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DIY softwareHootsuiteScheduling & analytics dashboard

$99 Social vs Hootsuite: a powerful dashboard you still have to feed.

Hootsuite is one of the best-known social media dashboards — strong for scheduling, monitoring and reporting across lots of accounts at once. But it's a tool, not a team: every post still has to be written and designed by you. With $99 Social, scheduling is built in and the content is made for you — all you do is approve.

The difference in one line

With $99 Social, the software is included — and so is the work.

Hootsuite hands you the tools to schedule posts you make yourself. $99 Social hands you the finished posts and the scheduling. Same publishing power, none of the production work.

Scheduling software, included

The same auto-scheduling and publishing you'd pay for separately is built into every $99 Social plan — at no extra charge.

Content made for you

A real writer and designer create your posts — captions, graphics and all. You don't open a blank calendar; you open a finished one.

You just review & approve

Look over your month of content in a few clicks. Approve it, tweak it, or ask for changes — then we schedule and publish it for you.

Hootsuite overview

What is Hootsuite?

Hootsuite is a mature, feature-rich platform for scheduling posts, watching mentions and pulling analytics across many networks. For a marketing team that already produces its own content, it's a capable command center.

The catch for a small business is simple: Hootsuite schedules content, it doesn't create it. You — or someone you hire — still write every caption, design every graphic and plan the calendar. At $99/mo for the Professional plan you're paying for the dashboard and doing all the work yourself.

Head to head

$99 Social vs Hootsuite, line by line.

$99 Social
Hootsuite
Starting price
$99/mo
$99/mo
What you get for it
10 static posts or 4 video reels + scheduling tool
A dashboard for ~10 accounts — you supply every post
Posts written for you
Graphics designed for you
Scheduling & auto-publishing
AI-powered analytics (no extra cost)
You just review & approve
Dedicated human manager
Your time per month
~10 minutes
Hours every week
What Hootsuite leaves to you
  • Write every caption and headline
  • Design every graphic and choose every image
  • Plan the monthly calendar and hashtags
  • Keep posting consistently, week after week
What $99 Social does for you
  • We write every caption and headline
  • We design every graphic and visual
  • We plan and schedule the whole calendar
  • You just review and approve
Why teams switch

Why a done-for-you service beats another login.

01
Top-quality talent

We hire from the top 1% of social media writers and designers worldwide, so the quality and skill behind your posts stay consistent month after month.

02
Planned a month ahead

Your whole month of content is briefed, designed and laid out in advance for your approval — so you can see the full plan before anything publishes, instead of reacting week to week.

03
Flexibility & scale

Add channels and scale posts up or down anytime, thanks to a subscription model and a modular team structure built to adapt to your needs.

04
Cost-efficiency

We use technology to streamline operations and a no-waste model — then pass the savings on to you, keeping the price at $99 since 2012.

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"I've been using $99 Social to manage social media for my law practice and my non-profit, and I can't recommend them enough. I get regular, professionally written posts that keep both accounts active and engaging — without me carving out hours every week. Five stars, and worth every penny."
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Michael Geller
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"The BEST! Working with my account manager is such a pleasure. Smart, prompt and so helpful! Super pleased with the service!"
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Aimee German
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"My account manager has been an absolute pleasure to work with. Their promptness and communication is greatly appreciated. I've already signed a second account to 99 Social and will most definitely keep using them for any new clients."
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Bianca Ciorobara
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"Not only creates smart and thoughtful content, but the technology they leverage makes it easy for us to communicate back and forth — in words and pictures — about what's happening with my social posts."
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Bo Harvey
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"99 Dollar Social has been an amazing experience for me and my business. It has given me my time back, by taking the work and effort off my plate. The content is uniquely created especially for my business which is so important."
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Bree West
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"I've finally found a company that is not only highly professional but also exceptionally creative, with a unique style that truly stands out. Overall, I rate my experience as 5 out of 5 stars."
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BSON Trading
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