A Few Tools

 A Few Tools

A few tools can help you to get even more from social media. 

One of these tools is ‘IF’ which used to be known as ‘IFTTT’ (IFTTT.com).

 IFTTT stands for ‘If This, Then That’ and allows you to link your different social media accounts so that posting to Facebook also posts to Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest etc.

 You can set up more complex relationships too, so that only certain types of content are shared in certain places. If you want to get really advanced then IFTTT will let you do things like read from spreadsheets or ‘auto share’ content that has been curated from the web by algorithms.

 Other tools can do similar things if you’re looking for something simpler. Buffer (Buffer.com) is one example that links accounts and also lets you ‘schedule’ your posts. 

That means you can set aside a single day to write all your Tweets and then see them get published on a regular basis at set times. HootSuite (HootSuite.com) has these functions too and also lets you see feeds from multiple social media accounts. 

All these things are highly useful because they save you time and ensure that your social accounts stay looking active.

 This is very important – a quiet social media account is worse than not having a social media account at all. 

Just make sure the content you’re sharing automatically is still high quality! Finally, consider using ShareAHolic (shareaholic.com) to let your visitors easily share your content to their social media accounts.