I want to share a few ways that I stay connected without actually being online. I like to try to jump on every day, a few times, but some days (like Saturdays) when I am spending time with my family, I just can’t be online.
FACEBOOK:
Did you know that Facebook frowns upon using outside services to schedule Facebook posts? For this reason, I schedule my Facebook Posts all at once, right from my Facebook Fan Page. Just now, I went onto Facebook and scheduled four posts to go out today. A few were just questions and one was a picture and link to that picture. This will allow me to stay offline most of the day, while just hopping on now & then to write back when I can (or I could do this tonight).
TWITTER:
For Twitter, I use a service called TweetDeck, which I have on my computer for our Blogging on the Side Twitter account and I use another service on my phone called HootSuite for my Your Modern Family Twitter account. I do the same thing. I schedule all of my tweets online at once. (I also do my sponsored tweets, where I get paid to tweet) when they come into my e-mail inbox. (It is so easy!)
PINTEREST:
I try to do my Pinning twice a day- once in the morning and once at night. I find that most of my Pinterest followers do their re-pinning before bed. I sometimes will get on during nap time to do a few pins, too. The easiest way for me to use Pinterest is from my phone on the app. It is so easy to use and I can do this while I am standing in the line at the grocery store if I wanted to! If you want to pay for a service, check out Pingraphy. I don’t do this because I only spend a few minutes a day on Pinterest, but if you feel like it is taking up too much time, check it out for $5 a month. I use Ahalogy (it is free) – it schedules for you.
HOMETALK:
I use Hometalk (if you are a DIY blogger, this is for you!) and I schedule my posts on here, too. I just set it up exactly as I want it to be displayed and I hit the schedule button and schedule it for the day/time that I want it to be posted.
Do you use any of these? What are your best tips?
I didn’t know you could schedule Facebook posts. And I’ve never heard of Hometalk. I’m going to go check those out! Thanks!
OH- YES!! FB scheduling is a life-saver (or should I say “time-saver”) It is great!
I love ahalogy. It has made pinning so much easier. I spend so much less time now on pinterest but my followers are growing.
Although I am not on FB much I do use G+. You can use hootsuite or buffer for scheduling on a G+ page, but for personal there is only a chrome extension called do share. And like FB I think G+ frowns upon scheduled posts through hootsuite or buffer.
These are great tips…thanks! I wonder how do you decide when to post? Morning, noon, night?
I do aim for 3 times a day: 7 am, noon & 10 pm. (or around there)
Thanks for the tips! I didn’t know that Hometalk posts can be scheduled.
Where exactly on Facebook can you schedule posts? I have been using Hoote Suite to schedule posts but if Facebook frowns upon this, I would like to move away from this. Thanks,
When you are on YOUR page (not the “home feed” page, but your actual business page), you can write up your post & right under your status update (while writing it) you will see a little camera (to add pictures), a little clock (this is the scheduling part) & a few other icons. Just follow the clock instructions.
Hi Becky,
Nice and to the point tips on how to schedule your posts on different social platforms.
I would like to invite you to test another method, you can schedule Facebook Posts and Pinterest Pins at the moment but we’ll add support for a lot more platforms soon, you can check it out at : http://www.massplanner.com
I love using Bufferapp, saves so much time during the day – great post.
nice
Hi, from Indonesia, Becky. I just walk around your tips on blogging. I am a travel blogger (can’t say it yet). For my blog, I usually used FB and Instagram and twitter. But mostly FB. Thank you for sharing all of this, becky. Bookmarked.
Thanks so much for the info!! I didn’t realize you could schedule posts in Facebook!