Thursday, September 26, 2019

27 Handy Facebook Tools for Business


By Julia Brackett
Fifteen years after its founding in 2004, Facebook has over 2.4 billion monthly users.
There’s also over 60 billion active business pages, and 42% of marketers say that Facebook is important — or even crucial — to their business.
But what sort of Facebook tools are available to help businesses and marketers drive engagement, reach, and sales? Likely more than you’d think!
In this article, you’ll learn about amazing and convenient tools that businesses use to reach new customers, stay on top of mind, and convert customers:
Facebook Advertising & Optimization Tools
1. MobileMonkey
Yes, we put ourselves first. Why not? MobileMonkey is the premier tool for all of your Facebook Messenger marketing efforts. From contact growth tools to chatbots, you can find it all here.
For some reason, a lot of businesses do not take advantage of Facebook Messenger marketing, despite the significantly higher engagement it receives than Facebook Newsfeed ads or email marketing.
Use MobileMonkey’s platform to take advantage of these benefits. We offer various chatbot tools, like chatbot templates to build your Messenger bot, chatbots on your website and WordPress chatbot plugins, as well as tools to build drip campaign automations, click-to-Messenger ads with interactive chatbots as the landing page, and sponsored message ads (which propel the message click-through rate to +20%).
You can even move your data from MobileMonkey to other systems you use to run your business, thanks to integration powered by Zapier.
2. Facebook Ads Manager
A handy tool for businesses straight from Facebook is the Facebook Ads Manager. Using this you can create, view, make changes to, and see the results of all of your Facebook campaign ads.
Using Facebook Ads Manager, you design your ads and choose the audience you want to see your ad. You can also decide where you want to show your ad on the site.
Facebook Ad Manager is an extremely easy way to manage multiple ads over your campaign (or different campaigns). You can duplicate ads, edit your audience and placements, or edit your budget. There’s also an app for ad management on the go!
3. WordStream
WordStream is a unique Facebook tool in that it is specifically designed for small- and medium-sized businesses maximize their online advertising results.
You can start with the free tool to grade your current Facebook ads performance and see where and how you can improve your results. Then you can use WordStream’s agency solutions to easily manage your campaigns from one place.

In addition to agency ad solutions, WordStream provides similar tools and advising for ecommerce, to help your online shop turn more clicks into sales.
Most handy, however, is WordStream’s 20-Minute Work Week. With this tool, your most time-consuming tasks are simplified with customized cross-platform alerts that display high-priority actions, cutting hours from your work.
4. AdEspresso
AdEspresso is a Facebook tool that helps you easily create, manage, and analyze your ad campaigns not only on Facebook, but on Instagram and Google as well.
Using AdEspresso, you can manage your ads across platforms all from one place instead of switching between ad managers. You can also easily obtain your web, email, Excel, and PDF insights.
On top of being a great tool for Facebook, Instagram, and Google ad creation and management, AdEspresso makes collaborating with your clients easier. You can gain access to their accounts and get their approval of your campaigns before they go live. Far easier than a constant back-and-forth.
Further, still, AdEspresso features resources to help you learn more marketing skills or perfect yours!
5. Perfect Audience
Have you ever wanted a total solution to retargeting your audiences with ads across audience networks from Facebook to Twitter to display? Perfect Audience is a single-platform solution for just this.
With this tool, you can manage retargeting efforts across the web in one place.
Perfect Audience allows you to track visitors to your site using a site tracking tag that you add to
your website. After they visit your site, the site tracking tag places a cookie in the visitor’s browser.
Once this is done, the platform serves your ads to those visitors on different sites.
Perfect Audience integrates with the web, Facebook, Twitter, HubSpot, Shopify, and mobile!
6. Facebook Pixel
Facebook Pixel is a tool from Facebook specifically designed to help you measure Facebook ad performance and create custom audiences for Facebook ad remarketing.
Facebook Pixel is simply a piece of code that you can add to your website, and it helps you learn more about your audiences to optimize your ad campaigns.
Use Facebook Pixel to get insights about your website traffic and learn how people are using your site. Next, you can create custom audiences using those website visitors and retarget them once they leave.
You can also optimize your ads to make sure that they are seen by people who are likely to engage with them!
7. Facebook Blueprint
Running a business, or running an ad campaign, is hard work and requires skill. Sometimes it’s useful to brush up on those skills.
Facebook Blueprint is a tool that provides free online training in digital marketing.
Using your Facebook profile, you can access short courses in Facebook page management, Facebook and Instagram ad creation and management, optimization, and more.
