$99 Social provides outsourced social media services for small businesses that don’t have the time or the expertise to actively engage with their customers online.
The company aims to provide social media posts and activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+, and works with businesses to provide customized content.
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About $99 Social
The company was founded on the basis of providing custom social media solutions for small businesses, and promises its customers to be “budget-friendly, time-friendly, and small-business friendly.” Its services include a comprehensive social media package for only $99/month, and save small business owners the time that it takes to manage numerous social media accounts.
The company was launched in 2011, and has grown rapidly to serve numerous small businesses around the country.
$99 Social is located in Arizona, and its workers are based there as well; the company does not outsource to other countries. All social media accounts are managed by a Content Specialist who conducts research to determine the best approach for each business on social media.
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Services
$99 Social’s package includes all of the following:
- Daily content on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+
- A VoiceMatch system to make sure that the “voice” of each social media account matches the voice of the business
- Social profile optimization to receive the most results in search engines
- Promotion of products and services, as well as other customized promotion, targeted to the local community
- Removal of spam on each social media account
- Phone and email support
See Also: Should You Outsource Social Media?
Plans and Pricing
As you might have guessed based on the name, the price is $99/month, without hidden fees or price increases.
However, adding social networks such as Pinterest and Instagram beyond the basic package will cost extra, but all packages include Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Small businesses looking for more than the basic package can also purchase the Social Media Boosters, which provides a more involved solution. Businesses simply need to contact the company and discuss the details of what each business is looking for.
All plans are month-to-month with no long-term contracts. If you’re not happy with the service, just cancel within the first 14 days for a full refund.
$99 Social Alternatives
$99 Social is unique for its affordable and small-business oriented model. Its goal is to provide individualized attention for each of its clients, which sets it apart from other social media management companies that target large companies with more accounts, and thus raise their prices accordingly.
The alternatives of course include doing it all yourself, which is definitely an option but can be time-consuming and frustrating, especially if you’re new to social media and aren’t sure the best way to go about it. On the other end of the spectrum are dedicated social media marketing virtual assistants, offered by many talented individuals and VA companies.
Going that route would probably generate more engagement on your social accounts, but also comes at a higher price tag. In the case of $99 Dollar Social, you don’t really have to worry about training or coming up with a plan on your own.
Your Turn
Have you worked with $99 Social? If so, please be sure to leave a quick review of your experience below.
Wow would surely try them out!! seems to be really beneficial.
They have done some work for us at http://www.mebillion.com and it was ok. You just have to stay on them. Service levels can be quite good but you need to be proactive and monitor everything.
This was the WORST experience I’ve ever had. I cancelled before the trial period ended, they are ignoring my emails and refuse to give me my money back. I had to email them several dozen times just to cancel the service. The customer service is terrible. The content it something that you can literally find and post yourself with a few hours of content planning. Kyle and Teresa were the 2 people I dealt with and the communication was THE WORST.
SAVE YOUR MONEY! Don’t do it.
Keep your money and hire a real marketing company.
I canceled services yet they charges my account forbyet another month. Filed a case with the BBB but the company said I didnt fit thier guidelines for them to refund my money.
About the services. Thier marketing efforts are sub par. Posted to the wrong accounts or didnt post at all. Took 3 to 4 weeks to even get startes after they said it would take a few days.
Move on to another company and save yourself the headache
1. Terrible customer service.
2. Irrelevant posts
3. Did not convey my message as instructed
4. Bad communication and cannot get anyone on the line or to answer my multiple emails
5. I just cancelled the service.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY AT ALL.
The service is terrible, the website is broken, the platform is terrible, and the quality of content is awful What a mistake. On top of everything, they wpuld not honor their guarantee. Run, do not even bother!
Joining the reseller program because I have too many social media client requests to manage, but after reading the reviews I don’t think I will be risking my companies reputation with subpar irrelevant/generic blog links to my clients page.
