With Brand2Social, you can set up a recurring posting plan that you can use to automatically queue up posts so you don't have to pick a time and date manually for each post.
In this article we will cover:
The idea of a posting plan is to define a recurring posting schedule, which you can fill with posts every week.
Let's say that you want to post a link to a blog post every Monday between 9 and 10 and you want to post a tip every Tuesday between 10 and 11.
You can create recurring posting slots for these two posts and assign them with a label to reflect the category. Everytime you create a new post and use this label, you can click a button, and the post will automatically get assigned to the next available upcoming slot.
Start by navigating to Schedule from the menu, and press the tab
Plan in the upper left.
Click on the calendar in a time where you would like
to add a recurring slot.
Let's make a slot for Monday between 9 and 10.
I will click that timeslot on the calendar, and
a modal will pop up allowing me to pick a label. I choose the "Promotion" label since I will be
promoting my blog.
We can also configure how often the slot should repeat.
ℹ️ You can create your own labels, thus, you can name them anything you want.
When I'm done, I click the button Create.
Now, a new slot will appear on the
calendar with the label "Promotion".
Repeat this step to create your posting plan.
For this example, I'll create a few more slots.
Awesome! I created 5 slots with different labels to cover the entire week.
If you click on the arrows in the top right corner of the calendar, you can see the next and previous weeks.Notice how the slots are present in each week. That's because they are recurring.
You can drag the slots around to change the time.You can also expand them to make them longer. This will extent the duration of the slot! You will learn why this is useful in a little bit.
Alright, we have our posting plan set up.Now, let's add a post to the slots.
Go to the Compose page. You can now create a post, pick a label and use the Plan button.
There you go! Your post was added to the next available slot 🙌
Let's check if it worked!
If we go back to the Schedule page on the Plan tab, we can see that the next upcoming slot is now filled with a post.
If we switch to the Schedule tab, we can confirm that the post is in fact scheduled.
Let's break it down:
And that's it!
You don't have to worry about manually scheduling every single post anymore.
Using what we know now, we can schedule many posts all at once!
We call this Smart
Scheduling. You click a button, and Brand2Social drips all your posts into your
calendar at the right times.
It's easy!
Go to the Posts page and select the posts you want to
schedule.
Now click the "..." menu button above the table and click "Plan selected posts."
In a matter of seconds, Brand2Social will line up all your posts in the right slots.
If you want to use the exact time of a slot, instead of having Brand2Social pick a random time within the duration, you can enable "Use exact slot times" under the settings page.
When this setting is active, Brand2Social will pick the starting time of a slot, rather than
an arbistrary time in between.
So if you have a slot that goes from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
- all posts will be scheduled for 9:00 using this slot.
