Crowdbable has risen to be one of the most powerful and functional social media analytics solutions on the market.
What is Crowdbabble?
Crowdbabble is a social media analytics service that empowers businesses’ engagement with their demographics through powerful social media metrics, analysis and reports. Brands & businesses utilise Crowdbabble to measure not only their own social media performance, but also that of competitors. Crowdbabble is a one stop shop for complete social media overview analytics with the ability of exporting those metrics into convenient reports.
How can Crowdbabble help me?
Whether you are a newbie or veteran in the social media marketing industry, Crowdbabble can provide you with invaluable tools to get the most for your social media brand. Track your competitors to see what works and what doesn’t and combine that with true analytics for global trends to get ahead of the competition. With Crowdbabble you will have access to superior information and as they say – ‘Knowledge is power’.
Our Rating: 9.1/10
Keyhole.co
Who are Keyhole?
Founded by Saif Ajani & Minaz Abdulla, Keyhole is a remarkably unique and easy to master toolset. Providing analytics and key social insights for hashtags, accounts, followers and activity, Keyhole have grown to attract brands such as the likes of Uber, Amazon and fortune 500 companies since its conception and they are on course to become a social media industry leading SASS toolset.
What is Keyhole?
Keyhole is a social media monitoring tool designed to please the eye when reporting on live and historical data. Keyhole monitors and outputs all social media traffic allowing you to filter and explore trends and habits of social media users.
How can Keyhole help me?
With Keyhole, your social media brand can have its finger directly on the pulse of real time interactions allowing you to compile and plan social media marketing strategies based on the historical and future trends of any demographic. By filtering and analysing your given data you can get a much better grasp of what interests your audience. This advantage can see your social media management and marketing increase greatly in a short period of time.
Our Rating: 8.9/10
So What Now?
Whatever tool you choose – having the tool isn’t the complete story. Social media management and marketing is a long journey which will require great adaptation due to how quickly the industry changes on a monthly basis. It is, however, important to not be naive. This can be learned by anyone who truly wishes to do so and there is a wealth of information available across the net.
SocialWarehouse are proud to employ the UK’s finest social media experts and if you’re stuck, we are just a phone call away.
