Hoot-bitter-Sweet: It's Great, When it Works
January 30, 2019
Hoot-bitter-Sweet: It's Great, When it Works
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Hootsuite Pro
Overall Satisfaction with Hootsuite Pro
We have used Hootsuite Pro primarily in our social media and marketing departments. Ostensibly, Hootsuite Pro addresses the cumbersome process of cross-posting content to our various social media platforms and managing the scheduling of those posts. It helps with post creation, post scheduling, and management of comments, etc., on existing posts.
- When it works, the ability to write ONE post and apply it to multiple platforms is great. Huge timesaver, and ensures consistency of content across your platforms.
- The customizability of streams is a cool feature. You can really dial in a dashboard that fits your unique needs, instead of trying to adapt yourself to a default vanilla setup. Whichever content streams (both existing and scheduled) are important to you can be placed front and center and edited as needed.
- Retaining connection to social accounts has been quite unreliable for us, particularly our Facebook Business account. When this connection breaks, Hootsuite essentially becomes useless until the connection is repaired, which often requires an arduous manual removal and re-adding of permissions.
- Comment management is in some stage of depreciation, and it's not clear to what degree we can expect that functionality to work going forward.
- As a new user, streams are not well-explained by a tutorial and aren't particularly intuitive to figure out on one's own. They're a great tool once you know how they work, but it would be nice to have a little more exposition provided by Hootsuite right off the bat.
3 - Our Hootsuite Pro users represent marketing functions, social media functions, content generation functions, and general business management functions.
- Honestly, Hootsuite has been pretty close to a wash for us. The frequency with which we've had to wrestle with our Facebook Business connection has caused us to repeatedly put Hootsuite on the shelf and opt for manual posting to both FB and Instagram.
- During the times it functioned properly, Hootsuite probably saved us around an hour of work per day, if you factor in both time required to post to various platforms and potential time spent ensuring/editing consistency between posts.