Since we blog all the time we’re constantly on the lookout for cool apps that help us save time. And since that’s the business we’re in (saving you time) we love it when we come across a good one!
We’re avid bloggers, we try to do it once a day, although lately we’ve been taking Saturday’s off, and we actively publish our blog posts to all of the social networks that make sense for us. So naturally we look to automate as much as humanly possible. Well we ran across CoSchedule and thought it might be too good to be true and you know what? So far it is!
Our Dasheroo blog & social calendar using CoSchedule in our WordPress account!
1. It’s a plug-in for WordPress which is our blogging platform.
2. It’s a visually-appealing calendar where we can see all of the upcoming posts and which social networks it’s going out to.
3. When the post goes live, it automatically posts to the social networks we connect with in the visual format we want (text, image, link)
4. It auto-posts it out when the scheduled post goes live.
We had a slight issue setting it up that we’ll blame on the crappy go-go connection we had on a Virgin America flight, but the customer support people (using Intercom.io) got right to me and cleared up any issue I had. Thanks guys!
So now we don’t have to get up and run to post this stuff to each social network. We use and love Hootsuite which is an alternative if you don’t mind the format that the RSS feed pulls it in. We also use it for bulk uploading posts for the month. We want to get as much out of our previous posts as possible and Hootsuite is great for that!
