Free Social Media Marketing Toolkit for Small Businesses
Do your own social media marketing with free tools for scheduling, content ideas, design, hashtags, chat, influencers and video editing.
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1. Schedule posts
Buffer, Metricool, Later, Zoho Social, Hootsuite
2. Find content to share
Feedly to follow industry news, Flipboard for topics, BuzzSumo to see what gets shared, AnswerThePublic for questions customers ask.
3. Design posts
Canva, VistaCreate, Adobe Express, GIPHY for GIFs.
4. Engage customers
tawk.to adds free live chat to your website. Manychat auto-replies to Instagram and WhatsApp messages.
5. Hashtags and keywords
RiteTag for hashtag ideas, Keyword Tool for what people search on YouTube and TikTok.
6. Organise the work
Trello, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Slack.
7. Work with influencers
Check any account's growth on Social Blade and audience quality on HypeAuditor before you pay for a post.
8. Edit video
CapCut or InShot on your phone, Clideo and Kapwing in the browser, Lumen5 to turn articles into videos.
A simple weekly routine
- Monday: collect 5 ideas from Feedly and AnswerThePublic
- Tuesday: design a week of posts in Canva
- Wednesday: schedule them in Buffer or Metricool
- Daily, 10 minutes: reply to comments and messages
- Friday: check which post did best and make more like it