January 26, 2020
Hootsuite - One of the best social media scheduling tools.
Pros and Cons
- Scheduler
- Calendar
- Analytics
- Lacks being a Complete CRM
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Pros and Cons
- Ability to integrate multiple social media accounts (twitter, Fackbook, LinkedIn ...)
- Very intuitive interface.
- A bit tedious with adding images, links, etc.
- Sometimes, social media posts do not post as intended
Pros and Cons
- Auto-scheduling posts easily, especially via the mobile app.
- Tracking clicks across channels with URL shortener.
- Provides helpful real-time and automated weekly reports via email.
- I believe the app is very intuitive and valuable, but the desktop app is a little more clunky, especially when scheduling posts. It takes too many steps to create a post compared to the mobile app.
- I believe the app is very intuitive and valuable, but the desktop app is a little more clunky, especially when scheduling posts. It takes too many steps to create a post compared to the mobile app.
- The free reporting has not improved over time, surprisingly. Reporting options are somewhat limited in value.
February 06, 2020
Hootsuite is state of the art social management tool
Pros and Cons
- Ability to integrate various social media channels into one dashboard
- Intuitive and easy end user interface
- Not that simple to add images, links, text etc.
- Lack of # suggestion feature would be nice
September 23, 2019
Hootsuite makes life convenient, but at a cost.
Pros and Cons
- Easy to monitor multiple streams in one place.
- You can have a team manage your social media empire.
- It helps you manage customer service on Twitter.
- You can get free reports by email.
- It's the best way to connect lots of services together.
- Hootsuite Analytics, Multiple Users (Teams), & Custom URL Shorteners are REALLY expensive.
- There are no thumbnail & summary previews on Facebook in certain situations.
November 12, 2019
Hootsuite gets an A++ check it out!
Pros and Cons
- Great pricing and free options for basic management
- Great analytics
- Very user friendly
- Video isn't always the easiest to post within the platform.
- Sometimes Hootsuite has system wide issues and doesn't send posts, but an email always comes to let me know.
October 12, 2019
Great timesaver!
Pros and Cons
- Easy scheduling tool.
- Quick to teach to new hires and clients.
- Sometimes Instagram is really finicky - doesn’t always post, crops photos weird, etc.
January 17, 2020
Hootsuite Makes Social Management Easy
Pros and Cons
- Easy to interact with other users or consumers--fast. Hootsuite allows a real-time feed like Twitter used to have. Notifications are more easily seen.
- Easy to monitor all aspects of social, including through multiple accounts. Did someone mention your account(s)? There's a panel for that. Only want to see specific content? You're able to create data profiles on whatever you choose. What to minter multiple accounts at once? Done.
- Scheduling tweets are easy, which means you can fully develop your social calendar and not have to worry about taking a break from your dinner to send out that 6 pm tweet.
- When scheduling tweets, it can be easy to hit the wrong button and send the tweet out immediately. Would love to see better design to avoid that.
- With so much data on the screen, sometimes it can look overwhelming and, maybe this is just me, quite ugly. Personal preference, sure, but I would love to see a cleaner looking design.
Pros and Cons
- Calendar view is easy to digest and visually plan the distribution of content across a longer period.
- Confirming the content captions entered, by counting the applicable number of characters for each social media platform.
- Integrating users' social media accounts into the tool; we have never had an error or issue with Hootsuite's access and authentication of those accounts.
- Being able to more easily replicate the scheduled or archived content, to be reposted or shared on different platforms would save time.
- Showing a more full preview of posts on the various platforms before being posted would be helpful.
- Giving additional insights into the response of the posts once completed.
- Being able to edit the dashboard view of the tool would help with personalisation so we feel more ownership of the tool.
November 25, 2019
Automated Social Media Marketing
Pros and Cons
- Hootsuite provides real-time analytics so you can see how your social media campaigns are performing, at a glance.
- Hootsuite sends out emails with reports on how well each platform's posts are performing and updates on engagements, follows, shares, etc.
- Hootsuite could allow more control on how posts can be edited per each different platform. Such as having different content highlights that perform better on different platforms, such as switching up videos for photos or an article or vice versa. One post format isn't always best suited for every social media platform.
