Social Media Marketing: Managing and Scheduling a Social Post

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Schedule posts ahead of time for holidays or important events so you don't have to worry about being near your computer. Create your content in advance and schedule Facebook and Instagram posts to be published at a later date. 

You can see a list of all your scheduled posts from the Social Media Marketing dashboard and edit the timing. 
In this article, learn how to:

Scheduling a new social post

After you connect your Instagram Business account and Facebook accounts and create your social post content, you can choose to schedule the post for a specific date and time.

To schedule a social post:

  1. Go to Social Media Marketing in your site's dashboard.
  2. Click Create New and select an option from the drop-down:
Note:
You can see all your scheduled posts by filtering for Scheduled in Your Social Content.

Scheduling a draft post

Schedule your draft posts to go out a time that best suits you and your audience. 

To schedule a draft post:

  1. Go to Social Media Marketing in your site's dashboard.
  2. Click Your Social Content
  3. Hover and click the More Actions icon over your draft post.
  4. Click Preview & Publish.
  1. Click Schedule for later under When do you want to publish?
  2. Use the date picker to choose the day you want the post to be published.
  3. Choose a time of day the post should be published.
    Note: Make sure to check the time zone. If it is incorrect, change it in your browser's settings.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Click Publish on the bottom right to confirm.

Managing your scheduled posts

View all your scheduled posts from the Social Media Marketing dashboard. You can edit an existing post, reschedule it for another day, or delete the post.

To manage your scheduled posts:

  1. Go to Social Media Marketing in your site's dashboard.
  2. Click Your Social Content.
  3. Select Scheduled from the All statuses drop-down. 
  1. Click the More Actions icon  next to the post you want to manage.
  2. Manage your post using the following options:

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