Rather than have to post live every time on Facebook with a page or a group you
can actually schedule your content so it goes at the right time for when your
audience are online. I'll show you how to do that in 2020 on Facebook in this
video. Here we go. So here I am on my Facebook page and if I go to create a
post note that as soon as I type something in the end the message comes up post scheduling
and additional options are available in publishing tools. So you can't do it
directly in the post here but what you can do is click on publishing tools and
create the content there so I'll go leave this page. Now there's various
options there's see what published posts you've already put out there see any
drafts where you've created the basic outline and those are the ones you to
start with. So you''d create a draft to start with so we go to create draft
here. I'll just go to one already there so if I click on that one and then click
on the edit button here. Make any adjustments you want to the post then
three options you've got schedule, back date or publish so publish is publishing it now,
but schedule you can save it for later so if I say schedule it starts with
the current date and time so I click on the current date I'll say it's
tomorrow let's schedule it for 11:00 a.m. that's fine.
and I'll say schedule. So now if Ilook in scheduled posts you'll see that one
schedule is there you can now go back to that you've got the preview of what it's
going to look like and here under actions you can cancel the schedule
reschedule it for a different time even back date it to appear to have been posted
earlier. lots of options. So I'm going to say cancel schedule for now
and now there's no schedule. So that's the way it's done on a Facebook page. If I go
to a Facebook group now. Now in the case of a group it doesn't use the
publishing tools aspect all you need to do post its select down here next to post
you can say schedule post and here you again you can specify start with the current
date and time we'll do that again for 12 o'clock tomorrow and click schedule. You
can see that schedule post here in that section and notice you've got all the
other options around it. So that's how it's done in a group on a page note your personal
profile at the moment you can't schedule from that. That's just live posting. If I
look at the 2020 interface just to give you a comparison how it looks. You've got the
option here to see it on the left-hand side under scheduled posts and you can
either choose to reschedule or post now.
If I could change the time if I want to and if I go back to a page here you can
pick out publishing tools on the left hand menu and you can say that. So this place
hasn't been designed for the new interface yet so may not necessarily
work schedule post drafts they do the same thing so you've still got
the old interface built into it. So again you click here and drop down and be able
to do everything you could do before. So that's scheduling in 2020 it's a good
idea to build up a pool of drafts because every time a draft gets
scheduled it gets removed so you need to have regular content in the draft format.
It gives you more time to develop the content and you can be assured if you
look at the insights on your page that it's going out at a time when it's the
optimal for your audience to respond so even if you created it first thing in
the morning if six o'clock is the best time you can schedule it for that time
That's it for me I'm Paul from PR Wilson media your social media personal trainer
Cheers