Getting Started With CoSchedule For Agencies & Freelancers
Create & Publish Social Campaigns For All Of Your Clients
In This Lesson:
You can schedule social media campaigns for all of your clients using CoSchedule Agency Calendar. This is a must-try feature if social media management is included in your lineup of services.
In Agency Calendar, Social Campaigns include a series of social messages that are published to your social channels over an extended period of time.
Use Social Campaigns to promote specific content or initiatives, like:
When you add Social Campaigns to specific Client Calendars, this is the easiest way to visualize timelines and priorities for specific clients. This also comes in handy for filtering data when creating Social Media Reports.
If you have messages that are not part of a campaign, you can add these as stand-alone messages instead of adding them to a campaign.
If you have clients that want more oversight and control, this makes collaborating easy. They will receive an email notification when they have messages to review, and they can review them in an easy-to-use Approval Dashboard.
This helps your team ensure content meets your client’s standards, goals, and brand voice every time.
Approvers will receive notifications within their Agency Calendar when approvals are needed to be accepted or denied.
Approvals can be granted by viewing the project, social message or task and confirming the approval button.
If there are many messages awaiting approval, Approvers can visit the Approvals Dashboard for a complete, real-time list of all the messages they need to review.
Clients can also leave comments on specific messages as needed. Your team can use this feedback to make changes without required extra meetings or follow-up time.
4) Once approved, messages will automatically publish at their scheduled date/time.
Then chat with Mia or use a pre-built prompt to generate a social message copy in seconds.
Not sure what details to provide to write better messages? Here are a few prompts you can try to get started:
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- Create & Publish Social Campaigns
- Share Social Campaigns With Your Clients For Final Review
- Add Required Approvers On Social Messages
- Use AI To Create Social Messages For Clients
Introduction To Creating Social Campaigns For Your Clients
Do you create & publish social campaigns for clients? Do you promote your own agency on social media? You can create, schedule, & publish social campaigns in Agency Calendar to save you time & effort on social strategy for your own company or clients. What is this guide? This guide teaches you how to use Social Campaigns in Agency Calendar to create, organize, and schedule messages (including social approvals) for your clients. Who is this guide for? Marketing Agencies & Freelancers who want to manage their social campaigns in Agency Calendar.Create A Social Campaign
![Create a new social campaign](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-2.32.43%E2%80%AFPM.png?w=3840&q=75)
- Videos
- Events
- Blog posts
- Webpages
- Product Launches
- Company Announcements
- Promotions
- And more!
1. Attach A Social Campaign To An Existing Project Or Event
- Open the project on your Client Calendar.
- Add the “Social Campaign” attachment.
- Click the plus sign to add social messages on specific days.
- Add the link to your blog post or landing page by clicking the link button on the top.
2. Schedule A Stand-Alone Social Campaign
- Click to add a new project to your calendar.
- Choose “Social”, then “Social Campaign.”
- Name your social campaign and apply important details - like publish date or tags.
- Select which Client Calendar this campaign should live on.
- Click the plus signs to add messages just like you did in the previous section.
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Share Social Messages To Your Clients For Final Review
Your Agency Calendar includes built-in Social Approvals to help you streamline communication and collaboration with your clients. This gives clients easy-access to offer input and provide approvals before any messages publish to their social profiles.![Social Media Messages awaiting approval in Approval Dashboard](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-11.05.56%E2%80%AFAM.png?w=3840&q=75)
Add Required Approvers On Social Messages
Social Approvals empower your clients to have final say on messages before they publish. You can add approvers to any message on your Client Calendars. Here’s how:- Draft your social messages in a Social Campaign.
- Click Approvals to select a required "Approver" or "Approvers" for this message.
![Add social approvers to social messages.](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Approvers.png?w=3840&q=75)
![Notification In-App that messages are awaiting approval](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Notification.png?w=3840&q=75)
Who Can Approve Messages?
You can individually select which clients and/or team members to be approvers on client social messages. Under settings, you can add a client as a guest user. From your Team Member settings, you can grant clients approver status.![Add approvers to social messages](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Add-Approvers.png?w=3840&q=75)
Add Clients As Approvers In Your Agency Calendar
Step 1) Invite client to your Agency Calendar as a guest or approver role to assign approver access. Step 2) Add the client as a required approval on specific social messages, social campaigns, and/or social templates. Step 3) Client reviews messages in their Approval Dashboard. Messages won't publish without their approval.- Past Due Messages & Messages Pending Approval will appear with a yellow dot on the Calendar.
- Approved Messages will appear with a green dot on the Calendar.
![Pending Approval Messages](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-11.21.16%E2%80%AFAM.png?w=3840&q=75)
Use AI To Create Social Messages For Clients
Leveraging AI to draft social messages can significantly enhance your agency's productivity and creativity. CoSchedule's AI Social Assistant writes social messages for you, so you can focus more time on strategy and less time writing copy. All you have to do is choose your social profile and click "Social Assistant" to get started.![AI Social Assistant](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/AI-Social-Assistant.png?w=3840&q=75)
![Write social messages with aI](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2022/12/Write-Social-Messages-With-AI.png?w=3840&q=75)
- Give Mia event details, such as time, date, location, and description to write messages to promote your event
- Create [number] social messages about [topic]
- Write [number] Instagram social messages to promote my [product, service or offer]
- Write 5 different social messages promoting this blog post [link]
- Write a few different social messages promoting [topic] specific to [Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn]
- Write a social message to announce [product, enhancement, service, event]
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