Are you actively promoting your company through social networks, and on 4-5 social networks? But what if you make it more complicated and you need to run several companies on different social networks? To reduce the time spent by an SMM specialist, auto-posting services were invented.

Delayed posting – automatic publication of your content at a specified time. That is, you do not need to publish a post in real time, but you can pay attention to higher priority tasks. Naturally, you can schedule publications on the social networks themselves, but scheduling them on multiple social networks with one click is impossible.

SMMplanner

Rates:

Pros:

Pros:

• there is a mobile version,
• affordable pricing policy

Minuses:

No posting videos to Instagram.

Rates:

Pros:

• convenient interface and settings,
• you can search for content by phrases and categories,
• creating your own watermark,
• Analytics is available where you can view the statistics of your page.

Minuses:

• not all Instagram accounts are linked. To date, it has not been possible to solve this problem.
• registration only through social networks .

Rates:

Pros:

• adding geo points,
• modern design,
• editing your Instagram profile without leaving the service,
• built-in statistics.

Minuses:

• high price when compared with other services,
• delayed posting only on Instagram.

- a new scheduled posting service on Instagram.

Price: free for one account for 7 days.

There are 3 tariffs:

Peculiarities:

• ability to schedule posts in Stories
• Auto-delete posts in feed/stories
• Built-in photo editor for video and photo content
• Cloud service for planning and publishing posts from any media
• Alerts about successful and unsuccessful scheduled publications
• Convenient and visual calendar/content plan
• Ability to manage multiple accounts in one account

Price:

• “Free”: will allow you to post from three accounts, will give you access to the publication schedule and basic analytics results.
• “Proffesional”: all the functions of a “beginner” + increasing the number of accounts to 10, access to a detailed report, premium applications – $19/month
• “Team”: all the functions of a “beginner” + increasing the number of accounts to 20, access to a detailed report, premium applications – $99/month

Advantages:

Peculiarities:

• detailed analytics,
• schedule of scheduled posts in the form of a calendar and in the form of a continuous list,
• It is possible to immediately like the publication or repost on behalf of other connected accounts.

Minuses:

• there is no way to download videos,
• analytics is available only for the paid version,
• quite high prices compared to other similar services.

Read the full review for more details.

Napotom

Rates:

• Free - each publication posted through the service will be accompanied by the signature “Post published from the Napotom service”
• Paid – without signature – 1 public will cost 100 rubles/month.

Advantages:

No special advantages were noticed, standard service.

Minuses:

There is no way to respond to comments from the service.

Rates:

Peculiarities:

Pros:

• convenient interface and settings,
• there is a mobile version,
• affordable pricing policy,
• automatic shortening of links and insertion of utm tags.

Minuses:

• Not noticed.

Rates:

Pros:

• convenient interface and settings,
• there is a mobile version,

Today is a topical analysis for those who maintain business accounts on several social networks at once. Which service should you choose for this, and which should you stay away from? Review of automatic posting services especially for our readers!

In fact, there are plenty of posting services. But there is a very strange thing with them - there seem to be a lot of them, but there may not be any that are suitable for a particular company. Because many tools focus on specific parts of the task: publishing only, analytics only, searching for mentions, responding to comments, auto-promotion, auto-following. What to do? What to post?

— Some tools try to cover tasks at once (for example, Hootsuite), some even succeed. However, good tools (Hootsuite and Buffer) do not work with social networks in Russia (VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Moi Mir). Often domestic instruments look complicated, malfunction and Instead of help and acceleration, on the contrary, they take time to set up and nerves to communicate with support.

Today we will compare the services Time2Post, Feedman, Buffer, Amplier, Hootsuite, (publisher only) and Novapress according to four criteria:

1. Registration and setup (how easy it is to figure out).

4. Level of support and number of jambs.

Nat will talk, and the editors of the sundress will analyze and “Amplifer” too, comment and add what else they learned from readers and dug up themselves :) (editor's note)

Feedman

Nat spent a couple of minutes registering (instead of the usual 20 seconds); without email confirmation, the system did not let him into the admin panel. It took about five minutes to publish the first post (don’t forget that he is an engineer and creator of a similar product).

