- Wondering how to schedule Facebook posts
on a business page?
By the end of this video you'll know exactly how to do it,
let's get into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter and in this tutorial
I'm going to show you how to schedule posts
on a Facebook business page.
Now, it used to be that you could schedule them right
on a business page and this still exists
on some business pages,
but it does appear to be disappearing
because Facebook wants you
to use their new tool, Creator Studio.
Now, Facebook Creator Studio is completely free
and super simple to use and I'll show you how, right now.
I do wanna point out that you can only preschedule posts
for Facebook business pages,
this doesn't work for personal profiles.
To get to Facebook Creator Studio,
you just go to facebook.com/creatorstudio
and you'll see right here at the top
there's a toggle between Facebook and Instagram,
you can also schedule Instagram posts
in Facebook Creator Studio as well as IGTV videos
and if you want to see the tutorial on that
I've got a link to it in the description of this video.
So for this though we are focused
on this Facebook business page,
quick tour of Creator Studio,
we're on the home screen, content library shows everything
that you've ever posted on your page,
all kinds of different ways you can sort through it,
insights is gonna be your analytics,
if you wanna look at what's working and what's not,
and then you inbox is a place you can manage
your page's messages, you can also manage your
Instagram account direct messages in here
if it's connected to your business page.
So from Facebook Creator Studio,
you wanna first say create post, here this big blue button,
or if you want you can tap the box up here
and choose what you're gonna do, video, photo,
just like you would normally craft a post
so let me just grab something so we have it in here
and once you've got your content all set
you would just come down here to the blue button
at the bottom that says publish,
but instead of hitting publish,
would trap that little down arrow
and you can choose schedule,
it'll show you what time zone you are scheduling for
and it should show your local time zone
unless something weird is going on.
Choose the date,
the time that you want it to go up,
if you want it to stop showing up in the news feed
at some point then you can check this box
and you can choose an end time for it.
I rarely check this box but you might check it
if it's for a specific promotion or deal
or something that expires at a certain time.
But generally news feed posts,
unless you put money behind them,
are going to stop showing up in people's feeds
after a day or so anyway.
So, once you've got that all set, you simply hit schedule
then I want to show you where to find it
in case you want to go back and edit it
or change the time or anything like that.
So, this is when we would go to content library.
And then up here I can choose the scheduled tab
it's not showing up right now so let me reload the screen
there it is, so here's the post that we just put up
shows me the time that it was scheduled,
two ways to access your options here,
one you can click these three little dots
and get the menu here, or if I click this over here
on the left, you can see up here
publish now, reschedule, cancel, schedule, preview, edit,
so if I wanted to edit it I would just simply hit edit
and it'll let me edit the post before it goes up
if I wanted to cancel outright I would just tap that button
reschedule it'll just bring you back to this date
you can change a to a new place
that you wanted to put it up and schedule it.
Now if Creator Studio feels overwhelming to you
one more place I wanna show you
that still works for scheduling posts
from your Facebook business page,
even though the option to schedule is no longer
in the main posting box, up here at the top
you may see it sitting here or it may
be under your more menu, choose publishing tools
and then over here on the left you can choose publish posts
this will show all of the posts you've already done,
and then right here you can click create
and then craft your post and you'll notice schedule
is still available as an option here
within your publishing tools.
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