HootSuite Review : Social Media Automation on Steroids

HootSuite Review
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With the increasing number of social-networking site, managing and keeping in eye on all social media platform is becoming a challenge. Thanks to various social-media tools which are helping bloggers like you and me to manage our social-media properties in effective way. Here at ShoutMeLoud, I review many of those tools which are not only worthy to mention but is a solution to our biggest problem.

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Today I will be sharing my experience and review of HootSuite which is a social media management toolkit. I run a group of blogs and for the same reason, I have to manage more than 10+ properties on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Not only I have to ensure that I update them daily, I also have to listen to what people are talking about it. To update my social media platform daily,  I use a blend of automation and manual work.

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I recently ( 2 months back) started using hootsuite which is a web client for Twitter and it’s free. I have lots of Twitter profile. One for my personal Twitter profile and others are domain specific twitter profile. Hootsuite comes out as a complete social media dashboard for users like you and me, who have multiple profiles.  Here are some of the notable features of Hootsuite which will make you to use it right away :

Hootsuite review: Features and WalkThrough

 Hootsuite supports all popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to name a few.

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Hootsuite Free version allows you to connect up to 3 social media profile and manage it from the dashboard. If you need to connect more social-media profile or need more features like auto posting via RSS feeds (Free version allows auto-post to 2 profile), advanced security, and many more, you should opt for the pro version which comes at a reasonable amount and you can test-drive it completely free for first 30 days here.

Getting started with it is very easy, and all you need to do is start linking your Twitter and Facebook profile. It will pull up all the pages, and you can add them on HootSuite dashboard. One of the best part about their dashboard is it’s smooth running.

Here we will see some of the basic features of this useful app in our Hootsuite review post.

Manage multiple social accounts

Hootsuite will let you manage multiple twitter profile. It has a tabbed system which can be used to quickly switch between multiple twitter profile with one click. You can monitor @replies @Dm with one click. You can also reply from specific mentioned twitter profile and the best part is nothing is confusing.

Auto share your Latest blog post

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One of the features that you going to enjoy the most on Hootsuite is social media automation. You can add your blog RSS feed and using hoot suite you can auto-publish your latest post on above mentioned social-networking sites.

Hootsuite Publisher:

Hootsuite has a publisher tab which is useful to schedule your Tweets and keep your social media profiles active. You can also configure auto tweet of your blog post under publisher tab.

Tweet scheduling is a very important feature which everyone should use. If you read my previous post on why you should tweet your post multiple times, you will understand how it helps in driving lots of traffic. I usually schedule my blog post tweets for after every 8 days.

A single tweet from Multiple Profile

Hootsuite also lets you tweet the same link/updates from multiple twitter profile at one go. This is very helpful in case if you planning to make a link viral. Provided people follow your tweeted links on all the profile.

Team Collaboration

Now, this is one feature which comes with their free plan (Sigh!), but this feature is useful when you are Blogging in a group or for small businesses, media agency who have multiple people managing profiles. Infact, Social media agency can use their team collaborating feature to assign pages, profile to their team.

Vanity URL

Another useful feature is using a custom URL for your tweet. You can get a short domain name, which is related to your brand and use it to shorten your link. Basically, this feature will let you use your own domain name for shortening URL’s. Though, this feature is only available in pro version, which also comes with statistics.

Here are some of the pros of Hootsuite:

  • Neat and easy to use interface
  • Support multiple Twitter account
  • Support Facebook profile, Pages, Groups
  • Support LinkedIn profile, groups, and companies
  • Support WordPress.com Blog (Useful way to create a database blog for your updates via Hootsuite)
  • Social sharing statistics
  • Tweet Schedule
  • One dashboard monitoring for multiple profiles
  • Autotweet your blog post
  • Collaboration feature for team and groups.

Hootsuite pricing and 30 days free trial:

The only thing which I don’t like about Hootsuite is, free plan is limited to 3 social profile which is good for a blogger, but for people with more than 3 profiles need to opt for pro plan which is $10.99/month.

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You can take advantage of their risk-free 30 days pro trial account, which will give you a glimpse of their amazing features.

Try Hootsuite for 30 days

There are some more features which you will love about Hootsuite, and I will suggest go and try this twitter application to make most out of it.

Are you using Hootsuite?  How’s your hootsuite review and feedback? Which feature do you like the most about Hootsuite and which is your favorite Twitter Application?

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

8 thoughts on “HootSuite Review : Social Media Automation on Steroids”

  1. Kanishck

    hey harsh,
    i was just looking for an android app for this purpose…can you suggest a good one….cz hootsuite’s app does not offer the same services as on a pc….

  2. Branson

    Hootsuite is great. I just signed up.

  3. Mike

    Thanks…I am going right now to sign up. Hootsuite it is!

  4. VijaytaPundir

    From 1st May 2009 I am using HootSuite, today used TweetDeck too. Both are good

  5. Sanjeev

    Nice review. HootSuite is no doubt one of the best client but Seesmic is doing really great till now. Thanks for sharing these info buddy.

  6. Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats

    till now i am using sesamic web.. it seems that hootsuite is much better.. will definitely consider this when i twitter for the next time..

  7. Tom

    So far I haven’t found better Twitter client than Hootsuite. I also like their link stats tool; the overall functionality and user experience is perfect.

  8. SocialBlogr

    Hi, I prefer to use Seesmic Web, just for personal usage. I use Hootsuite to make an automatic post to Facebook Page. 🙂 Nice tool.

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