How to put your social media on auto pilot (Video)

Everyone knows the value of social media for businesses who are just starting out. It's an amazing tool that can allow you to raise awareness about your brand, hype up new products, push sales, educate the public or even gauge your customers. However, with the stress of starting up a new company or service, social media use can be the last of your worries. Don't ignore this important tool because you are too busy. There are tons of free services that allow you to schedule tweets and posts for the future. This way, you can dedicate the time to social media, when you have the time.

Remember, it's important to post consistently. If you don't post for several days or longer, your followers will start to forget about it. The good thing about social media posts is that if they are following you, they are interested in you. You aren't emailing them directly, you are just placing a pleasant reminder in their news feed.

You can use social media to your advantage in so many ways. For more information on how, click here to see the Social Media Business Guide. It's a complete guide to introducing social media into your business plan and starting to adjust to an online world.

The below online services are great ways to add tweets or Facebook posts and have them self-publish whenever you schedule them to.

1. Buffer App - This is the most highly recommended services. It allows you to keep ten posts in your buffer at a time, and they post whenever you want them to. For more information about Buffer, check out this article and guide.

2. Media Funnel - This services takes care of all the analytics gathering and research to see how well you are performing on social media. Check it out here.

3. Wildfire - This is a great way to integrate giveaways and promotions on social media websites on Facebook and Twitter. Find out more here.

4. HootSuite - Allows you to manage several social media platforms in one place. It makes life much easier. You can access it here.

5. TweetDeck - Is a Twitter owned service, that allows you to manage several social media platforms like HootSuite. It's become widely popular in the social media community. Check it out here.

With tools like this, it's very easy to manage social media websites. Make the time to set these up and you won't regret it.

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Abigail Brenker is currently working in the film industry. Her Hofstra University degrees in Creative Writing and Film Production have greatly increased her knowledge concerning film and current forms of internet communication. She has both studied and been exposed first hand to social and mass...

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