Five Social Media Tools Every Content Creator Needs

The digital phase has seen the rise of content creators around the globe. Before we get into the tools that you can use to elevate your content delivery, you need to understand that a portfolio is necessary in the digital age for content creators if they want to make themselves known and get more work. It is a letter of introduction for any company and brand. Your portfolio will represent you, your work and your experience as a content creator.

If you’re a content creator, you know that there is a lot of content out there. What makes the most effective and engaging content? The top five content creation tools will help ease your work. This list doesn’t apply to just marketers and social media creatives or content creators. Professionals working in sales, training, and proposal teams also create unique and large amounts of content.

If you are not using the following tools, here are reasons why you should be doing so.

1. G Suite – Google Docs, Sheets, Drive And Calendar

G suite from Google combines several amazing tools into one. Google Docs is perfect for keeping track of content ideas and brainstorming sessions. Drive keeps all your documents, photos and more in one place, making collaboration a breeze.

If you need a content calendar to keep track of social media posts, blog posts, newsletters and more, Sheets makes it super simple to put together. You can create spreadsheets for organization, calendars and more and Google Calendar is the perfect all-in-one calendar for scheduling meetings, content and important dates.

The above will help elevate your performance and create cohesiveness to your work.

2. Grammarly

We all make careless mistakes sometimes. It can be difficult to find our own mistakes. Grammarly is an excellent tool for these kinds of mistakes. Extra spaces, missing articles, verb tense agreement errors, spelling, punctuation, and more. One thing about Grammarly is that it is based on you and your writing. Not only does it let you know if you are overusing a particular word, but it also highlights words that are overused in general.

When Grammarly highlights a possible mistake, you will also have a corresponding alert to the right of your writing. Each alert contains an explanation of the grammar with helpful examples.

3. Canva

With Canva, you can create brand-specific images for social media, blogs and more (CV’s, Portfolios, rate cards, flyers etc). It is easy to use with thousands of options and templates for endless creativity. With thousands of free elements such as fonts and graphics, it makes creating visuals fun, easy and fast.

Whether you choose to use your logo, social media handles, or a hashtag, what was once a time-consuming task will only take a few minutes.

4. Planoly

Planoly helps you plan your Instagram feed effortlessly. It makes it easy for you to execute the right aesthetics. Planoly’s Auto-Post feature allows you to first schedule your content and gives you the option to enable auto-posting, which means no matter how busy you are that day, your Instagram posts are still being delivered to your audience when you have them scheduled out.

5. Pinterest

Pinterest helps to reduce the number of steps from discovery to conversion, making it easier for people to get straight to the source. You can seek inspiration, pin boards and create your own Pinterest boards. One of the beautiful things you can do with Pinterest is use it to see what is trending right now.

Follow anyone who follows you to see what inspires them, you will have a first-person look into their mind. Pinterest gives you the opportunity to see and understand what’s hot today and use that information to position your offers and products.