More and more we, Internet Business People, are dependent on social media. What is Simple Social Tools, can the Audience Toolkit Suite help us achieve more quality presence on Facebook?
Is basically an automation tool recommended when it comes to social media presence?
Questions about questions, as a conscientious online marketer that you are, as I am, we are interested in having answered these questions.
Let us dive into this topic and see what comes out of it.
Simple Social Tools with the “Audience Toolkit Suite” claims to allows us to build a targeted FB following and to maintain it automatically.
Content - Simple Social Tools Review short SST.
Some Words First.
Before I explore the Simple Social Tools Set with you, I would like to mention this. Since I am really interested in improving my social presence on Facebook, I have paid the fee of $27.00 for a month.
I discover here, in real time, try everything that SST has to offer, with a positive attitude :).
If I do not like SST after all, I should be able to demand my money back within 14 days.
The affiliate program, which allows me to earn 50% of the amount you would pay if you buy SST, I have not activated yet.
Before I do that I want to see if I can recommend the program with a clear conscience and if so, I’ll check a few of your comments to my report first.
What is Simple Social Tools? A Scam? A Bliss?
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- Product Name: SimpleSocialTools
- URL: https://simplesocialtools.com
- The Founders Names: Jacque T. Morris, Mike Reyes, Demetris Papadopoulos. (Sept. 2018)
- Product Typ: Facebook Automation.
- Price: $27.00/Month plus 3 Up-Sale Modules.
- Good For: The owner and affiliate marketers.
- In Words: SST is a tool enabling to invite targeted FB users.
- The Good: You should get back the money for 14 days.
- Recommended? NEIN
A video about Sozial Media Marketing in general and SST
I have chosen this video because everything else that is currently available on YouTube related to Simple Social Tools is advertising.
Also, this producer wants to finally sell the product but at least he shares some basics of social media marketing with us and proof that success is possible.
What ist Simple Social Tools? The ugly truth!!!
SST is a toolset, a Google Chrome extension exactly. You can therefore only use SST if you use the Google Chrome browser.
You set-up SST and get this Icon on the top right behind the Google search bar.
How to Pay and Install SST
The whole procedure until you finally land on the actual member’s dashboard is a bit tedious. In the beginning, of course, it’s easy to just press the sign up button and decide how to pay the $27.00 monthly fee for the first month. (At the moment I say $27, because the program seems to have cost $47.00 not long ago).
If the payment was successful, a new window opens on the SST website. Unfortunately, you are not there where it starts, but here is the first additional upsell program sold.
- Pay the fee.
- Up-sell 1 Video Affiliate Blueprint, $27.00. no
- Up-sell 2 Video 2 Marketing Bootcamps, $147.00. no
- Up-sell 3 Video Again Seller Partner Program, $297.00/year. no
- Keep clicking “No, thanks …” then you finally get out of advertising. Press “Program Details”
- Short program explanation by video.
- Finally, you come to the member’s zone.
- First, check out the video on how to install and activate the Google Chrome add-on icon.
- Install the icon and insert code. (Works only with Google Chrome)
- Now everything is ready 🙂
What do you get for the $27.00 you pay per month?
All tools are now accessible by clicking on the icon on the top right. At the moment there is nothing more to do on the actual SST website than to maybe adjust your password.
Add friends:
This first invite element is meant to invite people on your Fan Page, Business page, who either liked or otherwise responded to your articles.
To make a long story short, people responding to my business group page posts are only friends who already belong to my list.
For me, this tool is worthless. If I already had a name on Facebook and many unknown visitors visited my group, I could automatically invite them with this tool.
SST also talks about paid advertising posts, there you get strangers to like your posts but not for free. (That might work)
Add contacts:
The second module, tool, that you probably want to apply is the Invite Friends tool. (Unfortunately, I must say that this module is identical to the first, above.)
With this tool, you should address people who might be interested in your offers. The idea is that you no longer ask any FB users to accept your friendship, but only potential customers.
How do you find those? You have to choose an FB page that is visited by people who share your interests. Depending on the niche, these are groups pages, fan pages, normal profiles or business pages.
I have chosen a Wealthy Affiliate FB Site, a site that is especially popular with Internet enthusiasts.
There I chose a post that caused 70 reactions. Likes, hearts, etc. I called up the names, clicked on the simple social icon and added all 70 names.
The processing time I set and started as recommended to 20 seconds. To my surprise, however, SST was only able to send 7 invitations. All these 7 have been sent successfully.
