Instagram: Marketing Tools to Grow Your Business in 2021
By: John Tsantalis
Tags: Instagram, Tips, Business, Tools, Marketing

You can find many Instagram growth and marketing tools these days. But there a lot of spam, and tools that violate Instagram’s TOS (Guidelines). You need to choose trusted and effective tools.

Here are some of the best Instagram tools to help you grow your followers and your business in 2021.

1. Buffer

Buffer has two primary services, Publish and Analyze. Publish helps you schedule content for Instagram and other social media platforms, and Analyze lets you measure your performance.

Buffer can help you to compose your social media posts by adding images, videos, and GIFs. There is a built-in emoticon keyboard in the composer that makes posting more interactive. Automatic detection of the relevant media for your post can help you to increase engagement.

2. Social Meep

Real followers and engagements are key to build an amazing presence on Instagram. SocialMeep is a service that lets you automatically grow your Instagram followers, likes, views, and engagement using an AI-Powered Automation tool.

You can track your growth and analytics on your dashboard. Also, SocialMeep has a free growth estimator.

3. Later

Later can help you to schedule and preview content for Instagram and other social media platforms. You can connect your Later account with services like Dropbox and Google Cloud.

Also, you can compose textual content on your laptop and optimize content with the use of 3rd party tools for effective communication.

4. Hootsuite

Hootsuite can help you to manage content and schedule images, videos, and stories directly from a single dashboard. After you schedule a post, you can check analytics and respond to new comments.

You can monitor different marketing channels and social media accounts from the Hootsuite platform, so you don’t need to log into every single account simultaneously.

Hootsuite can help you to share information or social media posts of other users. If you find something worth-sharing, just click on the add-on in the browser bar, and the URL will be shared across other sites and social media.

5. Sprout Social

Sprout Social can help you to connect with your audience and followers and generate engagement. You can reply to user comments, you can publish and analyze new content, you can build effective relationships, even to generate more sales.

6. Canva (Free)

Canva is one of the best tools. It offers professional photo and image editing tools that can be used for social media and your business. Easy-to-use tools and options help to create visually attractive posts and images.

You can create social media covers, logos, business cards, videos, Instagram stories, YouTube thumbnails. Canva it’s amazing! You can use built-in templates by Canva, or you can create your project from scratch.

7. Croudfire

The right content for your page is the most effective part. Believe it or not, posting at a certain time of the day can benefit your page and your business.

Croudfire suggests the best content to post on your page (It’s about the latest trends) and also allows you to know what’s the best time to post.

‍8. Iconosquare

Iconosquare provides some useful story analytics if stories are a part of your marketing strategy. Iconosquare also provides helpful information about your audience demographic, like gender, age-ranges, and locations.

‍Also, it has a content calendar to plan and schedule your Instagram content.

9. Flocked

Flocked is an effective caption writing tool that helps you create well-formatted captions. Write your caption on Flocked, copy and paste it on Instagram for beautifully written captions with line-breaks. Flocked is free for use.