HOW TO SCHEDULE POST TO INSTAGRAM
How to schedule post to Instagram!, Posting on social media these days is very important and different timing or by peak time on your Facebook page to engage with our audience and drive awareness and branding. There are most pride tools in the market like Buffer and Hootsuite to make you digital life easier.
So you may wonder, what does those
-These tools helps us in scheduling the social media posts on different timings. Either by morning 4 or by Night 112.30 when you have audience with different with time zones. Earlier all the Social Media accounts can be synced with Hootsuite or Buffer to schedule post except Instagram. Instagram has different function and mobile friendly.
There was a challenge how do we do that? Later this year got an update form these apps. Schedule post to Instagram as well, let see how do we do that.
Sign up/create a account in Hootsuite website or click here to get your dashboard an sync all your social media inside your hootsuite.
To add your social media account to hoostsuite:
Top Left corner you can see the icon to sync all your social media inside hootsuite [for reference see the image below] by authorizing it . Once it is done, type in your message and attach images or links to get scheduled (Calendar icon) and respective time to publish it across on your social media channels at same time.
To schedule Instagram post via Hootsuite:
Apart from Instagram other social media scheduling made easier, to schedule post to Instagram need Hootsuite mobile app to your Andoird or iOS and there are few steps to follow.
Sync Instagram Profile to Hootsuite by authorizing the login and download app to your Android / iOS ( Hootsuite for Android | Hootsuite for iOS ) use the same login for Mobile app as well. It will be very easy to monitor your Hootsuite account in your handheld.
Once the scheduling is done on Hootsuite for Instagram and scheduled, it never get posted without your Push Notification over mobile.
Once you get push notification like this as like mention in the picture below. Tap on the Notification, message gets copied an image directly posted to Instagram post page.
The content will be copied to your clipboard with stating you with message “message copied to clipboard”and you need to paste them in Image description part and publish it as it follow and guide’s you. Check HootSuite Forum to know better and Follow it for Hootsuite guidelines and posting.
Bonus:
When you click on I’m in to Hootsuite, Instagram will launch with the image to post click nest on Instagram and paste the content (content will be copied to your clipboard) paste it share it. I found this really cool to share post on Instagram without killing my much time.