22 Social Media Marketing Tools That You Should Use

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Social Media Marketing Tools

With the huge number of online marketing channel and discipline, you will need some tools to make the task of marketing more effective. Social media marketing is no different. While there are numerous tools that manage single platforms, this list includes services that manage multiple social network accounts, content and measurement. Without further ado, here is a list of 22 different social media marketing marketing tools, platforms and services to help manage and scale your online marketing efforts on the social web:

1. Shoutlet

Manages social media marketing communications with one platform for building, engaging and measuring social media. Includes multiple account and platform support, social CRM and ecommerce for Facebook, email marketing and mobile features.

2. Direct Message Lab

Provides consulting, implementation and a platform (REACH) for centralized management of social media promotions & contests, advertising and measurement.

3. Objective Marketer

Offers social media marketing and analytics with integrated campaign management (Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, YouTube), multi-channel execution, engagement reports and user management.

4. Wildfire Interactive

Platform for easy creation, implementation and management of branded interactive campaigns including: sweepstakes, contests and giveaways.

5. StrongMail Social Studio

Comprehensive social media marketing platform with a referral marketing platform, social sharing tool and campaign management application. (Disclosure: StrongMail is a TopRank client)

6. Sprout

Cloud-based visual authoring software used to build interactive Engage Ads and Engage Apps that deliver rich, interactive, and social content across the web and mobile devices.

7. Spredfast

Enterprise social media management system that allows an organization to manage, monitor, and measure its voices across multiple social media channels. Also offers a white label option for agencies.

8. socialTALK

Allows brands to create (text, photos, videos), manage (customize workflow & approval process), publish (single source, scheduled publishing to multiple platforms) and measure (aggregated analytics dashboard) their content strategy and posting schedule.

9. Crowd Factory

Suite of social media marketing tools include Social Campaign, that enables marketers to acquire new customers through simple social gestures and custom social marketing campaigns while easily tracking ROI.

10. Awareness

Social marketing hub that centralizes social media content publishing, management, measurement and engagement. Also includes access to 7 white-labeled, best practice social networking applications.

11. @this moment

Built on the @this moment platform, DEC is a system for managing a brand’s presence across multiple online environments combining multimedia UGC, and a variety of real-time inputs which are distributed across social platforms including YouTube Brand Channels, Facebook Fan Pages, MySpace Brand Communities & the iPhone.

12. MediaFunnel

Offers a Business Social Media platform for Facebook and Twitter supporting multiple users per profile and editorial review. Includes monitoring and integrates with Salesforce.com.

13. Virtue

Works with clients and agencies through a Social Relationship Management (SEM) platform offering Facebook tabs & applications, a publishing feature for Facebook & Twitter and mobile solutions.

14. Sprinklr

Social media marketing platform and consulting services for consumer & B2B marketers as well as agencies. Provides social media audience research, acquisition, content promotion and measurement tools.

15. Janrain

Web based platform of tools including: Engage to make it easy for users to connect a site with their social networks, Federate to facilitate navigation across multiple web properties & partner sites with a single login (currently supports 16 networks), Capture to leverage user data for personalized experiences.

16. Sprout Social

Affordable social media dashboard, monitoring, team workflow, influencer and contact management, performance metrics and daily or weekly email summaries. Supports Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp and Foursquare.

17. Sendible

Social media marketing platform that supports 30+ networks & services offering management of: accounts/profiles, messages & content, social contacts, content discovery, engagement, blog content & promotion, monitoring and analytics. Also offers a white label version for agencies.

18. KickApps

Self service social media web site authoring and social content management system system supporting video, social networking, social graph & activity streams, apps & analytics. Enables web publishers and marketers to develop branded communities, social applications and interactive widgets on their websites and across the social web. Solutions for small and large business.

19. Postling

Local business social media marketing platform to create content, stay organized and reach customers. Currently free for small business or personal use.

20. pop.to Social Marketing

A social marketing suite, including feed-enabled social gestures and widgets, social dashboard, segmentation tools, influencer identification, conversion tracking and built-in friend casting.

21. HootSuite

Social media dashboard for managing social content and engagement on multiple networks with team workflow and statistics.

22. Seesmic

Web and desktop tools to manage social marketing activity on Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, Google Buzz and Linkedin plus a plug-in marketplace for more social management options. (Update: this tool has been acquired by HootSuite)