
What is Buffer?
A better way to manage social media for your business. Buffer makes it easy to manage your business's social media accounts. Schedule posts, analyze performance, and collaborate with your team — all in one place.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
92 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Buffer?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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Feature Ratings
Social Moderation and Workflow Management
Social Media Channel Integration Inbound
Social Post Archival
Social Media Channel Integration Outbound
Campaign Execution
Dashboards and Visualization
Social Response Management
Social Asset Management
Contextual Analysis
Trend Analysis
Sentiment Analysis
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Buffer Reviews
Marilyn C.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2022
Buffer the best for programming in social networks
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Buffer from other similar products?
Overall, it's been satisfactory, but for the price, it's unrealistic to anticipate anything extraordinary, especially when compared to other major competitors like Hootsuite.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I really like that you don't have to worry about remembering what day it is or when you want to post in order to get your weekly updates up. You may now update at your convenience, whenever you choose. To avoid missing any updates while away, simply schedule them in advance. This service also allows you to publish to a number of other social media websites. If you often update the same content on many social media sites, you may save time by doing it here.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I've noticed that logging in to the program may be a sluggish process at times, or that it won't let me in at all. A shaky network might be the blame. Aside from the aforementioned problem, I had no other complaints about my time with Buffer.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you want to save time and publish to numerous social networking sites at once, you should use buffer. You'll have more time and mental space as a result to devote to improving the material you share on social media.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Nadja K.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
"Excellent tool for posting on social media."
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Buffer from other similar products?
This service stands out from the competition because its staff is always quick to answer to customers' electronic mail and tweets, demonstrating that they take great pride in providing outstanding customer care. Buffer is easy to use and understand, containing all the right components for social media management.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite feature is the automatic link shortening. Second, I like how simple it is to use Buffer. This product is incredibly dependable, and I appreciate that I can easily add or remove images from my postings as needed. Using Buffer has always been smooth and trouble-free for me.
What do you dislike most about this product?
With the free plan, it would be great if I could select not only the times of day I want my postings to go up, but also the specific dates. Using the Buffer scheduler, I can choose to forego posting on particular days and plan other content to go live at a later time.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Since Buffer is used for managing social media networks, its intuitive interface is a major selling point. Wants to quickly in and leave. The real benefit here is that you can automate and program your publication.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
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Lucio A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
automating posts with time is the best
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Buffer from other similar products?
buffer has been characterized by having a platform in which we can fully trust our social networks, they have good security, and good technical support, and this is something that most of the competition lacks, it differed by the quality and ease of being able to use the platform, they make it the simplest for the use of anyone with minimal knowledge
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the best platform to have to manage our social networks like facebook and instagram, we can publish and coordinate when to do it, apart from the fact that it is very easy to learn how to use it, with a suitable device we could easily do the necessary work to be able to publish through Buffer.
What do you dislike most about this product?
For some time now I have noticed a little time difference with respect to my location and at the time of publication, the difference has a difference of about 20-25 minutes. The same is not something serious but if you have to take it into account, it could annoy someone who acquires the service. I would like to change the aesthetics of the site a little
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
People who have asked me how to run a social network usually tell them that buffer does a good job, of great quality and if we don't like it we could perfectly unsubscribe, the truth is I don't think you'll regret buying the service, it's one of the main ones worldwide and it would be very wise to give it an opportunity to use at least
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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