Do you find it challenging to find the time to post on your brand facebook page? It’s even more of a task when you are travelling or heading on vacation.

If you are responsible for posting content to your Facebook fan page, this may be the most useful facebook tool you’ll ever discover... the ability to preschedule your posts.  This is a feature that is incredibly useful as it allows you to think about the content that you are posting to make sure there’s a diverse range of types of posts, as well as making sure that you can still have content posted if you are away from the office.

You can schedule posts up to 6 months in advance in 15-minute intervals. This means you can actually sit down and plan the content for the week/ month, work out the most optimal time for the content to be shared and upload it in one sitting to be displayed at an appropriate time. Remember that many of your customers won’t be on facebook from 9-5pm so this feature will allow you to have the greatest opportunity of your content being seen at a time that your customers are online.

HOW DO YOU SCHEDULE POSTS FOR A FUTURE DATE?

In the status bar of your facebook post you’ll notice a small clock feature below the post.

Simply click on this clock and fill in the year, date and time that you want the post to appear and hit “schedule”

 

You’ll receive notification that the post will appear at a certain date and then the content will also appear on your activity log on the page so you can see what other content has been posted.

To view your activity log you need to be an administrator of the page, then go to the Edit Page section at the top of the page and click on “Use activity log”

You’ll then see the stream of posts that have been posted for a future date and time. If you need to edit these posts, simply go into the activity log and click on the button on the right hand part of the post and you can change the date/ time that this post will now appear, delete it or post it immediately.

Hope that this helps information helps you manage your content and your community more effectively.