{"id":2109,"date":"2017-02-09T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getstencil.com\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:25:27","slug":"top-5-social-media-scheduling-tools-visual-content-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getstencil.com\/blog\/top-5-social-media-scheduling-tools-visual-content-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Social Media Scheduling Tools (Visual Content Focused)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For any business or brand, social media has become a much needed marketing tool. Consumers\u00a0will search social media platforms for news and offers a business may have and for that reason it’s important to have a social media presence. Even for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, or small business owners, there should be a presence, maybe not on all social media platforms; however a distinct following to express their business is valid on one or two platforms. This can create a strain to an entrepreneur or small business that doesn’t have an enormous budget where they can hire an agency or firm. What’s one to do? Well there are a number of social media scheduling tools to help business owners with slim budgets and provide powerful capabilities that offer a focus on sharing visual content. Let’s go through our top 5 social media scheduling tools and hopefully you can find one that works for you!<\/p>\n

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Top 5 Social Media Scheduling Tools<\/span><\/h1>\n

Most social media schedulers compromise of the basic features: queues, feeds, and ideal schedule times. Queues will keep your content in one area and allow you to see what posts are scheduled. Feeds allow for a faster curation of content, where you can select from your favorite blogs to source content you want to share. Ideal schedule times are completely up to each tool, basically letting your content go out on a schedule they believe would benefit you and having your content seen most often. These are the basics. The social media scheduling tools we’ll go through have a focus on visual content (including these basic functions) and how they best serve per social media platform.<\/p>\n

Buffer<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

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Buffer is an amazing social media schedule tool and started as a tool specifically for scheduling tweets in 2010. Since then, they’ve grown and created a scheduling tool for: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. Buffer offers a free plan, which can easily get an entrepreneur started in just a few seconds. It also has wonderful extensions for\u00a0Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera. These extensions are perfect to capture an article that you find on the internet that you\u2019d like to share. Many websites already have their share icons include the Buffer logo, which makes it easy to share directly from the article. The Awesome Plan is geared towards small business owners or entrepreneurs that would like to schedule more than 10 posts at a time, it would allow up to 100 posts per profile. This also includes sharing with Facebook groups that you’ve created!<\/p>\n

The best part about Buffer is that you can \u2018re-buffer\u2019 posted articles and you can track the posts quite easily to see how the post did.<\/p>\n

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