How to Get Your Social Media Sharing Done Faster

Do you spend a lot of time on social media sharing? If you’re an internet marketer, a brand manager or a power blogger, you probably practically live on one or more social media channels, and you know how time-consuming it can be.

Even with the current generation of tools designed to manage the social media curation process, it can still be a major time sink, just trying to get all your posts, tweets, and re-tweets scheduled out.

If that sounds at all familiar to you, then you need to meet Edgar.

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Planning and Scheduling Social Media Posts

If so, you’re not alone, but you’re in for a real treat. You see, Edgar is the next generation of social media planning, scheduling and posting tools, and he promises to make your life a whole lot easier.

If you don’t currently use any dashboard, think about what your typical day on social media is like.

You probably have several browser tabs open, and you spend your time frantically jumping from one to another, scheduling posts and tweets as you can, trying to remember what you’ve done where.

Share Frequently for Optimized Results

Trying to make sure you re-post and re-tweet at different points throughout the day, remembering that the half-life of a typical tweet these days is all of 24 minutes, and barely an hour and a half for Facebook posts…it’s just a nightmare.

Dashboards are fantastic options as far as they go, but if you use them, then you’re already aware of their shortcomings.

As social media solutions, they were designed to solve the most immediate and pressing issues for a busy marketer with a presence on multiple channels, and they do that pretty well.

All your feeds from all the channels that you have a presence on can be found and scheduled in one place, and that’s great, but it only goes so far.

Share Your Social Media Posts Multiple Times

If you want to re-post or re-tweet, you’ve got to load the content again (after double checking that this is indeed the post you meant to resend), then set up scheduling…again, it’s just cumbersome. That’s to be expected, though.

That’s what first gen solutions are like. Great at solving your immediate problem…a little less robust when it comes to addressing your deeper, more entrenched ones.

That is, after all, why next gen solutions get invented, right? That’s why Edgar exists.

So, having imagined your typical day juggling your various social media accounts, now picture how it WILL BE with Edgar by your side.

Yes, there will be a rather involved setup process because just like when you first started using Hootsuite or some other solution, there’s some initial configuration to contend with, so no surprises there.

Once you do that, however, you’ll begin to notice some distinct differences, and it is these differences that will save you an enormous amount of time.

Arrange Your Social Media Posts In Libraries

Rather than loading individual pieces of content into each platform and scheduling, you’ll load all your content into a library.

This library will allow you to categorize your content, and your content categories will be identifiable at a glance, by virtue of their color coding.

Once the content you found is loaded, you’ll pull up a calendar interface that will allow you to schedule content simply and intuitive, specifying the exact date and time your post is to be posted, or your tweet is to be tweeted.

Scheduling a re-post or re-tweet is a snap as well.

The best part though, is the fact that once you build your schedule, and once Edgar posts according to your specifications, that update is auto-populated at the bottom of your scheduling pile, so he can post it again later, after posting everything else in that given library category, per the schedule you have established.

Think about the implications of that for just a moment.

Given the current realities of social media, the short half-life of new tweets and posts, it is necessary to re-post and re-tweet to maximize the visibility of your message, because, on any given post or tweet, only a few of your followers will actually see the message.

Manage Your Posting Schedule From One Central Location

Having a posting schedule that auto-updates is, therefore, huge. Aside from adding new content to your library in the various categories you establish, once the system is up and running, it’s on auto-pilot!

How much time do you suppose that’s going to save you per day? Per week? Per month?

If you’re a true power user of social media, then you’re probably getting pretty excited about the prospect of meeting Edgar, and I don’t blame you, but you’ve probably also got questions.

For instance, what happens if you have a piece of content you want to add to your schedule, but you only want to post once?

Easily done. When you add new content to your library, there’s a “Use Once” box you can check that will keep it from adding it to the bottom of the pile after your initial posting of that item.

Control All Your Social Media Sharing Using Edgar

Now you’re probably wondering, “Okay, this sounds great, but what platforms does it support?” That’s another fair question, and you’ll be pleased to know that at present, Edgar supports ‘The Big Three,’ Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Even better, you can connect up to 10 different accounts to it (25 if you get the Premium plan).

This gives you the freedom and flexibility to create a vast web-like schedule that would be a nightmare to juggle manually, have it run across your entire library of content, and once it’s set up, again, aside from making new additions to your library and the categories it contains, the system runs entirely on auto-pilot.

Saving All Your Social Media Messages and Images

Don’t worry about running out of space in your library, either.

You’ve got room for a thousand pieces of content in the starter plan, and 5,000 if you upgrade to Premium, so there’s plenty of room to expand and grow.

Did we mention that Edgar also supports images?

Well, it absolutely does, so feel free to post those selfies as often as you’d care to.

Moreover, don’t think you’ll be limited to grainy, low-res pics, either. With a maximum file size of 20MB, the image possibilities are just about endless.

Final Thoughts

Meet Edgar. He’s the next generation social media manager you’re going to wonder how you ever got by without.

It’s true that using Edgar isn’t free, but think about how many scores of hours you’re going to be saving yourself each and every month.

Time is money, and your time is valuable, making Edgar’s $49/month fee a bargain by any definition. From the moment you give Edgar a try, and turn him loose to do his thing, you’ll be hooked.

He’ll quickly become your indispensable right hand in the social media world.

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