October 31, 2019
Great for Social Media
Pros and Cons
- Photo Uploading.
- Multiple Account Managing.
- Advanced post capability.
- Slow loading.
- It's hard to find the upload area.
- No need for so many templates.
October 12, 2019
Overpromised and Not Worth The Cost
Pros and Cons
- Content calendar view
- Content repository
- Community management
- Video publishing
- Instagram publishing
October 01, 2019
Hootsuite is a great tool
Pros and Cons
- Organization of posts - I like how I can see everything I've scheduled in a variety of views (day, week, month).
- Engagement - Hootsuite allows me to see what's going on in each social media page and engage all from the same platform. I don't need to log into each account to do so.
- Ease of use - Everything that I do in Hootsuite is easy to do and right to the point. I don't need to jump through hoops to do a simple task.
- Education - Hootsuite offers a variety of education courses that you can become certified in a specific area.
- Pricing - The pricing for Hootsuite is tricky if you are a business managing multiple accounts for clients. There is a large jump from the first plan to the next because you get more licenses. But if you are a small business, you don't need more licenses, just more social media account spots.
December 12, 2019
Hootsuite Review
Pros and Cons
- Efficient - Hootsuite makes scheduling and planning social posts easy and quick.
- Intuitive - Hootsuite offers various other features that allow our business to thrive.
- I am a very visual person so sometimes when the posts don't show up exactly how I want them to it can be frustrating using the platform.
December 06, 2019
Hootsuite Works for Your Business
Pros and Cons
- Easy to schedule on one platform.
- Easy to make changes to posts.
- Easy to understand how to navigate the platform.
- Would love to schedule livestreams through the platform.
- Would love additional posting offerings (e.g. schedule more posts for free).
- Would love more learning content to learn how to better use the site.
June 04, 2019
Hootsuite Free - Great product at a great price!
Pros and Cons
- Mobile App is very intuitive
- Easy to schedule content
- It is very simple to add social media accounts
- The analytics are not as smooth and intuitive. It is certainly better than previous versions.
- The reports need to have clearer titles and filter items.
- The analytics screen tabs need to be smaller in size.
May 25, 2019
Old Reliable!
Pros and Cons
- Integrations work flawlessly with no issues or needing to reconnect things incessantly.
- Very reliable and consistent platform compared to cheaper alternatives.
- It does a very good job of allowing you to put the most important information that you need front-and-center.
- I personally don't like the way Hootsuite displays multiple social channels on the interface. It's very utilitarian and it does have a modern look, but there's just something about the multiple column look that really bugs me. It feels a bit dated and cluttered.
- I've used both the free and the pro versions before. Pro is somewhat overpriced for the value that it provides and the free version limits you to too few social profiles which puts you in a position to either overpay or go to another option like Buffer which is cheaper but isn't as reliable. I'd say somewhere around $12-15/mo. would make the single-user Pro tier more palatable.
Pros and Cons
- Hootsuite allows us to schedule postings days/weeks in advance so we can manage other aspects within our work functions and not miss a beat.
- I love Hootsuite because I can see my post before I schedule it to go live, which allows me perfect my messaging.
- Hootsuite allows me to page through my social platforms, see the activity on my page, upcoming scheduled posts and what others are posting. This really keeps everything in front of me to help manage all of the different social platforms I manage.
- I wish Hootsuite would update their Facebook feed icon. Currently, it shows as a flag, which is very confusing when trying to manage multiple platforms. For example, twitter is the bird icon which makes it super easy to identify that it is Twitter... no guessing games.
- To view all of my posts in the planner page, I would like to see the whole month, versus only showing weekly. It's a strong asset to see your scheduled posts on a calendar, but to see the entire month would be most beneficial.
- When you are already viewing your streams for facebook, twitter, etc., I wish Hootsuite would automatically refresh new feed, rather than me having to click to refresh the stream.
June 13, 2019
Hoot hoot! Hootsuite gets the message out.
Pros and Cons
- Flexible scheduling system for social ahead of time.
