How to Use Hootsuite: Your Cheat Sheet on Social Media Networks

How to Use

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What is

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Hootsuite is a social media

management for businesses


& organizations to collaboratively

execute campaigns across multiple


social networks from one secure,

web-based browser


Let’s get started


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Open your web browser


Go to https://hootsuite.com


The home page appears


You can Sign in using your


Twitter account


Or Facebook account


Or Google+ account


Or you can Sign up for an account


Let’s create an account, click this button


This screen will appear


Choose the free plan


Click on this button


This window appears


Enter your Email Address



Enter your Full Name


Enter your Password


Choose your Timezone

Click on this button


This will appear


Notice first the statistics on the right hand corner


This gives you the time saved by using Hootsuite


AWESOME!

Let’s now add some of the

social media networks


You have options to add Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+


For the free account

you can add three

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Click on Twitter button


This window pops up


Enter your Username or Email


Enter your Password


Then click Authorize app


The Twitter account has been added


Click here to add the Facebook account


Facebook log in window appears


Enter your Email or Phone here


and your Password here


Click on Log In button


And this appears, just press Not Now


This will pop up


Just click on Finished Importing


Twitter and Facebook are now added


Click on Continue button


Click on Done adding social networks


` This will pop up


` Click on

Get started button


Hootsuite dashboard will appear


How to rename and add a Tab?


To rename a Tab, click this


Type the new Tab name and press Enter


To add a Tab, click the plus (+) icon


Type the new Tab name and press Enter


How to move and

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To move a Tab, hold and drag then drop


To delete a Tab, click on “X” icon


This will pop-up


Click OK button to confirm deletion


What you have now is a Twitter account


How to add another social media

network on your dashboard?


Click on Add Social Network


This pops up


Let’s add a Facebook Account


Click on Connect with Facebook


This window will appear



Enter your Password here


Then press Continue

This appears, just click on Okay


This appears, click Okay again


And this will pop up


Choose the Facebook Page you want to manage


Click on it and notice a green check will appear


Then click on Finished Importing


Click on the Dropdown Arrow


You’ll find your added social networks here


How to add streams of content?


To add a Twitter stream, click on Twitter tab


Stre Click on Add Stream


This will pop up


Select Twitter


Select the type of stream you want to add


Let’s select Home


Then click here to close the window


Your added Twitter stream content appears


Now let’s add stream for Facebook, click here


This will appear


Type the word Facebook here then press Enter


To add stream for Facebook you can do two things



Either click Add Stream


Or select here for the stream you want to add

You can also do this

in other social network



Let’s do this, click on Add Stream

This will pop up


Select Facebook


Select Facebook profile that will stream content


Let’s choose this



Select the type of stream you want to add

Click on Timeline


Then click here to close the window


Your added Facebook stream content appears


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To remove stream, just hover your mouse here


Then click on Delete Stream


How to Schedule and

Broadcast Social Media Post?


Hover your mouse here


This will appear


Select an account you want to schedule a

post here



Click both Twitter and Facebook


Compose your message here


If you want to add a link, click here


Let’s add an image to the message, click here


Click here to select a file to upload


Next, click the Calendar icon to schedule a post


Select the date from the Calendar


And the time to broadcast the post

Click on Schedule




Click on Publisher


Your scheduled post appears here


How to Use the

Analytics Reports?




Click on Analytics


This will appear


You can only

use three available


report templates

for free


The Twitter Profile Overview,


The Facebook Page Overview


And the Ow.ly Click Summary


These three templates will provide basic information


on your account such as follower

growth, most popular links,


snapshot overview, daily likes, daily post

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clicks per day, clicks per region

and most popular clicks.


Let’s generate your Facebook Page Overview

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Click on Facebook Page Overview


This window appears


Pick an owner here


Click on Create Report


The following reports will be

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The Snapshot


The Daily Likes



The Daily Post Feedback

These reports will help

you analyze


the performance of your

social media networks.


The data that you’ve

gathered will tell you


if you need to get better

on the current approach


that you’re doing to

improve your engagement.


Hope this tutorial helped you to

start using Hootsuite!



Everything you want

is just outside your

comfort zone.

- Robert Allen


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How to Use Hootsuite: Your Cheat Sheet on Social Media Networks

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