how to schedule your social media posts using buffer

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Welcome to Buffer for Newbies!


What is Buffer?


Buffer is a time saving tool to manage your social media


It’s a place to schedule, publish and analyze all your posts


It shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day


So that your followers and fans see your updates more often


This helps you reach your audience at the right time,


Drives more clicks and engagement on your posts and


Gets you more traffic to your site


Buffer Plans


We’ll use the Free Plan for this tutorial


Let’s start!


First, you’ll need to create a Buffer account


Open your favourite web browser


Type buffer.com in the address bar and hit Enter


This is Buffer’s home page


Click Sign up for Free


You can sign up using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or Email


Let’s sign up using Email.


Enter your Email Address and Password


Click Create Account


Let’s connect your Twitter account first


Click the Twitter button


Enter your Twitter Username and Password


Click Authorize app


Your Twitter account is now connected


Let’s also connect your Facebook account


Click the Facebook button


If you’re logged in to your Facebook account, you’ll see this


Click Continue


Select your audience from the dropdown menu and click OK


Click OK again


You’ll see your profile, pages and groups that you manage here


Select the profile, page or group that you want to connect


Enter your Facebook password and click Continue


Your Facebook account is now connected


Click Set up my Schedule


You can change your timezone here


Type in your City and select it


Choose your time format


Click Looks Good! Continue to Next Step


Let’s choose your scheduling option


You can choose Find my optimal times or I’ll set them manually


Find my optimal times - Buffer will choose which times are best to post based on your location


I’ll set them manually - You’ll set a specified time and date for your post to be posted


Let’s use Find my optimal times for this tutorial


Choose your social media account


Click dropdown menu to choose number of times to post each day


Select a number


Click Calculate times


This is Buffer’s suggested posting schedule


Click Looks good! Continue


Select Track clicks on my posts


Click Looks good, let’s go!


Click Go to my Dashboard


This is your Buffer Dashboard


Let’s create a post


This post is going to appear on both Facebook and Twitter


To make it appear only on Twitter, click your Facebook account to deselect it


Alright! This post will now only appear on Twitter


Click the Facebook account again to enable it


There you go


You can also do it vice versa


Now enter your post here


Click this to add a photo or video to your post


Select the image from your computer and click Open


Image has been added to your post


Click the dropdown button


Click Share Next when you want to share it next to your current post


Click Share Now if you want to post it now


Click Schedule Post to post it later


This calendar will appear


Select the date and time you want to post it


Click Schedule


The post and schedule is currently being saved


If you want to change the schedule click this


Otherwise, click Great, Got It!


Here’s the scheduled post in queue


Let’s create another post. Click here.


Enter your post


Click the dropdown button


Select Share Now


You’ll see this confirmation message at the top


Here’s the post on Twitter


Here’s how it appears on Facebook


Go back to your Buffer Dashboard


Go to the Analytics tab of your Twitter account


This is where you will see the performance of your posts


This monitors how many Retweets, Likes and Mentions the post gets


You will also see how many Potential viewers the post has


Let’s check you Facebook account


This shows the performance of the post on Facebook


It tracks how many Comments and Likes the post gets


Another example of a Facebook post analysis


Click this to connect more social media accounts


Choose the type of account you want to connect here


Thats it!


See how easy it is to schedule your social media posts using

Buffer?


Go ahead and try it now


Thank you for visiting this tutorial!

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