Managing multiple social media channels still remains a big task. I feel the pinch everyday. But the pinch is not only because these are time-consuming activities, but also because many great tools out there are quite high priced.



Well, yes one can argue that $10 is cheap bargain for one and not so affordable for the other! But my reference is mostly towards bloggers just starting out. Especially from Asian countries, for them $10 is expensive. And I speak for many I know personally.

Today I use Buffer + Social Insight + Google analytics & an internally developed native tool. These together help me to schedule, monitor and analyse my social media efforts. However, when I started out few years back I used all free tools.

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The free tools definitely helped but there were times I wanted to upgrade to the pro version for to use the additional advanced features. Back then I couldn’t afford to spend $10 /month so I stuck to free tools.

Today, social media landscape has become very competitive. It’s important for bloggers to use the right tools that suit their needs the best. Tools that don’t cost a bomb.

With this post, I am putting together a list of 5 helpful Social media management tools that cost under $10

One Interface for All Your Social Networks

With Socialpilot you can connect all your social profiles on one dashboard. You can start posting on each of the social networks from one unified interface. SocialPilot truly is a one-stop-shop for all your networking needs.

For starters you can use their free account and if you feel this is the right tool for you upgrade to a $4.99 plan.

2. Sociota – Monthly :$5

A social media management and monitoring platform.

Sociota lets you integrate multiple platforms and manage them all in a very intuitive way. It is a great social media management tool with features like multiple account integration, scheduling/posting of Facebook or twitter, feed watch and connection watch. Here is a quick comparison of their free and pro account.

3) Postific – Monthly $7.99

This is a tool to help you manage, analyze and increase your social presence and engagement

Postific was launched in Dec 2013. It’s founder, Rosen Ivanov in an interview with Stuart J Davidson, summarized Postific’s USP as:

“The main difference between Postific and other social media management tools will be the simplicity of doing social media management. The main target will be ‘Saving people’s time’, including targeted tools for reaching new customers.

Pinvolve automatically pulls in your latest pins on Pinterest, Instagram photos, and Facebook posts and displays them beautifully on your Facebook page. This helps to increase content forwarding or repins by 150%

5) Later – Monthly $9 (Billed Yearly at $7.5)

Visually Plan & Schedule Instagram Posts

Later is the simpler way to plan your visual content marketing for Instagram. It has a calender view scheduling that makes it very easy to schedule Instagram posts. You can also manage your Instagram posts for multiple accounts.

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