Another attempt, Neil Patel FB page. Since I have chosen a post that 475 Likes etc has, as before, all selected and started. Here I was able to send an invitation to 57 people.
The system works, so only that the numbers are not quite as high as shown in the video. How many of these invitations will be accepted will be seen in the next few days. (24Hours 1 new contact)
What I want to do now is to write a thank you message which will be sent automatically if someone accepts my invitation.
Delete unresponsive friend requests:
Next, we have a really simple function here. Facebook only allows about 1000 simultaneously open friend requests at the moment.
So if you want to send more new requests you should delete those who do not respond after about 5 days.
The whole thing is a matter of seconds with the SST software. By activating this function, all existing requests will be deleted without exception.
I Like everything:
This is a risky maneuver. On the one hand, your friends will probably find it great to tag their posts with a like, but not all posts are formulated to make a like look good.
Overall, the last 100 posts will be tagged with a “LIKE” of yours. Regardless of whether it shows an animal tormentor or any survey you should rather respond to than just press a “like”.
In my opinion, this feature is not very trust growing. In addition, this automation program runs extremely slowly, remains stuck permanently and does not continue running when I am writing here.
(Crap, now I’ve just liked a pro-Trump post :() I have to stop this, that’s not good 🙁
Automated Messager:
Here are 2 different options. First, you can make a list of your older Messager friends happy with a copied standard message or just new friends.
New friends would be all with which no messages have been exchanged. You are connected to these people but neither you nor the other person has written anything in person yet.
You can write a selected number of different messages so that not everyone gets the same. When such an action is finished, everything you have written will be deleted.
So for the next session, you have to write new lyrics if you have not saved all of them somewhere. Where’s the automation, where the save time?
As we know, Facebook is somewhat sensitive to automation and above all wants to prevent unwanted spam messages. Therefore, the number of messages that can be sent at the same time is limited. (Max 40 for new and 100 for existing friends)
I’ll try again, I’ll write a welcome message to 10 new friends added for the last 30 days. The setting is for, “all new since 10:22:18”
I was able to successfully send 5 messages. I have not had any more new friends since that time or one of us has written something before.
The 2nd attempt is a message to all friends. I have chosen 50 in the number. Specific persons can’t be selected, only excluded.
7 Answers in 24 hours. All but one knew me and the one that didn’t, wants money 🙂
It works, also quite slow but that can also be my computer here.
Up-Sells by Audience Toolkit:
Audience Toolkit Addition 1, Affiliate Blueprint.
I can not say much about these additional programs. Of course, the spokesman of this Affiliate Blueprint promotional video promises that he shares his 6-year experience in affiliate business with you.
That you learn what to do with your now “infinite” friends list, and how to make them your customers.
I’ve inquired, these people who have developed this program are members of a large network company and really capable and unscrupulous to sell anything that somehow makes a profit.
As the picture above shows, “here you learn to sell cold water to a polar bear” or something like that 🙂
30-day Marketing Boot Camp:
The offer consists of two “Boot Camps”
- Social Media Boot Camp ($ 97.00)
- Video Media Boot Camp ($ 97.00)
- Together ($ 147.00)
1. Social Media Boot Camp:
2nd Video Media Boot Camp:
All this and much more. Now I can not say anything from my own experience but what I have heard, the inventors of SST are in this business for a long time.
But how much you can learn from their experience if you participate in these boot camps, I don’t know.
In my experience, you are overwhelmed with information and then left to yourself, to decide what you should use and how.
SST resellers partner program:
Here you will become a member of those who want to resell Simple Social Tools. As you can see on YouTube, there are already a few hundred of them.
All of them have already read the program and are now busy doing exactly the same thing and taking each other’s chances of success.
I don’t want to say that a competition can’t be something good, but if I see that, I feel a little sick.
By the way, with this membership, you will get exactly 50% of the sales of SST products, not 100% how the add wants to make you think.
100% are promised for other YVZoo programs in the sales channel. But you can earn the same 100% if you sign a contract directly with YVZoo.
Compensation Plan:
To me it appears clearer the more I study SST, again this product was only made to create a further earning opportunity for the manufacturers and the resellers. (Sorry no real value for the users)
To me it appears clearer the more I study SST, again this product was only made to create a further earning opportunity for the manufacturers and the resellers. (Sorry no real value for the users)
Anyone who joins SST will have the opportunity to recommend the program and get 50% commissions on all sold SST products.
You just have to log in to YVZoo via SST. The product is not yet freely available even if you are a YVZoo affiliate partner.
