CoSchedule Marketing Suite vs Papirfly: Which is a better fit?

Isabel S.: Hi, my name is Isabel. I'm a portrait designer, and I am reviewing CoSchedule that I give five out of five stars for. For more reviews like this, click below. With CoSchedule, I was actually using something called Hootsuite beforehand. I was able to put most things in. It didn't allow me to put in a few different social media areas that I wanted to use. Then, I actually had a friend of mine asked me to run his social media for his new business that he was starting. He didn't want to use what I was using. He had learned about Co-Schedule, and he wanted to use that. I started using it, and I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is amazing compared to everything else that I had even tried." Just the calendar was so nice; just everything about it. I put it into more social media places than I could with Hootsuite. That's when I decided I really, really liked it. I decided to use it because it includes extra social media. Certain social media schedulers... They focus more so on your Instagram, your Twitter, your Facebook: the general ones. But I wanted to also be able to post into platforms like LinkedIn, and not all of them connect to LinkedIn. That one allowed it. Then, on top of it, you connect CoSchedule to your social media stuff, and then it tracks when your followers are actually more so online and might have a greater chance of seeing it. It was tracking everything like that. I could easily just drop it into the calendar. I didn't have to set it up each one super separately. You know what I mean? It's really easy to drop in the different posts. Then, it would tell me, "Hey, this time is a good time to be putting a post out here because it seems like this is when your followers are more so online." I think they have a free plan now that helps you to develop your marketing plan for the month. It's really nice how they do it. That has all been incredibly helpful in just the ease of the drag drops and the feedback of like, "Here's what people were doing. Here's how they reacted to things." All of that just being right there, and it all laid out, is actually the easiest one that I've seen for getting feedback about what your followers are doing. It was pretty easy to onboard. It takes a little bit of time just to connect your social media accounts and everything to it. But I found it to actually be the most intuitive social media calendar that's out there. The drag and drop stuff was so easy. You didn't have to constantly be recreating similar posts between the different platforms. You just throw your stuff in there. Let's see. The marketing calendar... Just being able to see it from the whole week view and then being able to see it from the whole month view and having everything laid out by the hour, it's so helpful for me. I need all of that stuff. I need to see the whole picture, and I need to be able to go down into the little details. That has been wonderful for me. I really, really liked it. If you're considering using this, it really is great to use it. It can be hard for the new small business owner just because of the cost of it. But I do think that overall it will end up saving you time. But it is probably going to take you being consistent with this calendar program just for three to four months. I think if you have the money saved up, and you've got the capital to spend, to go ahead and pay for this for three to four months after being very, very consistent with posting. It's a nice calendar. You can just throw everything on there, one time a week, and have it done. If you can do that for three to four months, you should get your return on investment after that. Just keep going with it. Just stay being consistent. It's a great program to use, and it actually will bring in a good amount of money for your business.