LEARN HOW I POSTED TO 220,000 PEOPLE AND CREATED A FOLLOWING OF 5159 IN JUST TWO WEEKS USING BUFFER – PART 2

BY GARY MASSARI

30 minute-millionaires

 With Masa Ilic, Social Media Strategist

Last week we were talking about Buffer and how it really added more value to my business!

Now you know how to set up accounts, so let start learning how to post and schedule on Buffer.

Posting and scheduling on Buffer

Now, your accounts are set and you know how to use your left part of the dashboard and shuffle among different accounts.  Let’s start using right upper side of the dashboard!

All you have to do is to choose account from the left-hand side and manage it on the right-hand side of your Buffer window:

First, let me show you the Content tab.

 Content

Content tab consists of 4 main under tabs:

1. Queue
2. Suggestions
3. Contributions, and
4. Feed

 Queue is a spot where you can easily add your post:

When you add your post, just click Add to Queue button and the drop-down menu will open with 3 available options: share next, share now, or schedule post.

That’s it, your post is ready!  However, if you chose Schedule Post option, your post is not published just yet.  Soon I will show you how to do that.

If you try to hit Suggestions button, you will see this notification:

Contributions and Feeds are available in Business Plan.

Analytics

This is the second main tab in your dashboard.

In this area, if you use an Awesome or Business plan, you can choose the order of your posts by the most clicks, retweets, likes, or whatever other metric you’d like to follow.  Users can analyze a specific date range, compere them, and even export the data.

Schedule

 When your posts are created you only have to schedule them.  Click on the “Schedule” tab on the upper right side of the screen and then set the days and times you’d like your posts to go out.  The Schedule tab is different for each profile so you can click through your profiles on the left to see each schedule.

Buffer then puts all your updates/posts in the queue based on the times you have picked and voila – your posting is scheduled throughout the day!

The posts will go out one at a time without repeating.  You can even set more posts in the same day, just different times of course.

Other important thing you have to do here is to set up your time zone.  You can adjust it in the top right corner and then you will have the option to apply those time zones to all your profiles.  Or, if you prefer unique time zones, you can click through each profile listed on the left –hand side of your dashboard to set that up!

Settings

 These are the options available under the Settings tab:

I warmly recommend you to use Link Shortening option which is especially useful for Twitter, where the length of post is limited to 140 characters.

Other great feature is that Buffer automatically shortens hyperlinks when you add them to the content!

That’s it!  Now when you know all the basic things about Buffer, I can show you something really cool – Buffer Extension!

 Buffer Extensions

Buffer has extensions available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera that make it easy for you to share content you find on the web.

If you are using Chrome, then this extension is what you need:

Simply, go to this link and install your Buffer extension https://buffer.com/extensions.

Every time when you find something interesting on the web, image or article, you can just click on that small Buffer sign in the right upper corner of your browser and it will be in your Buffer.  Don’t you think this is cool?

Buffer also works with different apps. Choose your favorite and be creative!

All in all, Buffer is a great social media scheduling and management tool that can make your life easier and Social Media sharing more efficient.  Buffer developers are continually working on its improvement, so it can only get better with time.  If you are unsure if Buffer is the right tool for you, the best way to find out if it really is, is to simply jump on and start using it.  You may end up wondering how you ever got along without it!

Use the comments field below and tell me what your favorite social media management tool is?

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