One of the most common questions we get here at Smalltalkmessaging is “How does it compare to HootSuite?” HootSuite is a great tool, but it does have limited capabilities for someone who really wants to dive deep into social media as well as online marketing or manage several clients. HootSuite is used primarily as a Twitter tool (although it does more than just Twitter), whereas Smalltalkmessaging is an all-around online marketing tool.
I have put together a list of the features and services that Smalltalkmessaging supports as well as those that HootSuite supports below.
| Small Talk Messaging | HootSuite | |
| Social Streams | ||
| Facebook Fan Page Stream | x | x |
| Facebook Group Stream | x | |
| Facebook Stream | x | x |
| LinkedIn Stream | x | x |
| Twitter List | x | |
| Twitter Search | x | x |
| Twitter Stream | x | x |
| Status Updates and Microblogging | ||
| Bebo | x | |
| Brightkite Status | x | |
| Facebook Fan Page | x | x |
| Facebook Group | x | |
| Facebook Note | x | |
| Facebook Page Note | x | |
| Facebook Post | x | |
| Facebook Status | x | x |
| FriendFeed | x | |
| Google Buzz | x | |
| LinkedIn Status | x | x |
| Myspace Status | x | x |
| Ping.fm | x | |
| Plurk | x | |
| x | x | |
| Autoresponders | ||
| Email Auto Responder | x | |
| Facebook Auto Responder | x | |
| LinkedIn Auto Responder | x | |
| Twitter Auto Follower | x | |
| Twitter Auto Replies | x | |
| Twitter Welcome Messages | x | |
| Blogs | ||
| Blogspot | x | |
| MetaWeblog | x | |
| MovableType | x | |
| Ning | x | |
| Posterous | x | |
| Sendiblog | x | |
| SquareSpace | x | |
| Tumblr | x | |
| TypePad | x | |
| WordPress (self-hosted) | x | |
| WordPress.com | x | x |
| Photo and File Sharing | ||
| Facebook Page Album | x | |
| Facebook Photo Album | x | |
| Flickr | x | |
| MobyPicture | x | |
| Scribd | x | |
| SlideShare | x | |
| Link Sharing and Bookmarking | ||
| Delicious | x | |
| Diigo | x | |
| Identi.ca | x | |
| Instapaper | x | |
| Read It Later | x | |
| Location-based Services | ||
| Foursquare | x | x |
| Brand Monitoring | ||
| Brand and Keyword Monitoring | x | |
| Reviews | x | |
| Social Media Messaging | ||
| Facebook Wall Post | x | x |
| x | x | |
| CSV Importers | ||
| Contact Importer | x | |
| Message Importer | x | |
| SMS Messaging | ||
| Sms Auto Responder | x | |
| RSS | ||
| OPML Importer | x | |
| RSS Auto Poster | x | |
| AOL | x | |
| Gmail | x | |
| Hotmail | x | |
| Mail.com | x | |
| Yahoo Mail | x | |
| Social Media Monitoring | ||
| Backtype | x | |
| Bizcommunity | x | |
| Blip.tv | x | |
| Brightkite | x | |
| Citysearch | x | |
| Complaints Board | x | |
| Delicious | x | |
| Digg | x | |
| x | x | |
| Flickr | x | |
| FriendFeed | x | |
| Google Blogs | x | |
| Google News | x | |
| Hello Peter | x | |
| Identi.ca | x | |
| lol | x | |
| x | x | |
| News24 | x | |
| Photobucket | x | |
| Picasa | x | |
| Plurk | x | |
| Pressbox | x | |
| Quora | x | |
| x | ||
| Tripadvisor | x | |
| Truveo | x | |
| Tweet Photo | x | |
| x | x | |
| WordPress | x | |
| Wordpronline | x | |
| Yahoo Answers | x | |
| Yahoo News | x | |
| Yelp | x | |
| YouTube | x | |
In summation, HootSuite is a very useful social media tool, but if you are looking to do more than just basic social media and want to delve into online marketing, Small Talk Messaging will be your best bet.
If you’d like to submit your own review comparing Sendible with other products, please send an email to rob@smalltalkmedia.com and we’ll be sure to link to your site from this post.
