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How To Schedule Your Social Media Posts Using Buffer
- 1. How to Schedule Your Social Media Posts using
- 2. Welcome to Buffer for Newbies!
- 3. In need of a time saving tool to manage your social media?
- 5. Buffer to your aid!
- 6. Buffer is an application designed to manage accounts in social media
- 7. It helps you to schedule, publish and analyze all your posts
- 8. It shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day
- 9. This helps you reach your audience at the right time,
- 10. Drives more clicks, engagement on your posts and
- 11. Gets you more traffic to your site.
- 13. Buffer Plans
- 14. We’ll use the Free plan for this tutorial
- 15. Let’s start!
- 16. First, you need to create a Buffer account
- 17. Open your favorite browser and go to buffer.com
- 18. This is Buffer’s home page.
- 19. Click Sign up for Free
- 20. You can sign up using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Email
- 21. Let’s sign up using Email.
- 22. Enter your Email Address
- 25. You now have a Buffer account.
- 27. Let’s connect your Twitter account first
- 28. Under the Twitter icon click Connect
- 29. Enter your Twitter Username
- 30. Enter your Twitter Password
- 32. Your Twitter account is now connected
- 33. Let’s also connect your Facebook account.
- 34. Hover your mouse to the Facebook tab then click it
- 35. You may link your Facebook Profile
- 36. You may link your Facebook Page
- 37. You may link your Facebook Group
- 38. Let’s choose Facebook Profile for now
- 39. Click Profile
- 40. If you’re logged in to your Facebook account you’ll see this
- 42. Click Continue
- 43. When you see this just click Continue as…
- 44. Select your audience from the dropdown menu
- 45. Click OK
- 46. Your Facebook account is now connected
- 47. You’ll see the connected accounts here
- 48. Let’s now schedule a post!
- 49. First, choose the account you wish to make a post with
- 50. Let’s choose Facebook for now
- 52. Change your timezone here
- 53. Just type the name of the city to change the timezone
- 54. Choose your time format
- 55. Click each day tab to select the days you wish to make a post.
- 56. You can select and deselect days as appropriate to you…
- 57. Next is to add a posting time
- 58. Just click on Add Posting Time
- 59. Then use the arrows to select the time you want.
- 60. You have now manually schedule your posts!
- 61. You can also use Buffer to optimize your schedule
- 62. Just click on Try Our Optimal Timing Tool
- 63. Choose the account you wish to do optimal scheduling
- 64. Select the number of times to post each day
- 65. After, click on Calculate times
- 66. This is Buffer’s suggested posting schedule
- 67. Click on Replace Existing Schedule
- 68. Schedule is now set.
- 69. Click Content to see your dashboard
- 70. Let’s create a post
- 71. Click here to make a post
- 72. It will appear on both Facebook and Twitter
- 73. Click the Facebook icon to make it appear only in Twitter
- 74. Alright! This post will only appear on Twitter.
- 75. Click the Facebook account again to enable it
- 76. There you go
- 77. You can do it vice versa
- 78. Type your post here
- 79. Click this to add a photo or video to your post
- 80. Select the image from your computer
- 81. Click Open
- 82. Image is now added to your post
- 83. Click the dropdown button
- 84. Click Share Next to share it next to your current post
- 85. Click Share Now of you want to pot it now
- 86. Click Schedule Post to post it later
- 87. Let’s choose Schedule Post
- 88. This calendar will appear
- 89. Select the date
- 90. And time you want to post it
- 91. Click Schedule
- 92. You have just scheduled a post in Buffer!
- 93. If you want to change the schedule, click this
- 94. Otherwise, click Great, Got It!
- 95. Here’s the scheduled post in queue
- 96. You’ve just scheduled a post in Buffer!
- 97. Go ahead schedule another post!
- 98. Enjoy using Buffer! Explore how great it is!
- 99. Check how it will make your daily tasks easier and manageable.
- 100. Congratulations! You have successfully finish the tutorial. "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” -Zig Ziglar
Editor's Notes
- Wondering how to manage your social media networks?
- Is it a hassle to log-in in each site?
- Hootsuite is there to help
- Hootsuite helps you manage your networks in one hub
- Isn’t that…
- This will definitely save you loads of time
- Wait MO MORE!
- Fly like a falcon to check the tutorial
- Go to hootsuite.com
- You’ll see that you can sign up though Twitter, Facebook…
- or with Google by using your e-mail
- For now, let’s sign up through e-mail
- Click on “or create a new account”
- A new page opens up
- Click on “Create an account by email”
- Type your name…
- Your email address here…
- and your password
- Once done, click this tab
- Account created!
- Now you can add your social networks here
- Let’s add Instagram
- Click on the Instagram tab
- A new window pops-up!
- Type your username here…
- And your password here
- Once done, click “Log in”
- Now, click “Authorize”
- Now your Instagram account is connected
- You can add other social networks
- To add your Twitter account
- Click here
- If you wish to add Facebook…
- Click this
- And here if you want YouTube to be connected
- Click here
- Connect your LinkedIn Account
- Click this
- When you are done connecting your accounts,..
- click “Continue”
- Now this pop-up box appears
- Then, click this
- You can Publish content…
- Just click “Let’s go” or…
- Monitor your networks…
- just by clicking this
- But, for now let’s explore Hootsuite first
- Click this…
- Now, you are at the Hootsuite dashboard
- Let’s check the basics first.
- Hover your mouse here…
- To see your menu
- To see streams
- Click here
- You will see this
- To see Publisher
- Click here
- You will see this
- To see Analytics
- You will see this
- To see Assignments
- Click here
- You will see this
- To see Campaigns
- To see App Directory
- Click here
- It will open this new tab
- To see Contacts
- Click here
- You will see this
- Click this
- This pops-up
- To see Settings
- Click here
- This pops-up
- To see Tools
- Click here
- It will redirect you to this page
- To see Help
- Click this
- It will open the Hootsuite Help Center page
- To Sign out
- Click this
- Now let’s check your other options
- This is where you’ll be typing your posts
- Hover your mouse here…
- To choose which account to post with.
- You can also add social networks
- Click this
- This pop-up opens if you click “Add Social Network”
- So just exit, by clicking this
- You can add link
- Just Click this
- Attach files