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Make life easy, automate your Facebook posts!

A lot of us self employed business guru’s struggle to find the time and day to do what we love, having to constantly maintain an online social presence with likes of Facebook & Instagram.

I mean the reason we decided to be self employed was for more time doing what make us happy, with friend’s and family and less time doing the things we didn’t like so much. Constantly having to stop our day to regular post to Facebook or Instagram can feel like a chore some days.

Lucky Facebook enables us to create and maintain a content calendar for your business. Taking away the stress and opening up your day for more you time. You can easily do this on Facebook or third-party apps like Hootsuite.

Here’s how to make your life easier.

How to schedule a Facebook post.

Create a post.

Start writing your post, sharing your image or call to action that your wanting to, But before you click the “Share Now” button. Hover your cursor over the “News Feed” tab and click the “Share now” drop-down button and select “Schedule”

Image of a Facebook post drop down box to schedule your post

Choose your dates.

A calendar will pop up to allow you to select a specific date and time for your Facebook post to be sent out.

Image of dates for your Facebook Post to be posted on

Press that “Schedule Post” button.

Once your happy with the date and time. you will notice the “Later” in the “News Feed” tab. That’s perfect, means your post wont go up straight away. now, just click that shiny blue “Schedule Post” button.

Image showing final Facebook post and date to posted on

Your done, notice that there will be a “1 scheduled Post” on the main page. You can also edit and view up and coming posts that you have scheduled as well.

Image of a Facebook post awaiting to be posted on the given date.

Easy isn’t it?

On a phone? Easy its the exact same steps. Instead you will have to click “share” in the top right corner before you can choose the specific date.

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