Never Miss A Social Message With Advanced Social Publishing
Getting Started Guide: Social Calendar

Never Miss A Social Message With Advanced Social Publishing

In This Lesson

Plan All Your Social Media In CoSchedule Social Calendar

CoSchedule Social Calendar is the only marketing calendar that lets you plan all your marketing projects AND write, schedule, and publish your social messages in the same place. This chapter will highlight all the best ways Social Calendar will help you get proactive and quit spending time on the painful and time-consuming parts of social media.

Connect All Your Social Profiles

Social Calendar integrates with Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest. You can connect any combination of these accounts and connect multiple social profiles of any account type. Connect all your social profiles so you can write, schedule, and publish your social messages directly in Social Calendar. To connect your social profiles:
  1. Go to your Settings.
  2. Select Social Profiles from the top menu.
  3. Click + Connect Social Profile.

Upload Existing Social Messages With Bulk Social Upload

Bulk Social Upload is the easiest way to add all your social messages to Social Calendar. With bulk social upload, you can upload a CSV file of prepared rows and then schedule them with a few clicks. In the upload process, you will able to preview and edit each message – giving you the opportunity to add images and schedule messages to multiple social profiles. Bulk scheduling will alert you to any errors found in specific messages, so you can quickly fix the issues or delete a message. To start the bulk upload process:
  1. Click the + Create button on your calendar.
  2. Go to More Options.
  3. Select Bulk Social Upload.
  4. Select Social Messages.
  5. Click Create New to create a new social campaign or Add To Existing to add it to one of your existing Social Campaigns.
  6. Follow the steps to upload your CSV file.
Visit our Support Doc to learn more about how to use the Bulk Social Upload feature.

Use Social Templates To Eliminate Manual Social Scheduling

Planning, writing, and scheduling social messages can be tedious and time-consuming. Social Templates are easy-to-use templates for creating reusable social plans to promote content, events, and more. They allow you to pre-plan your social schedule – saving you from scheduling every message individually, every time. How they work: Create the perfect social sharing plan, fine-tune your messages, and apply a reusable template to any content or social media campaign. Examples of when to use Social Templates:
  • Blog Post Promotion
  • Conferences
  • Webinar Promotion
  • Customer Testimonials
  • Podcast Release
  • Product Launch

Use ReQueue To Get More Traffic To Your Content

ReQueue is a social automation tool with built-in intelligence to get the most out of your social media posts and drive more traffic to your website or blog. It takes into account your entire social schedule, uses Best Time Scheduling intelligence to promote your messages at the most optimal times, and intelligently finds the gaps in your schedule (so you don’t have to). When you’ve composed a social message that would be great to share more than once, simply click the ReQueue button in the bottom left corner from the social composer. From there, you can add this message to a ReQueue group or create a new group.