10 Free Tools That’ll Help You Grow Your Social Media Audience

Want to learn about free, tried-and-true, apps that can help you build your social media followers?

Neil Patel, an experienced digital media entrepreneur, says that there is an easy way to get thousands of social media followers with a few simple free online tools. 

He gives a review of these 10 free tools that will help you attract your social media followers.

1. MobileMonkey — You can use it to automate your Instagram interactions with people who engage with your content.  [Free trial]

2. Social Blade — this free Chrome plugin shows you who's doing well on YouTube and who is growing faster and getting more engagement and more views. Take that data and model the winners.

3. Google Trends —  shows you what's currently hot on the interwebs. Leverage what's trending that people are interested in by posting content related to these topics.

4. Mention.com —  helps you stay on top of the mentions of your brand and your competitor's brands. Learn from your target audience and what they like and the content they consume.  [Free trial]

5. Not Just Analytics — analyze any Instagram account and see what's getting real engagement, then emulate the best performers.

6. Facebook Ad Library — track the ads your competitors are running and learn from their messaging and what people in our industry like. 

7. Canva —  helps you speed up the whole content creation process. You can get really good creatives or infographics and you don't need a genius design gene to succeed. 

8. Agorapulse — will help you be more responsive to your audience by centralizing all your interactions in one place. [Free trial]

9. Later — allows you to schedule your social media content publishing for all channels in just one place. [Free trial]

10. Restream — enables you to "go live" on all the social platforms at once, from Instagram to Twitter to LinkedIn to YouTube to Facebook. If you go live, these platforms show your content to more people than just the ones who follow you. 

Tap here to watch the Neil Patel video talk on these 10 tools that will help you grow your audience.