8 Go To Resources For Social Media
Here at Social Savvy, we understand how valuable resources from other websites can be when it comes to staying updated on the latest trends, creating content, and learning more about our field. That’s why we’ve come up with a short list of excellent go to resources that any social media marketer can refer to when they’re at a loss of what to do for content, need inspiration on what to create, and for staying up to date.
For Content Planning And Templates
These three resources are essential to our team when we’re developing our content and planning it out for the month. They all have free and paid resources you can refer to when you’re in need of them.
SOCIAL SAVVY MEMBERSHIP
The Social Savvy Vault has multiple resources that help you plan out your content for the whole month in advance. These resources include: complete content calendars each month, templates, training & support! For 49$/month you can get all this and more! If you are looking for other resources, check out the other resources offered, such as the facebook community, Social Media ToolKit, or the 50 Shareable IG Post Templates.
CREATIVE MARKET
Creative Market is an online market with community generated design items; such as, stock photography, fonts, media templates, graphics, and more. Most of their content is available for affordable prices and contains bundles, however they also have a weekly free email that contains social media templates!
HUBSPOT RESOURCES
Hubspot offers over 40+ free resources for business owners that want to learn more about social media, creating a social media calendar, templates you can use, a testing kit, and so on! Their resources are incredibly helpful that they can be a real game changer for those who are looking specifically for free resources and want a full library to access.
Daily Marketing News
To keep up with current marketing trends, the latest digital marketing news, and insights that others have provided, we follow these blogs to stay informed.
LATER
Later is an Instagram scheduling tool that a lot of marketers use to plan out their content for Instagram weeks ahead of time so that they’re not lagging behind! However, Later isn't just a scheduler, they also have a blog that keeps up with the latest Instagram trends as well as providing information insights in the social media world. Their blog is really a really comprehensive guide to getting to know the Marketing Industry overall!
SOCIALMEDIATODAY
Social Media Today is an online news platform, covering the latest news, trends, and tips in social media. They are constant and consistent with their stream of new articles covering topics in the social media world that we live in today. They discuss several important topics, including social media updates, tending, social marketing, digital strategy, content marketing, and more!
SPROUT SOCIAL
Similarly to Later, Sprout Social is also a scheduling tool for scheduling all of your social media posts from one platform. However, they too also have a blog covering social media and trends that have been spotted over the years. Their articles discuss many things related to social media strategy and similar topics, such as “Battling burnout as a social media manager”, “Social media SWOT analysis: what it is and how to do it”.
Learning
As we all know, we need to stay updated in the social media industry because things are constantly changing! These two resources are excellent for getting a good foundation in social media and adding to your skill set with courses they provide free of charge!
MOZ
Moz is known as a software as a service company that sells inbound marketing and marketing analytics software subscriptions, but they are also known to have an extensive guide for all sorts of marketers in their respective fields. For example, Moz has an excellent beginners guide to Social Media for those who want to be introduced in a structured way. They also offer an SEO guide, content marketing guide, seo analytics & report guide, and several more all for free,
HUBSPOT ACADEMY
Hubspot is on this list twice because they’re such a valuable resource for content creation and learning! This learning platform is also known as Hubspot academy. Here they provide multiple indepth courses covering topics such as: Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Social Media, Frictionless Sales, and several others. Once you complete the course, you will receive a certification that you can post on your LinkedIn profile to show to potential future employers or clients that you are well versed in these subjects.
This is just a short list of our favorite go to resources that we believe to be incredibly valuable to us, in the future we will be adding more to our website, so keep a lookout!
