So many social medias. So many tools. Which tool is the best?
There are so many social media marketing tools there that for the beginner it can feel overwhelming. When you search from the Google “What is The Best Social Media Marketing Tool?” No one seems to give you the clear answer.
There are texts like, ” 17 social media marketing tools that you can’t live without.” or “30 highest quality Twitter Tools.”
They give you so many different tools, then give 50 words description about the tool and then leave you alone. Very helpful? Not really. I have once started and been the beginner so I know how it feels to be looking for the best tool without a clear answer.
Today I want to give you my honest and clear answer on what is the best social media marketing tool and why. (Spoiler: My #1 social media tool here is Hootsuite)
All of these tools are good and I use them almost daily (Buffer not anymore because Hootsuite is better). I already wrote how to get Twitter followers fast by using Tweepi and how to unfollow people on Twitter by using Manageflitter. Both of those tools are great social media marketing tools but they are not the best.
In my opinion, Hootsuite is the best.
Also, the famous online entrepreneur Marc Guberti likes Hootsuite the most.
There are Twitter Tools. There are Facebook tools. There are Google+ tools.
But Hootsuite is the social media tool where you can use all of them at the same time.
You can connect all your social medias to Hootsuite at the same time. Once you want to publish a new post/tweet/link in your social medias you can publish in all of them with only one click.
I love bulkscheduler! It was the main reason that I decided to buy the premium account in Hootsuite.
With the bulkscheduler, you are able to publish 350 posts with only one click (okay, maybe a few clicks more but still). Actually, you can schedule 350 to all of your social media sites with only one click.
And once you have prepared your social media posts you can use them over and over again without using the time for writing and publishing them again. Hootsuite makes the work for you.
I remember when I first started to use Hootsuite.
It didn’t feel very simple tool. So many icons and options everywhere. “How could I use this???” was my initial thought.
Then I abandoned Hootsuite for quite a while until I found it again. Buffer seemed simpler so I decided to use it. But it seemed to take too much time. Not very much but still I was thinking that there must a better way to automate tweets.
I kept on looking and after all, I found Hootsuite.
I watched some Hootsuite tutorials from Youtube and I searched Google for the answers. Then I found out that Hootsuite isn’t so complicated after all. I just needed to watch some videos to understand how it works.
So don’t worry if it feels too scary in the beginning. Just use some time for it and you will master it. Then after a little while, it feels like the simplest tool in the world.
Here is one great Hootsuite tutorial for beginners:
Hootsuite bulkscheduler was the main reason that I decided to buy the premium version in Hootsuite.
That tool is totally awesome and powerful!
With the Bulkscheduler you can schedule 350 FB posts/tweets WITH ONE CLICK
Imagine how much time it would take to write your tweets and posts over and over again. With the Bulkscheduler, you need to write your posts only once and then you can publish them over and over again with one click.
Before I earned approximately 1,500-3,000 impressions on Twitter. As I started using the Bulkscheduler a number of impressions instantly jumped more than 10 times! (see the images below)
I started to have the same amount in one hour that I before had in the whole day.
When you start using the Bulkscheduler you need to use a little bit of time to write and arrange your tweets.
First, it takes some time but then the effort will pay back itself VERY FAST.
Here is a great tutorial on Youtube that helped me when I started using Bulkscheduler for the first time.
As the woman explains in the video, you can arrange your tweets using Google Spreadsheet. Then download the file in CSV. format and submit it to Hootsuite.
There are many good tools out there and I recommend to use many of them. I use personally Tweepi, Manageflitter, and Hootsuite.
But if I should need to choose only one social media marketing tool it would be Hootsuite.
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If you need any help with using Hootsuite, you can drop a comment below. I am more than willing to help you!
Using social media is absolutely beneficial but if you really want to be successful online you need to get ranked in Google.
To get ranked in Google you need to use proper tools and training.