The guys made a classic mistake of programmers - the sections in the menu and their contents correspond to how their database is built, and not to what the user needs.

You cannot publish posts on Odnoklassniki in the free version. Instagram, of course, doesn't work. You can't publish a post right now in the free version either. Nat made the post 15 minutes later, then deleted it before publication, but it still appeared on his Facebook and VKontakte, but it was no longer in the admin panel.

Time2Post

The second subject is from Russia. It stands out because the site is made in a very strange way.

“Timestupost” becomes a pain in the ass after a minute - there are a lot of settings, it’s unclear why they are needed.

Nat didn’t manage to make a post - he got to the point where he chose a social network, wrote a post, but couldn’t publish it or choose a time - first you need to add a “timeslot” to the schedule, and this cannot be done directly from the page with the post. By rearranging the time of the post (if you need to move a post) was also difficult - it either didn’t work or disappeared altogether.

Comment from reader websarafan Vikki Bubnova: "AND The interface is not the most convenient, confusing and complicated, but you can live with it. EternalsThere were problems with the fact that the autopost simply did not work due to being logged out of the account. That is, if I set one hundred hundred posts for the weekend and can easily leave for the weekend, I can easily log out of my account and the posts will not be published. To recover, I had to go to their website again, log in, and then the posts would pour out one by one - everything that was not published at the right time.”

Buffer

This is a favorite product from Nat’s list (except for his “Amplifier”, of course) and the editors of “Websarafan”.

It is wonderful (good interface), but does not support Russian social networks. Instagram too. But he's damn beautiful. There is a mobile application.
“Ampliffer” came to exactly the same functionality of analytics and publications in parallel with “Buffer”, and only then they realized that they were doing the same thing.

Note from Websarafan: we use Buffer ourselves for our Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Comfortable. Works great.

Hootsuite

This is such a large, complex e nterprise software (for large companies, with large departments for supporting activity in social networks). It was made for a task much broader than just publication, and therefore not easy. But you can post it, and everything works in a minute, not five.

Their main goal is to take projects to the next level (responses to comments, comment funnels) for $100. Lots of functionality for teamwork and analytics in the form of analytical reports.

Convenience: for professionals. You need to understand: loaded and complex.

Work with: Facebook, Twitter? Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube.

Support: They respond quite quickly, but there is no Russian interface.

"Amplifer"

Georgy Sukharzhevsky, General Director of the flower delivery store obradoval.ru:

— Now we maintain 5 accounts (Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter) and monitor two (collect statistics). Before this, everything was done manually and nothing was used.

The interface is intuitive, anyone can understand it.

As for the price, we estimated it based on the employee’s working time. After introducing “Ampliffer”, they work twice as fast, and we save on wages, so we can say that we have already made money.

Tanya Abrosimova, SMM specialist at Lifehacker

— We’ve been using it for about six months at different intervals (we’re constantly experimenting with our audience, sometimes we just forget about the service). We maintain 3 accounts: a page on Facebook, a group on VKontakte and an account on Twitter.

Over the course of six months of use, we observed how the service acquired functionality; it changed a lot for the better. The coolest thing is that statistics are sent to your email at the end of the week and month. The only drawback is posting on Facebook: when you add a link to the site, a teaser is loaded in which the title text is repeated. We are waiting for a solution to this problem from the service.

— What did you use before?

Denis,Look At Media

— “Amplifer” is cool. We currently manage nine accounts through it, but in the near future we will probably connect all the others. Before settling on it, I tried almost all existing analogues, so I am confident in my choice.

In addition to the self-evident reliability, an important criterion for us when choosing a service was its ease of use, without limiting the functionality - we are still a publishing house, and publications on our social networks can sometimes be carried out by editors who have not previously been familiar with marketing interfaces.

Another plus is fast and effective feedback. Any difficulties and questions are resolved instantly through dialogue with the project team. Damn it, during the New Year holidays, during the next VK freeze, they even did a little work for me! It's valuable.