It is not necessary to buy the third upsell though, you will not receive 100% for the sale of Simple Social Tools.
Too bad I can't recommend SST.
Because what you get just not enough for $27.00 a month. I pay about $30.00 a month and can build my whole internet business with it.
As I explained above with the different tool modules, only a few real simplifications are possible with this program.
You can send a lot of friend requests and easily delete them after a few days. In my experience, such requests have not got much success. One person accepted my friends’ requests from yesterday.
Many FB members, especially business people, are blocking friend requests from unknown people. And those who accept you anyway are probably just out to do business with you. (Or begging for money like the one I caught up with)
More than that, the other possibilities you get offered by SST are not really valuable, in my opinion, for that matter.
Social media marketing is, as the name suggests, a social issue. Nothing to do with automation. Anyone who realizes that they are being traded with automatically sent messages will not take you seriously or even delete you.
I’m sorry for myself, I put some hope into the toolset and as I said already invested some money. My last chapter will be, “Will I really get my money back?” 🙂 I wrote an email just a few minutes ago, to ask for cancelation and money back, we’ll see
I will announce what happened in an update.
Update: I got my money back without delay and discussion. Hands down for this reaction 🙂
Social media presence takes time and must be done with empathy, there is no shortcut. That is also in the interest of the Facebook operator.
Pros and Cons
- 14-days money back
- 50% commission
- No training
- No support
- No big time savings
- Wrong claims
- Far too expensive
Conclusion: What is Simple Social Tools?
Not recommended
What is promised cannot be kept. If you’re working with Facebook for 4 hours a today, you’re already a pro. You already know what is important and where you can make the right contacts.
If you do 2 hours daily, as a hobby, on Facebook you will not need any additional costs of a minimum of $330.00 per year.
Facebook relationships are vulnerable like any relationship, do not break anything by manipulating uncontrollably.
I’m in the website business. Like yours, my goal is to make good money by having this website.
All I need is a single program. Websites, hosting, training, tools and sharing experiences with thousands of like-minded people.
Me, since I pay once a year, the whole package costs $356/year. (Right now, the Black Friday action is just $299/year.
How can I earn my membership contribution and more here at WA despite initial difficulties? I write comments and get paid.
Since Monday I do that this is what the numbers look like:
Today is Thursday and my monthly fee for WA is earned.
You must not forget, as the main occupation today I have created this article from A-Z. Today the German version and tomorrow it is translated 🙂
I’m still at the beginning of my success story, many are already much further. Success with WA
Check it out if you’re interested, you can now try it for free !!!
Thanks for looking in 🙂
It’s enough for today, that was a stressful day. Learned a lot, a little disappointed but happy with my life.
I hope you know SST a little better now and you can get an idea of what the program is useful for.
If you have any questions or want to get in contact with me write down a comment below, (unpaid 🙂
I’m looking forward to my next adventure, see you soon, Stefan 🙂 asuperaffiliate.com
I appreciate your review Steff, many thanks. You have highlighted the up sales upon signup so I know what to expect beyond the $27 front sale. This is helpful to me
Just like yourself, I am going to give this automation tool a month try as the price is actually not that bad, and considering that the price per has been reduced from $47.
I feel this tool is going to be helpful as I will be able to massively cut down on the time I spend on Social media building my network and I will have a chance to concentrate on scaling.
Thanks again!
Hi Victor, thanks for reading my review 🙂
I wish you luck with trying to boost your social media presence with this automation. I’ve actually canceled the contract and got my money back but not 30 days, watch out, it’s only 14 days.
Give it a go and maybe you want to share your experience here with us 🙂
All the best, Stefan 🙂
Well first off – the product seems to be decently priced at $27 and they offer a two-week refund, so that’s pretty cool.
But, as you point out there are upsells and the price seems to raise the more you get into the product.
I also don’t like the way that the product has no real training included with it – I find this a little baffling as social media marketing is hard enough, you really need some sort of training!
Thanks for the detailed review – I think I’ll stay away from this one! Did you apply for a refund eventually?
Hi Chris, nice to see your comment 🙂
I too find it disturbing that these products are sold and if you want to take full advantage of them you need to spend a lot more money than it sounds like in the beginning.
Yes I applied for a money return and all went well 🙂
Have a great time, see you, Stefan 🙂
Hey there Steff,
I have heard about simple social tools in the past, however, I’ve never dedicated my time to learn more about them.
I am very glad I’ve stumbled across Your review so I can finally get some great knowledge regarding SST and see what’s all the fuss about.
