Facebook has outlined what the tools are here, and we have summarised them below:

Start Conversations with a Business Across Our Apps

Start a WhatsApp chat from an Instagram Profile: It’s now possible for businesses globally to add a WhatsApp click-to-chat button to their Instagram profile — and, starting soon, the option to create ads that click to WhatsApp directly from the Instagram app — so people can start a chat with just one tap.

Lead Generation and Customer Acquisition

Quote Request on Messenger: This is currently being tested with select advertisers, it will allow businesses to select 4-5 questions to ask consumers prior to starting a conversation. Consumers are then able to easily and quickly request a quote from a business on Facebook by completing a short questionnaire on Messenger.

Lead Generation on Instagram: Facebook will begin testing paid and organic tools to help small businesses find and qualify leads directly within the Instagram app.

Updates to Facebook Business Suite

In addition to managing messages across Messenger and Instagram, Facebook will test the ability for businesses to manage emails through Inbox and send remarketing emails from Facebook Business Suite.

Facebook is also introducing File Manager, a new feature that allows businesses to easily create, manage and post content within Facebook Business Suite.

Post testing available in Facebook Business Suite to let businesses test and compare multiple versions of a post to see which one people are more likely to engage with.

Greater Control with Work Accounts

Facebook is testing Work Accounts, this will allow business users to log in and operate Business Manager without requiring a personal account. Businesses will be able to manage these accounts on behalf of their employees and have access to enterprise-grade features like single sign-on integrations, giving them more control over the security of their employees’ accounts. This will be tested through the remainder of the year with a small group of businesses, and is expected to expand availability in 2022.

Supporting Businesses with Cost Savings

Facebook will soon start to allow some small businesses to access a bundle that will include valuable tools and benefits, such as a Facebook ad coupon, along with free access to QuickBooks accounting software for three months or free access to creative tool Canva Pro for three months.

Helping People Discover Relevant Businesses

Facebook Business Explore will soon expand to people in the United States and internationally in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. This will help connect people with new and relevant businesses — all in one, easy and centralized place. This will also help businesses reach new customers and drive deeper consideration that can lead to purchases.

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Thankfully, there are a bunch of great platforms out there that give you the resources you need to schedule posts in advance and keep your profile well-stocked with great content. Many of these tools also let you post to Instagram from your computer so you don’t need to rely solely on Instagram’s mobile app.

1. Sked (web, iOS, Android)

Sked is a scheduling platform with a wide variety of features—including web-browser-based scheduling—for running more effective Instagram campaigns.

Sked also comes with extensive photo-editing features. Using its built-in image editing, you can tweak and fine-tune your photos well beyond Instagram’s default filters. Sked also allows for mass uploading, so you can schedule batches of photos at once and shave time off your social media marketing efforts.

Price: From $25/month for the Freelancer plan after a seven-day free trial.

2. Later (web, iOS, Android)

Later is an intuitive social media scheduling platform that comes with a diverse set of features for planning out your campaigns, including the ability to explore hashtags and share user-generated content.

Later lets you organize and schedule Instagram posts with a handy content calendar and get a preview of your Instagram feed before publishing, making it simple to visualize exactly how your strategy will unfold.

It also offers Saved Captions, which is handy when planning and implementing your hashtag strategy for Instagram. Save related groups of hashtags together so you never need to type them out again, or reuse your most effective tactics to increase engagement on posts or drive clicks to your website via your Instagram bio.

Price: Free for one user and up to 30 Instagram posts per month; from $9/month for the Plus plan for one user and up to 100 Instagram posts per month.

3. Hootsuite (web, iOS, Android)

Hootsuite is a powerful social media management platform that can schedule and publish Instagram posts.

While Hootsuite has made a name for itself by streamlining marketing for platforms like Facebook and Twitter, its Instagram tools take social media management one step further. Hootsuite lets you schedule your Instagram posts in advance, and either notifies you to post with a push notification or posts automatically for you if you have an Instagram Business account.

Price: From $29/month for the Professional plan after a 30-day free trial.

4. Buffer (web, iOS, Android)

You probably know Buffer as a great tool to schedule your social media posts for Twitter and Facebook, but you can also use it to schedule Instagram posts.

Prepare your posts from mobile or desktop and Buffer will post directly to Instagram for you. And with a Premium plan, you can also create and schedule Instagram Stories, embed a shoppable Instagram grid on your website, and get detailed analytics on the performance of your Instagram posts.