Convenience: friendly interface, quite convenient.

Work with: Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki.

Price: $5 per month for one social network

Support: very quickly, personally, professionally, the founder is in touch.

And as a bonus - services from our readers.

Friends, I welcome you to the blog site! Today we will look at how you can optimize your time maintaining and filling groups using VKontakte auto-posting. I will review popular posting automation services and give step-by-step instructions.

Mind your business, forget about sitting in front of the computer for many hours and provide the content of your pages on social networks with the scheduled posting function.

Agree, it’s great, you are relaxing in the country or on the shore of the blue sea, and your page is automatically updated, allowing you to do other things that are more important at the moment.

What is auto-posting on VKontakte?

To promote, maintain and promote a page, group or public page, it is necessary that a constant flow of new information be published on it. This problem can be solved on your own, spending a lot of free time for this - this is the so-called “manual drive”.

So, let's begin to understand what VK auto-posting is.

Autoposting is the automatic publication of content on a personal page or in a group with the ability to post the same material simultaneously on all social networks.

Automatic posting greatly simplifies the management of social networks, and the ability to create a schedule for a given period allows you to return to maintenance when it is convenient.

Setting up using the RePublic service as an example

• the presence of a content generator, i.e. a function for auto-filling groups, when, using filters for selecting content in a certain topic, the output is automatically generated posts with a given publication date;
• combining into a project - maintaining several groups of related topics.

The service offers the following tariff plans:

In this case, there is a discount from 10 to 50% on the tariff, depending on the period of use of the service.

SMMR

• the ability to group and merge accounts by topic; posts for groups appear automatically on selected pages;
• The service has created an interface for working at night, which includes reduced contrast and a comfortable dark background.

Postio

• payment is debited as you publish (the price of one post is 1.9 rubles);
• automatic service with the choice of topics and time of published posts.

NovaPress

• can find and track new publications on several sites, and post them to the desired account;
• places hashtags;
• watermark – protect the image with watermarks;
• There is an auto-delete function for posts.

CleverPub

• rating of administrators for delegation of authority;
• reposting a posted entry without re-copying;
• scheduling exchange and advertising;
• timing function with scheduling publications and suggestions for publishing posts during free time for posting;
• batch uploading of pictures and photographs with the addition of text descriptions;
• search for messages by topic, time, post types, virality, reposts and likes;
• statistics and dynamics of group development.

SMMPlanner

• using the service for free, you can publish 50 posts per month (usually this is enough, but if not, you can pay extra);
• For joining a VKontakte group and liking a group on Facebook, you will receive a monthly bonus - an additional 50 posts. Total: 100 free posts per month.

VK-poster

• convenient and familiar service interface for VK users;
• quick (five-minute) setup of a deferred posting service with specified parameters;
• downloading posts from an unlimited number of groups;
• displaying posts of any complexity in VK format;
• simultaneous use of the service in “Grabber” and “Scheduler” modes.

Standard account is free. If you need to connect more than one community, you need to purchase a premium account for a modest fee.

Amplifier

• publishing and analyzing content;
• assessing responses to previous posts and determining the best time to post;
• convenient analytics charts;
• sending reports by email for a period (week, month);
• export analytics to Excel;
• Support is always available on the website.

Service tariffs:

• free trial period 2 weeks;
• $5 for maintaining each page on a social network.

BossFeed

• professional selection of posts for publication;
• the ability to combine collected posts into one that has received the maximum number of user reviews;
• fast filling of groups;
• auto-posting for several months in advance.

Hoopy

• allows you to find and share the best and most popular posts;
• searches for viral posts sorted by date, reposts and likes;
• creates your own folders for storing posts and photos;
• adds watermarks;
• searches for photos by tags and topics.

Kuku

• can like and repost from other accounts;
• places UTM tags and can shorten links;
• collects activity analytics;
• there is a separate tab for popular posts collected from all your resources;
• In the 14-day test mode, all the capabilities of the service are provided.

EcoTime

• here we implement the re-posting of posts for posting in a large batch at once, with transfer back to the queue for posting;
• Loading a logo into a template and then overlaying it on the posted images.

