Social media is all about creating powerful posts and using cost-effective methods that can help you to connect your brand with your audience or your customers. It is important to analyze the data so that you know what is working for you and what is not.
What is a social media dashboard?
Social media dashboard helps you to manage your social media. It allows you to sync all your social media accounts in one convenient place. To sum it up in one sentence, a dashboard helps you to view all your social media analytics at one place. It saves a lot of time because you don’t need to visit all your social media accounts individually to track the stats.
A good dashboard is one that allows you to connect with all major social media platforms that are available! When you do choose a dashboard, ensure that you select something that will at least sync Facebook, Twitter, Google + and LinkedIn. If you are a blogger, choose something that will also help you to connect your blog to the dashboard. In some cases you can also use a dashboard to just measure your analytics.
4 Best free social media dashboards
There are a lot of media dashboards available in the market that can help you, especially if you are a newbie in the world of social media. Many of the best tools and platforms are available for free and I have listed 4 best free social media dashboards that you can use for your business. The good news? It is free! Go ahead and use this to become a social media ninja!
4 Best free social media dashboards to use
Hootsuite
This is one of the most widely used social media dashboards on the market, Hootsuite boasts of a comprehensive set of features that can compatible with social networks like Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Unfortunately, the free version has some severe limitations that makes it less powerful than the Pro version. But this is a good dashboard to actually start working with and get comfortable!
Bitly
Now this dashboard will not allow you to schedule your posts across different medias. Bitly has been used to shorten long links so that it doesn’t take up too much of the characters space on social platforms. What most people don’t know is that Bitly does a lot more than just shortening links to post on your social media accounts! If you have ever explore Bitly, you will know that it features real time-analytics and helps you to bookmark some of the frequently visited sites. What’s more it also gives you data on the links you have created by giving you racking information.
Social Oomph
Have you tried SocialOomph? This free dashboard can help you to schedule tweets for the entire day and also auto-follow your new followers. I am a bit picky about the auto follow so I don’t use this! But if you are in love with the twitterverse this is a dashboard that you should be using. You can also use the Social Oomph dashboard to add Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and your blog to schedule posts or monitor social media activity. However the latter is available only to upgraded accounts.
SumAll
You can connect with Sumall to measure all your social media details. You can view analytics that give you an idea on how your pages are performing. It gives you comparison analysis so you know where you are lacking. You can view all your reports in charts and it gives you a fantastic overview on how your pages are performing. Look at the chart, it gives me data on how my FB page has performed for the month.
What are some of the dashboards that you use? Do let me know!
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