Managing your social media accounts can take huge amounts of time and you want to ensure you get a good return on investment. Try these free to use tools to help make social media a little bit easier.
Talkwalker Alerts
Know what is being said about you. You can set up as many queries as you like and provides email updates, so you don’t have constantly check the website or app. Very easy to use and no long winded signup process, you will be receiving your Talkwater Alerts in no time.
You can sign up to Talkwater Alerts for free
Tweetdeck
Tweetdeck has to be one of the best tools available for Twitter. It allows you to create a customised interface for your Twitter account allowing monitoring of any list of users, hashtags or search terms and allows you to apply filters to these, such as only displaying tweets with likes over 50 or posts that have been retweeted. It is also allows you to organise your social media posts by allowing you to schedule a time for each of your updates.
You can find out more about Tweetdeck here
Unsplash
Looking for the perfect image and want to stay the right side of thee law? Google image search not finding the best quality images? Try Unsplash a collection of beautiful, high quality royalty free images. Produced by some top quality photographers you will be able to find the perfect image to suit any social media post.
Find great photos from Unsplash here
Google Analytics
There is no point unless you can prove it! Google Analytics, probably more known for tracking website visitors, now has it’s own section for Social Media. For social marketers that are trying to gain more site traffic, Google analytics will allow you to see who is coming to your site from which social channel, how long they are spending on the site and what pages they are visiting – it is a must-have.