Want to schedule Facebook posts on your business page? If you're running a
business you're way too busy to be posting in real time. Imagine if you
could sit down once a week, schedule all your Facebook posts ahead of time and
then not have to worry about it. Well I'm gonna show you how right now (theme music)
(mocking voice) "I'll show you how right now!" I did not mean to rhyme that was unintentional. My wife
always gives me crap when I accidentally rhyme things
What's up busy people? Welcome to Five Minute Social Media. If you have ever
had "figure out my social media for my business or brand" on your to do list and
he keeps gets getting shoved down further and further because you don't know
where to start, or it's overwhelming, you're in the right place. Once a week we
release a quick video showing you how to apply tips to different aspects of your
digital marketing strategy. My name is Jerry Potter, you can connect with me on
social media @mrjerrypotter. Yes it rhymes with the boy wizard's name, and
today we're helping out Cheyenne that wanted to know if she could schedule her
Facebook posts without using third-party software on her business page. And the
answer is yes. By the end of this video you'll know how to pre schedule your
Facebook posts. Now you can use third-party software to pre-schedule
your Facebook posts - things like Buffer and Falcon.io, Sprout Social, HootSuite -
Facebook has never admitted this but a lot of the people in our world believe
that if you schedule from a third party service, Facebook will affect your reach
in the algorithm so...used to be confirmed like, "Oh this is legit now."
People debate on whether or not it's still true. Maybe it's an urban legend.
Another reason to schedule in Facebook instead of using
third party software is the third party software is getting better, but only in
Facebook will you see your post exactly the way it's going to look. And finally
in most third-party software you can't boost until the post goes live, but if
you do boost your Facebook posts for your business you can
actually do that before it goes live if you schedule natively on Facebook. So you
can only do this on a business page. This may actually might look like my personal
page but I have a business page under the same name for my personal brand. So
you'd go like you we're gonna post anything at all. Let me just grab a photo
here so you put your photo, your video whatever in, type whatever you're going
to type, get everything the way you want it if
you want to, add a location, you can go to check-in, all these different options
down here. Then you decide whether or not you want to boost it. If you were gonna
boost your post before you schedule it you could do that by clicking this
button, but this tutorial is all about how to
schedule your posts. So you want to, instead of just hitting publish like you
normally would, click this little down arrow and hit schedule. Then you can
literally go in choose the date and the time that you want it to go up exactly.
10:17 p.m. Sure why not? And then hit schedule. Just like that it's scheduled.
Now here on my page I can go down here and I can see one scheduled post for
10:17 p.m. "See Post" takes me into my Scheduled Posts here under Publishing
Tools. That's how you would get back here is to go to Publishing Tools and then
Scheduled Posts. Then I can go in if I want to and edit it, change it, anything
like that and click mobile preview, but it's there, it's ready for you now. If you
didn't want to edit you could also remove the schedule which would make it
a draft again, or you could completely delete the post if that's what you
wanted to do. So if you want to do it on a mobile device, grab your phone open the
Facebook page app which has that orange flag. Hit Publish. Type whatever you want
Once you have everything the way you want it hit Continue in the upper right
corner here. Then it says, "When will this be published?" If you're just gonna put it
up right away you would hit publish here in the blue lettering and that would
work. But if you want it to go up later can either choose to schedule it which
allows you to choose the time, or if you're not sure when it's gonna go up
and you don't want to publish it but save it, you can also choose Save As
Draft. So if you have any questions at all let me know down in the comments or
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