how to use hootsuite

How to use

Hootsuite

Go to Hootsuite.com

Click Sign Up

Choose a plan

Click Create an account by email

Enter your name

Enter your Email

Enter a password

Click this button

Main Dashboard

Let’s create a tab

Click Create your first tab

Click New Tab to rename

Tab created

Now we can start adding a stream

Click Add stream

Choose a social network in your stream

Let’s select Twitter

Click Add Profile

Click Connect with Twitter

Enter your twitter username or email

Enter your password

Click Authorize app

Select the type of stream

You can also search here

Type your query in the search box

You can also attach your location

Search for a keyword

Add your lists here

Select the information you want to see in your stream

Adding Facebook

Click Facebook

Click Add profile

Click Connect with Facebook

Enter your Facebook password

Click Continue

Click Continue

Click OK

Click OK

Choose the Facebook account you want to add

Click Add selected accounts

Adding Instagram

Click Instagram

Click Add Profile

Click Connect with Instagram

Enter your Instagram username

Enter your password

Click Log In

Click Authorize

It’s connected to Instagram

Let’s check the accounts we added

Click Streams

Click the dropdown button

Here are the accounts we added

To add social network

Click Streams

Click Add social network

Select social network you want to add

Or click your profile

Click Add a social network

Let’s add Twitter

Click Connect with Twitter

Enter your Twitter username or email

Enter your password

Click Authorize app

Adding Facebook

Click Facebook

Click Connect with Facebook

Enter your Facebook password

Click Continue

Select the Facebook account you want to add

Click Add Selected accounts

Then do the same with other social media

accounts

Let’s add information in our stream

Select profile here

Let’s click Mentions

Content will appear here

Click Refresh tab to update your stream

Select how you want to view your stream

How to schedule posts in Hootsuite

Click the Compose Message box

Type your post here

Select a profile where you want to post

You can add a link here

Click Add a link box

There’s a Shrink button to make the link smaller

You can attach photos or videos here

This is where you schedule your post

Select the date here

Select the time of your post here

Click Schedule

Message scheduled

Let’s check our scheduled post

Click Publisher

Click Scheduled

Here is our Scheduled post

It shows the social media account we used

You can edit the post here

Or delete post

To post a single message to multiple social networks

Click the Compose message box

Type your message

Select profiles where you want to send a message

Click Send Now

You can also check your Contacts list here

Click App directory to see all Apps available

You can choose Apps you want to use

You can also see New Apps available

Featured Apps

Awesome! Now go ahead and start applying what

you’ve learned

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