I know what it takes to get ranked and if you want to learn it too I recommend you to start learning for free in Wealthy Affiliate. It provides you the comprehensive training and tools on how to drive traffic from all the search engines. In addition, I will provide my personal 1-on-1 coaching for you!
What social media tools have you used?
What is The Best Social Media Marketing Tool in your opinion?
Update!!! 26.12.2016: Today I published a review about MassPlanner which is also an awesome social media tool. I would recommend to try both MassPlanner and Hootsuite. There is a free trial in both of them so you can try them for free. I have bought the premium version of both and I can honestly say that they are worth it. They are both very cheap and you can get a great value for your money.
Social Media is an Incredible Resource for Bloggers
Today I’m going to give 5 benefits of social media marketing for bloggers. Read these carefully if you are a blogger and especially if you want to earn income from your blog.
Social media is an awesome tool for all bloggers and online marketers. You can engage with people, find new customers, market your brand and the sky is the limit.
1.More Traffic. You can share the links to your blog posts and articles. People in social media click those links which will mean more traffic to your blog.
You can use several ways to encourage people in social media to come to your website. For example use images, use questions and encourage action.
When people see that your content is valuable they will start to share your website in their social circle’s which allows you to get even more and more traffic.
2.More Customers. More traffic to your website will lead to more customers which will very probably lead to more revenue. Let’s say, for example, that the traffic of your blog is 5,000 visitors/month and 1% of them end up buying something. That makes 50 customers per month.
Then after social media marketing the traffic in your blog increases to 10,000/month and still 1% of them end up buying your product. Now you have already 100 customers every month.
3.Increased Brand Awareness. You can build your own brand in social media. Put your blog’s logo everywhere on the social networks. Leave tracks of your blog. And don’t worry that people will not get bored with your logo.
Think about Coca-Cola, for example. Everyone knows the brand. Why are they still marketing their brand everywhere? Because if they wouldn’t market it people would forget it over the time in the long run. But now when they put their ads everywhere and people can see their logo it’s easy to remember.
You can use the same strategy in your own social media marketing. Leave the tracks.
4.More Authority. More traffic, more customers and increased brand awareness. All of this will together lead to more authority. You will become better known in your niche and probably you can become a famous blogger.
It’s always beneficial to have more authority in the online world. People will trust you more, they will engage with you more and they will buy from you.
Become the authority. Continue building your blog and marketing it in the social media.
5.More Revenue. This is one of the most interesting parts. All 4 benefits that I mentioned before will eventually lead to more revenue. Social media marketing will allow you to earn more from your blog.
Sometimes you can even use some money for to market your blog in social media in order to get profit. Invest $10 in social media marketing and get $20 profit. But be careful when investing in social media marketing. You can end up losing money if you don’t know what you are doing.
Conclusion
Social media marketing can be ultimately the powerful tool for bloggers. I would say that it’s the must. Here is the little recap of the benefits so you can remember them better.
1.More Traffic
2.More Customers
3.Increase Brand Awareness
4.More Authority
5.More Revenue
I still want to highlight that social media marketing will be a powerful tool only if you use it in a right way. Scrolling Facebook’s news feed and watching useless Youtube videos for many hours IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING. It’s only the waste of time.
You can end up spending hundreds of hours on social media if you don’t know the right way to use it.
You need to learn how to do social media marketing effectively. My favorite place to learn social media marketing for bloggers is Wealthy Affiliate.
Here are two powerful lessons of social media marketing. I’m sure that you will like them!
TOP 12 Steps to Social Media Success
What 3 Social Media You Want and Why
I hope that you find this article useful. Please share it on your social networks. 😉
If you have any questions or comments I’m more than happy to help you out and discuss with you.
If you feel that your Twitter feed is too full, you follow too many people or your following limits are full I wrote you this quick tutorial “How to Unfollow People on Twitter Fast!”
