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Are you a blogger? Do you struggle with time management when it comes to blogging? It can be incredibly time consuming to maintain your presence on social media when it comes to your blog. Who has time for all that when you have 3 kids, a husband, and a neglected house? I discovered something that makes blog promotion so much easier.
My secret to blogging success is CoSchedule! I’ve tried other social media platforms, but this one has the shortest learning curve. It’s just a snap to use, especially if you’ve already used an editorial calendar.
When you sign up for your free trial for CoSchedule (no cc required!), you immediately link your blog. Since I have a WordPress blog, CoSchedule automatically added a plugin to my blog.
This plugin is an editorial calendar, but even better. You can see your blog posts, move things around, and easily add social shares on the calendar. The plugin also integrates into the post editor, so you can even schedule all the social shares directly at the blog post level. How easy is that?
One of my favorite things about CoSchedule is that you can add Facebook groups to the social sharing schedules. For example, I’m in a group called Just Desserts, so when I whip up a delicious dessert recipe, I can automatically schedule a post to go directly to Just Desserts. I can also add social shares for popular posts from previous months and even years. In the example below, I’m scheduling out social shares for a hugely popular post I made last year – Homemade Bubblegum Ice Cream. I can easily set the date, time, which social media, and even choose the picture.
I’ve read a lot of advice from big bloggers who have huge social media followings with hundreds of thousands of Facebook fans, and they recommend sharing multiple times a day, every few hours, on your Facebook page and Twitter to engage fans. I’ve tried doing it myself, but it can be so time consuming.
However, with CoSchedule, you can plan days, weeks and even months in advance. I spent one day scheduling posts for the entire week, and I’m done! Here you can see all the posts I’ve scheduled for Twitter, The TipToe Fairy Facebook page, and several of the Facebook groups I’m in. It’s just that easy!
You can also view your top posts for the month, year, all time, and more. From this page, you can see which posts are doing well on social media. You can also see which top posts have social shares coming up, and you can easily schedule posts with the “Share Post” button.
This plugin will save you so much time, you won’t believe it! Are you ready to give it a try? Try it for 14 days, and you’ll be amazed you ever lived without it. I know I was! Check out the video below to see how it all works. Then, click HERE to sign up.
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I’d really like to check this out with the 14 day free trial. Anything that could make my blogging more organized and successful would be worth it’s weight in gold. Thanks so much for sharing CoSchedule!
I am absolutely going to check out Co Schedule. Anything that can help make blogging a little less time consuming is definitely worth giving a try, especially if it comes along with a free trial 😉
CoSchedule is really awesome isn’t it? It really helps save so much time and keeps you on top of things! I love it.
This sounds like something I should try! Great review!
Wow, such great info! Thanks so much for sharing your tips and tricks!
I use Coschedule too and it has helped me with organization and staying on schedule a lot. I’m very happy with it.
I have used Co Schedule before and loved it! Its a great tool to be more effective at scheduling social media.
This totally sounds amazingly easy to use and such an awesome help for bloggers indeed. I will have to check this out for when I start my blog. Thanks for sharing.
I need this one to manage my post scheduling for my site. This can really make more organize and save me time.
I’ll join coSchedule soon, I’m sure. How long is the free trial? I find myself using Hootsuite because it’s free, but I’m still scheduling FB within the app because it’s so cranky. You almost have me SOLD!
It’s a 2 week trial, and you will get yourself hooked. I signed up and thought I’ll give it a try, but I figured it wouldn’t be that great. Then, as I started using it the first week, I was like “How did I not know about this before? This is amazing!” I can’t believe how scheduling out social media posts has done wonders to my page views. But, they do have ways to save money. There’s referrals, and you can write a review and get 50% off your first year.
I am still contemplating this! My numbers are getting so close to reaching the double digits and I struggle to remember to really remember to post and market myself as well as others. I am going to sit and stare at this…
I have heard great things about co-schedule. I love how easy it is to set up and how it makes blogging easier
I tried CoSchedule awhile back and it was a great tool. My only problem is my budget right now! When I have more room to spend, I would like to pay for this service!
Holy shit! I hadn’t heard of this before and I WANT it! I’ve got an editorial calendar… I wish it was free!
Anything that helps me spend my time more efficiently is a find! I can’t wait to give this service a shot at helping manage my tasks.
Time management is definitely KEY when it comes to blogging. Ever since I’ve started scheduling social media and blog posts I’ve seen HUGE results. I definitely need to check CoSchedule out <3
I so need to figure this out Stephanie but guess the paid versions are not something that appeals to me as can do something similar with free online programs, but thanks for sharing!
Wow! You can post directly into groups! That’s awesome. I didn’t realize that. I tried it, but forgot about it and didn’t pay much attention to it. I will try it again. I love how easy you make it sound. I need to dedicate some time to trying Coschedule again. Thanks for the advice!
Wow! What a cool plugin. Things like this make me really want to switch from Blogger to Wordpress! I feel like I could be so organized with something like this to help me! 🙂
Thanks for the great review of CoSchedule. I’m so glad to hear that it is saving you time, and helping you with your social media promotion! Awesome stuff 🙂
I love using Coschedule. It definitely makes blogging and updating my social media accounts ♥
i’ve been trying to start a blog and it’s slow-going. the ‘co-schedule’ looks to be so accommodating to bloggers, worth checking out.
Thank you for sharing this. I love your all of your ideas, and this one in particular is interesting to me. I just started a new blog about raising boys in today’s world (www.adventuresofboys.com). Co-schedule looks great, but I had a question for you:
Would you suggest using it immediately? Or is it something to use after a few months – year of blogging?
Hi John,
I’d say that once you have a larger amount of content, maybe 15-20 posts, it’s worth it to keep your content scheduled to show up on Twitter and Facebook to your followers on a rotating basis. However, I would recommend trying out something like Buffer until you have enough content. Buffer has a free service to schedule 10 tweets or posts a day. Until you have a lot of your own content to share, I’d also recommend sharing other bloggers’ content with tweets and facebook posts mixed with your own stuff, so as you grow your following, you keep them engaged.