Megapost

• cross-posting – posting one post in several communities;
• auto deletion of posts;
• working with RSS feeds;
• attaching a picture to a post from your own media or from the library;
• Availability of a mobile version of the service.

Roboposting

• there is a hashtag manager that adds a group of tags to posts of the same type;
• There is only one tariff - payment for posts. This is convenient for maintaining a small account.

SEOlit

• publishing content from RSS feeds;
• the service posts to Telegram;
• availability of a mobile version.

SMM Aero

• the service allows you to create both instant and delayed posts;
• interactive content plan: by dragging posts with the mouse, we control the publication time;
• there is a preview of posts - how the post will look online without waiting for publication;
• automatic text checking by Glavred;
• statistics on connected pages and posts (geography, gender, age, coverage, number, etc.);
• helps you track comments on connected pages.

Conclusion

It is clear that all currently existing auto-posting services have their pros and cons. In order to determine which one best suits your needs, I can advise you to work with several of them and choose the one you like best. Moreover, the availability of a free trial period allows you to do this without financial costs.

Also, nothing prevents you from using several at once according to their functionality. This is convenient and protects against various surprises in the form of sudden termination of the service.

We additionally use SmmBox and CleverPub.

If you don’t want to resort to third-party services, then you can do everything without leaving the VKontakte page. The article on how to make a delayed post on VKontakte will help you in this matter.

Thus, automatic publication of VK posts allows you, by allocating a relatively small amount of time, to schedule publication a week or even a month in advance on the right day, at the right time and at the right interval.

Therefore, I suggest choosing a convenient way for you to maintain your VKontakte account and start saving your own time right now.

39 useful services for working on social networks

Services for SMM are needed not only by specialized specialists, but also by all people who in any way promote their project on social media. If you maintain several pages on different platforms at once, and it is important for you to maintain “life” in each of them, then without audience analysis and the ability to quickly and conveniently post, it will be difficult. In this collection, we have collected 38 services that can be an excellent assistant when working on social networks. Choose and use.

From the article you will learn:

SMM services working with several sites at once

Buffer. A very popular service both abroad and here. Covers social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and LinkedIn.


Price: depending on goals and functions - from free to $399/month.
Main functionality:

Support: online chat, FAQs.

HootSuite. This web application works with more than 35 popular social networks (as stated on the official website), including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Youtube and others.


Price: 3 social profiles for free, up to 50 profiles - $9.99/month. Free test for 30 days.
Main functionality:

Support: email, manuals.

JagaJam. JagaJam will allow you to collect and analyze information on communities on the social networks VKontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, Instagram and Twitter.


Price: from 1100 rub/month. The maximum cost is determined by the number of analyzed communities and other characteristics.
Main functionality:

Support: email.

SMMR. Free posting on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for a small number of posts. Those who have large volumes of posts will have to pay.


Price: 50 posts per month for free, 190 posts per month - 149 rubles, 370 posts per month - 289 rubles, 700 posts per month - 389 rubles.
Main functionality:

Support: email, skype.

Megapost. A tool for managing communities on Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki, VKontakte.


Price: free (the service is currently in open testing mode).
Main functionality:

Support: email, FAQs.

YouScan. A monitoring system that allows you to track mentions of your brand online. Works with Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Moi Mir, Instagram, YouTube, Google+. Social media monitoring is free for 7 days, if you like it, you can pay and continue using it.


Price: from 1990 USD per year up to 19990 USD in year. Free test 7 days.
Main functionality:

Support: email, skype, phone.

Pepper. Here you can gather an active audience on the social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte. Also works with Yandex.Metrica.


Price: only VKontakte - 490 rub. per month, all functionality - 1490 rubles. per month. Two days for the test cost 190 rubles.
Main functionality:

Support: email, phone.

SmmBox. This service will help you find and publish good content for your communities on social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter.


Price: 399 rubles per month. There is a discount if you pay for several months at once.
Main functionality:

• search for content according to specified parameters;
• delayed posting;
• creating watermarks;
• analytics of likes, reposts, comments, best time to post.

