Alternative Tools for Social Media Management Tools

eClincher

A relative newcomer to the social media management scene, eClincher offers an incredibly powerful array of features and integrations. They were founded in 2012, but moved over to being a social media management tool in 2014. eClincher integrates with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube as well as Feedly, Canva and Pocket. It has the ability to publish, schedule, auto post and cycle content, an image library, monitoring and analytics. eclincher has a powerful bulk upload feature and is one of the only tools I’ve discovered that extracts images from the posts you upload (either as a CSV file or RSS feed). Prices start from $15/mth.

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MavSocial

MavSocial was founded in 2012 by Matthew Holden. MavSocial has a very generous free plan and an enterprise plan which works very well for agencies and larger teams. MavSocial integrates with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr and YouTube with the Enterprise plan adding Japanese and Chinese networks. It has a digital assets library where you can store your images and videos and you can even licence stock images through various stock libraries including free ones (there are over 50 million to choose from). The free plan allows you to connect with up to 50 social networks, have unlimitedREPORTS

and up to 1Gb of file storage.

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Zaapt

Zaapt is a new social media management tool focussing on social media planning and scheduling for teams. Zaapt currently integrates with Facebook pages and Twitter with plans to add more networks soon. Zaapt focusses on a content calendar which aims to help teams move away from legacy tools such as spreadsheets,DOCUMENTS

and email. Zaapt’s primary focus is on productivity and teamwork. Plans are $30/user/month.

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Jollor

Jollor was founded in 2014 by Jakub Hrabovský. It integrates with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube as well as the Russian networks VK and Odnoklassniki. They have some enterprise features such as team and role management and delegation. They have a transparent pricing scheme starting from $5 per network, and you can add extra team members for $5 per month as well as other features.

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Commun.it

Commun.it is a social media relationship tool as well as a social media management tool that integrates with Twitter and Facebook. As well as being able to manage multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts, you can find out who is relevant in your social networks’ communities. Examples include your influencers or people who support you. You can also find out who is talking about you or your business or who is linking to your website and interact with them straight away. Prices start from $19.99 per month.

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Rignite

Rignite was founded back in 2011 by Glen Kosaka. Rignite puts managing social media campaigns at the heart and integrates with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and Instagram. Rignite is campaign-focussed where you can create multiple social media management campaigns across your networks. Prices start from $28/user/mth.

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Meshfire

Meshfire was founded in 2012 by Eli Israel and has team collaboration at its heart. It Only supports Twitter but integrates with Buffer so you can post and schedule to a larger number of networks. Meshfire also integrates with both bit.ly and Feedly. Prices are $8/social network and offers unlimited team members.

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TweetDeck

TweetDeck hasn’t changed much in recent years, but it still remains a powerful Twitter social media management tools. It now allows teams to manage multiple accounts and has some powerful features including advanced filtering of streams, Twitter list management and more. TweetDeck is free.