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Sprout helps agencies and businesses - both large and small - extract real business value out of social media through effective engagement, publishing, listening and analytics tools.
Content Marketers, Agencies, B2B SaaS, Content Teams, Startups.
I like the data that goes behind the scheduling. It is helpful to see the dashboard and see the analytics of who has interacted with what and what time is best to post.
We missed our automatic annual renewal date by a few weeks, and despite wanting to cancel, they insisted we'd have to pay for the full year, whether we used their software or not.
I love how it has so much template and content for content creation and marketing. Their templates are quality and great designs that are user-friendly.
I also struggled with the fact that I was only allowed 10 accounts. We are not an agency but still need more than 10 social accounts.
All the tools it has are very useful, the customer service is good and it doesn't take long to respond, it's something remarkable since other similar platforms have very slow customer service.
Also, the chrome extension used to be a bit weird and would bounce me out of the web version if I was using the chrome extension at the same time. Kind of annoying but not a deal breaker.
Helpful free trial, great customer service reps, gorgeous graphics...it's been a great experience switching to this product.
Don't work properly, support ignores and delay solution, and they don't give your money back after not solving your problem.
I love being able to see everything I have published as well as all my drafts and the easy integration to other platforms like Wordpress and Medium is very useful and time-saving.
But there is no formatation - so it looks strange at my blog.
I have a very professional and amazing experience with StoryChief, because now using this platform I really save my lot of time. I have increased my revenue with this publishing tool.
I miss Instagram integration and video, gifs or “more than a single image option” in social media post manager.
My website theme has had a hiccup in Safari and SC has been helpful in helping me identify what needs to be fixed so it look perfect if people view from Safari.
The only thing I miss about the tool e not having it in my native language (Portuguese), but it's expected and it does not impair me to use it for Portuguese content.
I love the possibility to publish in one time your story in the most important social channels and also in the personal blog. I use this software for all my story and i save many many hours of work.
Want to however suggest a feature if possible. If there can be a way that one can drag and drop scheduled stories on the calendar without having to go into the actual story and changing the dates.
Greg A.: Hey there, my name is Greg. I own a marketing agency and I'm a web developer and marketer. And today, I'm giving Sprout Social 5 out of 5 stars. For more reviews, click below. We were using a pretty popular software platform called Hootsuite that a lot of social media managers use. And it worked well for us for quite a while, but we started running into some limitations with it. One, when you get to a certain threshold of accounts to upgrade on Hootsuite, the pricing was very high, higher than we wanted to deal with. The other issue that we were having with it was difficult for us to submit draft work into accounts that someone on our client side could then review. We were looking for a solution that would allow us to draft up content for social media posting and allow our customers to be able to review and comment on that before those things went live. We chose Sprout Social for a few reasons. The primary reason, the thing that we liked best about it, was it has some really powerful features, especially as it relates to creating content that can then be passed along for approval, notes, review, and then publishing by us. So we, in our workflow, we will create content on behalf of our clients. We go ahead and put it all in Sprout Social as if it was ready to be posted onto various social networks. But then before that happens, our client is able to go into Sprout Social and review all of those things. They can either approve them and then that puts them into the schedule to post, or they can leave notes for us on things that they might like to see adjusted or tweaked. So we really like the fact that that's all built into the platform. We don't have to send them all of our content and graphics some other way outside of the software platform. It's all built right in. And if they like it, they just click a green check mark that says "Go" and that schedules it. So it really saves us time. It's a really convenient feature for our clients that they love being able to go in and see the work we've done and be able to interact right within the same platform that we are using. Other things we liked about it, the pricing's very reasonable and fair, we think. We like the way that it is broken into tiers. Some of these software platforms, you get a few accounts you can connect to for one price, and then the jump is really high when you want to start adding an additional block. Sprout's a little more affordable on those lines, which we really preferred. And then everything else about it is very intuitive. It's got a good user interface. It's easy to get your accounts connected. It's easy to do reporting. We've found their customer service the few times that we've needed it to be very quick and thorough. So we've really enjoyed the different features that are available within the Sprout Social platform. Getting started with Sprout Social was really pretty easy as long as we had all of the accounts that we wanted to add to it. We're an agency. We manage lots of social media accounts for many different clients, so that took a little bit of time to gather all of that. But as long as you have all of your logins and you're connected on Facebook, to all the different Facebook accounts you might need and all those things, then really getting connected to those things is pretty fast. Getting our workflow set up in there was pretty easy. We've used other software platforms similar to this before, and there's nothing in Sprout Social that makes you have to completely reinvent or relearn how to do these things. It's a pretty straightforward process to get connected, and then to set up your workspace is nice and easy. There's some options on how you can lay out your screens and what sorts of things you see. But once you learn the menu, and they do have some help documentation that's useful. There's a little walkthrough you can do at the beginning. Once we did all those things, we were up and running easily within the first few days of beginning to use Sprout Social. If you're considering using Sprout Social, maybe you've been using one of many other social media posting tools such as Hootsuite or Buffer or many of the others, I would recommend you try it. It's got some unique things in it that we've found to be really helpful. I would definitely try the tools that allow you to submit things for review to your customers. We were before were having to use a fairly archaic system of Google Sheets and putting all of our content into that. So Sprout Social saved us a lot of time in making just that one single feature. I think that they do offer a trial, which I would recommend. We took advantage of that. And then once we had seen all of it that it had to offer, it was a pretty easy decision for us to keep using it. So I'd encourage you to give it a try, see what you think, and if you like it, run with it. It's been really good for us.
Dave: Hi, my name is Dave. I'm a director at a design agency, and today I'll be reviewing StoryChief, which I give a four out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click the link below. So before using StoryChief, I use Hootsuite and Buffer, and some other social media tools, but I found most of the tools were just convoluted. The UX or UI were hard to navigate or just added features that I didn't really need. So StoryChief has quickly become one of my favorite tools far as content planning because it just has a very intuitive interface. It's easy to get around. And then when you're actually writing the post, it gives you great feedback from an SEO perspective. Then after you have the content ready to go, you can easily ship it off to a variety of platforms and schedule things on a, just a very easy to calendar. The onboarding process for StoryChief was super easy. I would say it was up and running within 15 minutes. The account information they asked for and everything, it was all breeze to kind of get going. And yeah, it's just been a blast working with it. For those of you that are considering StoryChief as a content planning tool, I highly recommend it. It's easy to get up and running and just, I think the cost is very affordable and it's just a joy to work with.
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