I want to introduce you a free Twitter tool called Manageflitter. There are many useful Twitter tools in Manageflitter but today I’m going to show you how to unfollow people.
Learning this process takes you 5-10 minutes but it can save a big amount of your time in the long run.
(If you are more interested in getting followers in Twitter check my recent posts How to Get More Twitter Followers Instantly? – 5 Ultimate Tips and Getting Twitter Followers Fast is Easier Than You Might Think!)
Let’s go to the step-by-step instructions
Click the link and the following page will appear.
Click “Connect to Twitter >>”
You can automatically connect with you Twitter account so you don’t need to create a new account to Manageflitter. That option makes using many Twitter tools much easier because you don’t need to remember million different accounts but only your Twitter account.
Login with your twitter account and you are in!
It will probably take a little while until your data downloads to Manageflitter. Then you can continue.
As you have now logged in click menu on the top left, “Manage” and then “Unfollow” (see the image below).
Click “Unfollow”.
Then the unfollowing page appears to you.
On the left you can choose what kind of accounts you want to unfollow (See the image below).
You can for example choose Manageflitter show you the users
Let’s take for example the people who are not following me back.
Then you are on the page which allows you to unfollow people fast. You can see which accounts you are following but they are not following you back.
You can unfollow them simply by clicking “unfollow” -button (see the image below).
You don’t need to move your mouse after unfollowing because Manageflitter deletes automatically the accounts that you have already unfollowed. It makes the process much faster.
Then just “click, click, click and click.” So much as you want to unfollow.
In Manageflitter you have a daily unfollowing limit but you can get the limit bigger by following Manageflitter on Twitter, sending a tweet about Manageflitter or subscribing to their email list.
You can see the options in the center on top of the page.
With the premium account you would get unlimited daily follows and also many other tools. There are also many other tools in Manageflitter but today I only concentrated to unfollowing -option.
I made a quick video tutorial for you also to give you clear instructions how you can unfollow people on twitter
I hope you find this tutorial helpful. If you have any questions or comments don’t hesitate to leave them below.
Start unfollowing in Manageflitter here.
Manageflitter is very reliable application with more than 3.2 million users. They started already in 2010. But if for some reason you want to stop using Manageflitter with your Twitter account you can always unauthorize apps on Twitter. See for example this quick video tutorial.
Twitter can boost your affiliate sales!
If you want to earn money online as an affiliate marketer, you may have asked yourself “How to Use Twitter for Affiliate Marketing?” Or in general, “How to use Twitter for social media marketing?
It’s a very relevant question and today you will get an answer!
First of all, I want to highlight why using Twitter can be beneficial for you.
Twitter is a huge potential for you as an affiliate marketer. But you need to use it properly.
Let’s say that you put your affiliate link on Twitter.
How probably will someone buy the product through that link?
Think about your Twitter feed. You see tens and hundreds of different tweets. In one of them is a link from a person that you don’t even know.
Okay, you still click the link because the text was intriguing. You end up with a page where you would need to buy something. Let’s say the link takes you straight to Amazon and shows you the product. Would you buy it? Quite probably not. One little link from someone who you doesn’t know to a random product. Doesn’t sound very effective.
Someone of many thousands could end up buying it but I can say that there is a more profitable way of using Twitter than throwing affiliate links here and there.
In order to succeed in any business, you need to build trust. The same applies to affiliate marketing.
There are many ways to build trust in the online world and on Twitter.
On Twitter, we usually trust more the people who have more followers (see Getting Twitter Followers Fast is Easier Than You Might Think! and How to Get More Twitter Followers Instantly? – 5 Ultimate Tips).
Would you trust more the guy who has 100 followers on Twitter or the guy who has 100,000 followers on Twitter? I would prefer the latter.
Another, probably one of the most efficient ways to build trust is to provide valuable content. We tend to trust more those people who have given us something.
We trust in people who are helping us.
