When it comes to running a blogging business on your own, one of the most time-consuming tasks you must do every day is updating your social media channels and promoting your blog posts across the web. It’s an important part of any business that we can’t avoid.

Today, blogging is quite different from what it used to be 10 years ago. Now it’s 30% creating the blog posts and 70% promoting them.

Thankfully, we have lots of great apps and tools that makes this process a little bit easier. And we found a few of those awesome tools you can use to automate your blog marketing process so that you can spend more time creating quality content.

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KUKU.io

KUKU is a new social media automation tool that allows you to schedule posts to be shared on your social media channels. It’s similar to Buffer, but without the strict limitations.

Unlike Buffer, which limits your free plan to only one account from a social network and 10 posts per day, KUKU lets you schedule as many posts you want and connect up to 5 accounts from the same social network, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.

You can even create Channels on KUKU to share the same post on multiple social networks and set up different time-zones to share them according to the appropriate times of your target audience.

Use this tool to keep all your followers entertained throughout the day.

IFTTT

IF This Then That is an all-in-one tool that you can use to do things beyond your imagination. With this tool, you can connect your blog with Facebook to automatically share links whenever you publish a new blog post, share your Twitter updates on Facebook, and do so much more.

Use over 4,000 recipes in this app to automate all your marketing needs.

MailChimp

Set up a campaign with MailChimp to send emails to all your subscribers to let them know each time you publish a new post on your blog.

With MailChimp, you can collect up to 2000 subscribers for free and create RSS feed campaigns to automatically send a daily or weekly newsletters with links to all the latest blog posts.

Use this tool to promote your blog posts via Email.

Twibble

Connect several blog RSS Feeds with Twibble and set up a schedule to automatically share interesting posts on your Twitter pages. This will make sure that your followers always have something to read and retweet.

Use this tool to engage with your Twitter followers, even when you don’t have any new content on your blog.

SocialOomph

Similar to KUKU, you can use SocialOomph to schedule posts for Twitter and it also has a cool feature that allows you to share that same post multiple times at a certain frequency (eg: every 3 hours, etc.).

SocialOomph’s keyword tracking tool will keep you notified on the latest trending topics so you can take advantage of those trending hashtags to promote your blog articles and products.

Use this tool to schedule tweets and track trending topics.

Rafflecopter

Hosting giveaway contests is an effective way of collecting leads and promoting your products. Get started with Rafflecopter to host giveaway contests on your Blog or Facebook pages to get your readers/followers excited about your products.

After creating your contest with Rafflecopter, you can set it up on your blog or Facebook page by simply sharing an HTML code to allow visitors to easily join the giveaway contest.

Use this tool to automatically collect emails and generate leads.

Know any other great blog promotion automation tools? Share them with us in the comments section.