When you are on the hunt for a good tool to manage your social media, track your marketing efforts, and collaborate to create content there are a long list of options at your disposal. It can be difficult to decide what the best tool is for your business and your work style. One thing that I have found is that no tool has every feature or function I desire, but one tool really helped me bring my efforts full circle. That tool is Coschedule.
Coschedule is a digital space to manage your marketing strategy. This encompasses your social media campaigns, blog posts, projects/promotions. The platform is very visual and in a calendar format which helps me stay focused on planning my content with purpose. I get to see my strategy visually and this is a big help in identifying weekly workflows and areas where there may be gaps in my marketing that need attention. The platform allows open collaboration which is great if you have virtual assistants, employees, or a business partner that creates content along with you or manages specific aspects of your business marketing.
Both in my personal and business life, I rely on a calendar to create a visual picture of things I need to do, places I need to be, and organize these tasks into colors and symbols. It really helps me stay on point! Coschedule is the go to calendar for my business. I love how many different types of content you can create and track in Coschedule. Take a look at the screenshot below:
I created a structure I like to follow each week to keep my business running on auto-pilot even when I am not working! I spend about two hours a week crafting my blog and socials for the week. I work in Coschedule to draft blog posts, add my images, and relevant links. I launch a social campaign and schedule out the messages promoting my new post and engaging with my audience. If you are interested in how to plan out your blog posts for a month in only 10 minutes or less, enter your information below to get my free printable! I use this one page content plan as a rough draft to plan my blog posts each month. After I finish, I schedule the posts into Coschedule and create a social campaign for each one. After everything looks good, I get to work on the content.
Coschedule also has checklists you can apply and modify to each type of marketing project you are creating. I use these as a punch list to make sure I have all the necessary elements of a polished project. In Coschedule they are called “tasks” and show up as a list on the right sidebar of each project and on your main dashboard. Take a look at this dashboard example.
When you want to take a peek at your overall calendar, you can view it easily and it will display progress on each of your projects. Coschedule offers a FREE 14 day trial so you can see for yourself if the platform will better help you achieve your marketing goals. Click here and use my referral link to get started with your marketing schedule now!
If you use WordPress, you will love the plug-in that allows you to work in Coschedule within WordPress. This is amazing and minimizes the need to have several browsers open at the same time, going back and forth to view and move content, etc. This also enables you to add a campaign, complete a task, or bring your blog content into new posts in WordPress. Take a look at this example:
Are you also a data junkie? If you are working hard at building and promoting your business, you probably consider analytics pretty important to your overall strategy. Coschedule makes viewing analytics easy and provides information on top posts/content, team reports if you are working with others, and statistics on how social posts are performing.
I find all of this information valuable and it is such a time saver! If you want to give Coschedule a try click here for 14 days free. No need to enter your credit card during your trial. I like how there is no pressure to submit financial info until you know the product is working for you. As a side note, if you ever need to contact support they are wonderful! I’ve always gotten responses quickly when submitting a support ticket and their customer service is top notch! Thanks for reading and don’t forget to subscribe to be notified of future blog posts.
Thank you so much for the review! I love reading what our users like about CoSchedule and see what they find the most valuable.
All the best in 2019!
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my review Julie!