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Ditched Hootsuite for Buffer and my engagement went up 22%
I used Hootsuite for like 3 years because that's what everyone recommended. But I kept noticing my posts felt dead, barely any comments or shares. Finally switched to Buffer in March after a friend at a Denver meetup told me their scheduling is simpler. Now I manually schedule each platform at different times instead of blasting everything at once. Buffer's analytics showed me my best posting window is actually 6pm on Thursdays, not 9am like I assumed. The interface is cleaner and I don't waste time fighting with broken auto-posting anymore. Has anyone else seen better results after ditching the big name tools for something smaller?
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susan6493mo ago
omg YES I had almost the same thing happen but with Later instead of Buffer. I was using Hootsuite for my little vintage shop account and honestly I think their interface just got too bloated over the years. I started noticing my Instagram posts would randomly fail to publish and I'd have to redo them manually anyway. That was the final straw for me. I switched to Later around February and suddenly my stories were getting way more replies because I could actually see which hashtags were working in their analytics dashboard. The difference was night and day, I went from like 3 saves per post to like 15 on average. Sometimes you really don't know what you're missing until you try something made for smaller accounts.
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jake9863mo ago
Wonder if the algorithm punishes you for missed scheduled posts too.
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