Help people somehow. Give solutions to their problems. Usually, in one message of 140 characters, you can’t build the very deep connection with your audience. That’s one reason you need to be consistent in your tweets.
140 characters may not be enough but as you link people to your website they can read, see and hear tons of your content. They can see who you are and what are you providing.
That builds trust.
Let’s take an example. Let’s say that you are promoting Tennis rackets. Instead of throwing one Amazon link to Twitter you can put a link to your review of that racket.
In your review, you provide 1 000 words of analysis about the racket, show pictures of it and maybe a video of you using the racket. Does it build a little more trust?
One guy stops you in the street and says, “Buy this product, you will like it. It will make your life better.”
Your best friend shows you how a new product has helped him to have a better life. He explains how this product could help you also. Which one of the person’s would you trust more? Your best friend or the stranger in the street?
People like to listen to their friend’s advice. Our friend’s opinions’ have value. You can utilize this information in your affiliate marketing business. Build relationships with the people and they will trust you more.
Sincerely try to help them and provide them value. They become more interested in what you are providing and many times they are willing to help you back.
Build relationships. Connect with people and help them.
In the other words, send messages on Twitter, reply, retweet, link them to your website and so on.
Honestly, who likes the person who is always only selling some of his/her own products. Always the advertisements. Doesn’t sound very interesting.
Remember that you can use Twitter not only for selling.
This will also build trust because people don’t see you only as a guy who is always selling something. They see you as a normal person and hopefully as their friend.
1.Don’t only throw affiliate links
2.Build trust
3.Link your own website
4.Build relationships
5.Have fun
With these tips, you will get much further when using Twitter in social media marketing.
Twitter is still only a little part of affiliate marketing. Learn all the details how to be a successful affiliate marketer in Wealthy Affiliate, #1 Training center for affiliate marketers. Get your 10 free video lessons today.
If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to leave them below.
How do you use Twitter for affiliate marketing?
Update 26.12.2016. I have realized that on social media many different strategies can work. Even throwing the links can be quite effective. You can try what works the best for you and go for it. But remember to respect all other persons and provide them good value. That is the most important thing.
Today I also published a review about a wonderful social media automation tool called MassPlanner. It can literally boost your Twitter results!
UPDATE 26.12.2016! I found a faster and more effective way to get twitter followers automatically. It is a tool called MassPlanner. Many full-time Internet marketers are using it regularly and I am using it too. You can get thousands or even tens of thousands of followers with 5 minute of work.
And you can try it for totally free!
Do you want to get more visibility in the social media? Do you want to get more Twitter followers fast by using only 2 minutes per day?
Getting Twitter followers isn’t so hard as many people think. You don’t need to be a celebrity or a hacker.
Today I will introduce you one ultimately an easy way to get targeted followers on Twitter.
The best of all, this way is completely free. (Buying and selling Twitter followers is a big business on the Internet but very probably buying followers in the social media won’t make you successful. In addition, it’s usually against the rules in many social medias so you will probably get banned.)
Tweepi – The fast way to a big amount of targeted followers
There are a huge amount of Twitter tools and products out there. I have tried many of them but Tweepi is so far one of my favorites.
It’s free and very simple to use. There is also a premium membership available but I haven’t ever needed it.
One of the most efficient ways to get followers on Twitter is to follow people who are interested in the same subject (See How to Get More Twitter Followers Instantly? – 5 Ultimate Tips).
That is very easy in Tweepi.
I will explain you step by step how to do it.
Just go to Tweepi.com and click sign up. Fill out the information and create an account.
You can also easily connect with your Twitter account so you don’t need to make a new account here in Tweepi. Just click “Login via Twitter.“
What is your niche? Are you selling/promoting football equipment, musical instruments, online courses or what?
Let’s say for example that you want to find people who are interested in language learning, more specifically learning English.
Click “Follow Tools” and there you can find the right people. Then click “By @user’s followers” (see the image below)
Then find the users that people who are interested in learning English might follow.
