Hootsuite

As a Digital Marketing Specialist at Signity Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hootsuite served us in the following ways: 1. It gives us the advantage of adding 20 Social Media Profiles along with 3 users. Though, it has more options for larger enterprises.  2. The most outstanding feature is its ability to post text, links, photos, and videos directly to our respective social profiles visa its dashboard. 3. We have created an “organization” to enhance communication and collaboration across everyone’s Hootsuite account. 4. Scheduling the posts according to the project-specific country was our main challenge, Hootsuite helped us in automatically scheduling the post at specific times rather than doing them all manually. 5. We easily monitor our social activities. The section dedicated to creating analytical reports and click summaries is quite useful. It works with both as Google Analytics and Social Media Insights.   Cons that we have faced:  1. We are unable to add and schedule multiple pictures in a single post for Instagram. Hootsuite does not allow to add multiple pictures at a single time.  2. Custom URL Shorteners are a bit expensive.  3. Sometimes there are technical errors, due to which the post does not get scheduled on time and is left unscheduled.    Final Verdict: All in all, Hootsuite saves a lot of time and its feature of auto-scheduling without any notification/approval is awesome!

Hootsuite Experience: I used Hootsuite for the first several months of running my boutique marketing agency - Jackie Kossoff - Marketing & Design. I found the user-interface and ultra-dynamic functionality to be overwhelming for a smaller workload. My clients are small business owners and do not need nor benefit from close monitoring of other feeds and hashtags. It became apparent to me that larger corporations and in-house teams managing several brand channels would be better suited to using Hootsuite to manage the demands of their workload. Pros: Beneficial for larger corporations or teams managing multiple channels for the same brand. Capacity for monitoring other accounts and social conversations. Webinars geared toward social media teams at larger companies. Cons: The user interface is not user-friendly. At the time I was using Hootsuite (2017) they did not have a calendar view. I understand they have since launched one, but it was very inconvenient for me to only be able to view my content as a chronological list.  Overall: For those like myself who serve small businesses, or small business owners themselves, Hootsuite is simply not the most beneficial platform. They have positioned themselves and built their platform to serve larger companies and corporations. 

Hootsuite has to be our company - YourParkingSpace most used Social Media Management platform. The platform allows you to view, manage and upload content all in place over a large number of social channels, and within the dashboard, you have the ability to track updates, see what people are saying about your brand, and respond immediately. Hootsuite enables you to monitor conversations relevant to your industry, and your products, and see what people are saying based on keywords, hashtags, locations, and even specific users. You can schedule content, and tie all of your social media platforms into one, something that is imperative in social media, where consistency is key. Despite its many benefits, there are a number of issues with Hootsuite that given its huge popularity, should have been ironed out by now. The main dashboard is muddled, and out of date. Whilst great for twitter, it doesn’t really work for other networks and doesn’t make it clear what is new and what has already been dealt with. Furthermore, despite being one of the only social media management tools that have a free plan, the Team plan is very expensive. There are some simple changes that could make the process so much easier, such as being able to publish a scheduled post now, but it seems as though Hootsuite either hasn’t thought of this or does not care to add it in, making the process feel more clunky and laborious. Overall, Hootsuite has many benefits and does simplify our social media management greatly. However, there are a number of updates, some very simple, that could improve the process and user experience massively.

As a Senior Digital Marketing Specialist of Wealth Words, here is my experience regarding Hootsuite software: Pros: 1. All SMM channels at one place. 2. Auto-scheduling. 3. Analysis can be tracked on a real-time basis.  4. Under the team plan, more than one user can operate the same account. 5. Reports can be exported. 6. Instant replies to customers. Cons: 1. Multiple Image sharing on Instagram is not possible.

I especially like the handy “Publisher” Feature which allows me to write one post for different Social Media channels. I love, that I can still adapt the tracking link for every Social Media channel individually. It is a huge time saver. Also, I love the calendar view with the scheduled posts. You get everything at a glance and the whole team is up to date. Additionally, at Ofri.ch it helps us to monitor social media as we track keywords with the monitoring service. To sum it up, I think the free version of Hootsuite is a good ‘getting started’ tool for small businesses.

I am giving Hootsuite 3 out of 5 and if they improved their speed in the future I would change that to a 5 out of 5. I left Hootsuite because I found it to be incredibly slow. At Recipe This, both ourselves and our virtual assistants felt this way. The software itself is perfect and wonderful especially for beginners to social media. But it's so slow that you might as well do it manually. But for me, the reason I joined Hootsuite (we’re going back a few years now) was that you could automatically post to several Facebook Groups at once. It saved a lot of time when Facebook Groups was a big part of peoples online strategy.

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that runs about the average price for this sort of service. As a CMO of Maple Holistics, I think one of the great things about it is that you can upload many posts at once and schedule them for whenever you want them to actually go up on different social media platforms- it saves you a lot of time by letting you plan ahead! It will also help you keep track of your ROI so that you can see if your business’ money is being put to good use and what you should be focusing on. Another cool feature is that Hootsuite allows you to filter conversations using location, keywords or hashtags in various languages so that you can really get a feel for what people are feeling. Sure, there are other tools out there, by Hootsuite has proven itself as a valuable asset for a business to use. And with different rates, it can fit the needs of various companies.