- Works on a phone and desktop.
- Many ways to connect using their apps.
- We can see who is talking about us socially or via a review all in one place.
- Does not work with snap chat without other apps/integrations.
- Difficult to work with youtube and Instagram in all the ways people communicate on those platforms.
- Wish they would make it easier (less expensive) to run contests.
- Would be nice to have better analytics for free.
May 31, 2019
Hootsuite - Schedule your social content easily!
Pros and Cons
- Schedule approved content months in advance.
- Metrics into one dashboard.
- Engage with content right in the platform.
- Limited Metrics.
- We need more advanced social monitoring in heavy compliant industry.
- Integrated with tons of social platforms.
Pros and Cons
- Schedules social media posts - it is easy and efficient and once you have completed you can walk away knowing it will be done properly.
- Links easily to social accounts - this is important for the tool to be effective, if it was a challenge or had to be updated every time, it would take the ease of use out of the product.
- Communicates - If there are problems, they are communicated quickly so that they can be addressed prior to anything "not being posted" on your behalf.
- I cannot think of anything that comes to mind that would really improve functionality. I would love to see a redesign that was easier to "look at" but that is simply a design preference on my part.
April 04, 2019
Great Tool for Improving Marketing Efficiency
Pros and Cons
- It allows me to easily manage the social media accounts of multiple clients from one portal. This is a huge time saver for me as a marketing agency executive.
- It allows me to add multiple team members to my social media teams and coordinate their activities from one dashboard.
- I appreciate the ability to set up custom streams and track very granular keywords, geo-targeted comments, etc. For my local business clients, this kind of targeted tracking is essential
- I would like to see Hootsuite create a better user interface for adding scheduled updates to the queue. The current system of uploading an spreadsheet is time consuming and awkward.
Pros and Cons
- Easy to get started
- Training videos that are not hard to understand
- Industry-leading platform
- Sometimes the dashboard can "lag" behind
- Does not always show posts in specific sections, like mentions
- Layout can be an issue at times
May 21, 2019
Is Hootsuite too sweet?
Pros and Cons
- The scheduling feature is fantastic. It allows you to easily plan the exact day, time, and channel that a particular post will be published.
- Mobile functionality is great with the app. The team could use it on their phones or tablets, which made it easy to make changes or additions on the go or in-between meetings.
- Social channel integration. All of the major channels are integrated with the tool, making it easy to sign in and start using it.
- Photo editing. The editing capabilities are rather minimal. We typically had to edit our photos and make changes to them outside of the tool before using them.
- No functionality to post multiple photos to a channel like Instagram or Facebook. You can only post a single photo at a time, which is not ideal for some types of posts.
- The UX is pretty bad. It is a multi-column setup, which was great when Hootsuite first started because it was a Twitter-only platform. Now that there are so many more channels, this layout doesn't work well.
June 21, 2019
Hootsuite is Free...So why aren't you using it?
Pros and Cons
- Design - I am able to design posts using the free media library, which reduces my iStock costs. It provides dimensions by social platform, eliminating the need for resizing in iStock or Photoshop.
- Manage content and time - I can create multiple posts and schedule them over a period of time, which enables me to stay abreast of my social media efforts without a major impact to time.
- I can post content to multiple sites with the click of one button, which is a huge time saver.
- Tagging - there are times that I would like to tag individuals or places in a photo. This feature is not offered in the version I have, forcing me to visit the actual sites to complete these tasks.
- While I can add links to a post, I cannot hyperlink words which would be helpful.
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About Hootsuite
HootSuite Enterprise provides a centralized platform for managing streams from different social media channels and posting/ engaging across channels simultaneously. It also has strong team / workflow features and good mobile apps.
Categories: Social Media Customer Service, Social Media Management
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Hootsuite Competitors
Adobe Social, Conversocial, Sysomos Expion, Falcon.io, Oracle Social Cloud, Radian6, Sprout Social, Viralheat, MavSocial, ThoughtBuzz, Khoros Care (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium), Khoros Marketing (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium), Sprinklr Social + Messaging Suite
Hootsuite Technical Details
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| Mobile Application: | No |