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Hootsuite App Sprout Social App

Features

- Build meaningful relationships that drive your social ROI. - Build an engaging presence on social media. - Monitor the social media conversations that matter to your business. - Schedule social messages. - Monitor emerging trends : Use conversation maps to visualize and compare trending keywords and phrases over time. - Visualize your business metrics The customizable Hootsuite Command Center lets you see all your business-critical stats in one place. - Track your brand growth : See where and when your social profiles are growing and get an in-depth look at their growth over time. - Identify social influencers Pinpoint the key influencers and brands driving important conversations and generating buzz. - Maintain your organizational structure : Map Hootsuite to your company's existing teams and manage employees by project, department, and region. - Create tasks and assignments : Anyone in your organization can assign tasks and responses to the appropriate team, department, or region.

Features

Data Visualization & Insight : The new Engagement Report provides insight on team interactions (Premium Plan only). Smart Inbox Means You'll Never Miss an Important Message : Engage with your entire audience with Sprout's single-stream Smart Inbox. View all of your social channels and profiles at once and easily keep tabs on the complete social conversation. Assign Tasks : It's critical to get your customer's inquiries into the right hands to ensure quick response times. Turn Messages into Support Tickets : Generate a HelpDesk support ticket from any social message. Create, track and manage support issues in Zendesk and UserVoice without leaving your social media dashboard. Monitor Relevant Brand Keywords : Enhance your social media monitoring and listening efforts and discover what people on social media are saying about you, your business, your products, or any topic in real-time. Monitor Hashtags and Topics on Twitter : Sprout automatically analyzes incoming messages for all of your connected Twitter profiles to give you hassle free insights. Unlimited Presentation-Ready Reports : Sprout's reports are designed to make social media analytics data easily digestible and ready to present. Analyze Data Across Social Properties & Profiles : Sprout combines profile-level, group and roll-up analytics reports to get a high or low level look at performance. You can report on your social profiles in the way that makes sense to your business.

suitable For

Freelancers
Startups
Agencies
SMBs
Enterprises

suitable For

Freelancers
Startups
Agencies
SMBs
Enterprises

Languages

English

Languages

English

Integrates With

No Integrations

Integrates With

Pricing

  • Free Plan Available Free Trial : Available (No Credit Card Available) Starting At $8.99 Per Month.

Pricing

  • Free Trial : Available (No Credit Card Required) Starting At $59 Per Month.

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Sprout Social vs Hootsuite

Sprout Social vs Hootsuite

By Preethi Darshan | 5/26/2016 | Product Comparisons

Social media, which was once considered to be a teen craze, has now become one of the most essential and efficient marketing tools that helps in meeting business needs pertaining to networking, branding and reach. With the evolution and popularity of social media, a lot of different social media platforms have come into existence, making it difficult and confusing to find the best and most reliable social media management tool.

Social media management tools have the ability to help a company’s marketing professionals stay organized, optimize their efficiency, and save time. But with the many social media management tools available on market today, it can be quite hard to determine which platforms suits your business needs in the best possible manner. One fact that not many business owners or managers know is that no single tool will suit all businesses. Therefore, it is important to correctly determine your needs and then choose a platform that can help achieve your goals.

To help you with the selection, here we offer you our opinion on two widely used social media management platforms: Sprout Social and Hootsuite.

Overview

Sprout Social

Established in 2010, Sprout Social is a social media management tool that helps businesses improve their social media presence. The tool is beautifully designed and can easily meet the needs of your organization’s marketing pro with its strong suite of tools or features. The service supports all major social media platforms. The user interface (UI) and dashboard are excellently designed, and the tool stands out in its intuitive lineup of solid analytics tools, networks, and partners.

Sprout Social offers a 30 day free trial without the need for a credit card. When it comes to pricing, the company offers three different options: Deluxe, Premium, and Team, so you can choose a plan based on your business needs. The service’s data analysis and reporting capabilities would be perfect for most SMBs. Additionally, the service also includes many other necessary elements such as team tasking, social listening, publishing, influencer identification, etc.

Hootsuite

Established in 2008, Hootsuite is a social media management system that helps organizations manage their social media presence efficiently. As one of the leading social media dashboards, the system provides a fully integrated set of analytics and social media tools. The dashboard design of Hootsuite is clean and contains product controls, tool groups, and other added services. It is offered in 16 different languages and the service’s Pro plan supports a wide range of social networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, and WordPress.

If you are in need of having to manage multiple accounts, Hootsuite gives definite value for what you pay. It allows you to manage 3 accounts for free, and the number goes up based on the plan you choose. The collaborative functions offered by the company are basic, but useful. The system is easy to use, but as with any other software, you need some time to get used to it.

Benefits

Sprout Social

  • Excellent user interface.
  • Natural and intuitive, with no complexities.
  • Good tech and customer support.

Hootsuite

  • Easy to use.
  • Clean dashboard design.
  • Easy social media monitoring.

Head-to-Head Matchup

 

 Sprout Social Hoot Suite

Typical Customers

Small Businesses

Medium Size Businesses

Large Enterprises

Small Businesses

Medium Size Businesses

Large Enterprises

Product Focus

Social Listening

Social Customer Care

Publishing Social Content

and more

Social Listening

Social Curation

Creating Social Promotions

Publishing Social Content

and more

Features Offered

Automatic Scheduling

Multi-Channel Publishing

Custom Search Streams

Competitor Analysis

Exportable Reports

Multi-Channel Analysis

Collaboration Platform

Task Management

and more

Enterprise Content Sharing

Social Ad Campaigns

Multi-Channel Publishing

Custom Search Streams

Content Targeting

Customizable Dashboard

Multi-Channel Analysis

Customizable Reports

and more

 

Conclusion

Sprout Social platform offers the best range of social monitoring elements. Hootsuite is a platform that excels in its analytics tools and can be useful for business organizations that are in need of an efficient solution for the same. Analyze your business needs and use our guide to choose a social management tool for your marketing campaign.

By Preethi Darshan | 5/26/2016 | Product Comparisons

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