Our 10 Top Apps For Man­ag­ing Print­er’s So­cial Media

So­cial me­dia is such an amaz­ing re­source and nowa­days thanks to smart­phones can be used when­ever you wish and wher­ever you want.

At Dis­count Ban­ner Print­ing we’ve used it to sig­nif­i­cantly grow our cus­tomer base and en­gage with ex­ist­ing customers.

The sheer ar­ray of apps out there makes the whole process so much eas­ier and al­lows you to do a wide range of amaz­ing things.

So, let’s take a look at our favourite app store apps for so­cial media.

Hoot­Suite

Where would we be with­out Hoot­Suite – it’s an amaz­ing so­cial me­dia man­age­ment app and one that re­ally im­presses on a global scale.

The app pro­vides the chance to man­age nu­mer­ous so­cial me­dia ac­counts and also to mon­i­tor con­ver­sa­tions, sched­ule posts and see stats.

Buffer

Buffer’s a fan­tas­tic app and one that can be used with Twit­ter, Face­book, Google+, App.net and more.

It’s easy to use too, you sim­ply add posts to the Buffer and it up­dates through­out the day to so­cial net­works post­ing them at the best time it deems necessary.

Tweet­Caster

An­other great app that comes with a smor­gas­bord of fea­tures and one we found very use­ful for nar­row­ing down search re­sults with thanks to its ‘search party’ feature.

It’s also great for hid­ing un­wanted tweets, as well as adding ef­fects and filters.

Sta­tus Shuffle

This is an in­ter­est­ing app and one that can re­ally add a bit of life to your site.

The Face­book based mo­bile app al­lows you to come across a whole ar­ray of sta­tuses rang­ing from funny, to sad, to weird and then use them as in­spi­ra­tion for your next status.

Find Un­Fol­low­ers

It does ex­actly as it says on the tin re­ally. Find Un­fol­low­ers does just that and al­lows you to find the peo­ple who don’t fol­low back.

It’s also use­ful for fol­low­ing and un­fol­low­ing, as well as track­ing peo­ple. It can also be used across a num­ber of ac­counts – an­other use­ful feature.

Echo­Fon Pro

An­other great Twit­ter app and one that costs a lit­tle more than the rest, but it al­lows you real push no­ti­fi­ca­tion and also to Tweet over 140 char­ac­ters thanks to its tweet extender.

At Dis­count Ban­ner Print­ing we do think it’s worth it though.

All­Sync

This app al­lows you to Sync across a whole host of ac­counts, and you’ll be able to see your lat­est up­dates across not just the usual so­cial me­dia sites, but also Ya­hoo, Orkut, Net­log and MySpace.

It also pro­vides you with de­tails of Birth­days and other per­sonal information.

Fol­low­ers for Instagram

We love In­sta­gram as it of­ten al­lows us to add a lit­tle bit ex­tra to our prints and show­case our stick­ers in a dif­fer­ent way.

This app is great as it al­lows you to eas­ily track fol­low­ers, fol­low the best and worst fol­low­ers and also shows you a num­ber of other stats like av­er­age likes per im­age and Fame Value – this is a stat that shows who you like the most.

Scoop.it

Log into your Scoop ac­count and use this app to or­der and or­gan­ise sto­ries and me­dia on the go.

It of­fers easy shar­ing too and is great for im­prov­ing en­gage­ment levels.

Ever­note

It can be hard to re­mem­ber post times, notes of things to do and meet­ing times. Ever­note is the ul­ti­mate note col­lec­tor and works with au­dio, im­age and all sorts of other sorts of notes.

It’s great for draft­ing up new ideas and adding the Ever­clip com­pan­ion if us­ing an IOS de­vice is a great help. It’s an es­sen­tial app for most peo­ple work­ing in the sticker in­dus­try from a smartphone.

These are just some of the amaz­ing apps out there that can re­ally make a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence to the way peo­ple work and use so­cial media.

For peo­ple in­volved in print mar­ket­ing or on­line mar­ket­ing or a mix­ture of both, they make life a whole lot easier.

By Cor­mac Reynolds

Cor­mac Reynolds is a writer and a jour­nal­ist and some­one who has writ­ten about apps for years now. He is a lover of technology