Best Tools for Social Media Marketing

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I've found an awsome list of social media tools of various needs. I’ve taken their incredible list and have  listed it with a few favorites.

MARKETING

1. Shoutlet - Enterprise social marketing platform.
2. Awareness, Inc. - Publish, manage, measure, engage. 
3. Unified – The world’s first social operating platform. Enterprise marketing.
4. Wildfire – Promotion, analytics, monitoring and more.
5. EngageSciences - The fastest growing European social marketing vendor.
6. LocalResponse – Helps marketers respond to real-time consumer intent.
7. GraphScience – Leverage the social graph. Optimize Facebook marketing.
8. GoChime – Reach the people who are a perfect fit for your products.
9. Adly – Celebrity endorsements in social media.
10. Hy.ly - From fans to leads. Facebook presence, contents and more.
11. SocMetrics – Engage influencers.
12. MarketMeSuite – Your free social inbox. End-to-end social marketing.
13. Fanplayr – Social game marketing.
14. memelabs - Branded Facebook contests and much more.
15. PowerVoice – Advertisers harness a consumer-to-consumer platform.
16. Lithium – Social community and marketing solutions.
17. Syncapse - Social media marketing, measurement and management.
18. Vitrue - Helps you utilize social communities for business.
19. Adotomi – Performance marketing for social media.
20. Zoniz – Full-service social marketing management platform.
21. Argyle Social - Data-driven social media marketing software.
22. Buddy Media - Offers a social enterprise marketing suite.
23. Extole – Consumer-to-consumer social marketing.
24. BuzzParadise - International network of social media advertising.
25. Zuberance - Energize your brand advocates.
26. Involver - A social marketing platform and more.
27. Silentale - Market and customer insights for Facebook page data.
28. SocialTwist - Acquire new customers using social referrals.
29. eCairn - Social media marketing solutions for marketing agencies.
30. Bazaarvoice – Ratings and Social Commerce software

MONITORING AND INTELLIGENCE

1. Netvibes - Social media monitoring, analytics and alerts dashboard.
2. Brandwatch - Social media monitoring tools.
3. ThinkUp - Free open source social media insights platform.
4. DataSift - Unlock insights from historical Twitter data.
5. Odimax - Actionable intelligence for social media marketing.
6. GlobalWebIndex - Provides data on users of your web presence.
7. Attentio - See what the world is saying about your brand.
8. Traackr - Find the influencers who matter to you.
9. Unmetric - The social benchmarking company.
10. LiveWorld - Moderation, community programming and actionable insight.
11. PeerIndex - Understand your influence across social media.
12. Jive - Social media monitoring and much more.
13. ethority – Social media intelligence.
14. CliMet - Maintain your brands reputation on Facebook and Youtube.
15. YourBuzz - Get the buzz on your business (American Express OPEN).
16. Eqentia - Enterprise content curation, monitoring and republishing.
17. Sentiment Metrics - Social media monitoring, measurement, engagement.
18. MutualMind - Intelligently monitor, analyze and engage.
19. Appinions - Discover and engage leading influencers on any topic.
20. Social Fixation - Apps. Automation. Awesomeness.
21. Digimind - Competitive intelligence and online reputation monitoring.
22. StepRep - Listen to what people are saying about your brand online.
23. Trackur - Social media monitoring made easy.
24. CustomScoop - Online news clipping and social media monitoring.
25. Beevolve - Comprehensive and affordable social media monitoring.
26. Visible - Social media monitoring, analytics and engagement.
27. Sysomos - Social media monitoring tools for business.

SOCIAL CRM

1. Radian6 - Social media monitoring and engagement, social CRM.
2. Sprout Social - Social media management, Twitter tools, social CRM.
3. Spredfast - Social CRM and enterprise marketing.
4. Nimble - Social CRM simplified. Turn communities into customers.
5. Sprinklr - Social CRM, enterprise social media dashboard.

