SocialPilot vs monday.com: Which is a better fit?

Jessica: Hi, so my name's Jessica. I'm a marketing director for a small business, which employs 10 to 20 people, and I would rate SocialPilot out of five at a solid four. Prior to using SocialPilot, I've used various different solutions, including Hootsuite, Later, Meta Business Suite, and obviously publishing directly on each of the platforms individually. I came to SocialPilot because it was really the only solution that I found that could do all of those four main platforms, so Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter really seamlessly across the whole lot. And it's saved a heap of time, and just from the admin side been so much easier. A handful of the reasons I chose SocialPilot. One was the pricing. I actually moved away from it and then I came back to it because I realized it was such good value for what I got through the platform. The ease of use. It's really, really easy to move posts around. You can do bulk uploads, so one of the reasons I use it is we do one post that we then move the timing around. So across all four platforms, there's one piece of content, but it's generated in different times, so that's really, really helpful. Obviously, you can schedule. I love the use of being able to do really professional-looking carousel posts on LinkedIn and Facebook through SocialPilot, which I haven't found a comparable on any other scheduling platform. Getting started with SocialPilot was really easy. There were some tutorials that I did, but pretty straightforward. Really simple. Nothing difficult. I found the customer service has improved over the time that I've been using it, so every time I've had an issue, of which there haven't been many, it's just really little suggestions for things that could be added, the team are really, really responsive and pretty much all of those have been addressed, which has been brilliant. Yeah, it's just easy to use. It's intuitive. It's simple. I've said that already, I think. And then, again, getting other team members to be able to use it. As soon as I was confident to use it, then rolling that out to others was really straightforward. So yeah, easy to use all round. Advice and recommendations for people looking to use SocialPilot is obviously, I really enjoy writing the content off the platform and then making sure that the final content is ready to post. There is a fabulous drafts feature, which is really good if you're collaborating with others, and to get approvals. I think my main recommendation is to make sure the sizing of your images is done prior to putting them into the platform, so you just have to add the alt tags, et cetera, so the whole process of making those posts live is really, really quick. But there are editing features within the platform now, which is a relatively new feature. But generally, just give it a go, try it out. I spend lots of time testing and making sure that things are coming through at the right time, and just make sure that you keep your accounts updated, so make sure you're logging in regularly so that they don't expire, and then you find that something hasn't posted to the platform because the account needs refreshing. And anytime you change a password, obviously you need to make sure you go in and reconnect the account so that all of the scheduled posts still go out as planned.

Amber: My name is Amber. I'm an IT project manager for a healthcare company. The company size is about 5,000. Also, the product for Monday, I would rate it a five. So I was using Asana prior to monday.com and the reason why that wasn't really working, lack of features. So that product didn't allow a lot of implementations as monday.com allows. Meaning when I'm working with a team, I'm able to just go ahead and put in all of their resources. So the resource management was really great. If there were any files, like large files, it was easier to share out with the team using monday.com so everyone could have access to it. Asana, unfortunately, it just allowed me to track task, but working with a larger sized team and a bigger company, monday.com was perfect for that. I chose monday.com basically for my team and my team's size. So I was able to allow my team to get acquainted with the monday.com product. A lot of them were used to using Asana. A lot of them were used to me tagging them in their task, but I showed them that that tool for monday.com allowed me to go a deeper depth with them and dive into really what their assigned tasks were individually for the team. So they were able to keep track of that. Also, I was managing about four plus projects at the same time, so it was a lot easier for me to go ahead and create different tasks per project for team members. So I worked with the digital team, I worked with creative, I worked with the real estate team. So all of that was just easier to keep separate and just allow those teams to really go in and own their task and own their individual projects that they were doing. When getting set up with monday.com, it really didn't take very long because as a project manager, I am trained to use a lot of different resources and tools. I liked the layout of it a lot better, again, than a lot of the other project management tools that I've used in the past, like Asana and Jira. monday.com just had a very simple design and layout, so it was very easy for me to go ahead if I needed to add anything into projects. Like again, the file sizes were very large for our teams, because they were very large projects. So getting set up took about, I'd say a couple of weeks, but first off the first week was training the team members on using that tool. So they were really happy with the training that we provided for them for that week-long training. Then the second week was just going ahead and doing the trial run with the team to see how again, the team liked the product. They did find it a lot easier to work with again, because when you're managing four different projects and there's about 12 people per team, they like the simplicity of being able to own their task and be able to go in and make their own edits and share their files, sizes, however large, throughout the team. So it took about a couple of weeks, but the team definitely was appreciative of me implementing that tool. So the advice I would give to anyone interested in trying out monday.com, first off the pricing, depends again on what you're looking for. The product is great, so I recommend doing the trial run with your team. I know a lot of people from different companies might have smaller companies, and they're used to using that product like Asana. Our company was much smaller and we really didn't have the funds to try to venture out and try a bunch of different products, but monday.com was recommended to us, so we decided to give that a trial run. Based on the pricing, we were able to afford it. So if you're interested in using that product, do your research, find out what you're looking for specifically. You might not need as many resources as a larger company does, but it is nice to have that benefit for your team members so that they're able to just complete their task on time, keeping track of their own individual projects. They can own that. So yes, just definitely go ahead and do your research. It depends on what company, again, you are. I was healthcare, so for us, our healthcare team was a much larger size, and that product just fit with our team.