HootSuite is a complete social media marketing and management platform. It is one of the best actually, and one of the most popular too. HootSuite has actually been around for 10 years so they are very well established platform.
What Can You Do With HootSuite?
Well, HootSuite will save you lots of time. With Hootsuite, you can schedule your social media posts to be published for you to your audience when you are not around. While you are on vacation or somewhere else, you can schedule your social media posts on HootSuite for as long as you want. HootSuite will take care of all the posts for you, and post it like you were the one doing it.
Your audience or social media friends will probably think that you were present there, but no, you were not. You engage with your audience as if you were present.
HootSuite will also show you the engagement statistics of your posts so you know which type of posts your audience interacts with more.
HootSuite is very suitable for social media marketing and can help you get great traffic to your website while you are not there.
As you know advertising and marketing is very relevant to traffic and traffic is very necessary in business. HootSuite will help you do social media marketing in a very efficient way.
Most of the top companies who get great traffic, constantly advertise their business using ad networks like google adsense.
With hootsuite, you can do the same, but now your adverts will show up on social media.
HootSuite Plans
HootSuite comes with a free forever plan, which allows only one user, and then about 3 social media profiles only.
Professional Plan
With just $19/month, you can upgrade to the professional plan which will you to include up to 10 social media profiles, and do unlimited scheduling on them. This plan allows only a single user.
Team Plan
The team plan allows you to include 20 social media profiles, and do unlimited scheduling on all of them, and you can be a team of 3 members. Team plan costs $99/month.
Business Plan
This one is big but it costs a whooping $599/month. The business plan allows you to include up to 35 social media profiles, and do unlimited scheduling on all of them. You can have 5 to 10 users here.
The Enterprise Plan
For the enterprise plan, you have to contact HootSuite for custom solutions.
Note: The Professional plan and the Team Plan can be used for free for 30 days, after which, you have a choice to upgrade or not. Nothing to lose here.
Best Alternative To HootSuite
Buffer
I personally use this one. Buffer is a great alternative to HootSuite. It has a more intuitive and user friendly interface better than HootSuite. It’s very easy to schedule posts here. Buffer will also limit your schedule and tell you when you schedule the same post twice in a short period.
This is to help prevent social media from seeing your content as spam and giving you a penalty.
Buffer Plans
Buffer comes with a free plan. With the free plan, you are allowed to include 3 social media profiles, and make 10 post schedules at a time. When all your schedules have been posted, you can make another 10 post schedule, within the same day. So you can schedule as much as you want on 3 social media profiles, within a day.
If that’s not enough for you, then you can upgrade to
The Pro Plan
This plan costs $15 a month, and will allow you to include 8 social media accounts, 1 user, and schedule 100 posts for each social media account.
The Premium Plan
The premium plan costs $65 a month, and will allow you to include 8 social media accounts, 2 users, and 2,000 posts per social media account.
The Small Business Plan
The small business plan costs $99 a month and will allow you to include 25 social media accounts, 6 users, and 2,000 posts schedule per social media account.
The Medium Business Plan
This plan costs $199 per month, and will allow you to add 50 social media accounts, 11 users, and 2,000 posts per social media account.
One great advantage of Buffer to HootSuite is that all the plans in buffer could be tried for free before starting, but in HootSuite, only the professional and team plan could be tried for free before upgrade.
The buffer pro plan, can be tried for free for 7 days and the rest could be tried for free for 14 days before upgrade.
You can also stick with the free plan if that will be enough for you.