Support: email.

Wobot. Social media analytics and monitoring tool.


Price: 6000-42000 rub/month. Free test 7 days.
Main functionality:

• statistics on the reach and engagement of your audience on social networks4
• monitoring comments and reviews;
• monitoring popular authors on the network;
• monitoring official news from brands;
• analysis of performance indicators of advertising campaigns, SMM actions, etc.

Support: email, phone.

BrandSpotter. Service for monitoring and analytics of social resources. You can also order detailed analytical reports.


Price: 29830-49560 rub/month. Free test 7 days.
Main functionality:

Support: email, FAQs.

Babkee. A service for monitoring mentions of your company, brand or product in social media.


Price: for free.
Main functionality:

Support: online chat, email, phone.

Yomapic. This service searches for all photos taken in a specific location in the world (based on geolocation) and published on Instagram or Vkontakte. It may be useful for those companies whose marketing campaigns are in some way related to geolocations.


Price: for free.
Main functionality:

Support: email.

IQBuzz. Here you can track social media that interests you. Works with all popular social networks, video portals, online media, forums.


Price: 7900 rubles - 54900 rubles per month. Test period 7 days.
Main functionality:

Support: email, phone.

PublBox. Multifunctional service for SMM specialists. Scheduled posting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, VKontakte, Youtube, Odnoklassniki, LinkedIn, Pinterest.

Price:$5.4 – $21.75 per month. There is a free plan for 2 users and 5 social media pages.

Main functionality:

• publication schedule;
• design editor;
• examples of posts that suit you;
• educational courses on SMM.

Support: chat, email.

Services for working with VKontakte

Allsocial. The service will be useful to those who actively work with the VKontakte audience. You can select a topic that interests you and see the most visited communities. They can become a platform for your advertising campaigns and simply sources of target audience.


Price: for free
Main functionality:

• community analytics by subscribers, reach, visitors, growth;
• statistics on communities that have changed their name;
• information about community administrators.

Support: No.

Media-vk. Service for working with VKontakte communities. Good for studying your audience and competitors.


Price: depending on the number of users analyzed, 100 people - 6.5 rubles, 5000 people - 325 rubles, 30,000 people - 1950 rubles.
Main functionality:

• analysis of communities and determination of the characteristics of its participants - gender, age, geolocation, marital status;
• identification of other communities in which the participants of the analyzed community are members.

Support: email, phone.

VKMeter. A service for obtaining extended statistics of your VKontakte communities.


Price: up to 100 thousand subscribers - 98 rubles/month, more than 100 thousand subscribers - 198 rubles/month.
Main functionality:

• statistics on reach, likes, reposts, etc.
• forecast of indicators for the near future;
• comparison of indicators for selected dates.

Support: via VKontakte messages.

SocialStats. A statistical service for analyzing your pages (both personal and corporate) on VKontakte.


Price: for free
Main functionality:

• community wall statistics;
• analysis of content in the community: photos, videos;
• gathering other communities in which participants belong;
• statistics of popular publics;
• geography of subscribers.

Support: No.

VKbarkov. This tool will appeal to those who are actively involved in targeted advertising on the VKontakte network. VKbarkov knows how to collect the audience you need according to the specified criteria.


Price: for free.
Main functionality:

• gathering audiences at intersections in communities;
• search for communities by a given word in the title;
• gathering an active audience in a given community.

Cerebro Target. A popular tool among SMM specialists specializing on VKontakte. If you don't have enough VKbarkov, go to Cerebro Target.


Price: 700 rub. per month
Main functionality:

• search for popular communities in your topic;
• searching for an active audience;
• search for an audience based on profile friends.

Support: VKontakte community.

SmmMedia. Works with statistics and audience analysis of the VKontakte social network.


Price: one request - 0-3 rubles, depending on the purpose.
Main functionality:

Support: FAQs, email.

Pagemodo. This service will appeal to those who like to run competitions on their Facebook pages and want to make them attractive, even without being a designer.


Price:$6.25-$33.25 per month.
Main functionality:

Support: email, FAQs.

