How To Schedule & Automate Instagram Posts | Save Time Post In Your Sleep & Maximize Results

one of the biggest pain points I see creators struggle with is consistency with posting and trying to juggle multiple platforms and all the content that's supposed to be posted on those platforms so if you're someone who is looking for a way to schedule and automate your Instagram posts or any social media post for that matter so that you can finally be ahead of your schedule save time post in your sleep and maximize results then this video is for you what's up everyone I'm Millie I'm an influencer coach and business owner here on my channel I post every Wednesday and Sunday to teach you the latest strategies and Trends on social media to help you grow your brand and I show you the real life behind the- scenes process of what it's like to start grow and run a business as a full-time influencer as always time Stamps will be in the comments down below because I value your time and you already know why you're here so let's get into it automation tools there are a lot of amazing tools out there that can help you schedule and automate your social media content I understand that each tool will appeal to a different person depending on what your needs are as of today I have tried about seven different social media scheduling tools and the one I'm going to show you in this video is my favorite of the seven and yes this is a free tool so let's get that out of the way right now yes this is free the tool we're about to dive into and I'm going to show you on my laptop is a tool called metrol if you're a regular here on my channel you've probably already heard me talk about metrol multiple times because I'm a big fan I truly believe it's a great all-in-one social media scheduler since it's approved for all social media platforms so I know that anyone who is watching this video right now whether you're an influencer entrepreneur social media manager business owner you can absolutely benefit from them so I talked about metol here in this video where I share with you all the different tools that you could use to create a Content calendar from scratch and I also talk about them in this video here where I share with you what my strategy would be like if I had to grow on Instagram from zero so I am stoked to say that this video is sponsored by metrical themselves I am so excited to work with them and I think after showing you the insides of this free tool I think you'll understand why all right let's jump into the screen recording and go over all of the things so this is what metrial looks like metal.com if you go here this is what their homepage looks like they do a little bit of everything analytics planning ads reports all the stuff we're going to jump into my account this is what it looks like when you log into your account so I already have all of my platforms synced up when you create yours you won't have the statistics or analytics yet you'll have to sync your social media platforms first and then the analytics will come the longer you have your account activated so you have like your Instagram analytics Pinterest Tik Tok you YouTube all the things but this video as excited I am about all of the features because I could literally dive into all the features of downloading your analytics report running ads doing smart links all the things I could sit here and brag about all the amazing features metrical has but that's not what this video is about this video is about planning and automating your post so let's do that first we're going to go here to planning this is where you'll have your calendar view you can choose how to view your calendar whether you want it to be day week or month month let me see if I can zoom out cool I prefer to look at the month view because then I can see the overview of all of my content right now we're at the end of April so for this video I am going to plan out May's content a fun feature that they have when you are in week view is the color coding so right here it says best time on and then it shows the kind of the key the lighter the color the worse it is and the deeper the color the better it gets for a better time to post so you can alternate between Facebook or Instagram whichever platform you're posting to and it's going to give me a suggestion of the best time to post for my account I know for me earlier the better and that's why my social media manager or the person who posts to my Instagram account I hired them to be on the East Coast because this is in my local time La time looks like the best time to post is going to be around 6:00 a.m. pretty consistently because I'm sleeping at 6:00 a.m. I have my social media manager she's on the East Coast that's 9:00 a.m. her time so 9:00 a.m. she will post that'll be 6:00 a.m. for me looks good you also have the day view it'll also show what is the best time to post in the day view it does not have that in the month view because you're overlooking everything but first thing we're going to do is create a post now I'm going to create my post from literally my content calendar uh we have our content calendar here calendar view we're in April but we need to start scheduling out May's content so on May 2nd it's how to make money with affiliate marketing as an influencer this has already gone back and forth and I have it in approved and ready to post so my uh graphic Creator this is my social media coordinator she coordinates all social media content I'm going to download all of these files three four five six seven cool and we're going to go here I want to do a feed post and you can select like if you want to post to all platforms you can maximize your efficiency by scheduling one post to post to all Platforms in one go but I don't typically post to Facebook I don't typically post a feed post to Tik Tok so I'll just keep this Carousel for Instagram and Pinterest let's do the caption this is what it'll look like I want to make sure there's spaces and it looks a little wordy get rid of that to save some oops characters cool something like that and then let's upload the [Music] content cool so it is out of order when I upload it so I want to drag and drop it so that it is in the correct order so I'm just going to do this how to make money with affiliate marketing this is number one number two number three number four five number four okay how with affiliate marketing 1 two three four go back to this PO comment below perfect so that's the correct [Music] order everything looks good you could select publish now or also you can adjust the views so you can see what it would look like here but I don't want it to publish now I want to schedule this post for May 2nd and we're going to we're going to do amm the suggested time was slightly before 6 so we're going to do 5:55 a.m that sounds like a good time perfect and then Auto publish is [Music] on we're removing Pinterest because with Pinterest I forget one image is best and they have a caption limit so this is just going to be an Instagram feed post okay 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