I’m using Hootsuite for 2 years + with the premium plan (10 accounts) for my company - Matara Consulting and so far it’s a good value for money. The main pro is that 1 unique tool allows you to do almost you need as a social media manager. The publisher is very powerful for social media marketers: you have a lot of tools in one: schedule, multi-sending, free pics, design and resizing. The reporting tool is less powerful but still useful to share quickly data with clients. The con for me is not to be able to add more social accounts without upgrading the full plan last but not least they should definitely refresh the Homepage for logged people.

Pros: Fairly fast and relatively easy for onboarding.  Cons: It's crazy expensive for the value you get. Lack of Trial for Enterprise package - you can't give it a try before you purchase it. The user-interface, despite its speed, looks outdated. No advanced collaboration features. Overall Experience: I used Hootsuite in the past for the clients of my company -  BrainyBees. We manage over 40 social media profiles and we were looking for a reliable, user-friendly, quick and affordable tool. While Hootsuite works okay with 2-3 profiles, it didn't cut it for us as we needed something more (especially for internal and external collaboration), so we decided to switch to Kontentino. 

I would say you should go ahead and use Hootsuite. The ability to manage many social media streams at once gives one a great deal of leverage in one's SMM efforts. You can not only schedule posts in advance, but also have access to analytics that lets you track exactly how well you are faring. As a VP of Marketing at Adzerk, I feel that you can also prepare templates for frequently asked questions and post appropriate responses. On the flip side, I would say that the cost of using analytics is an issue. Also, it is expensive when used with teams as well.

As a Senior Manager in field Social Networks at CMD Group, LLC, I've used HootSuite for almost 10 years. It used to be the main scheduler that I used, but then it started crashing all the time. The bad part was that whenever it crashed, I lost all of the posts that were scheduled but not yet published. It cost me so much time to redo, that I switched to a competitor.  I like Hootsuite because the dashboard allowed me access to some good analytics, and I can respond to different platforms from one dashboard. But the competitor software that I use also provides that.

I’ve been using Hootsuite for over a decade. I use it more to organize the social media work of my page - THGM (mostly Twitter) than to automate. I generally find outbound automation dangerous, as tempting as it can be. The best feature for me is being able to see multiple streams at once. I like to see my own tweets, my mentions and what’s been retweeted all at once. It saves me time on the inbound aspect of social media, which I don’t mind automating. While you can see your mentions on Twitter directly, you can’t see where they came from. Hootsuite shows me this, which is another aspect I like. I really like the new composer, which has been up and running just a few months now. It lets me easily send to more than one platform at once (although I rarely do this, as I tend to customize messages for different platforms). And it’s easy to add emojis, something that most businesses, including mine, do far too little of. I also like having the choice of uploading and drag-and-drop.

Pros: Hootsuite is a seamless scheduling tool I have used for managing multiple social media accounts at one time for my business - MyFoodSubscriptions. You can schedule posts ahead of time and focus on other tasks without worrying about any timing hassles throughout the week, and this allows for better overall management and account integration. It's a great tool for businesses of all sizes to utilize, be it smaller startups or large corporations. There are generous free features and paid options that are more reasonably priced in comparison to competitors. Unless you're in a niche market (i.e. content/B2B), I can't find a reason why you'd opt for a different social media management/scheduling tool. In my experience, it allows for higher levels of productivity and you can prioritize other tasks with ease by using it.  Cons: The only con I can think of is there are other competitors on the market that offer real-time social media monitoring in foreign languages, and some tools of similar nature may be more attractive to niche marketing fields like B2B or content marketing. But for general digital marketing and social media management, Hootsuite is one of the best tools I have used to date and I would definitely recommend it in comparison to competitors.

Experience of using Hootsuite: I have been using Hootsuite for about five years now for my company - Rosey Social and it has become a mainstay in managing social media for my clients. I mainly use it for Instagram scheduling because it was one of the first scheduling platforms to allow direct publishing to Instagram. At the time, there were many apps that would merely send you a notification when it was time to post, but not actually publish it for you. Pros:  - Direct publishing to Instagram - Notifications when an account gets disconnected so you don't miss any scheduled posts - Newest update allows you to see what the post will look like on each individual platform - Supports many different social networks - There is still a free plan for those just getting started   Cons:  - Only allows one photo to be uploaded to Instagram at a time. (Even if you upload several photos when scheduling, it will only post the first one.) - It's expensive for small businesses or smaller agency owners - It can be difficult to learn how to use    Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with Hootsuite. When I've had problems in the past, their customer service team was very responsive and helpful. I know there are many Hootsuite haters out there, but Hootsuite has been in the social media game for a long time and they're not going anywhere.

I'm a huge fan of Hootsuite. As a Founder of Lead Peep, I love how it centralizes and streamlines all of your social media accounts, saving a lot of time and money. The scheduling is awesome, as is the ability to monitor engagement and brand sentiment. Those features alone make it worth every penny, but then you also have boosting, curation, analytics and hundreds of integrations with other powerful platforms.