The best Social Media tools to help you create epic content.

We know businesses are continually looking for faster, easier and more cost-efficient ways to create new content to keep up with trends. Here’s a quick guide to help you pick the perfect tools to help you create incredible social media content and increase your online engagement.

So, how can you create amazing social media content on a budget?

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Design Tools.

Canva
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard of the globally loved Canva app. Without any design experience, you can use it for everything from making basic photo edits to designing social media images to flyers and documents. With a vast number of templates and graphics and an intuitive interface that’s easy to navigate – you can create any visual project.

GoDaddy Studio: Graphic Design ( formally called Over)
GoDaddy Studio is one of the most loved mobile apps for editing photos and videos. This all-encompassing app is an excellent tool for all influencers and social media managers. Get your storytelling and brand image aligned and reach your followers – Quickly and easily design social media posts, ads, posters, and more using their editable templates.

Managing & Scheduling Tools.

Lately
Here at OITC, we are HUGE Lately fans. With the amount of content we push out daily, this AI-based social media management tool has helped us turn our content into excellent social media posts across our multiple platforms. Lately, intelligently lets you syndicate the content you create across numerous accounts, making it one of the advanced social media management tools. More impressive is its Auto-generate function, and the Omni-Analytics gives you unique insights into what your content and audience are doing.

Facebook Business Suite
This all-encompassing app helps you manage your activity across all your Facebook Pages, and Instagram accounts all in one place.
• Plan, schedule, and manage posts so you can share with more people at once
• Save time and view and respond to all your messages, comments and activities in one spot.
• Understand what’s working with insights about your audience on both Facebook and Instagram
• Stay focused on what matters with notifications about significant activity

Hootsuite
Manage your multiple social content streams from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. It is one of the most popular social media tools in the market. Keep track and manage your many social network channels, monitor what people are saying about your brand and help respond instantly.

Mention
Mention is more than simply a monitoring tool for social media; it monitors your brand’s mentions ( tagging) across the web, such as on Yelp, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, and Amazon. On the custom company plan, you can get in-depth insights and reports of your brand mentions. If you connect your social media profiles to Mention, you can reply to mentions directly within Mention.

Video & Audio Content Tools.

Adobe Spark — no design experience needed.
Spark Video works to create compelling animated videos quickly. Perfect for micro-content creation for all your social platforms. With over 25,000 images and icons readily available to help you magnify your video. The best part is you can choose a soundtrack – Spark will then automatically add stunning cinematic motion to your video.

Anchor
With the rise of audio content – Anchor is the perfect addition to your social media tools basket. It’s basically a recording studio in your pocket.
Record audio from anywhere, on any device. Visualise, edit, and arrange your audio segments using Anchor’s intuitive episode builder. Add background tracks, transitions, and sound effects from our built-in audio library. Record remotely with up to 4 guests or co-hosts, wherever they are in the world.

Animoto
This is an excellent app for creating micro-content videos that’ll make you stand out on social media accounts. Turn your photos and video clips into video slideshows with a small amount of effort. It’s one of the few video tools that let you easily create square videos, too. Once you make your video, post it directly to your platforms right from the app with just a couple of clicks.

Influencer Tools.

Hypetap
Hypetap is a Melbourne based platform that provides influencers with access to a sophisticated platform. In addition, the platform allows brands and agencies to reach out to influencers with campaign opportunities. Creators across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and blogs can join. Hypetap has worked with brands such as The Body Shop, Nespresso, Nescafe, LG, and more.

Tribe
TRIBE is based in Melbourne and works with over 19,000 influencers and over 3,500 businesses to create collaborative marketing campaigns.
They are available to influencers across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and have worked with huge brands.