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Sprout for small businesses

Small businesses make big impact with Sprout

With the right tools and partners, any business—no matter the size—can extract real business value out of social media and turn their brand into a household name.

A smiling Sprout user shown with snapshots of the Sprout platform representing the full scope of social management capabilities.
A smiling Sprout user shown with snapshots of the Sprout platform representing the full scope of social management capabilities.

Sprout for small businesses

Small businesses make big impact with Sprout

With the right tools and partners, any business—no matter the size—can extract real business value out of social media and turn their brand into a household name.

Smaller teams, bigger challenges

Sprout helps nearly 10,000 small and medium-sized businesses simplify the hard work of social and build stronger relationships with their followers. While every organization is unique, these are the pain points we hear most often:

“I want to engage more and get creative with content, but I have too much on my plate and not enough time.”

“We have specific goals and objectives, but the native platforms don’t have all the features I need to deliver results.”

“I struggle to convince leadership of the full potential of social, so getting buy-in for tools has been tough.”

Sprout’s tools offer an end-to-end social solution from publishing a social post, to measuring its engagement and overall content performance via our customizable reports.

Make social goals approachable and attainable with Sprout

Our intuitive, all-in-one platform equips you with the exact publishing, engagement and analytics tools you need to be efficient, engaging and effective on social. Which, as industry data proves, is crucial to your business.

88%

of marketers agree their social strategy positively influences their bottom line.

86%

of consumers choose brands they follow on social over competitors.

61%

of consumers say brands that are best in class on social know how to engage.

Simplify your workflow

Social can be time-consuming—especially when you have to manually publish, engage and analyze data separately on each native platform. Sprout brings all those actions into one, streamlined workflow, giving even the smallest teams the tools they need to do the work of a larger team, and in less time.

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“Sprout is an excellent tool that helps us better plan and organize all our social content. With the help of the calendar and scheduler tools, we’re able to save time by scheduling and publishing the same post across multiple profiles in just one simple step.”

Ana Laura Montaño González Community Manager, Catalonia Hotels

“Sprout is an excellent tool that helps us better plan and organize all our social content. With the help of the calendar and scheduler tools, we’re able to save time by scheduling and publishing the same post across multiple profiles in just one simple step.”

Ana Laura Montaño González Community Manager, Catalonia Hotels

Build relationships

Nothing will build your brand—and your business—better than genuine engagement. But it’s a daunting task for small teams to manually track and carefully respond to every message. Sprout helps you cultivate loyal communities through conversation management and personalized customer care.

Respond faster

Cut through the noise and quickly surface the messages that need immediate attention with our single-feed, filterable Smart Inbox.

Message Spike Alerts and message tagging functionality helps teams identify important messages and make sure they get the proper response.
Message Spike Alerts and message tagging functionality helps teams identify important messages and make sure they get the proper response.

Respond faster

Cut through the noise and quickly surface the messages that need immediate attention with our single-feed, filterable Smart Inbox.

Get personal

Make connections through personalized responses with access to conversation histories and relevant contact and profile info.

Gain more context for social conversations with Contact Profile Views, where you can manage custom contact information.

Be proactive

Respond to relevant messages across social—even when your brand isn’t tagged—by monitoring specific keywords and hashtags.

Brand Keywords use custom Twitter searches to surface relevant social conversations right in the Smart Inbox.
Brand Keywords use custom Twitter searches to surface relevant social conversations right in the Smart Inbox.

Be proactive

Respond to relevant messages across social—even when your brand isn’t tagged—by monitoring specific keywords and hashtags.

Monitor reputation

Track conversations related to your business, manage crises and assess brand health with Tagging, Spike Alerts and social listening tools.

Sample data from Sprout’s Tag Performance Report, including the number of impressions, engagements and clicks for each campaign or message tag.

126%

increase in engagements across Facebook and Twitter over a two-month period.

“Not only does Sprout make it easier for me to track the mentions or hashtags we’re using, but tracking people who are sharing our content from web links is huge. That allows us to engage with people even if they’re not tagging us or mentioning us in their post.”

Kevin Juliano, Digital Director, Pennsylvania Association of Realtors

126%

increase in engagements across Facebook and Twitter over a two-month period.

“Not only does Sprout make it easier for me to track the mentions or hashtags we’re using, but tracking people who are sharing our content from web links is huge. That allows us to engage with people even if they’re not tagging us or mentioning us in their post.”

Kevin Juliano, Digital Director, Pennsylvania Association of Realtors

Why Sprout for small businesses

Highest average rating

In satisfaction, support, usability and retention (per industry analysts and real user reviews)

Award-winning service

Personalized, quick and reliable customer support

Minimal time-to-value

Get up and running in days, not weeks

Simple, intuitive layout

Designed around the fundamentals of social media management: publishing & engagement

Ample resources

Customer-exclusive Learning Portal and insights blog for education and training at every level

Built for business

Capabilities you can’t find on native platforms to help brands more easily reach their business goals

Level up your strategy

Whether you’re looking for initial guidance, or you’re ready to start implementing new strategies, Sprout’s platform and partnership equips you with the insights and confidence you need to see tangible growth—and convince leadership that social is worth the investment.

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"Since using Sprout, we have better visibility into how we are doing and what works. We are able to be more efficient and understand how our audiences might react to different content at different times and plan accordingly."

Shari Islen Director of Engagement

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