Our clients are happy to pay $1500/month for excellent results. I knew $99 was too good to be true, but kudos for trying!
Hi Matthew, thank you for your review. I’m sorry to hear you weren’t happy with our content during your time with us as a reseller. We have done a lot to improve our service in the last 6 months, including upgrading our writers and improving content research. If you would like to give us a try again at some point in the future, please feel free to reach out. 🙂 I wish you the best of luck with your business! – Heather Hart, Operations Manager
Hello Heather,
Can you provide me the sample content you guys post on social media?
DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY! Terrible quality content at best. Their writers clearly do not proof articles they post. On numerous occasions their writers posted content that was not only inappropriate, but down right slanderous for my client.
Hi Luke, thank you for your review. I’m sorry to hear you weren’t happy with the content we chose for your business. We have done a lot to improve our service in the last 6 months, including upgrading our writers and improving content research. If you would like to give us a try again at some point in the future, please feel free to reach out to our team. 🙂 I wish you the best of luck! – Heather Hart, Operations Manager
Teresa Benoit is the best! I think she comes from the rare bread of business professionals that know how to relate to customers and make them happy. Most pleased with her assistance and help with making us feel comfortable with your product. She is a real winner and look forward to seeing her flying around in the corporate jet around Mardi Gras time!
I’ve used this company for my social media needs for years now. I am very pleased with the quality of content that is posting to my pages. I am now looking into the advertising to have them help me with gaining new leads for my business this New Year 2018.
The Global Retail Sales Manager could not have been nicer! We love the all of the changes and progress $99 Social has made lately with regard to their content, writers, etc. Their services save me SO much time and energy. Not sure what all the bad reviews are about!
This company is horrible. The have no clue what they are doing. I started in June and they posted for two months nothing relative to our business but at least they did something. Now, I found out they have not posted content for 4 months. They agreed to refund my November cost but not the other three months that when they did nothing. They claim a link was broken and they emailed me to correct. That is not correct as I save all emails for seven years. What I did receive from was monthly welcome letters which I couldn’t understand why they would be sending me those when I was already a customer. Since, I cant give a zero rating they got the default one and I will hammer this company until they refund my money.
Not sure where to start. But, like the saying goes you get what you pay for. Poor content and even worse customer service. Too many negative things to post here, but stay away from $99 social. I tried to resolve the issues and have them multiple opportunities to make things “right”. Ask to speak to the President and was told no. It is a company of les than 100 people. I spent more than $6k with them.
I had a re-seller account and this company just cost me my client. I’ve read the previous reviews. Even with new ownership, there are still glitches, poor service, and it seems that the new management has not changed the fact that the quality of service is extremely sub-par, the communication is poor, and rectifying any situation takes forever. DO NOT spend your money here and certainly DO NOT use this service if you have a client, they will cost you your client. I do not under any circumstance recommend that you risk your business and reputation on this service.
We are a professional organization and we spoke with one of the “owners” and were walked through what to anticipate. Well here’s what we received:
1) Poor quality posts,
2) Irrelevant posts,
3) Bad communication,
4) Incompetent and ignorant staff,
5) ZERO results!
They define the term “social media boiler room”
99dollarsocial is a scam, they say they sent me a email stating I needed to re-authorize and sign for a new platform. I never received their email. They stopped posting on FB and Twitter May 23rd 2017. Guess what they didn’t stop doing….they continued to charge me account. I’ve contacted them and all they tell me is they do not give refunds. Now I’m I have to spend time to dispute the charges with my bank. My suggestion is, you DO NOT use this company for marketing.
I’m contacting the BBB no these people. There is a reason that they do not provide a contact phone number. They are a scam. The trial is a lie. I cancelled the same day that i signed up and they told me it was cancelled. I asked for a conformation email that day April 5 and they did not provide. I checked my statement April 21 and the charge was there.
We tried $99 social. The content was bad, really bad. Irrelevent, spammy and we would delete the postings due to quality issues.
