Hootsuite for your social media needs

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Raise your hand if you are active in social media.Now, how many use social media to promote a blog, business, product or something else? Yup, me too! I was using Facebook and Twitter mainly for keeping in touch with people and sharing ideas. Then I started getting into blogging and used them, along with Google+, to promote my blog - then to promote my photography. It started to become a burden and it took me away from other things. This was, in part, because when I wanted to push something out I had to sit and do it right then. Along came Hootsuite. I had heard about it a while back and started a free account but didn't really do much and I forgot about it. A couple days ago I was chatting with a fellow blogger and she mentioned she had to do some scheduling. I never thought of that! I asked about her tools and she mentioned that she used Hootsuite for a bit but thought the free account was too restricting. I opened it and found the only restriction that was limiting me was the limit of 3 social media accounts - since I was primarily using Facebook, Twitter and Google+ that wasn't a problem. I got busy - before I knew it I had more than 40 posts scheduled over 4 days. A nice feature is "Autoschedule" which uses some algorithm to determine the optimal time for posting. Now I can spend a couple hours putting together a schedule and sit back. Life will be much easier now....