For example, the accounts like @LearnEnglish, BBC Learning English @bbcle, LearnEnglish @LearnEnglish_BC and VOA Learning EnglishVerified account @VOALearnEnglish.
Users who are following these accounts are very probably interested in learning English because these channels are made for teaching English.
Then click +Follow and you are following the users who are interested in your niche. (see the image below)
The maximum amount of users you can follow during 24 hours is 250. Then on the next day, you can follow again 250 new users and so on.
Clicking follow 250 times will take you about 2-3 minutes so it really doesn’t take time almost at all. You’ll probably follow 250 Twitter users faster than you visit the toilet!
When you follow someone on Twitter very often they will follow you back.
So when you follow 250 users in Twitter every day a big amount of those will follow you back.
Let’s make a fast calculation. If 150 of them follow you back every day, you will get almost 55 000 Twitter followers a year only by following some users.
And of course, the other’s will follow you also if you are providing good value for the followers.
Over the time when a number of your followers gets bigger and bigger more people will follow you automatically.
People just seem to follow more likely the accounts who have 100 000 followers than those who have 1 000 followers.
4 Steps to Getting Twitter Followers Fast
1.Sign up to Tweepi
2.Find the People Interested in Your Niche
3.Follow Their Accounts
4.They Will Follow You Back
And repeat the cycle every day.
I also made the video instructions to make your task easier to get more Twitter followers.
See the video instructions below from Youtube.
I hope you find this article useful and it will help you to create online success.
Social media marketing and Twitter followers are only one part of the online business.
There are also many other things that you need to do in order to succeed online.
Wealthy Affiliate is the online community that teaches you all the details you need to in order to earn money online.
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Have you used Twitter tools? Which one is your favorite and why?
How to Get More Twitter Followers Instantly? – 5 Tips
Social media marketing is the crucial part of the online business. If you don’t use it you will miss a big part of the possible profits. Using social media can be also time-consuming if you don’t know what to do there.
Today I’m going to give you five tips how to get more followers on Twitter which is one of the biggest and powerful social media networks online.
As you get more followers you will get more visibility. And when you get more visibility you will get more potential customers to your business and more profit. You have also better possibilities to affect people’s life positively.
After reading this text you don’t need to wonder anymore how to get more Twitter followers instantly.
This is the foundation of social media marketing and online business in general. You will need to provide some value for the customers that they will be interested in you. Provide something that will make their life better or easier.
For example, if someone is looking for ways to lose weight, you can give him good tips.
If someone is looking for how to make business better, you can help him.
Give people something valuable. When the people have received something useful from you, they will initially trust you more and you will gain some authority in their eyes.
One great way to get more followers is to follow other people. That’s because they will probably follow you back.
Crucially important is to get “targeted followers’”. It means that they are interested in the same subject as you are. If you are interested in the online business you can follow the people that are also interested in the online business. You will more likely to get more retweets and likes when your followers are targeted and interested in the same subject.
It is often said that 10,000 targeted followers are better than 100,000 non-targeted followers.
That’s definitely true because what profit it will give to you if 100,000 people follow you but they aren’t interested at all in your subject?
Still, be careful not to follow (+unfollow) too many people at the time. Twitter rules prohibit this behavior and Twitter has banned some accounts who have made this.
But I would say that if you are not following more than 200 followers/day you shouldn’t be afraid of being banned.
If you want to make social media marketing effectively, you will have to use tools. Using tools will save tons of hours of your time over the years.
The magical word in the online business is AUTOMATION. The more you automate the things the better.
If you use for example every day 5 minutes to do something that makes over 30 hours a year. If you write the same tweet 365 times you will lose 30 hours if we compare that you could use the tool that publishes the tweet 365 times for you.
Twitter tools will also help you to follow more targeted people faster. My favorite Twitter tools are Manageflitter and Tweepi.