In 3 words.
Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
Not worth it. Just crappy posts that have nothing to do with my business.
SCAM. I signed up for the Reseller Program and paid $200.00 for what was supposed to be a whole month worth of content. They only posted 4 TIMES AND THEN STOPPED COMPLETELY. I’m waiting for my refund, but it will only be 50%, IF I ever receive it.
Company did not deliver on promises. Now will not stop sending me SPAM. Not worth it. Can not get $99 social to stop sending spam email.
I really don’t understand all these positive reviews but they were terrible. I thought once they were under a new ownership that their content would change but its just linked to a generic blog and honestly you’ll have more luck finding better content on your own. They left me completely in the dark, I had no idea what kind of content they’ll post or what kind of ideas they had for my business. They lack communication and only gave me answers when I asked for them. I’ll say go look somewhere else, its not worth the money for the shitty content they provide.
You know the saying about hiring things super cheap… Just sad that a company can promote quality content when it’s just linked to a website and generic content. You’d be better off doing nothing than promoting a bad image. I recommend hiring someone that actually writes quality content for your audience and ENGAGES your online audience vs. just pushing out irrelevant content. We write 30-Days of content and post every day with no-contract for $400 a month. Our team is all in-house in Ohio. We also create images to make clients content stand out.
Jessika,
Would like to more about your service. Do you have a website or contact number.
Sure- my website is http://www.NOWMarketingGroup.com
http://www.Twitter.com/NOWMG
http://www.Twitter.com/JessikaPhillips
I just read through all the comments here and am surprised at the negative ones since I’ve had such a good experience with $99 Social. Maybe I came in after all the “glitches” were worked through, but I’ve been very pleased with the customer service as well as the content and the engagement it has gotten me. Being a small business owner myself, I understand growing pains. Either way, I wanted to share my opinion and give them a high rating because I’ve been very happy with the service.
I would really recommend getting their Blogging package. I’ve gotten amazing results as far new traffic and viewers registering for my blog goes. Since they see quality post posted on a weekly basis, our viewers keep coming back to view our new content every week. Not to mention a huge increase in our Google ranking as well!
99Social does seem to have great experienced writers on their team. I’m so excited to have found this company and getting the results I have been looking for.
We have had nothing but great results from the content, to the quality images used with the post. They save us a ton of time for a small cost. I would highly recommend 99 Dollar Social.
Hey VA Assistant readers. 99DollarSocial has been acquired and is under new ownership as of July 5th, 2016. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/07/prweb13560280.htm
I apologize for any poor experience you’ve received in the past but we will make sure you are provided with a better experience.
We’ll give a free trial to all VA assistant readers for giving us a shot. Reach out to myself or any of the other team members and we’ll get you setup.
Thanks!
How can I get a trial?
HI Akeel I am also possibly interested in a free trial
Don’t waste you money. Hire someone who knows what they are doing. This company is terrible. I;ve had to delete several of their posts due to foul language and their content isn’t quality. At best they write 4 words and a spammy link. Today’s was We value our customers. Contact us – with a link to my contact page on my website. Really??? This is quality content??? Ridiculous. Fill out your #wholesale form online, with a link to my wholesale order page. Huge waste of money.
have you found anyone else? Have you hired anyone else?
Terrible customer service. I had to delete several posts after they shared links with the F word and things just not suited to my target market. Waste of money.
Hey Nova – 99DollarSocial is under new ownership and we’ve made some improvements to the content quality.
I can assure you we will never share any posts that include foul language. We will gladly work with you until you are 100% satisfied with the quality of posts to match your target market.
We would like for you to give us another shot by offering you a free trial and check out the new improvements we’ve made.
Thanks
99dollarsocial posts subpar content and partners with a few software apps, Sendible and a separate billing app, that have been a source of various problems. While it’s convenient to have daily content written at a low price, this particular provider has shown poor customer service and low awareness of good social content.