As far as SST goes, well… I’m not surprised, to be honest. Going into this review I’ve had a feeling that SST would turn out to be scammy and fishy.
Right of the bat, the huge red flag for me was the absence of lessons and training. It doesn’t teach You anything and doesn’t give You any kind of valuable knowledge, which is not something that You expect from a program which You pay a good chunk of money a month for.
And the second red flag for me was lack of support. All in all, SST offers a terrible value. Thank You, Steff, for such informative and detailed review, I truly enjoyed it!
And thanks for protecting us, as the community from such scams and lies, we appreciate it. Keep up the good work.
Hi Evald and thanks for the comment 🙂
You are a bit hard on SST, I would not exactly call it a scam but I just don’t think it’s worth the monthly fee.
There are very short videos that show how you use every feature of the automation but the valuable lessons I think are the upsells.
If those are really that helpful. Anyway, I think if you want to take full advantage of social media marketing it’s again a full-time job.
You can’t just use the same ads and posts over and over again, there has a lot of graphics to be done and responding personally to messages and comments.
Even on my website here, I get too many comments at the moment that I can handle them in a fast manner.
Have a successful life, see you, Stefan 🙂
Thank you for this great review on Simple Social Tool.
These days we are having a competition of many online programs which pretend to help people make money online. Some are genuine others are scams.
It is important to read different reviews on those programs to check if they are good for our business.
About SST, it is my first time to hear about it and after reading this review I will not fall for it next time.
I don’t believe in automation tools at all, I prefer to work on my website and attract traffic in different ways but automation tools are not worth our trust.
Hi Julienne, great to hear from you 🙂
You got it right I think. Even though the internet business is electronic and rather anonym we can still only get successful by building personal trust.
This no automation can do for us, it is even counterproductive to send automated messages to people we don’t know.
It’s another thing with letting Facebook do the advertising for us, I think the readers rather trust an official Facebook add than a message from a stranger.
The Facebook ads aren’t even that expensive. If you invest $27/month in that I think you get more out of it.
I wish you all the best, see you, Stefan 🙂
Thanks for the review Steff, it seems like an amazing product to use and improve on your internet business.
My first major concern is the fact that the Simple Social Tools can only be used on Google Chrome. I consider this a downside because like most people, Chrome is not my ‘go to’ browser, which means if I have to use this product, I will have to start using Chrome.
Anyways, thanks again. Cheers
Hi Samson, nice to hear from you 🙂
I’m my self not convinced of the product. I’m more of a fan of Google Chrome in fact than of SST.
But never mind, try SST if you think it can help you. I’d be very interested to hear from your experience you made.
Have a great time, see you, Stefan 🙂
Hello Steff,
That’s a good information you’ve put here.
You’ve said it right, that one needs only a single program with great training, awesome tools, and like-minded community to support each other.
Per the information about Simple Social Tools I’ve gathered in your post, I don’t see it as something I would like to invest my money and time with.
The upsells alone put me off and its all about videos to illustrate. Thanks for saving my time on this.
Hi Derr, together we are strong 🙂
Everyone is invited to join us working on a boss-free lifestyle.
SST is a robot thing, I don’t really like that even if it could save me some time. By the way, save time, if you really get thousands of new followers on Facebook, I’d say that would give a whole load of work to make them all happy and learn about their needs 🙂
All the best to you, See you, Stefan 🙂
Hello, thanks for sharing your experience with Simple Social Tools.
This tool seems to be quite interesting and this review is so comprehensive too. To be frank with you, I hate upsells and this tool seems to be on a monthly subscription and you’ve said it’s slow.
I guess I’ll have to do these stuff manually.
Yeah, you’re right about the Wealthy Affiliate program. It is the best experience I have had. I’m so ecstatic about this wonderful Community to lean on and learn from.
Hi Barry, nice to meet another happy WA member.
I go on posting manually on social media too, not that much but personally. I don’t want to make Facebook my business model and that it would grow into if we bought all these upsells and executed the training there.
Hope to see you back, have a great time, Stefan 🙂
Hi Steff, an interesting post. I hadn’t heard of Simple Social Tools before so thanks for the eye-opening post.
There are so many programs in the online world these days that it’s easy to spend a lot of money trying them out while “trying to get rich quick”.
It sounds like SST is a lot of work with very little useful outcomes, so it doesn’t sound like it’s worth the time and the money.
I do agree with your recommendation of Wealthy Affiliate, as the community, training, and support provided by this platform are truly unique. You really get something for your money at WA.
