- In this video, I'm gonna show you how
to pre schedule a Facebook Live.
The best part is once you've done that
you can promote it ahead of time,
people can click to get notified,
and you can take that link
and promote it on Instagram
or to your email list, all right?
Let me show you how right now.
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My name is Jerry Potter, yes it rhymes with the boy wizard,
and today I'm gonna show you
all about how to schedule a Facebook Live.
Now as of this recording you can only do this on a computer.
You can whip out your phone, open the Facebook app,
and click go live anytime
but pre-scheduling can only be done from a computer
and then when the live happens it also has
to be done from a computer.
So today I'm gonna show you the Facebook way of doing it
which is a little clunky.
Then I'm going to show you what I think is the easiest way
to schedule a Facebook live
using a third-party tool that I love.
And finally some best practices
on how to pre-promote your live
so that you can get it out to as many people
and get as many people watching live when you do it.
You can pre-schedule a Facebook Live
on your business page or in Facebook creator studio.
So on your business page
you would just click Live right here and it would open up,
or in creator studio you can click
this Go Live button right here.
There's two tabs here at the top,
it might open on your camera tab,
and if it does you wanna to click the Connect side
because this is where you're going
to actually schedule your Facebook Live.
So over here you choose where you're going to post it,
is it gonna be on a page, in a group?
Go ahead and put in your caption.
Put in a title.
This is what will appear on your video
after you've done it once it shows up
under your videos tab on your business page.
And then this button down here
is where you're actually going to schedule it.
So, I tap that, brings up this interface.
I can choose the time that I want it to be,
so this is going to be on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. my time.
You can upload an image if you want.
If you don't upload an image it will just use
your business page's cover photo by default.
I like to use an image that's actually about what I'm doing.
So I go ahead and upload that, save the changes.
Once everything looks okay, hit schedule.
Then if I go to my business, page scroll down on my feed,
it shows up here as a scheduled post.
You can see it says Jerry Potter plans to go live.
So that part's pretty simple, but when you go live,
you're gonna be in here and you're gonna actually have
to connect this, as you can see,
you use live streaming software or hardware encoder
to another program that's going to send your stream here
and then you're gonna actually start
and go live from here on Facebook.
So that's where it gets a little complex
and I will list some of those software programs
that you can use to do it this way.
But now I want to show you the easiest way
to schedule a Facebook live.
This is called Be Live and it connects right
to your Facebook account.
And so if I want to schedule one in here
I don't need another program to stream it to Facebook.
Everything happens here.
So, I click up here to stream title
and I see Facebook has been chosen.
I click schedule.
Choose the date and time that I want to go live.
You can add an image if you want just like we did before.
Then, from this drop-down, choose the page or group
that you want to stream to.
Add your caption or post description.
If everything looks okay, hit save.
I go back to my business page, scroll down
and there it is.
Jerry Potter plans to go live published by Be Live.
So, here's the other one we did.
You can see they almost look identical
but here's why it's so much easier with Be Live,
is when it's time to go live,
I don't have to have Facebook open.
I don't have to have any other third-party programs,
just Be Live.
I'll go live from right here, the comments will show up
over here on the right.
With the paid version you can bring on guests,
you can share your screen, all kinds of stuff.
Like I said, Be Live has a free version, highly recommended.
Just makes it simple to use and you can grab that
in the description of this video.
A few best practices to keep in mind:
Once it's up now this is an actual Facebook post.
You can see oh you can't boost it or turn it into an ad,
because it's right now just a scheduled live,
but you can share it.
Go ahead and tap that share button.
Share it into your group or other groups if that's allowed.
Share it via messenger.
Share it to your personal profile.
Wherever you can put it to pre-promote it that makes sense.
Let's say you want to share it off of Facebook.
Well, if you come up here to the timestamp
So, as I'm looking at this now,
this was scheduled thirty-six minutes ago.
So, if I click on this this actually takes me
to the permalink as it's called.
Basically the permanent link of this post.
So now if I go up into the browser here,
I can actually, this last part is just sort of garbage,
it's fine if it's on there.
But I can actually choose this link here and copy it,
and then I can share it with my email database.
I can share it on Instagram.
Wherever else you have people you can share this
and tell them this is the link when we go live.
Plus, when somebody says, hey is there a replay?
You can say yep use that same link
and it will take them there after you've gone live
so that they can catch the replay.
And then finally, when it's time to go live,
be on time for your audience.
If you have taken the time to get them to tune in
at a certain point and you don't show up they're not going
to trust you again next time.
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Get the link in the description of this video.
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