8. Instagram Ads
Instagram Ads are pretty self explanatory.
But their impact is meaningful.
You can use a number of tools on both Facebook and Instagram (as well as other platforms we’ve mentioned in this post!) to create compelling ads. Then, you can use those ads to drive traffic to your Facebook page or website.
Boom! High traffic incoming.
Create and run your Instagram ads through the Facebook Ad Manager.
9. Qwaya
Qwaya is a powerful Facebook ad creation and management tool.
With Qwaya, you can schedule a time of day and day of the week for your ads to run. You can also optimize your campaign’s results by defining performance-based rules that allow you to pause campaigns that are not performing well.
In addition to all of this, Qwaya provides free training sessions in each plan to help you learn to use the tools!
10. Facebook Test and Learn
Facebook Test and Learn is a little known tool within Facebook Business Manager that allows you to literally create advertising tests and analyze their results.
What’s that? You can learn about what works and doesn’t work in advertising before you even publish an ad?
All of the Facebook Test and Learn tests measure lift, which is essentially results that would not have happened without your ads. The tests measure two types of lift: conversion lift and brand lift.
You can compare campaigns using these tools to optimize your advertising budget, increase brand performance, and more.
Facebook Organic Social Management
11. Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a social media management and analytics tool. It allows you to manage all of your social media in one place.
Schedule your posts across various social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
You can also easily manage your social content by storing pre-approved content in any cloud file service, keeping your business on brand. Content is easy to curate and locate using tags and stats.
You can even manage your business’s social media team using Hootsuite tools like organization setup, team permissions, team assignments and more.
12. Agorapulse
Agorapulse is an extremely useful social media management tool. It’s simple to use but produces effective results.
With this one tool, you can publish updates to all the top social networks. You can also schedule posts, as well as add them to a queue to be republished automatically. Use their social media calendar to help you plan these updates, or use their analytics reports to see how your posts measure up.
On top of content management, Agorapulse lets you check all of your mentions across all social media platforms in one place. Talk about easy!
13. Buffer
Buffer is a tool that helps small businesses grow their audience and build their brand on social media. It’s purpose is to make it easy to plan, collaborate, and publish content that drives engagement and thus builds a following.
Most interesting about Buffer is its Chrome browser extension that can be used to comb for shareable content.
Once you’ve started building your brand, Buffer also helps you by providing insights and analytics to your pages’ performance.
14. Social Report
Social Report is a tool that boasts “every feature a social media manager needs.”
It’s definitely true! Use Social Report as a one-stop for all of your social media management needs across social networks and other online platforms.
Social Report is a fully-stocked package including social scheduling and monitoring, analytics and custom reports, a smart inbox and integration across the web.
It also makes managing your social media team as easy as pie with user permissions, publication workflow and team member performance reporting.
15. Everypost
Everypost is another all-in-one social media management platform, where you can curate content, collaborate with a team, and schedule and publish posts.
This tool makes it simple to create compelling content by pulling multimedia content from different sources, such as Instagram, Flickr, YouTube – even RSS feeds – and publish it across your social media platforms.
Facebook Contest & Engagement Tools
16. WP-Chatbot
WP-Chatbot turns your website visitors into contacts you can send direct messages to in Facebook.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckergerg says that private messaging, stories and groups are the “growing ways we’re communicating online”.
Use WP-Chatbot to add the next level of engagement, interactivity and connection to your Facebook marketing audience. Businesses can answer website visitors’ questions automatically and instantly, and even better, send follow-up messaging to contacts in Facebook Messenger.
17. Wishpond
Wishpond is a site that makes it easy for marketers to increase awareness on Facebook networks using various contest tools.
One such type of contest is an Instagram hashtag contest, in which your followers enter by using a specific hashtag. This increases audience engagement and draws attention to your brand.
Wishpond also features a sweepstakes builder that allows you to create a sweepstakes and then run it on Facebook, your website, and beyond. This is a handy way to gather information from contest entries such as emails, Facebook pages, and more.
18. Heyo
Sometimes, we want to add a little pizzazz to our Facebook marketing. Heyo is the tool for that!
Heyo is a lead generation tool intended to help you get more engagement. It’s the perfect tool to create brand awareness.
Use Heyo to create contests and sweepstakes to help engage potential customers. You can also collect user-generated content with hashtag campaigns. This is a creative and fun way to engage audiences and create leads.
Heyo’s tools integrate with Facebook, mobile, and practically anywhere on the web!
19. Pagemodo
Pagemodo’s Facebook page customization tools are very beneficial for customizing your Facebook page.