Still not using services for scheduled posting on social networks? But in vain. Even if you make only 1-2 posts a day, but on several social networks at once, automatically publishing content at a given time will save a lot of time and effort. And here is a selection of the best services for delayed posting on social networks for this purpose.

1. SMMPlanner

A Russian-language service that supports social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Instagram and Telegram.

The free version has an unlimited number of accounts and the ability to publish 100 posts at all times, that is, when this limit is exhausted, it will be impossible to make delayed posts. For 450 rub. per month you can connect 5 accounts, make as many posts as you need, publish videos and gifs (which cannot be done in the free version).

The service has a content editor with which you can crop photos to the desired size, apply captions, stickers, and use emoji. You can also add hashtags, geotags to posts, and add watermarks to photos. In total - more than 20 settings. The interface of the service is very simple and convenient.

2. PublBox

Through this service you can make scheduled posts and cross-posting on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Instagram and Telegram. Available in iOS and Android apps.

There is a 7-day trial period, which allows you to connect 5 social media accounts and make 10 posts. With the starter package for $9 per month, you can also work with 5 accounts and make up to 100 posts monthly.

PublBox has quite a wide functionality - you can post text, photos, videos, emojis and gifs. There is an image editor for visual design of content, a database with more than 1000 templates for avatars, covers, and posts.

In addition, there is a very useful Content Strategy tool that automatically selects publication plans depending on your industry and goals.

All functions are available for testing in the trial period.

3. Amplifier

Another Russian-language service with quite broad functionality. True, it’s not cheap - the trial period is given for 2 weeks, and then you will need to pay $5 per month for an account on each social network.

Through Amplifr you can do scheduled posting on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Pinterest, Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Moi Mir, Viber and Tumblr. The service recommends when it is best to place posts in order to get the greatest coverage, adapts images to the requirements of different social networks, shortens links, and makes UTM tags itself.

A useful feature is the automatic publication of posts from Instagram to other social networks. That is, you posted something on Instagram, and Amplifr then reposts it to the networks that you assign to it.

4. SmmBox

A service that also allows you to auto-post and cross-post on a large number of social networks: Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Pinterest, Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Tumblr.

The functionality is almost the same as other services, with some nuances. For example, posts from VKontakte are automatically sent to Telegram. There is an unusual tool “AliExpress posting”, which involves setting up the sale of goods from AliExpress on your pages or in groups on social networks.

The trial period is 2 weeks. The minimum Start tariff costs 299 rubles. per month. For this money you can connect up to 5 accounts on social networks, except Instagram. For some reason, the accounts of this social network are considered separately - in order to post on Instagram, you will have to pay another 99 rubles monthly.

5. Buffer

An English-language service, with a free plan you can link three accounts in different social networks and create a queue of 10 posts simultaneously for each account. Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts are supported for free.

Users can work in applications for iOS and Android, create posts with photos, videos and GIFs, as well as use short links.

Buffer can be linked to Google Analytics and track traffic volume, engagement (likes, shares, comments), etc.

The downside of this, like all other English-language services for scheduled posting, is the lack of integration with Russian social networks and instant messengers. But if you do not actively work with VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Telegram, this will not be an obstacle for you.

Also, services like Buffer can be used if you work only for a Western audience.

6.Hootsuite

In this free planner, one user can add 3 social media accounts and schedule up to 30 posts per month. On the cheapest plan, which costs $19 per month, the functionality is already noticeably wider: 10 accounts on social networks, an unlimited number of posts, access to analytics.

On Hootsuite you can work with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest.

7. Later

The tool helps you plan and schedule posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Later is a good choice for those who are not ready to pay for delayed posting on social networks, even at the minimum rate.

The basic version is free and allows you to schedule quite a few posts per month - 30 posts on Instagram, 30 on Facebook, 50 on Twitter and 30 on Pinterest. There is a function to search for relevant content, the repost of which can also be scheduled, and access to analytics.

The downside of the basic version is that you can only post photos. When you purchase the minimum plan for $9 per month, you can also post videos.