Thursday, May 31, 2012

How To Schedule Your Facebook Posts Right On Facebook

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Marketing on social media
takes time, but it's so so crucial
to the success of your business.

There have been tools to help you
save time by scheduling your posts
ahead of time.

Third party apps like hootsuite
and timely are great time savers...

but they have a downside.

Sharing is Caring

When you use a third party app to schedule your posts on facebook, something is missing.

There is NO share button!

You want people to be able to share your posts with their friends. You WANT your posts to go viral, but that can't happen if they can't share them.

So you could either save time and use a third party
OR
post directly from Facebook when you remembered to do it and have "unshareable" posts


Drumroll Please...

Now... you can schedule your posts right in facebook. Easy Peasy!

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Posts can be scheduled ahead of time OR put into your timeline past.

When you add the year, the month option will pop up. When you add the month, the day option will pop up... and so on.

When you hit schedule, your posts will be visible in your activity log, where you can edit them or delete them.

Here's a graphic breakdown of what you'll see. When you start, you will only see the Add Year option, then the rest will pop up as you make your choices.


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4 comments:

  1. Very cool to know about! Thank you!!!!!

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  2. Nice tips and quite useful, the only thing is that the facebook scheduling function is tedious to use when you need to schedule more posts. It also doesn't work for scheduling group and wall posts. There is a better way that you can schedule posts, you can check it out here - www.massplanner.com

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  3. Here's a graphic breakdown of what you'll see. When you start, you will only see the Add Year option, then the rest will pop up as you make your choicesfacebook

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  4. This is only for Like pages. On personal pages you can only back date, and you can't do this on Group pages. Hoping this changes soon, and you can do it for all of them :)

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