You can create compelling cover photos, add custom tabs, create “Like Gates” where people have to like the page before seeing content, and create contests for your page!
The tool can be used as an ad manager, a content manager and curator, audience targeter, and analytics provider.
Social Listening Tools
20. Buzzsumo
Buzzsumo is another social management tool that you can use to create content and monitor that content’s performance across your channels.
It also has a search tool that allows you to discover content ideas to publish and identify influencers that can help propel your brand forward.
Another extremely handy tool that Buzzsumo features is SumoRank. This tool allows you to see how your Facebook page ranks against your competitors’ or other top pages in the industry.
You can use SumoRank to identify what your audience will respond to and optimize your page performance!
21. Falcon
Falcon is a platform of tools that allow you to publish, track, and measure social content. You can also use it to manage your ad campaigns!
One of Falcon’s most interesting tools is it’s Listen feature, which allows you to monitor social media trends, analyze sentiment in your mentions, and receive email updates of trends. It even tracks which social media influencers are interacting with you online!
Facebook Curation Posting Tools
22. DrumUp
DrumUp is a popular social media management and content curation and marketing tool.
Use DrumUp to curate trending content to share on your own pages. This will help you to start meaningful conversations with your audience and therefore boost your page.
It’s all part of DrumUp’s tools – the platform mines through content on the web to find the freshest and most relevant content to your audience. It makes recommendations on content and then, that’s it! You post it and you rake in the fans, followers, and top social media performance.
Facebook Creative Tools
23. Grammarly
All social media, webpages, and ads require copy that expresses their purpose. But copy isn’t all that easy to write, especially if writing isn’t exactly your specialty. And most of us haven’t had a writing class in school for quite some time!
Grammarly helps with that. This tool uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help you create bold, clear copy – regardless of what it’s for.
It’s not only a spelling and grammar checker – though it does that, too.
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Grammarly features tools that push your writing. Use the tone detector to find out if your writing needs to be a little more (or a little less) formal. And use the style tools to make sure you’re using the correct formalities, tenses, and even get suggestions for better word choice.
Grammarly’s writing assistance tools work across email and messaging platforms, documents and apps, and social media.
24. Canva
Do you need to make graphics for your Facebook page, your business, your blog, or your ads, but you’re simply not an artist?
No need to fret – Canva comes in handy for that!
Graphic designers of all levels and abilities can use Canva’s various design tools to easily create eye-catching graphics using professional templates. The platform uses a drag-and-drop format to make the process even easier.
Canva provides access to fonts, photographs, graphics (including animations), and more that can be used for web and print media.
Facebook Analytics Reporting Tools
25. Likealyzer
Likealyzer is possibly one of the most simple Facebook tools on this list.
It’s all about optimizing the performance of your Facebook page. Likealyzer provides valuable insights, starting with simply grading your page on a scale from 0 to 100.
All you have to do is enter your Facebook page’s URL in the search box!
Likealyzer does the rest. It gives you an overview of your page, complete with analytics. It even scores other pages that you can then compare with your own page.
Once you’ve received the functional information about your page, Likealyzer converts it into a report of actionable steps – perfect for sprucing up your Facebook page!
26. Sprout Social
Sprout Social is for the most part a CRM tool for social media. It helps you manage and monitor your fans and followers, as well as better understand your audience through social monitoring.
In addition, it has everything that a common social media management platform would have, down to an inbox where you can track your mentions across social media networks.
One of the most influential parts of Sprout Social’s platform is the way it helps you understand and leverage Facebook impressions. You can narrow your impressions data by various demographics like age, location, etc. for better targeting.
Facebook Competitive Analysis Tools
27. Facebook Ad Library
The Facebook Ad Library is a new Facebook tool launched just this year as a part of Facebook’s campaign to be more transparent.
Facebook Ad Library is a comprehensive, searchable database of all of the ads currently running on Facebook and across Facebook products (including Instagram). Anyone can see any ad on any platform, whether they have an account on that platform or not.
Facebook Ad Library is a great competitive intelligence tool for marketers.
It allows you to essentially spy on your competitors. You can see what works for them – what messages they are promoting, or what types of ads they’ve been running for a long time.
You can then use this information to optimize your own Facebook ad campaigns.
There are tons of different Facebook tools to help you manage your content, your ads, your audiences, and more.
You can engage, convert, schedule, publish, post, track, monitor, analyze, curate, create, design – all with a select number of tools that do most of the work for you.
What will you choose?
Important Next Steps
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