Price: Free for one user, three social accounts, and 10 scheduled posts; from $15/month for the Pro plan or $65/month for the Premium plan after a seven-day free trial.

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TweetDeck

Type: Desktop client and Chrome application

TweetDeck is a free desktop application, owned by Twitter, that gives you the tools you need to keep track of large numbers of people in your Twitter stream. It allows you to put people in groups, keep permanent search windows open, publish and schedule Tweets, monitor who’s talking to you, and much more. It does all this in a customizable interface, showing multiple streams of Tweets next to one another in real time.

If you want a free and easy way to monitor and manage your personal Twitter presence, try TweetDeck. Your experience with this desktop application will be even better if you use a large monitor and keep the program up and running.

Hootsuite

Type: Business dashboard

If you want a corporate solution that lets multiple users monitor and schedule posts to multiple accounts, you should look at Hootsuite. This tool displays all your Twitter accounts in a single interface and lets companies assign individual Tweets to employees for follow-up.

It’s common to include a full disclosure in your profile if you have multiple people tweeting for your company or if you have a ghost tweeter tweeting for you. For shared accounts, authors often sign the end of their Tweets with a caret (^) and their initials.

Social Inbox

Type: Business dashboard

If you want a corporate solution that lets you connect your Twitter account with smart information about your customers and prospects, you should look at HubSpot’s Social Inbox. With this tool, you can see exactly whom you’re interacting with, whether it’s a prospect, a customer, or a person who has never interacted with your company before.

The tool offers a browser plugin, which means you have access to many of its features, like seeing which Tweets come from customers or prospects, right in your browser when you’re using Twitter.com.

If you’re tweeting for a business or organization, make sure that you’re measuring more than just followers and retweets. It’s also important to measure the number of clicks of your Tweets and the number of resulting prospects or revenue.

Twitter app

Type: Mobile app

Want to tweet from anywhere? If you have a mobile device, the official Twitter iOS or Android app is the way to go. Find it in the App Store on your Apple device or in Google Play on your Android device.

Check your carrier’s data charges before using Twitter’s mobile app. Twitter may be free, but some of the associated data usage may come with hidden costs.

Wefollow and justunfollow

Type: Networking

Wefollow and justunfollow let you see who you’re following, who’s following you, and which follows are mutual, all in a nicely tabbed, avatar-based list. You can fix any follower/following discrepancies right from the site interfaces. These sites help you follow people who better match your interests.

Twitter Counter

Type: Measurement

If you want to see how your following has grown over time or how many followers you had on a specific date, make sure to check out Twitter Counter. With this tool, you can even compare how many followers you’ve gained over a six-month period with how many Tweets you sent per day during the same period.

Bitly

Type: URL shortener

This free and easy website lets you shorten, customize, and track the links you send out on Twitter. Bitly automatically generates a short link with a random mix of letters and numbers so that it fits better in a 140-character Tweet.

However, you can always customize the link you’ve automatically received so it fits better with your personal branding. The stats you see with Bitly links include daily and hourly click stats to identify spikes in click-throughs, the networks your Bitly link was shared on, and the countries in which people were clicking most.

If you add a plus sign (+) to the end of any Bitly link, you can see click stats for that link. If you add + to the end of this link in the website address bar and press Enter, you’ll be able to see stats about how many clicks it got over time. If you add a Bitly link to your Twitter bio, you’ll be able to see how many people are clicking the link.

Buffer

Type: Publishing

Buffer suggests fully crafted Tweets to you based on who you follow and what topics you generally tweet about. When you choose to add these suggested Tweets to your queue, Buffer schedules them at staggered times based on a schedule you preset; that way, you never need to worry about overlapping.

Staggering your Tweets and spreading them out throughout a week will help you avoid seeming spammy.

Canva

Type: Visual content creation

If you’re not naturally design-inclined, Canva is a great free tool to help you craft a beautiful header and other tweetable images without learning any fancy design skills or programs. This tool is essentially plug-and-play, optimizing sizes for the exact dimensions you’ll need on Twitter.

Because Twitter now displays images automatically, you’ll find that more and more people are using them to increase engagement on individual Tweets.

Topsy

Type: Measurement

Topsy shows you how many mentions a certain hashtag or Twitter handle had in the past hour, day, week, or month. You can see which days or hours had the most mentions and which Tweets were the most popular.

If you’re at an event that’s using a specific hashtag, plug this hashtag into Topsy to see how influential it is.

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