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Sprout Social
What is Sprout Social?
Sprout Social offers social media engagement, publishing, analytics, listening and reporting solutions for leading agencies and brands including Loews Hotel, NBC Universal, Macys, Chipotle and Sony. Available via web browser, iOS and Android, Sprout enables brands to simplify social management, collaborate across teams and provide an exceptional customer experience. Sprout Social supports Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
Who Uses Sprout Social?
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.
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Sprout social is the best Social media management tool out there.
Comments: It simplifies social media management, reduces the need to switch between multiple platforms, and offers a centralized hub for various tasks, including scheduling, analytics, engagement, and content management. This saves time and improve overall efficiency for our team and business.
Pros:
Post Scheduling,Social media listening tools,Content management
Cons:
Only issue I have with Sprout is the cost.
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Sprout Social is a social media management tool.
Comments: Overall our experience has been very positive. We've found Sprout Social to be easy to setup and use, and also easy to teach to some of our less tech savvy customers. They really like the ability to login and review posts all at once from a single screen.
Pros:
We most like the ability to manage multiple accounts easily. We manage over 20 social media accounts across several platforms using Sprout Social and we have always found it very intuitive and easy to use. Adding new accounts is easy and there are several features that add value to the product that we use regularly.
Cons:
Pricing when you're adding multiple additional accounts is confusing, especially for agencies who may want to use Sprout to manage all agency accounts. Single accounts can only manage 10 profiles without upgrading which for an agency is a limit we hit very quickly.
Thought this software was great, turns out we had many problems
Comments: When we started using we had very high hopes for how this program would work and make our daily office work more efficient, however, we have spent significant time correcting failed posts and disconnects. Unfortunately, we have had to go back to posting natively.
Pros:
Overall, Sprout Social is easy to use and easy to learn. It is organized in a way that is easy to navigate.
Cons:
The sales team is great at answering questions and making the sale. After the sale has been made it is difficult to receive timely responses and feedback. There are no exceptions for ending service with them, except for referring a new customer and having them sign up.
Excellent platform for scheduling posts on social media.
Comments: Sprout Social has effectively facilitated the optimization of our publication workflows and the efficient management of follower engagements across many social media platforms, owing to its comprehensive array of features and tools.
Pros:
I appreciate that the publication process varies depending on the platform, allowing me to better gauge whether or not an image is the wrong size or whether or not I am releasing at the best time of day. It's also great that I don't have to do any extra work to get the reports I pull ready to give to my team members. The Smart Inbox is fantastic since it saves me the trouble of signing into different services just to respond to comments and messages.
Cons:
One thing i don't like about Sprout is that I have to create posts twice if I want them to look different on different platforms. I wish there was a dedicated space on the create screen where I could rework the text specifically for Twitter, condensing it while leaving the rest of the message intact.
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Comments: I really like the customer service experience I've had here. I'm very new to YouTube from a marketing standpoint, and Sprout gave me a lot of resources to learn.
Pros:
I work in marketing and report to professionals who don't have as much marketing expertise as me. Having a dashboard view of the social media statistics really helps me explain and analyze the significance of changes.
Cons:
The software itself is tough to navigate. Things change around a lot, and that makes it difficult if you present metrics on screen share.
