What is a social media calendar?
A social media calendar is a documentation of the scheduled pieces of content that you will be posting on your social media channels. This serves as your team’s guide for content, including images, copy, captions, and hashtags to be used.
Having this document makes it easier for your team to maintain your social media channels. You’ll spare yourself the hassle of coming up with the topic right before it’s time to get down to work and write your next post as the deadline is looming large.
Here are some benefits of having one.
Organization and Tracking
Maintains Consistency
Balances Posts on Each Social Media Channel
Great for brainstorming
Improves Efficiency and Lessens Stress
Having a social media calendar makes your life easier by reducing the need to decide on content every single day. Studies such as the one from Content Marketing Institute says that 60% of social media marketers with a documented strategy scored themselves as highly effective as compared to 32% of marketers with only a verbal strategy.
Not all social media calendars are created the same, though. According to Social Media Today, here are some characteristics that you have to look out for especially if you will be availing of social media services.
- Easy to read and contains all the information for your content marketing strategy.
- Includes icons representing each network next to the title of the post.
- Has a separate sheet for each month, with each activity broken down by day and time.
- Reflects who will be responsible for the execution of each content.
Online social media management comes with its challenges, but getting started with a social media calendar can help you ease into it. There are also a lot of online social media management tools that you could also use. If you have a specific niche, you may also want to avail of services from a consultation agency.
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