I have some exciting news! We now have a quick and easy way to post on Instagram from a computer
AND schedule posts for Instagram completely for free just like you can on Facebook. And I'm back
with another quick tutorial to show you how it's done. So without further ado, let's dive right in.
Hi my lovely people, my name is Natalia and each Tuesday, I share
super actionable ideas on content creation for entrepreneurs and creatives. I have to say,
I'm really excited about this one because being able to post from your computer and
schedule posts for Instagram semi-natively from Facebook is an exciting development! What we're
going to be using is Facebook Business Suite to be specific with a new array of features
introduced just a few weeks ago. We're focusing on Instagram here specifically.
First, we're going to go ahead and open the Business Suite up. You can access it by typing in
[business.facebook.com](http://business.facebook.com)
or by simply going to your page and choosing Inbox from panel on the left. You want to make
sure that you have a facebook business page that's connected with your business instagram account.
This way, as you can see in the Home tab, you have access to both from the Business Suite.
Next, you can click on this little icon here which is the Posts tab and you're in your post
planning tool. It displays all your published or scheduled posts. Go ahead and click on the
Create Post button in the top right corner here and a new post window opens up. From here, you
can choose whether you want it posted to Facebook, Instagram or both. Just tick the ones you want to
choose. I'm going to just choose IG and then you can type up your caption. To the right of the box,
you can also easily insert emojis into your post which is quite handy. Once I paste the
caption (since I had it planned and written down before), I also make sure to include my hashtags
below. Now, I prefer to insert my hashtags in a comment below the post but there is no option
to preschedule your first comment here. There are options like this available in an app called Later
but you can only access it in their paid plan. If you're scheduling posts from Business Suite,
you won't be able to do that so let's just add them at the bottom the old fashioned way.
Next, we're going to add our photo or video, so let's choose a photo. By the way, you can also
add multiple photos here to create a carousel. Now, I intentionally chose an image with the
wrong dimensions for Instagram to show you how you can crop it from here. Click on the pencil here
which opens up the Edit tab. You can crop your original photo to a square or a horizontal image
and for Instagram, of course, you want to choose square. Unfortunately, there's no option to crop
to a 4:5 resolution so 1:1 will have to do for now or you can prepare your image elsewhere beforehand
like in Canva. It's good to know, however, that you can have the square option here when you're
planning your posts on the go. Hit apply and if you want, you can choose some filters as well.
I'm going to stick with the original and let's click save in the bottom right corner. From here,
you can also enter your location as well but it's optional so let's leave it out for now.
So onto the most crucial part. You can choose to post straight away
by clicking on the button in the bottom right corner or schedule it for later.
To do so, click on the arrow right next to the Post button
and Click on the only available option, Schedule Post. Pick a date and time and you're all set!
Your post is now scheduled and you can view it from the Scheduled Posts Tab.
Now, I have to say this because there are quite a few things which are less than ideal about the
Facebook Business Suite. You cannot really tag people or products on Instagram here,
there's no way to add an alt text to your images and adding or scheduling your Stories
is not available. You have to remember that it's a brand new app from Facebook and it has some bugs
and is missing a lot of features. But for the purpose of posting on Instagram from a computer
or scheduling posts, it works and that can save you a lot of time in the long run.
If you want me to go a bit more in depth on how to use Facebook Business Suite for other areas,
let me know in the comments below and I can make it happen for you! Next,
make sure to check out this playlist for some other quick and easy tutorials and make sure to
watch this video too to get more ideas for content since you now have a way of scheduling them all!
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