There are 3 reasons for this.
1.Images will get the attention better than only the text. You can also try to get people’s attention using CAPS LOCK or USE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! But be aware that this can irritate some people.
2.Images are easier to find in Twitter. Some people may scroll your images afterwards and they may click the image you had published before two months. But it’s quite unlikely that they would find the text you published before two months.
3.Images help to remember the message more easily. People are visual by nature. We are just attracted to images and they help us to learn better. 1 word tells more than the thousand words. (See How to Get Free Images)
People just love motivational quotes. They are short and easy to remember. People tend to retweet motivational quotes more than “average tweets”.
Retweets help you to get new followers because more people will see your profile. Think for example, if 1,000,000 could see your tweet how many of them will eventually follow you. Compare if 10,000 people see your tweet how many of them will follow you.
The changes are way higher for the first one.
With these 5 tips you will get more twitter followers for sure.
1.Provide important value
2.Follow People Interested in the same subject
3.Use Twitter tools
4.Use Images
5.Use Motivational Quotes
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What are your best ways to get more Twitter followers?
Alexa is the company that analyzes and provides website traffic of the websites. (Alexa is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com
You can see the statistics and traffic from any website by writing the website URL and searching it from Alexa.
You can try it right away in Alexa.com if you want.
Here is, for example, the some statistics of the highly popular social media website, Pinterest.com.
Alexa also gives statistics of the many other metrics where are the people located using that site, how engaged people are, what is their gender, education and so on. (You can follow me on Pinterest.)
But how reliable Alexa rankings really are and is it important to get your Alexa ranking better? Let’s find out!
Alexa gets their data from people who have installed Alexa toolbar in their browsers. Alexa then tracks the traffic of those users and gets the statistics according to the users of the toolbar.
There are also other plugins and toolbars that Alexa uses to track their traffic.
Still, Alexa certainly doesn’t get the track from all of the users on the internet but only a little amount of it.
Alexa ranking can give you some insight of your website popularity and traffic but it’s not the most reliable one. There are many reasons why you shouldn’t concentrate on the Alexa ranking too much.
If you want to know how your (or any other) website is ranked in Google I recommend you to use Jaaxy. It’s Free to start and very easy to use.
The highly successful Online Entrepreneur and creator of the Wealthy Affiliate Kyle told his own experience. He wanted to test the reliability of Alexa by his own websites. He has many own websites and he chose to compare two of them, let’s call them Website A and Website B.
Website A got unique 20,000+ visitors per day while Website B got “only” 1,000+ visitors per day. So according to that, Website A’s Alexa ranking must be way better than B’s ranking. Was it?
NO! Website B was getting actually double the traffic that A was getting according to Alexa. So Alexa’s ranking and statistics were totally false.
There are different tools and packages that Alexa sells. I don’t recommend them. You can get the same (and actually more accurate) information for free from other tools like Google Analytics.
Alexa rankings aren’t reliable also for the reason that there are many ways to manipulate the Alexa traffic.
People are actually paying money to get their Alexa ranking better
If you are interested in that kind of tools you can find them on Google but I don’t recommend to use them because Alexa ranking is not so important. Use your money for better tools like for Wealthy Affiliate premium to learn more about earning money online.
According to Alexa, top-ranked web pages on the internet are
1.Google
2.Facebook
3.Youtube
Yahoo, Wikipedia, Twitter and Amazon are also in the top 10. So we can definitely say that Alexa ranking gives you some information about the traffic and ranks in the search engines. These websites are highly popular and deserve their place in the top.
Still, I wouldn’t concentrate too much on the Alexa ranking because
1.It doesn’t show traffic accurately
2.The rank can be easily manipulated (you can buy better rankings).
Instead, I recommend you to concentrate more important things in your Online Business like creating valuable content, SEO and others.
Have you used Alexa or other website ranking tools? Leave a comment below or join the discussion in Wealthy Affiliate.