What is SocialBu?
SocialBu is a social media marketing and scheduling tool designed to help you increase brand awareness and traffic to your social media profiles. It is a slick competitor for Buffer, Hootsuite, Zoho and the many other social media management tools available.
In short, SocialBu saves you time. Once you have connected your various accounts, you can write one post and share it to ALL of your social accounts with one click. You can schedule posts to publish at a later date/time. You can choose which posts to share where. You can even set up a feed from your blog, to automatically share your blog posts to your social accounts.
It covers all of the major channels including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Tumblr.
What is included?
The Starter package is $6.70 a month and this will get you:
- 4 Social Media Accounts
- 150 monthly posts
- Publish images and videos
- Calendar view
- Recycle posts
- Instagram stories
- Hashtag suggestions
- Bulk import
- Insights
- Support
The Standard package is just $15.80 per month and gets some additional functionality that is well worth the extra:
- 12 accounts instead of 4, including scheduling for your Google Business Listing
- Instagram first comment
- Instagram story telling, story stickers
- AI writer for 50 posts
- 5 RSS feeds
Note that all plans are billed annually, but you can start with the Free account or entry level account and upgrade at any time.
RSS Feeds
The RSS feeds are also a nice feature. If you have your own blog, you can set up the RSS feed to auto-post from your blog whenever you publish a new post. You can also automate sharing from your favourite blogs. Let’s say you like a lot of what mashable.com write about. You can set up the RSS feed for Mashable and every time to log into SocialBu you will see a list of Mashable’s most recent posts. It’s one click to share whatever takes your interest. This is a massive time saver.
Manage up to 150 social accounts
If you look after social accounts for a different businesses, you can manage these all in one place. There are plans to support the management of up to 30 accounts or even 150 accounts.
Collaborate with your team
The Starter subscription allows 2 team members, Standard allows up to 4 while the higher level plans allow up to 20 team members. This means you can grant access for team members or clients.
Reporting & analytics
SocialBu provides reporting so you can analyse the engagement of your followers with each post, as well as providing a summary of your overall social media performance.
