Social Media Content Calendar for Busy Entrepreneurs

How to customize a social media content calendar for entrepreneurs?

You can create a sharing schedule by following the points elaborated below:

1. Categories-

The very first thing is to be clear with the type of posts that you want to create and share on a regular basis over social media. You can build a list of post types which may include:

• Blog Posts
• Quotes
• Tips
• Images/Videos — Various Multimedia Content
• Promotion
• Conversation starters
• Announcements
• Events
• Re-sharing any interesting content

2. Placement of categories-

Now that you have come upon the long list of categories, it’s time to decide when to post the particular category. As you cannot post all the categories on a single day, so deciding for the particular day to post particular content would be beneficial. To cite an example: Monday is for blog posts, Tuesday is for announcements, and so on.

3. Bring all the content-

This is the most interesting part of building a social media calendar. What we mean to say here- just bring all your content, let’s suppose for the coming weeks or months; then update every coming date with the right content to post over social media. This will better define your calendar.

4. Consider special events-

Never overlook any special event or festival coming in the year. Despite posting the regular social media content, take advantage of such days by creating high-quality and attractive content related to that particular event. This will bring more visitors to your website in no time. If you find any special event is falling under your social media content calendar 2022, grab that chance and use it intelligently.

Events could be:

• Official holidays
• Product Launches
• Announcements
• Meetups, and many more

What are the types of Calendars?

Social media content campaigns calendar can be varied as per the requirements of clients i.e. daily, weekly, or monthly.

1. Weekly/Daily calendar

This type of calendar consists of work in bulk. So, the best way to deal with this sort of calendar is by updating your social account with a single post on a daily basis. For this, you need to be ready with the content before the beginning of the week. This will further remove the unnecessary burden from your mind.

2. Monthly calendar

With a monthly social media content calendar, you can heave a sigh of relief at least for a month. This will not only aid in visualizing the content for a month but will also help in highlighting the upcoming events. Those who do not have much time to spend on a social media content plan can opt for the monthly view because you need to spend time only once a month on creating the plan.

What else to follow to create a social media calendar?

The formatting of the calendar must be clear. Your every post must be enclosed with date, time, text, link, and multimedia link. In addition to this, cross-check the character count wherever it is necessary.

• Prioritize Calendar with Social Media Platform
• Make a content library for your upcoming post
• Invite your team to review and suggest feedback
• Manage different task with different color labels
• Stick with the daily task to maintain the workflow 
• Include reference links and content with each task

You have to clear your priority in terms of social media platforms, choose the apt platform, and create a calendar accordingly. It will help what your calendar needs to track and maintain the workflow in a certain manner.

Popular Tools to create a calendar

This is the most sought-after section of this article. Every business owner is keen to know the latest tools that he can use to create a well-planned 2022 social media content calendar.

Auxano Global Services has brought some of the tools for you. Go through them below:

1. Excel

You all are aware of this popular tool. This is the tool that every other business uses for various purposes. Where it provides numerous other benefits, it also lends a helping hand in creating and managing content calendars.

2. Trello

This is another highly useful tool for organizing several tasks. With this platform, it becomes super easy to manage and look at the projects at a glance. Its amazing calendar feature gives you a monthly view of all the tasks.

3. Google calendar

Google calendar is already in the form of a calendar. So, it does not require hard work to build a calendar and allocate different tasks. You can simply add the tasks for each day and it’s done. Moreover, you also have the power to select different colors to highlight different calendars.

Conclusion

On the last note, we would like to end this article with a brief note. Creating and maintaining a social media calendar is difficult but not impossible. If you are an avid and busy business person and want to entertain the audience with engaging content every day, then a social media calendar can help you in this.

Just visualize all your planned posts for the next weeks or months ahead and maintain a smooth flow of posting the content. But do remember one thing, high quality and authenticity are the two factors that can make you or break you over social media platforms.

To know more about this or to create the best social media calendar, contact Auxano Global Services . Our team will put full efforts into bringing your business to the topmost position.