Do You Schedule Your Social Media Posts?

[nickbaer]

Big accomplishment this week was to (finally) get a Social Media scheduling account going!

I now have Tweets, Facebook, Pinterest and Google Business scheduled for the next month.
And more ready to go after that.

The site allows manual individual one-time posts - to all of your social media - or you can bulk upload a .csv.

I've done both.

[nickbaer]

Today's big project was to create a .csv file of all of my book covers and all of my DVD video covers, from mySQL table.
The "message," the url to the image, and the url of the link to the product detail page to buy.
Plus a "date/time" field. Since I want to do two posts per day, I used php date functions to create Col A of the .csv.

    $date=date_create("05/14/2020");
    date_add($date,date_interval_create_from_date_string("$nd days"));
    $mdy= date_format($date,"m/d/Y");

I post 2 per day, 12 hours apart.
So the first few items date field looked like:
05/14/2020 15:00
05/14/2020 05:00
05/15/2020 15:00

I had to have php generate the .csv file, or I'd still be working on today and tomorrow's posts!

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[nickbaer]

There are a few Tweet scheduling sites.

The one I used is the last one to plop an ad on my Facebook timeline.

That was late Saturday, and today is Thursday!! Had the first batch done this afternoon.
It would have been yesterday, but they didn't reply to my Tech support message, and I had to hack around.

[nickbaer]

I'm going purely in date order - oldest to newest.

My nude female books will all be up by the end of the month.
Same for my Travel books .

My male nude photography books, and DVDs should take 150 more days (at 2/day)!

[nickbaer]

Like a lot of things I have done in the past, the big deal was to find out what the process is called.

"Social Media scheduling". I thought it was "Auto Twitter" or "Auto Tweet".
Nope. Not "auto" but rather "schedule"!!