Social Media Tools

in a Noisy World

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30+ Social Media Tools to Boost Your Business

Social Media Problems

Choose the right tools!

Tools won’t solve all your problems…

…but they’ll make you more efficient!

…and productive…

…and smart!

Posting & Scheduling

Why Schedule?

Scheduling allows you to find & Share Quality Content that will Ignite your Audience1

Scheduling allows you to spend time on running your business 2

Scheduling allows you to spend time offline with the people that matter most in your life 3

4 Scheduling allows you to have some down time

Scheduling allows you to reach people when they're using social media5

1. Buffer

Supports a wide range of social networks

The Buffer Chrome Extension

The BufferPower Scheduler

Buffer Suggested Content

Buffer Integrations

2. Friends+Me

Allows you to post to Google+ profiles & communities

Using Google+ to Post & Schedule to your networks

When posting to Twitter only the title is used. The image from the page is also embedded in the tweet

Using Google+ to Post & Schedule to your networks

The full content gets posted to long form social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Tumblr

Using Google+ to Post & Schedule to your networks

Use hashtags to select which networks you want to cross post to

Intelligent Cross-posting

3. IFTTT

pipes&

connections

Recipes

Turn your Google Calendar in to a social media scheduling tool

Archive your social media updates and mentions to Evernote, Dropbox or Google Docs

Add people who mention a hashtag or key phrase to a Twitter list

Instagram to Twitter

Feedly to Buffer

4. Latergramme

You can’t post to Instagram

through the Web App

Supports Multiple Instagram accounts

Upload/regram your images and craft your content on the Latergramme website….

…then the Latergrammemobile app will notify you and push the image and text to your Instagram app to quickly schedule.

Advantage: You don’t have to give Latergramme your Instagram username & password

Disadvantage: You need to manually post the Instagram post at the time of schedule

Search and “Re-gram”

Content

TOO MUCH NOISE?

HOW CAN YOU STAND OUT?

16-24 yr olds: They're cramming over 14 hours of media activity into over 9 hours each day by using different devices at the same time.

OFCOM

On average Americans consume 10 hours of content a day

Nielsen

4.9 Billion Connected "Things" Will Be in Usethis year

How much content can we physically consume per day?

How do we stand out?

How do you make sense of the data?

5. Buzzsumo

53% within an hour33% within 30 minutes

How quickly would you expect a brand to respondon social media?

…but only 11.2% of retail brands respond to questions within an hour

Research by Brandwatch

Act quickly

Use a social media management tool to manage engagement

6. AgoraPulse

• Unlimited team members included in each plan • Powerful and engaging reports with the ability to export to

Powerpoint• Build Facebook apps • Manage and view sponsored and “dark posts” from Facebook

including their comments and the ability to reply • Ability to compare with your competitors

Get that Inbox Zero Feeling with AgoraPulse!

Analysing & Reporting

7. QuillEngage

Confused by Google Analytics?

Free Monthly and Weekly reports in Plain English from QuillEngage(Connects with your Google Analytics account)

Ian Anderson Gray Twitter: @iagdotme

Website: www.iag.me

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THAT’S ALL

FOLKS!