The Best Times To Post On Social Media

Schedule Posts in Advance

Scheduling your social media content in advance can ensure your posts appear at the best time. There are a number of tools you can use to schedule posts: Facebook and Twitter offer their own free scheduling platforms, or you can use a paid app such as Later.

When you schedule content in advance, it can save you a lot of time later on and you can make sure your content is posted at the best possible time. This is especially useful if your content is related to a specific event or needs to be posted at a particular time for it to be relevant and have the best impact.

You are likely to find that not all of your content can be scheduled. One of the best things about social media is that it allows us to be spontaneous and capture moments as they happen. Therefore, we recommend that you supplement your scheduled content with spontaneous content to keep your social media looking and feeling authentic and engaging.

Experiment with Posting at Different Times

You will find that posting at different times and on different days gives you very different results. Try posting content at various different times and see what works best. You might find that posting outside your normal working hours yields much better results, especially if your business is focused around leisure activities or things people will do and use in the evenings and at the weekends.

Some scheduling platforms, such as Later, work out which times are best to post based on the results of your previous posts.

In The Moment

As was mentioned before, not all social media content can be scheduled in advance. Sometimes it needs to be done “in the moment” as things happen. This is especially important for events and certain types of content, such as Instagram Stories. It’s always worth using social media to capture these events and share them with your audience, because allowing people to see your business in an authentic way is likely to really engage them and make them want to know more.

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