Postfity.com vs. Social Mention

This is a great tool for someone who is a small business owner and needs to get posts out fast. It gives great ideas to use instantly vs having to harvest your own content.

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Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.

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• Ideas tab allows for quick industry related posts.
• Calendar allows for scheduling posts.
• Being able to connect multiple channels.
• Great UI for someone who has no social media experience.

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• Can predict future response from today's number.
• Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
• Has a very well managed dashboard of results.

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• Analytics could be way more in depth. I get more data from Facebook itself.
• I'm not sure the cover photo tab makes sense unless you are changing it all the time.

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• Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
• Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
• Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.

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I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away

While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.

It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.

Hootsuite is very similar but seems to have gone up in cost over the years. This is very affordable compared to others. Hubspot requires you to be a user of their CMS to use similar features as Postify.com.

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Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.

• I can stay top of mind to clients by posting on social media more frequently.

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• The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).