Thanks again for your eye-opening review.
Lotta
Hi Lotta, and thanks for reading and commenting.
I too stopped using SST because it would actually add a lot of work instead of taking it off my shoulders.
I’d rather place Facebook ads for $27 per month, that’s a one time action and get’s better results I made the experience.
I’m glad to have saved some of your time, best success, see you, Stefan 🙂
Hallo there Steff,
I also don’t find the simple social tools to be worth it.
In fact, what put me off before I even got to know it better was the upsells. While I value some upsells, I find the ones coming with this program not to be worth it too because the system lacks the most fundamental aspects like support and training.
Keeping in mind it high cost, the value it gives is far less than it should.
Thanks for the thorough review. I really appreciate your effort.
Thanks, Dave for reacting 🙂
If they would advertise the up-sells as separate products, I’d find it much more sympathetic. Maybe in an email sequence but why right after you decided to spend $27 a month?
I’m back to doing social media manually, not too much but much more effective 🙂
Have a great time, Stefan 🙂
Since I am not familiar with SST, your article is very informative.
The information you have offered is well written and interesting. I might add that it is rather complicated and I feel I must study it section by section in order to make use of the information offered.
Thank you,
Hi, Janice, and thanks for the comment 🙂
I’m glad you could understand my points after all. Sorry my English but I try my best 🙂
Have a good time, see you, Stefan 🙂
Thanks a lot for the thorough review, Steff.
I had never heard of SST before and got all the information I needed about it from your blog post. This saves me a lot of time! Thanks!
I have personally been using WA for a month now and agree with you about it! I wholeheartedly recommend it too.
Keep up the good work!
Nathalie
Hi Nathalie, nice to meet you 🙂
If you just started with WA and your online business I think it’s good advice not to get into other programs and traffic strategies than what you learn at WA.
If you try this and that you’ll be too distracted to focus on one thing and make this work.
Best success, see you, Stefan 🙂
Very good post and great info.
Indeed, these tools make your work so much easier, I have the time now to do more things around the site rather then to be more at Social Media.
I use these tools for a long while now, and serious, I couldn’t miss it anymore.
Everybody who is reading this, do the same, and pick these tools!
Thanks, Emmanuel for your advice.
I didn’t see the advantage of using SST but maybe you could offer me some insights on how you profit from it.
All the best, see you, Stefan 🙂
Stefan Vogt, my dear friend! I have the pleasure to comment on your research topic SST-Simple Social Tools. You took a risky step by purchasing a subscription for $ 47 a month.
Do you want to enter in the list of great men-martyrs of science? The brilliance and poverty of this site is striking in its self-evidentness.
I studied carefully and saw only: 1.Juggling with ads on Munch Eye and Launch Date: 2018-Nov-13. 2. Absence of a working team and support group. 3. lack of responsibility in Q & A 4.This site is fresh (7-10 days) and the avalanche of complaints has not yet matured. 5. I think that the team of Mark Zuckerberg will quickly close this show.
Therefore, my friend, after reading the comments, leave this site uninfected.
You and I have a roof over our heads: we anchored in Wealthy Affiliate. With best regards. Mark
Hello Steff, it is true that if you are already on Facebook for most of your free time then you must already know how to use it to attract attention.
I am not familiar with SST but I am pretty sure it’s selling something we already know about.
I have also heard about Wealthy Affiliate and I’ve heard nothing but good recommendations about it. I am going to find out more about it though.
Thanks for the tip.
Hi Gio, nice to have you here 🙂
I’d say if you already know how to use Facebook you can only get better results if you operate your own website.
You can use the big amount of FB friends and let them have a look at what you create, see the helpful posts you write and take advantage of the helpful products you recommend.
No spamming, just producing quality content and share it with the world 🙂
Give WA a chance, give your self a chance, try the most proven system to create a passive income online.
This post took me for a wild ride. I was looking for simple social tools reviews and this post sealed the deal and then you dropped something else even better on me that looks even more epic!
Right now i’m thinking of doing both options. Would you recommend that or is there not a need for simple social tools when you join wealthy affiliate?
Hi Barry, sorry for driving you through so many emotions 🙂
If you want my opinion, start with Wealthy Affiliate. The online business needs a lot of effort to get successful, be that doing social media business or like we at WA do with real own websites.
Stick to one plan, the one that you think suits you best. Too many systems mess the road to success up and you’ll never get where you want.
All the best for your exciting future, see you, Stefan 🙂