FREE Tips for Social Media Posting

Tools for Doing your Own Social Media

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Tools for Content Creation

Tools for creating all types of content

• Canva (canva.com – web or app). Create every type of content you can possibly imagine. Includes thousands of templates, stock images, and stock videos to make social media posting easier. Add your brand kit.
• Online services to compress images (decrease file size): Squoosh (squoosh.app – Free) and TinyJPG (tinyjpg.com – Free)
• Inshot (inshot.com – app). Create and edit videos (great for Instagram Reels or TikTok).
• JumpRope (app from Apple App Store or Google Play Store). Great for creating how-to’s, recipe cards, sharing different products, etc. Great for Pinterest idea pins or stories.
• Adobe Lightroom (adobe.com – Subscription – web or app). Photo editing and organization.
• Adobe Photoshop (adobe.com – Full Version Subscription or Photoshop Elements Paid One Time).
• YouTube Studio (youtube.com – Requires Free Gmail account and YouTube channel). Lets you manage your video library of videos stored on YouTube, add subtitles, see analytics, reports, etc.

Tools for Scheduling

There are many tools available to aid you in social media posting. Below are several for various tasks.

All Platforms

• Facebook Creator Studio (facebook.com – Free). For Instagram and Facebook. Can schedule stories, IGTV, which is not possible on other scheduling tools. Has a chunky layout.
• Agorapulse (www.agorapulse.com – Free and Paid). Offers
  • reporting
  • inbox management
  • account tag
  • hashtag monitoring to collect UGC content.
• Sked Social (skedsocial.com – Paid). Built-in Instagram grid to plan your layout. Also includes more scheduling options for Instagram than other paid tools.
• Hootsuite (hootsuite.com – Free or Paid). Popular social media scheduler and less expensive than the paid plans.

Instagram Only

Schedulers that let you to see a preview of your entire Instagram feed grid.

• Plann (plannthat.com – Free or Paid plans).
• Later (later.com – Free or Paid plans).
• Planoly (planoly.com).

Customize links for using link-in-bio in Instagram posts

• Linktree (linktr.ee).

Pinterest Only

• Tailwind (tailwindapp.com). Allows scheduling multiple pins a day at the best times.