- In this video I'm gonna show you how to schedule
Instagram posts from a desktop computer
no paid software required, all right, lets get into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter and today I'm gonna show you
how to schedule Instagram posts from a desktop computer
no paid software required.
Two things to know before we jump into the tutorial
one you do have to have an Instagram business profile
or creator account for this to work
it's free to switch and you can always switch back if you
don't like it and a video about how to do that is available
in the description of this video
and two this works for Instagram feed posts photos, videos
carousels as well as IGTV videos
it does not work for Instagram Stories.
However if you do wanna preschedule your Instagram Stories
there is a third party tool that does that.
I've got a tutorial about how to do it
the link is in the description of this video.
What we are using is Facebook Creator Studio
which has been put for a while but they just recently
added Instagram to it.
So you go to Facebook.com/Creator Studio and then
up here at the top there's a toggle Facebook and Instagram.
So we're gonna click over to Instagram and in here
you have your entire content library, so you see these tabs
you can go back through it will actually show under
different categories everything that you have posted
including IGTV and your Stories and more.
So if you wanted to schedule a post you hit this Create Post
button up here in the upper left and then choose Instagram
Feed or IGTV and this tutorial is about scheduling posts
not IGTV videos, so we're gonna go Instagram Feed
pops up on the right caption is the first thing that you see
here at the top. I personally prefer to add my imagery first
so I'm gonna click add content and then grab an image
from my computer. As you'll see here you can upload a file
or you can take something straight from your Facebook page
if you've already got the post there.
Once I've got my image I can put in my caption
this means you can type your caption with a full keyboard
instead of on your smartphone which I love
you can add a location here if you wanted to
so I'm in Seattle at the moment so I can add
Seattle, Washington. Couple other cool things that you have
you click these three dots here, let's say I don't want this
image this is where I can delete it or I can also crop it
if I didn't want this dimension.
So if you had bigger image and you wanted to make sure it
was square or a landscape or even vertical, and I always try
and do vertical, this four to five ratio takes up the most
screen space on Instagram, then I could come in here and
crop it. This picture is already square so I'm gonna
leave it and then you can also post it to Facebook at the
same time if again you want the same information.
So I just click that.
Once I'm all set I come down here to publish
I can publish it immediately if I wanted
which again it's still advantageous cause I got to do it
on my computer without sending the pictures on my phone
I got to type my caption with a full keyboard
or as you were wanting to do
when you found this video most likely
is hit schedule, choose the date
choose the time.
(click)
It's scheduled.
So as your post is being scheduled, then it pops up
your post has successfully been scheduled.
You can also save it as a draft that you wanted
to just throw ideas in it as you had them and then
come back and get them later.
Now to see your scheduled posts here under the All Content
tab you can see the one we just scheduled
is sitting right here. You can also come up here and
use these different settings, so I can say
just want to see scheduled posts
that's the only one that's scheduled and it shows it
right there.
If I didn't want it anymore I can click the checkbox
I could choose to delete it right here or again edit,
publish now, view it, if you wanted to see a preview
of what it looked like.
So grateful to have an easy way to preschedule posts
on Instagram. If you have any questions about anything we
talked about let me know down on the comments
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