MANAGEMENT

1. HootSuite - Dashboard for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
2. SocialFlow – Optimized publisher for Facebook and Twitter.
3. uberVU - The intelligent social media dashboard.
4. tracx – An end-to-end social media management system.
5. thismoment - Engage everyone, everywhere, easily.
6. Hearsay Social - Enterprise social media software.
7. Sendible - Social media marketing, monitoring and management.
8. Pluck - Integrated social media solutions from Demand Media.
9. SocialVolt - Social media management software.
10. Engage121 - Social media management  that enables customer relationships
11. Parature personalized approach to web-based customer service & help desk software
12. Tweetdeck Dashboard for teams using Twitter and Facebook

BLOGS AND WEBSITES

1. The Future Buzz – Digital marketing and social media blog.
2. SocialTimes.com – Your social media source.
3. Social Media Today – News, strategy, tools and techniques.
4. Mashable – Social media news and tips.
5. Socialnomics – insights from brands & experts on the why & how of social 
6. Social Media Explorer – A blog about social media marketing.
7. Social Fresh – The business of social media.
8. The Social Media Marketing Blog – Marketing insights from Scott Monty.
9. Chris Brogan – Learn how human business works beyond social media.
10. Brian Solis – Defining the convergence of media and influence.
11. Britopian – Discussing the latest in social business.
12. Social Media Examiner - help businesses discover how to best use social media
13. Michael Hyatt - Christian slant on leadership, productivity, publishing, social media

AGENCIES

1. Likeable Media – Dave Kerpen’s agency – top clients (Neutrogena, Verizon) 
2. Banyan Branch – Social media strategy, engagement, analysis and more.
3. Converseon – Social strategy and analytics agency.
4. Brickfish – viral map software – top clients (Redbox, Lemonhead)
5. Splashcube – Social media marketing and training.
6. WannaBeeSocial – Southwest Airlines of Social Agencies (cater small biz)
7. Webtrends – Social, mobile and web analytics and tools.
8. iStrategyLabs – Experimental social media marketing and more.

30 RANDOM, MUST-SEE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

1. Percolate – Turns brands into curators. Creates content for the social web.
2. HubSpot – Inbound Marketing > marketing hub for small biz 
3. awe.sm – Analytics for social media.
4. TweetReach – How far did your tweet travel?
5. Contaxio – Contact management for your social networks.
6. PostPost – Awesome stuff gets lost on Twitter. Strip-search your timeline.
7. SocialScope – A mobile inbox for your social networks.
8. NutshellMail - Delivers a social media summary to your email inbox.
9. Amplicate – Find out what people love and hate on social media.
10. Bottlenose - A smarter way to surf the stream.
11. AddShoppers – Reward sharing, measure results, add shoppers.
12. GroupTweet - Create a more dynamic Twitter account with multiple authors.
13. HowSociable - Measure your brand magnitude.
14. North Social - Quickly create and manage Facebook pages.
15. BrandMyMail - Include live social content in your Gmail emails.
16. CardMunch – LinkedIn app scans business cards to your contacts 
17. Social Mention - Real-time social media search and analysis.
18. FeedMagnet - Social curation for websites and events.
19. TabJuice – Ultimate e-commerce solution for Facebook (100% free).
20. Conversocial – Deliver great customer service in Facebook and Twitter.
21. Bitly Enterprise – Short URL branding, real-time alerts, monitoring and more.
22. PeopleBrowsr – Social analytics for marketers.
23. Needium - Social media lead generation.
24. Crowdspoke – Find relevant content to share with customers, fans.
25. The Archivist – Save and analyze tweets.
26. MyLikes - Publishers promote your content through social networks.
27. Postling - Provides small businesses with social media tools.
28. bre.ad – URL shortener like bit.ly with customizable billboards 
29. Evernote – never lose a random though again – all stored in the cloud
30. Eventbrite - online tool for events and selling tickets 

 

OTHER / MISCELLANEOUS

1. Klout - Measures social media influence.
2. ShopVisible - Social commerce solution
3. Yammer – The enterprise social network.
4. Gigya - Social login, social plugins, analytics, gamifaction and more.
5. TrustYou – Social media monitoring for the hospitality industry.
6. Cyfe – All-in-one business dashboard and real-time monitoring.
7. Janrain – Social login, social profile storage, game mechanics, analytics.
8. BzzAgent – A word of mouth marketing company.
9. IZEA – Connects social media publishers with advertisers.
10. Lotame – Data and audience management platform.
11. OneDesk – Connect employees, partners and customers.
12. SocialVibe – Engagement marketing.
13. TwentyFeet - Social media monitoring and ego-tracking.
14. Timehop – What were you doing 1 year ago today?
15. Refollow – Discover, manage and protect your Twitter social circle.

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