What do you like best about the product?

This program has a ton of options. We utilize the free option to manage three social media accounts, we can still use scheduling using this option. Makes posting across multiple platforms easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

I'd love them to resolve the issues with tagging multiple accounts across platforms. The app could use a little UI optimization.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Saving time when processing regular posts. Also ability to manage business social media on my personal cell phone.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Great tool for a small business!

What do you like best about the product?

Hootsuite is fabulous because it allows you to manage all your social media platforms at one time. It helps cut down on the repetitive work and gets things done efficiently.

What do you dislike about the product?

I found Hootsuite to be pretty expensive, if I were to manage more than 2-3 platforms or for multiple businesses as a social media manager. This dislike is not major though, as it is still worth it for the time it saves.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a solo entrepreneur in my marketing company, I have to figure out ways to cut down on my time and cut costs too. I was able to do those two things with Hootsuite because I could post on multiple platforms at one time. As long as it less than 3 platforms, it remained free.

What do you like best about the product?

Hootsuite makes it easy to schedule all my church’s posts and stay connected with our people.

What do you dislike about the product?

It seems like they’re in the middle of switching the look of the site, and I don’t like having to switch between old and new looks. Doesn’t affect my usage of it at the end of the day though.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Staying connected well on social media, but not having to be on the clock every time I need to post.

What do you like best about the product?

As a Hootsuite user for 7 years now, it is by far my favorite social media management software. Creating, optimizing, and posting social media for different platforms, etc. takes a lot more time than you would expect. Not only do you have to craft each post to fit each platform you're posting to you have to choose the best time, use the right hashtags, shorten URLS, and include something interesting (i.e. picture, video, content). Overall, what many believe will only take them 10 minutes, in reality it can take up 2-5 (or more) hours of your work week; even more when you include the content creation for the actual posting. Hootsuite is the best tool for compiling all your social media efforts into one dashboard you can work from and will definitely knock hours off your work week. PROS The best feature of Hootsuite is the time you will gain. Most social media platforms have a scheduling aspect to them but having to manually log in and out of each one, to do so, is not feasible or conducive for speed. Hootsuite provides you with analytics on each of your chosen platforms, located in its dashboard, to help you identify the most optimal time(s) to schedule each post to be sent out; this especially comes in handy for days you know you will be on the go and/or do not have access to technology. You can also scroll through past social media posts, save unfinished drafts, and boost posts for content promos; which will provide you with more insight and/or a better understanding of which of your efforts and/or CTA's are working best. Hootsuite's platform has various analytics and reports you can export so your team(s) can measure things like conversion rates, marketing and sales initiatives, and improvements in monthly social capital. One of the neat things about this platform is the option to purchase additional social media management applications for things like YouTube Analytics and video posting, Wordpress blog analytics and posting, Google Analytics, etc. Hootsuite also provides the option to export reports (including customized reports) on any of the platforms connected to your account, to measure competition, areas of improvement, click stats, and which platform is bringing in the largest amount of traffic to your website/content, etc.

What do you dislike about the product?

One of the cons of Hootsuite is its inability to detect whether or not your traffic is originating from an actual human or an automated bot. This can interfere with your data and make it hard to decipher if the data you have access to is valid or not; this is true for Google Analytics as well. To avoid this, we use a third-party application for visitor tracking (Lead Liaison). You may get notifications that your social network(s) have been disconnected from your dashboard; don't worry, you simply just have to reconnect them. Although I am not sure why this happens so often, I trust that this has nothing to do the security of my account and I always receive notifications when I sign in to my account from a new device, etc.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is imperative for anyone who needs to schedule social media posts and is just really useful to also have multiple people scheduling posts

Recommendations to others considering the product:

The fact that Hootsuite offers flexible plans that even enable you to try out the features for free and then slowly upgrade to higher plans, as per your requirements, makes it a hot favorite among most of the highly popular social network management tools, but over all it’s very expensive for what you get, considering that there’s platforms like Sendible offering the same things plus additional and innovative functionality for a lot less per month!

What do you like best about the product?

I love the functionality of Hootsuite and how easy it is to use when having mutliple social media platforms.

What do you dislike about the product?

I dislike the fact of sometimes like all technology it often logs me out or disconnects me from the different platforms and how your not able to add mutule accounts under one umbrella

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am able to schedule post to go out duringove events, schedule different post during various times and days of the week for clients.

What do you like best about the product?

My favorite part about Hootsuite is how much time it saves me. I'm running social media accounts for multiple companies, and Hootsuite ensures I get all posts quickly posted on the right accounts.

What do you dislike about the product?

The feed channels were a bit confusing to understand at first. but I got the hang of them quickly.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the scheduling feature, I've made posts more regularly and consistent, so that my followers gain better visibility of my companies.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Get on this as fast as you can. Posting one by one is a thing of the past.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of use throughout the platform makes it great for beginners

What do you dislike about the product?

There is not anything I dislike about this program

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Social media marketing and content scheduling

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Wonderful platform

What do you like best about the product?

Hootsuite allows for easy social media management and consolidation, saving time and effort in the process.

What do you dislike about the product?

The free version used to be sufficient for most small organizations. Now, you almost have to pay to get the worthwhile tools. It also can be a bit clunky trying to manage on mobile.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We manage our social media using this tool, allowing us to schedule out posts on one platform for all of our accounts. This has saved an incredible amount of time and allowed us to be more consistent with our online presence.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Purchase a plan rather than going with the free version, especially if you want to save time on reporting and other projects.

What do you like best about the product?

I love that it's an all-in-one product for busy freelancers or marketers. Also, the customer service is so easy to talk to.

What do you dislike about the product?

The analytics could be more comprehensive.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not enough time. With Hootsuite, I bring more time to my day.

What do you like best about the product?

Posting across multiple platforms at once, scheduling posts to be activated at exact dates and times in the future allowing for one day of set up and being able to focus on other tasks. I use facebook and instagram on the free trial and can post up to 30 scheduled posts a month. This is really useful when I need time to focus other things.

What do you dislike about the product?

Uploading photos can be tricky when posting across multiple platforms. There needs to be auto adjustment for photos. The image updater is not the best imaging program but it does work well. I would like to see improvements so I do not have to use other applications to update/edit photos before uploading. There are no huge issues or problems at this time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have saved time and money by just setting up all my posts for the week on one day. Then I can just pop in and check as needed.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Free trial is great but definitely upgrade.