How To: Automate Your Posts Using this Absolutely Affordable Tool Coschedule

Do you have a blog, a social media account, oh! and a life? Balancing all these things together is tough.

Luckily for us, there are amazing tools that we can now use to automate all the process and I am going to show you them here.

This week we are talking about branding but I thought I’d throw in some extra tips that will help you make sure that all those badass pictures you just made actually make it to your timeline.

When you automate your blog, you're basically branding on the go, while you are sleeping or while you're out running an eCommerce store or maybe you're just to busy to post.

Automate your online posts to ensure there is always traffic coming onto your site.

This is a real game-changer to how we interact with each other through the internet.

Now you'll have plenty of time to create genuine connections while content is still being posted to your blog.

Firstly though, you need to create a schedule so that you continue to push out content, what I recommend is scheduling blog posts, which we will talk about separately.

You can schedule posts to be posted to your blog, your twitter, your Instagram, Facebook, you name it you can probably somehow somewhere get the content posted.

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By automating your posts that always you to spend time doing other things like content creating, or just spending time communicating with your audience another way.

I don’t mean at all that you shouldn’t post in real-time. You must certainly should but on the days you are sure to be busy on you can schedule this content out easily making sure you are still interacting with your following.

So sit back and relax, it’s going to be a long read but there is some powerful information here that you need that is extremely helpful.

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Firstly, welcome to my blog if you haven’t been here before my name is Taylor Micheal, I’m a creative marketing writer, on this here blog. I help entrepreneurs and influencers who want to create small businesses online through a blog. I help readers go #fromReservedtoBold, by finding their voice online through creative writing.

This first tool I want to mention is my favorite tool of all time and that is CoSchedule.

CoSchedule is a content calendar that allows you to create your blog, edit it, publish it to WordPress, and then it even allows you to create a social campaign.

But wait, that’s not the best part.

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CoSchedules’ innovative technology allows you to create posts out for the next day, next week, next month or you can choose a custom date.

You can schedule different photos for each post. And even create separate captions.

If you haven’t checked this tool out yet you are really missing out.

To schedule a campaign in CoSchedule you can follow these simple steps (start at step 6 if you are already in a project) :

1. From your Calendar page go to today’s date.

2. From the date of today’s hover of the right side of that square, and click on the plus sign.

3. Create a new social project.

4. Click Social Campaign or social post, a campaign is more than one post for the same project and a social post is one post.

5. Title Will Be The Name of Your Project, and then social campaign, or if you were already in a current project you would skip these steps. Click Create Project.

6. At the top, you should see a gray paper clip and plus signs in blue underneath. Like so:

7. On the link, this is where you will put your blog post URL

8. Paste that right there and let it sync up.

9. Click on the plus sign and started adding content.

10. Make sure to create a call to action because you want them to link on the link that you will be providing them.

11. Be sure if you have been editing a project that you have the correct information because I’ve seen it sometimes when it doesn’t and I don’t know how many times I posted it incorrectly.

12. Now just keep doing the same thing until you have created content to be rescheduled out for. Maybe you schedule it to come out on the same day every month after it has run its full course.

You would simply just keep adjusting the dates until you’ve counted twelve months. Not to mention that if you are doing this every time you post new content you can have your blog running on autopilot for years to come.

I perfect maybe 3 or 4 months out because the content may become outdated at some point and may no longer be relevant so you should keep it just a few months out at a time. Unless you are updated your old posts frequently that is.

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If you haven’t checked out CoSchedule yet I definitely recommend it.

You can schedule all your blog posts out as far out as you want to and you can also create amazing blog posts within their platform that transfer to your WordPress blog with ease.

My next tool I’m going to talk about is

Hootsuite:

Hootsuite is completely free for professionals, meaning people who don’t work in a team

environment.

It’s such an excellent product it’s definitely worth a quick mention.

Hootsuite always you to schedule posts based on their best times options.

They select the times your social media accounts are most active, and they post your posts at that time.

I’m still learning how to use the product myself, so I can’t give a full overview yet.

So far I am loving this product.

You can connect many social media accounts like your Twitter, Facebook, Facebook

groups/pages, YouTube, Pinterest, and more.

This really allows you to perform on multiple accounts all at once which for a beginner can be very hard.

All you do to share your blog post is copy the URL on over, they don’t have a blog writing feature so that is a downside to Hootsuite but then again they aren’t a content calendar, so they don’t really serve that purpose anyway.

What I like about it is that it’s much easier than having to write out well-written posts for your Instagram feed on your small cellphone screen.

Because you can schedule your post online on your computer, it takes way less time than trying to type a novel on your cell phone.

The best part about it most people won’t know you are using it unless they take a lot of time to look at the post.

But even then no-one will say anything because they know you’re a busy person, so they should understand why you are posting with these tools.

The tools combined make sure that you are constantly posting to your communities so that you are staying active across all social media accounts even if you are mainly concerned about growing one.

These tools are addicting but don’t forget to actually be present and be real on your social media pages to ensure a level amount of trust between you and your readers.

They increase your productivity and allow you the time to focus on other things while your social media is running on autopilot while you’re gone.

Just be sure to still actually post regularly and respond to every comment regularly.

If you don’t people might think you’re kinda like a robot.

I hope these suggestions found you well and until next time!

Let me know if these products work for you because they are amazing for me.

Taylor!