Shoutlet's New Features Blend SMMS With Marketing Automation
Shoutlet’s New Features Blend SMMS With Marketing Automation
Shoutlet’s New Features Blend SMMS With Marketing Automation
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The ever-growing world of social media management systems continues to blur the lines of categories of platforms. We’ve discussed before the consumer desire for all these tools to get their feature sets together and provide us with an all-in-one digital marketing place. But in the race to make big brands happy on Facebook, we’re left having to piece meal software together to do what we want.

Shoutlet took a nice step forward recently with the addition of something they call the “Switchboard” that integrates a bit of marketing automation with social media management. Instead of setting Tweets or Facebook posts and the like to fire at certain times or days, using Shoutlet you can now set them to send based on events or triggers.

Reach 10,000 fans on Facebook? System fires a celebratory coupon to the fans or can even fire off an email to your newsletter list (if integrated with your email marketing provider).

Shoutlet Switchboard Screen

This pairs nicely with Shoutlet’s above-average content management system, which includes iTunes, video and other platforms beyond Facebook and Twitter. Integrating conditions and triggers into your messaging helps automate some (we wouldn’t recommend all) communications and lighten the labor load here. Of course, the people who need the automation most can’t afford tools that perform the function, but for those that can, it makes life easier.

Another of Shoutlet’s new features is a beautifully done content creation place called “Canvas.” It makes a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor look like a bike next to a Harley. It makes creating a Facebook tab or landing page for a coupon uber easy. You have to upload your base creative, of course, but the tool makes it easier for a non-designer/developer to churn out good looking stuff.

Shoutlet’s customer relationship management functionally is a bit more robust than others in the space, too. You can develop a series of communications and target those messages to only reach 25-year-old men in Wyoming that have two or more kids and the messages will segment on the social networks provided the network identifies those data sets.

Like a few of its SMMS brethren, Shoutlet can help a company manage hundreds of accounts under the brand umbrella and make customized content to them reasonable. They’re a very attractive tool for agencies and firms providing marketing services to companies because of the multiple account management feature.

Honestly, I’ve always found Shoutlet to be far more intuitive and well designed, from a user-experience standpoint, than most other SMMS platforms. This makes it a favorite among community manager types who tend to be the actual end user.

Shoutlet will run you about $20K per year to use (roughly $1,700 per month) but there are some small business partnerships the company has with resellers that can reduce that amount. The best bet is to do a product demo and have them route you that way if you’re interested. The lower price does come with a few features removed, but the core SMMS functionality is there.

If you’re looking for a social media management system, Shoutlet is certainly deserving of a look-see. It’s reasonably priced, easy to use and pretty powerful.

Disclosure: Shoutlet is a regular advertiser on Social Media Explorer. This post was not, however, inspired by their advertising on SME, but rather the new features they’ve launched.

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About the Author

Jason Falls
Jason Falls is the founder of Social Media Explorer and one of the most notable and outspoken voices in the social media marketing industry. He is a noted marketing keynote speaker, author of two books and unapologetic bourbon aficionado. He can also be found at JasonFalls.com.

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