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Hootsuite
A fellow Canadian company, Hootsuite was founded in 2008 by Ryan Holmes and operates worldwide. It is the most popular social relationship platform that’s able to execute campaigns across multiple networks as well as measuring, tracking and managing information as well as an auto-scheduling option-all from a single dashboard. Great for businesses that have jointly administered social media accounts. Hootsuite is unique because unlike other platforms, it shows other peoples content.
Pricing: Hootsuite offers a basic personal plan for free, minimal features included. Their Pro and Enterprise plans start at $10 a month and offer different services based on what your business needs
Buffer for Business
Founded in 2010 by Joel Gascoigne and Leo Widrich, Buffer is a simple and powerful social media tool that shares your content based scheduled posts. Buffer allows you to schedule ahead of time with the option to stagger content throughout the day, so all feeds have constant updates. Automates postings based on analysis of networks and content. Unlike Hootsuite, it doesn’t allow you to view other users content.
Pricing: Buffer for Business plans vary from $50-$250 a month depending on the size of your business and the services that would be required. Small business plans start at $50 a month, medium business $100 a month and large businesses and agencies from $250 a month, the main differences between the plans are the number of account members and the number of social accounts you would be connecting.
Sproutsocial is a management and engagement platform that allows you to manage, post, monitor, analyze, and receive reports from multiple social media accounts from one location in a single stream inbox. Founded in 2010 by Justyn Howard, Aaron Rankin, and Gil Lara who wanted to have social media really work for businesses, Sproutsocial is useful because you can post content and view feeds which are are displayed neatly with no clutter or confusion and have scheduled messaging. Focus is to help companies monitor social media for content posted about them
Pricing: Sproutsocial plans vary from $59-$500 a month depending on the services requested, the size of the company, and the amount of accounts being managed. Deluxe, premium, and team accounts are subject to change or be canceled at any time.
Everypost
Founded in 2012 by Fernando Cuscuela and Leandro Armas, Everypost is a simple and convenient platform that allows you to curate, schedule and publish updates on major social networks with unlimited and customized scheduling, that occurs from one place at a single time. The aim to send out a variety of content to as many social networks as possible. Ability to post full pages unlike similar companies and allows users to create content to post direct or save for later.
Pricing: Everypost offers a free 30 day trial and then pricing plans vary from $9.99 a month to $99.99 annually. The differences between the plans depends on the timing and frequency of scheduling as well as the amount of accounts that need to be managed.
Socialoomph
Socialoomph allows users to to schedule tweets, track keywords, monitor performance of activity, save or reuse drafts, as well as update blogs. Started with focus on Twitter and expanded to different social networks. Improves social media presence while allowing you to schedule, post, measure activity and create custom feeds.
Pricing: Socialoomph offers basic plans for free, and a professional plan for $17.97 a month.
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